Chapter 3: The Multiverse System (Part 1)

  Night.

  Lin Xiao finally relaxed after a refreshing bath, but as soon as he returned to his room, a wave of intense fatigue washed over him.

  He fell onto the bed, covering himself with a thin blanket. If he didn't cover up, he'd catch a chill. Lin Xiao liked to sleep while holding something, which was kind of like what girls did? So after finding out that only girls liked to hold stuffed animals or pillows when they slept, he never told anyone about his secret again. He also stopped hugging pillows or stuffed animals and just hugged the blanket instead, feeling more at ease this way.

  In fact, Lin Xiao, who had read a lot of psychology books, was very clear that the reason he did this was because he lacked a sense of security and felt confused and fearful about the unknown darkness. Holding onto something just to feel its texture could make him not feel confused and fearful, and his mind would be completely calm.

  He squeezed a section of the quilt together and hugged it in his arms, Lin Xiao fell asleep quickly, in his sleep, he seemed to have dreamed of something happy, a sweet smile suddenly appeared on his calm face.

  ……

  At midnight.

  The time had reached 2:30 in the morning.

  Inside Fengyuan residential area, except for those street lamps still shining, almost all households in each unit had already gone to bed with their lights out.

  Suddenly, a blinding flash of lightning flashed across the sky, followed by a deafening "boom" and countless pea-sized raindrops, as thick, dark clouds descended upon Yujiang City.

  The rain grew heavier and heavier, accompanied by flashes of lightning and thunder, adding a touch of eeriness to the city.

  "Crack! Boom!"

  Inside the room.

  Lin Xiao's two hands tightly grasped the thin quilt, his forehead was full of sweat beads the size of millet grains, and a drop of water filled the entire forehead, the cooling mat had already been soaked in a large area.

  "Whoosh!"

  A loud ripping sound of fabric being torn apart echoed through the room, and Lin Xiao suddenly sat up straight.

  His eyes were wide open, 'Boom!' A burst of lightning flashed across the sky outside the window, illuminating Lin's pale face in the room.

  His lips trembled slightly, and big drops of sweat fell from his cheeks, dripping onto the bed and the quilt.

  "Crack! Boom!"

  Another flash of lightning tore through the sky, bringing with it a deafening crash.

  Lin Xiao suddenly looked out of the window, stretched out his right hand, and then his pupils suddenly contracted.

  "Is... is this really true?"

  His eyes were fixed tightly on a ring on his right index finger, his lips trembling.

  The ring looked very ancient, with a dark blue hue, and as the lightning flashed outside the window, Lin Xiao seemed to see a fleeting spark of electricity on the ring.

  He was so scared that he immediately stretched out his hand to take off the ring and throw it away, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get the ring off his finger. Even the skin on his index finger was rubbed red and almost broken, but the ring remained still.

  "It can't be taken off." Lin Xiao furrowed his brow, his eyes fixed intently on the ring on his finger.

  Out of nowhere, Lin Xiao suddenly had an idea in his mind.

  "Perhaps this ring is the catalyst for me to become stronger!"

  ……

  Lin Xiao had already forgotten how he fell asleep again last night.

  He didn't get out of bed until almost 11 o'clock in the middle of the night, and after stumbling out of the room, Lin Xiao subconsciously looked at his right index finger. As soon as he did, all his sleepiness vanished into thin air.

  The ring is still here!

  “……”

  Lin Xiao's footsteps paused for a moment before he looked away and walked calmly into the bathroom.

  After washing up, when he came out, he greeted his grandfather who was just about to go to the toilet, and Lin Xiao returned to his own room.

  He closed the door, pulled out the chair in front of the desk and sat down with a plop.

  Snap!

  He raised his hand and Lin Xiao looked at the ring on his index finger, then turned his back and tapped the ring on the table, making a crisp sound.

  "Xiao, dinner is ready, come out and eat quickly."

  The sound of her grandmother's voice came from outside the door, and Lin Xiao hastily turned around and responded with a "yes".

  "Alright, grandma, I'll be right there!"

  Lin Xiao shook his head as he glanced at the ring on his finger again.

  "Ring, ring, if you really have spirituality like what's written somewhere, can you answer me?"

  The ring didn't react for half a day...

  Lin Xiao bitterly smiled and silently cursed himself as an 'idiot' before standing up and leaving the room.

  ……

  In the following days, Lin Xiao kept studying the ring that suddenly appeared on his finger.

  Recalling that night's dream, in the dream, it seemed that a certain divine realm was invaded by a large number of demons, and the divine realm collapsed. The endless demons occupied the highest throne in the world. In the dream, he saw the endless demons attacking a god shrouded in white light like a wave, but the god was incredibly powerful, facing the army of billions of demons with ease, and with a swing of his hand, the golden sword in his hand took the lives of one demon after another.

  However, the powerful heavenly god still fell before the army of devils. It was at this moment that Lin Xiao in his dream surprisingly discovered that the heavenly god seemed to have glanced over at him, and he could even see the color of surprise in the heavenly god's eyes.

  Just as Lin Xiao was amazed at the realism of this dream, a burst of light suddenly shot out from the hand of the heavenly god, and in Lin Xiao's terrified eyes, it entered his body.

  After he woke up, he found the ring on his finger that couldn't be taken off no matter what. His intuition told him that this ring would be his only hope to find Iyun again. So Lin Xiao almost forgot to eat and sleep while studying it, but unfortunately, the results were meager, except for discovering that it was almost indestructible, there were no other discoveries.

  In this way, half a month passed, and Lin Xiao's research on the ring never stopped for a moment.

  Lin Xiao was typing away on his computer, trying to find some unexpected good methods online to test the ring.

  Suddenly, Lin Xiao felt a sharp pain in his right index finger, and before he could look down to see what was happening, he felt the sky spinning around him, everything went black, and he lost consciousness.

  "Ding! Level 1 charging complete..."

  "Compatible host organism detected, initialization sequence commencing..."

  "Warning! Target organism unconscious. Warning! Target organism unconscious. ……"

  "Initiate secondary filing and conduct initial first-stage authentication..."

  "Ding! Authentication successful"

  A series of sounds echoed in Lin Xiao's room, but Lin Xiao, who had already fallen into a coma, didn't hear anything at all.