Parallel Worlds
Earth.
The dilapidated city streets are overgrown with withered weeds, and there are collapsed houses and huge shell craters everywhere. A few buildings that have not collapsed stand crookedly on both sides of the road. Most of the buildings are tilted, all the glass windows are broken, and green vines are climbing all over the walls.
This is a city that has been abandoned for a long time. Sixteen years ago, a sudden disaster shattered the peace of this world in an instant.
Now, more than a decade has passed. The city's prosperity has faded, and what remains in people's memories is probably only that precious sense of peace...
When Roland arrived on Earth, he was truly stunned by the desolate scene before him. It was as if Earth had experienced a disaster long ago, and all the prosperity had disappeared. He flew over many cities, and they all had the same scene. Even some villages had very little of their original appearance.
"The Earth here is completely abandoned."
Carefully observing the devastated surroundings, in Roland's memory, there was only one world on Earth that had ever suffered such decay: the world of Future Trunks.
In that world, Android 17 and Android 18 killed all the warriors, leaving Trunks to fight alone. However, unable to withstand the combined might of the two Android, he used Bulma's support to travel back in Time Machine and change history. However, due to the correction of the time-space rules in the Dragon Ball world, he only arrived in another parallel world. Fortunately, later fighting alongside Goku and others greatly enhanced Trunks' power, allowing him to save his own world after saving the parallel world.
Is this the world Trunks has entered?
It doesn't look like it at all!
Although high-ranking warriors on Earth possess the ability to conceal their presence, there's no reason why I wouldn't be able to sense anything at all. I then used the Scouter from the Sephiria Force to probe Earth, but I didn't detect any stronger energy reactions.
"Have all the warriors on Earth with a combat power of 100 or higher died out?"
With this question in mind, Roland teleported to the Korin's Sacred Land.
What came into view was a desolate scene. It seemed that a great battle had taken place here. The once rolling forest had been completely burned down, and the mountain range that had surrounded the Korin's Sacred Land, forming a large basin, had also vanished completely. Even the towering Korin Tower was reduced to a mere ten-meter-long pillar standing on the ground, looking particularly desolate under the cold western wind...
The Korin Tower has been destroyed, and naturally, the High God above it no longer exists.
Seeing this scene, Roland sighed silently in his heart, then turned around and quickly left the Korin's Sacred Land. When he reappeared, he had arrived at the headquarters of the Hoi-Poi Capsule in the West City.
The West City has also been destroyed, with ruins and shell craters of all sizes everywhere. Overturned vehicles are common on the streets, all rusty and abandoned for who knows how many years. Dr. Brief' five-story building is also half-destroyed, with weeds growing in the courtyard, indicating that it has been uninhabited for a long time.
Pushing open the door and entering, the layout inside was the same as what Roland knew. Having lived with Tights in the West City's house before, Roland easily found all the rooms and even arrived at the basement, but he couldn't find Bulma's research room where she was studying the Time Machine.
"Strange, if this is Trunks' world, then Bulma should be building Time Machine here."
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to Roland —could it be that Time Machine had already been created in this world, and Trunks had already traveled back in time and destroyed the Android, only to be killed by Cell in the end?
It can't be that terrible a world!
However, upon closer inspection, Roland felt it was impossible. Even if Trunks in this world was killed by Cell, there should still be traces of the research from back then in the basement. It's impossible that there are no traces at all, just like now.
The worst-case scenario is that Bulma dies before she even has a chance to research the Time Machine. If that happens, it will be even more difficult for Roland to return to his own world.
"Alas, Korin Tower and the Kami's Lookout are destroyed, and Bulma's Time Machine can't be found either!"
He sighed softly. This world felt foreign to him, and the familiar warriors seemed to have all perished. He took out the Scouter once more and began searching. The data fluctuated frequently, but most of them were only in the tens, with almost none exceeding a hundred combat power.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, a faint energy flashed by, the instantaneous burst of energy being approximately 200 combat power, but it quickly disappeared.
"It was located 14,000 kilometers to the south, and although it disappeared quickly, I still managed to find it."
After searching for the energy, Roland's half-closed eyes suddenly flashed with light, and he quickly teleported over. If it weren't for his ability to Instant Transmission, even if someone else discovered the energy, they wouldn't be able to get there quickly.
In the towering mountains and forests of the Southern Hemisphere, a blonde girl carefully carries a dinosaur through the sky.
The young woman was dressed as a hunter, wearing a brown hat. She had a well-proportioned figure and appeared to be around twenty years old. Her face was as white as snow and very delicate. If it weren't for her coarse attire, she would undoubtedly be a stunning beauty. The young woman seemed to be hiding from something, glancing around frequently. Once she was sure no one was around, she accelerated and flew over a thousand kilometers in just a few seconds before landing in a secluded mountain valley.
There's a small wooden cabin nestled in a mountain valley, with a lake not far away. Sunlight shines down, creating a uniquely tranquil atmosphere.
Back in her cabin, the blonde girl threw the dinosaur on the ground and began gutting it to make jerky. After finishing, she clapped her hands.
"Once dried, there won't be any problem with meat for the whole year... This era is truly awful!"
The blonde girl muttered a few words and began watering some vegetables in the yard with a watering can.
A not-so-new television set next to me was broadcasting news from various places, mostly about riots breaking out and the suffering of innocent people in the disaster.
The blonde girl glanced at it and shook her head dismissively.
"Foolish fellow, causing trouble with a formidable enemy at hand, do you want Earthling to die even faster? But now there are no decent martial artists left on Earth, so restoring the peace of the past is unlikely."
"Those Trunks guys are still thinking about annihilating the enemy, but I don't have that kind of ability. If only I had a spaceship, I could live comfortably in space with my strength. Ugh, this terrible era." The blonde girl muttered as she watered the plants.
Since the great catastrophe sixteen years ago, all martial artists on Earth have been slaughtered. Although this blonde girl has some skills, she is no match for the demon that destroyed the world. To protect herself, she did not hide with Master Roshi and the others to wait for an opportunity to rise up. Instead, she set up a place to live alone in a remote mountain valley.
She uses her strength cautiously in normal times, and even when hunting for prey, she travels thousands of kilometers away, living a careful life so that no one would ever discover her.
Little did she know that the energy she emitted while hunting her prey had already attracted Roland's attention. If it were an ordinary person, even if they noticed, they wouldn't have had time to find her.
However, Roland happened to be someone with the ability to Instant Transmission, and following the girl's trajectory, he quickly arrived at this secluded mountain valley.