Summer was scorching, and nothing beat an ice-cold bottle of soda.
After selling the small company he had been running and making two hundred thousand yuan from it, Zhang Xi figured he should treat himself properly.
However, the moment Zhang Xi opened the refrigerator—
A streak of light flashed, and Zhang Xi was sucked straight inside!
“Holy crap! I was just humming a song! I didn’t actually mean to put myself inside!”
The room was suddenly empty, and Zhang Xi’s panicked cries gradually faded away.
…
A wilderness.
The cold wind howled as yellow sand swirled across the ground.
A violent magnetic storm seemed to be raging in the sky!
Zhang Xi stood there in stunned confusion, his expression filled with panic.
Anyone would have felt uneasy after opening the refrigerator in their bedroom while wearing pajamas to grab a drink, only to find themselves in a desolate, frigid wilderness the very next second.
This wasn’t scientific at all!
Rumble!
A car sped past several dozen meters away.
It seemed to be swaying wildly, as though its occupants were just as panicked.
Zhang Xi could vaguely hear several people shouting something in English.
Faced with a completely unfamiliar environment and uncertain whether there were friends or enemies nearby, Zhang Xi didn’t dare move for the moment.
He nervously waited until the car had driven away.
Only then did he cautiously begin looking around.
Before long, a huge crater not far away caught his attention.
“Ding! Attribute fragments detected. Attribute Collection System activated—”
“Ding! Thunder Power fragment detected.”
“Ding! Strength fragment detected.”
“Ding! Thunder Power fragment detected.”
“Ding!…”
The moment he approached the crater, a series of abrupt notifications rang out in his mind.
At the same time, his vision changed.
Inside the empty crater were more than a dozen faintly glowing fragments.
And in the center of the crater stood a massive hammer!
“What the hell are these things? Wait… a giant hammer… Hmm, could that be Thor’s hammer?”
Zhang Xi froze.
So… his refrigerator had transported him into the Marvel universe?
And judging from the circumstances, this was right at the beginning of Thor?
Since the hammer was here, then he should currently be about fifty miles outside a small town near Old Bridge City.
Zhang Xi mulled it over for a while before cautiously sliding down into the crater.
With trembling fingers, he reached toward the nearest fragment, which was about the size of a fingernail.
“Ding! Thunder Power fragment successfully collected!”
With the notification ringing in his mind, Zhang Xi’s body trembled.
Electric arcs crackled across him before quickly fading away.
He rubbed his fingertips together.
With a thought, crackling arcs of electricity suddenly jumped between them.
“Oh my God!”
Zhang Xi shouted excitedly.
He actually possessed the power of thunder!
Even if it was only the tiniest sliver, that was still the power of thunder!
Just thinking about the imposing sight of Thor unleashing thunder in the sky in the Marvel movies made Zhang Xi tremble with excitement.
His eyes turned feverish as he looked at the fragments scattered across the ground.
“Ding! Thunder Power fragment successfully collected!”
“Ding! Thunder Power fragment successfully collected!”
“Ding! Speed Power fragment successfully collected!”
“Ding! Will of Mjolnir fragment successfully collected!”
…
Several minutes later, Zhang Xi excitedly rubbed his hands together, electricity crackling all over his body.
His entire figure was almost covered in a layer of thunder, blue-purple arcs dancing across his skin while his eyes gleamed brightly!
Wait!
Hadn’t he just picked up something strange as well?
A fragment of Mjolnir’s will?
If he collected enough of those, wouldn’t that mean he might be able to lift Thor’s hammer too?
Zhang Xi excitedly rubbed his hands together and prepared to search around Mjolnir for more fragments.
“Ding! Star-Core Hardness attribute fragment successfully collected!”
After rummaging around for a while, he couldn’t find any more fragments of Mjolnir’s will.
Instead, right beside Mjolnir, he found a tiny, inconspicuous fragment of an attribute called Star-Core Hardness.
What was that supposed to be useful for?
“Ding! Time’s up.”
Whoosh!
