The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 245 - 167 Loner

Chapter 245: Chapter 167 Loner

Zhou Yuan quickly walked toward the house and pushed the door.

The door was locked from the inside, and even with Zhou Yuan’s current strength, he couldn’t easily budge it, as if it were a welded iron plate.

Not only that, but if one looked closely, they would find that the windows of the house were also nailed shut with wooden boards from the inside, sealing off all possible entry or exit routes.

These locking methods were not as simple as they seemed. In fact, they all contained powerful reality-distorting abilities, and the door couldn’t be opened using ordinary means.

Zhou Yuan used the last bit of his experience card time to utilize his reality-distorting ability to undo the restriction on the door. With a click, the door automatically unlocked.

He opened the door, and the scene inside the house was fully revealed.

Unlike the desolate and bleak outside, the cabin was filled with warmth. A fire burned in the fireplace, and wood crackled and popped.

A soft, comfortable large sofa was placed in the living room, and a paused game screen was displayed on an oversized LCD TV.

Next to the TV stood a small fridge for storing drinks, and beside the fridge was a shelf filled with all kinds of snacks.

It was simply a dream house for a recluse.

In front of a long desk used for work, a chair lay overturned, and a curly-haired man lay unconscious on the floor. He looked haggard and pale, his lips devoid of color, and he had heavy dark circles under his eyes and particularly greasy hair.

A flame burned on the desk.

It was an open notebook, filled with messy writing and many blacked-out sections. The latest page had a large hole torn through it, completely blocking the continuation of the story.

The paper quickly turned to ash in the flames. Within seconds, the notebook was reduced to a pile of charred remnants.

[A certain author’s novel contained plots that would manifest in the real world, so he was targeted by an evil force. For a long time, this author had been trapped in this place, fighting against the evil power and trying various means to seek help from the outside world. Now, he was finally rescued.]

This person should be the author named "Aio."

Zhou Yuan went up to check Aio’s body and was shocked to find that this was just an ordinary person with no extraordinary abilities!

No... Calling him ordinary wasn’t quite right, because Aio was clearly a powerful reality distorter, yet his body was no different from a regular person’s. He was in poor health and had a bunch of occupational diseases.

Cervical spondylosis, tenosynovitis, periarthritis of the shoulder, lumbar disc herniation, lumbago, blurred vision, osteoporosis, anxiety, neurasthenia...

He was even more fragile than a frail college student.

Not dude, how are you so weak but have such a powerful reality-distorting ability?

Zhou Yuan muttered to himself as he took a first aid potion from his backpack and injected it into Aio’s neck.

The golden life potion slowly flowed in, and Aio’s pale complexion visibly regained its color, and the dark circles under his eyes gradually lightened and disappeared.

Zhou Yuan manipulated dark matter to move Aio to the sofa to rest.

Raven walked in from outside with graceful steps and glanced at the burned remains on the table: "This place was really hard to find. If I hadn’t torn through the narrative, it would have taken me at least half a year to find."

A True God would take half a year to find? Zhou Yuan asked in surprise, "What is this place?"

"It’s a small, hidden, difficult-to-detect, and hard-to-enter independent dimension,"

Raven explained. "It wasn’t created by Aio or that Evil God but is an abnormal space born from the transcendent surge. Every so often, the lakebed below will open a tunnel connecting to another world, and some unlucky ones will be transported here."

"But now this place has been ruined by that Evil God."

"Uh..." Aio groaned from the sofa and opened his eyes, his head splitting with pain.

"You’re awake. The surgery was very successful. You’re a girl now," Raven said with a mischievous smile.

Then, Zhou Yuan witnessed an unbelievable scene.

In a blink, Aio really turned into an intellectual beauty with large round glasses!

Aio’s consciousness gradually cleared. As he groaned, he noticed that his voice sounded different. Dazed, he touched himself and his previously squinted eyes suddenly widened.

He completely awoke in an instant.

"Where’s my brother?" she exclaimed in shock.

Raven quickly raised her hands in defense, "It’s not my fault, don’t blame me. You transformed yourself."

Aio quickly closed his eyes and exerted himself, smoothly turning back into a male.

"Phew." He let out a long breath, scared to death.

Zhou Yuan watched from the side in shock because this wasn’t some gender transformation Aoneng Power but a reality-distorting ability!

Just now, Aio heard Raven’s words and subconsciously thought he had turned into a girl, so he really did turn into a girl...

The reality-distorting ability was terrifying!

Aio shook his head, his expression serious and with a hint of fear, and asked, "That Evil God outside...?"

"It’s already been dealt with," Zhou Yuan replied.

Aio let out a long sigh of relief, visibly loosening up as if a thousand-pound burden had been lifted from his shoulders.

"Hahaha... It’s finally dead! Hahahaha! Hahaha... ugh... ugh ugh ugh..."

Aio first laughed, then suddenly began to cry loudly. The experiences during this period had undoubtedly been an excruciating torment for him, leaving a deep, lasting trauma.

Whenever he recalled those days and nights, he couldn’t conceal the pain and struggle deep inside, feeling the urge to cry his heart out.

Zhou Yuan and Raven waited for him to cry for a while. After his emotions calmed down, Zhou Yuan finally spoke:

"The cause of all this was you and that Evil God falling into this abnormal dimension together, right?"

"Yes." Aio nodded while wiping his tears. "I was born a reality distorter, with abilities powerful enough to affect the entire world, so it wanted to seize my strength.

From the moment I entered, I started fighting against it, enduring for who knows how many months...

After all, I’m just an ordinary person and couldn’t hold on for long, so I tried every possible way to seek help from the outside world, but the Evil God was slowly corroding me too.

While I was calling for help, it used my power to set up its own arrangements."

Zhou Yuan chimed in, "Like Cyber Demon Bill?"

"That’s right."

Aio took a deep breath, calming himself down, and said slowly, "In actual history, Bill didn’t exist as an abnormal creature. The Evil God used my reality-distorting ability to create this anomaly in the past timeline.

It let him lurk in the internet world to quickly grow himself, eventually using certain methods to ascend from data life to physical life, and by then, the Evil God would occupy Bill’s body and escape this abnormal dimension, descending into your world."

"Wait..."

Zhou Yuan paused, "Our world?"

"Didn’t I just tell you this place connects to other dimensions?" Raven knocked on Zhou Yuan’s forehead.

Zhou Yuan rubbed his forehead in pain, "Who knew you were referring to parallel worlds when you said other dimensions? I thought you meant abnormal planes."

Aio spoke bitterly at this moment:

"Actually, not only did that Evil God come from a parallel world, but so did I.

And I’m the last person from our universe."