Chapter 5
Liu Dajun's brain froze again on the spot. Having read plenty of novels, he had been frightened to learn that he had transmigrated, but he could just about accept it.
Even when so many people suddenly surrounded him, he had still consoled himself, suspecting that this was because of the body's original owner.
After all, none of the many transmigration novels he had read had featured a protagonist who was discovered immediately after transmigrating.
Even if they faced a crisis right at the start, transmigrator protagonists could resolve it with their own ingenuity and knowledge from their original world.
But what the hell was this, getting surrounded by a crowd right after transmigrating and being asked why he had occupied their citizen's brain?!
He had been discovered less than two minutes after transmigrating, and they had him completely surrounded!
They're not going to drag me off and slice me up, are they?!
Just as he thought that, the voice rang out again. "Don't worry. We won't drag you off and slice you up. We only want to know where you came from."
Liu Dajun was startled again. His brain worked so fast that cold sweat began to bead on his forehead, and the third eye between his brows began blinking rapidly.
What's going on?!
I clearly didn't say anything just now. How does he know what I'm thinking?!
Could this be the legendary mind-reading ability?!
No, isn't this a technological world? Something like that shouldn't exist here!
"All of us in the Ultra Empire have our brains linked together, so knowing what you're thinking isn't difficult.
"But if you keep overclocking your processing power like this, you may suffer brain death on the spot, and we will take the necessary measures as well. So we hope you'll cooperate!"
Hearing this, Liu Dajun finally calmed down.
Given the situation before him, though, there was nothing he could do even if he didn't calm down.
Whatever he said or thought, the other side could know it. In that case, he might as well have a proper conversation with them.
He couldn't resist anyway. At worst, he would die. He had already died once, so what was there to fear?
However bad things got, could there be an outcome worse than that?
While Liu Dajun was thinking this, they brought him to a building over thirty stories tall. But instead of taking him up, they went down some twenty-odd floors.
After countless twists and turns along the way, Liu Dajun had no idea where they had taken him, since he couldn't read this world's writing.
Inside a room full of futuristic technology, three of the Three-Eyed People with deep red skin sat opposite him and connected to his consciousness to begin communicating.
"Hello, outsider. My name is Mebius, and I developed the Ultra Empire's Mind Web. Our King Ultra is very interested in your existence, so would you mind introducing yourself?"
Although it was phrased as a question, Liu Dajun knew he had no right to refuse. He could only begin answering in his mind. My name is Liu Dajun. I'm from Earth, and I'm twenty-six years old.
Liu Dajun's words traveled through the mental network to the Ultra Empire's highest laboratory.
Ultra V said, "Ask him where Earth is and how he got here."
Mebius nodded lightly, then gave Liu Dajun a kindly smile. "Hello, Liu Dajun. It's a pleasure to meet you here, but we would still like to know how you came here, and why you occupied the brain of a citizen of our Ultra Empire."
"I don't know! I was just driving, then I got into a car accident, and when I woke up, I was here."
"What is a car?"
"A means of transportation. Something from our world."
"Then what is your purpose in coming here?"
Liu Dajun said, "I don't know! I woke up here after a car accident. I don't know how I got here either!"
Over the time that followed, the two sides conversed, then both fell into shock and silence.
At first, Liu Dajun tried his hardest to conceal things, even attempting to mislead them. After all, these were aliens, or people from another world.
And they were beings capable of capturing him the moment he transmigrated.
If they can capture me, does that mean they can also travel to our world?
If he really divulged the information, he might become a sinner against all of Earth.
But faced with a group of beings who could enter his brain directly and read his consciousness, there was simply nothing he could do.
The questions they asked were all very simple, at least to Liu Dajun.
The instant a question was asked, the answer surfaced in his mind on its own. He didn't even need to say it.
But it was precisely because of this that he learned a great deal about this world as well, since their brain waves were connected to one another.
And this civilization had no such thing as lies at all.
Liu Dajun was shocked that this civilization had taken only eight hundred years to develop from nothing to this level.
Great Xia had taken a full five thousand years to acquire technology like this, which showed just how terrifyingly fast this civilization was developing.
If they kept developing, Liu Dajun suspected that this civilization could surpass Earth in less than five hundred years.
They might even leave Earth so far behind that it wouldn't be able to see their taillights.
At the same time, he also learned that this world had a god!
A god devoted to destroying the world. Every thousand years, this world would be destroyed once, and now fewer than two hundred years remained until the thousand-year mark!
Two hundred years was a distant stretch of time on Earth, but not in the Ultra Empire. To obtain more biological computers, the people of the Ultra Empire constantly encouraged having more children. And alongside encouraging more births, they also researched biological genes. To keep the older generation of biological computers from dying so quickly, they had even extended these citizens' lifespans to five hundred years.
In other words, even if the people of this world accepted him, he would still have to face that world-destroying flood two hundred years from now!
Inside the Ultra Empire's highest laboratory, everyone fell silent as they looked at the information being transmitted.
Although many things had different names on the two sides, they could still understand them once they learned what they did.
For instance, the planet called Earth had over two hundred countries and a population exceeding ten billion. If an all-out war really broke out, weapons called "boxes" could instantly blast the planet's entire surface, with an effect comparable to a world-destroying meteorite.
And those things called satellites were actually similar to the Eye of Ultra. Their planet had launched hundreds of them.
Whether in population, combat power, or technology, the Ultra Empire was utterly outclassed.
In fact, after learning that the other party was not a god and came from another civilization, their first thought had been to seize his planet.
After all, on a planet that experienced destruction every thousand years, proper development was simply impossible. Even whether they could continue developing at all was in question.
What shocked them most, and what they envied most, was that the longest-surviving civilization in that world already had five thousand years of history!
Five thousand years of history! If they too could have five thousand years, why would they need to race against every second like this?
Why would they need to plunge their entire civilization into such extreme conditions? Their civilization could have developed slowly, step by step, following the most perfect path.
But because of that world-destroying flood less than two hundred years away, they had no choice but to take this path of forcing growth before its time.