This Is Not a Dream!

"Whoa, I'm flying!"

Lin Chen felt like he was flying, this feeling of weightless soaring...

"Awesome!"

Lin Chen laughed heartily. The next moment, gravity struck, and Lin Chen's body plummeted rapidly. Before the wide-open shape of his mouth could close, he had already landed on the ground.

There was no pain. The ground felt like it was covered in thick sponge. Before Lin Chen could even react, a black figure half his height darted out and charged straight at him.

"What a huge rat!"

As the black figure got closer and Lin Chen saw the mutated giant rat clearly, he exclaimed in surprise. He instinctively leaped, covering several yards in a single bound, dodging the charging rat.

"Haha, I knew it! The me in my dreams knows martial arts!"

After landing, Lin Chen looked at the charging giant rat again, clenched his fist, and said, "Beast, you think you can bully me in my dream? This punch of mine has twenty years of kung fu behind it, can you block it?"

Bang~

His fist landed on the giant rat's head. With a bang, the giant rat was sent flying backward, crashing onto the ground not far away. It twitched slightly before falling still.

"Ding!"

A crisp sound echoed in his ear.

"Killed Mutated Rat, Origin +100."

"Origin: 1100"

"Martial Arts Available for Enhancement: None!"

"System?"

Lin Chen was stunned for a moment and muttered, "Have I been reading too many system-genre novels lately? Am I dreaming about a system now?"

"It's all over, why am I still not awake?"

He waited for a while but found no signs of waking up. Lin Chen frowned slightly, then closed his eyes and shook his head.

However, when he opened his eyes again, he was still on the same dim, gray forest path. A gentle breeze blew, giving Lin Chen a slight chill.

"Are dreams really this realistic?"

Lin Chen was bewildered. He then pinched himself hard, and a sharp pain shot through him. Yet, the scenery before his eyes remained unchanged.

"You've got to be kidding me!"

Lin Chen's lips twitched. He vaguely thought of something, then touched the ground beneath his feet and ran to the giant rat, touching the dead creature.

"Damn it! I really transmigrated!"

At this moment, Lin Chen finally understood. He wasn't dreaming; he had transmigrated. He had only read a bit too much "study material" last night, and now he had transmigrated. Wasn't that a bit too hasty?

"What the heck, transmigrating is fine, but why didn't I get the original body's memories? What am I supposed to do?"

Lin Chen had accepted the fact that he had transmigrated. The him on Blue Star was alone, and now he had just changed worlds to accumulate "study material." Without the original body's memories, wouldn't he be a nobody?

Just then, Lin Chen felt a sharp pain in his head. Immediately, a flood of unfamiliar memories surged into him.

The original body was also named Lin Chen, a senior student at Qingzhou University. His parents had died in a car accident five years ago, leaving him alone.

As graduation neared, the original body went job hunting. When he returned to school, it was already dark. He was attacked by a black shadow on the forest path, and then Lin Chen transmigrated.

"Same name, and also orphaned. At least I don't have to worry about my identity being exposed," Lin Chen sighed inwardly. He looked at the dead rat not far away. "No matter what, since I transmigrated, I guess I've avenged you. From now on, I am Lin Chen."

"No, I was already Lin Chen!"

On Blue Star, Lin Chen was his name. Moreover, Lin Chen himself was only in his early twenties. After merging with the original body's twenty-something years of memories, he was already indistinguishable.

"This world is not simple!"

After calming down, Lin Chen recalled his recent experience. Whether it was his leap of several yards or the rat the size of a wolfdog, it all indicated that this world was not simple.

"Let's go back first."

He had thought it was a dream before, so Lin Chen had no fear. Now that he knew he had transmigrated, he didn't want to die right after arriving.

Following the memories, he returned to the dormitory. It was a four-person dorm, but now only Lin Chen and another roommate remained. However, judging by the looks of it, the other roommate hadn't returned tonight.

Lying on the bed, reflecting on everything that had happened tonight and the memories of the original Lin Chen, Lin Chen realized that ordinary people were unaware of the mutated rats.

Although there were many similar rumors online, they were mostly debunked as hearsay. Now it seemed that the rumors online were not baseless.

"System?"

Lin Chen quickly called out to the System. Immediately, the System panel appeared before his eyes. However, after a few attempts, he found that the System was completely unresponsive.

"What era is this? It's still a manual, self-service System. Can't it be an intelligent System?"

Lin Chen felt speechless. Unable to communicate with the System, he could only rely on his own exploration to understand its functions.

This was clearly a System for enhancing martial arts. By obtaining Origin, one could enhance martial arts. This meant Lin Chen had to cultivate martial arts and also acquire Origin.

"Killing the Mutated Rat only gave me a hundred Origin, so why does the System show eleven hundred?" Lin Chen frowned. Where did the extra thousand Origin come from?

Unfortunately, his memories contained no recollection of gaining a thousand Origin. However, Lin Chen knew that to obtain Origin, he needed to kill creatures similar to the Mutated Rat.

As for martial arts...

As an ordinary person with no parents, how could Lin Chen obtain it?

Helpless, Lin Chen could only take out his phone and search the internet for information about martial arts. Unfortunately, after a thorough search, the System showed no changes.

Qingzhou University, a dim and misty forest path.

Whoosh~ Whoosh~

Two figures flew over. Seeing the dead rat on the ground, both of them clearly froze.

"It's dead?" the young man raised an eyebrow.

"A fist imprint, it was killed by someone!" the square-faced man beside him looked at the rat's head, his brow furrowed. "There don't seem to be any registered Cultivators at Qingzhou University."

"Someone has awakened!"

Almost instantly, the square-faced man and the young man spoke in unison. If an unregistered martial artist could kill a Mutated Rat, then it could only mean someone had awakened.

"Appearing at Qingzhou University at this hour, it's highly likely to be a student from Qingda," the square-faced man's expression turned serious. He then said in a deep voice, "No need to worry about him for now. Let's first kill all the Mutated Creatures that escaped. Otherwise, Qingda might become their hunting ground!"

Upon hearing this, the young man couldn't help but nod. Qingzhou University was the top academy in Qingzhou Prefecture. If a large-scale student death incident occurred, they would be held responsible.

The square-faced man moved his hand, and a finger-sized device was directly inserted into the dead rat. This was a tracker. They were combat personnel responsible for fighting. The deceased Mutated Creatures would be handled by the aftermath department.

After doing all this, the square-faced man led the young man towards the depths of the dim mist. Within a few breaths, they disappeared into the mist.

"It's not a dream!"

Lin Chen woke up groggily and looked at his familiar dormitory, finally realizing that he had truly transmigrated and could never return to Blue Star.

"I'll have to take the offline route then."

Recalling his gains from the internet last night, Lin Chen sighed in his heart. The martial arts he found online couldn't be strengthened, and the information was vague and useless.

However, offline, in Lin Chen's memory, there didn't seem to be any useful information either.