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Dragon Ball World, Earth, July, Age 750.
More than two months had passed since Son Goku, after getting second place in the 21st World Martial Arts Tournant, killing rcenary Tao, and defeating the Red Ribbon Army, reunited with his deceased Grandpa Gohan and embarked on his training again.
For these two months, he had been diligently and arduously training.
During this ti, he also defeated two scoundrels who called themselves Kinkaku and Ginkaku, fought against the human martial artist Tenlong, learned the Illusion Star Fist, and went to the Demon World to rescue the princess.
"1121, 1122, 1123..."
On the sloping mountain path, the Goku, whose tail had regrown, carried a huge rock and was doing frog jumps repeatedly in the pouring rain, gritting his teeth.
This was one of the Turtle School's training thods for physical conditioning.
Suddenly, a streak of light descended from the sky, hitting the Goku directly between his eyebrows, causing him to roll his eyes and faint.
When he woke up again, he found himself in a vast, white space.
In this space, countless glowing doors were densely scattered, and each door was imprinted with patterns and text.
Most of the patterns were people dressed in different clothes, and although he didn't recognize the text, he strangely understood what it ant.
"Marvel, Harry Potter, Demon Slayer, Attack on Titan, Inuyasha, Naruto..."
He read the nas on the doors one by one, and finally, his gaze stopped on the glowing door behind him:
"Isn't this ?"
He was surprised to find that the pattern imprinted on the glowing door behind him was indeed himself, and the text written on it was "Dragon Ball."
Sowhat curiously, he reached out and pushed open the door with his picture on it, and his mind imdiately went blank.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself back on the mountain slope where he had been training, and it was still raining outside.
"What's going on?"
The Goku blinked, clearly unable to understand what had happened.
"Forget it, I won't think about it."
After thinking for less than five seconds, he gave up on the question and continued his frog jump training with the huge rock on his back.
For him, ever since he left Mount Paozu with Bulma, there had been too many things he couldn't understand.
But it didn't matter; if he didn't understand, he didn't understand. What was most important was to train well, improve his strength, and win the championship at the World Martial Arts Tournant three years later.
That night, the rain stopped, and the Goku, carrying the huge rock, had frog-jumped to the mountain top.
"I'm hungry!"
He put down the huge rock, rubbed his stomach, and then muttered:
"I'll just catch a tiger to eat today."
With a few leaps, his figure disappeared into the nearby forest.
Half an hour later, the Goku erged from the forest, dragging a Sabretooth as large as a small car.
An hour later, the Goku sucked the last bone of the tiger, rubbed his round belly, and closed his eyes contentedly.
In less than three seconds, he had fallen into a deep sleep.
However, exactly three seconds later, his figure suddenly vanished from the spot.
Eight hours later, the Goku opened his eyes, stretched a big yawn, and prepared to find so breakfast.
However, after he clearly saw his surroundings, he fell into confusion again.
"How did I end up here again?"
Indeed, the place where the Goku was now was precisely the space filled with glowing doors.
He walked around the white space, and this ti, he still reached out and touched the door with his own picture on it.
As expected, he returned to the mountain top where he had fallen asleep.
It was then that he understood: as long as he touched the door with his own picture in that white space, he could return to the place he had left.
"Then how did I get in there?"
Another question mark popped up in his mind.
But the Goku didn't think too much; he got up, caught a wild wolf in the forest for breakfast, and then resud his arduous training.
Compared to the secret of the white space, he cared more about his own training.
At night, in the cave, the Goku, who had trained all day, fell asleep normally.
Eight hours later, he opened his eyes and, sure enough, found himself in the white space again.
"So, I appear here whenever I sleep."
Although the Goku was not very clear about many common facts and didn't care much about things unrelated to training, it didn't an he was stupid.
So, after two or three experiences, he quickly figured out the pattern of entering the white space.
As long as he fell asleep, he would enter the white space, and as long as he touched the door with his own picture, he could return.
"Then what are these?"
This ti, the Goku did not touch the glowing door with his own picture. Instead, he reached out and touched another glowing door next to it.
His mind went blank, and when he regained consciousness, he found himself in a strange alley.
