A young man from another world returned to his hometown.

Chapter 79 Confessing to the Teacher about the Otherworld

Oh my gosh!

As he imitated the voice from the short video, the kid twisted into a pretzel-like shape on the spot, like a puppet with its strings cut.

……

! ! ! ! ! !

Mu Jiuzhang retreated behind the tree, his whole body frozen in place.

"Possessed?!?"

Her pupils began to dilate.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of the kids shouting in unison rang out.

"Genshin Impact is awesome! Genshin Impact is awesome!"

"I agree with euthanasia! I agree with euthanasia!"

The kids watching rolled their eyes and let out a series of sharp screams.

Their bodies seemed to be controlled by invisible threads, twisting and turning, leaping wildly, collectively entering a bizarre group state.

"..."

Mu Jiuzhang leaned tightly against the tree, feeling as if the whole village had turned into a horror movie.

At that moment, her brain suddenly displayed a blue screen.

What is this?

She never watches short videos. From university to doctoral studies, her world consisted only of papers, numbers, and experiments.

This was my first encounter with this abstract culture that was growing wildly on the internet.

"It's over... it's over..."

Mu Jiuzhang gripped the tree bark tightly.

"The children in the village... have also been brainwashed..."

Her mind started racing.

"Mass mind control... Could this be some kind of mind control contamination from a higher civilization?!"

"Hey, sis, bro, what are you doing? Ouch~"

Nia followed suit, swaying her head back and forth as the kid played music from his phone, perfectly immersing herself in the dance. The kid then joined in.

Mu Jiuzhang completely broke down. She staggered back a few steps, as if her soul had been ripped out.

"...No, I need to go back and sort out my thoughts... With this level of pollution, I must reassess the danger level of this village."

She turned around, looking disheveled, and walked out of the village. Her scientific knowledge, once the stuff of a genius, was completely defeated by the abstract, tired jokes of a rural child.

Mu Jiuzhang walked unsteadily, still dazed. The mesmerizing melody was still looping in her head. She shook her head, trying to banish the strange words, but…

"Teacher Mu."

A helpless voice came from behind.

Lin Yan finally found her, and his expression was just like that of a college counselor catching a student skipping class.

"Lin Yan! What do you want to do?"

She tried to remain calm and took half a step back.

"Teacher, why have you been avoiding me?"

Lin Yan sighed.

"...I'm not avoiding you, I'm doing rural research."

Lin Yan noticed that there were still a few strands of straw stuck in her hair.

"Teacher, your investigation into this village is quite in-depth."

"..."

Mu Jiuzhang remained silent, while Lin Yan felt helpless.

"Teacher, I can explain about the volleyball incident."

Mu Jiuzhang's eyes began to sharpen.

"Stop! Don't come any closer! I don't believe in traitors!"

"...?"

Lin Yan looked completely bewildered.

"W-what kind of traitor?"

"Lin Yan, after graduating from university, you were bribed by aliens, weren't you? As a responsible scientific researcher, I must use my own eyes to find out the truth about this matter."

"..."

Lin Yan held his forehead and took a deep breath.

"Teacher...please don't do this, I'll tell you everything."

Lin Yan sat down on the edge of the field.

"Lin Yan, you'd better not do anything reckless. I've already set up scheduled emails..."

"teacher……"

Lin Yan held her forehead.

"Could you please stop your thought process for a moment?"

"snort!"

Lin Yan sighed resignedly.

"Teacher, let me explain to you, the power of that volleyball is real."

"I knew it! Sure enough, you admitted it, you're an alien on Earth..."

"no!"

Lin Yan interrupted her helplessly.

"Teacher, it's not aliens. Things are a bit more outrageous than you think."

"...?"

"Actually, I've been transported to another world..."

"Clam……"

Lin Yan opened his palm and condensed a wisp of water vapor, which slowly swirled and finally turned into a water mirror.

"hiss……"

Mu Jiuzhang gasped, her earlier wariness instantly replaced by a fervent desire to study. She subconsciously pulled out her phone to record the information.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait."

"……teacher."

Lin Yan felt a chill run down his spine when he looked into her eyes.

"Don't write it down yet, let me finish."

"Oh, go ahead."

The water mirror transformed into a giant holographic screen, and images began to flow, showing Lin Yan's memories in another world.

Mu Jiuzhang stared intently at the holographic screen, completely frozen in place.

"Holographic...projection? There's no projection device? The light source is generated out of thin air? Where do the photons come from?"

Her worldview shattered with a crisp sound.

"Let's begin."

Lin Yan waved his hand, and the video began to play.

"Teacher, look, this is from the day I received my graduation certificate. I was having dinner out when I suddenly felt dizzy, and when I woke up..."

In the scene, young Lin Yan tumbles out of a magic circle in a disheveled state, landing face-first and getting a mouthful of dirt.

"...I've traveled through time."

Lin Yan's voice was filled with pain.

"No system, no cheat codes, no special abilities—I'm just an ordinary college graduate. How am I supposed to survive in that extraordinary world teeming with monsters?!"

In the scene, young Lin Yan trembles and hides behind a tree, while in the distance, a monster that looks like a lion but is covered in spikes roars.

Mu Jiuzhang's hand froze in mid-air, and she suddenly spoke.

"Wait, monsters? Another world? Magic?"

Mu Jiuzhang's voice began to become urgent.

"Yes, magic."

Lin Yan nodded.

"That world has a complete magic system..."

"stop!"

Mu Jiuzhang suddenly stretched out a hand.

"You mean... you've been transported to a different world, like those described in novels, with a complete magical system?"

"right."

Lin Yan nodded.

"..."

Mu Jiuzhang fell silent. Lin Yan thought she hadn't processed it yet and was about to continue complaining about her tragic history, but then...

brush! !

The heavy sense of crisis about protecting Earth that had been weighing heavily on Mu Jiuzhang's eyes was replaced in an instant by a fanatical green light.

"I'm so excited..."

A frantic scream erupted in Mu Jiuzhang's mind.

"Not alien colonists, but a completely new universe, a completely different set of natural laws, an alien world built of magic!!! This... this is fucking awesome!"

She was slightly numb with extreme excitement. For a fervent scholar, the ultimate pleasure in the world was definitely not money or power.

Rather, it was the absolute unknown, an untouched and unexplored other world, which was the ultimate romance for her! Lin Yan, that wasteful guy, actually called this suffering?

For her, witnessing and deconstructing a completely new set of rules governing the world is her ultimate sanctuary!

At this moment, a scientific madman, driven by an extreme greed for knowledge from another world, emerges.