The Record of Unusual Creatures

Chapter 227: People of the Otherworld on Earth

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It took quite a while to send the two boxes of bottles and jars. First of all, many of them were to be sent to other countries, which was very frustrating. Second, those bottles were also cumbersome to pack. If you did not put in lots of bubble foam into the box when packing, you would not feel at ease. After all, they were fragile products. The lady who was filling the form was frightened when looking at such a large group of people coming to send the parcels to the entire Eurasian continent. If they were cautious enough, perhaps they would have to call the counter-terrorism department. Thanks to Hao Ren’s quick explanation, explained to them that they were working for an art studio, specializing in the production of handicrafts and these items were the handicraft sold by them, that the employee of the express company stopped asking. It was just that some of the labels were still on the bottles, which read peach/strawberry/taro / Wang Zhihe, which were quite puzzling…

Luckily, the employee trusted their lies. Nowadays, ‘for art purpose’ was a common excuse.

Then they rushed to the city center business district by car.

Becky never calmed down from the time she got on the bus. The moment the bus started to move, Hao Ren noticed the girl almost made the act of taking out her sword. It seemed that it was a smart move to keep her sword at home. Hao Ren asked her curiously and realized that when the engine was started, Becky sensed ‘a hot and uncontrollable force was rising at the foot’ and she thought the car was about to explode, so she was ready to break the window and run…

In this case, you could see the cultural differences between the two worlds. Although the alchemy technology of The Plane of Dreams was similar to that of the earth, they were more direct and tough on the use of energy, and they were accustomed to using the power of magic to fully control the energy. Although this led to the low power of most of their alchemy equipment, it had high controllability. The earth was a world of artillery. Humans were adept at mixing dangerous high-energy gadgets together and blowing them up, and then controlling them with a variety of indirect devices: controlling them at a delicate, barely secure equilibrium point. Therefore, Becky who was coming from the Plane of Dreams was scared of the technology products on Earth. As a swordsman who was dealing with traps and ruins all year round and sensitive to energy, she immediately found that the cylinder of the ‘car’ was a controllable bomb which was always circulating in two states, ‘detonating’ and ‘not exploding’.

Hao Ren had no way to explain the Earth engineer’s safety indicators and safety components of the cylinder to Becky. He could only stress that the car was safe, steady and won’t explode easily, although its air cylinder felt like a row of bombs in Becky’s sense.

And Becky finally calmed down after those shocks. She was amazed by the inventions of the people on Earth (especially the adventurous part of these creations), and it seemed to her that an ‘alchemy vehicle’ propelled by kept exploding would be unthinkable, and that only the craziest alchemists would study it in the Plane of Dream. However, on Earth, it had grown so pervasive and safe to use. She leaned over the window and stared curiously at every landscape that passed and kept asking questions, such as why the people on Earth hang clothes with a rope so high (in fact, it was the electric wire), why the roadside trees were not healthy enough, why the people on Earth made the road so wide, and why was it so far away to buy something: she was clearly not sufficiently aware of the population density and city size on Earth.

And finally, Becky pointed to the billboard outside the window and commented, “It’s not safe here?”

Lily was surprised and asked, “Why do you say that?”

“There are posters of order for arrest everywhere, and they’re so big,” Becky said seriously, “I saw two-thirds of the boards are the same person, what kind of sins has he committed that his portrait has to be printed on three meters wide banner and hanging on the roadside …”

Everyone became speechless, and Becky went along with her mercenary mentality and asked, “So if I kill him, will I get a lot of gratuities? Do you have mercenary here?”

Hao Ren hurriedly put out Becky’s idea and said, “Don’t! Those things are ads, that’s a movie star. If you ruin the billboard you’ll be jailed for at least 20 years.”

Becky was surprised and asked, “Those strange signs below it are not a reward?”

“… That’s the order number.”

Becky immediately got very disappointed and sat back and said, “Mercenary is difficult to survive in this place, can’t even get a job.”

There were not many people in the bus, just two or three passengers. When the driver heard their conversation, he asked curiously, “This girl is a foreigner? Come to China for the first time? She looks very excited, you can introduce what we have here, I heard that a lot of foreigners still have the outdated impression about us, some Americans even think we still keep braids… It’s all because of those half-baked directors in Hollywood.”