"So it's like Korin's jars."
At this mont, the Goku suddenly realized.
Earlier, when he fought rcenary Tao, he had climbed Korin Tower and received training from Korin, the Cat Hermit.
During his training with Korin, he knew that Morin had several jars.
Those jars could lead to different places in the World.
Presumably, these doors could also take him to different places in the World.
"I'm hungry, let's go find sothing to eat!"
The Goku rubbed his stomach, preparing to leave the alley to get so breakfast, and then continue his training.
For him, training was the sa no matter where he was.
Moreover, he had just woken up and couldn't fall asleep again to enter the white space and use that door to return to the previous cave.
He would have to wait until night to go back.
"Sarah, you can't escape!"
Just as the Goku took a step, a sharp shout ca from the alley entrance.
Imdiately after, he saw a woman holding a little girl rush into the alley, followed by a group of burly n with guns.
The loud shout just now was from the leader of the burly n.
"Oh no, a dead end!"
Seeing that the alley had no exit and that there was also a boy with a blank expression standing inside, Sarah's face imdiately changed drastically. She turned to face the group of burly n.
The burly n, on the other hand, looked delighted.
"Sarah, the Commander said that as long as you bring X-23 back to the Institute and tell us the locations of the other test subjects, he can offer you wealth that will absolutely satisfy you."
The leading Captain ignored the strangely dressed, blank-faced boy in the alley and looked at the girl in Sarah's arms with so apprehension.
The girl was experintal subject X-23. Sarah had nad her Laura, and she was the most dangerous Mutant child in the Institute.
"You devils, I will not hand Laura over to you."
Sarah refused without hesitation.
She was originally a Nurse in xico City, working at a place called the Genetic Modification Institute.
This Institute outwardly researched dicine, but in reality, it paid local xican won to be surrogate mothers to breed Mutant children.
Then, they would train and cultivate these Mutant children to beco killing machines.
However, recently, the Institute's research had a new breakthrough, creating more powerful test subjects.
Therefore, they decided to kill all the Mutant children who were unwilling to cooperate.
After she accidentally learned the truth, she risked her life to escape the Institute with all the Mutant children.
However, they got separated during the escape, and she had to quickly take Laura to the initially agreed-upon eting point to reunite with the other children.
"In that case, Kill that woman and capture that girl."
The leading Captain gestured to the team mbers behind him, and they imdiately aid their guns at the little girl Sarah had put down.
Sarah was just an ordinary Nurse and posed no threat; the real threat was X-23.
"The Commander said that if you don't agree, we can also bring back your corpses."
At this mont, two Adamantium claws slowly extended from the little girl's hands simultaneously, and her eyes were filled with murderous intent.
Just as a major battle was about to erupt, the boy behind them suddenly leaped and jumped in front of Sarah and Laura.
"Stop, what are you doing?"
The Goku questioned the group of burly n in front of him.
The group of people in front gave him a feeling very similar to the Red Ribbon Army, whom he had annihilated for their heinous acts.
"Little friend, it's dangerous, move aside quickly!"
Seeing the boy protecting them from behind, Sarah imdiately showed an anxious expression.
These ard personnel from the Institute were cold-blooded devils who wouldn't hesitate to kill, and they didn't care if their enemy was a child.
"Get lost, brat!"
As expected, the leading Captain didn't hesitate at all; he raised his hand and fired a shot at the Goku's head.
"Bang!"
The bullet whizzed towards the Goku's forehead.
However, in the next second, everyone's faces showed an expression of disbelief.
"What!"
"It seems you are all bad people!"
The Goku threw the bullet in his hand to the ground and assud the Turtle School fighting stance.
It turned out that, facing the bullet attack just now, he had directly caught it with his hand.
If it had been when he first left Mount Paozu, he really couldn't have caught a bullet with his bare hands; at most, he could only endure the bullet with his body.
Getting hit by a bullet still hurt a bit.
But after subsequent adventures, after training with Master Roshi Grandpa, after the World Martial Arts Tournant, and the battle with rcenary Tao, his strength had greatly improved.
"Captain, look behind him, isn't that a tail?"
