Chapter 96: The Newcomer
A gentle breeze brushed against the pedestrians’ cheeks. The sunlight scattered like crushed gold, shining on Nuonuo’s tilted little face, casting a shadow on his little nose.
But after Lin Mian had spoken in a gossipy and furtive manner, Nuonuo didn’t say anything for a long time, his little face wrinkled, lost in thought.
“What’s wrong? Did I scare you?”
Lin Mian let out a couple of smug “hehe”s and puffed out his chest proudly. “It can’t be helped. A hero always has to charge forward bravely. Don’t worry, you don’t have to worry about me!”
Fei Jing, on the side with a complicated expression, saw Lin Mian’s smug, shrugging shoulders and averted his eyes, unable to bear to look.
It was the first time Fei Jing had seen such a stupid person.
Without even having to guess, he had revealed all his secrets in front of the enemy.
Are all the transmigrators this stupid?
Fei Jing couldn’t help but think with suspicion.
Or could it be that this Lin Mian is actually an undercover agent?
A thousand speculations flashed through his mind. Fei Jing turned his head again and saw Lin Mian rubbing his nose with his hand, then pointing at the sun with his finger like a chuunibyou.
“This sunlight is the glory draped on my body! You don’t have to worry for me. A righteous hero is destined to be lonely!”
Fei Jing: “…”
No need to guess anymore. Based on this person’s train of thought, he’s probably just a simple idiot, Fei Jing thought.
At this moment, Nuonuo finally came back to his senses from his thoughts and asked in a small voice, “Big brother, what is ‘blowing up a laboratory’? Is it as delicious as fried meatballs?”
Lin Mian met Nuonuo’s dazed eyes and, surprisingly, didn’t find his question boring. Instead, he licked his lips and recalled, “Fried meatballs seem to be quite delicious. I’m not too sure about blowing up a laboratory. It’s okay, I’ll go in the afternoon and let you have a sniff.”
Only then did Nuonuo happily nod his head. He went over, tilted his little face up, his eyes sparkling with a small light, and said expectantly, “Then big brother, you must tell me!”
Lin Mian’s thinking was not on the same channel as an ordinary person’s, but he had a very happy conversation with Nuonuo. The two of them had already talked from fried meatballs to cream ice cream.
Fei Jing crossed his arms and looked at Lin Mian’s stupid appearance, his tightly furrowed brow never relaxing.
“It’s getting late.”
After thinking for a while, Fei Jing still spoke up and interrupted the two’s childish conversation, saying casually, “Aren’t you going to do something big? Are you going alone?”
Lin Mian immediately slapped his head. “Aiya, I almost forgot about the important business. My companions are already ambushing in the grass behind the laboratory, just waiting for me to go and blow it up.”
Fei Jing nodded coolly, glanced at the other’s attire, and couldn’t help but let out a soft “tsk.” “They’re quite at ease with you.”
Lin Mian let out a couple of “hehe”s and even felt quite proud. “It can’t be helped. I came late, and as the protagonist, I always have to be entrusted with important responsibilities!”
As cannon fodder to be sent directly to your death, right?
Fei Jing thought with a cold laugh.
But Lin Mian looked quite happy. He waved at them and rushed towards his destination.
Two minutes later.
Lin Mian ran back in a hurry and asked embarrassedly, “Which way is Jing’an District’s Fengtian Road?”
Fei Jing sighed heavily, raised an eyebrow, and couldn’t help but say, “How about I have a bodyguard take you?”
Lin Mian looked at the burly bodyguards behind the few of them and nodded a little shyly. “That’s not impossible. Thank you.”
Fei Jing felt he had never been so speechless. He rubbed his forehead, and just as he was thinking of telling him to get lost, he heard Nuonuo say, “Big brother, my watch has a map! You can use it!”
Nuonuo’s watch’s original function was only to make simple phone calls. Later, Fei Han felt uneasy and specially added positioning and road recognition functions to it.
Seeing the little cutie hand over his watch, Lin Mian was moved again. He wiped his tears with great emotion, held the watch tightly in his palm, and said sincerely, “Nuonuo, when I succeed, I will definitely report to the organization! And give you an honor!”
Nuonuo didn’t know what an honor was, but he just nodded his little head. “Okay, ya. But can I exchange it for a little red flower?”
Lin Mian said yes, took a deep breath with determination, and left again with the children’s watch.
Fei Jing picked up Nuonuo to prevent the passersby from stepping on him.
After thinking carefully for a while, Fei Jing still called Fei Han.
The moment the call connected, Fei Jing’s tone couldn’t help but be tinged with a bit of schadenfreude as he said, “Eldest Brother, don’t blame me for not reminding you. Your laboratory is about to be blown up by a fool.”
Fei Han, who was accompanying Zhuang Rou to eat a special farmhouse meal, was confused, his cold brows and eyes filled with a hint of confusion.
Fei Han’s laboratory was in the western suburbs. Lin Mian had no money and, with the help of the watch’s map, had walked for more than an hour to get there.
He opened his system panel, looked at the messages from the other transmigrators, let out a breath, and quickly sent a message in the system group.
Lin Mian: I’m here!
Stone: We’re in the bushes. You can come and get the bomb!
Lin Mian followed the original plan and ran to the bushes. After sending a period in the system group, he saw the other transmigrators peeking out one after another.
