I get stronger by sunbathing, just like Superman.

Elena seemed to lose all her strength, and her vision went black as she collapsed to the ground...

Soon, police officers who arrived at the scene evacuated the crowd, and Lei Ming's body was also removed.

……

Somewhere far away in China,

A woman, around fifty years old, was preparing to go to sleep.

"Jingle Bell……"

The phone rings.

"It's so late..."

Who is it...?

The woman muttered to herself, then lifted the blanket and picked up the landline.

"Hello…

"Uh, excuse me, can you speak Chinese?"

After a while, a voice came from the other end of the phone again, speaking in somewhat broken Mandarin:

"Hello Ms. Xu, we are from the Los Angeles Police Department."

Are you Leiming's mother?

Upon hearing the word 'police,' Xu Wenli's heart skipped a beat, a vague sense of foreboding washing over her, but she still replied:

"Yes...yes, what's wrong with my son? What did he do wrong?"

"I'm so sorry, Ms. Xu..."

We have some unfortunate news to tell you, your son…

He accidentally fell to his death half an hour ago.

Please accept my condolences…

There was a pause on the other end of the phone, as if giving the other person time to process what was being said…

Xu Wenli stood there, stunned, her mind reeling.

A voice came from the phone again.

"We are currently investigating the specific circumstances surrounding your son's fall."

As for how to handle the remains, you can contact a local funeral service company to discuss whether to transport them back to your home country or cremate them directly…

If possible, you can come by plane. Our address is…

"Hello…?

Ms. Xu?

Are you listening?

Bang...

The phone slipped from his hand.

Xu Wenli collapsed in front of the bed.

Sobbing uncontrollably…

Chapter 168 Marvel Universe

In the blazing sun,

Lei Ming slowly opened his eyes.

Who is...

Calling me?

He looked around; inside the entire sun, there was no one else but him.

There could be no one else.

"Wake up... Xiaoming..."

The woman's voice called out again in my ears.

The voice sounded very sad, like someone was crying.

Lei Ming looked towards Earth, his gaze traveling hundreds of millions of kilometers to land on the Earth's surface.

Trying to find the owner of the voice…

But after searching the entire planet, inside and out, they still found nothing.

He was somewhat surprised, which meant the owner of the voice was not on Earth.

It's not even in the solar system.

He closed his eyes and listened carefully once more to the source of the sound…

He felt the voice was very familiar; although it sounded somewhat aged, it resembled his mother's.

Xu Wenli.

But the her in this universe has been dead for many years, even if she were to be resurrected…

How can we wake him from the sun?

"Could it be... another universe?"

Lei Ming wondered to himself.

He then used the power of the Dimensional Worm once more, beginning to observe countless parallel universes…

He couldn't remember how long he had been asleep in the sun, but he was certain that the latitudinal worms were still relentlessly eroding his body.

These amazing creatures, born in different dimensions, cannot be killed even by the high temperatures inside the sun.

So he's now like a perpetual motion machine, constantly needing to absorb stellar energy to maintain his body's normal function and resist the insects' invasion.

But at the same time, the sun needs him to act as a 'battery' to provide energy back in order to continue burning, emitting light and heat.

Otherwise, it will eventually go out.

That is,

He cannot leave the sun.

He cannot leave until at least one other way of ensuring the sun will not go out comes into existence.

Fortunately, he can still use his abilities in those three thousand-plus parallel worlds, as well as the ability of the dimensional worms to traverse the universe.

So even though he's trapped here, there's still a lot he can do...

The entire multiverse,

In his eyes, it was like a giant maze divided into countless compartments.

He only needs to open a 'door' in a certain maze to see the world behind it.

Finally, after searching countless worlds,

He found the source of the sound.

This is a somewhat unfamiliar universe.

The scene in sight should be in the hospital morgue.

A woman in her fifties, supported by a silver-haired woman beside her, was weeping over a cold corpse.

It was her cries that, across countless universes, awakened the slumbering thunder in the sun.

"mom……"

Seeing that aged yet familiar face, Lei Ming was slightly moved.

I was still a little confused.

Because he had observed that, regardless of the universe, the fates of those "selves" were almost identical: all of them lost their loved ones due to the explosion of their home planet.

Finally, they were lost in other worlds.

But this world seems a little different.

Although he knew that it wasn't 'his' mother, Lei Ming's long-dormant emotions were somewhat comforted.

At least among all these universes, there is one where she is still alive.

Zooming in, he focused his gaze on the corpse.

That is the 'self' of this world.

But this version of myself is a bit special.

There was no trace of energy fluctuation within his body, neither stellar energy nor any other power.