Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
At 11 p.m., the light was quietly turned on in an empty warehouse. The steel-structured warehouse was nearly 1,000 square meters and 10 meters high without a pillar inside. It was generally used as a maintenance hangar. At the top of the door was a round metal plate with a white Arabic numeral ‘5’ on a blue background. There were more than ten such hangars on the Air Force base in the mountains, which were used for maintenance and storage.
The twenty-odd energy-saving miner’s lamps illuminated this abnormally cold and empty maintenance warehouse. There was not a single aircraft inside, only some tool tables and various maintenance equipment placed near the wall.
The hangar door was shut tightly. The doors and windows were closed and even covered with thick canvas curtains, and not a bit of light could shine outside. Lin Mo had spent a lot of effort in order to use this warehouse. He pretended to learn the aircraft structures, helped the mechanics with the odd jobs, and fiddled with spare parts with great interest. The pilots had also silently approved this studious pilot and had no objections about him learning more about the mechanical components of planes, as it was not a bad thing.
In fact, Lin Mo really did have great interest in the aircraft structures and naturally had this excuse to use this warehouse full of waste parts. But tonight, Lin Mo was using this warehouse for a special purpose, so he had spent the entire day making careful arrangements.
Previously, the metal egg, which had come with Lin Mo to this world, had transformed into the metal beast. It turned out to be his contract mount, the Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon Gold Coin, and it had almost torn him into pieces. Thankfully, for unknown reasons, it transformed back into the metal egg in the nick of time, allowing Lin Mo to escape death. Thereafter, Lin Mo did not dare let this dangerous metal egg devour any metal casually, for fear that the same dangerous situation would occur again.
But Lin Mo did not plan to abandon this dangerous ticking time bomb. Given his temper of unwillingness to admit defeat, he was still continuing with the idea of making this disobedient Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon submit to him. His unexpected entrance into this world was not without gains. Using the physics knowledge he had gained in this world, he specially made some meticulous preparations.
The metal egg was now pathetically bound by layers of high-strength nylon ropes and turned into an ultra-large nylon ball, becoming over a hundred times larger and as big as a gasoline barrel. Only a little of its surface showed. Furthermore, high-strength super glue covered the nylon thread. In short, no trace of metal material bound this metal egg, and these were all the chemical materials that Lin Mo could find on the base.
Lin Mo pulled a folding chair, picked out some items from the pile of scrap metal on the side, and threw them at the metal egg, which was now bound into a super large nylon ball. Like in the past, no matter what metal touched the metal egg, it seemed to be attracted to it. With just that tiny, exposed surface, it tenaciously sucked in the metal that touched it, greedily devouring and fusing with it, as though it were a black hole. The objects became smaller and smaller until they vanished.
These metal objects Lin Mo found took almost no effort. Because Lin Mo was on the Air Force base, it brought him great convenience. There were a lot of used aircraft on the base. They were parked in the open, weathering rain and shine, waiting for disposal. Sometimes, new mechanics disassembled them for learning. Occasionally, special transport planes would be arranged to transport them away for recycling and melting at designated smelting factories. The important parts were sometimes removed and given or sold to some interested units or departments.
Not to mention, there were too many bullet casings on the shooting range waiting to be cleaned up. China lacked copper, but most of the iron bullet casings were readily available.
Normal maintenance and replacement happened as well, so discarded metal objects were everywhere on the base. The management of such things was relatively lax on the closed base. However, these discarded metal parts involved military secrets, so they could not be sold casually as scrap metal. Moreover, the nearest scrap collection center was at least one hundred kilometers away from the Air Force base, so most of them were piled up everywhere.
This made things easy for Lin Mo. Most of these metals were light alloys, and there were also a lot of special alloys, especially the titanium alloy known as mithril in Lin Mo’s previous world, which was not too difficult to get.
Lin Mo slowly threw out metal objects one by one for the metal egg to devour. He did not know how much metal was required to activate this metal egg again, but the scrap metal he had prepared was more than what he had collected before. The metal egg was gradually shining and devouring faster and faster.
Like what he had done curiously before, quantitative change became qualitative change. After devouring a human-head-sized transmission assembly, the metal egg seemed to come alive. Cracks appeared on the surface, seemingly about to expand. But unfortunately, it was bound tightly by heavy nylon rope and super glue.