A white portal suddenly enveloped Zhang Xi just as he took a step forward.
Then it disappeared.
The wilderness once again became cold and desolate, leaving only Mjolnir standing upright in the middle of the crater.
Thud!
Zhang Xi stepped into empty space and fell hard onto the floor.
He sat there in a daze, looking around in confusion.
He was back in his own home.
The same familiar bedroom.
The same familiar refrigerator.
And inside it were still two bottles of soda.
Everything looked so ordinary.
It was almost as though everything that had just happened had been nothing more than a dream.
However—
His body, which had been overweight from years of social drinking and entertaining, now had faintly visible muscle definition.
There was no way a dream could do that!
Moreover, after a flash of blue light from the refrigerator, a tattoo had appeared on the back of his right hand.
When he opened the refrigerator again, it no longer showed any unusual reaction.
“Ding! Personal Status Panel unfolding—”
Host: Zhang Xi
Attributes: Strength 12, Speed 11, Endurance 10(10 = the peak of a normal adult)
Skills: Thunder Power (12%)
Special Attributes: Star-Core Hardness (0.02%), Will of Mjolnir (1%)
Zhang Xi stroked his chin, feeling quite satisfied.
After experimenting, he discovered that an ordinary knife could barely leave a mark on his skin anymore.
And this was with only 0.02% Star-Core Hardness!
Terrifying!
After finishing his drink, he happily went to sleep and slept soundly until morning.
Little did he know that quite a few people in Hangzhou would be unable to sleep that night because he had sold his company.
Ring!
Ring!
Early the next morning, his alarm began ringing frantically.
Zhang Xi groggily turned it off.
It rang again.
He turned it off again.
Then it rang again!
After several repetitions, Zhang Xi finally exploded.
“Who the hell are you? Can’t you let me sleep this early in the morning?”
A deliberately hoarse and low voice came through the phone.
“17 Jüling Road, eleven-thirty at noon. Don’t be late. As for what happens to your girlfriend then, I can’t guarantee anything.”
“What?! Who are you? What are you going to do to my girlfriend?”
Zhang Xi instantly woke up.
Something had happened!
But as soon as he sat up, Zhang Xi froze.
“Wait a second. Where did I get a girlfriend? Who the hell are you?”
“Huh?”
The person on the other end was also stunned.
He shouted toward someone nearby, “Quit pretending, brat! Don’t think I’m bluffing. Hey, bitch, talk!”
“Zhang Xi, save me!”
The crying woman’s voice came through the phone.
It sounded somewhat familiar…
Wasn’t that Luo Ruomeng, the financial manager from his former company?
Zhang Xi immediately understood.
He couldn’t help laughing bitterly.
How had this girl ended up being mistaken for his girlfriend and kidnapped?
“I’ll be there immediately. Don’t hurt her.”
“Don’t even think about calling the police. Come alone, and bring the technical blueprints!”
Beep.
Beep.
Beep.
The call was abruptly disconnected.
“Technical blueprints?”
Zhang Xi suddenly understood.
He hadn’t expected their target to be the technology from his former company.
Was the mastermind Chen Feng?
Or that old bastard Li Yang?
Those bastards!
They were actually willing to do something like this just for money!
His eyes narrowed, his expression turning cold.
Whatever.
He had to get there as quickly as possible.
It would be bad if something happened to Luo Ruomeng because of him.
He hurried out of the house and hailed a taxi.
“Driver, take me to 17 Jüling Road. Hurry!”
More than twenty minutes later—
Skreeech!
The taxi slammed on the brakes, stopping several intersections away from 17 Jüling Road.
But even so, it couldn’t avoid colliding with another vehicle—a Maserati that had run a red light!
Its front end was now badly dented.
The heavily made-up woman in the passenger seat screamed repeatedly.
“Get out! Get out of here! How the hell do you drive, you old bastard? Are you fucking blind?”
A young man with dyed green hair climbed out of the sports car, cursing as he stormed over.
He reached through the open window and grabbed the middle-aged driver’s collar.