“Holy shit!”
“Fuck!!”
The other transmigrators were all wearing camouflage clothes that were exactly the same as the bushes. When they suddenly peeked out and saw Lin Mian’s beggar-like appearance, they were so shocked they directly spat out two curses.
“Lin Mian?!”
Lin Mian quickly nodded. Recognizing the other as the Stone he had just been chatting with, he ran over and said with a smile, “It’s me! Where’s the explosive? I’ll go and blow it up right away!”
Stone lived up to his name. He was burly with bulging muscles, but the expression on his face was a little gloomy, and he seemed not very easy to get along with.
He frowned and looked at Lin Mian’s ghostly appearance, the veins on his forehead couldn’t help but throb. “How did you end up like this?!”
Lin Mian sniffled. Hearing the disdain in Stone’s words, he said a little unhappily, “What’s wrong with this? Aren’t we all the same? The transmigration pod is so expensive, and the landing spot is random. I had to circle around in the mountains for a long time to get out.”
The other transmigrators on the side heard Lin Mian’s words and couldn’t help but speak up. “You used a transmigration pod?”
Hearing the other’s suddenly raised voice, Lin Mian nodded in a daze. “What’s wrong? Don’t you all have to use a transmigration pod to transmigrate? Or could it be…”
“Did you guys directly tear through space to get here?”
The other transmigrators were a little stunned. They looked at each other for a while and, in the end, said nothing.
They had let Lin Mian charge ahead, originally with the intention of using him as cannon fodder, as he was easy to trick and bully, and they had no intention of letting him survive.
Therefore, even if Lin Mian had used so much energy to take the transmigration pod over like a sucker, they didn’t want to say anything to remind him.
Transmigration itself was an extremely energy-consuming matter. To keep the physical body from being crushed by the turbulence during the process of traveling through space, the material used for the transmigration pod was expensive and special.
But its biggest drawback was not that it was slow, but that it was really too energy-consuming.
The people from their transmigration department rarely encountered situations where they had to physically transmigrate. Usually, they would directly reach an agreement with the original owner, provide a certain amount of help, and then directly transmit their spirit over to do missions using their bodies.
But this world was too special. The mission they had to do was not as simple as before, and the degree of freedom was higher. After being evaluated by the system, the optimal way was to physically transmigrate.
But the day before they were about to leave, this person named Stone had found them and said that this mission didn’t require so much energy at all, and that he had a way to save nearly eighty percent of the energy.
Many of the people who had come to this world to do missions were those who wanted to take a gamble. After all, the danger level of this world was so high that many big shots had directly given up.
Therefore, after hearing Stone’s words, the other transmigrators were silent for a long time and, in the end, still chose to board his pirate ship.
Secretly using the spirit transmission system to transmigrate and directly seize other people’s bodies was indeed time-saving and labor-saving.
These people, who still didn’t know that some of the transmigrators’ spiritual bodies had already completely disappeared, looked at Lin Mian with a hint of pity.
“Why are you all looking at me? Could it be…” Lin Mian scratched his head, his IQ still not online. “Did you guys really tear through space to get here? That’s a big shot’s skill!”
His eyes widened. Lin Mian looked at these transmigrator companions, and at the thought that there was a big shot among them, his expression couldn’t help but become a little excited.
Besides the transmigration pod, there was indeed a faster way to physically transmigrate, which was to tear through space.
But that was no longer a matter of how much energy. Although tearing through space only took a few short minutes to complete the transmigration, the space magnetic field and turbulence in those few minutes were simply not something an ordinary person could withstand.
Therefore, this method only existed in legends. A newcomer to the transmigration department like Lin Mian had only heard about it once in a training class.
Looking at Lin Mian’s silly, bubbly appearance, a transmigrator couldn’t help but let out a cold snort. “How is that possible? If we could tear through space, why would we come and do this kind of mission!”
The big shots cherish their lives much more than them. It’s only these small fries who are after those few bits of energy and come here to gamble with their lives.
Lin Mian also let out a disappointed “ah.” “That’s true.”
“Stop talking. We haven’t even done the mission yet.”
Stone’s face darkened slightly as he looked at the others, a warning in his eyes. “Lin Mian, this is the explosive I brought from the system space. It’s very powerful. You just need to place it in the entrance passage of the laboratory, and you can blow the laboratory to smithereens.”
Hearing his mission, Lin Mian couldn’t help but become serious.
At this point, Stone asked, “You’ve done this kind of mission before, right?”
Lin Mian let out a shy “hehe” and laughed. “This is my first time doing a mission!”
Hearing this, the expression on Stone’s face almost collapsed.
This is a complete newcomer!
Is he an idiot? A newcomer coming to an S-level world, isn’t this just looking for death!
Taking a deep breath, Stone swore and simply handed the package to him, waving his hand impatiently. “That’s it then. Just follow the plan we talked about in the group. We’ll be the lookout for you here. You get out as soon as you’re done blowing it up.”
Lin Mian held the package and nodded firmly. He stumbled out of the prickly bushes and then, thinking of something, he crawled back and said, “Brother, can you lend me a couple of pairs of shoes? The ground here is a bit prickly.”
The expression on Stone’s face couldn’t help but crack. His chest heaved a couple of times, and he fiercely took off his own shoes and threw them to him. “You wear these. Hurry up and go!”