Preparations Before Transmigration

Preparations Before Transmigration: "Phew—wait, the power's back?!"

At that moment, Xia Yuan felt nothing but relief. He had no mind to wonder why the electricity had returned so quickly.

Gasping for breath, he cautiously looked into the mirror again. Its surface perfectly reflected his face, without the slightest anomaly. Everything that had just happened seemed like nothing more than an absurd nightmare.

Seven cycles of light and darkness? Uniwal? His heart churned like a stormy sea. As a veteran lore-focused player of Mysterious Era, Xia Yuan knew perfectly well what that obscure term meant.

Uniwal was exactly what the NPCs in the game called that world! Steadying himself again, Xia Yuan forced himself to remain calm and hurried out of the bathroom. He quickly locked the bathroom door behind him and turned on every light in the house.

At some point, the heavy rain outside had stopped, and even the clouds had dispersed. Pale silver moonlight quietly washed over the rain-soaked city, lending it a tranquil, hazy beauty.

[00:31:12] After glancing at the clock on his desktop, Xia Yuan rushed back to his bedroom, took a drink of water, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

After gasping heavily for several breaths, he gradually calmed down and began carefully considering the contents of the message.

"The message probably meant that seven days from now, I'll be transported to the world of Mysterious Era."

"But why seven days from now? Does Uniwal really exist?"

As he pondered and analyzed the hidden implications of the message, Xia Yuan skillfully turned on his computer, opened a browser, and made a post.

"I'm getting transported to another world in seven days! What do I do? Urgent! Waiting online!!!"

After typing the title, he carefully added below:

"The power just went out, so I took a candle to the bathroom. While washing my hands, I got bored and played a few rounds of rock-paper-scissors with the mirror. Then..."

When he typed "then," Xia Yuan pinched his chin and thought for a moment.

How should he put it? He had played rock-paper-scissors with a mirror in the middle of the night... and lost?

Forget it. No one had seen it anyway.

"Then, in the final round, I suddenly realized that I seemed to have won the second-to-last round..."

"The mirror threw paper, and I threw scissors!"

"After that, I felt that something was wrong. I turned around and was about to leave the bathroom when the candle suddenly went out. Then, the person in the mirror suddenly turned their head and smiled at me."

"Finally, a message appeared in my mind. It said, 'When the seven cycles of light and darkness come to an end, I shall arrive in another world.'"

"What do I do, everyone?! Urgent! Waiting online!"

After making the post, the drowsiness that had temporarily vanished from fright returned to his body. Unable to resist the overwhelming sleepiness, Xia Yuan went to bed.

It was too late. His life mattered more.

The next day, after being tormented by strange dreams all night, Xia Yuan turned on his computer with dark circles beneath his eyes and happily discovered that there were quite a few replies.

But when he opened the page full of anticipation—

"EXP +3, I'm out!"

???

Xia Yuan froze for a moment, then scrolled farther down.

"Another one's gone crazy! Web novels are seriously ruining people these days!"

"[Image] The brain CT results are out. There's a little problem with the OP's brain here, but I already fixed it with Photoshop!"

"Actually, OP, you're the long-lost descendant of aliens. They've come to take you back to the Andromeda Galaxy!"

Staring at the thread that had gone completely off the rails, Xia Yuan was dumbfounded.

After calming down a little, Xia Yuan checked his post again. Then he discovered, somewhat mournfully, that even he himself would not believe the OP's load of nonsense...

After thinking it over, he opened his browser again and skillfully made another post.

"Cash reward for ideas: What would you do if you were transported to another world in seven days?"

After typing the title, Xia Yuan returned to the post from last night, copied its contents, and pasted them into the new thread.

He added that he wanted to write a novel, but hoped to crowdsource some of the details, so he was collecting possible plans and suggestions here. If he used someone's idea, he would privately send them a one-hundred-yuan cash red packet, and so on...

Submissions would remain open until midnight one week after the post was made, and the red packets would be distributed after the collection period ended.

This time, the results were pretty good. Aside from a few spam posts, one relatively serious reply finally appeared.

