Free Web NovelChapter 1155: Chapter 154: Experiences
Li Ang greeted Wang Congshan and Chaichai, and returned to the waters outside Yin City to listen to the report from the Undersea Bug Nest.
The fallen nobleman, Jones Good, who lost his right to inherit the title of Duke of Atoka due to an accident, had already sailed the Atoka number four-masted sailing ship into the harbor.
Many citizens gathered along the harbor shore, exclaiming at the numerous visible scars on the Atoka, evidently caused by sea monster attacks.
According to Johnson Good’s original plan, the spices, silk, palm oil, and other goods loaded on the ship were to be delivered to different companies according to the contract once they reached port, earning a large amount of money.
However, plans have changed now.
Johnson Good, along with the captain of the Atoka, disembarked using the gangway extending from the deck,
and met with the Port Affairs Officer of the new world.
The background of the Portal World closely resembles the Age of Discovery in the real world.
All citizens have the responsibility and obligation to report to the Port Affairs Officer
whenever encountering a sea monster attack, specifying when and where on which route the attack occurred,
which is then reported by the Port Affairs Officer to the Empire Academy, the Imperial Bureau of Naval Affairs, and the Imperial Navy,
enabling the Imperial Navy to accurately grasp sea monster activities along the routes and ensure smooth and unobstructed navigation.
According to Johnson Good and the captain,
their ship was attacked by a sea monster while at sea,
whereupon the captain and crew bravely fought back, hitting the monster’s throat with a harpoon turret, and drove it away.
As the sea monster fled, it dropped several rot-proof wooden boxes containing gold, silver goods, and precious porcelain from its throat.
It is speculated that this indiscriminate eater likely swallowed these during a modern shipwreck at the bottom of the sea.
Indeed, modern ships from Portal Planet did use indestructible wooden boxes to load precious items—there are historical cases of treasures being recovered from a sea monster’s belly after killing it.
Johnson Good’s legendary experience quickly spread throughout this new world town,
with everyone, including the Port Affairs Officer, looking at him—the Lucky One—with envious eyes. According to Imperial law, only artifacts salvaged from territorial waters are regulated, while treasures found on the high seas belong to the discoverer.
The value of the treasures discovered by Johnson Good far exceeds the revenue from conducting ten oceanic trades on Atoka.
However, Johnson Good did something unimaginable in the midst of everyone’s envious gazes—he publicly declared that he would not personally keep these treasures,
but instead would offer all the treasures to the Empire Museum and the Royal Family,
because among these treasures is a prince crown from the last dynasty, which is highly probable to belong to the former dynasty prince who fled to another country to escape the war and left it behind.
The Portal World’s empire does not have any prohibitions like "the former dynasty’s sword will not cut the current official,"
treasures are simply treasures,
and royal artifacts lost from the previous dynasty further highlight the empire’s power.
In fact, Johnson Good was not lying,
the treasures loaded on the Atoka sailboat were indeed loading materials found from the shipwreck at the bottom of the sea by the Bug Nest.
Based on Johnson Good’s eye, that crown was indeed an artifact from the last dynasty.
According to the plan of the Bug Nest,
Johnson Good, with the help of the Bug Nest, would soon regain wealth, prestige, and power, leveraging the opportunity of offering the crown to return to the empire’s capital and access the upper echelons,
to uncover the truth of his father’s treason, to clear his father’s wrongful conviction,
to retaliate against the uncle who usurped the family assets and have him imprisoned,
while he himself would restore his status as a noble young lord, ultimately winning the heart of a beauty,
making that duchess who forsook their engagement and abandoned him, regret ever doing so.
This "Duke’s Revenge" indeed delights the heart,
but the Bug Nest orchestrated this only to enable Johnson Good to rapidly ascend the social ladder lawfully,
whether he was the Count of Monte Cristo or the Great Gatsby,
he must gain fame and wealth quickly to approach the power echelons of the Empire’s capital.
