Key: "?"

"What place did you come from?" The blond little boy tilted his head back and asked.

He had been playing with his toy car in his yard when fog suddenly appeared around him. By the time he could see his surroundings clearly, there was already an adult here.

And an Asian person he had never seen in town before. He was already six years old, yet this was his first time actually seeing an Asian person!

So Asian people had red eyes. Dad had actually lied to me!

After noticing Li Wei's eye color, Billy recalled how his father had said, while telling him about Asian people in an illustrated book, that all Asians had black eyes.

"Do all Asian people have red eyes?"

Hearing that, Li Wei lifted his foot and kicked the shattered toy car aside. Then he crouched down and reached out to knead the little boy's cheeks with wicked amusement. He controlled his strength well—it was uncomfortable and would leave marks, but it did not hurt much.

"Ugh... let go!"

"Tell me what you saw, and maybe I'll tell you what you want to know~! Hehehehe!"

"Hey!"

Before the little boy could answer, a man shouted behind Li Wei.

Li Wei turned around and saw a white man standing at the entrance to the backyard, watching him with a wary, puzzled expression.

"Who are you?"

Li Wei did not answer either. He got up and ran, afraid the man would make him pay for the toy car later.

Besides, getting up and running without answering anything was much easier than staying put and wasting breath explaining himself!

When the man saw Li Wei choose to flee without a word, he instinctively chased after him. But after watching Li Wei vanish into the woods at an unimaginable speed like an overexcited wild monkey, he stopped chasing in frustration.

David Drayton glared resentfully in the direction Li Wei had fled, then looked at his son Billy. He crouched halfway down and checked Billy over. "Billy, are you all right?"

Billy shook his head, then looked at the shattered toy car beside him. It had been a gift from his father on his fifth birthday.

Following his gaze, David saw the broken toy car as well and helplessly rubbed Billy's hair.

"Looks like you won't get another little car until your sixth birthday."

"What just happened?"

Vanessa's voice came from behind David.

The two turned around and saw Vanessa standing by the back door of the house, her face full of worry. Both assured her that they were fine.

"A weirdo broke into the backyard, crushed the toy car I gave Billy, and ran off. The sheriff really ought to arrest that outsider."

After returning indoors, David bitterly complained to Vanessa about that strange man.

Breaking into someone else's backyard, stepping on a child's toy car, and even pinching Billy's face red—no one without ten years' worth of brain clots could possibly do something like that.

Vanessa thought one step further than David. Looking at the red marks on Billy's face, she said, "Oh~ that really is strange, but we should still notify the sheriff. What if he's some perverted child molester? The children in town could be in danger. And I've never heard of any Asian people living in town."

After considering what Vanessa had said, David also felt they should tell the town sheriff. He reached for his phone.

"Dad, you lied to me!" At that moment, little Billy rubbed his face. After drawing both David and Vanessa's attention, he said resentfully, "Asian people's eyes are obviously red, Dad! You lied to me!"

David put on a surprised expression and crouched down. As he used his button phone to call the town sheriff, he exaggeratedly said, "You don't believe your dad anymore! That really hurts my feelings!"

Although Billy was young, he could tell David was joking. But he really had seen that person's eyes—they had been red. He insisted, "But that person's eyes really were red. I saw them clearly!"

"Right, right, right. Billy has the talent to be a painter too, because he has such sharp eyes." As David spoke, the sheriff's phone had already connected. He held the phone to his ear and made a shushing gesture.

Vanessa leaned against the table nearby. Seeing the somewhat warm scene, her expression gradually relaxed.

The town sheriff, Thomson, spoke from the other end of the line. "Hey, great painter! What do you need from me today? But let me say this first—don't come to me again over your disputes with the neighbors. I'm not as smooth-talking as that Black guy."

David awkwardly rubbed his nose, rose to his feet, and said, "It's not that. The thing is..."

David recounted what had just happened in full detail, and it did indeed make the somewhat xenophobic sheriff wary.

"I understand. Have little Billy tell me what happened at the time," Sheriff Thomson said over the phone.

David handed the phone to Billy and had him describe everything from the strange man's appearance to his departure.

And then... they got absolutely nothing out of him.

A patch of white fog appeared out of thin air, someone crushed his toy car, pinched his face, said a couple of strange things, and then got scared off by Dad?

In summary: he said nothing useful.

Only after leaving the Drayton family's backyard did Li Wei realize that the scenery here was actually quite nice!

Broad lawns, tall but sparse woods, and several houses surrounding a massive lake. There was even a small dock at the lake's edge. Drifting across the water in a boat during summer would definitely be a rare pleasure.

At that moment, he was flying more than ten thousand meters above the ground. Since he did not rely purely on his wings to fly, he could easily surpass the highest-flying birds on Earth.

The weather here was really nice. Compared with the previous world, this place could truly be called paradise on Earth.

Li Wei swept his gaze across the area and discovered a military base in the mountains near that landmark lake.

How strange. They had actually built a military base in such a godforsaken place!

And then something even stranger happened!

The Key icon in the corner of his vision suddenly lit up, and a three-dimensional arrow cursor pointed toward that American military base.

Li Wei, who had assumed the Key was merely a key, narrowed his eyes. A cold smile curled his lips as he angrily snapped, "Bullshit! You want to control me and make me go there? I refuse! If you've got what it takes, come out and fight me!"

Key: ?

With that said, Li Wei flew toward another town in the opposite direction.

In a month and a half, he had passed through two worlds in a row. The first world had turned him into the Mother Body, which could barely count as a gain, but the second world had brought nothing but fright after fright.

There was definitely something wrong with this Key. Even if he could not refuse this "job," he was going to force himself to take a vacation!

He would take a good look around this relatively peaceful world. Thrills and danger could only serve as seasoning in life. A refined young man of society knew when to slack off at work, when to put on a show, and when to work hard.

And now, faced with a peaceful world, he had to play around for at least ten days to half a month before starting work!

Then he descended from the woods beside the town, transformed back into a human, and prepared to make some money first.

There had to be the kind of warmhearted people in town who often stopped others and handed them money, right? The kind that appeared all the time in movies and novels—dressed in punk clothes, with wild hairstyles and hip-hop moves!