The Mysterious Small Tower

"Ah!"

The piercing, shrill sound seemed capable of splitting eardrums, no less jarring than tires screeching against asphalt.

"It's alright."

A gentle voice rang out.

Feiran and Qiya, their faces pale with fright, heard this tender tone and slowly lifted their heads, opening their eyes.

But.

What they saw was enough to overturn their entire worldview.

"Y-you you!"

Deep within Feiran's beautiful eyes, disbelief reigned supreme. She slowly extended her jade-like hand, fingers as smooth as congealed fat, to cover her cherry lips, her gaze darting back and forth between the Youth and the transport truck.

The truck transporting the intelligent AIP had its front end caved in by an external force, its wheels spinning uselessly against the ground.

And then there was the Youth.

He was bracing himself with both hands pressed firmly against the truck's front, while beneath his feet, the special ground—impenetrable even to bullets—was gradually cracking into a dense web of fissures.

"Delete everything those 360° no-blind-spot VR cameras recorded!"

The Youth looked up at the floating orbs in the sky, which intermittently emitted sound-wave-like ripples, and spoke.

He believed.

As the daughter of the world's top scientist and the creator of the Initial Source Code for Intelligent Beings, she had the ability to handle this small problem.

"Oh, right."

Feiran snapped back to reality and nodded repeatedly, pulling out her computer to begin deleting everything those 360° no-blind-spot VR cameras had recorded during this time.

"Xiao Yun, you...?"

Qiya stared at her younger brother in disbelief, shock etched deep in her eyes. How could her own brother possess such immense strength?

He had forcibly stopped a speeding transport truck without taking a single step back.

What kind of power was this?

To that.

Ye Yun merely smiled faintly at Qiya, then released the truck, whose engine had already stalled, and circled around to the driver's door.

He reached out and wrenched the door open with brute force.

"Bang."

No sooner had the door opened than a gunshot rang out.

Already aware of the shotgun in this man's hands, Ye Yun sidestepped the incoming bullet, extended his seemingly frail arm, and before the man could react, yanked him out of the driver's seat and threw him to the ground.

The shotgun in his hand was also roughly seized by Ye Yun.

He hoisted the shotgun and smashed it down on the man, who was scrambling to get back up.

"Clang, clang."

The shotgun struck the man's body, producing a crisp metallic sound.

It seemed.

The driver of this transport truck was clearly an AIP!

Seeing this.

Ye Yun lost interest in continuing the fight. He stomped directly toward the Intelligent Being's head.

Anyone who deliberately tried to kill him deserved one word.

Death.

"Crackle, pop."

Ye Yun's stomp crushed the intelligent AIP's head, sending crackling arcs of electricity flickering wildly.

It appeared.

The Chip had also been destroyed by the brutal force.

"Let's go."

Having finished all this in just five minutes, Ye Yun turned to Feiran and Qiya and spoke.

"Mm, I've already handled it on my end."

Feiran nodded, casting a deep glance at her suddenly unfamiliar younger brother, then tapped lightly on her Smart Watch to summon her vehicle.

In less than a minute.

A blue supercar roared up, stopping in front of the three, its doors opening in a scissor-like motion.

They climbed inside.

The car immediately started up and sped away along a designated special route.

As for what happened on site, someone would handle it personally. Having Feiran clear the 360-degree VR cameras was simply to prevent the Security Bureau from learning that this kind of non-human, uncontrollable power existed.

The Capitalist's true face was the most sinister of all.

"Little Brother, you..."

Sitting in her own car, Feiran's cold, proud face still held a look of shock as she spoke uncertainly. Qiya, too, was staring at Ye Yun as if he were an Alien.

The Ye Yun of tonight was so unfamiliar that even these two Older Sisters, who had been with him for twenty-one years, felt a strange illusion.

Was this still their own younger brother?

Hearing Feiran's question, Ye Yun's thoughts slowly drifted back to that day twenty-one years ago.

Twenty-one years ago, he had not been a person of this world or this universe. He was a Warrior from another universe.

During an expedition accident, he was swallowed by a Black Hole.

Yes.

He was devoured by a Black Hole and thus arrived in this world, this universe. When he came to this world, he found himself reborn as an infant, but abandoned by the seaside—or rather, he had crossed over to this world through the Black Hole, and because of it, his body had reverted to that of a young child.

At the time, he didn't know he had crossed over. He could only observe this world with trepidation through the eyes of a child.

Later, a kind-hearted person picked him up and began to raise him. That kind person was his current father, Professor Hu Ming. He also gained two older sisters.

Those two sisters were naturally Feiran and Qiya.

As he grew up, he gradually came to understand this world.

But he discovered that this world was completely different from his own universe.

This universe did not have those beings whose names echoed across the cosmos, capable of reshaping the very structure of civilizations—not even their names.

Yet when he turned eighteen in this world, he found that names hidden deep in his memory had begun to appear here.

For example: the lofty King of the Gods, the Demon Queen who controls time and space, and so on.

But these names all came from an anime, a Domestic Anime developed from a once globally popular MOBA Game.

After learning the true details, he almost doubted that everything was an illusion.

After all, Sacred Kaisha, Heavenly King Hexi, Death God Karl—these were existences that shook the universe, yet they were merely characters in an anime. It was truly unbelievable and hard to accept.

But not long after, he encountered something. To borrow a term from Earth's web novels, it should be his golden finger.

A broken Mysterious Small Tower that could freely enter and exit his body.

Through this Mysterious Small Tower, he had even traveled to another world once.

He changed the plot of that world, which led to him returning to the world he was in now.

A broken corner of the Mysterious Small Tower seemed to have been partially repaired because of his crossing over. Moreover, a surge of powerful energy washed through his body, unlocking about one percent of the Super Gene sealed within him by the Black Hole.

It was then that he understood he had crossed over with his original body, not just his soul as described in novels.

The Super Gene inside him proved everything!

He also realized something impossible to comprehend yet necessary to accept: the world you live in might seem real to you, but to another world, it could be an anime, a film, or a novel.

Sometimes, he even wondered if he himself was in a film, novel, or anime.

Now, nearly three years had passed since he crossed over to that other world. The small tower he could easily summon had shown no movement at all.

As for the Bronze Door inside the tower, he could no longer push it open as easily as the first time. It was as if the tower was now missing something important.

Ye Yun's thoughts were very simple: he hoped to use this Mysterious Small Tower to return to the world he originally came from.

He also suspected that the real reason he came to this universe was not the Black Hole, but this Mysterious Small Tower.

Otherwise, given the Black Hole's nature of tearing apart everything without distinction, he would have long been disintegrated into Particles.