IJWTRQ Chapter 015

Liang Xian did what he said, and was about to step out of the protective shield immediately.

The unknown Special Forces soldier rushed to stop him: “Wait, it’s dark now, and most of the environment can’t be seen clearly. At least we have to wait until the daytime to observe the surrounding situation, then talk about it.”

“How to call this Sir? I know you’re not a bad person, you’re equivalent to the instructor who teaches us, it was really rude before.” Liang Xian said politely.

His attitude towards different people is different. In front of his familiar classmates and instructors, he has an ‘I’m the best in the world’ look; In front of Tan Yan, who is relatively unfamiliar but in the same camp, he restrains his arrogance and brings a little care; But in the face of unknown Special Forces soldier who are not familiar with them and have different positions, he is polite.

“My code name this time is ‘Jackal No. 3’, you can call me Ah San.”

While introducing himself, the Special Forces soldier Ah San pulled Liang Xian aside and said in a very low voice, “There is something wrong with that classmate of yours.”

Logically speaking, his voice should only be heard by Liang Xian, but Tan Yan’s hearing…

Liang Xian glanced at the unmoved Tan Yan who was about 2 meters away from him and asked: “What’s wrong?”

“You look at my hand.” Ah San extends his arm, “They are all trained, under what circumstances would you drop the weapon in your hand?”

“Unless I break my hand.” After thinking about the situation for a while, Xian Liang replied.

“I felt my hamstring was broken at that time,” Ah San rubbed his wrist, “But now you see, there’s not even a scratch.”

Liang Xian: “…”

At that time, he could see very clearly that with the distance between Tan Yan and Ah San, half of the blade had penetrated deeply into Ah San’s arm. Liang Xian was still thinking at the time, wondering if Tan Yan could control the strength of his attack, and hoped that Ah San was only slightly injured.

But now he doesn’t even have a flesh wound.

Knowing that Tan Yan had heard it, Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan: “How do you explain this?”

Ah San: “…?”

When they received a request to help a group of students in military training, someone handed them everyone’s information. It is written that Liang Xian is smart, witty, has strong response-ability, is seemingly arrogant but calm, and can put emotional factors aside in times of crisis. Therefore, Ah San chose Liang Xian to discuss with after noticing the strangeness of Tan Yan. In Ah San’s cognition, Tan Yan must be hiding something. He can’t fully believe that he and Liang Xian are a pair, after all, according to the intelligence, Tan Yan was transferred into the class yesterday, the relationship between the two should be similar to strangers, how can he turn around and sell themselves out?

“Not injured?” Tan Yan immediately came over to look at Ah San’s wrist, and was relieved to see that it was really intact, “I was still thinking at the time, we are all comrades, it’s no good even if it’s just a skin trauma, it’s great that there’s no problem.”

Hearing what he said, Liang Xian frowned and said: “Based on your actions at the time, he should be seriously injured. I know you hope he’s fine, but it’s impossible. Why don’t you find it strange at all?”

“…”

Tan Yan didn’t answer, he showed an obviously confused expression, it seemed that even he himself didn’t understand why.

“Did you not realize it…” Liang Xian stroked his chin, “So, what were you thinking when this shield appeared?”

“It’s not the same,” Tan Yan tried to explain, “There is something in the world beyond the ‘void’… I can’t say what it is, I can’t see it, but I can feel it, I just gather these things together, and it forms a protective shield. These things aren’t felt in our world, your so-called superpowers are just…”

He thought for a long time and didn’t know how to express it, so he fell silent.

Liang Xian tried his best to understand what he said, and helped him analyze it in his own way: “Something like air can’t be seen or touched, but it can be used in a concentrated way. You think it’s just using the original things in the world, like using tools, right?”

“That’s what I mean, you’re really smart.” Tan Yan was very satisfied with Liang Xian’s explanation.

He has repeatedly said these things to the void phenomenon research team countless times, but the people in the research team just don’t understand. They repeatedly asked Tan Yan what the invisible thing is, what it looks like, and how to use it, but Tan Yan himself doesn’t understand it, so he really can’t explain it to them.

