Taking the Risks
When he woke up the next morning, Li Yao felt that his head was a little heavy.
Last night, Lin Xiaowei's persistent urging harmed his sleep. As a nationally-certified middle-aged man born after the 90s, Lin Xiaowei felt that his heart was a little panicky. He could not sleep late again. He was even wondering if he should buy a thermo-flask and, like his dad, make something to drink.
He connected his phone and opened the penguin number. The conversation from last night had no updates.
It seemed like Lin Xiaowei went to rest too.
Very good.
Li Yao smiled. That girl must be extremely tired recently.
He finished eating the breakfast his parents left for him. He meditated for a while before lazing around, continuing his relaxed summer vacation lifestyle. Lin Xiaowei only sent a message when the sky had darkened. "I'm awake."
Li Yao: "You are done resting?"
Lin Xiaowei: "My head's still a little heavy, but this isn't important. The alchemy elixir from this world can cure motor neurone disease. From the detailed check-up, my mom's motor neurone disease was due to her work experience in an environment with heavy metals. The toxins from the heavy metals harmed my mom's neurons. This is a sign of poisoning. The basic cleansing medicine can expel the toxins from her body. Afterward, we can use some sort of recovery medicine to stabilize her body. She should be fine then."
Li Yao: "Are you certain?"
Who knew what the differences between the biological organisms in the alternate world and Earth were?
What if the divine medicine in that world became the poison of this world?
Lin Xiaowei answered. "I'm not worried about this. The world that I'm in has already begun a multi-planar exploration. Indeed, the characteristics of organisms in different planes are vastly different. However, these differences are exhibited in the types of lifeforms, such as carbon-based life, sulfur-based life, and hydrogen-based life. In addition to those, there were large differences in elemental-based life and energy-based. However, even in the vast multiverse, these special lives are rare. There is a great degree of overlap between the biological characteristics of the Earth and our plane. The problem is not big."
Li Yao: "But what if there's a problem…"
Lin Xiaowei: "There won't be any problems!"
Her tone was determined.
What could Li Yao do?
After all, it was a terminal illness. This was the only way.
Lin Xiaowei: "Prepare to receive the information. There's the modified recipe for the alchemy elixir by my seniors inside. There won't be any side-effects. If there are any problems, let's contact each other in time. Oh right, some of the ingredients do not exist on Earth. However, you said that Earth was spiritual too. I'll send some of the medical herbs and seeds to you later."
Li Yao said in surprise, "Didn't you say that there's no way to determine the coordinates of the alternative worlds and that we could only connect after I'm officially promoted to the rank of the magician?"
Lin Xiaowei: "The situation's urgent… There's another method. I'll send it to you alongside the information!"
After speaking, Li Yao's phone vibrated rapidly.
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Looking at the series of documents, Li Yao felt his head ache.
He was going to ascend to heaven!
Li Yao: "You bastard. Remember that you owe me one!"
After sending that message furiously, Li Yao tapped the first document with his finger. "Ahhhh~"
What a 'good' feeling!
When he finished tapping on the last document, Li Yao felt that his brain was made out of wood. He laid paralyzed on the bed, looking like everything inside him had been scooped empty. He looked at the ceiling like he had nothing else to live for—what had he brought upon himself?
Countless of alchemy recipes and characteristics of the medical herbs circled around in his brain. If it were not for his meditation, the impact of all that complex information might have made him stupid.
This was a big favor.
He should have absorbed all these in batches. He absorbed too much this time. His head hurt.
But there was no choice. Lin Xiaowei, that girl, must be extremely worried.
Li Yao massaged his head and rested for a while before replying to Lin Xiaowei, who was extremely anxious. "I received it. I'll make it tomorrow."
Lin Xiaowei: "Thank you. I owe you one this time."
Li Yao sent a meme. "Who-told-me-to-become-your-dad.jpg"
Lin Xiaowei: "…"
He left the making of the alchemy elixir aside first. The urgent matter at hand was building the plane altar. By building the altar, it could activate the magical circle on it and cause the magical items on it to vibrate. It could be understood as "the Magic version of a signal transmitter". After the special vibration was spread out, Lin Xiaowei would use her teacher's authority to activate the legendary mage's magic tower. It was like a large multi-planar signal searcher. It would look for the vibration, locate the coordinates of the plane, and produce a connection channel…
An extremely advanced operation.
Anyway, Lin Yao was not very knowledgeable about it. The main operations were at Lin Xiaowei's side. What he needed to do was to build the signal transmitter on Earth and activate it.
For no reason, after learning about its principles, Li Yao felt that something was off…
Until he scanned the book <
"Then am I considered to be Ye Wenjie?"
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Li Yao shook his head.
He was not.
This was, at most, cooperating with his best friend. The goal was to rescue her family member!
It was completely different… from destroying Earth and tyranny!
The careless Li Yao immediately threw this thought to the back of his head and started researching on the principles behind constructing the altar.
In the alternate world, inside the legendary mage's magical tower.
Lin Xiaowei put down her phone, her expression unpleasant. One reason was that she had expended too much of her soul's energy. The other reason was because—
She did not tell Li Yao something.
Communicating through homologous runes of the summoning circle was completely different from locating the coordinates through the plane altar! For the former method, the plane information would have been encrypted, and the exchange could only be done within the rules of the summoning circle. There was no way for the caster to know the specific data. However, the special vibrations from the plane altar would be completely recorded in the control center of the magical tower!
This meant that the Earth risked being exposed!
This world had begun external planar exploration and colonization since a thousand years ago. A lot of ambitious magicians yearned to get a completed world because this meant greater fortune and more unique theories.
Even the legendary mage, who could kill the gods, could not resist this temptation!
But she had no other choice.
Relying on Li Yao to be promoted to the rank of magician was not something attainable in a short period of time. To rescue her own mother… she could only do this!
Luckily, she was her teacher's only discipline. She had enough authority to stop the Magic Association from retrieving the data collected from the magical tower's control center records.
So there would not be any problems!
—After all, with authority, she could do anything!