Chapter 15: Twin Worlds

In the bright living room, Fang Can stared with wide eyes at everything before him.

Everything was so familiar; it was exactly the villa he had lived in for several years, with not a single change in its furnishings.

'I actually came back again?'

Incredulous, Fang Can's gaze turned to the television before him; in the lower-left corner broadcasting the news, the time was currently displayed.

【Year 136 of Tianqi, December 1st, 03:45】

'December 1st.' Fang Can instinctively covered his face.

Because if there was no mistake with this time, having spent seven days in the other world, this world had roughly fallen into a state of suspension.

'What is this situation?' Fang Can turned his head, his gaze falling on the floor-to-ceiling window beside him.

In the mirror, a black-haired ancient-dressed beautiful youth dressed in black and red stared with wide eyes.

If it weren't that his power hadn't vanished and his clothes hadn't changed, he would have thought everything from the previous seven days was a dream.

'That is to say, I truly traveled through and then traveled back again.' Accompanying this thought, several notions surged into Fang Can's heart:

'Will there be another travel through? If so, when? How do I explain traveling back after several days to the Tiger Demon Gate, or does it mean that while I am here, everything in the other world is suspended?'

At this moment, Fang Can's brain was in chaos; the sudden travel had thrown all his plans into disarray. He stepped back several paces and sat on the sofa, glancing at the news on the television before him while thinking.

On the news, a host in a suit and leather shoes spoke seriously to the camera:

'Only a few weeks remain until the Seventh National Carnival. The people are paying close attention to the content of this carnival; at that time, we expect...'

'I almost forgot about this.' Fang Can lay on his side, propping his head with his palm, thinking in his heart.

The so-called 'Seventh Evil Elimination Plan' was a proposal carried out seven years ago.

To reduce the people's increasingly negative emotions, the superpowered individuals at the top conducted a questionnaire survey among the citizens.

As for the questionnaire topic, it was to hold a one-day ultimate carnival in a city every year.

And the content of the carnival, ranging from bloody trials of criminals at the top to the legalization of an entire city at the bottom; at that time, the whole city would be livestreamed throughout, 堪称 a paradigm of entertainment to death.

As for why such an absurd questionnaire could be passed back then, Fang Can could not understand it either, and could only attribute it to the fact that this nation built by superpowered individuals had the right to be willful.

Anyway, the National Carnival has now passed seven years; every selected city became chaotic on the second day and took years to recover.

The reason for this is that the participants in the game included not only the locals of the city but also lower-class people transported from other cities.

For example, students in the bottom 1% of the national exam scores, criminals from various prisons, troublemakers who clashed with upper-level superpowered individuals, and fun-seekers who voluntarily signed up from all over the country.

'I just don't know where the selected city is this year? It's so hard to guess.' Fang Can tilted his head, feeling somewhat expectant about that unlucky city.

After all, he was actually half a fun-seeker himself, paying close attention to the annual program; he had even scrolled through the ranking of stunts at least twice.

And just as he was guessing, those superpowered old men he thought of had their attention captured by the disturbance inside the experimental base.

Inside the Longyin Base underground in the suburbs of City A, an eighteen-year-old youth wearing a golden-yellow tight uniform, with a red cape hanging behind his shoulders and a huge 'F' chest imprint on his chest, walked into the modernized experimental base.

Before him were scientific researchers wearing cleanroom suits; from the hurried steps of these people as they walked, one could see the urgency in their hearts.

And upon seeing the young man in the golden uniform, the scientific researchers all stopped their steps in unison, their faces filled with tension.

They all recognized this superpowered youth who frequently appeared on screens to give speeches.

His codename was F Superman, the full name being 【Fuckyou Superman】; the abilities displayed to the outside world were super strength, super defense, super speed, super vision...

Looking at these people, the youth's expression was cold, and his tone was faint as he said: 'Hurry up and get someone suitable to talk to me; don't waste my time. Report the situation quickly.'

Following his urging, after a few scientific researchers exchanged glances, an old man stepped out from the crowd.

After organizing his language, the old man briefly said: 'Commander, just now, a huge explosion of space-time energy was simultaneously detected in all thirty-seven bases across our nation.'

'Is there a problem with this?'

F Superman frowned and said: 'Didn't this kind of space-time energy explode every few days before? You even speculated that every time it exploded, the entire world was stopped in time for a period?'

Facing the youth's questioning, the old man briefly said: 'This explosion is completely different from the past; in the past, the energy tides of the explosion uniformly covered the entire planet and even the universe.'

'But this time, the energy tides are gathered together and scattered across the country, as if hundreds of national-level space-time ability users activated their abilities at the same moment.'

'So?' the youth raised an eyebrow.

'I guess people from another world have attacked.' The old man said seriously, which made the youth burst out laughing:

'Don't tell me you are still researching the theory of twin worlds.'

'What two worlds' time is like interlocking gears, the gear teeth are time, the current node is the tangent point of interlocking, and other nonsense about one side being suspended while the other flows; this is simply more absurd than the multiverse theory in novels.'

Completely ignoring the old man's ugly face, after laughing for quite a while, the youth waved his hand and said:

'Alright, you said there are hundreds of places with dense space-time energy tides across the country, right? Are there any energy tides located in the wasteland outside the cities? I'll go take a look to see what's around.'

'Yes, Commander.' The old man nodded dejectedly, then immediately had a subordinate scientific researcher report a location of an energy tide.

As the location was reported, a gust of wild wind swept past, and only a large pit remained where the youth had originally stood.

In its place, a two-meter-wide large hole broke through above, leading straight to the surface.

Looking at the sunlight shooting out from outside the hole, the old man sighed lightly, having no way to deal with the personalities of these superpowered individuals who stood so high above.

New Nation, a country built by superpowered individuals after the Great Cataclysm, where all power at the top is held by superpowered individuals.

As long as one reveals the identity of a superpowered individual, they are divided into six levels: Township, County, Prefecture, City, State, and Nation, according to their abilities.

And even the weakest Township-level ability user who can only make a small flame completely crushes ordinary millionaires in terms of privileges.

In this country, or rather the current whole world, superpowered individuals constitute another high-level classification independent of wealth, appearance, and technology.

And that F Superman just now was a prestigious State-level ability user among them; a mere glare from an ordinary person would be enough to exterminate an entire family.

(End of Chapter)