Qin Li, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: “Is it something like the magic element or spiritual energy described in the novel?”

“What is that?” Tan Yan was puzzled.

Liang Xian Qin Li: “…”

Even if you have never eaten pork, you should have seen pigs running¹沒吃過豬肉，也該看過豬跑 méi chīguò zhūròu, yě gāi kànguò zhū pǎo OR 沒吃過豬肉，也見過豬跑 méi chīguò zhūròu, yě jiànguò zhū pǎo: Even though one has never eaten pork, at least one has seen pigs run. (Proverb) Often used as a metaphor for people who have not experienced things personally, but have heard of them, seen them, and have a little understanding., right? Even if Tan Yan has an old-fashioned personality and doesn’t like to read online novels, at least he can hear people around him mention it.

“You’ve never read a Web Novel?” Even Ah San finds it strange.

“…I have seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” Under the gaze of the three pairs of eyes, Tan Yan seemed a little at a loss. This kind of situation also happened in the work unit before. The young people in the work unit were discussing something enthusiastically. He was very curious and couldn’t help but ask. Who knew everyone would look at him with ‘you don’t even know this’, he felt very out of place, and gradually stopped asking.

Seeing that he looked embarrassed, Liang Xian put his arms around Tan Yan’s shoulders, and turned his head to stare at Qin Li: “Is there any reason to read idle books? It’s okay, since you say we can go back, then when we return to Earth, I will take you to read novels.”

Qin Li: “…”

Qin Li thought for a long time between his ‘reading idle books for no reason’ and Liang Xian holding Tan Yan to teach him how to read idle books, but he didn’t understand about what he did wrong in reading novels.

“Thank you.” Tan Yan breathed a sigh of relief.

He has always been out of tune with other people, whether older or younger, they seem to be separated by an invisible shield, Tan Yan can’t see through others, and others can’t understand Tan Yan.

It wasn’t until now that Liang Xian stretched out his hand on his own initiative that he felt that some fresh air was coming in through the protective cover.

“If this is the case, then we must also be able to feel this special thing,” Liang Xian said, “Otherwise, the three of us will drag Tan Yan down, even if he has great strength, he won’t be able to protect us.”

Tan Yan really wanted to say that he could protect them, but seeing Liang Xian and the others, the three people eager to try, he kept quiet.

Since Qin Li mentioned ‘magic elements’ and ‘spiritual energy’, the eyes of the three people flashed an unusually fanatical light, even Ah San, who had opposed it just now, also became more active.

Tan Yan didn’t understand that kind of enthusiasm, but it didn’t affect his desire to protect the next generation of the motherland silently.

Liang Xian and Qin Li are both students, Ah San looks like he’s only twenty-four or twenty-five, they are the future pillars of the motherland!

He can’t prevent the chicks from jumping out of the nest and learning to fly. All Tan Yan can do is to guard them.

Liang Xian suddenly felt a chill at the back, looked back, and saw Tan Yan looking at the three of them with an unusually tolerant look, with a kind of kindness of an old hen.

Liang Xian: “…”

“Release the protective cover.” He said with difficulty.

“Um, You can go ahead, I’m here” Tan Yan’s expression became more confident, he seemed to have found the meaning of life, his whole face was radiant and became even more dazzling.

Handsome is handsome enough, but why is he so awkward… Liang Xian covered his inexplicably wildly beating heart and turned his eyes away from Tan Yan’s, he was really not used to this kind of dominance.

Tan Yan release the protective cover, and the cold air immediately rushed toward their face, Liang Xian shivered suddenly, and took a few steps forward with difficulty.

“That…” Ah San shivered in the cold wind, “If I may ask, how do you feel those special things? In other words, how to communicate with the earth and heaven, is there any formula?”

Tan Yan: “…Naturally…”

“Okay, I know, it all depends on the perception, right?” Ah San shivered from the cold, finally realizing that the aptitude between himself and Tan Yan might be the difference between Waste Spiritual Root and Heavenly Spiritual Root.

“Is it possible that you have a special affinity for otherworldly energy?” Qin Li thinks it is because his magic affinity is only 0, while Tan Yan has at least 10.

