Chronicle

"—Agh!!"

Gu Qing was tightly bound to an electric chair with Leather Restraints.

His bare upper body was covered with numerous Electrode Pads.

As the experimenters pulled the Switch, electricity surged through the wires and into Gu Qing's body.

Bang! Bang!

His frail body thrashed wildly and arched upward, but his hands and feet were completely restrained, leaving him unable to break free.

The tough Leather Restraints had even cut into his flesh, drawing thin trickles of blood.

Gu Qing let out a beast-like roar.

That roar was filled with agony!

Who knew how much time passed.

When the current was finally cut off, the stench of urine spread through the laboratory.

White foam spilled from the corners of Gu Qing's mouth, his eyes rolled back, and his body still twitched involuntarily from time to time.

The researchers were long used to such scenes. They turned and shook their heads at Schmidt.

Schmidt, impeccably dressed and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, had a glint of cold disappointment in his eyes.

"Erik, I thought you had potential. What a pity. You've truly disappointed me."

At that moment, Gu Qing could not respond to him at all.

For the three months since he had transmigrated here,

he had been locked inside Schmidt's Solitary Cell.

He had served as Schmidt's test subject.

During that time, Schmidt had subjected him to all manner of inhuman stimulation experiments.

Fire, needles, waterboarding, or even today's electrotherapy—

none of them had managed to make his X-Factor react again.

By now, Schmidt was beginning to lose his patience.

Gu Qing lay on the electric chair, his consciousness scattered and his entire body limp.

Yet Schmidt's words entered his ears with absolute clarity and burrowed into his mind.

A chill known as the threat of death swept down from above, invading his entire body.

It made Gu Qing feel as though he had fallen into an ice pit!

"Hmm?"

Schmidt had been about to turn and leave.

Then he suddenly seemed to notice something.

He turned back and saw that the surgical instruments nearby were trembling faintly.

The sight changed Schmidt's expression, which had been full of disappointment.

Threads of delight immediately appeared in his eyes!

And the trembling grew more intense.

It quickly spread throughout the entire laboratory.

Every metal object seemed to be pulled by some mysterious force.

They began to stir restlessly, colliding with their surroundings again and again as clanging sounds echoed through the laboratory.

The researchers watched it all in horror.

They had no idea what was happening.

—Buzzz!

Drawn by that mysterious force, all the metal objects swept about wildly!

Scalpels and other items sliced through and pierced several researchers' bodies!

Blood sprayed everywhere!

"Ahhh!!"

Everyone tried to flee outside like madmen, only to discover that the metal door would not open at all!

Amid endless terror, the raging Metal Storm tore their bodies apart.

The laboratory was instantly filled with a thick stench of blood.

Every researcher was dead, but one person remained alive.

Not only was he alive, he was completely unharmed. He even could not help laughing out loud!

It was Klaus Schmidt!

Every metal object that approached him fell to the ground, unable to harm him in the slightest.

"Hahahaha! Good! Erik, you've finally shown your potential. Welcome to the New Humans. Become a part of the New World!"

Unfortunately, Gu Qing had already passed out completely.

He could not hear a word Schmidt said.

When Gu Qing woke again, he had returned to the familiar, icy prison cell.

He lay on that narrow single bed.

The difference was that this time, he had been changed into clean, comfortable clothes.

A lavish spread of food had also been placed on the table.

Like a starving wolf pouncing on prey,

Gu Qing, who did not know how long it had been since he had eaten a full meal, grabbed a steak from the table and stuffed it into his mouth.

Searching for worlds available for traversal... Searching...

Search successful.

Chronicle world anchored. Traverse now?

Yet Gu Qing seemed not to hear it at all. He only kept frantically grabbing food from the table and stuffing it into his mouth.

Chewing in huge mouthfuls.

But as he ate, two scorching tears somehow slid down his cheeks.

Those tears were like lava, as though they could burn his skin.

—Crash!

Gu Qing suddenly erupted. With a sweep of both arms, he knocked all the remaining food from the table, leaving a messy ruin across the floor.

"Three months... Three whole months! Do you know how I spent those three months?!"

His pain-filled eyes closed, and with them, his fragile heart also shut away.

After a long while.

When Gu Qing opened his eyes again, there were no more hot tears in them.

In their place were Killing Intent and hatred!

"I choose to traverse now!"

Seattle, United States.

Ravenhill.

Not far ahead, students were cheerfully setting up an abandoned barn.

They were preparing for tonight's party.

Gu Qing knew he had found the right place.

The movie never mentioned the name of Andrew and the others' school.

But Gu Qing remembered one detail.

The place where they held their party was called Ravenhill.

He had been in this world for one day.

Gu Qing had not only found Ravenhill, but had also roughly figured out what this traversal system did.

Put simply,

the system could search through the worlds of All Heavens and Myriad Worlds on its own and anchor them.

It was just that the time required to search for a world was uncertain.

It might finish quickly, or it might take a very long time.

For example, Gu Qing had activated the system as soon as he transmigrated.

Yet merely searching for a traversable world had taken a full three months!

To distinguish between them, Gu Qing called the X-Men world he came from the Main World.

He called the traversable worlds found by the system Instance Worlds.

With a thought from Gu Qing,

a virtual panel appeared before him.

Host: Gu Qing

Spacetime Value: 3 points

It was a panel so barebones it could not have been any simpler.

Just like the system's functions.

Aside from the basic ability to traverse,

the system also had the concept of Spacetime Value.

As long as Gu Qing could influence an Instance World, he could obtain Spacetime Value.

That influence could be good or bad.

Even if Gu Qing did nothing at all, his mere existence was like a butterfly flapping its wings, eventually creating a series of butterfly effects.

And he could gain Spacetime Value from them.

Of course, the Spacetime Value gained from doing nothing would certainly be far less than what he could gain by taking the initiative.

The 3 points of Spacetime Value on the panel were his gains from the past day.

As long as his Spacetime Value reached ten thousand points, he could spin the roulette wheel once.

The prizes came from All Heavens and Myriad Worlds.

There was also one restriction: he could not forcibly obtain Spacetime Value by killing the protagonist.

Otherwise, he would be marked and expelled by that world's World Consciousness, and might even encounter danger.

In response, Gu Qing could do nothing but raise his middle finger at the system in contempt, then accept it.