MTL - I’m Walking the Career Line In Dog Blood - Chapter 78

Some exist with pride, others struggle with pride, some compete with pride, and there are those who fail with pride, but very few can walk away with pride.Congratulations, for as you read these lines, you have witnessed the whole lives of many great basketball players.This pronunciation was embodied when Stephen Curry, after facing defeat in 2021, claimed that no one would want to face them the following season; When Tim Duncan was convinced before the start of the 2014 Finals that they would not mess up; When Kobe Bryant promised at Old Buss's memorial to take the Lakers to the playoffs; When Nowitzki, shedding his label as a soft player, retreated to the locker room in tears at night; When Kevin Garnett let out a skyward howl after holding the championship trophy; When the 2004 Detroit Pistons won and the F4 Lakers lost…Our story begins in an era when pride still mattered.

That year, the Akatsuki was still hiding in Rain Village.That year, Konan wasn't relieved from the pain of losing Yahiko yet.That year, an unfamiliar live exam space pulled the Akatsuki group in.It asked:What was the reason Akatsuki was destroyed before the Fourth Shinobi War?A: The unrealistic goal of peace in the shinobi world.B: It's too weak to resist the coalition of the shinobis.C: Members of the Akatsuki organization took off their clothes in battle.D: Deception by internal members from beginning to end.Pain: “The most unlikely is the most likely, I choose C.”Which of the following characters is not an undercover agent of Konoha?A: Konan.B: Uchiha Itachi.C: Pain.D: Uchiha Obito.Pain looked at the sweating Uchiha Itachi.“Red, what do you think of this question?”P.s: For the fairness of this exam, everything was broadcasted live to the Ninja World!

Genius Neurosurgeon Lǐ Xīnyuàn died while being held at the gunpoint to perform a surgery on a terrorist leader.When he opened his eyes, he had transmigrated into a world similar to a Webnovel he'd been forced to read by a colleague.Now you'd think Lǐ Xīnyuàn had transmigrated into that Webnovel. But did he?No! Instead he'd been transmigrated into that webnovel's spin-off/“what-if” version of the story with nothing but the superficial knowledge of the plot thanks to reading the main novel.Now tasked with the mission of avoiding plotholes, unnecessary dog-blood, death and following the storyline to ensure the male lead's ascension to the throne of Supreme Emperor, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.And why did no one tell him that his character had to be married into the Male Lead's harem??What about the Female Lead?Later:Lǐ Xīnyuàn: Why doesn't Your Highness spend the night with concubine Yang?ML: Don't want to.Lǐ Xīnyuàn: ... Why?ML: Are you pushing me away?Lǐ Xīnyuàn: QAQ

Intellectual Villages are old fashioned rural villages recreated with cutting edge technology. Those villages attract the Japanese monsters known as Youkai.

The high school boy Jinnai Shinobu lives in one of those villages and has a Zashiki Warashi living in his house. He tends to run across Youkai with unnerving frequency and this often leads to trouble for him.