log2(32)=5
When he was very young, Lin Yuan didn’t really understand why he could never see his parents during the day, why they came home later and later, why there were only his brother and him in the empty big house, and he didn’t understand why gradually, even his dearest brother didn’t come home anymore.
Later, as he grew up, he saw more and more of the world and met more and more people. Lin Yuan gradually understood everything and accepted everything.
His parents and his elder brother are three of the most outstanding and busiest people.
Their struggle is not only for their own dreams, but also for him to have a better life.
——But the more this happened, the more frightened Lin Yuan became.
There was never a lack of people around him, full of smiles and flattery, but no one really looked at him. People always looked through him to see the other three, trying to win his favor with sweet words and gradually get enough "benefits" from his parents and brothers.
Lin Yuan doesn't hate such people. Everyone has difficulties in life. Even if they flatter others, they are just trampling on their dignity for the sake of living.
What Lin Yuan feared was that he would never be able to reach the same level as his parents and brother in their eyes.
His parents always told him: "Mom and Dad don't have any requirements for you. Just live a happy life, even if you are an ordinary person."
But there were three beams of extremely dazzling light in front of him. He was just a small, plain-looking moth, so how could he not yearn for it? Even if he had to burn himself out, he still wanted to be part of that light.
But the harder he tried, the more desperate Lin Yuan became. Until one day, he suddenly understood a truth: he was different from his parents and his brother. No matter how hard he tried, he could never reach their backs.
This is not just because of his talent, but more importantly, he didn't know what he wanted from the beginning to the end. He just ran forward, hoping to "succeed" and "progress". How can he run forward when even the path forward is so vague?
The harder he worked, the more he felt himself to be ordinary. The so-called "excellence" in the eyes of outsiders was nothing more than stepping on the steps that his parents and brothers had already paved for him, and moving forward step by step. The starting point that he once didn't care about was already the destination that countless people longed for but could not reach.
——Even his so-called “excellence” only came from the paving of his parents and brothers, rather than his own talent.
Everything came so easily to him that when Lin Yuan really needed to think about what he wanted, he fell into deeper confusion than ordinary people.
"What do I want to do?"
"And what can I do?"
Ten years after entering the "Temple of Disaster", Lin Yuan asked this question again.
Yu Zhi asked back: "Why do you bother with these issues? I thought you knew what you were doing."
She gently patted the top of Lin Yuan's head. After ten years of living together day and night, this overly intimate action has become a natural behavior for the two of them. She is like a mother, a teacher, and an elder sister, with a loving look: "Do you feel that it's too hard? You have indeed worked too hard in the past ten years. It wouldn't be a bad idea to relax for a while."
"Don't put pressure on yourself." Yu Zhi said: "You have done very well."
"You have done very well."
"Don't put pressure on yourself. Even if you live an ordinary life, mom and dad will still love you."
He had heard such words countless times, but how could he, a child born in an "ambitious" family, be willing to be ordinary all his life? At that time, he was still young and didn't know how to get along with his parents and brother. He could only choose to escape, wrap himself up tightly, not communicate, and not express sadness or joy.
He thought that after coming to Parnaki, the pressure would disappear. He got rid of the guilt of never being able to repay his parents with his efforts, and got rid of the "ordinary" life. So he chose to pack his bags and go to the "Temple of Disaster". He imagined himself to be like the protagonist in the novel. He had a golden finger, was happy to take revenge, and was famous all over the world.
——He did have the golden finger he longed for. In just ten years, he went from being a novice who didn't even know what "magic" was to becoming the most powerful guardian knight of the younger generation of the "Temple of Disaster". At the age of 22, Parnaki had already reached the peak that an ordinary human could reach in his lifetime.
There is no doubt that he is extremely outstanding. To achieve this excellence, he has worked hard for a full ten years, compressing his rest time and investing all the available time in cultivation.
But the harder he tried, the more the original anxiety enveloped Lin Yuan again.
As the last person from Class 9 to arrive at Parnaki, the gap between Lin Yuan and his classmates, the group of true "chosen ones", was too huge.
It comes not only from identity, but also from powerful strength, rich experience, and a more mature mentality.
Lin Yuan kept telling himself that this was because there was a hundred years of life difference between him and them. If he was given enough time, he would not lose to his classmates.
