In a vast forest, green leaves swayed gently in the wind. The breeze was soft, and birds were chirping, making the scene look like something from a fairy tale.But that was about to change.
Shake… shake…
The entire forest began to tremble as if an earthquake was coming. Trees rustled violently, and birds flew into the sky to escape the shaking. Leaves from the trees and plants fell everywhere. Even the animals living underground crawled out and ran, while some only peeked from their holes before retreating back inside, hoping it would protect them.The shaking did not stop for even a second. It continued for almost a full minute before finally coming to a halt.
The trees became still. The ground stopped shaking. A strange silence filled the forest, an eerie atmosphere settling over everything.It lasted for a moment, then the blue sky above suddenly turned purple, not the whole sky, but a circular area about one thousand meters wide directly over the forest.
In this purple sky, cracks began to appear.Crack… crack…
Thin spiderweb-like lines spread across the purple circle until the entire area was covered in cracks. The cracking noise was faint, barely noticeable at first. Then, with a sudden burst, the sky split open, creating a massive portal.Inside the portal, swirling purple energy moved like a storm, making everything look gloomy and unreal.
Then a voice screamed out from the sky.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuu!"
Something shot out of the portal, like a purple comet, and crashed into the ground with a loud thud.The object glowed with a blinding purple light, making it hard to see what had landed. Slowly, the light faded and revealed a man in his mid twenties, about twenty five years old. He had purple hair with streaks of black, and star shaped patterns inside his pupils that looked both majestic and unique.
He wore white and gold clothing, futuristic and ancient at the same time. His clothes were loose, resembling those from cultivation novels, but with small blinking lights that flashed every few seconds.As the last of the light vanished, his handsome face became visible. He looked majestic, yet also looked like he had just come out of a battle.
The moment he landed, he slowly stood up. He opened his star like eyes and looked around. The first thing he noticed was that he was in a forest filled with green leaves and a gentle breeze. Then he looked up at the sky, where a massive hole almost one thousand meters wide was torn open.The moment he looked at it, the portal began to close. Within seconds, the tear in the sky sealed shut and the sky returned to normal blue.Other than the man standing on the ground, nothing else in the forest seemed unusual anymore.
The man sighed and shook his hands. As he moved, his hair and clothes shifted gently.
Then he closed his eyes, placed his palm in front of his forehead, and muttered,
"Finally I am back. All this waiting, all this time just for this. But it was worth it. I am finally immortal."
He began to laugh."Hahahaha, hahaha, hahaha, hahaha!"
He clenched his fist, and the moment he did, all the trees around him exploded outward like a nuclear blast. An area of nearly four hundred meters became completely empty, leaving behind a crater that looked like a meteor had fallen.
"Man, I am finally back to the real world. I don't know how much time I spent inside the void, but I don't think that much time has passed."
This man's name was Rex Zeno, the last of the Zeno race.
"Hmm, I just landed here, so I don't really know what happened to my own world. Is this my world or a different one?""But I can tell this is not the home I remember. My real world had a red sun and red soil."
He crouched down, grabbed a handful of sand, and let it fall slowly through his fingers. It was grey, not red.He sighed and muttered,
"This is not my world, but it is also not the one where I was previously."
He dropped the remaining sand and whispered, "Just where the fuck am I?"
He looked at the yellow sun in the distance, then slowly lay down on the distorted ground, staring into the sky in a daze, lost in deep thought.