The Portal World is vast, rich in biological resources,
the Bug Nest truly doesn’t need to parasitize and control so many ordinary people,
but only infiltrate a portion of the Empire’s noble class, religious figures, and elite scholars,
to determine if there truly exists a deity behind the Polytheist Sect.
Three months.
According to calculations by the Bug Nest Brainworm, three months’ time is sufficient for the Bug Nest to advance its penetration to every nation’s upper echelons globally and uncover the sectarian truth.
Johnson Good’s "Duke’s Revenge"
can, and can only, be delightful for three months.
Li Ang watched coldly as Jones Good’s superb acting unfolded on screen,
listening to the Bug Nest Brainworm deducing and calculating potential variables in the plan.
In the grander scheme of things by the Bug Nest, Jones Good’s personal vendetta, family honor, and disgrace were mere trifling interludes.
"It’s up to you now."
Li Ang casually said, leaving the Undersea Bug Nest amidst the reverent farewells of the Bug Nest Brainworm, returning to the waters outside Yin City, and entering the Game Square, heading to the Immaculate Furnace Store, where he met with the Mule.
Compared to the last meeting, the Mule’s mental state was much improved, perhaps having resolved some mental burden, he greeted Li Ang with a smile, saying: "It’s a rare sight."
Li Ang raised an eyebrow, "Rare to see what?"
The Mule grinned, "Rare to see you not wearing the Dragon Head White Lab Coat."
"Oh, that."
Dressed in casual attire, Li Ang nonchalantly waved his hand, "I came in a hurry, didn’t have time to change.
Did you bring the items I requested?"
"Everything’s here."
The Mule nodded, conjuring a huge silver metal box from the void and placing it on the Immaculate Furnace Store’s counter, "See if there’s anything missing."
The metal box brought by the Mule, like the Automated Pet Box, possessed space-folding capabilities,
though the former was more advanced,
capable of containing transcendent items of various levels, categorizing and displaying them.
The metal box was filled with dazzling items,
including ordinary items from the real world,
such as rifles, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, bulletproof vests, antibiotics, drones, compressed biscuits, night vision goggles, radiation protection suits, binoculars, and so on.
And also transcendent items,
such as magic potions, first aid potions, swords, wands, talismans, magic artifacts, light sabers, genetic elixirs, buffed food...
Their quality levels weren’t particularly high, but there was a wide variety.
"I practically cleaned out half the black market,"
the Mule shook his head helplessly, handing a long list to Li Ang, "With these things, you could wage a modern war against any small country in the real world.
You’re not planning to form a mercenary group with all these purchases, are you?"
The Mule was of course joking, Li Ang glanced at the list and casually chuckled, "A mercenary group would be too slow,
for just a modern war, five minutes is all I need.
This is your reward."
"So much?"
Seeing the amount transferred, the Mule raised an eyebrow and shook his head enviously, "Is opening a shop really this profitable? It seems working for others leads to having nothing in the end."
"Ha."
Li Ang chatted with the Mule for a few moments, the chaos caused by the United States city building made more people worry about their future,
and many low and mid-level Transcendents joined Liu Wu Dai’s Ark plan,
which also gave the Mule more resources in his hands.
The Mule was busy with work, and after a few words, he logged out of the Game Square.
Li Ang also exited the Square, returning to the real world with a pile of supplies.
Not long ago, through the Mule’s channels, he went to West Asia to resolve an anomalous incident, completed a routine mission, and earned enough Experience Points,
bringing his personal level to Lv27, meeting the requirements to equip the [Terminal Vending Machine].
And now, the wide array of items Li Ang ordered from the Mule have arrived, it’s time to use this vending machine that claims to transact across realms.
He plugged the vending machine’s power cord into the socket of the cruise cabin, and the liquid crystal screen on the machine lit up, displaying the welcome message and a new prompt.