Such thoughts could not let him let go of his anxiety. He looked at a group of real "geniuses" and faced the constant praise from people around him, and his confusion became deeper and deeper.
He didn't want to struggle for his whole life at this half-baked level that was better than the worst and worse than the best, but he was also unwilling to give up completely and live a mediocre life.
"Teacher... Yu Zhi." Lin Yuan took a deep breath and finally said what he had been thinking about for a long time but was afraid to say: "I want to leave the "Temple of Disaster" temporarily and go to other places to take a look."
Yu Zhi was stunned. She actually had a vague idea of Lin Yuan's thoughts, but she didn't know how to dissuade him, or whether she should dissuade him.
She has never been good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, otherwise the family atmosphere would not have become so stiff before she traveled through time, and she would not have gotten along so strangely with her classmates in her first year of high school.
Yu Zhi subconsciously wanted to say "don't go", but when the words came to her lips, she couldn't say them. She could only persuade Lin Yuan with emotion and reason, trying to discourage him: "Lin Yuan, I admit that you have a good talent... no, it's very good. In San Carlos, your strength is indeed good, and you can deal with most of the troubles you encounter. But this is because San Carlos has my protection. Once you leave here, I will no longer be able to protect you. You must face the ups and downs of this world alone. Twenty years old is just a toddler stage for Parnaki, and there are many people who are stronger than you."
"Do you remember the question you asked me when you first came to the temple? You asked me why I, as a goddess, had to watch my believers die of starvation. How did I answer you?"
"...You said: great power is worthless in the face of wisdom."
"Lin Yuan, before I traveled to Parnaqui, I was just a high school student, a person who could do nothing but draw. But drawing cannot bring wealth to my believers. I am not a 'god' who can truly change fate. I am a human, a 'zombie', a 'goddess' named by people, and I do not have the real management power of this country. The only thing I can do for them is to prevent all natural disasters from leaving San Carlos and eliminate all the monsters in the sea that may threaten San Carlos. The land in San Carlos is barren and scarce, and there is no more land for everyone to cultivate. I have tried to use magic to grow plants, but you also know that once any existence has magic, there is a possibility of mutation. Even without my intervention, the overly strong magic in this world will inevitably cause crops to mutate. Parna is basically not suitable for the growth of crops, and the scientific common sense of the earth is difficult to use here. Even in the richest 'Holy Roman Empire' today, thousands of people still die of hunger every year."
"We are all trying to find ways to change this, to give people more hope for survival. But just like selecting good seeds, it will take a long time to find crops that can be grown under high concentrations of magic in Parnaki."
"Do you understand what I'm saying? Lin Yuan, power can only bring destruction, and cannot provide hope for the people to survive. I don't want you to take risks in pursuit of power." Yu Zhi looked sincere, with worry in her eyes. At this moment, she was no longer a high and holy goddess, but a worried parent watching her child go on a long journey.
"...Are you trying to say that I'm only taller than you are smarter?" Lin Yuan said sullenly. He sighed, "I understand what you want to say, but I'm still going."
Now that the words have been spoken, it means that he has made up his mind and has the courage to move forward. There is no reason to retreat.
Lin Yuan looked at Yu Zhi and smiled confidently and openly: "I will go and see this world eventually. Besides, I am your Templar Knight. How can I be protected by a goddess?"
At this point, Yu Zhi knew that it was impossible to change Lin Yuan's mind, so she could only nod reluctantly.
"Since you are leaving here, is there any place you want to go?"
"...I don't know." Lin Yuan shook his head, a little embarrassed: "I just want to go around first. Without your help, what kind of achievements can I make by myself?"
He always does things with passion, and rarely considers all the details carefully. The saying "he grows in stature but not in mind" is really very suitable for him.
Yu Zhi sighed: "I have indeed protected you too well in the past ten years."
Lin Yuan laughed and scratched his head awkwardly.
I don’t know when, the skinny and small child who looked like a carrot has grown into a tall and handsome young man, but his eyes still carry the enthusiasm and confidence that I had when I first met him.
Time flies.
With eternal life, Yu Zhi, who gradually could no longer feel the passage of time, sighed in her heart for the first time in her life.
