Chapter 12: Huh? Cursed?

Over the past six months of transmigrating, he had often stayed awake all night for the first two months. The reason? He missed playing on the computer! He really missed playing on the computer, especially playing on the computer! A transmigrator without a computer to play with was going to die!

Yet, it was impossible to get one.

His fingers trembled as they touched the familiar keyboard. Zheng Yichen opened a game on the desktop. To his disappointment, although he could open it, the game was stuck on an infinite loading screen. The only games that would load were ones he was already very familiar with, whose content he had completely mastered.

As for Online Games, he couldn’t open a single one!

“What is a computer?”

“Well, how should I explain…” Zheng Yichen scratched his cheek. How was he supposed to explain what a computer was to someone from another world? He knew how to use and play with this thing, but when it came to explaining it, he really couldn’t. “I’m just a user.”

“Oh.” Little Lolita nodded calmly, staring at the computer Zheng Yichen was operating constantly. It was a very novel thing…

After being absorbed for a while, he realized there was still an unfamiliar and strange Loli beside him. Zheng Yichen gave up the idea of continuing to play. No matter what, this was just a Dream anyway. “What do you want to do?”

Before, they couldn’t communicate, but now that there was no barrier, of course certain things needed to be clarified.

“Just to confirm a few things.” Little Lolita stared at Zheng Yichen for a moment before slowly saying, “You are very special.”

“…” As a transmigrator, wasn’t that inherently special? The person he transmigrated into was also pretty special—born from a stone. Too bad he was a dragon, not a monkey.

“Entering your Dream is troublesome, so from now on, you must learn the Common Tongue.”

“I tried to master a foreign language from elementary school all the way through university, but I failed.” Zheng Yichen rubbed his head. Learning a new language—thinking about how he hadn’t managed it in over a decade, and how before transmigrating he’d heard about so-and-so mastering English in a few months through self-study, he knew he simply wasn’t cut out for learning foreign languages.

“It’s fine. I will package the content of the Common Tongue and give it to you.” Little Lolita’s fingertip lit up with a faint glow. “Don’t resist.”

“…That’s hard.” Zheng Yichen said somewhat troubled. What if it was something that controlled people?

“Then look at it yourself.” The glow on Little Lolita’s fingertip transformed into a book with a black cover. “As long as your spirit can handle it, you can stay in the Dream until you master it completely.”

“Spare me…” Even as he said this, Zheng Yichen still took the black book Little Lolita handed him. The contents inside were similar to his elementary school literacy Enlightenment Book. Each Common Script character was marked with a corresponding Chinese character.

Huh? What was going on? When did his brain become so sharp? Having suffered plenty from the hardships of not being able to communicate, Zheng Yichen truly focused this time and read a few pages. Recalling slightly, it seemed everything he had just seen… was memorized!

Not forgetting a single character—wow, this was amazing! With this kind of memory before transmigrating, no matter how poorly he had done, he could have become a high-level translator.

Thus, Zheng Yichen became completely engrossed in this “simple and easy to learn” book. How to put it—the book wasn’t thick. When he flipped to the halfway point, no matter how many pages he turned afterward, the thickness remained stuck at the fifty-fifty mark.

While he was absorbed in learning, unable to extricate himself, Little Lolita had imitated Zheng Yichen’s earlier actions. She sat in front of the computer and fiddled with this computer that had appeared in the Dream. Due to the depth of impression, many of the software inside couldn’t run, but ultimately some could…

“Ahh~” A sudden, delicate panting sound by his ear abruptly pulled Zheng Yichen’s thoughts back. Hey, hey, this sound couldn’t be…

He whipped his head around to look. Sure enough, the computer was playing some shy, embarrassing videos. Oh! Good heavens! This—how did she find those!?

“Uh, uh! This, this, children can’t watch this!” He quickly pressed the power button on the main case and shouted, somewhat flustered.

‘Why?’

Little Lolita looked up at Zheng Yichen. Though she didn’t speak, her dissatisfied eyes seemed to convey that meaning.

“You’re too young.”

“I’m twelve hundred years old.”

“What!?” Zheng Yichen’s eyebrow twitched involuntarily. He suddenly felt he had somewhat underestimated the world he had transmigrated into. He looked left and right, pulled open the computer desk drawer, took out the headphones inside, and put them on Little Lolita. He planned to leave his bedroom and go to the living room to study.

But he opened the bedroom door and saw only darkness outside. He decisively closed the bedroom door again. Ah~ that kind of darkness that looked dangerous was better not to touch recklessly.

Stealing glances now and then at Little Lolita, who was focused on the computer, his learning efficiency, distracted as he was, simply dropped by fifty percent… However, as time passed, this book that never seemed to finish gradually grew thinner. The moment he completely finished flipping through it, Little Lolita took off the headphones she was wearing.

“…” Whether it was an illusion or not, Zheng Yichen thought her little face looked somewhat flushed… Ignoring his gaze, she silently vanished from the Dream.

Leaving Zheng Yichen standing there, stunned. That… leaving so quickly, shouldn’t she have said how to leave?

Just think about waking up? As soon as he thought that, darkness suddenly fell before Zheng Yichen’s eyes. When he opened them again, his body had returned to its Dragon Body. He looked down at his claws. Hmm, waking up like this was really convenient. Such a clear Dream didn’t seem to come without a price.

He didn’t have the usual refreshed feeling after waking from sleep now, and his head held some extra knowledge—clearly the Common Tongue he’d learned in the Dream.

“I…” Zheng Yichen started, but realized he was still speaking Chinese. He shook his head and somewhat awkwardly switched to the Common Tongue he had quickly mastered through Little Lolita’s special method. “Can you understand?”

“It’s fine now.” Little Lolita nuzzled Zheng Yichen’s hand with her cheek and answered. This kind of inexplicably intimate contact still left him somewhat at a loss, after all, it was too abrupt. No matter what, his appearance couldn’t possibly attract a tender creature like Little Lolita, could it?

Even if she claimed to be twelve hundred years old.

“What exactly is your goal? It doesn’t seem like there’s anything about me that attracts you, right?” Zheng Yichen asked somewhat puzzled.

“Every aspect of you attracts me.” Little Lolita lightly shook her head, her eyes fixed intently on him. “The most impossible existing Forbidden Artifacts, the Cursed dragon.”

“…What are you talking about? I’ve been cursed?”