Chapter 20 Pathways
Z city, a fast food restaurant.
Nolan sat alone by the window, with burgers, French fries and other food on the table.
For many people who advocate healthy living, high-calorie, high-fat fried foods are undoubtedly the most evil heresy.
But it is undeniable that the happiness and satisfaction it brings to humans are unmatched by other foods.
Especially for a stranger like Nolan.
Just sitting here, looking at the passersby outside the window, he couldn't help but think of the time he spent in Kaifeng Cai and Jin Gongmen before traveling.
He lowered his head and took a sip of the soda, feeling the carbonic acid beating on the tip of his tongue. He once again hid his nostalgia for his hometown in his heart.
You can remember it, but you can't dwell on it.
Since there's no way to go back, it's better to focus on the present.
The prosperity of City Z exceeded Nolan's expectations.
The streets are wide and clean, with tall buildings on both sides.
The business district in the city center is even more crowded with people and there are many shops.
Nuolan looked over the whole way and even felt that it vaguely resembled the prosperity of a first-tier city in her previous life.
What makes him unbelievable is that just a dozen streets away is a dangerous suburb where weirdos are rampant and strangers should not approach.
I don’t know how the local official forces maintain the balance between the two sides.
Aren't you afraid of weirdos breaking into the downtown area and causing chaos?
Nuolan didn't struggle with this issue for a long time. After all, it didn't matter much to him now.
Thanks to the prosperity of City Z, he easily found a store that sold gold.
There is no need to go into details,
In the end, Nolan sold all three gold bars in his hand at a price slightly lower than the market price.
I got about 1.2 million yuan.
According to the prices he currently observes in this world, converted into RMB, it should be around 60,000 yuan.
Say too much but not too much, say too little too much.
If you want to buy a house, a car, etc., it is definitely not enough.
But if it’s just daily expenses, you can save a little and last for a year or two.
sitting by the window,
Nuolan wiped her hands, then opened her sleeves and focused her eyes on her forearms.
Under the almost pale skin, you can faintly see the protruding blue meridians underneath.
A wound as long as a little finger was almost healed, but there were still light blood stains on the surface.
This was left on his arm deliberately when he was in the tavern before the countdown ended.
The wound is still there after time travel, which means that the soul is not the only thing that travels between the two worlds.
This is the so-called "body-wearing".
This is very important.
Perhaps "soul wear" and "wearing" have their own advantages, but for the current Nuolan, wearing one is definitely better.
Saving time is one thing,
On the other hand, the special nature of "wearing" allows the memories and abilities he has learned in one world to be completely usable in another world.
The effect of the back and forth between the two worlds is by no means as simple as "11=2".
This is something he is thankful for.
At the same time, Nuolan still has a certain degree of doubts about the specific mechanism of time travel.
He clearly remembered that when he was imprisoned on the pirate bed, his hands were shackled with heavy metal shackles.
But after traveling to the world of "One Punch", the iron cuffs on his wrists disappeared.
This was also the reason why he initially suspected that he was "soul-pierced".
But the paradox is that he can bring things from one world to another.
Including pistols, clothing, gold bars, daggers...
This couldn't help but make Nuolan have suspicions in her mind.
Could it be said that the things you carry when traveling are based on your own subjective will?
Whatever you want to take to the other side in your consciousness, you can take it with you.
And what you hate and don't want to take with you will stay in the original world?
To figure out the relationship here, I'm afraid Nuolan needs to travel through time a few more times and do some experiments.
Of course, as of now, even if the specific mechanism of time travel is figured out, the operability will not be very great.
After all, he is just "wearing" it, not opening a portal between two worlds or anything like that.
Large-scale materials or creatures cannot be brought to another world.
There is no possibility of exploiting the inequality of resources to establish power.
This also means,
The development direction of the "farming stream" in Nuolan's mind was over before it even started.
Sighing silently,
He picked up a newspaper from the table and opened it to read.
In a modern society where technology is sufficiently developed, obtaining knowledge through the Internet has become the instinct of most human beings.
But for the "black households" from another world, Nuolan has not yet obtained information terminals such as mobile phones.
That may require detailed household registration information and related matters.
Perhaps it can be solved through some gray channels?
shook his head,
At least in a short period of time, Nolan had no way to find these marginal shadows hidden in every corner of society.
For him now, information channels without thresholds such as newspapers are the safest.
The newspapers Nuolan bought tended to be comprehensive in nature and contained all kinds of information.
It’s as big as “The Heroes Association proposes a new citizen protection plan” and “A city government’s voting reorganization”;
It can be as small as "the Women's Federation of a certain street recruits new members" or "claiming a lost pet dog".
He watched with great interest.
Not in a hurry,
After all, almost five or six hours have passed since he traveled to this world.
The countdown still hasn't appeared.
This means that there should be no possibility of being teleported back in a short period of time.
In fact, he had some kind of premonition in his heart.
The time I will spend in the one-punch world this time will be longer than before.
Nolan plans to make full use of this time.
He wants to improve his strength.
In the past two days, he had finally figured it out.
There is nothing wrong with longing for a peaceful and leisurely life, but if one is not strong enough, any external factors may easily destroy the life that one has finally stabilized, along with his own life.
This is not possible.
Therefore, he needs a certain amount of strength to protect everything he owns.
Coincidentally, I have actually met the strongest man in this world.
Thinking of the careless bald man he met at the beginning, Nuolan couldn't help but grin.
The opponent's training method of "a hundred push-ups a day, a ten-kilometer long run, and a hundred squats" was not something I could learn by myself.
Even if he doubled his number, I'm afraid he would still be just an ordinary person after a few years.
The birth of Saitama, or "One Punch Man", is a process that cannot be replicated due to various factors such as perseverance and opportunity.
He needs some more specific and vivid ways to improve his strength.
Suddenly, Nuolan's gaze on the newspaper paused, and a column of information jumped into her eyes:
Chapter completed!