Chapter 18 Unearths a Mysterious Black Space
Lin Muyan kept quiet about the apocalypse, partly because she felt it was unnecessary to mention it, and partly because Lin Xiao might not believe it even if she did.
Secondly, she is unsure whether she should continue living with her family of origin and face the end of the world together.
Call her selfish or indifferent, she doesn't care.
After what happened to the Shen family, she truly understood what it meant to be heartbroken.
They abandoned twenty years of family ties so easily, completely severing ties, treating her like a bloodsucking leech that would cling to them, chasing her away like flies.
Perhaps they have their own considerations, and from their perspective, Lin Muyan has no right to judge anything.
But this at least made her realize a stark reality: no matter what kind of relationship it is, it cannot be guaranteed to be absolutely reliable. When feelings are good, you can be so open and honest with each other, but feelings can also change and disappear in an instant, which is terrifying.
The most reliable way is to rely on yourself.
Therefore, Lin Muyan only said to Lin Xiao:
“A friend of mine asked me to buy it for him, and he will send a car to pick it up soon.”
Lin Xiao clearly didn't believe this explanation, but he didn't press the matter further.
His younger sister is already an adult and has a broader perspective than him. Perhaps she has some ideas, and he naturally cannot interfere without permission.
After handing the warehouse key to Lin Muyan, Lin Xiao asked to leave.
As he left, he thought for a moment and said:
"Sister, I'm going to look at a house in the hillside villas later. Someone has entrusted our company to handle the property transfer, but we haven't been able to find the owner yet. I need to go and take care of it."
Lin Muyan was taken aback. There were still villas on the hillside that needed to be transferred, yet the owners were so unenthusiastic? How rich must they be? Did they look down on the hillside villas?
"You don't need to report to me, I'm not your boss," Lin Muyan replied half-jokingly.
Lin Xiao, despite his tall stature, became embarrassed, scratched his head, and laughed:
"I was just thinking that if I run into you there again, little sister, I wanted to let you know in advance that I'm not going there to visit the Shen family."
He was humiliated at the Shen family's house yesterday. Jiaojiao was clearly at home but didn't come forward to help him out. Even if she had just said it was a misunderstanding, he wouldn't have been treated like a villain and almost taken to the police station.
He was increasingly unable to understand Shen Jiaojiao's temper, and he stopped going to the Shen family to see her.
Perhaps she simply didn't want to see them again. The Lin family was nothing to her, and she was now the daughter of the Shen family, a woman of noble status. From now on, they would be worlds apart, with no further contact between them.
After Lin Xiao left, Lin Muyan drove the pickup truck into the warehouse and quickly closed the door.
The golden shovel's respawn time was up, so she dug in a corner and two black orbs of light popped out.
"Black space?"
Following the naming conventions for spatial spaces, Lin Muyan guessed that this should be called the Black Space.
She absorbed the black orb into her body, creating a 20-square-meter independent space. The space was pitch black, and its function was completely invisible.
At this moment, her eyes were also busy, keeping an eye on the comments, thinking she would soon find out the function of the new space. But to her surprise, the comments didn't know either.
[What kind of space is this? Jiaojiao has never dug out a space like this before, has she?]
[I've never seen anything like it. That brat seems to be luckier than Jiaojiao. Apart from that key, everything she's dug up so far has been good stuff.]
[I'm really looking forward to it. I think this will be even more incredible than the White Space and the Green Space.]
This time, the comments seemed much friendlier towards Lin Muyan, and fewer people were criticizing her.
However, Lin Muyan couldn't find the answer she wanted in the comments, so she had to try it herself.
She glanced at the rice beside her and realized that the rice couldn't be stored in the black space.
She then tried living things, but neither she nor a few small ants she randomly picked up on the ground could enter the black space.
After several unsuccessful attempts, and with it getting late, Lin Muyan had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being.
She stored some of the rice and other grains and oils into the white space. Although the white space is now a large room of 40 square meters with a five-meter ceiling, she dared not pile the goods too high, as it would be inconvenient to take them out.
She will plan in the next few days how to store and stack the goods more efficiently.
Then, she scattered a small bag of corn seeds into the green space. The comments said that the green space didn't need to be maintained, so she didn't bother with it. She wanted to see if she could really grow crops on her own by being a hands-off manager.
After finishing all this, Lin Muyan originally planned to drive back, but then she remembered what Lin Xiao had said, so she turned the steering wheel around and headed straight for the villa on the hillside.
She was genuinely curious about what kind of person could acquire a villa on the hillside, yet hadn't shown up yet.
You should know that the hillside villas are the real affluent area of S City. Even if someone has money, they can't buy a house there.
The Shen family had already entered high society three generations ago, which is why they became the first residents when the villa on the hillside was built.
Where can you find hillside villas for sale these days? Even if you do, they'll be sold internally and won't ever enter the market.
Lin Muyan wanted to see who had such high standards that they didn't even care about a villa on the hillside.
Of course, there was also a selfish reason: I didn't want Lin Xiao to be caught and beaten by the Shen family again.
Although she didn't have much of a connection with the Lin family, blood is thicker than water, and she didn't dislike Lin Xiao, so she felt more at ease going to see him.
As expected, we were stopped when we arrived at the entrance of the villa on the hillside.
When the security guards on duty tonight saw that it was Lin Muyan, and that she was driving a very noisy pickup truck, they all made strange faces.
"Miss Shen, what are you doing driving a pickup truck so late at night?"
Another security guard nearby spoke up to remind her, his gaze casually falling on Lin Muyan, his tone also seeming somewhat flippant.
"Still calling her Miss Shen? She's no longer the daughter of the Shen family, why be so polite to her?"
Now, the whole story about the Shen family has spread throughout the hillside villa area, even the weeders know about it.
Lin Muyan has been a rich heiress for twenty years for free. An ordinary person would have made a fortune. The Shen family wants her to return to her original family, so why does she still keep thinking about running back here?
"Lin Muyan, you should know the rules of the villas on the hillside. Someone of your status is not qualified to enter unless a homeowner is willing to come out and take you in. Otherwise, why don't you call Mrs. Shen and ask her to let you in?"
The security guard who had just mocked Lin Muyan became arrogant. In the past, he could only bow and scrape to Lin Muyan and be respectful. Now that Lin Muyan was no longer a rich heiress, and it was said that her family was extremely poor, even worse off than them, the security guards, why should he still put up with her attitude?
Some people resent the rich. Once they see you fall from grace, they will kick you when you're down, and may even feel a sense of superiority for no reason, thinking that rich people are nothing special and that without their status, they might not be as good as them.
That's what the security guard was thinking. He was still young, and being a security guard made him feel ashamed. Why should others be superior to him?
He felt that it was all because he was born into the wrong family, not into a wealthy one.
Now, someone is even worse off than him. He went from being a real heiress to a fake one. He used to travel in luxury cars, but now he's reduced to driving a small truck.
He found great comfort and satisfaction.
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