The Dark Continent.
This was the explanation Jin gave for the phenomenon before him: someone brought back from the dead, yet seemingly a different soul possessing the body.
It was a world beyond the world, a place that people like him yearned for, a place he dreamed of going.
The place of his ultimate dream.
It was filled with things that didn't exist in this current world.
As for other possibilities, they had all been ruled out one by one as he witnessed this person's resurrection and considered the circumstances at the time.
He yearned for the Dark Continent, he yearned for all the unknowns there.
Naturally, he also wanted to know and understand the being before him, whose soul very likely originated from that place.
This world is vast; it's highly probable that there are other worlds like the island in the lake, as it is now.
Yes, the currently known world, or rather, the world in the eyes of most ordinary people, is actually an archipelago in the middle of a lake—the entire world is a lake.
Furthermore, beyond the currently known world, there is a continent; that is the true world.
Compared to it, the current human world is simply not worth mentioning.
In this lake, the human world is a little far from the true world.
It sounds like the distance between an island in a lake and the shore, but this distance, which is tiny on a world scale, is already distant enough for the human world.
It's even out of reach.
And beyond the endless ocean of humanity lies a world shrouded in the unknown.
Its name is the Dark Continent.
Humans have landed on it before, and items from that continent have also drifted across the ocean to reach here.
Moreover, according to the information and intelligence from the ruins he excavated, human ancestors might have also fled from there to this place.
He wanted to go there, but due to special circumstances, he couldn't go there for now.
However, he was already making preparations, and this man before him might become a part of his preparations.
Even if he was completely wrong, for him, this man transforming from an unknown to a known quantity would still be a gain.
Jin looked at him, smiling, his tone confident, and said, "You can tell me some things you feel you can say, even if some lies are mixed in, I won't mind."
"But you'll also teach me a lesson, relying on your 'mind-reading' ability called 'Observation,'" Kevin thought.
He nodded silently, beginning to clear his thoughts.
The option of deception didn't exist, and the only choice was what to say.
The man before him had already stated his best option.
Although whatever he did might expose the information the other party wanted, he couldn't do nothing.
"Alright, this body isn't my original body. In my last memory, I died in a car accident.
Run over head-on by a truck, I imagine there was no way to survive."
Jin had, at some point, sat cross-legged in front of Kevin, one hand resting on his leg, the other propping up his chin.
Car accident, truck. He extracted the important words, analyzing the information.
"The words and language, the moment you spoke, seemed to awaken the memories of this body. As for the other fragmented pieces, like a patient with amnesia, they need stimulation to recall them."
"Hmm..." Jin nodded, it sounded very logical.
He suddenly asked, "Where did you originally come from?"
"Originally? I... perhaps another world, I'm not sure."
Kevin's words were a bit stiff.
Jin looked at him: "I understand, let's leave it at that. It seems we haven't established enough trust."
He stood up directly, patting himself down. He had already obtained the information he most wanted.
Even if he could later discern the truth of Kevin's words, it wouldn't be meaningful. Many pieces of information cannot be judged solely by their truth or falsehood.
Reaching a conclusion too early would, on the contrary, affect his subsequent judgment.
This was enough; more information would come gradually.
He picked up the special laptop from the nearby table and handed it to Kevin: "You must have a lot of information you want to know, can you use a computer?"
Kevin nodded, taking the laptop.
Jin sat on a nearby chair and pulled out a magazine from his backpack, beginning to read it.
Without looking up, he said, "If there's anything you don't understand, you can ask me. Consider it payment."
Kevin didn't decline; he truly needed to understand information about this world right now.
He opened the laptop.
The thick laptop was like a satellite computer; its construction wasn't too different from what he was used to, only the text was different.
He quickly grasped how to use it and began searching for the information he wanted to know.
First was the map; this world had five continents, and the world's boundaries hadn't even been explored yet, let alone circumnavigating the world.
The more he understood, the more Kevin discovered the differences between the two worlds.
However, the current era was inexplicably similar to the era of his former world.
The year 1994.
Even the technology was inexplicably similar.
"Why did you kill me? I mean, the original owner of this body," Kevin suddenly asked.
Hearing this, Jin replied without looking up, "Because you were a poacher. This area used to be a special species sanctuary that my companions and I set up."
Understood, "I" was actually a criminal.
Thinking of this, Kevin's expression immediately changed drastically, and he asked urgently, "Then am I not a criminal? Is this identity a criminal?!"
This made Jin lift his head. He looked at Kevin, as if pondering something.
"No, not at all. Although you were a poacher, you were very resourceful and hid yourself well.
Rather than doing things yourself, you preferred to pay to get things done. At least on the surface, your identity was that of a famous pharmacist."
"Oh, oh." Kevin nodded, that was good.
He really couldn't accept transmigrating into a criminal's body and being wanted or something.
This would make his already somewhat difficult situation even worse.
"So where am I right now..."
"The Kukan'yu Kingdom's nature reserve, the Biscayne Forest Park. We should be on the border now. This nature reserve is composed of multiple environmental zones, covers an extremely vast area, and spans several countries."
Kukan'yu Kingdom? He had just seen it on his identification documents. He also found it on the computer; it was one of the constituent countries of something called the V5.
As for this V5, it could perfectly correspond to the United Nations of his former world; the so-called V5 was somewhat like the permanent members of the Security Council.
It really was an inexplicable correspondence.
Still within the nature reserve, he might genuinely not be able to get out on his own.
He had great confidence in his abilities.
Just then.
Jin suddenly pulled out something like a mobile phone from his pocket.
Kevin observed that it was a mobile phone design appropriate for the era; although it wasn't a brick phone, its bulky appearance perfectly matched the impression of the time.
Jin glanced at the information on the phone, then his gaze fell on Kevin.
"Your accomplices have found you. Do you want to meet them?"
"What? Accomplices? Poachers?"
Jin nodded.
Kevin instinctively wanted to refuse, but before he could speak, he heard Jin say, "Seeing them might help you recall some memories? In any case, it should be helpful to you.
As for your safety concerns... don't underestimate me."
Since the other party said so, and Kevin genuinely wanted to know what the unusual battle in his fragmented memories was all about.
"Alright, but let me say this first, I'm really not good at so-called fighting or anything like that. Scuffles with hooligans might be okay."
Then he saw a pistol thrown over to him.