Dad in Danger

"Little Brother? Little Brother?"

Seeing Ye Yun lost in thought, Qiya quickly nudged him, testing with a tentative call.

"What's wrong?" Snapping back to reality, Ye Yun looked at Qiya with confusion as she pushed at him.

"What were you thinking about? Older Sister called you so many times, but you acted like you didn't hear a thing." Qiya stared at him oddly, speaking.

"Nothing, I wasn't thinking about anything."

He shook his head deeply, unwilling to share his secret with these two older sisters.

Because this kind of secret involved things far too important.

"Dad just sent word that something very important has come up at Coast Dock Warehouse No. 2, telling us to come home as soon as possible."

Feiran sat in the Co-pilot Seat, turning to speak to him and Qiya.

"Alright."

Ye Yun looked at the scenery flashing by outside, saying, "I'll leave everything to you. I'll rest for a bit first."

Seeing that Ye Yun hadn't explained the source of his power, Feiran and Qiya weren't the type to insist on digging to the root of things, and they also planned to bury this matter deep in their hearts, telling no one.

As he closed his eyes to feign sleep, he had actually already arrived before a Bronze Portal.

Behind the Bronze Portal.

Was endless darkness, and within that darkness, only a single point of light flickered.

Based on his guess.

This was very likely the world he had experienced three years ago.

The name of that world, he had also looked up in this one.

It was called Citywide Alert, a story about poison gas left behind from Unit 731's human experiments in Malaysia during World War II.

In the course of the protagonist and antagonist's performances, they encountered a few guys who had discovered treasure, then came murder for loot and a search for gold.

In the end, the gold was found, but the protagonist and the antagonist's group were infected by the poison gas.

The protagonist later got into a dispute with the antagonist's group, fell into the water, somehow ended up on a smuggling ship, was thrown into the sea, and thus his mutation reached a state of perfect completion.

The antagonist's group, however, became beings neither human nor ghost, constantly evolving. Gaining immense power, the antagonists started robbing banks, and the story became one of the protagonist fighting against them.

The role Ye Yun played in this movie's plot was that of the antagonist's underling, ultimately joining forces with the main antagonist to kill that righteous character named Sunny.

After that, he felt the call of Little Tower and chose to return at the first opportunity.

That era corresponded to about forty or fifty years ago in this world.

Behind the Bronze Portal.

Was endless darkness, but Ye Yun dared not underestimate that darkness.

Because he guessed that the darkness wasn't true darkness, but rather countless unlit stars.

"Phew."

He took a deep breath, walked toward the bronze door that stood about three zhang and three chi tall, and placed his arm upon it.

What was displayed on it was.

First Tier.

He didn't know if this corresponded to a floor of the tower or to strength—perhaps it encompassed both.

But he just wasn't sure.

He strained to push the bronze door, which seemed to have existed here since the primordial era, only to find that this rust-covered Bronze Portal didn't budge an inch.

Even using all the strength he could muster, there was no way.

"Failed again? Could it be that the world I'm in is also a world from a movie, anime, or novel, and I need to alter its normal course? But where exactly is the protagonist?"

Ye Yun looked dejectedly at the door before him, disappointment filling his eyes as he calmed his mind to think deeply.

If the world he was in.

Was also a world from a movie, anime, or novel, then he had no idea about the plot at all. How was he supposed to handle that?

It was truly a dilemma.

Unfortunately.

All of this.

No one was there to enlighten him.

Or even tell him how to change the world's fate. He could only cross the river by feeling the stones.

After exploring with no results.

He could only withdraw from that cold world.

"Hey, when are you getting a girlfriend? Are you really going to let our Old Hu Family die out without descendants?" Qiya turned to look at Ye Yun, who had opened his eyes, and asked.

"You should worry about yourself first."

He took a deep look at the short-haired tomboy, then closed his own eyes and began to think.

"This station interrupts with breaking news. Two hours ago, a major incident occurred at Green Valley Coast Dock Warehouse No. 2. Intelligent Beings mutated, developing self-aware logic. Under the leadership of the mutated Intelligent Being Jie Xing, a large number of Intelligent Beings began to generate autonomous consciousness and logic, launching an attack on us humans, initiating an intelligent terror strike."

"According to reports from our frontline correspondents, fifty-four high-end specially customized Intelligent Beings, along with a large number of Intelligent Beings, have already escaped into human cities. Citizens are advised to stay safely at home and not move about recklessly, to avoid unnecessary casualties."

Hearing this news.

Ye Yun, who had closed his eyes to think about how to resolve this matter, suddenly opened them.

He seemed to recall someone once saying something.

When all eyes focus on a single project, pushing it to its peak, that is the beginning of disaster—or the breakthrough of existing shackles, reaching another summit?

Since entering the twenty-first century, this world had followed the path of artificial intelligence, and now it was walking the road of Intelligent Beings.

The Intelligent Being project had already reached its peak.

Did this mean...

The true theme of this world lay in these escaped mutated Intelligent Beings?

"Hey, what's that?"

Suddenly.

Qiya seemed to have spotted something incredible, pointing at a fleeting figure on the screen.

"Isn't that the customized Intelligent Being Dad gave me? Is she also..."

Just as Qiya was about to say something, Feiran cut her off: "You have the heart to worry about your customized AIP now, instead of worrying about whether Dad lives or dies?"

"Dad? Isn't Dad at home?"

Qiya said.

Dad was at home; there was no way anything could happen to him.

"I don't know if you're really stupid or just pretending. That transport truck that rammed into us earlier—wasn't it obvious enough?"

Feiran carefully recalled that transport truck, anxiety showing in her eyes as she kept urging the artificial intelligence to drive faster. "Jie Xing was Dad's masterpiece, modeled after God, with an all-around fighting style, and the Spiral Blade reaching supersonic speeds. The only one who could take down Jie Xing is Jie Xing's creator, Professor Hu Ming—that is, our Dad. So tell me, is it possible that Jie Xing went to kill Dad, the one who could deal with him?"

"This... speed up."

Ye Yun, hearing Feiran's analysis, also showed a trace of urgency on his face.

After all.

They had raised him for over twenty years. Even a pet would develop feelings.

Let alone someone like himself, a creature more advanced than a dog.