Hao Ren smiled awkwardly and replied perfunctorily, “Err, she’s an international student from the Budula Chaville in Europe…”

“What are you talking about? About me?” Becky looked curiously at Hao Ren and the driver while they were talking. “I don’t understand the Earth language but you guys know all the language, I really envy. Can I also get the blessing from your Goddess?”

Hao Ren rubbed away the cold sweat on his forehead and said, “You don’t bring me any trouble, fortunately, you can’t speak Mandarin!”

Becky was talking in the language of the Plane of Dreams with them all the way, so Hao Ren could rest assured and let her kept asking questions in public. If this girl could speak Earth language it could be very troublesome. If people heard those wild and peculiar questions, she could be sent to the psychiatric hospital on the spot, or Hao Ren and the gang would be caught due to the suspected of trafficking of a foreign woman, but in the end, Becky would still have to be sent to psychiatric hospital…

They finally got off the bus in the biggest shopping mall of the town where Hilda visited yesterday. Hao Ren was surprised to find that the comic con was not over. It seemed that this was a large-scale formal exhibition, hundreds of young people who were cosplaying still occupied the exhibition area which occupied two-thirds of the square with a yellow divider. Hao Ren stretched his neck and looked across the square, confirming that the exhibition base should be at the stadium- too bad he did not even have the tickets, and he had no chance to bring the abnormal creatures behind him to join in the exhibition.

Becky looked at the square in astonishment. The young people with the peculiar clothes did not match the scenery on earth that she saw along the way, but some of them made her feel like home. She stretched her neck to look around, and suddenly raised her hand excitedly and rubbed out a small fireball and said, “For the gold coins! The woman knight is worth a fight, I want to…”

Hao Ren was frightened when he saw it. He quickly patted her on the fireball and her head and said, “What are you doing? Her armor is made of plastic! It will melt when coming into contact with fire.”

“What the hell is this?” Becky looked around and stood there in a daze. Fortunately, Hao Ren reacted quickly, nobody noticed the small fireball on her palm. “Some of them looked like combat professionals,” she said.

“They are having fun, an occasion for them to have fun, do you understand?” Hao Ren was having a terrible headache as he noticed that Lily’s eyes also started shining and he could feel that there was an invisible tail wagging behind her like a propeller. “We’ll take about this later, now can we go and settle our to-do-list? Otherwise, after Lily enters the shopping mall, she definitely won’t come back until the sun goes down!”

Hao Ren finally persuaded the eager Becky and Lily and dragged them into the shopping mall. After they entered the shopping mall, Hao Ren finally did not have to worry about mercenary girl rushed into the middle of the ‘war-worthy warriors’ outside and caused a sword-blade storm, because obviously, the shopping mall had a bigger impact on Becky.

“This place…” Becky stared at the giant commercial square in front of her eyes (which was only a small fraction of what she could see), “Just to sell things?”

“Pretty big, huh?” Hao Ren this time could feel the pride of being a man of the Earth: comparing to the supermen in the Plane of Dreams, human’s physique was weak, the resistance was poor, the life was short, and they did not know magic, but there was one thing that seemed particularly powerful, that was, the development of society was going out of control…

However, Becky curled her lip and said, “I don’t think it’s really big, but there’re lots of people. I’ve never seen so many people.”

Hao Ren, “…”

He found himself making a mistake. He thought that only the people on earth would build large spectacle buildings, but forgot that the level of civilization in the Plane of Dreams was not too low. Moreover, a feudal totalitarian and powerful theocracy world was actually more prone to costly and large-scale construction, coupled with their small population, a variety of mega-buildings would be easier to appear thrilling. The Great Wall during the golden week and that of the normal days looked absolutely different. Therefore, Becky was not amazed at how magnificent this place was, and what she kept marvel at was the strange things on Earth.

Hao Ren also understood the statement in the work manual: Do not think that the people from the Otherworld are all the hicks. They are not in awe when they see what is on your planet, most of the time they just find the locals interesting.

This sentence was used to kill some of the agents’ sense of superiority. Hao Ren now began to understand the meaning of it.