[Please place your palm on the coordinate recorder for initial use]
Coordinate Locator?
Li Ang glanced at the eight-ring combination lock below the screen and placed his hand on it.
With a "click,"
the eight-ring combination lock started rotating by itself, its speed gradually increasing, stopping every few seconds for a moment.
Forming two eight-digit series,
11627455, 32461781;
46957536, 01847639;
...
Li Ang noted down all the numbers during the pauses,
finally, the lock paused at 00000000, 00000000.
And in his mind emerged the instructions for using these numbers—each pair of eight-digit numbers corresponds to the coordinates of a world,
the series that appeared earlier were the world coordinates from script tasks Li Ang had previously experienced.
He needed to turn the lock once, wait for it to reset, then turn it again to get two eight-digit series, which will allow entering that world.
As for 00000000, 00000000, those are Earth’s coordinates.
"Calculating by the maximum value, the lock’s maximal coordinate is 99999999, 99999999,
which means, in theory, the Terminal Vending Machine can reach that many worlds?
Or perhaps, the majority of these theoretical world coordinates are worthless." Li Ang pondered, "Let me think back.
The valuable script tasks I’ve been through,
include the planet of the deep-sea giant beast,
the box world that might be Su Ni Sheng’s past life,
the high-dimensional hacking script world filled with game tasks simulated by computer.
The Script Task World of Solitary Cold Temple, where I first met Chaichai, which might resemble ancient Earth, possibly counts as one.
In addition, there’s the abnormal fairy tale,
and the world of the Alchemist..."
Since the lock only provided the series, without indicating which planet they each relate to,
Li Ang, after some thought,
chose to input the last series.
He stepped forward and turned the combination lock,
accompanying a "click" sound, the lock fixed in position,
and a white light illuminated on the liquid crystal screen.
Li Ang’s consciousness instantly linked into the Terminal Vending Machine,
while his body still stood in the first-class cabin of the Longqing Cruise Ship, facing the Terminal Vending Machine,
what Li Ang felt should be the projection of the Terminal Vending Machine in another world—it had completed the teleportation and was on the summit of a densely forested barren mountain.
"This place is..."
Like the mythical worker shrinking in the vending machine, Li Ang used the machine’s liquid crystal panel as his eyes, glancing around.
The Terminal Vending Machine itself had no attack or mobility abilities, nor could it carry Li Ang’s power to perform any action beyond its own functionality.
"Caw, caw—"
A sharp screech sounded in the sky,
Li Ang looked up through the vending machine’s screen to see a deformed bat with an astonishing wingspan flying above,
it had eight tails, each tip lined with spikes, resembling foxtails.
Behind the bat flew a similarly ugly, pink-spotted, giant hairless vulture,
apparently hunting the deformed bat in front.
"Screech!"
The hairless vulture suddenly flapped its wings, accelerated abruptly, and bit onto the bat’s tail, shredding the lower body and splattering blood around.
The bat shrieked and turned, attempting to scratch the vulture with its claws,
however, the vulture’s hide was extraordinarily thick and entirely blocked the bat’s vain struggles.
The hunt lasted less than a few seconds before the giant vulture completely killed the bat,
stretching its mouth wide open like a snake, swallowing the entire bat,
its seemingly murky but actually sharp eyes appeared to notice the conspicuous Terminal Vending Machine on the summit below,
and it dove directly towards it.
"..."
Squinting, Li Ang considered that if he were physically present, a mere glance could wipe out the vulture’s consciousness,
but in the state of the Terminal Vending Machine...
Following an intangible hint,
he withdrew his consciousness from the machine, returning to the real world.
The shared sensation with the machine vanished instantly, and the expanding figure of the vulture on the screen disappeared from sight.
"Was that... did I reach the Abnormal World of the Origin of Life?"
Li Ang muttered silently, "That world was overrun with aberrant creatures due to the Origin of Life. Didn’t expect those creatures would persist even after I took the Origin."
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