Chapter 851

Chapter 851: Rescue the Giant Dragon Gold Coin (Part One)

"…Morin!"

"…trapped, save…"

"…coordinates, seal…"

…

"Ah! Gold Coin!"

Lin Mo suddenly sat up in bed, breathing heavily, and turned on the bedside lamp. It seemed he had a nightmare; his breathing quickly steadied as he looked around the room, realizing he was in a single officers’ dormitory at Quzhou Air Force Base.

The Dragon Knight’s face was unusually grim, and he was wide awake now. The voice he just heard was…

The Dragon Knight felt as if he had heard the gold giant dragon calling him with all its might, yet it seemed to be blocked by a thick wall, faintly audible but unclear in its message.

Lin Mo glanced at the watch on his bedside table, the silver metal exterior still as pristine and bright as ever, showing no signs of wear, yet it remained unresponsive.

"What was that just now?"

Lin Mo couldn’t discern whether it was a dream or an illusion. He concentrated his mental energy to sense the incomplete dragon deity contract. Although the power of the contract still existed, his one-sided soul resonance did not evoke any reaction from the other side of the contract.

It was merely the Dragon Knight’s unilateral mental wave, as the gold giant dragon seemed to be trapped in a permanent slumber. There were no Dragon Gods or giant dragon kin in this world; no one could provide the Dragon Knight with answers.

The soul is a mysterious thing. The probability of triggering soul resonance between a dragon and its knight is incredibly small, making Dragon Knights a very scarce strategic resource.

Being able to sign a dragon deity contract indicated a very high synchronization rate between the dragon knight and the giant dragon. Perhaps through some inexplicable coincidence, the soul tendrils of both had brushed against each other, allowing Lin Mo to sense it slightly.

Without uttering a word, Lin Mo put on his clothes, grabbed his watch, and rushed out of the dormitory.

"Hey! Major Lin Mo, why are you still awake? It’s only four in the morning."

The soldiers on night duty in the hangar area stared in surprise at Major Lin Mo, who appeared like a ghost under the night sky, almost startling them.

"Please open the hangar door!"

Lin Mo’s tone was flat, without any inflection. He didn’t look at the duty soldiers but kept his gaze fixed on the hangar door, as if trying to see through it.

"Ah! Yes!"

Was something going on? The duty soldiers nodded in confusion and went to open the door. Hadn’t they just been inside two hours earlier? Why did they need to go in again?

As the door opened, four soldiers with Type 95 automatic assault rifles swiftly dashed inside.

All the lights in the warehouse turned on, illuminating the spacious hangar. The soldiers with automatic assault rifles carefully scanned every corner as they entered.

The massive forward-swept wing fighter jet still stood intact in the center of the hangar, showing no signs of abnormality.

"No one? Strange!"

"Squad Leader Cen Lunliang! Everything is normal."

"Normal!"

The duty soldiers looked at each other, clearly realizing that the situation was not as they had imagined and that no one had secretly infiltrated the hangar.

"Don’t worry! You all go out first! I’ll leave in a bit!"

Seeing the tense movements of the duty soldiers, Lin Mo remotely turned off the repulsion shield and waved to the soldiers.

The cockpit cover slowly opened automatically, and Lin Mo jumped onto the plane, supporting himself on the cockpit edge while reaching inside to activate the control system.

After a light sound came from the back of the aircraft, he exited the cockpit and walked to the central axis area on the back of the aircraft, placing his hand on the Longinus Spear.

With a gentle pull, he removed the spear that was locked onto the aircraft.

The soldiers at the entrance, who were keeping an eye on the hangar, exchanged glances; did this fighter jet really have a cold weapon?

Previously, they thought it was just an antenna or something, but they never expected it could be directly pulled out. It looked more like an ornate spear and didn’t resemble a modern technological product.

It was truly strange for a fighter jet to have such an odd weapon. Could it be a variable wings fighter jet?

If it could transform into a humanoid form, it would explain the Longinus Spear.

However, the duty soldiers all tacitly kept quiet, gently pulled the hangar door closed, and ceased to pay attention to what they shouldn’t see.

The spear, with a unique four-meter long form, felt surprisingly light in his hands, weighing no more than 300 grams. Its sharp tip could easily pierce through any armor material used in human equipment, making it ideal for high-speed thrusts.

Lin Mo had no idea about its origins, and no one was willing to tell him. Even the holy knights of the Church who showed willingness to acquire it at any cost remained tight-lipped in front of him.

Sometimes ignorance can be a blessing.

