Portal for Traveling Through the Myriad Realms

Chapter 1

Chapter One: The Flashlight Beam Opens the Gate to All Realms

In the early morning, sunlight streamed into the room through the window.

The room was filled with wisps of smoke, and the air smelled of burning hair.

Niu Bi sat in the corner, still shaken.

"Damn, what a fraud! That was close!"

After a long while, Niu Bi shakily got up, looked at the black stick on the socket that had almost killed him, and was furious.

After graduating from university, Niu Bi worked the night shift at a cake shop in Xiushui County. Since his home was in the suburbs and there were no streetlights on his way home, and his cheap mobile phone battery was not good, he bought a mini rechargeable flashlight on Taobao. As soon as the package arrived, he charged it.

Unexpectedly, sparks flew as soon as it was plugged into the socket, and then it was thrown against the wall by a huge force.

"Terrible review! Terrible review! Terrible review! I want a refund!"

After confirming that he was alright, Niu Bi angrily took several photos of the flashlight that had been burned to a black stick and sent them to customer service.

Niu Bi hadn't even washed his face. He slumped on the old sofa, waiting for customer service to reply. His anger was hard to calm down.

Perhaps due to exhaustion from the night shift, or perhaps due to excessive fright, Niu Bi finally succumbed to physical fatigue and fell into a deep sleep after an unknown period of time.

Niu Bi had a sweet dream. He dreamt that he received guidance from an immortal and rose to prominence. He quit his job at the cake shop and was no longer a miserable laborer who was controlled and scolded by others.

He started a company, ran a business, amassed a fortune, entered the Hurun Rich List, was surrounded by beautiful women of all types, owned limited-edition luxury cars, mansions, and a private jet...

All past regrets have been made up for, and all unfulfilled wishes have been fulfilled.

"Dreams are often beautiful, but reality is often harsh..."

As darkness fell, Niu Bi woke up, looked out the window, and smiled bitterly. His dream clearly reflected his inner desires.

Who doesn't want a good material life?

Surrounded by attendants and appearing prominent in public?

But so what?

A penniless guy with no job, living in three cement houses left by his deceased grandfather, can only hope to work hard and eventually marry a nice wife and have children.

"I don't want to think about this anymore, time to go to the night shift!"

Niu Bi shook off the unrealistic thoughts in his mind, got up, put on his clothes, and prepared to wash up.

"This...crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, it looks like an Indian..."

Looking at his face, now completely blackened, Niu Bi felt like crying. The electric shock was terrifying; it was like walking through the gates of hell. He never wanted to experience it again in his life.

"Damn customer service, they're not even replying to my messages!"

After washing up, Niu Bi turned on his phone, sent more than a dozen angry question marks, locked the door and prepared to go to work. Seeing the charred flashlight still in the socket, he pulled off the switch and prepared to throw it away.

"Huh? It was burned to a black stick, but now it's completely intact? This...?" Niu Bi pulled out the flashlight and found that it was a brand new flashlight, with no trace of the charred black stick.

Niu Bi scratched his scorched hair, then looked at the black stick in his hand. Am I dreaming?

"It still works? It seems a little different from this morning!"

Niu Bi subconsciously turned on the switch, and the flashlight actually lit up. At the same time, he found that the flashlight was very heavy and had become extremely dark. He casually shone the light on the wall of his house.

"The light from this flashlight is quite peculiar; it looks like a rectangular door!"

Niu Bi's eyes lit up when he saw a rectangular halo, 2 meters high and 1 meter wide, appearing on the cement wall. This rectangular light was somewhat like a portal in a game, with white light spots spreading out from the edges of the light, making it look like a dream.

What surprised Niu Bi even more was that there was actually an image inside the rectangular aperture.

It was an empty space where no one could be seen.

Beneath a large locust tree, a gaunt old dog squinted its eyes; further away, a grove of ornamental trees...

The scene was so vivid that the dog in it even wagged its tail.

"Projecting a movie? ...Did the seller send me a mini projector as a flashlight?"

Looking at the scene inside the light gate on the wall, Niu Bi's heart stirred.

Projectors are extremely expensive, and businesses wouldn't do business at a loss, so why do they do it?

Niu Bi examined it for a long time and found that the halo projection door on the wall moved as the flashlight shone.

"Meow!"

A stray cat suddenly appeared under the halo gate.

"Hmph!"

Niu Bi paused, moved the flashlight beam to the cat, and tried to shoo it away.

Whoosh!

The halo gate rippled like water on a lake, and the startled stray cat actually darted into the gate, crossed the locust tree, and ran into the distance!

"This...isn't this a projected movie?"

Niu Bi was a little confused. How did the wildcat get into the image projected by the flashlight?

Am I seeing things?