Gatekeeper Of All Realms Chapter 2

He didn’t know how long he had been asleep.

He had been working overtime at his unit, and overcome by fatigue, he fell asleep. When he opened his eyes again, he had become another person.

A junior high school student named Shen Ye.

From what he gathered, this junior high school student had died from a high fever.

He had taken his place.

This matter should have been told to the student’s parents.

But—

He had already arrived in this world and had become this junior high school student named Shen Ye.

If he were to make a fuss now, and ended up in a mental hospital, his whole life would be over.

Besides.

Day and night, he had experienced meticulous care.

Their tired and heartbroken expressions, their red eyes from crying, and their constant companionship, all evoked a strange feeling in him.

After all, in his previous life, he was an orphan and had never experienced such parental care.

Therefore—

Let’s just leave it at that.

—Since he had come, he would make the best of it.

“You look much better. The doctor said you’re improving.”

His mother, Zhao Xiaoshang, held a bowl of soup, scooped a spoonful, and brought it to his lips.

The soup was quickly finished.

Zhao Xiaoshang stood up to wash the bowl.

Shen Ye was left alone in the room.

He lay silently on the hospital bed, reached out, and pulled the backpack from the chair next to the bed onto the bed.

He opened the backpack.

There were four books that caught his eye:

“Strength Training”,

“Stature”,

“Mental Power启蒙 (Enlightenment)”,

“Language and Scientific Knowledge”.

—and a pile of exercise books.

This world was completely different from Blue Star, and the content of the exams students faced was also vastly different.

“Xiaoye.”

His mother’s voice suddenly rang out.

Shen Ye turned his head to look, only to see a deep worry on his mother’s face.

“We missed the first exam. If you really can’t get over it, just stay home and don’t take it.”

“Later, we’ll ask Grandpa for help to arrange a job for you.”

She said cautiously.

Giving up the high school entrance exam…

Shen Ye closed his eyes and thought about it.

The first subject of the high school entrance exam was “Strength Training,” which specifically tested students’ physical fitness.

Students often injured their muscles and bones in this exam.

So after this exam, students would have seven days for review and rest, and then came the second exam—

“Stature.”

Which was actually about movement and footwork.

He had missed the “Strength Training” exam, and there were only three days left until the second exam, “Movement and Footwork.”

His previous self had always had good grades, ranking first or second in school.

He was full of aspirations for high school.

But now, he had suddenly fallen ill and missed one high school entrance exam score. Even if he got high scores in the subsequent exams, he wouldn’t be able to get into a good school.

This blow was not insignificant for a fifteen-year-old boy.

That’s why his mother made such a suggestion.

But…

He wasn’t as fragile as she imagined.

“Mom, are you afraid I’ll overthink it?” Shen Ye smiled.

Zhao Xiaoshang gently held his hand, wanting to say something but hesitating.

“Don’t worry, even if I can’t get into a key high school, I’ll still take the exam—I want to continue studying, even if it’s the worst school,” Shen Ye said.

Zhao Xiaoshang let out a long sigh of relief, hugged him, and whispered:

“I’ll go find your dad right away. We’ll find a way to get you a Marrow Replenishing Pill to make sure you’re in the best condition for the exam.”

With that, she hurriedly left the room.

Shen Ye was left alone in the room.

He lowered his head and silently looked at the books in his hand.

The Marrow Replenishing Pill was a very expensive medicine.

To help him recover, his parents had indeed put all their effort into it.

A warm current flowed in his heart.

This feeling seemed to be residual from his original self, and yet it also seemed to have just arisen in his own heart.

Never mind, he should focus on studying.

Shen Ye opened the book “Stature” and read it carefully.

The subjects taught in junior high were all about building a foundation, and at the same time, they also covered knowledge about the world.

For example, the fourth book was “Language and Scientific Knowledge.”

If he could pass the high school entrance exam, he would have hope of learning more profound and advanced cultivation techniques in high school.

