Chapter 014: The Ability of the World-Piercing Gate

Wang Bo's return from the Transformers world to the Middle-earth Continent was undeniably a slick move.

It instantly fooled everyone in the Transformers world.

When agents from various countries, after enduring countless hardships, entered the United States and even activated many spies planted there, hoping to capture Wang Bo, they found themselves empty-handed.

Wang Bo was no longer in the villa... they had arrived too late.

The American agents who had been monitoring Wang Bo's every move were also dumbfounded; they had never seen Wang Bo enter or leave the villa, yet he had vanished right under their noses.

How the hell was that possible?

Faced with this situation, countless nations were stunned.

They had racked their brains but couldn't find Wang Bo, and the Americans were equally baffled. They had devised such an ingenious trap, but who could have guessed that the target would suddenly disappear?

Interestingly, at that very moment, the news that all of America's nuclear warheads had been destroyed was leaked.

This left the United States completely screwed.

Minister John was so furious that smoke practically came out of his seven orifices; he smashed several desks in his office, because this news was absolutely fatal for the U.S. government.

When other countries confirmed the truth of this news, they swarmed in with ill intentions.

Nuclear warheads are a nation's backbone and a key component of world peace.

Now that the United States had no nuclear warheads, what was there to fear?

Admittedly, the U.S. did possess the technology to build nuclear warheads, but the problem was that building them took time. And with this news leaked, the U.S. simply didn't have enough time to produce new ones.

Thus, other countries became somewhat unscrupulous.

They joined forces to pressure the U.S. into releasing their detained agents and also to hand over Wang Bo.

Yes, in their view, Wang Bo's disappearance wasn't really a disappearance; he had been captured and imprisoned by the Americans, which was why they couldn't find him.

After all, from the perspective of other nations, Wang Bo lived in the United States, so the U.S. could easily get a head start.

Therefore, everyone decided to seize this opportunity to give the U.S. a thorough thrashing, bleed this Pacific police state dry, and make it understand that a plucked phoenix is worse than a chicken.

Under this pressure, Minister John finally recalled an ancient Eastern saying.

Trying to steal a chicken only to lose the bait!

So they could only keep protesting to other countries, saying they could release the imprisoned agents, but they truly had not imprisoned Wang Bo.

Wang Bo was not as simple as he appeared on the surface; this human was very wicked.

His strength was beyond imagination. The destruction of America's nuclear warheads was entirely his doing. This guy had enormous power; it was impossible for the U.S. to capture him.

So he really wasn't in our hands.

Whether other countries would believe this explanation, the U.S. wasn't sure, but they themselves believed it.

On the other hand...

Middle-earth Continent, the Lonely Mountain.

Last time, Wang Bo was frightened by the battle between Ilúvatar and the ten-thousand-meter giant, so he fled hastily from Middle-earth and entered a new world.

This time, after some adjustments in the Transformers world, Wang Bo returned.

Through the World-Piercing Gate, Wang Bo returned to the treasure room. Looking up, he saw a massive fire dragon lying atop piles of gold coins and treasure, sleeping peacefully.

The last dragon in Middle-earth, Smaug!

Smaug, who was sleeping, sensed a familiar presence beside him. He slowly opened one huge eye, and after clearly seeing Wang Bo's figure, he slowly raised his head.

"Welcome back to Middle-earth, my master."

Wang Bo nodded at Smaug. Although Smaug was respectful to him, Wang Bo believed that if he never returned, Smaug would be even happier.

After all, no one likes having an overlord above them, especially a dragon like Smaug. Ever since being defeated by Wang Bo, not only his life but even his treasure was in Wang Bo's hands; Smaug wished he were dead.

"How long has it been since I left, Smaug?"

Wang Bo asked.

Smaug's deep voice echoed in the treasure room: "Two months have passed, my great master."

Wang Bo nodded.

In fact, Wang Bo had long noticed that the flow of time differed in each world. For instance, this time, Wang Bo had spent less than ten days in the Transformers world, but two months had passed in Middle-earth.

But more interestingly, when the World-Piercing Gate connected two worlds, the time in those worlds became very close.

Once the World-Piercing Gate closed, the time flow in each world returned to normal.

Wang Bo guessed that this happened because when the gate connected two worlds, they automatically adjusted their time flows to be close to each other.

Once the gate closed, cutting off the connection, the time flows naturally reverted to normal.

Of course, Wang Bo wasn't entirely sure why this was the case.

After all, his understanding of time and space was not deep.

In terms of space, he only knew some barriers, teleportation, mirror spaces, and portals. It seemed like a lot, but Wang Bo's understanding of space was still very superficial.

Only when he could play with space in various ways, such as freely creating three-dimensional or even four-dimensional spaces, could he claim to understand space.

As for time, Wang Bo knew and understood even less.

Ahem, getting off track!

Leaving the treasure room, Wang Bo and Xiao Bai returned to the hall of the Lonely Mountain. Walking along, he found that the number of dwarves in the mountain had greatly increased. When he left, there were only a few hundred dwarves, but now, Wang Bo saw dwarves everywhere, their numbers having multiplied several times.

Some newly arrived dwarves didn't recognize Wang Bo and were quite surprised to see him. The Lonely Mountain rarely saw humans, let alone one strolling boldly inside.

But some veteran dwarves recognized Wang Bo; after all, he had only been gone for two months, so they naturally hadn't forgotten him. They bowed to Wang Bo one after another.

"Welcome back, great King under the Mountain."

The newly arrived dwarves then realized that this human walking freely in the Lonely Mountain was the one who had defeated Smaug and reclaimed the mountain—the King under the Mountain. So they all stopped their work, put down their hammers, and bowed to Wang Bo in respect.

"Welcome back, great King under the Mountain."