Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Boom! The muddy waters of Qiantang River collided with Molin. The several-meters-high tide surged past the tidal barrage and rose four or five meters high in an instant. This was still the normal tide. It would be double that height during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
People on the riverbank watched Molin being swallowed by the tide with regret. What was there to be suicidal about?
The tide was still turbulent after a while. However, the water parted in the middle, and a figure emerged shrouded in armor with a human-sized sword behind him.
“W-what just happened?!” The people of the patrol squad rubbed their eyes.
Kacha Kacha. Molin walked step by step up the river embankment. The mystic armor of a few hundred pounds was like a big lump of metal. Moreover, there was a protective array on its surface. Even without battle aura, it was not something the tide could push over. The air resistance that the Dragon Knight was used to when flying at high speed in the sky was much stronger than the tide.
“Hey, what’s your name? Do you know how dangerous it is to stand on the river embankment?!” the old man shouted angrily. What was with people nowadays? Why was he in such strange armor and allowing the tide to beat on to him? Was he bored? Was there a screw loose in his head?
Molin ignored the comment and walked past him. The pride and dignity of a Dragon Knight prevented him from looking at powerless civilians, even if this world determined a person’s value through their economic status instead of their personal capabilities. He would still use the standards of his previous world before he could accept and adapt to this new world.
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It was early morning. Molin emerged from his slumber and stared blankly at the snow-white ceiling, feeling as though he was still dreaming. The fused memories had entangled themselves in his sleep. It was like he was a modern person but became a noble and powerful Dragon Knight in his dream. The memories of both worlds were equally clear and profound. He was still pondering if he was Lin Mo or Molin before waking up. Was everything that happened yesterday a Golden Millet Dream or a Butterfly Dream Parable?
He lifted the thin blanket and supported himself up the bed. His gaze suddenly fixed.
His mystic armor, yes, the mystic armor that was made-to-measure by master craftsmen when he entered the Dragon Knight Contract. The top craftsmen had used countless rare materials in making this armor. It was a perk unique to a Dragon Knight.
However, he could clearly remember taking off the mystic armor and placing it in the corner of the room last night. His huge Dragon Slaying Sword disappeared as well, along with the small dagger he always carried around, a silver bottle, and dozens of gold coins. Everything was gone except for the strangely-shaped short flute and the golden egg with some metal fragments by the side.
He looked at the intact window. It did not seem like a burglary happened, and no thief would be so stupid as to steal something so heavy while leaving the golden egg and the dragon flute behind. It was too illogical.
The golden egg seemed to be a little bigger than yesterday. Molin—no, he should be called Lin Mo now, at least according to his identity card that represented his identity in this world—looked at the metal fragments by the side of the golden egg. It was clearly the same material as his mystic armor. Small pieces of something seemed to come alive and move to the golden egg occasionally. It would then integrate into the egg like a drop of water. The mysterious runes on the surface of the golden egg lit up faintly when that happened.
It sneakily swallowed the metal scraps bit by bit like a human and did not forget to wipe its mouth. Lin Mo’s eyes widened unbelievably. The golden egg had devoured such a huge set of Dragon Knight armor secretly in just one night. The things he brought with him to this world were gone, leaving him with only this strange metal golden egg and the dragon flute. He was no longer fit to be called a Dragon Knight.
“Damm it! This egg must have something to do with Gold Coin!” Lin Mo hurriedly took the dragon flute away from the golden egg. Although he did not know what the dragon flute was made of, it would be too late for regrets if the egg decided to swallow the dragon flute too.
If he could not find a way to return to his original world, Lin Mo would never be able to see Aca and the rest again. This was something he hoped to keep for memory’s sake.
Seeming to be full, the golden egg left no trace of the metal fragments and stopped moving, sitting there like a lump of dead weight.
This wretched egg had such a large appetite! Lin Mo found a box that could hold the golden egg and started to pack his luggage. Today was the day he was to report to the Aviation University.