"If you are determined, I will not stop you." Even so, Yu Zhi could not help but look for a safer way for Lin Yuan: "Zhou Xun's mercenary group is currently resting in Su Mu's 'Kyrenia' (Mermaid Kingdom). If you want to venture into Parnaki, why not join Zhou Xun's mercenary group and follow them around the country to try a few missions first?"
This proposal made Lin Yuan somewhat excited. Although he did not want to rely too much on his classmates, it was really something worth looking forward to to have a reunion with his classmates, and to have Zhou Xun and Su Mu get along very well with them.
As the first mercenary group of Parnaki, Zhou Xun received missions that were not accessible to a small Templar like him. Lin Yuan didn't know how many decades it would take him to get involved in such a class. Before he embarked on an adventure alone and faced the whole world, it was a good choice for him to see the world first.
Lin Yuan nodded and accepted Yu Zhi's suggestion.
The next day, carrying the "big and small bags" prepared by Yu Zhi, Lin Yuan once again embarked on a journey alone, heading towards "Kyrenia".
...
The melodious bell rings awaken the sleeping campus.
The lunch break is over, and an hour has passed since Rui Hang and Xiao Shichuan went to the back mountain, but they have not returned to the classroom yet.
"Teacher Rui and Xiao Shichuan have been gone for too long, haven't they? Why haven't they come back yet?" Bai Luo asked curiously.
Fortunately, the first class in the afternoon was Rui Hang's class. The school allowed them to draw the curtains, and there were no other teachers in the class, so there was no need to find an excuse for Xiao Shichuan's absence or use illusion to make it look like he was still in his seat.
"Something has happened in the back mountain." Since Lin Yuan contacted Major Zhang, he has been using his authority to pay attention to the real-time information in the intelligence network. Just a minute ago, a piece of latest intelligence quickly caught Lin Yuan's attention.
"The mutant in the back mountain of Zhushan Base in City Y has been successfully captured and will be sent to the Special Event Management Bureau of City B."
——The Special Events Management Bureau is the organization that Lin Yuan joined. Although the name sounds a bit strange, it is actually linked to the military and is used to handle all events related to magic and deal with the upcoming "doomsday".
Although Lin Yuan is an ordinary commissioner at the lowest level of the Administration, due to his identity as a "time traveler", he is treated very generously and has a very high level of authority.
The country has a very friendly attitude towards capable "time travelers".
It is said that there are 13,000 "travelers" in the country, but most of them are like Fu An, who have no adventure experience in the other world and can't produce intelligence worthy of the country's attention. It only takes one group to manage them - yes, the Huaxia① group of the Transmigrator Union where Lin Yuan and the other two are located has the hands and feet of the country behind it.
The "President" mentioned by Fu An was said to be just an ordinary game expert. He used his years of game experience to climb up the ranks in "Parnaki", founded his own union, and learned a lot of magic-related knowledge. After returning to Earth, he summoned his former partners to confirm that their "crossing" was not a fantasy. Then, the president boldly used his connections to approach the government layer by layer and revealed everything about "crossing" and "magic".
Under normal circumstances, if someone directly and publicly declares that he is a "time traveler" and that he knows "magic", ordinary people will only regard him as a chuunibyou or a patient who escaped from a mental hospital.
But perhaps because there is a special way to select "time travelers", some people who have certain power in government agencies or the military, such as "Major Zhang" who is in contact with Lin Yuan, were also selected to become "time travelers".
As the saying goes, "three people make a tiger." If one person says someone is a fool, two people say someone is a liar. But if the number of people saying so far exceeds "three" and reaches thousands, even if there is no magic or other world, it is still a "cult incident" or "fraud incident" that is worthy of national attention.
The president used the "group of time travelers" under his control to gain trust and a civil service job. It is said that his biggest task now is to lead other "time travelers" who have mastered the Parnaqui language, together with the country's top linguistic experts, to decipher and organize all the Parnaqui characters they can collect.
The reason for setting up so many tests is to collect relevant texts and make it convenient for every "time traveler" to enter the files.
In addition, researchers in mysticism, religion, folklore, astronomy, computer programming, Western history experts, even online writers, Tarot masters, and everything else related to Western fantasy and supernatural existence were invited to the center to work overtime to study the composition and inference of magic in preparation for the coming doomsday.
