Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Lin Mo’s expression was calm, almost as though he was ignoring the fierce metal-attribute beast rushing over toward him. Hu! A strong wind blew beside him. Gold Coin had no murderous intent at all as it ignored Lin Mo and rushed straight to the tool table beside him.
Kacha kacha kacha!
The savage beast with a metallic luster and brilliance pounced onto the tool table and opened its mouth full of fangs. It frantically devoured every piece of metal within two or three bites and said in a loud voice, “Delicious. This taste is amazing. And this piece, my god, it can enhance my physical strength. If I consume ten thousand kilograms of it, not only will I be able to recover to my original state, but I can even go a step further. I thought I would need to eat millions of kilograms of iron to barely recover. Yuck yuck. What have I been eating before? Pig food? I’ll never eat it again.”
After having experienced this world for a few months, Lin Mo was almost like half a local snake. How could he be afraid of the foreign bumpkin Gold Coin with the various modern knowledge he had learned recently.
Here, even the strongest dragon could not overwhelm the local snake. Lin Mo could fool around with Gold Coin with ease.
Lin Mo found a chair for himself and watched as Gold Coin swept away that pile of metal and then searched around the warehouse to devour everything metallic, including that lifting electromagnet. It was even eyeing the entire steel warehouse.
Gold Coin had obviously thrown Lin Mo to the back of its head and turned a blind eye to him. To think that it had dreamed of killing Lin Mo for so many years.
Lin Mo was amazed at the high level of metal smelting in this world. They even had a periodic table of elements. The various metals made Lin Mo confident that he could easily feed this gluttonous Giant Dragon.
However, this world probably had different laws compared to the other world. This world did not have many special metals that were unique to the other world. Lin Mo’s original world had magic, while this world only had legends of magic without any real evidence that it actually existed. Its developmental direction of civilization was toward material science and technology. Both had their strengths and weaknesses.
Fortunately, the tool table and boxes were either made of wood or plastic. Otherwise, they would have also faced the fate of being devoured. There was hardly a screw to be found on the floor of the warehouse. This fellow would be the best scavenger to clean the runways of the base, Lin Mo thought maliciously.
Ahem! Ahem! Lin Mo pretended to cough a few times to interrupt Gold Coin’s first crazy search since its resurrection. This fellow was like the incarnation of a starving ghost. If he really let it eat the entire warehouse, there would be great chaos. Lin Mo had assembled the lifting electromagnet himself, and it had high power and required no technical skill. If a lifting electromagnet was lost on the base, it would cause a lot of trouble.
“How enjoyable. I never thought I could taste so many different metals I’ve never seen before in my life. Those old guys in the clan would be so jealous!” Gold Coin did not realize it was like a wild dog savaging for food now. It walked toward Lin Mo without any killing intent. It tilted its head and said with an unprecedented gentle tone, “Molin, the Dragon God contract has lost its effectiveness, and you said that you have a new mount. Seeing how you treated me to such a good meal today, I won’t pursue the matter about the Ultimate Spatial Hell. You are no longer a Dragon Knight, and I’m no longer your contract dragon. I’ll go back to Sky City. Don’t think of me. I won’t come back.”
Gold Coin was really satisfied. It had never had a better meal. The purity of the metals was way beyond what it expected. The black iron ingot rations it ate in the Sland Empire’s Dragon Knight Legion seemed as though it had been mixed with sand and were difficult to swallow. Its injuries it sustained from the erosion of turbulence of the Ultimate Spatial Hell had now recovered a fair bit.
Gold Coin’s body was nearly twice as large as when it first transformed from the metal egg. The sharp and long teeth of its upper jaw had almost reached Lin Mo’s head.
“All right, Gold Coin, since you want to be free, I won’t force you to remain with me. I wish you good luck. Oh, right, Gold Coin, I have to remind you that we’re no longer in the original world. This is a different world or perhaps a different dimension. In any case, there is no Dragon God, no Dragon Clan, and no Sky City here. Leave quietly. There are radars around here. Fly close to the ground when you’re farther away. Don’t fly too high. This is a base of Air Riders in this world. Don’t get too close to the cities, or you’ll be in danger. In short, take care and be careful.”
