Chapter 1 (1/2)

”There is a meteor shower tonight, it hasn't occurred in a hundred years. I have already talked with a few old classmates and we are going to the suburbs together in order to watch it, are you coming?” At the other end of the microphone came a excited voice.

The young man sitting at the computer desk had the phone lying by his side and had a microphone on his ear. Both of his hands were placed on the screen in front of him. In his right hand he held a pen and he continued to drawing as he spoke. ”The outside is too cold, I'm not going.”

”Thank you for being lazy, why don't you lazy to death?” Their relationship had always been the same as that of brothers. Lu Yuan had therefore not truly been offended by the youth's crude refusal and proposed: ”Well, let me at least take a few pictures for you later.”

Xie Tao responded with a few disinterested ”Mm-s” as the other person continued chatting and waited for the opposite person to hang up first. He then lifted a hand and took the microphone clipped to his ear and put it back on the phone base.

Xie Tao still wanted to continue working for a while, but when his fingers touched the edge of the drawing board, a stream of light glided through the corner of his eye, and then the next second a loud bang shook the tympanic membrane of Xie Tao. He could even feel the impact through his desk's tremors.

A meteor actually crashed in his yard...?

Xie Tao held onto his precious drawing board for a second before turning to look out at yard, he then finally decided to go out and have a look.

Walking downstairs he saw that many of his plants had been shaken by the impact and had fallen down, lying broken on the floor. As he went outside to the small yard he noticed that the potted plants he had planted were almost all the same, but it was too late to feel distressed. Looking around Xie Tao saw hole in the ground not far away, the hole was seemingly giving of a golden glow.

It was already a bit late and the sky had begun to darken, many things will shine will be very conspicuous in the dim environment. Xie Tao thought about going closer to take a better look, however he suddenly saw something float up for the hole, it was a golden glowing ball...

”...” Xie Tao pressed his lips together and subconsciously took a stepped back.

Calm down, as a qualified citizen of the 21st century, he must believe and have faith in science...

However, the power of science obviously can't explain what he currently saw and neither could it save him in this moment. He prepared to run but the floating golden ball almost immediately saw through his intentions.

Just like a bullet, it shoot forward with a speed far too fast for Xie Tao to avoid and in the scene reflected in his eyes, the golden ball got getting bigger and bigger, then it hit him with a flash.

There was no pain, but Xie Tao's vision immediately darkened and fell into darkness.

When he regained consciousness, he found that the surrounding area had become a white space with no end.

Science, from a firm believer to completely giving up.

He looked around. The space seemed very unstable. In the distance, far way, he could see that some of the space has even collapsed and twisted.

He felt that he had encountered a very troublesome thing....

However, once this unscientific reality was accepted, Xie Tao was able to cope with the current situation and turned his gaze to the golden light ball that brought him this space.

He doesn't know if this ball of light is a conscious, but the other party is the only moving object he can touch in this space. Xie Tao can only try to communicate now: ”You...”

”I am Xia Zuo, I am sorry to bring you to this space without greeting you first, but it's only here that I can talk to you.” The voice that sounded directly in his head interrupted what Xie Tao wanted to say. The voice sounded very weak, but did not stop after the first sentence. ”In my world, all the world lines leads to the same ending, even if I go back to the past to make all kinds of different choices, it doesn't matter. I even tried to kill the root cause of the destruction of the world... but the outcome has not changed.”

The other party did not have much time left and despite the confusion of the young person in front of them, they had to rush through all the necessary things. ”The final judgment requires the help of external forces, so I came to this world to find you.”

”This ball of light is my only sense of existence, when reaching the world there, it will give you the final guidance.”

There was absolutely no chance of interjecting. After listening to these few paragraphs, Xie Tao's eyes widen and he knew he had been rushed to the front lines.

Putting science aside, Xie Tao actually understood what the other party said.

To put it simply, the other party wants to stop the destruction of his world, but he can't change the ending, so the he puts the last hope on an external force, a person form another world.

Just like when subtracting 4-3, it is impossible to get 0. It is necessary to add a ”1” in the formula. Xie Tao was now equivalent to this ”1”.

”Then I will answer 'OK'.” The sloppy character of the encounter made Xie Tao sigh and he raised his hand to suppress the restless hair on his head.

Sure enough, he was in trouble, and he still didn't refuse it.

”Just build a link, don't worry. And thank you very much, no matter what the final result is, you will be safe and it will not have much impact on your real life.” There was no time to explain more.

Will not have much impact on your real life... Real life? Capturing the key information in this sentence, Xie Tao wanted to ponder the meaning, but his consciousness was once again moved.

The link was established.

Opening his eyes, Xie Tao immediately took a sharp breath and the cold air seeped into his lungs, cooling him further. Looking around, he found himself lying on the ground, his clothes were very thin, and the back was still attached to the cold winter ground.

His first reaction was to get up and it was first then that Xie Tao was able to observe the surroundings. As expected, the scene was completely unfamiliar to him.

He was in an inaccessible remote alley, it was very narrow and could only let two people walk side by side.

The sky suddenly cast a shadow, he looked up and saw a huge silver-gray starship with a icy metal gleam.

He had really traversed.

The whole world here seemed to be in the high-tech era of a interstellar future. However despite it, the appearance of the buildings were unexpectedly similar to that of his world.

Xie Tao looked at the sky in for a moment, but he quickly adjusted his mind and moved his eyes to the golden ball that was still floating in front of him.