It was precisely this ignorance that kept the country from using any harsh means to take this otherworldly weapon from him. They also wanted to avoid provoking this almost special tier registered ACE pilot, as any kind of defection would result in a loss that the air force could not bear.

Until the gold giant dragon was extracted from this spear, Lin Mo had no chance of giving up the Longinus Spear.

Sitting on the body of the “monstrous” variable wings fighter jet, he held the Longinus Spear, took a deep breath, and released his mental power from his forehead, silently extending it like thin, transparent threads, gently wrapping around the spear.

The Dragon Knight was not a true magic practitioner. He cultivated mental power mainly to activate his attribute battle energy to complement most battle techniques.

Lin Mo’s mental power had only just crossed into a second-tier magician’s level, allowing him to release some low-level spells, such as the Light Mirror Technique.

With his current level of mental power, he could extend it outward to about fifty meters. Most of the time, he released his mental power to capture light-element energy for cultivating light battle energy. Now, however, he forsook capturing the light elements in the air and reached directly toward the mysterious Longinus Spear in his hand.

Initially, he found that the Longinus showed no reaction; it neither strongly repelled nor suddenly absorbed Lin Mo’s mental power, and he felt no danger.

The Dragon Knight was not a gold giant dragon and found it hard to perceive the material of Longinus. After no abnormalities appeared during his initial testing, he carefully released more mental power, wrapping it around the surface of the spear like a spider weaving a web, gradually penetrating inward.

It was both unexpected and somewhat expected; the spear felt like an incomprehensibly hard super-dense material, making it exceedingly difficult for mental power to penetrate, much like trying to seep water into glass.

From the tip to the end of the spear, Lin Mo attempted to trigger every engraving with his mental power, but unfortunately, there was no response at all.

Unlike the mental power threads he used during cultivation that could transform into light-element energy, the Dragon Knight’s mental power was not nearly as dense as that of intermediate magicians above the sixth tier; released into the outside, it gradually dissipated over time and distance.

Before long, Lin Mo’s face began to pale; the pure mental power used with no means of replenishment consumed a considerable amount, leading him to let out a long sigh and withdraw the remaining small amount of mental power.

A small shake of his hand was all it took for a little bit of mental power to activate, and ample light battle energy quickly surged within Lin Mo, flowing into the Longinus Spear.

This time, the spear did not reject the light battle energy as if it were barring his mental power. It seamlessly permeated without obstruction or consumption.

Light battle energy and mental power were entirely different energy systems. Light battle energy could significantly enhance a person’s endurance and explosive power, extending to limbs and weapons, increasing resistance to blows and lethality, and even manifesting outside the body to unleash devastating power.

On the other hand, mental power, which represented concentrated will and thought, had little killing power; it acted more as a vital catalyst for other forces, representing control. Without mental power, it was impossible to activate magic or drive battle energy, just like having a treasure but not being able to open it—a frustrating experience.

The light battle energy immediately filled the entire Longinus Spear with Lin Mo’s intent. As he gently waved the spear, the air emitted a soft hissing sound, as if the sharp tip could slice through space itself.

There was no anomaly; it felt no different from when he had used Longinus in America, and he sensed no presence of the gold giant dragon—it was as if it were not in the spear at all.

Wrinkling his brow deeply, Lin Mo knew he was not adept at resolving issues like this, which resembled alchemy and magic problems. Just as he heard in his dream, "…coordinates, seal…" it became clear that the gold giant dragon’s predicament was not as simple as he had previously imagined, such as overeating or metal poisoning; perhaps it was beyond the capacity of the gold dragon kin, trapping this unfortunate glutton.

The calling that had inexplicably appeared in his dream remained uncertain, but the Dragon Knight preferred to believe it existed rather than dismiss it outright.

As his gaze inadvertently swept over the alloy box on the cockpit’s back seat, Lin Mo’s heart stirred. It seemed he had grasped a fleeting insight; maybe waiting passively was not the solution, and a last-ditch effort might be necessary.

He did not let his thoughts show on his face, calmly reinserted the Longinus Spear into the body of the “monstrous” variable wings fighter jet, played the part of the fighter jet’s backstabber, casually retrieved an item from the cockpit, restored everything to its original state, and left the hangar once again.

Once back in his dormitory, Lin Mo could not wait to open the item he had taken from the cockpit of the “monstrous” variable wings fighter jet.

To be honest, the Dragon Knight had no confidence that the civilization power of this world could rescue the gold giant dragon from its plight.