There are also "time travelers" in foreign countries, but as for how many there are, that is not information that Lin Yuan can know.
But according to Major Zhang, all countries are trying every means to win over "time travelers", collect information related to magic and writing, and try to crack the principles and practice methods of magic first.
The Earth does not have any experience with magic, but what it lacks the least is technology and wisdom, as well as the logic and thinking ability to find the "truth".
With the assistance of numerous high technologies and scientific knowledge, the Earth is catching up with Parnaqui at a tortuous but not slow pace - of course, if we can recognize the current situation and abandon some meaningless competition, perhaps the speed will be faster.
"I saw in the intelligence that they just completed the arrest five minutes ago. It seems that Teacher Rui arrived at an awkward time." Lin Yuan said, "No wonder he hasn't come back for so long."
"The mutation in the back mountain can't be related to us, right?" Bai Luo hissed, "Aren't we walking human disasters? Wherever we go, there will be trouble."
"But don't you think that the Earth's mutation rate is a bit too fast?" Zhou Xun also participated in the discussion: "The concentration of magic power in Parnaki is thousands or even tens of thousands times that of the Earth now. It's not surprising to have such a mutation rate, but it's only ten days on Earth, right?"
"It's probably because all the organic and inorganic matter in Parnaki was born in a high concentration of magic factors, so they have a high innate resistance. They will only mutate when high-intensity magic is continuously injected. However, life on Earth has never been impacted by magic, and a little bit of magic injection will easily cause mutations." Shen Qiting explained after hearing this: "Otherwise, the Earth would not fall into the 'apocalypse' situation because of the revival of magic."
Owena sighed, "These two worlds are really extreme. One world has so much magic that even the birth of life is very difficult, while the other world has no magic left at all. I suspect that when the twenty-four gods created the various races, it was not because they wanted to create their own followers, but simply because the magic concentration in the Ancient Chronicles was so high that it was impossible for life to be born naturally."
"Come to think of it, haven't we suspected before that Parnaki and Earth are the two sides of the same coin? Look, the legends of the two worlds are very similar, with dragons, elves, mermaids, dwarves... It doesn't make sense that the brain circuits of people in the two worlds are so similar, right?" Bai Luo said.
"So the Earth and Parnaki are so extreme because when the God of Creation created the world, he realized that no life could be born in a high concentration of magic power, so he threw all the magic power into Parnaki?" Su Mu asked.
"Who knows about the Creator God?" Bai Luo shrugged. "But I don't understand, if the two worlds are mutually dependent, why is it the Western fantasy world? Aren't our Chinese elements more attractive? Rather than reciting lengthy magic spells over there, I would rather follow the path of cultivating immortals - the world is unkind and treats all things as straw dogs, my fate is in my own hands!"
Just as the students were chatting idly, the magic power in the air suddenly surged, the space was torn apart, and Rui Hang and Xiao Shichuan finally returned to the classroom.
"Teacher Rui, you are finally back... Who is this?"
Bai Luo subconsciously greeted Rui Hang, but when his eyes fell behind the two of them, his expression became dull and gradually turned into horror: "You two...did you go to have a baby?"
Rui Hang/Xiao Shichuan: "......"
Rui Hang looked at Bai Luo expressionlessly.
Bai Luo: "...Red Bean Paste Private Marseille!"
Lin Yuan on the side gave him a speechless look: Do you really have to say such a mean thing?
Bai Luo smiled awkwardly: Isn't this just a habitual trick?
Bai Luo's teasing did not attract much attention from the students. Their attention was attracted by the green vines that came out from behind Rui Hang and were wrapped around like a little boy. They looked at him with either curiosity or excitement.
“So cute!”
"What is this! What is this little thing!?"
"Teacher Rui, could this be the mutant that Central China just recovered?" As soon as these words came out, the originally lively class seemed to be poured with a basin of ice water, and there was no sound anymore.
After a long while, Su Mu finally said in a low voice, "Teacher Rui, you didn't fight with the team sent by the military, did you?"
Rui Hang was somewhat speechless: "Am I that kind of person?"
What kind of pervert did his students imagine him to be?
