CH 29

The system is asleep again.

After instructing him not to worry about a book’s content, that he could read and expand his brain capacity to increase his spiritual energy, the system immediately fell into a deep sleep.

However, Chen Fann’s current mood was completely different from before.

Because he had another goal.

According to the system, no matter what book he read, it could be used as knowledge to expand the capacity of his brain. The advantage was that he could read as he pleased in the future, but the disadvantage was that his brain became a database, whether useful information was stored in it, making his brain memory more complicated.

However, after carefully thinking about it, it also represented the intensity of his spiritual energy.

Had it been the brain of those super dimensional creatures in the past, anything could be recorded in their brain. It was even more terrifying than the world’s most advanced supercomputer’s database, something from a different dimension.

Therefore, when he used the gospel abilities, the Devil Sound Piercing the Ears and the Evil God, he would collapse. Afterall, his brain capacity and spiritual strength was far from enough.

If he did not continue to read and expand his brain’s capacity, let alone just using the two abilities he had learned, if he obtained a new gospel and learned new abilities in the future, his mental strength would not be enough to support him to use them multiple times.

Therefore, if he wanted to use the power of the old, he had to read and expand his brain capacity infinitely, no matter what kind of book it was.

When he finished reading 100,000 books and was able to glimpse at the Old Gospel, he thought that his spiritual energy was extremely powerful. Although he had never said it before, he was still somewhat satisfied.

It was only at this moment that he realized that his mental strength was not worth mentioning at all. The higher he climbed, the more he realized how insignificant he was.

Thus, he found a new direction.

During the System’s slumber, he continued reading books crazily to increase his mental energy. When the System woke up, he would leave the city and search for new gospel books in other places, wiping out other extraordinary creatures in the process.

With a new purpose, Chen Fann was full of energy and motivation. He was no longer depressed. He carried the dragon egg back to the base’s bedroom, put it down then looked at himself in the mirror.

As expected, he had regained his youth. His hair which had started greying, became black and shiny again. His wrinkled skin had become smooth and white, and his beard had also disappeared. The twenty-year old him gave off a vigorous feeling unlike the previous dullness, exactly like he was when mankind crossed over to Another World.

Unfortunately, even if he returned to his twenty-year-old appearance, it was impossible for him to return to his twenty-year-old time.

Chen Fann sighed slightly, then quickly regained his spirit. The most important thing right now was to go out and find books to read.

This time, he didn’t go to the library. Instead, he went to the rental bookstore to find books.

It was not that he wanted to look for some colored books to read. In the current Earth, there was not even a woman, reading colored books was meaningless, he would only get uncomfortable the more he read them.

He just wanted to go to a bookstore to look for novels. Previously, he usually read books with scientific ideas and high practical uses, so occasionally he had to change his taste.

Reading novels was more enjoyable.

Thus, he found a few rental bookstores in the entire mountain city.

In the era where mobile phones were unpopular, bookstores were places for students to read books and absorb spiritual food. It was a treasure land filled with novels, a holy land where one could rent a book and read it for a day with just fifty cents.

However, with the popularization of mobile phones, the bookstore shed its former glory. It gradually declined until it faded away from the historical stage.

Many rental bookstores in small cities had collapsed due to the popularization of mobile phones but fortunately, as a new big city, there still existed a few hard-working rental bookstores along the old neighborhoods.

Therefore, Chen Fann rode the tricycle to the old streets of the city and finally found a rental bookshop that had barely been destroyed. He then stuffed all the novels in the house into the tricycle.

However, the books in the bookshop were works such as The Dream of the Marital World, Records of the Pugilistic World, How can Jin Lin be an Object in a Pond, The Dragon of the Waves, Nine Phoenixes, and so on.

Just by looking at their titles, one could tell that they were all online novels with a sense of history and the flavor of romance.

But anyway, it was better than nothing. Since there was no Internet, many of the novels that he liked to read could only be read online There were no physical versions, not even pirated ones.

Just like that, carrying a full load of novels, Chen Fann returned to the base and returned to the days of reading every day.

The only difference was that he would spend a little time touching the dragon egg daily.

…

Time flew by bit by bit; spring and autumn came and in a blink of an eye, five years had already passed, and the System had still woken up.

These five years did not change much from the days when he was reading. The only change was probably that the weather was becoming more and more unpredictable.

The weather in the first two decades were ice and snow, and heat.

In these five years, other than two or three months of snow, the temperature was surprisingly normal. However, there were more tornadoes, cyclones, typhoons, and gales.

Those terrifying gales were like the end of the world. They could uproot century-old trees and even sweep away buildings.

Chen Fann’s base had withstood a huge earthquake and almost failed to withstand the gales and tornadoes.

God knows what he had experienced in these five years.

In order to prevent his base from being swept away, he had reinforced the exterior with at least five or six more layers of steel bars. Looking at the base from the outside, he could no longer see the shadow of the buildings. He could only see the densely packed steel bars. Except for the door, all the places were tightly sealed by him.

Today was another day of violent wind, blowing against the reinforced steel bars outside. For some reason, Chen Fann was worried that the steel wall that was dug twenty meters deep would not be able to withstand the violent wind.

If the steel bars were wrecked, his base would certainly be finished.

Chen Fann was even prepared to dig an underground cave to take refuge.

After all, once the base was blown away, he wouldn’t even have a shelter from the wind and rain in the future.

“When is this damn weather going to end?”  Chen Fann cursed angrily.

“And this dragon egg, when will it hatch?” The depressed Chen Fann looked at the dragon egg beside him.

For the past five years, he stroked the dragon egg every day. In order to hatch it, he had to put in a lot of effort. After five years, the dragon egg had not changed at all, it was still a fossil.

Sometimes, he even had the urge to smash the dragon egg, which was too abrasive.

Nezha only spent three years and six months to hatch an egg. He had waited for five years, but he hadn’t even seen a strand of hair.

If he had known earlier, he would have smashed the dragon egg. But now that he wanted to, he wouldn’t be able to do it.

After all, he had worked so hard to hatch it for five years. If he smashed it now, wouldn’t his five years of hard work be in vain?

Crack… Ka…

Just as Chen Fann was feeling depressed, a strange sound came from the dragon egg.

Chen Fann quickly looked over.

He saw that the surface of the dragon egg, which hadn’t changed for five years, start to crack and fall off.