Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Little Chicken’s voice on the other end of the headset sounded almost like a chicken with its neck strangled. It took him quite a while to calm his breathing. “The physique of a devil! Even I blacked out twice just now, but you didn’t even experience it once. It seems like your A+ physical evaluation was an understatement. If you do a poststall maneuver in close combat, who can be your opponent?! You should be an astronaut! Tsk tsk tsk! So envious!”
“This is child’s play! I don’t have the word ‘blackout’ in my dictionary!” Lin Mo told a ‘cold’ joke, rendering the Chengdu J-10’s pilot speechless.
The rolling scissors maneuver had a terrifying name in Lin Mo’s original world, ‘vortex strangulation’. The more the Dragon Knight barrelled with the Giant Dragon, the more brutal the vortex strangulation. Moreover, it was direct hit twisting strangulation, which was far from what the rolling scissors maneuver could compare to. When Giant Dragons used this attack, they often tore the enemies into pieces, which was why the physical qualities of Dragon Knights were extremely high. This rolling scissors maneuver was many times weaker than the vortex strangulation, so Lin Mo did not experience any discomfort at all while controlling the jet fighter to perform it.
Blackout was a term that was extremely remote for the Dragon Knight.
“Molin!” The metal egg that had been in Lin Mo’s pocket all this while suddenly moved, almost startling Lin Mo. He quickly switched the microphone on the helmet off, leaving only the earphone function. The long-silent Dragon Knight soul contract once again fluctuated.
“Hey! Gold Coin, don’t move around! I’m flying. The space in here is very small. I’ll really smash to my death if you move around!” Lin Mo clearly felt his anti-G suit’s pocket begin to swell gradually as he hurriedly shouted in his mind. This guy woke up at such an ungodly bad time.
“Molin, what are you doing? Why can’t I see anything?” The swelling in his pocket stopped, and Gold Coin’s muffled voice came through the soul channel.
“You’re in my pocket. Stay still!” Lin Mo was multi-tasking, piloting the L-15 Falcon Advanced Trainer to follow the J-10 back to the base while speaking. “I’m riding the flying object in this world, practicing my flying skills. People generally call it an airplane. It resembles an alchemical construct, but it doesn’t require magic crystals as an energy source. Its weakness is that its simply too fragile, but its advantages are low manufacturing costs and large output. If there are no weapons, it’s a very good toy. By the way, the code name of this aircraft has the same name as you, Gold Coin. Right, once again, I’m Lin Mo now, not Molin.”
“Oh! Got it, Lin Mo!” An unusually gloomy voice came from Gold Coin in Lin Mo’s mind. His pocket deflated again. It seemed like Gold Coin returned to its original.
“Why did you stop talking?” Lin Mo waited for a while, but Gold Coin did not speak again. He thought that Gold Coin would be furious, throw a fit, and accuse him of having ulterior motives when he heard the name of the plane, but he did not expect that Gold Coin would just respond indifferently, as though nothing had happened.
In Lin Mo’s impression, the tyrannical and bloodthirsty Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon, known as a natural battlefield butcher should, not be like this at all. Could it have changed attributes? He could not help asking, “Gold Coin, what’s wrong with you?”
“I’m fine!” Gold Coin’s voice seemed unusually downcast. “I want to think quietly!”
No matter how many times Lin Mo called it, Gold Coin did not utter a word as they returned to the base’s airport.
He did not know what kind of blow Gold Coin had suffered for it to have such a change in attitude. After landing, Lin Mo went to the scrap metal storage area, selected a large number of metal pieces, and threw them to Gold Coin. It was not at all polite as it swallowed tons of metal, but it remained in its egg shape. Its surface was a little shinier, so Lin Mo knew that this fellow had basically recovered.
Lin Mo did not dare to give Gold Coin too much metal. Although the scrap metal storage area occupied a large area and had a lot of stock, it would certainly be suspicious if a lot of it disappeared at once. He could only take some today and then some again tomorrow. Even though he only used up some, the stock appeared to have reduced by a lot. Ever since Gold Coin had returned to Lin Mo unexpectedly, it had not been aggressive to Lin Mo and did not even think about leaving again, sticking to Lin Mo, as though it had changed its temper. Lin Mo had no other way. Fortunately, feeding it metal was not difficult, and he treated it as a pet instead of a mount.
