Upon receiving the System's alert, Li Pu first told little Broly to stay home, then hurried out the door.
Next, he jumped onto the rooftop.
Considering that New York wasn't Alaska, Li Pu had bought a used, empty factory building so that little Broly would have a place to train.
He had only renovated it slightly, building two bedrooms for himself and Broly, while the empty first floor hadn't had time to be decorated yet.
Li Pu was a little worried. Would the little baby the System wanted him to "adopt" also arrive on Earth in a spaceship?
If that were the case, he'd have to "catch" the spaceship beforehand, otherwise his newly bought house would be in danger.
However, when Li Pu got to the rooftop and used his Qi to sense the Void Realm for the child, he searched for a long time but found no trace of a spaceship.
"Could it be that this little baby isn't falling from the sky?"
Li Pu thought for a moment, keeping an eye on the sky while also extending his Qi perception outwards.
Because of his limited funds, the used factory building he bought was in a good location but couldn't be sold for too high a price.
In fact, Li Pu only spent less than eighty thousand U.S. dollars to buy this factory building, which covered more than four hundred square meters, from its previous owner.
Even with factors like the U.S. dollar being relatively strong in the 1990s and the real estate bubble not yet having inflated, the main reason Li Pu could buy this factory building adjacent to central Manhattan for less than 200 U.S. dollars per square meter was that the owner was eager to sell.
Because this factory building was located in Hells Kitchen, the surrounding public safety couldn't be described as 'difficult to articulate'; it was practically rotten beyond mention.
Originally, Li Pu had planned to move in with little Broly first, and then have a good chat with the surrounding "neighbors" in a few days.
But who would have thought that plans couldn't keep up with changes? On the very first night of moving in, he had to pay a visit to some neighbors—
Li Pu covered the nearby three streets with his perception. Since the System said the little baby he was to "adopt" would soon appear nearby, this range should theoretically be sufficient.
However, he perceived for a long time, not even missing the nooks and crannies of the nearby streets, yet still couldn't sense the child's aura.
Not only that, he also found that on the streets near his used factory building, let alone people, there wasn't even a ghost of a shadow.
"Hmm?"
Li Pu was a little puzzled.
"Isn't this Hells Kitchen? Have the local Gang members changed their ways and no longer enjoy nightlife?"
Of course, he also knew that it was more reliable to believe they had all undergone gender reassignment than to believe Gang members had changed their ways.
So, Li Pu, standing on the rooftop, immediately turned his gaze to a nearby building.
It was a nightclub, only two streets away from Li Pu's new home. Although there was no one on the nearby streets, it was brightly lit at that moment.
Li Pu now guessed that the reason those Gang members didn't dare to wander near his home was probably related to this strange nightclub.
He concentrated his attention and projected his perception towards that nightclub, wanting to investigate if there was any trace of the child he needed to adopt inside.
However, after only a few seconds, Li Pu gave up.
Because the auras inside that building were too complex, numerous and chaotic. Sensing a specific aura was as difficult as unraveling silk from cocoons.
Although Li Pu didn't lack patience, he currently lacked time.
So, he directly leaped down from the factory roof, landing in the alley behind the nightclub with a single jump.
However, just by breathing the air here, Li Pu immediately furrowed his brows.
The air here was terrible; besides a strange stench, there was a faint yet remarkably thick smell of blood.
That stench was common in America, but a faint yet thick smell of blood should usually only exist in modern slaughterhouses—where, although the bloody smell from slaughtered livestock would be quickly dispersed by machines, due to the sheer number of animals slaughtered, the lingering faint bloody smell would slowly accumulate into a peculiar "thickness."
"This nightclub is very, even extremely, wrong." Li Pu thought, but his steps didn't slow.
As he was about to reach the back door, two nightclub guards, who were smoking marijuana and bragging, immediately called out to him.
"Hick! This isn't where you belong! If you want to have fun, go buy a ticket at the front door of the nightclub!"
A punk-dressed guard with a mohawk, eyeliner, and a stainless steel ring through his nostril, yelled at Li Pu.
Because Li Pu was wearing a red and black plaid shirt, jeans, and a pair of work-boot-style Dr. Martens, he called Li Pu a "hick."
Next to the punk man stood a taller, burly man, whose exposed face and arms were covered in colorful tattoos.
"Hey! Why are you so fierce? Since this handsome young man doesn't want to use the front door, the back door is fine too. Aren't we all here for fun?"
The tattooed strongman first winked at the punk man, then looked at Li Pu with ill intent. The boss was having a blast partying inside the club, while they were relegated to standing out here in the cold. He was truly hungry now.
"You disgust me..."
Without another word, Li Pu raised his hand and released a Qi Blast at the fellow.
After a soft 'poof,' the tattooed man, who was hit, didn't even make a sound. His upper body was directly annihilated by the Qi Blast.
And after his upper body was obliterated by the Qi Blast, the tattooed strongman's remaining lower body instantly burst into Fire with a 'hiss.'
Just like a paper effigy burned at a tomb, the tattered corpse quickly burned from the inside out into a pile of black ash, ensuring it was clean and hygienic, with the environmental buff maxed out.
"...As expected, a weak Vampire." Li Pu confirmed his guess.
Then, his figure flickered and vanished, instantly appearing beside the "punk man." Before the fellow could even cry out, his throat was gripped by the hand of fate.
"Behave, understand?"
Even with Li Pu choking him, this "punk man" still nodded desperately.
He had only just managed to be transformed into a Vampire after a long wait; he hadn't lived enough yet.
"Is this a Vampire lair?"
The Vampire nodded.
"There are living people here, right?"
The Vampire nodded again.
"Are there any babies here?"
The Vampire looked surprised for a moment, but then continued to nod.
"Very good, you can die now."
Li Pu directly used the hand gripping the Vampire's neck to release a Qi Blast at close range, blowing off the head of the eyeliner-wearing, nose-ringed fellow.
The "punk man's" headless body fell to the ground and, in the blink of an eye, followed in his companion's footsteps, turning into a pile of black ash.