Xiao Shichuan, who was standing by, couldn't help but laugh as he told his classmates what happened in the back hills. He then said, "From today on, it's a member of our class. Let's give it a name. This kid doesn't need photosynthesis. It just needs to absorb magic power every day, and it's very obedient."
As he spoke, Xiao Shichuan rubbed the forehead of the boy transformed by the vines: "Change your form."
The vines received the command, and the paper quickly twisted and folded. In an instant, a vivid puppy appeared in everyone's sight.
"Woof woof!" It even barked twice very energetically, and its tail waggled wildly. No one knew how a vine could make any sound, and where it learned so much strange knowledge.
Shen Qiting exclaimed in surprise, her eyes sparkling. It was rare for the usually gentle and calm girl to show such a vivid expression. She half-knelt in front of the vine, condensed a drop of magic crystal in her right hand, and carefully handed it to the vine.
The vine cheered, and with a "woof" it pounced in front of Shen Qiting, opened its mouth, stretched out a tentacle-like vine, and swallowed the magic crystal into its stomach in big gulps.
Class 9 students: “…”
It seems that the style of painting suddenly became a little strange.
"Xiao Shichuan and Qi Ting have different magic properties. This child is a vine, so it should have the magic property of the wood element, right?" Lin Lang was a little worried: "Is it really okay to absorb so many pure magic crystals at the same time?"
"You don't have to worry about this." Rui Hang explained: "It was born from our magic power. It has the magical attributes of all of us."
"So powerful!" Lin Lang said in surprise. The magic attributes of their class are varied, including all kinds of unpopular ones. This means that if Tengman can systematically learn magic in the future, he will be able to use magic of all attributes.
This golden finger sounds like it's bigger than anyone in their class.
"Then this child can learn magic from me in the future." Shen Qiting was a little excited. As the "library" of the whole class, Shen Qiting stored all the magic in the world in her memory, and in the space she carried with her, there was a huge library comparable to the National Library. No one was more suitable to teach Tengman than her. At this time, Tengman, who had just enjoyed the magic crystal, also jumped into Shen Qiting's arms without any unfamiliarity, and rubbed Shen Qiting's cheek desperately with the dog head transformed by the vines that had specially retracted the thorns.
Rui Hang smiled and nodded: "Not only that, it can go to school with us. This child has excellent learning ability, much better than you."
At this point, Rui Hang couldn't help showing an expectant look: "Maybe this kid will be the top scorer in our class in the college entrance examination."
Class 9 students: “…”
Teacher Rui, you are a bit of a devil! Don't you think it's a bit too much to let a vine learn trigonometric functions and Newton's three laws?
It's just a child!
The poor little vine has no idea what kind of torture it will encounter in the future. Although it has intelligence, its IQ is barely at the level of a six-year-old child. It can only learn mechanically and cannot understand things that are too complicated. It only knows to follow a group of people in front of it whose aura makes it extremely close, so that it can eat a lot of good things every day.
The vine once again turned its tail into an electric fan, stretched out a vine and said crookedly: "Mom, food!"
Rui Hang was somewhat speechless: "...Can you call me mom just because I have milk?"
The vine that was throwing around and acting cute in Shen Qiting's arms the second before suddenly dispersed and wrapped around Rui Hang's calves like a snake, desperately teasing Rui Hang's trouser legs with the tail of the vine, acting coquettishly and trying to please him.
"Boo——" it said.
Class 9 students: “…”
As expected, even the plants know that this is the only person in the class that should not be messed with!
...
After some discussion, the vine was named "Zhizhi". It usually lived in a flowerpot at the back of the classroom, disguised as an ordinary plant. Rui Hang waved his hand and arranged a position for Zhizhi as the "water dispenser manager".
Although it seemed strange to let a vine, or the class pet, be responsible for moving the purified water, but as the only emperor in Class Nine, no one dared to disobey Mr. Rui's "imperial edict". "Eunuch No. 1" Bai Luo immediately called out "The Emperor is wise" and successfully obtained the "reward" of chalk and bullets from Rui Hang.
But Zhizhi, who had just received a new name, did not know how shocking her position was in the outside world. Instead, she happily accepted her new identity and enthusiastically helped students carry water and empty bottles every day. She even gave full play to her subjective initiative and talent advantages, extending the vines to the entire roof of the classroom, and usually used illusions to hide. When students wanted to drink water, Zhizhi would extend a thin vine from the air, take the empty cups for them, and return them to the students. If students wanted to pass small notes or other objects, they could also ask Zhizhi to help, and the reward was only a drop of magic crystal.