He had finally come to this world, should he really just find any job and live an ordinary life?

No way.

He had to go to high school!

Shen Ye secretly made up his mind.

Suddenly.

A voice sounded in his ear:

“I found you.”

The voice came abruptly, as if someone was standing behind him, speaking into his ear.

Shen Ye’s hair stood on end.

“Who!”

He suddenly got up from the bed and looked around.

Everything was quiet as usual.

No one.

No movement.

Nothing.

Damn it, he almost bolted out the door.

Where did that voice come from—

Shen Ye suddenly froze.

At some point, a door stood at the foot of his bed.

This door looked very old, identical to the doors of the hospital rooms.

Looking through the window on the door, he could only see darkness.

Shen Ye stood frozen in place, his gaze shifting from initial surprise to fear, but soon turning into calm.

“Yes, this is the hospital room door that the original body encountered.”

“…It killed him, and now it wants to deal with me?”

Shen Ye suddenly became angry.

In that world, although he was an orphan, he was at least an atheist born under the red flag and raised in the spring breeze.

He wasn’t even afraid to cross a graveyard alone back then.

However, in this world, there was actually a ghost that dared to pop out and deal with living people?

It wasn’t enough to kill a teenager who was about to take the high school entrance exam; now it put a door here to scare people.

What did it mean?

He had already died once, was he still afraid of them?

—If you want to fight or kill, just come!

He looked left and right, grabbed the table lamp from the bedside table, and rushed to the foot of the bed in three strides, raising the table lamp high with both hands, shouting angrily:

“Playing tricks!”

He kicked open the door, revealing the scene inside.

—Inside the door was a long, dark corridor.

At the end of the corridor, a huge humanoid skeleton, more than four meters long, lay there, eating a bloody corpse.

Hearing the commotion, the skeleton slowly raised its huge skull, and faint ghostly flames flickered in its eye sockets, looking towards Shen Ye.

The disdain on Shen Ye’s face immediately froze.

—He hadn’t expected it to be such a terrifying thing.

Hmph, this kind of thing…

“Excuse the intrusion, I’m truly sorry, I wish you a pleasant meal!”

He flashed a brilliant smile, nodded at the other party, and casually hid the table lamp behind his back.

The skeleton suddenly let out a mournful roar and charged towards him with extreme speed.

Shen Ye slammed the door shut.

Bang!

With a soft sound, the door disappeared.

It disappeared!

Shen Ye’s body went limp, and he collapsed onto the bed.

Damn it.

This world was too dangerous.

Suddenly, Shen Ye noticed faint glimmers of light appearing around him, coalescing in mid-air to form lines of small text:

“Evaluation Slogan obtained from this door opening:”

“Polite Person.”

“Gray Slogan (Damaged).”

“Equipping this Evaluation Slogan grants you the following bonus:”

“When you act politely, others will have a slightly better impression of you.”

“You can keep this Evaluation Slogan and upgrade it in the future; or you can devour this Evaluation Slogan to gain a basic attribute point.”

Shen Ye quickly finished reading and fell into deep thought.

How did this door seem to have become some kind of ability, and it could even give him an evaluation?

Wait!

Could this be his own ability?

Suddenly, that voice floated into Shen Ye’s ear again:

“I finally found you.”

“Who are you?” Shen Ye immediately asked.

“One who has awakened a ‘World Linkage’ type ability, you are so rare, but I finally found you.”

The voice continued: “Listen, I am sleeping deep within the nightmare world. If you can come and rescue me, I will give you a generous reward.”

Shen Ye couldn’t help but shake his head slightly.

Rescue?

He didn’t even dare to go in, let alone rescue someone.

As if knowing what he was thinking, the voice spoke again:

“Don’t be quick to refuse. As a token of good faith, I can tell you something.”

“Now, open your backpack and find that metal sculpture in your pencil case.”

Shen Ye was a little curious, so he directly picked up his backpack, opened the pencil case, and sure enough, he saw a metal-cast sculpture of a one-horned demon in the box.

