Super Island Tycoon

Chapter 1392: Chapter 1391: Crisis!

Please fasten your seat belts. The plane is passing through an air current layer, and the fuselage will be hit and become unstable. For your safety, please fasten your seat belts.” The captain’s voice came over the broadcast.

So it’s just an air current layer, scared me to death! Captain really is a jinx.” Zhang Mengmeng rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction.

Why do I feel like it’s not as simple as an air current layer...” Jiang Cheng said.

Will you shut up already!” Ning Jing snapped.

Maybe Jiang Cheng really is born with a jinx constitution, because his words once again came true.

Right now the plane was flying through a layer of dark clouds. The originally calm cloud bank suddenly became dense with lightning the moment Jiang Cheng’s words fell. Immediately after, a bolt of lightning struck one side of the plane’s wing, the fuselage lurched, and all the passengers in the plane toppled to one side. The sound of luggage falling and breaking kept ringing out one after another.

Captain, are we going to die! You really are a jinx!” ”I don’t think so.” Jiang Cheng said. He didn’t know why, but he kept feeling there was something odd about that lightning.

Boom!” A massive bolt of lightning tore open a huge rift at the edge of the sky. The entire plane lit up, and all the passengers shut their eyes; it was so bright it was about to blind them! That light came fast and went fast, and soon the cabin returned to normal—only no one noticed that at this moment, five people on the plane had vanished.

The year 2000 AD, Hua Family District. This was a coastal open city in the prefecture, Q Mansion. Q Mansion had been a trading port since ancient times, economically developed, with extremely frequent foreign trade and huge population flow. As a southern seaside city, Q Mansion’s environment was excellent; unlike northern Mitsuhide, here the trees were lush and shady, birds sang and flowers bloomed, it was like an urban park.

And right in an unnoticed corner of Q Mansion, five people suddenly appeared. Three men and two women. Nothing particularly special about the men, except one guy was huge. But the two women were very eye‑catching, and dressed extremely boldly, actually wearing such short denim shorts—which, in this day and age, could be called downright open!

Good thing there weren’t many people in Zhou District, otherwise this would definitely cause quite a commotion!

The five gradually woke up. All five of them were extremely bewildered: Where is this, where am I, how did I end up here. They looked at each other, all with completely blank faces.

At that moment Jiang Cheng slapped his forehead—wasn’t he wearing his wristband? That thing could auto‑connect to the net. Jiang Cheng operated the wristband and took a look!

Holy shit!” A shriek almost made everyone’s hearts jump out of their chests!

Jinx Captain! What is it!” Zhang Mengmeng said very disgruntled. He felt this whole mess should be blamed on Jiang Cheng’s jinx mouth! Jiang Cheng ignored that nickname, because right now he was a bit rattled too—damn, I’ve time‑traveled again!!!

”It’s the year 2000 AD right now! We time‑traveled!” Jiang Cheng said. Time‑traveled... oh... we time‑traveled, huh. I thought something was actually wrong with us. Time‑traveled!!” Mount Da at first didn’t react; by the time he processed it he was already dumbfounded!

How did we just time‑travel like that!” They were all Superpower Users, so their psychological endurance was fairly strong, and right now they could just barely accept this fact.

Could it be that bolt of lightning?” Jiang Cheng said. On the plane, when that lightning flared, he had shut his eyes, and then felt the world spinning. That feeling was exactly the same as back in Ink Cave. When he opened his eyes, he was already here.

I just felt a wave of dizziness, and then it was like this.” Ning Jing said.

”Same here. Same here.”

Looks like we really did time‑travel. Mengmeng, try and see if you can contact our original place.” Jiang Cheng said to Zhang Mengmeng.

Zhang Mengmeng operated on his wristband for a bit, then shook his head and said, ”No good, the network here is way too backward! There’s just no way to compare it to ours; this is two hundred years ago.” Zhang Mengmeng said.

”So what do we do now, we can’t go back?” Ning Jing asked. I’m guessing that’s the case. Since we’re here, we might as well make ourselves at home. Let’s first find somewhere to stay, then think of a plan.” Jiang Cheng said. Though he was used to time‑traveling and didn’t care much, Qing’Er was still over there. He had no idea how she was doing now.

But as soon as they mentioned finding a place to stay, Jiang Cheng and the others hit a wall. They were all from a future era, so first off, they didn’t have this era’s currency on them; secondly, they didn’t have this era’s ID cards either. They couldn’t check into a hotel, and even for a small inn they didn’t have money. What were they supposed to do now.

All of them were talented oddballs from the Security Team’s Special Operations Office, never expected that even they would be stumped by a single penny. This really was painful.

Just when everyone was at their wits’ end, Jiang Cheng’s eyes lit up. No ID cards? Then we just go get replacements.

Replacements—Captain, have you gone stupid? In this era we’re basically undocumented aliens! Where are you going to get replacements!” Mount Da asked; even he could easily think of that point.

Heh heh, identities are just data—why don’t we just add ourselves into the Well Bureau’s network?” Jiang Cheng snickered.

So troublesome. Why did we have to end up here anyway...” Ning Jing was very unhappy; time‑traveling to the past really didn’t hold much appeal for her.

After fiddling with the wristband for a while, Jiang Cheng input identity information for himself and the others into the Well Bureau’s internal network.

Done. We just need to go to the police station and reissue some ID cards. But we don’t have any money in our pockets right now, what do we do about that? My stomach’s hungry! I want food!” Zhang Mengmeng the foodie felt his craving kick in again.

Hmph, a bunch of people who just time‑traveled here from a future era, and we’d have no way to make money? If this era lacks anything, it sure isn’t money‑making opportunities! I just checked—here in Hua Family in 2000, there’s an outbreak of something called the Millennium Bug (in this parallel world it’s a distinct Millennium Bug, not related to the real‑world one).” A faint smile appeared on Jiang Cheng’s face.

Millennium Bug? A Great Demon? We beat demons for money?” Hearing that name, Zhang Mengmeng instantly thought of those coelenterate creatures.

A look of disgust surfaced on Jiang Cheng’s face. ”And you call yourself a techie, you don’t even know this? The computer Year 2000 problem, also called ’Millennium Bug,’ ’Computer Millennium Millennium Bug Problem,’ or ’Millennium Crisis.’ Abbreviated ’Y2K.’ It refers to certain intelligent systems that use computer programs (including computer systems, automatic control chips, etc.), where the year is represented using only two decimal digits. When the system performs (or involves) cross‑century date processing operations (such as calculations or comparisons between multiple dates), it produces erroneous results, which in turn triggers all kinds of functional chaos and even system crashes.

So fundamentally, the Millennium Bug is a bug in program date handling (a computer program fault), but in this era, people’s understanding of computers isn’t deep, and computer talent is extremely scarce, so this issue is treated as a serious problem. It wasn’t fixed until the following year through system updates.