"Zhizhi is so convenient." Bai Luo showed a longing look: "Then Zhizhi will be able to help us cheat in exams in the future, right?"
Class Nine: "...What about your future!"
It's okay for the Son of the Holy Temple of Destiny to think about cheating in exams every day.
...Well, even if he didn't cheat, he still relied on dice to decide the multiple-choice questions most of the time.
After living in the class for a few days, Zhizhi's ability to understand human words became stronger and stronger. She immediately heard that Bai Luo was praising her. She immediately lowered a vine, wrapped it around Bai Luo's arm with a "snap", and shook it slightly to convey her joy to him.
Bai Luo touched Zhizhi and suddenly had a bold idea.
"By the way, have you ever heard of XXX?"
"What is that?" Shen Qiting asked curiously. She has always been interested in all kinds of knowledge. When she was in Parnaki, she devoted herself to collecting all the knowledge in the world. Now that she has returned to Earth, she has not given up this habit. However, the knowledge and culture on Earth are too much and too diverse, and it is really impossible to cover much in just two months.
As Bai Luo's bad friend, Lin Yuan, who had been dragged to cram a bunch of "weird" knowledge, answered for Bai Luo: "The full name is 'XXX Foundation'. Simply put, the world where this foundation is located is full of weirdness. In order to contain these weirdness and prevent them from causing trouble in the world, the 'XXX Foundation' was established, and these weirdnesses were numbered according to their degree of danger. Anyone can create their own collection, and as long as they pass the review, they can be added to the foundation's website - you can think of it as a large-scale fan creation."
Although Shen Qiting heard about the concept of the "XXX Foundation" for the first time, she quickly understood Bai Luo's meaning when she saw the lively and cute Zhizhi: "Do you want to imitate the "XXX Foundation" and set up a similar organization?"
Bai Luo nodded: "Don't you think that the Earth needs such an organization now? Although we have the 'Special Event Management Bureau', with the current overall strength of the Earth, it is very difficult to contain these mutants. Moreover, contacting them without knowing anything will often result in considerable sacrifice. Why don't we set up one ourselves and contain and manage them before any major sacrifice occurs? With our strength, it should be easy to subdue them, right?"
Lin Yuan: "...Are you sure there won't be any copyright issues?"
Bai Luo said, "Are you stupid? We are just imitating its framework, such as the XXX Foundation, the Investigator Organization, and Chaldea, to establish a similar organization." After that, Bai Luo smacked his lips and pointed at Lin Yuan: "I see you feel guilty all day long, why don't you just sit in the position of the president."
Lin Yuan blinked, a little dazed: "...Me?"
"Yeah, didn't you know what you wanted to do after you came back from Parnaki? You're the only one who's still struggling after three hundred years. I think you're going to stay on Earth to develop in the future. Are you going to be a slacker in the Special Events Management Bureau for the rest of your life? People at this level can live for at least a few thousand years. Do you want to wait until you reach the legal retirement age and get a pension insurance for thousands of years?"
Lin Yuan: “…”
It seems so.
"Besides, haven't you been struggling with whether to reveal your identity or not, and you also want to help deal with various problems that arise in the world?" Bai Luo said again: "Let's imitate the 'XXX Foundation' and set it up as an absolutely independent organization. We can also hide our identities and become a hidden boss to deter countries around the world, so that they don't waste their time all day."
Ouwena, who was passing by Bai Luo, overheard a few words and pointed out the key problem in his fantastic idea: "What you said is very good, but what about the manpower and material resources? Use magic to build a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to house the prisoners? Who will manage it? Who will monitor these prisoners? Who will be responsible for their living needs? We usually act as students, and it is impossible for us to monitor them all the time. Moreover, our magic power has not recovered to the level where we can easily build an island."