Something felt wrong.

According to his original self’s memory, he never had such a metal sculpture.

Who put this sculpture in the pencil case?

The voice rang out:

“This is the ‘Cursed Sculpture of the King of Ten Thousand Fallen Demons’.”

“Throughout history, humans have believed it can open up other dimensions, seize the lives and souls of others, and thus enhance its own power.”

“Such events have occurred millions of times, without fail.”

Shen Ye listened carefully and asked:

“Are you saying that someone put this statue in my pencil case to kill me?”

“That’s right, but you didn’t die.”

The voice continued: “What humans don’t know is that although it is incredibly powerful, if it ever fails to claim the life of a target, then all the power it has accumulated will be poured into that target.”

“This power will create an unprecedented new ability for that person.”

“—So you gained the extremely rare ‘World Linkage-type’ ability.”

Shen Ye fell silent.

Actually…

That teenager died too.

It’s just that he seamlessly connected and took over his body.

So, this counts as a bug?

The voice became full of longing:

“Come, human, as you grow stronger, you will surely reach the depths of the nightmare world and free me.”

“I will repay you generously, I promise.”

“What kind of being are you?” Shen Ye asked.

“Inter-dimensional communication has exhausted my power… but I finally remembered you… I will come find you again later.”

The voice grew fainter and fainter, gradually disappearing.

The room fell silent once more.

Shen Ye squatted motionlessly on the bed, his expression somewhat grave.

Me?

Awakened an ability?

He looked at the metal sculpture in his hand again.

He saw that the sculpture had become dull and lusterless, and when he rubbed it with his hand, fine cracks immediately appeared on its surface.

Crash!

The sculpture turned into many碎渣 (shards).

A gust of wind appeared out of nowhere, blowing the shards into dust.

—It was completely gone.

Who exactly wanted to kill Shen Ye?

No way.

He had to quickly improve his strength, at least enough to protect himself!

He looked back at the glowing small words floating in mid-air.

“Polite Person.”

What kind of useless slogan was this? He’d rather use it to increase his own strength.

“Devour.”

Shen Ye murmured in his mind.

The slogan immediately disappeared, replaced by a glowing point.

The light point, suspended in mid-air, circled slightly and then flew into Shen Ye’s body.

—Attribute point.

After an evaluation slogan was devoured, it generated an attribute point that could be used to enhance his basic attributes.

But which attribute should he enhance first?

Shen Ye began to carefully recall some knowledge of this world. UUsanshuNet

Generally, humans possessed five major attributes: strength, agility, mental power, comprehension, and resonance.

What would happen if he added one point to strength?

With a thought, that “light” point immediately transformed into a strength attribute, empowering him.

In an instant.

Shen Ye’s body sank slightly, as if he had become a little more solid.

He picked up the dinner plate from the table and gently squeezed it with both hands.

The iron plate bent slightly.

Two lines of small text appeared in the void:

“Current Strength Level: Normal Adult Male.”

“Your physical fitness barely meets the standard of an adult male. Please continue to work hard.”

Adult male, huh?

This teenager was only fifteen years old, and his body was still weak, yet his strength had been enhanced to such a degree.

Shen Ye’s thoughts shifted.

That “light” point no longer enhanced strength, but was drawn out and invested in agility.

His body felt lighter.

The glowing small words reappeared in the void:

“Congratulations, you have reached the standard of a junior parkour practitioner.”

Shen Ye took a shallow breath, took a slight run, jumped onto the wall, and ran two steps along the wall before landing back on the ground.

—Adding it to agility was also quite strong!

Shen Ye took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and tried to calm his emotions.

Through these two brief attempts, he had understood one thing.

—Attribute points could be withdrawn at any time and then assigned to any other area.

That was the truly terrifying part.

He could instantly transform from a strength-based warrior into an agile assassin!

Things seemed to be getting interesting.