If Rich, Don't Forget Me

Nan Gengchen stared at Qing Chen for a long time, stunned. "Brother, I wanted to ask the police officers at the station for help. Guys like Uncle who get arrested can't help much."

"Then there's nothing we can do," Qing Chen shook his head. He asked further, "Did you encounter something very strange? What exactly happened?"

"Nothing, nothing," Nan Gengchen refused to say anything about it.

Qing Chen didn't say anything more.

If the other party was unwilling to talk about it, then he could only pretend not to know.

However, he had a vague guess in his heart. Could the strangeness Nan Gengchen mentioned... be a countdown appearing on his arm too?

But others couldn't see the countdown, so Qing Chen could only guess.

His first countdown appeared yesterday evening at 6 PM. He skipped class then and didn't attend evening study. His first transmigration happened at 12 AM.

If Nan Gengchen really had a countdown on his arm, when would it have appeared?

Qing Chen thought that Nan Gengchen, being so thin and small, looked so frail. If he really transmigrated to that world, would he be able to survive?

The two of them had a pretty good relationship, not because their personalities meshed well, but because both their fathers gambled and played cards, leaving both families in pretty bad financial situations.

After accidentally talking about this, the two teenagers actually grew closer.

Just then, a classmate playing on his phone in the classroom suddenly exclaimed, "Holy shit!"

It wasn't time for class yet, and there were only about ten students in the classroom. Everyone turned their attention to him. "What's up?"

"Quick, look at the trending searches. Jacob held a press conference saying he transmigrated to a mechanical civilization world. The trending search has the full video of his press conference," the student who exclaimed said.

Jacob, an American citizen, was one of the world's most famous basketball stars with a huge fanbase.

Upon hearing this, the classmates immediately opened their phones to check the trending searches. Everyone was confused.

Only Qing Chen was stunned on the spot because he knew what the so-called transmigration and mechanical civilization were about!

However, he really hadn't expected before that people overseas were also experiencing transmigration and countdowns.

Nan Gengchen had already opened the video, and Qing Chen looked over.

In the video, Jacob was sitting behind a table, facing all the media he had invited. The scene was filled with the dazzling flashes of cameras.

But the first thing everyone watching the video noticed was Jacob's left arm, as that entire arm had been replaced with a mechanical arm.

In the video, Jacob stood up and led everyone to the basketball court. Then, from across the entire court, he easily shot the basketball into the hoop with his left hand, making ten consecutive shots.

"Is this special effects?" Nan Gengchen murmured. "Is this from a movie with special effects?"

Qing Chen didn't say anything.

The video had been brought over from overseas, and Chinese subtitles had been added.

In the video, Jacob said to the media, "I accidentally discovered a countdown on my arm last night. When the countdown ended, I transmigrated to a strange mechanical civilization world. It's also Earth, with a sun and a moon, but it seems to be a parallel universe where the progress of civilization is completely different from our world."

Jacob raised his left arm. "When I transmigrated, I gained this arm, as if I had replaced someone over there and become a new me. I don't know how it works, but its strength is far beyond my imagination, and it's very flexible and precise."

"The reason I'm holding this press conference isn't to show off to everyone. That world isn't as beautiful as you might imagine; it's actually extremely dangerous. I'm holding this press conference here to prevent myself from being secretly taken away for research. I declare here that I refuse to be a research subject. If I disappear one day, please..."

Qing Chen suddenly understood when he saw this. Jacob was a public figure, so he couldn't hide the mechanical limb on his arm at all.

Furthermore, he was well aware that the technology in that world far surpassed the current era. Thus, fearing he would be taken away for research and become a guinea pig, he chose a more aggressive approach.

This might not be a good method, or perhaps he was panicking and made such a hasty decision.

Qing Chen looked at Nan Gengchen. His small and thin deskmate was dumbfounded.

Meanwhile, Qing Chen was thinking that he couldn't bring the boning knife with him, nor could he bring the toothbrush back. It seemed the only way to bring things back from that side was to modify himself or hide them within his body?

He wondered where Jacob had transmigrated to. Across the ocean?

At this moment, all the students in the classroom were in a state of shock and disbelief. They found it hard to determine if this trending search was real or just synthesized special effects.

However, before everyone could recover, several strange events suddenly surged onto the trending list.

"A certain internet executive was found dead at home, with intricate mechanical structures suddenly appearing on his body, extremely similar to Jacob's."

"A certain university student claimed that he also transmigrated to another world, where there was not only a mechanical civilization but also Transcendental beings who surpassed ordinary people."

"A certain high school student claimed that he not only transmigrated to another world but also awakened superpowers."

Qing Chen frowned as he watched. This series of news events was happening faster than he had imagined. Not everyone could be as cautious as him.

More and more news was announcing to the world: this was not special effects, nor was it a fabricated story; it was real.

Someone had truly transmigrated to that unknown and fantastical world.

Moreover, the Transmigrators were not few in number.

Nan Gengchen, sitting beside him, murmured, "Transcendental beings, mechanical civilization... Does transmigrating there give you a chance to become a Transcendental?"

A classmate asked, "The probability of transmigration seems quite high. Could there be classmates in our school who have transmigrated?"

"Maybe someone has come to school with mechanical limbs..."

"I want to transmigrate too..."

More and more students entered the classroom. Whenever someone approached the classroom, everyone would look to see if they had mechanical limbs.

Keep in mind that they were only seventeen or eighteen years old, an age when curiosity, desire for exploration, and vanity were at their peak. Adults might consider whether the danger and opportunity were equivalent, but for teenagers, it was mostly anticipation.

When you watch Harry Potter, you expect to be able to pass through King's Cross Station yourself. When reading novels, you hope to be guided by an immortal.

But in the real world, under normal circumstances, you won't be greeted by an immortal, but by a scam.

So when people find out that they can become extraordinary after transmigrating, they will filter out some dangerous information and hope that they are also among the Transmigrators.

The protagonist of the world, that sounds very tempting.

Qing Chen was no exception.

There was just one difference: Qing Chen had actually transmigrated, and he had also met those legendary extraordinary people, Lin Xiaoxiao and Li Shutong.

Ye Wan should be one of them too.

Slowly, Qing Chen noticed that Nan Gengchen's flustered expression faded, and instead, he gradually became more spirited.

Qing Chen asked casually, "Is this the strange thing you were talking about just now?"

Nan Gengchen lowered his voice, "I can't tell you yet, but don't worry, if I get any opportunities, I definitely won't forget you, brother."

Qing Chen nodded, "Mm-hmm, 'If rich and noble, don't forget each other.'"