Impossible, Absolutely Impossible

Klein thought that, if there was nothing wrong with his memory, one of the console games he had played recently was called Elden Ring...

Naturally, the real image looked far better than a 3D-rendered game scene. The features of this tree, and this setting—why did they resemble one of the endings in Old Ring so much?

Wasn't Lu Mingfei's world called Dragon Raja?

Klein's gaze met Su Lin's. He saw the other man's lips twitch, his trembling index finger pointing at the image in the sky, his eyes filled with confusion and shock.

Klein nodded in disbelief. Su Lin still looked unable to believe it, his eyes wide open.

Su Lin: "Are you sure?"

Klein: "I'm sure. It probably is."

Su Lin: "Aba aba!"

Su Lin: "How did he do that?!"

Impossible. There was no reason for it! Even if the world of Elden Ring really existed, why would Lu Mingfei be in that world?!

Wasn't the novel I read in middle school and high school called Dragon Raja?!

Su Lin clutched his head with both hands, tugging at his hair. Even with the intelligence of a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could not understand why the protagonist of Dragon Raja had ended up in the game world of Elden Ring.

"So cool..." Lu Mingfei stared blankly at himself on the screen.

"Indeed." Xiao Yan nodded approvingly. "That bearing, that style—your parallel-world counterpart has got something going for him."

Other than Su Lin and Klein, no one else had paid attention to or knew that there was a game called Elden Ring on Earth in this era.

In the image, dazzling golden leaves drifted down with a rustling sound. Lu Mingfei, seated on the throne, slowly extended his right hand and caught a golden leaf.

Staring at the golden leaf in his hand, Lu Mingfei seemed to be thinking—or perhaps recalling the past.

"Did I ascend the throne and become king somewhere?" Lu Mingfei on Water Mirror Peak muttered to himself. "Why is that tree so huge?"

"A dense divine aura." A trace of solemnity flashed through Zhongli's gilded eyes.

Heracles looked at Lu Mingfei in the image, sensing the realistic projection reflected by the Dayan Pearl.

"Is he a god or a human?"

As though exhausted, Lu Mingfei closed his eyes and felt everything in the world.

After waiting for quite some time without seeing his counterpart make another move, Lu Mingfei remembered to switch channels.

Then, without warning, a sudden change occurred.

Scarlet blood transformed into an endless tide that swept in.

Lu Mingfei on the throne did not move. A crystal-like knight's greatsword merely appeared beside him.

The sword tip fell toward the ground and touched a rune.

Bzzzz—

The dazzling white light faded, leaving only the aftershock of power spreading outward.

Watching this scene, Lu Mingfei on Water Mirror Peak had only three classic questions in his mind.

"Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?"

For a moment, Water Mirror Peak fell into brief silence.

Until—

Su Lin gulped down a mouthful of tea. Instead of savoring the fine spirit tea, he poured it down his throat like a cow chewing peonies.

Then he slowly said, "Parallel worlds are always filled with endless possibilities. It's not impossible to accept that Lu Mingfei traveled to Elden Ring."

Han Li turned to Su Lin and asked, "This Lu Mingfei isn't in his original world?"

"I played a game called Elden Ring these past two days..." Klein began explaining the game he had been playing recently.

Lu Mingfei was the most shocked, but on second thought, things like a chat group and cultivation had already happened to him. It was not entirely incomprehensible that one version of himself from a parallel world had traveled into a game world.

Probably...

It was completely incomprehensible, wasn't it?!

Once everyone understood the relevant setting, they could only sigh in amazement.

"This proves once again that you have great potential, Lu Mingfei," Zhongli said.

Instead of feeling pleased by the compliment, Lu Mingfei grew somewhat embarrassed and fidgeted uneasily.

"You flatter me, you flatter me. Hehe, I just got lucky."

Su Lin felt that things had suddenly become absurd. It was like watching Peppa Pig one second, knowing that Peppa would obviously say in the cartoon, "This is my little brother, Jozu."

Only to see Peppa say the next second, "This is my little brother, GG Bond!"

They were the same species, but the two cartoons had absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Forget it. There was a saying for this.

When in doubt, blame quantum mechanics.

If it could not be explained, blame time travel.

Am I sure I'm not reading some kind of fanfiction?

Lu Mingfei took out his phone, snapped a frontal photo of his other self, and happily set it as his lock screen.

It was a pity he could not talk to his other self. Otherwise, he would have had him take out that greatsword again and strike a pose, then set it as his forum avatar.

"Keep going, next one." Ye Fan urged him. "Give us a Krypton version."

"Do you think I'm an all-purpose cosplayer?" Lu Mingfei switched channels.

After all, that guy had maintained the same pose without moving for over ten minutes.

With a thought, the image changed.

Lu Mingfei in the image was sitting in a wheelchair. A massive blood moon hung in the sky, while white flowers bloomed beneath it.

"Am I crippled?" Lu Mingfei said in surprise.

Compared with the kingly grandeur of the previous Elden Lord, this fellow looked rather miserable.

The version of himself who played esports might not have been awe-inspiring or slaughtered all before him, but at least that Lu Mingfei had all four limbs intact and had even won an esports championship.

This Lu Mingfei was having an utterly miserable time. How had he ended up in a wheelchair?

Could it be that he had been beaten half-crippled by some Dragon during a dragon-slaying mission?

Lu Mingfei hoped Kassel Academy had bought his other self accident insurance. He also carefully recalled whether Kassel Academy covered living expenses for the rest of one's life if one suffered a work injury while slaying dragons.

If not for the annual scholarship of a hundred thousand dollars and the tyrannical clause requiring brain lobe surgery upon withdrawal, Lu Mingfei would have wanted to drop out during his first semester.

Of course, things were different now. He did not want to get off this pirate ship anymore.

Lu Mingfei in the wheelchair gazed at the blood moon and slowly rose to his feet.

"I told you before that the wheels on this wheelchair need some oil."

Lu Mingfei in the image muttered to himself.

Only then did the observers notice that this Lu Mingfei wore a vintage leather jacket. On the ground beside him lay a filthy rectangular object amid the sea of flowers.

"You're here." Lu Mingfei turned around, picked up the object wrapped in a stained strip of cloth, and unwrapped it. It was a man-height greatsword covered in rust.

"..." Lu Mingfei on Water Mirror Peak had a bad feeling about this.

Whoosh—

The rust-covered greatsword bloomed with dark blue energy, particles of light covering every inch of its blade.

An elegant, beautiful greatsword was held in the hands of Lu Mingfei, who wore the vintage leather jacket.

At some point, a black dot had appeared within the enormous blood moon.

Su Lin: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Klein: "I know this is absurd, but it really is absurd!"

Klein: "@Lu Mingfei You might not believe this, but I only cleared all the endings of this game three days ago."