After turning off the main switches of power, gas, and water for the house, Lin Mo locked the security door. During the next few years, there probably would not be anyone staying in this house that he had stayed in for more than a dozen years.
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“Hey! Chen Qi, have you seen Lin Mo? You didn’t? I went to his house, and no one was there! Help me find him. You’re closer to him. Where did he disappear to?!”
“Zhejiang University? I’m looking for Director Jiang. Hello, Director Jiang? I’m looking for Lin Mo. I can’t find this guy anywhere. Huh? Lin Mo became a pilot and is flying there today? Why didn’t he tell anyone? I still have his share of the reward from the contest! F*ck, I’ll kill him when I find him.”
Qi Fei, the magical girl cosplayer and leader of the God of War Group, had called more than a dozen people familiar with Lin Mo to obtain this information. She thought that Lin Mo disappeared from this world. He was so weird yesterday.
“Damn it, this asshole. He left without so much as giving me advance notice!” Her blood boiled, and her cute face was livid with anger, unable to calm down. The God of War Group finally had a lucky break for fame. How could she not be angry when such a short-lived opportunity was destroyed by this deserter?
She watched the replay from the carefully edited clips through multiple camera positions. She still felt a sense of shock no matter how many times she saw it and could not calm down for quite some time. It was as though a real knight appeared on stage. It was impossible to reach such a level with imitation and cosplay. The equipment could be imitated, and his actions could be imitated, but what about the battle-hardened murderous intent? Was Lin Mo possessed that day?
Unaware of Miss Qi’s grievances, Lin Mo arrived at Xiaoshan Airport early and obtained an electronic ticket.
He boarded the flight to Changchun and gazed out of the window at the familiar sky and felt a spontaneous unfamiliarity. Sitting in the cabin and soaring freely in the sky were obviously different. Although the souls of the two worlds had merged, Lin Mo’s memories of this world were incomplete due to his serious and fatal injuries. It was as though Molin took over the body as the main soul. It was also because it was an incomplete overlap that he was able to tell who he was and was not. Otherwise, he might be seen as suffering from schizophrenia.
Lin Mo smiled slightly as he felt the strong thrust when the flight was taking off. Although it was the first time he was flying in an airplane, he did not feel any discomfort. He opened the book in his hand leisurely.
“Are you a teacher?” The middle-aged man beside him looked at the book in Lin Mo’s hand curiously. He had seen the title of the book, ‘Physics for Junior High’, when he opened it.
“Um! I’m reviewing. I returned some of them to the teachers!” Lin Mo had a calm smile on his face as he held the book in his hand while he looked forward steadily.
“I see!” The middle-aged man was silent for a while. Everyone had different interests and hobbies. Some might like to read textbooks like they were enjoying a novel. It was not surprising. He shook the newspaper in his hand and started to read to pass the time.
To Lin Mo, modern basic science knowledge was completely new and extremely valuable knowledge. It was like the alchemy of the magic civilization. The development of another civilization had great attraction to him. A Dragon Knight had to absorb all sorts of knowledge to survive in a different environment.
It seemed like the greatest difference between the two civilizations was that one was a material civilization while the other was an energy civilization. However, there was great synergy between them. For Lin Mo, a lot of knowledge was worth learning. He could probably turn the basic knowledge in this junior high textbook into solutions to the problems that the alchemists in his original world were facing. Some of the theories in the book even mentioned the engendering and restraining between the attributes and the rules of their exchange. The brief introduction was very beneficial for Lin Mo.
For passengers getting on a plane for the first time, the experience of the first takeoff was full of novelty. After the plane shot directly into the blue sky, it left a sea of clouds or faint mist below it. In the dazzling sunlight in the sky and the loud roar of the engine, the novelty quickly faded away, leaving him captive to sleepiness.
Bang! The body of the plane shuddered violently, as though it had encountered a turbulent flow, jolting up and down.
Lin Mo, who was immersed in the junior high textbook, suddenly raised his head. The subconscious instinct formed through countless battles was warning him constantly that a huge crisis was impending!