I Start with a Mysterious Island

Chapter 413: Chapter 299: This Spiritual Artifact Seems to Have a Mind of Its Own

The next day, a little after nine in the morning, brilliant golden sunlight shone into the room from outside the window.

According to the weather forecast, the temperature today was still forty degrees.

"Hah~"

Lin Li, who had slept in, slowly opened his eyes and yawned.

He threw off the covers, got out of bed, and left his bedroom for the kitchen.

He put a pot on the stove, filled it with water, lit the fire, and dropped in three eggs. Then, he went to the bathroom to wash up.

"SPLASH, SPLASH..."

The sound of running water went on for a while. After it stopped, a freshly washed Lin Li emerged from the bathroom.

Back in the kitchen, the three eggs in the pot were also done.

He turned off the gas stove, scooped the three steaming hard-boiled eggs out of the pot, and placed them in a small bowl.

Then, carrying the small bowl, he added some water from the sink. To cool the eggs down faster, a faint golden Spiritual Light appeared in Lin Li’s palm, and an ice pick quickly condensed in his hand.

"CRACK, CRACK."

Lin Li snapped the ice pick he had created with his Superpower into two pieces and tossed them into the small bowl.

With the addition of the ice, the steaming eggs, now sitting in ice water, quickly cooled down.

Three pieces of bread, three eggs, and two cartons of milk—that was Lin Li’s breakfast for the morning.

"Huh?"

After finishing breakfast, Lin Li walked toward the living room while checking the day’s weather.

The forecast showed rain between 9:30 and 10:30 AM, noting that it would be artificial rain.

"It’s really happening, just like Liu Jialin said. Artificial rain in the next day or two," Lin Li mumbled, looking at the forecast.

He then went to the living room couch and lay down on his side, turning on the TV with the remote and waiting for the impending artificial rain.

* * *

At the Spiritual Energy Research Institute, Senior Researcher Zhao Tianfu was processing some experimental data at his computer.

Suddenly, the phone on his desk rang—it was the alarm he had set earlier.

Yesterday, Wang Shi, the director of the Spiritual Energy Research Institute, had told him to use the weather-controlling Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact between 9:30 and 10:30 AM today to cool down the scorching city of Rongcheng with a heavy downpour.

’Time already?’ Zhao Tianfu, who was in the middle of processing experimental data, picked up his phone and turned off the alarm.

He then stood up and walked over to the Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact.

Opening the glass case, he took the Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact—an object of unknown origin but immense power—into his hand.

He channeled the Spiritual Energy from his Dantian, and a faint golden Spiritual Light appeared in his hand.

He injected Spiritual Energy into the Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact. The moment he did, the seemingly ordinary yet immensely powerful artifact activated.

An extremely brief message appeared in Zhao Tianfu’s mind... Rain.

Normally, when a Spiritual Artifact is activated, the user receives detailed information about it. But when Zhao Tianfu activated this Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact, he received only a single word of information—so brief it felt completely unreasonable.

’There’s too little information about this Spiritual Artifact. It’s highly unusual. I’ll have to continue researching it in the future.’

Holding the activated Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact, Zhao Tianfu muttered to himself. He then began to manipulate the artifact, commanding it to bring a torrential downpour to Rongcheng.

"HUM."

As Zhao Tianfu issued the command, the activated Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact trembled. Then, the ambient Spiritual Energy in the surrounding air rapidly converged upon it.

"WHOOSH."

Having gathered a massive amount of Spiritual Energy, the Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact shot out a faint golden beam of Spiritual Light.

This faint golden beam shot straight toward the roof, ignoring all obstacles, penetrating layer after layer of thick walls, and bursting out of the laboratory building.

Not far from the Spiritual Energy Research Institute, there was an office building.

In one of the companies in the office building, a young office worker getting water from the cooler glanced out the window. Suddenly, he saw a golden beam of light shooting toward the sky in the distance and immediately cried out in alarm.

"Holy crap, you guys, look out the window! There’s a golden beam of light..."

The others waiting in line behind the office worker heard his cry and immediately looked out the window.

"Whoa, there really is a golden beam!"

"Looks like it’s coming from the Spiritual Energy Research Institute..."

"Oh, if that’s the case, then it’s nothing to be surprised about."

"Yeah, last summer, researchers from the Spiritual Energy Research Institute ran an experiment and made it hail within the institute’s grounds.

This golden beam was probably just something a researcher whipped up..."

Everyone went from being surprised by the golden beam in broad daylight to calming down in just a few seconds.

It seemed the young office workers in this building, not far from the Spiritual Energy Research Institute, had seen plenty of similar incidents. Their nerves had been thoroughly tempered.

「Spiritual Energy Research Institute, inside the laboratory.」

Zhao Tianfu watched the Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact in his hand as it shot a golden beam into the sky. He knew the downpour would soon arrive.

And just as Zhao Tianfu had predicted, not long after the Jade Talisman Spiritual Artifact shot the golden beam into the sky, large patches of dark clouds began to appear in what had been a clear, sunny sky.

’It only took three and a half minutes for the clouds to appear this time. That’s pretty fast! Almost a minute faster than last time...’

Zhao Tianfu stood at the window, watching as swaths of dark clouds filled the sky outside, obscuring the scorching sun.