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nChapter 3 Mysterious Space

nLin Luoran has no time to respond when the bead hits her face… Like crackling fireworks, all that left before her eyes are dazzling light. Lin Luoran shuts her eyes reflexively.

nLin Luoran couldn’t help but shedding tears due to the light. It seems like there is no other dangers. She tries to move her hands and feet and manages to open her eyes. The scene in front of her is so amazing.

nWhere is she?

nShe is standing on a green grass lawn. These strong grasses grow well, almost reaching two feet tall. Standing there, Lin Luoran feels that she is going to float…

nIt is a land of less than 334 m2, where a log cabin covers over 1

/3 of the area. In the distance, there is a 1 m2 pond, bubbling of spring. A sapling grows beside the pond, fresh and alive.

nA red fruit in the size of mulberry is hanging on the sapling, which is even fresh with the vapor of the pond.

nLin Luoran pinches herself hard in the cheek. Ouch!

nThe log cabin is still there, so is the bubbling pond. Lin Luoran remains standing on the green grass—This is not a dream. Immediately, she realizes that a coincidence seems to happen to her!

nEverything in front of her must be related to that mysterious bead, Lin Luoran guesses.

nShe is inherently tougher than ordinary girls or else she wouldn’t have survived all these years of difficulties. Therefore, Lin Luoran is fairly calm when she encounters with this kind of supernatural things.

nHolding the thought of taking things as they come, Lin Luoran decides to explore this mysterious space.

nShe stands still and thinks for a moment, then picks up a clod and throws it out.

nWith a nice curve, the clod is flicked away at around 30cm from the log cabin. The cabin appears to be protected by an invisible shield. Is it the “inhibition” that is always written in books?

nLin Luoran is curious. Since only the clod is flicked away, it might be okay for the human to go closer. She walks toward the cabin one step after another. As exactly as expected, she then hits something bouncy like jelly. A transparent pit forms after she pokes it with her finger.

nObviously, she can’t get into the cabin, at least for now.

nAn idea comes to her mind and her eyes cast on the small pond.

nThe spring nourishes the fruit and both of them might be magical restoratives. Then whether should she drink the spring or eat the fruit, that is a question.

nAnyhow, Lin Luoran cherishes her life so she picks a blade of grass to fiddle with the water. A long time later, the grass still remains green. Lin Luoran realizes that at least the spring is not corrosive.

nShe nerves herself to put the wet grass into her mouth. The taste of mud rushes into her mouth. She also tastes a bit of sweetness. Is this the sweetness of the spring? How miraculous!

nLin Luoran has experienced lots of strangeness. If the spring is toxic, she is destined to never be a protagonist. She hesitates for a while and finally bends over and drinks a handful of water, thinking that this place is mysterious but peaceful so the water will probably be unharmful.

nLin Luoran has been thirsty for long since she hasn’t drunk any water after coming back from the visit to Li Anping, also, a lot of blood is drawn from her. Now, spring water runs down her throat and its sweetness fills her mouth. Lin Luoran feels good as if she has just drunk a bottle of ice water in the midsummer, which makes her not feel anxious anymore.

nShe couldn’t help drinking some more.

nThere is abundant sunlight in the mysterious space and the temperature is appropriate. Lying on the grass, Lin Luoran waits for something magical to happen to her. It is so comfortable that she doesn’t even want to get up.

nWith time passing by, Lin Luoran almost falls asleep while waiting. However, she hasn’t gone to the stage that written in the novel about the situation after someone takes magical restoratives.

nLin Luoran touches her face. Her skin is not that smooth. The roughness is inevitable for she can’t afford expensive skincare products.

nAnd her hands… What? The cracks and wrinkles caused by cold weather are gone.

nHer facial skin isn’t changed, but her hands, after soaking in the spring, become much moister and smoother. Is this the effect of the spring? Looking at it, Lin Luoran becomes excited. Perhaps her whole family can live on the spring which can improve skin conditions.

nLin Luoran is not greedy. She feels glad enough after just figuring out the effect of the spring!

nHer spirit is up at once. Lin Luoran gets up and walks briskly to the spring, checking on the pond that carries her hope…Lovelorn shadow is not so light as she shows. Lin Luoran is born with the toughness of lower-class people. This is the exact time for her to distract her attention to something else, for instance, the mysterious space or the small pond which might change her future.

nThe spring origins from the underground. It is an everlasting, shallow, bubbling pond.

nStaring at it, an idea comes to Lin Luoran’s mind. Will the spring water have some extraordinary effect on plants, like what is written in novels?

nShe itches to have a try, but there are only grass and a sapling in this space.

nOnly thinking about watering the grass with the spring makes Lin Luoran’s heart aches.

nThen… It has to be the sapling. Lin Luoran wonders whether that red fruit is edible.

nOut of nothing, Lin Luoran begins to feel hungry. However, she couldn’t bring herself to pick it for the fruit is so tiny and beautiful.

nShe stares at the pond and for some reason, she holds a handful of water and pours them on the sapling.

n“What?”

nLin Luoran couldn’t help but marvel.

nThe spring water immediately seeps into the soil and the leaves also absorb all the water drops on them. In a minute, even in the blink of an eye, the sapling starts to change right in front of her.

nThe leaves gleam. Not only do they look greener, but also shine like jade. It seems that the leaves evolve into jadite just in a short time.

nThe leaves are shining. The lights are overflowing. Something like mist rises up and flows around the leaves. It then circles the red fruit and is absorbed by it greedily.

nThe greenness gradually fades away while the fruit gets even redder. The leaves no longer have the texture of jade, but the fruit is turning into a ruby.

nWith a slight crack, the fruit falls from the sapling!

nLin Luoran catches it with her quick hands.

nShe looks back at the sapling. It has returned to the normal appearance and all that glitter and clearness are gone. Obviously, the red fruit ripens by absorbing the essence of the sapling, which makes it so precious. Lin Luoran feels the warmth of the fruit in her palm. This thing really doesn’t look like an ordinary fruit!

nGazing at this hot potato in her palm, Lin Luoran struggles between eating it and throwing it away.

nHowever, she has been staying in this space for quite a while. How can she get back?

nThe moment this thought flashes in her head, Lin Luoran finds that the scene in front of her starts to change. She actually finds herself returns to her house in a second, remaining the gesture of lying on the couch as before.

nAre these all her illusion? Thinking about this, Lin Luoran looks down on her hands—The mysterious bead is once again tied around her waist by a thread of silver, soft and strong. It appears that this thread of silver comes from inside the bead for there is no joint.

nShe finds something warm in her right hand. Lin Luoran loosens her grip and sees that ruby-red fruit.

nThe warmth in her hand is a reminder that what she just experienced is not a dream, but an adventure!

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