Bi Qiao'an lay weakly in the ice and snow, watching the heavy snow bury her alive. Thinking back to her three years of solitary survival in the apocalypse, her consciousness gradually blurred. ...
"Tell me what's going on between you and Niu Jun. Why is he so concerned about you?" Shen Yanming asked, his left arm around Bi Qiaoan's waist and his lips close to Bi Qiaoan's right ear.
"Hehe, it's just that the class monitor cares about his classmates!" Bi Qiaoan knew that Shen Yanming was just saying it casually. "By the way, why did you take so long? A week turned into two months."
"Something unexpected happened, which caused a bit of a delay."
"An accident? What happened to you? Where are you injured?" Bi Qiaoan asked anxiously as soon as she heard this, and quickly took Shen Yanming's left hand.
Bi Qiaoan was dumbfounded. Where was the ring?
Is it really impossible to escape the misfortune of losing the ring? My own is still here, so why did Shen Yanming's get lost?
Shen Yanming knew immediately what Bi Qiaoan was thinking, and quickly said, "Everyone's here, let's talk about it when we get home."
Bi Qiaoan nodded mechanically, but couldn't calm down. She absentmindedly stayed with everyone until 11:30, then went home with Shen Yanming.
On the way, Bi Qiaoan was still thinking that she had drunk a bit too much in her previous life. Later, Xiao Fei came and took her to her dormitory. She had blacked out that day and only found out the next day when her classmates told her about it.
Bi Qiaoan later asked Xiao Fei if he had seen her ring, and Xiao Fei said no.
Finally home, Bi Qiaoan collapsed onto the sofa, refusing to move. Shen Yanming had to pick her up and carry her to the bathroom before she could force herself to wash up, still feeling sleepy.
As a result, after washing up, Bi Qiaoan perked up again and hurriedly pulled Shen Yanming aside to ask what accident had happened that had made him take so long.
Shen Yanming drew the curtains in the living room, and with a flick of his right hand, a bag of potato chips appeared in his hand.
Bi Qiaoan covered her mouth with her hands in shock, "Is it what I thought?"
Shen Yanming smiled and nodded, "That's exactly what you thought!" Shen Yanming turned off the living room light, walked in the dark to Bi Qiaoan, took Bi Qiaoan's hands, and silently said "Go in."
Bi Qiaoan found herself suddenly transformed from a pitch-black living room into a brightly lit space, though this space felt somewhat full.
"Brother Yanming, how did this space come about? How big is it?" Bi Qiaoan asked Shen Yanming excitedly.
"This place is about an acre in size. I was in the southern province when I accidentally knocked over a case of red wine while organizing supplies. My finger was cut by the glass, and the ring got stained with blood. Later, the ring disappeared, and then I discovered a space in my mind."
This space is neither day nor night, with a jade floor and surrounded by clouds and mist. I tried to walk into the clouds and mist and felt a resistance that gradually increased. I guessed that there might be some conditions that could upgrade the space.
The reason I haven't come back so quickly is because I discovered this space. In order to store more things, I ordered a lot of shelves in the southern province so that I can make full use of the vertical space.
I traveled to several cities and prepared supplies for several warehouses. If the space can be upgraded, we can directly bring them in. If the space cannot be upgraded, we will secretly transport those supplies back. After the apocalypse, we will use the supplies from outside first, and keep the supplies in the space for life-saving purposes.
Things here don't spoil; they stay the same way they come out. I found it strange the first time I came in. This place is a space where time stands still for supplies, yet I, a living person, was able to enter it.
But it doesn't matter, as long as it works!
Bi Qiaoan's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Brother Yanming, we are so lucky! I never thought we would have such good fortune!"
Shen Yanming smiled and said, "Isn't there another ring? Let's try a drop of blood and see if there's a second miracle!"
As he spoke, Shen Yanming walked to the medical area, found the first aid kit, took out a needle, disinfected it with alcohol, and then pulled Bi Qiaoan's finger and inserted it.
A bead of blood gushed out instantly, and Bi Qiaoan almost cried from the pain. Shen Yanming quickly took the ring off Bi Qiaoan's neck and held it in his hand, letting Bi Qiaoan drip her blood.
Bi Qiaoan's blood droplet was instantly absorbed by the ring, but the ring didn't react much. Shen Yanming told Bi Qiaoan to try sticking the wound directly onto the ring.
Bi Qiaoan obeyed, and as soon as she touched her fingertip to the ring, she felt blood gushing out from her fingertip, all of which was absorbed by the ring.
After the ring absorbed the blood, it flew to Bi Qiaoan's left ring finger and then slowly disappeared, and the wound on Bi Qiaoan's fingertip also disappeared.
"How is it? Is it spacious? How big is it?" Shen Yanming asked Qiao An somewhat anxiously.
"Um, it seems to be about the size of an acre, but it's different from here..." Bi Qiaoan was stunned by what she was seeing.
Without saying anything more, Bi Qiaoan held Shen Yanming's hands and silently chanted "Enter the space".
In an instant, the two were in a different environment. This place was quite similar to Shen Yanming's space, also about an acre in size, surrounded by white mist. The difference was that the ground in Shen Yanming's place was made of jade, while Bi Qiaoan's place was fertile black soil.
"Qiao An, that's wonderful! We can grow crops here now, and we'll never have to worry about going hungry again!" Shen Yanming said excitedly, hugging Bi Qiao An tightly.
Bi Qiaoan said softly, "Yes, we don't have to worry about going hungry anymore."
Sensing Bi Qiaoan's low spirits, Shen Yanming asked, "Why are you unhappy? Weren't you so excited you wanted to scream when you found out I had a spatial ability?"
Bi Qiaoan felt so wronged that tears welled up in her eyes. "On this day in my past life, I drank so much that I blacked out. When I woke up in my dorm the next day, I found that my ring was gone."
I went to the KTV later to look for it, but the cleaning staff said they hadn't found it.
I asked Xiao Fei, who drove me back, and he said he hadn't seen him.
I felt extremely guilty at that time. I had been careless and lost something important. I had promised Aunt Su that I would keep it with me, but I just lost it like that.
Later, I had a very hard time in the apocalypse, and Xiao Fei often brought me food.
At that time, I was thinking, Xiao Fei is so capable, how come he never lacks food?
Later, Xiao Fei had bodyguards by his side, and his status rose higher and higher.
But he would still bring me some food every now and then, and that day was my nightmare. As soon as Xiao Fei left, Chen Jin would come to cause me trouble.
Now that I see all this, I think I understand where Xiao Fei's status comes from. But why did he come to me?
"Perhaps it's because of a guilty conscience, or perhaps it's because he couldn't fully control this space. I guess it's the latter. He probably thinks that since you are the owner of the ring, you might know something. Even if you don't know anything, he still has to keep you under his nose so that it will be easier for him to take action when needed."
Regardless of the truth at the time, Shen Yanming did not hesitate to speculate with the utmost malice.
In fact, Shen Yanming's guess was pretty accurate.
In his past life, on the way back to Bi Qiaoan's dormitory, Xiao Fei was drunk and unsteady on his feet. When Bi Qiaoan bent over, the ring fell out of her collar. At that moment, Xiao Fei didn't know what had bewitched him, but he picked up Bi Qiaoan's necklace and put it in his pocket along with the ring.