My right hand is very powerful, capable of fighting, flirting with girls, and even traversing dimensions.
"Hiss..."
Li Ye took in a sharp breath, feeling a wave of coldness washing over him. He felt sore and numb all over, his head throbbing as if being pricked by needles.
He staggered to his feet, surveying his surroundings in confusion. It was the familiar small square where he was before he blacked out.
Night had fallen, and there were no longer any figures on the square.
Shaking his still somewhat dazed head, he saw his barbecue stall beside him in a mess. Then, memories before his blackout rushed back to him like a tidal wave.
Li Ye was a freshman who had just been admitted to Jiangnan University. His family background was extremely ordinary, bordering on impoverished.
His parents were laid-off workers. To support Li Ye and his sibling through school and help them escape the life of poverty, his parents had almost exhausted all their savings to open a small roadside barbecue stall.
This was the only source of income for Li Ye's impoverished family each month.
Originally, the family's income and expenses could still maintain a balance. However, since Li Ye started university, the expensive tuition fees completely disrupted this equilibrium.
As a result, Li Ye's younger sister, Li Xiaoguo, who was still in the second year of high school, resolutely dropped out and went to Shanghai to work with a distant relative to earn money.
Li Ye's parents were already not very talkative, but Li Xiaoguo's decision made them even quieter.
Although the elderly couple were not good at expressing their emotions, Li Ye knew just how much their hearts were aching.
Li Xiaoguo was not Li Ye's biological sister; she was found by the elderly couple on a snowy night on the street.
At that time, Li Xiaoguo, just born, was frozen with a pale face, barely clinging to life. The elderly couple took pity on this little girl who had been abandoned by her biological parents shortly after birth and decided to adopt her without hesitation.
The doting love of the elderly couple towards Li Xiaoguo even made Li Ye doubt at times if he was the one who was adopted.
Because Li Xiaoguo dropped out of school to work and brought in some extra money, Li Ye barely managed to scrape together the tuition fees for Jiangnan University and successfully entered the university.
Li Ye vividly remembered what Li Xiaoguo said to him as the train to Jiangnan University was about to depart.
"Bro! I never liked the idea of going to college anyway. There's no way I'll pass the college entrance exam. I might as well start working and earning money early.
Bro, you've got to study hard and make something of yourself in college. Learn my share too.
This silly girl, even though her grades were better than mine, even though she was so eager to go to college, she gave up everything, her only dream, for him.
College life is great, with all kinds of club activities, high-end entertainment facilities, well-dressed handsome guys and beautiful girls, and innocent love.
But none of this mattered to Li Ye!
He carried all of his parents' expectations, he carried his sister's only dream.
So from the moment he set foot in Jiangnan University, Li Ye told himself that he was different from others, that he had to work harder than anyone else to escape poverty! To give his parents a stable and prosperous life! To help his sister Li Xiaoguo regain her dreams!
While his roommates and classmates skipped classes to play games at internet cafes, he studied. While his roommates and classmates played cards and gossiped about the campus beauties, he worked, as a waiter at a night market stall next to the school.
The reason was simple, the boss at the night market stall provided meals."
So, since proudly becoming a college student at Jiangnan University, Li Ye never asked his family for a penny. Moreover, during these three months of working, he saved every penny of his salary by living frugally, and he used it to open a barbecue stall next to the night market stall.
Today was the first day of the barbecue stall's opening, and he happened to encounter her.
Her name was Liu Xueqi, Li Ye's first love from high school, and they had agreed to attend Jiangnan University together.
However, after entering Jiangnan University, Liu Xueqi completely betrayed their high school vows and started dating a handsome and wealthy senior from the same school.
And the reason why his newly opened barbecue stall was in a mess was all thanks to that handsome and wealthy senior.
Li Ye clenched his fists, his mind filled with images of that senior's arrogant demeanor and Liu Xueqi's disdainful look towards him.
His self-esteem was trampled underfoot by this despicable couple.
The barbecue stall he had saved up for three months by living frugally was destroyed at the command of that senior, smashed to pieces by a few thugs.
Three months of hard work all went down the drain.
A profound sense of humiliation flooded Li Ye's mind. He couldn't recall what happened next. All he remembered was a surge of hot blood and then engaging in a brawl with those hoodlums who wrecked his barbecue stall. He vaguely recalled thunder rumbling in the sky, and a lightning bolt striking him, and then he passed out completely.
As he pieced together all the memories before his coma, Li Ye felt like there was a stone pressing against his chest, his bones felt as if they were falling apart, making it hard for him to stand.
Especially the pain emanating from the palm of his right hand, it felt like it was piercing through his bones.
Instinctively, he raised his right hand and found a dark stain in his palm, but there was no fresh blood or wound, just a grimy patch.
He reached out with his left hand to wipe away the stain, but when his left hand touched the black patch, instead of the expected sensation, his entire left hand mysteriously sank into the darkness of the stain!
Li Ye's face turned pale. He quickly withdrew his left hand, but it showed no adverse reactions, remaining unchanged.
"What... what's going on? Am I seeing things?" Li Ye muttered, staring fixedly at the black stain in the palm of his right hand.
He stared at it apprehensively for a long while. It wasn't just a black stain; it resembled a black hole. Li Ye could clearly sense this black hole-like entity slowly rotating clockwise.
This eerie and inexplicable black hole seemed to have some sort of connection to his body, as if something deep within the black hole was calling out to him.
Almost involuntarily, he raised his left hand again and slowly reached towards the black hole in the palm of his right hand.
Such a bizarre scene, Li Ye had only seen in those fantasy novels online. He never expected to stumble upon such a strange event, with odds much lower than winning the lottery.
Perhaps this black hole was some kind of spatial device, but he had no idea what lay inside.
Was it an unparalleled martial arts technique? Rare and exotic creatures? Divine weapons? Or perhaps an elfin beauty dressed as a maid?
Li Ye speculated continuously in his mind. He was almost certain that this black hole was related to the lightning bolt that struck him.
His left hand had already entered the black hole entirely, and at that moment, while the black hole in the palm of his right hand was slowly rotating, it suddenly spun faster. A tremendously powerful suction force emerged, completely engulfing him.
Before Li Ye could react, he was completely pulled into the black hole by an immense force.
Then came a few seconds of weightlessness, followed by a sudden sensation of being pulled back to reality. All around him was pitch black, as if he were in the depths of the universe.
When he felt solid ground beneath his feet again, he slowly opened his eyes.
At this moment, he found himself in the midst of a jungle.
The scorching sun hung high in the sky, casting scattered shadows of leaves on the ground. In the distance, a gentle breeze rustled through the grass, which stood over half a person tall.
Faintly within the jungle, one could hear the angry or mournful roar of some kind of wild beast.
Li Ye was stunned.
He never expected that the mysterious black hole in the palm of his right hand wasn't a storage space. Judging from the surrounding environment, this mysterious black hole seemed more like a portal connecting two worlds.
The reason Li Ye could be so certain that this wasn't Earth was because he saw a massive continent floating in the sky, easily discernible even from the immense height!
Where on Earth would one find such a bizarre and unpredictable scene?
"Could it be that I've crossed over?"
Li Ye lamented inwardly, hastily looking at the palm of his right hand. The black hole within it still existed, but its rotation had changed direction, now slowly rotating counterclockwise.