Chapter 1: The Keeper of the Gate
Lu Cheng stared at the back of his left hand, where a golden-yellow diamond-shaped crystal was embedded.
The crystal seemed as if it were embedded in Lu Cheng’s hand. To remove it, Lu Cheng would need to make several cuts with a scalpel.
The crystal had appeared on the back of Lu Cheng’s hand that morning.
Regarding the addition of a symbiotic crystal to his hand, Lu Cheng remained quite calm because there had been so many strange occurrences recently.
A few days ago, the newspaper reported that a resurrected pterosaur had been captured along the coastline, but the photo was very blurry, and many people thought it was just hype.
Lu Cheng did not believe it was hype. The ‘pterosaur’ they captured was not a prehistoric resurrected dinosaur but a monster from another world.
It was noon now, and Lu Cheng had spent four hours understanding the crystal’s function, which was to open a portal to another world.
Lu Cheng tightly grasped the back of his left hand, and the crystal emitted a blinding light. A glowing arc appeared on the wall in front of him.
The wall’s surface gradually disappeared, replaced by a scene of a forest.
Lu Cheng reached out and lightly touched the surface, which rippled as if it were a liquid. He threw a cup into the portal.
The cup passed through the plane and landed in the soil of the forest on the other side.
The other side of the plane was another world, as confirmed by the two moons in the sky.
Lu Cheng opened his fingers again, and the portal to the other world vanished instantly.
One might ask… if one had the ability to travel between Earth and another world, what should Lu Cheng do?
Bring things from the other world to Earth for sale? Or embark on an adventure in the other world?
No… such trivial matters could not satisfy Lu Cheng!
While Lu Cheng was deep in thought, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open.
Three men in suits and sunglasses walked into Lu Cheng’s room.
The three men stood in front of Lu Cheng, staring at him with blank expressions.
They exuded an indescribable murderous intent, as if they would pull out a gun from their suits and shoot Lu Cheng in the next second.
As the first person on Earth with superpowers, it made sense that Lu Cheng would be captured and dissected after being discovered.
But…
“Why are you only coming now?” Lu Cheng asked the leading man in the suit in a low voice.
“Sorry, Mr. Lu… you know the traffic here; there was some congestion,” the man in the suit replied.
“Forget it, did you bring what I asked for?”
Lu Cheng extended his hand towards one of the men in suits. The three men exchanged glances through their sunglasses. One of them took out a plastic bag covered in water droplets and handed it to Lu Cheng.
“We’re out of meat buns. Do you want pickled vegetable buns instead?” he asked nervously.
“That’s fine too. Do you want some?”
Lu Cheng reached into the plastic bag, took out a pickled vegetable bun, and began eating it while glancing at the three men.
They all shook their heads in unison.
“Alright, it’s about time; they should be waiting anxiously.”
Lu Cheng continued eating the pickled vegetable bun and walked towards the door.
Currently, Lu Cheng was at a research facility, and his situation here was somewhat complicated.
“Since I came into contact with those strange creatures, I’ve gained some unusual abilities. Arrange a physical examination for me.”
Lu Cheng walked down a steel corridor towards the depths. On the other side of the heavy bulletproof glass next to him was an anatomy room, where the corpse of a giant pterosaur lay.
“Mr. Lu, we’ve heard you have further plans?” one of the men in suits following Lu Cheng asked.
“Yes… I have a method to access these pterosaur worlds. Gather some personnel and prepare to explore the other world.”
Lu Cheng finished the pickled vegetable bun, threw the remaining plastic bag into the trash can, and walked towards the central control room of the underground base.
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