The thickness of a finger, the nylon rope woven from countless nylon filaments was enough to bear tons of weight, and the nylon ball was stubbornly stifling the expansion of the metal egg. Squeaks kept ringing in the empty room, like a big mouse squeaking.
“Molin! You despicable bastard, quickly release me!” An angry, heart-palpitating roar came from the core of the metal egg. It was imaginable how furious the Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon Gold Coin was at this moment.
“Gold Coin! You’ve really woken up!” Lin Mo fiddled with the dragon flute in his hands, placed it to his mouth, and began playing.
“No, no!” The metal egg struggled with all its might upon hearing that familiar and strange melodious flute sound. The nylon thread wrapped around it was shaking violently, but it was to no avail.
But after playing the strange flute once and seeing nothing happen, Lin Mo frowned. According to what happened before, a spatial formation should appear in the air and absorb Gold Coin. But the contract effect of the dragon flute showed no reaction at all. He thought it was because he was unfamiliar with it after not practicing for a long time, so he played it again. But in the end, nothing happened.
What the hell. There are actually times when the dragon flute loses its effectiveness. Is there really no way to control this crazy fellow? Lin Mo was not expecting such an accident to happen, and he played it over and over in disbelief.
Even the metal egg incarnation of the Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon Gold Coin, which was bound in nylon and super glue, realized the abnormality. The initial fear and anger turned into bewilderment, then it laughed merrily. “Hahaha. Has the Dragon God abandoned you? Molin, the dragon flute has lost its effectiveness. You can do nothing to me now. You can forget about trapping me in that contract space to enjoy eternal sleep! Let me think about how I want to kill you. Should I cut you into pieces or smash you into minced meat? No, no, no. It’ll be more enjoyable if I peel your flesh from your bones bit by bit.”
Gold Coin’s tone was extremely taunting and threatening. The bloodthirsty and killing habits of Metal-Attribute Giant Dragons that had been suppressed for so long was unleashing bit by bit. The already low temperature in the warehouse seemed to drop at least ten degrees lower, and the chill penetrated the bones.
While Lin Mo was wondering why the dragon flute had lost its past ability, the metal egg suddenly looked like water drops as it softened and morphed. It twisted and squeezed its way out from the small opening on the nylon ball. The moment it had found its way out of the nylon ball, it immediately grew a hundred times larger. In the process of enlarging, the metal was flowing constantly and complicatedly before transforming into a Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon that had the height of an adult. Lin Mo immediately recognized that it was Gold Coin. Only, it was ten times smaller than when it was in the other world and could not be described as ‘giant’. Now, it was only a Metal-Attribute Dragon.
“Molin, you said it before that your life is already mine. Are you ready?” The Metal-Attribute Dragon extended its sharp claws that were a foot long and flicked them a few times at high-frequency. The ball of nylon thread that Lin Mo had used to restrain the metal egg was cut into numerous pieces on the spot.
Facing this Metal-Attribute Dragon with red eyes and murderous intent, Lin Mo put down the dragon flute, raised his head to stare at Gold Coin in the eye with defiance, and said indifferently, “It’s too early to be happy!” His foot lifted slightly and stamped down.
“What?” Gold Coin thought it misheard. This fellow was still so stubborn despite being about to die. It was shocked. Suddenly, it felt its body lighten, and before it could react, it flew up uncontrollably.
Bang! Before Gold Coin could move, it was stuck firmly onto a disk at the top. This disk seemed to be covered in an unknown, solid outer shell, and under that shell was a powerful attractive force.
This was not magic but a lifting electromagnet. The large magnetic disk suspended in the air was operating at full capacity, and the magnetic force was incomparable!
Lin Mo had added a thick layer of composite plastic-steel armor plate to the metallic electromagnetic disk. The plastic-steel composite armor was used to protect pilots in the cockpits of aircraft and could even resist large-caliber rifle bullets.
In this world, metallic materials were developed, and non-metallic materials were not bad either. Lin Mo’s efforts had paid off.
Gold Coin struggled desperately, but no matter how hard it struggled, any limbs and blades it extended were firmly attracted by the strong magnetic field and could not move.