"Based on the OP's setting, since the protagonist doesn't know what form the transmigration will take, they need to prepare for both possibilities.

"First, let's talk about physical transmigration. Since the environment after transmigration is uncertain, the protagonist needs to prepare protective equipment such as body armor and helmets, as well as various outdoor tools, medicine, consumables, and so on.

"As for weapons, the OP can decide that himself. Also, remember to prepare a laptop, a high-capacity smartphone, solar power banks, and backup batteries.

"During these seven days, the protagonist should download as much specialized knowledge as possible and save it to the computer and phone.

"For example, the overused methods for making glass, cement, and gunpowder, as well as various classics and poems. Bringing those to another world would be like having half a Golden Finger.

"Oh, and the principles behind Mass-Energy Conversion Weapons, knowledge for identifying radioactive ores, and so on. Maybe the protagonist will never use any of it, but if a person doesn't even have dreams, what's the difference between them and a salted fish? Besides, it can pad out the word count! Now, as for soul transmigration, since the only thing that can be taken along is memory, the protagonist needs to master an efficient memorization method in a short time, then memorize as much of the content mentioned above as possible.

"In their spare time, they can read wilderness survival guides, An Actor Prepares, comprehensive books on social psychology, and so on... Those can help the protagonist integrate into the environment more quickly and improve their chances of surviving right after transmigration."

What could he do... He was Despair too! It was not like he got to decide how he would be transported! After reading the online expert's suggestion, Xia Yuan felt complicated emotions, but his fingers instinctively typed the reply he had used thousands of times before: "Thank you, kind poster. May you live a long and peaceful life!"

After replying, he thought for a moment and added another comment below.

"Should I buy an Apple phone or a Huawei?"

Satisfied as he watched the number of replies suddenly skyrocket, Xia Yuan shut down his computer.

Then he suddenly realized something.

The mirror had the final say.

The mirror?

Should he just smash the mirror?

Xia Yuan felt conflicted, but he had calmed down by now.

Thinking it over carefully, being transported to a world of swords and magic was not necessarily a bad thing. Besides, he knew that world quite well. What if... he became handsome forever? But the setting of Mysterious Era was far from peaceful. That was the downside of a high-magic world: it was easy to get caught up in the battles of the powerful and die without ever knowing why.

Rebirth and transmigration—two incredibly powerful Golden Fingers combined together should have made an even stronger Golden Finger... But why had it turned out like this...

After hesitating for a while, he still carried a hammer into the bathroom.

It was better to be safe.

Bang—bang—clang—bang...

The result left him rather depressed. After hammering at it wildly, the mirror's surface did not gain even a single scratch. He even suspected that he had not been hitting a mirror, but a solid metal wall.

"Of course, it wouldn't be that simple..."

Xia Yuan sighed and tossed the hammer aside, along with the conflict in his heart. After considering it, he decided to prepare for three possibilities at once.

First, he opened a well-known shopping app and directly used the money he had originally planned to spend on equipment to order all the supplies he needed. He also negotiated with every seller to ensure delivery within three days. Shipping costs were not a concern.

After placing the orders, Xia Yuan immediately began learning memorization techniques and desperately memorizing any knowledge that seemed potentially useful.

Once the electronic devices arrived, he continued memorizing while downloading large amounts of specialized knowledge related to scientific principles...

He understood the world of Mysterious Era extremely well. It had a highly prosperous magical civilization. Low-end industrial products such as glass and gunpowder had appeared long ago, not to mention the existence of magic.

A single combination of Fossil to Mud + Mud to Stone + Shape Solid Stone was far superior to building materials like cement.

Only advanced scientific achievements that did not exist in Uniwal were truly valuable information.

"Mm, An Actor Prepares, Wilderness Survival Handbook, Comprehensive Social Psychology... More strange knowledge acquired!"

Though he did not know what form his transmigration would take, Xia Yuan understood that his survival conditions afterward would be directly linked to how thoroughly he prepared beforehand.

During those days, he approached memorizing all kinds of knowledge with the same attitude he had once used to prepare for the College Entrance Exam, giving it everything he had.