Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 71: Shine Metropolitan

"Is this Earth?" Adrian's voice softly asked next to my ear.

After crossing the "bridge" connecting two whole worlds, when I opened my eyes again, the scene in front of me felt very familiar.

"That's right! Once we walk out of this room, we can see what's outside!" I nodded and pointed to the open door not far away.

The reason it felt familiar was because the other end of the passage was actually in a huge room exactly the same as this one. Both were made of steel, mainly to hide the portal behind them.

Even though the portal took up a lot of space, there were still piles of supplies in the corners of the room. Some seemed ready to be sent from Earth to the other world, while others had just arrived and hadn't been moved yet.

Since it was a busy time, transport vehicles kept coming and going through the door, which made it easy for Adrian and me to leave. Only after we fully walked out did we see clearly where we were.

We were in a very big open area, but since they just started fixing it up not long ago, there were still signs of ruins around. Further down the street, a row of buildings I knew very well suddenly appeared.

It was Aurora Entertainment!

Of course, it should be called the "former" Aurora Entertainment now. Even though the scenery nearby had changed a lot, I could still make out that we were standing near the KTV where we had our class reunion before.

Aurora Entertainment used to be an entertainment center in the suburbs of my city, with food, fun, and shopping all in one place. KTVs were of course part of it.

I couldn't quite remember the name of that KTV anymore. But one thing was clear - it had been completely destroyed by the portal behind us, with not even a bit left!

The ruins we saw earlier were probably from when the Earth army moved in and tore down the buildings around here too. Looking around, we could see lots of new military facilities built on the open ground, with soldiers and all kinds of weapons and equipment everywhere.

Many things showed that there were probably no more civilian living in the whole Aurora Entertainment area anymore. Maybe even the area for a few kilometers around had become a military zone!

Could it be that the government never told the public about this? I suddenly thought of a possibility when I saw this.

No matter what, "discovering a brand new world outside Earth" was totally big news that could shock the whole world! Not to mention other things, just the portal alone could help many experts win Nobel Prizes!

But at the same time, the benefits that could be gained from such a huge new world were no doubt very big too. Maybe even so big that it had to be kept secret, so other countries wouldn't know...

Looking at it this way, except for those people working on the project, it would be hard for public to know what really happened here, not to mention the situation on the other side of the portal in the other world.

"Forget it, let's leave this place!" Not wanting to think more about it, since we didn't come all the way to Earth to make trouble anyway, I took Adrian and flew straight towards the city center after looking around a bit.

Being new here, Adrian didn't have any special thoughts yet, since this world was probably still strange to him. But I soon found another problem -

As we got further from the portal, I could feel the amount of light and water elements in the air dropping rapidly!

It looks like there weren't any elements on Earth to begin with. The elements I felt near the portal earlier were probably all "leaked" over from the other world! Once we got far away, we'd enter an area with no elements at all. I had never experienced this before and didn't know if it would cause any bad effects later.