Tan Yan: “…”

He could only look helplessly at Liang Xian who could understand him, and his domineering spirit just now disappeared without a trace.

“Shut up, you guys!”

Liang Xian received a request for help, so he had to hold back his frantic heartbeat, went to the side of Tan Yan, and patiently said: “Do you remember how you first felt this power and used it?”

“The first time…” With the guidance, Tan Yan’s thinking became more clear. He tried hard to recall the events of the past forty years, and finally came up with some clues, “I remember I was dying at the time, but I didn’t want to die, even if I did, I had to die at home.”

Then he felt some lively and intimate forces pulsating on the fingertips, they have no definite state, only when Tan Yan perceives them, these forces take a tangible form and can be driven by his consciousness.

Consciousness again, it’s kind of like…

An idea flashed through Liang Xian’s mind, but it didn’t help the current situation at all. He decided not to delve into it, the most important thing at the moment was to follow what Tan Yan said and try it.

He shared Tan Yan’s experience with the two companions, who were also confused.

“… I understand this breakthrough before death, but those who don’t have enough understanding will die directly.” Qin Li, who was still thinking about the novel, rubbed his body and spoke.

It’s really not that he is whimsical, he always has to rely on novels to explain the status quo. And now, in this situation, there is really no way to explain it with scientific theory!

Ah San, however, accepted it better than Qin Li: “The nature of our mission is like this, those who are unlucky and not strong enough will all die, there is no difference.”

There is nothing they can do at the moment, the three of them can only continue to comprehend according to what Tan Yan said.

However, the external environment was so harsh that within five minutes, they were severely hypoxic, and their limbs became stiff.

To make matters worse, a meteor shower fell from the sky.

Or it can be said that a meteorite fell from the sky. Liang Xian initially wondered how the giant craters around them came about, but now he has an explanation.

There is no atmosphere here, so the gas is thin, the temperature is extremely low, and there is no way to protect the planet from meteorites.

But this epiphany came too late, the three of them were too cold to move their feet as the meteorite flew down from the sky. Without the protection of the atmosphere, the speed was much faster than the usual free fall.

Wait, wait, free fall? Liang Xian abruptly paused.

Why didn’t they even realize such a simple thing? After they came here, they didn’t feel the slightest difference in gravity except for the cold and lack of oxygen. This means that this planet has the same gravity environment as the one they are familiar with!

This is simply the Earth without the protection of the atmosphere!

In a flash of lightning, countless meteorites fall, so dense that it was impossible to dodge them!

The three were desperately trying to run, but someone tapped their shoulders lightly, and a voice rang out in the ears of the three simultaneously: “Don’t be afraid.”

In the next moment, they saw Tan Yan hit a meteorite that was more than three meters high with his fist, and the meteorite flew into the distance like a golf ball.

He was almost frozen in the air, punching and kicking, and all the meteorites fell far away from them in just a fraction of a second.

All three were unharmed.

Tan Yan landed from a height of nearly ten meters, and said gently to the three of them: “It’s okay, I won’t let anything get in your way.”

The author has something to say:

The moment they were saved, the thoughts of the three——

Liang Xian: Oh no, it’s the feeling of the heartbeat.

Qin Li: Great Saint of Law, take me as your disciple!

Ah San: Huh? I may have overthought it, could it be that I have appeared three chapters into the text and am about to become a member of the protagonist team, but the author still hasn’t given me a name yet?

I decided to translate 意識 yì shí as consciousness as opposed to awareness, because consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. While it’s true that Tan Yan subconsciously use his power in the real world, but for specific things to happens, one needs to control their thought to influence the world.

If you like my translations, a cup of coffee would be much appreciated. Thank you!

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  沒吃過豬肉，也該看過豬跑 méi chīguò zhūròu, yě gāi kànguò zhū pǎo OR 沒吃過豬肉，也見過豬跑 méi chīguò zhūròu, yě jiànguò zhū pǎo: Even though one has never eaten pork, at least one has seen pigs run. (Proverb) Often used as a metaphor for people who have not experienced things personally, but have heard of them, seen them, and have a little understanding.