“That’s not necessarily true,” An Chen added after some thought. “I can only say I haven’t seen or heard of it. Even if they exist, it might only be a very small number of people.”
“Hmm… it seems there’s more than one Transcendent like you who came to our world. If some of them are Cultivator like you, then yes, there would indeed be Cultivator.”
“No…” Su Xiaojiu was a bit incoherent.
“If your world originally had no Cultivator, how did you build so many tall buildings? How did so many people come to live in such buildings?!”
Tianji Tower has a hundred floors, but it has nothing to do with Mortal artisans. It was built by Cultivator manipulating Materials, and most of the taller buildings in the common folk areas were also built with the help of Cultivator.
With so many tall buildings in this world, if this world was entirely made up of Mortals, how did they manage it?
“It’s a bit troublesome to explain to you…” An Chen rubbed his temples, feeling a little tricky.
This girl was a question baby; she wanted to ask about everything, and he didn’t have the time or patience to keep answering her questions.
If he could, he really wanted to teach Su Xiaojiu how to use a phone and then let her learn through online tools herself.
“We have many… very large and very useful tools. We Mortals can use these tools to build such structures.”
And it wasn’t that difficult.
“Unbelievable, truly unbelievable!” Su Xiaojiu covered her mouth, muttering, even repeating the sentence twice.
“Wait.” Su Xiaojiu suddenly thought of something, scratching her head, but the thought flashed by, and she couldn’t grasp it, leaving her utterly confused.
“What was I thinking of?”
“Are you trying to ask about the people who Transmigrated to this world with you?” An Chen said calmly.
This was not difficult; by simply analyzing Su Xiaojiu’s current situation, he could figure out what questions she would ask.
“Yes, yes, yes! That’s it!” Su Xiaojiu was overjoyed!
This little handsome guy’s brain was quite good!
“Before you, I met someone today who was just like you, but I can’t be sure he Transmigrated from your Jiuzhou Continent. I don’t know anything more.”
“So I’m not an isolated case… I knew it! I didn’t do anything, so heaven couldn’t possibly target just me and send me to another world for no reason!”
Su Xiaojiu lowered her head in thought for a moment, then asked, “Can I go out and look around? I really want to know what this world looks like.”
“Don’t you want to find a way back?” An Chen raised an eyebrow and asked.
According to his analysis, a typical person entering an unfamiliar world for the first time would usually feel panicked and then desire to return.
Most people prefer their comfort zones; a familiar place, compared to an unfamiliar one, can be considered a comfort zone in some sense.
“Hmm?” Su Xiaojiu tilted her head and said, “No rush! Since I’m already here, I definitely need to explore this world thoroughly and see what fun things there are before going back!”
This world was very mysterious in her eyes.
“I have to see what you call… the tools that can build tall buildings, right?”
“…”
She wants to drive an excavator?
An Chen almost showed the expression of an old man on the subway looking at his phone.
“Besides, I feel like I can go back.”
“A feeling?” An Chen narrowed his eyes.
“It’s not exactly a feeling… it’s more like a premonition, a very strong one, and this premonition also has a time limit…”
As she spoke, she closed her eyes.
“This time is a countdown. When I close my eyes, this countdown appears in my mind. It started at 48:00:00, and now it’s… 45:40:39! This perception tells me that I’ll go back when this countdown ends.”
Su Xiaojiu opened her eyes.
“And this countdown doesn’t affect me at all. When I focus, the numbers are very clear, but if I relax my mind a bit, they disappear completely, so it shouldn’t affect my sleep or anything…”
Countdown?
An Chen? Premonition?
Such things seemed utterly unscientific, and not even Cultivation-like.
“Is this… reliable?” An Chen was very skeptical, wondering if Su Xiaojiu was just being overly optimistic and imagining things.
“It’s not reliable, I already said it’s just a premonition. Your world doesn’t have Cultivator, so it shouldn’t be able to influence my consciousness.” Su Xiaojiu shook her head with wide eyes, her face full of certainty.
“So, can you take me out?”
“No.” An Chen shook his head.
“You don’t belong to this world. Going out rashly might cause trouble due to unfamiliarity, which would attract unnecessary attention and problems.”
“Alright…” It seemed Su Xiaojiu understood this point, nodding obediently.
As a Transcendent, she still had a good sense of self-awareness.
An Chen smiled faintly with satisfaction.
Thankfully, this girl didn’t suddenly decide she had to go out. If she really did that, he wouldn’t be able to stop her at all.
She was a qualified Transcendent, with the Aptitude to be a protagonist in a novel.
“45:40:39…” An Chen recalled the countdown Su Xiaojiu had just mentioned and took out his phone to check the time.
It was now 8:20 PM.
It had been about half a minute since the number was mentioned in their conversation.
It matched.
He could also confirm that Su Xiaojiu had Transmigrated at exactly 6:00 PM.
The encounter with that strange person on the way home from school had also happened a little after six o’clock.
“What is this?” Su Xiaojiu asked, pointing at An Chen’s phone.
“A phone, also a tool. Hmm… it allows me to hear another person’s voice from far away, even see another person, and it can do many, many other things, like showing images of those tools that can build houses.”
An Chen opened his browser, searched for “excavator,” and then showed its picture to Su Xiaojiu.
“This thing looks small, but it’s actually very big. A person would only reach about here.” An Chen gestured.
“Hmm…” Su Xiaojiu pinched her chin, one eyebrow furrowed, the other raised, her lips slightly pursed, seemingly deep in thought.
“The phone has many more functions. I can teach you later.” An Chen put his phone away, but Su Xiaojiu’s gaze followed the phone until it disappeared into An Chen’s pants pocket.
Finally, after much thought, Su Xiaojiu uttered a few words.
“Isn’t this just a tongshen jade talisman?!” As she spoke, she reached into her clothes and pulled out a jade tablet from her bosom, roughly the same size as a phone.