"If we need to hire people, who will pay for them? Who has the courage and power to supervise these mutants? And what you said about being independent of other countries - wake up, we haven't recovered the combat capability to withstand nuclear bombs! You still want to deter. If I were the leader of a country, the first thing I would do when I thought of a small island in the sea with all kinds of dangerous mutants imprisoned there would be to launch dozens of Dongfeng Express missiles at the island and flatten the mutants and the island first. Who can guarantee that you are just a shelter and not a secret experimental base of a certain country, and that there are no mutant weapons against other countries inside?"
"So, the question comes back to the beginning - should we reveal our identity?" Ouwena said, "My opinion is that before we recover enough magic power to ignore the rules, we should not think about these things. However, your suggestion is very interesting. When our magic power really recovers to this level, using it to hide our existence is indeed a method. We just need to let Lin Yuan negotiate with other countries on our behalf."
Lin Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Hey, why did everyone choose me as the person in charge?"
"Because I don't want to show my face in public." Bai Luo said, "I thought about what Owena said last time and it was indeed true. Although I am a son of the 'Temple of Destiny' and don't have as many concerns as Owena and the others, I have my parents and relatives in this world - if my identity is made public, I will be famous all over the world. I don't want to go home during the Chinese New Year and my mother hold my hand and say to me: Xiaoluo, go and perform magic for your uncle and aunt."
Lin Yuan: “…”
Bai Luo's words touched upon a key point: their parents, relatives, and friends all lived on Earth. Once the two worlds clashed, they would definitely stand firmly on the side of Earth.
Once the two worlds conflict, if they take any action to favor Parnaki, their parents, relatives, and friends will become targets of attack or be used to check and balance them.
Even if they repeatedly assure that they will never harm the earth and only want to protect the peace of the two worlds, leaders of various countries are willing to accept their conditions of peaceful coexistence - but the situation is influenced not only by the leaders' decisions, but also by public opinion.
Ouwena was right. Before their strength was restored, they should not take any risky actions. Once their identities were exposed, they would become the target of public criticism.
However, the "foundation" mentioned by Bai Luo is indeed an attractive choice. Since returning to Earth, Lin Yuan has been somewhat confused about his future. Now Bai Luo's proposal makes his confused heart beat uncontrollably.
He seemed to have found what he wanted to do.
"XXX Foundation..." Lin Yuan silently recited this short word, the light in his eyes becoming brighter and brighter.
...
"Have you heard? The principal has really become bald!"
"Hahaha, is this true?"
"Of course it's true. Let me tell you, wasn't there a strong wind blowing at the end of the speech under the national flag yesterday? My friend happened to be the flag-raiser that day, and he was standing next to the rostrum, and he saw the principal's hat being blown up by the wind. Although he quickly put the hat back, my friend still saw the principal's bald head. Tell me, if he wasn't bald, who would wear a hat all day long? Is he afraid of catching a cold? It's only a few months now, and the weather hasn't started to get cold yet!"
"You're right. Speaking of which, I've been looking at the principal these past few days and I always feel that he looks so haggard. The dark circles under his eyes... Wow, it's like he hasn't slept for ten days."
"Didn't they say that the principal's baldness was caused by some grudge?"
"Are you talking about the campus legend where the students of No. 2 Middle School were obsessed with not finishing their test papers and turned into a ghost. They pestered the principal every night and kept him awake, and even turned him bald?"
"Yes, yes, yes. I almost died of laughter when I heard it for the first time. How can there be such a funny campus ghost story? Whose evil ghost doesn't harm people but only makes them bald?"
"You still believe this kind of thing? Someone must have seen the bald head of the principal and made it up. You see, after the news of the bald head of the principal spread everywhere, our class teacher specifically told us not to spread rumors about the principal or spread false information. Isn't this just trying to cover up the truth?"
In the library, two girls were leaning against the bookshelf and chatting animatedly. They hadn't turned a page of the book in their hands for a long time and had completely forgotten the purpose of coming here.
"Speaking of which, the library is so quiet today. How come there is no sound at all?" One of the girls rubbed her cold arms and suddenly felt a little uneasy.
The girl next to him was more relaxed and didn't take it seriously: "The library is quiet anyway."
"Not like... there are only two of us in the whole hall."
Before he finished speaking, the speaker above his head suddenly rang.
"Beep—"
"No noise is allowed in the library. You have violated Article 1 of the Y City Second Senior High School Library Rules and Regulations."
"The punishment exam is about to begin—"
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