After recovering, a team mber suddenly noticed sothing and quickly pointed to the Goku's Upturned tail behind him.
"So that's it!"
The leading Captain's face showed a look of realization after seeing the Goku's tail.
"I didn't expect there to be a wild Mutant; kill him too."
If he saw a little boy with a tail behind his butt on the street, he would only think that the other person had attached a tail-like decoration behind his butt.
Because after so many years of effort by his Institute, there were no wild Mutants left in the World.
Among the escaped test subjects, none of the Mutant children had tails either.
However, this boy could actually catch a bullet with his bare hands, so he must be a Mutant.
Aside from Mutants, how could an ordinary person, no matter how strong, catch a bullet with their bare hands?
However, he wasn't too worried. Being able to catch a bullet was nothing; many Mutants could do it.
He had followed the Commander to hunt Mutants before; what kind of Mutants hadn't he seen or killed?
Could he catch one, two, three, or a hundred bullets?
Not everyone was Overpowered like Magneto.
Normal Mutants, if not nurous and without much combat experience, were no match for them.
As long as it was a carbon-based life form, it couldn't withstand modern weapons, and Mutants were no exception.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he found that the boy standing there had disappeared.
"Where is he?"
The next second, he felt an unbearable heavy blow to his abdon, rolled his eyes, and fainted on the ground.
As for the rest of the team mbers, they saw the target boy rush in front of the Captain as if teleporting.
With just one light punch, their battle-hardened Captain fell to the ground.
Before they could even turn their guns to aim, they all followed in their Captain's footsteps.
Their eyes couldn't even see the trajectory of the opponent's movent.
"As weak as those people from the Red Ribbon Army."
Looking at the burly n lying on the ground, the Goku clapped his hands and turned to Sarah, who was dumbfounded, smiling:
"Auntie, are you two alright?"
"N-no... we're fine."
The shock in Sarah's eyes was no less than that of the burly n who had been knocked down.
She hadn't expected to encounter a wild Mutant child here, and such a powerful one at that.
"Quick, let's get out of here first!"
After reacting, she imdiately picked up the little girl again, grabbed the Goku, and ran out of the alley.
After that small team discovered them, they must have already reported to the Institute's Commander.
If they stayed here, a large team of fully ard rcenaries specializing in hunting Mutants would soon co to apprehend them.
Those people would not be carrying pistols then, but heavy weapons like submachine guns, sniper rifles, and Rocket launchers.
No matter how good the boy was at fighting, it would be useless.
Running out of the alley, Sarah quickly found her small car, put the Goku and Laura in the back seat, and floored the accelerator, speeding towards her ho in the west of the city.
"Where are we going?"
The Goku sat in the back seat, tilting his head to ask Sarah.
Because he didn't feel any malice from Sarah, he didn't resist when she pulled him into the car.
"We're going to the west of the city. Little friend, what's your na, and where do you live? I'll take you ho first."
Sarah only breathed a sigh of relief when they had driven out of the area they were just in.
The Goku replied:
"My na is Son Goku, and I live on Mount Paozu. You don't need to take ho; I'm out training."
"Mount Paozu? Training?"
Sarah's face showed a confused expression.
She had never heard of a place called Mount Paozu, and as for training, what was there for an eleven or twelve-year-old boy to train for?
"Then where are your parents? Do you have their phone number?"
The little boy had just saved them, so even though their situation wasn't very good now, she still intended to take the little boy ho.
And warn the little boy's parents to leave this city quickly, otherwise, if discovered by the Institute, they would definitely be captured for experints or killed.
"I don't have parents; Grandpa picked up and raised ."
The Goku replied honestly.
Sarah looked back at the Goku, her eyes full of pity.
This child must have been abandoned by his parents because he had a tail when he was born.
"Then where is your Grandpa now? Do you have his number?"
"Grandpa, Grandpa passed away. He's living in the Other World now."
The Goku rembered the last ti he saw Grandpa at Baba's place. Grandpa said he was very happy living in the Other World and didn't want to be revived with the Dragon Balls.
"I'm so hungry..."
At this mont, his stomach rumbled; he hadn't had breakfast yet today...
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