After repeated efforts, Lin Mo finally managed to pry open Gold Coin’s mouth. It was simply too unlucky. Shortly after leaving the base that night, it flew high up into the air ecstatically, and then came a sudden attack from surface-to-air missiles. After three inexplicable explosions hit it, the jet fighters were on its tail and attacked it fiercely. Relying on their fast speed, the two jet fighters flew around Gold Coin, fired at it in turn, as though their air-to-air missiles were free, and bullied the Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon miserably. Gold Coin was nearly blown up from the volley. It originally wanted to fight back, but it did not expect that the combat systems of the two worlds were completely different. They did not even plan to engage in close combat. Missiles were locked onto Gold Coin and launched, and it could not stand up to this two-to-one siege no matter how arrogant it was. Whenever supersonic surface-to-air missiles flew in from nowhere, Gold Coin had no time to dodge, and it was hit so badly that even its roars were drowned in the roar of the jet fighter engines and the missile explosions.
It was thanks to the strong bodies of the Giant Dragons that Gold Coin managed to fight against the wolves in the sky with its life. In the end, it only managed to escape because it heeded Lin Mo’s advice to fly low into the radar’s blind zone.
After flying around like a headless fly for a few days and taking a few harsh beatings, it finally realized that it was no longer in its original world. Lin Mo had not lied to it. This world was an entirely new civilization. The worst thing was that it did not possess the highest power in this world. People in this world had numerous methods to kill it easily, and flying around blatantly in the sky nearly cost it its life. Relying on the most fundamental trace of soul contract resonance with Lin Mo, it spent many days to find its way back to Lin Mo.
Gold Coin was truly unlucky. Although the People’s Republic of China might not have the ultimate control over its lands and seas, it absolutely guarded its airspace strictly. The tension had never loosened. Many were beyond shocked when such a huge unidentified flying object appeared on the radar. At least five surface-to-air missiles were fired that night. Finally, the jet fighters were issued a rare command to kill it instead of capturing it alive. It was a given that every inch of the land was searched. The Army and the People’s Armed Forces nearby were on standby on high alert, and things were intense for quite a while.
The Metal-Attribute Giant Dragon that nearly lost its life dared not leave Lin Mo’s side again. This world was simply too scary for it.
“All right, Gold Coin, just stay here with me for a while!” Lin Mo toyed with the metal egg that was its core. This fellow was no longer a threat to him, and they were from the same world after all. They had worked together before, so Lin Mo could only adopt it. But Lin Mo’s subconscious was secretly rejoicing that he had finally subdued this arrogant fellow. It was really not easy. No wonder there was a famous saying in this world: ‘The one with the hardest fist was the boss. Any disobedient guy would be obedient after having a few tastes of it.’
If Lin Mo requested to exercise his rights as a Dragon Knight at this time, Gold Coin would probably not resist at all. However, this opportunity came all too late.
A Dragon Knight was only a true Dragon Knight when there were trust and tacit cooperation between him and his dragon partner.
“Lin Mo! Commander Jiang from the military region is coming tomorrow. There’s nothing good in the base cafeteria. Go to Dalian and bring back some seafood. Only the freshest and most vigorous! It’s rare for Commander Jiang to come here, so let’s give him a good reception,” Colonel Jiang Renbin, commander of the base air regiment, asked Lin Mo, who just woke up and was about to head to open the door of the cafeteria for breakfast.
“Oh, I’ll go prepare!” Lin Mo was about to turn to leave, wondering why the regiment commander would arrange for him to travel to Dalian.
“What’s there to prepare?!” Colonel Jiang yelled at Lin Mo, who had just turned halfway. “Eat a good breakfast and fly a J-10 there! I’ve contacted the Dalian base. Go early and return early. You might make it back in time for lunch.”
F*ck! Flying a jet fighter for grocery shopping! Lin Mo’s jaws almost dropped from the shock. He had heard of rich nannies buying food in their BMWs and Mercedes, but flying a jet fighter to buy food was too much. In Lin Mo’s previous world, even the emperor did not have the power to order a Dragon Knight to go buy groceries.
“Hurry up! This is an order. Don’t screw it up! It’s just a transition flight, so you can do it. There are towers as well!” Regiment Commander Jiang’s tone seemed to hint this was not a rare occurrence. He stuffed a piece of paper into Lin Mo’s hand. “Here. This is the menu. Buy ingredients according to it. Find Little Zhang from the finance department to get money.”
“Yes! I guarantee I’ll complete the mission!” Lin Mo immediately stood at attention. He had never flown a transition flight, and the farthest he flew was only three hundred kilometers away. He was still nervous despite the experience of flying the civilian airliner.