Chapter 143 Another upgrade?

The jeep finally drove out of the dock area. Seeing that there were fewer pedestrians on the road, Xia Qianqian said to Lu Zheng, "I'm going into Peach Blossom Spring first. I'll make you a seafood feast tonight."

Lu Zheng nodded: "Okay, go inside and rest for a bit, then come out again when we get back to Xiangyang Village."

As soon as she finished speaking, Xia Qianqian's figure vanished from the passenger seat.

She deliberately muttered to herself: "Appear right next to the seafood!"

The Peach Blossom Spring is getting bigger and bigger. If it were to randomly appear elsewhere, it would take some effort just to get to where Lao Hei and the others live.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she entered the Peach Blossom Spring, she plunged straight into the water!

Glug glug—

Xia Qianqian opened her mouth and gulped down several mouthfuls of icy, salty water, choking her and making her lungs feel like they were on fire, burning her throat and causing a sharp pain. This water had a fishy smell; it was definitely not the stream water from Peach Blossom Spring!

She flailed her arms and legs for a long time, but couldn't even find the bottom. Where was she? Why was the water so deep?

She desperately tried to call for help, but as soon as she opened her mouth, another mouthful of water was poured in. Despair gripped her heart like seaweed: was she going to drown in her own paradise?

No! Her good days have just begun, and she's pregnant... She has to live for her child!

Xia Qianqian gritted her teeth, enduring the suffocating pain and desperately trying to think of a solution. Fortunately, there was always a way out. Suddenly, she remembered that this was her paradise! She could control everything, so why couldn't she control her own position?

She closed her eyes tightly and, with her last ounce of strength, screamed in her mind: I need to go to where Old Hei lives! Immediately! Right now!

A flash of white light suddenly appeared before her eyes, and her body felt as if it had been violently pulled. The next second, Xia Qianqian's feet finally touched solid ground.

She staggered to the shore, leaning against an old locust tree and coughing violently. Her lungs burned with pain, but she greedily inhaled the fresh air.

When she came to her senses, she realized that she was really standing in front of Old Hei's wooden house, her wet clothes dripping down her body, her hair sticking messily to her face, looking like a drowned rat.

"Miss Xia?" Old Hei, who was inside, peeked out when he heard the noise. Seeing her like this, he was so frightened that he quickly ran out. "Why are you soaking wet?"

Xia Qianqian glared at Lao Hei with annoyance, and was about to scold him when she suddenly stopped, as if she had been nailed to the spot—her eyes widened and her mouth opened slightly, her face full of disbelief and shock.

What...what's going on?!

Peach Blossom Spring has changed again!

What was once just a village nestled among small hills has now transformed into a vast, boundless blue sea, visible from the misty expanse that once shrouded the village in a hazy fog.

The waves crashed against the rocks, whipping up white spray, while seagulls circled in the sky, emitting long cries.

"Miss Xia, did you see that?" Old Hei leaned closer, patting his chest with lingering fear. "We were just cleaning those seafood by the stream when, suddenly, there was a loud 'boom,' and it was like a dam had been opened behind that mist. Seawater rushed in with a 'whoosh'!"

"You...you didn't create this sea just so we could eat seafood more easily, did you?" he said with a mournful face. "Even if you were going to create it, you should have given us a heads-up! That kid Zhang San was so scared just now, he almost peed his pants!"

"Pah! You're the one who wets his pants!" Zhang San retorted, his face flushed red. He didn't care about Lao Hei's former "big brother" status and said to Xia Qianqian, "Miss Xia, don't listen to his nonsense! How could I be that scared? It was him!"

Zhang San pointed at Lao Hei: "It's Brother Hei. He can't swim. When the wave came, he was so scared that he grabbed my leg and practically pushed me underwater! I almost suffocated!"

Xia Qianqian glanced at Lao Hei's flushed face, then at Zhang San's sullen expression, and finally turned her gaze to the vast ocean that had appeared out of nowhere.

Waves crashed against the rocks, seagulls circled in the blue sky, and sunlight sprinkled on the water like scattered gold dust.

Her mind was reeling, as if she'd been struck on the head with a club: When did she acquire such extraordinary abilities? How did buying some seafood turn Peach Blossom Spring into a sea?

She suddenly remembered something, and her pupils contracted sharply: the last time Peach Blossom Spring changed was when she transplanted trees and medicinal herbs from the back mountain, and that small hill immediately rose up! This time, she just wanted to raise some seafood and casually brought some live creatures in, and they actually "crashed" out a sea!

Could it be that... the space of Peach Blossom Spring will expand with the introduction of new species?

The moment the thought crossed her mind, Xia Qianqian felt as if her heart had been burned, and her breathing suddenly became rapid.

If that's true, then we can go to the south to get some rubber trees and coffee seedlings, go to the north to find some cold-resistant pines and cypresses, and even go to the Western Regions to find some grapevines...

Wouldn't that turn Peach Blossom Spring into a small world that encompasses everything?

Xia Qianqian finally snapped out of her reverie, her face still flushed with excitement. She turned to the vast sea and asked Lao Hei, "Brother Hei, where's the seafood?"

Old Hei slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Hey! Don't even mention it!"

He said with a bitter face, "We were washing seafood by the stream when a wave came crashing in and swept the whole bamboo basket away! If we hadn't run fast, we would probably be fish food by now!"

"Not a single piece left?"

"Yeah!" Old Hei nodded, still shaken. "But it's good enough that I'm alive! The brothers all say that as long as those deadly waves don't come again, we'll never eat seafood again!"

After hearing this, Xia Qianqian finally understood—when adding new things to Peach Blossom Spring, she had to find them a place to stay first, otherwise who knows what kind of trouble they might cause.

She waved to Lao Hei and the others, her tone relaxed: "Don't be afraid, that was an accident. Now I'll conjure up some more for you."

As soon as she finished speaking, a thought flashed through her mind, and suddenly a dozen large, menacing crabs, half a basket of lively, jumping shrimp, and a dozen shimmering silver fish appeared out of thin air at her feet.

Xia Qianqian squatted down and poked the big crab at her feet with her fingertip. The crab's shell was shiny with yellow roe, like it was holding a golden ingot. Her eyes lit up: How long has it been? It has grown so fat! At this rate, the fish and shrimp in the sea will probably become a plague.

She turned to look at Lao Hei, her tone light: "Later, you guys take some money and go to the dock to buy a wooden boat. In the future, if you want to eat seafood, you can row the boat to catch it yourself, it'll be fresh and convenient."

Old Hei waved his hands repeatedly, his face turning pale: "I wouldn't dare, Miss Xia!"

He glanced at the sea with lingering fear: "That wave almost swept us away. Are you going to make us go back into the sea? What if another big wave comes? The brothers said they'd rather eat sweet potatoes than touch this deadly seafood!"