[Mysterious Small Tower]

"Ah!"

The shrill, piercing sound seemed capable of bursting eardrums. It was no less grating than the sound of tires scraping against the ground.

"It's all right now."

A gentle voice rang out.

Feiran and Qiya, their faces drained of color with fright, heard the gentle voice and slowly raised their heads, opening their eyes.

But...

What they saw truly overturned everything they thought they knew.

"You—you—you!"

Feiran's beautiful eyes were filled with disbelief. She slowly raised her jade-white hand and covered her cherry-red lips, her gaze darting between the young man and the transport truck.

The transport truck belonging to the Intelligent Being AIP had its front end dented inward by an outside force, and its wheels spun uselessly against the ground.

And the young man...

He braced both hands against the front of the truck. Beneath his feet, the special ground—one that even bullets couldn't penetrate—was gradually filling with countless cracks.

"Delete the footage recorded by those 360-degree, blind-spot-free VR Cameras in the sky!"

The young man glanced up at the floating spheres overhead, which occasionally emitted ripples of sound, and spoke.

He believed that the daughter of the world's top scientist and founder of the Intelligent Being Initial Source Code had the ability to take care of this little problem.

"Oh, okay, okay."

After recovering, Feiran nodded repeatedly, took out her computer, and began deleting the footage those 360-degree, blind-spot-free VR Cameras had recorded in the area.

"Xiao Yun, how...?"

Qiya stared at her younger brother in disbelief, her eyes full of shock. How could he possibly possess such immense strength?

He had actually forced a speeding transport truck to stop without even taking a step.

What kind of strength was that?

In response,

Ye Yun simply smiled faintly at Qiya, then released the truck, its engine now stopped, and made his way around to the driver's door.

He reached out and roughly yanked the door open.

"Bang!"

The moment the door opened, a gunshot rang out.

Ye Yun had already noticed the shotgun in the man's hands. He dodged the incoming shot, then thrust out his seemingly delicate arm and, before the man could react, forcibly dragged the driver out of the vehicle and threw him onto the ground.

He also snatched the shotgun from the man with a rough tug.

He grabbed the shotgun and swung it at the man on the ground, who had come to his senses and was trying to get up.

"Clang, clang."

The shotgun struck the man, ringing out with the crisp sound of metal against metal.

It seemed

the driver of the transport truck was an AIP after all!

Seeing this,

Ye Yun lost interest in continuing to fight. He brought his foot down on the Intelligent Being's head.

Anyone who deliberately tried to kill him had only one fate.

Death.

"Crackle!"

Ye Yun's stomp blew the AIP's head apart. Arcs of electricity crackled and flashed nonstop.

It looked like

the Chip had been destroyed by the brutal force as well.

"Let's go."

Ye Yun finished everything in barely five minutes, then looked at Feiran and Qiya and spoke.

"Mm, I've taken care of things on my end."

Feiran nodded. She took a long look at her suddenly unfamiliar younger brother, then tapped her Smart Watch and selected her car.

Less than a minute later,

a blue supercar raced over and stopped in front of the three of them. Its doors slowly opened upward like a pair of scissors.

The three got into the car.

It started up immediately and sped off along a designated route.

As for what had happened at the scene,

someone would take care of it personally. Feiran had erased the footage from the 360-degree, blind-spot-free VR Cameras so the Security Bureau wouldn't learn that this kind of uncontrollable, superhuman power existed.

The faces of capitalists were more sinister than anyone else's.

"Little brother, you..."

Sitting in her car, Feiran wore a haughty expression, but her face still showed her surprise as she spoke uncertainly.

Qiya, meanwhile, looked at Ye Yun as if he were an Alien.

Tonight, Ye Yun seemed so unfamiliar that his two sisters, who had been by his side for twenty-one years, could hardly believe it.

Was this really their little brother?

Hearing Feiran's question,

Ye Yun's thoughts drifted back to that day twenty-one years ago.

Twenty-one years ago,

he hadn't been from this world—or even this universe. He had been a warrior from another universe.

But during an expedition, an accident had caused a Black Hole to swallow him.

That was right.

He had been swallowed by a Black Hole, and that was how he'd ended up in this world, in this universe.

When he arrived in this world, he discovered that he had returned to an infant's state. Someone had abandoned him by the sea—or, to put it another way, he had traveled through the Black Hole into this world, and the Black Hole had reduced him to the size of a child.

At the time, he hadn't known he'd traveled to another world. He could only observe it anxiously through the eyes of a child.

Later,

a kindhearted man found him and took him home to raise him. That kindhearted man was his current father, Professor Hu Ming.

He'd also gained two older sisters.

Those two sisters were, of course, Feiran and Qiya.

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

But he discovered

that this universe was completely different from the one he came from.

This universe had none of the beings whose names resounded across the cosmos, beings who could reshape the course of an entire civilization.

But when he turned eighteen,

he discovered that this world contained names hidden deep in his memories.

For example: the lofty King of the Gods, the Demon Queen who controlled space and time, and others.

But

those names came from an anime, a Chinese-made series developed from a MOBA game that had once taken the world by storm.

After learning the truth,

he had almost begun to doubt that any of it was real.

After all,

Sacred Kaisha, Heavenly King Hexi, and Death God Karl were all beings renowned across the cosmos, yet they existed only in an anime.

It was truly hard to believe.

But

not long afterward,

he encountered something that, in the words of Earth's web novels,

would be called his cheat.

A damaged Mysterious Small Tower that he could freely enter and leave through his own body.

He had even used the Mysterious Small Tower to travel to another world once.

He changed the plot of that world, which led to his return to the world he now inhabited.

A corner missing from the Mysterious Small Tower seemed to have been partially restored because of his journey. What was more, a powerful energy had washed through his body, unlocking roughly one percent of the Super Gene sealed within him by the Black Hole.

Because of that, he learned that it was his physical body—not his soul—that had traveled to this world, unlike what was described in novels.

The Super Gene was inside his body. That explained everything!

He had also come to understand something that seemed impossible to comprehend, yet had to be understood.

The world you lived in might be real to you, but in another world, it could be an anime, a movie, or a novel.

Sometimes, he wondered whether he, too, was living inside an anime, a movie, or a novel.

Now, almost three years had passed since he traveled to another world, but the Little Tower he could summon with ease had shown no sign of activity.

He couldn't push open the Bronze door inside the tower as easily as he had the first time. It seemed the tower was missing something important.

Ye Yun's wish was simple: he hoped he could use the Mysterious Small Tower to return to the world he had originally come from.

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

Otherwise,

given the Black Hole's nature of tearing apart anything that entered it, he would have been broken down into particles long ago.