Lin Mo spread his hand. He was no longer the elite Dragon Knight of the Sland Empire and was learning the new combat methods of ‘air riding’ in this world. If a real Dragon Knight appeared before the people in this world, he probably would not be welcomed with worship and fresh flowers but with guns and missiles. Lin Mo naturally did not want to keep Gold Coin as his mount like before. Being a Dragon Knight was not a commendable profession in this world.
Lin Mo turned off the lights in the hangar and then opened the hangar door. Gold Coin activated its anti-gravity talent by flapping its wings, causing a violent gust of wind, bringing it into the sky in the darkness.
“Farewell, Molin!” Gold Coin, who had participated in countless battles with Lin Mo, felt indescribable relief. It activated its Void Magnetic Field, which it had not used for a long time, and quickly plunged into the dark sky.
Gold Coin’s figure disappeared from sight. Lin Mo stared blankly for a short while as a sudden sorrow gripped him. He sighed, silently returned into the warehouse, took out the now useless dragon flute, and pulled the door of the warehouse shut.
Lin Mo sat on the withered grass patch not far from the runways casually. He put the dragon flute to his lips and played it gently. The dragon flute not only bore witness to the contract between the Dragon Knight and the Giant Dragon, but it could also be used to summon the Giant Dragon partner. It was also the musical instrument of Dragon Knights to resolve their loneliness and fatigue after battles. Almost every Dragon Knight was a master of the instrument, and they could play any song they wanted. They could even compose a few classics themselves. In Lin Mo’s previous world, almost all the famous flute music in the Sland Empire was composed by Dragon Knights.
The dragon flute still retained its basic function as a musical instrument. Its strange shape of more than seven inches long emitted a penetrating flute melody in Lin Mo’s hands and drifted into the distance. It was ‘Blood-Stained Scales”, a melody unique to the Dragon Knight Legion. His passionate playing was full of nostalgia for his comrades.
Aca and the Fire-Attribute Giant Dragon Messiah, the elite Dragon Knight commander Gardel and his mount Shadow Dragon Skye, Aca’s younger sister Luna and her Light-Attribute Giant Dragon Mol, and the rest of his comrades in the Dragon Knight Legion, their voices and appearances appeared in his mind one by one. He wanted to tear open space again and find his original world from the countless dimensions. But it was impossible for both him and Gold Coin since they were not of the space attribute.
The life in the other world was now distant and beautiful memories to Lin Mo.
The sound of the flute near the runways attracted the base’s patrol team. The base’s patrol dog, a Kunming wolfdog, did not even bark when it smelled Lin Mo’s scent. It simply looked in Lin Mo’s direction and then continued on its way. A patrol soldier swept his LED flashlight onto Lin Mo and then walked away. It was not rare for the base’s pilots to hang out or engage in some hobbies in the middle of the night. The sensitive patrol dog did not detect any abnormality, meaning that there was nothing unusual.
Suddenly, the lights in Hangar 1 about two hundred meters away from Lin Mo brightened. It instantly became lively. Fuel trucks, inspection cars with mechanics, and other vehicles whistled by Lin Mo. Some of them even greeted him.
“Hey, Little Mo, not sleeping yet?”
“Don’t catch a cold. Hurry back!”
It was the mechanics, Old Chen and Old Wang. Lin Mo stopped playing the flute and waved his hand in response. “I couldn’t sleep, so I came out for a walk!”
“What’s happening?” Lin Mo glanced at the luminous watch with its face displaying one in the morning. A sudden night flight mission was unusual. He saw two tractor units dragging out two J-10As from Hangar 1. The base was one of the few with these improved J-10 models. The ground crew removed several missiles from the truck that just arrived and mounted it under the wings of J-10As together.
“This is!” Lin Mo could not help but stand up. He recognized that they were mounting the ‘Thunderbolt’ series PL-8 within-visual-range missiles and PL-12 beyond-visual-range interceptor missiles. They were also loading the cannons with belts of live ammunition, complete in their attack form.
This was not one of the usual exercises but a major event. Lin Mo’s eyes widened. He saw Lieutenant Colonel Shen Ying preparing to board a J-10A with his sharp Dragon Knight eyes.
“They are really going out!” He did not know the reason for the sudden night action, but Lin Mo faintly felt that it might be related to Gold Coin, who had just left.
Boom~~~! The two J-10As took-off in succession thirty seconds apart. The powerful engines roared, alarming the residential area, and the lights of many rooms lit up. This unusual operation disturbed many people.