Garden of Eden || Apocalypse Paradise #2 [Complete]

175: Returning from the Netherworld

Lin Sanjiu was hazily aware that she had slept for a long time. Occasionally, someone would wake her and ask her a few questions. She didn't know who posed those questions, and she didn't know how she answered. It was as though her mind was wrapped in water. Everything she heard was muddled and indistinct.

She had never been this exhausted; it was as if her brain had stopped functioning. Even if someone were to stab her in her sleep, Lin Sanjiu probably couldn't wake up.

Lin Sanjiu didn't know how long she had slept, but her rumbling stomach finally woke her up. She smelled the pleasant fragrance of wheat. It smelled so good that her stomach reacted, and that was when Lin Sanjiu finally opened her eyes.

She was immediately greeted with a packet of bread with a small open slit.

"Look, I told you she wasn't dead!" B. Rabbit's smug voice rang out at once. Following this, the packet of bags rustled as if someone was taking it away. "You can just wake her up with food!"

Lin Sanjiu felt as though she hadn't eaten for a year, so how would she let the food in front of her escape? She leaped right up, with a motion too agile for someone who had been in a long slumber, and pressed the bread down to the ground.

If Xueqin hadn't drawn her hand back in time, that force from Lin Sanjiu would have broken two fingers of hers.

"Huh? What happened? Where am I... Where am I?" Lin Sanjiu tore off a large chunk of bread using her teeth. Her mouth was stuffed with bread, "Fei, Fei kuyyan."

"I know, I know," Xueqin understood what Lin Sanjiu was saying, but she couldn't help but feel embarrassed on Lin Sanjiu's behalf. "Eat slowly. You can talk after you finish your food. We still have lots of time to spare."

After Lin Sanjiu bit her own tongue twice, tears welled in her eyes due to the pain, but she quickly swallowed the entire bread. After that, she took some time to look around her.

When she woke up, it was dark, so she couldn't see much. When Lin Sanjiu was eating, Xueqin held her [Ability Polishing Agent] and illuminated the area nearby, allowing Lin Sanjiu to make sense of her surroundings.

'This seems like the interior of a ball.' Lin Sanjiu thought to herself. The shoddy handicraft and uneven finish made it difficult for Lin Sanjiu to even classify it as a Special Item. She stepped forward and realized that they were surrounded by a large plastic material. She didn't know how many layers of that material surrounded them, but it had completely blocked out any light from the outside.

Lin Sanjiu could hear the familiar swishing sound of the sap around them. She turned her head sharply and looked at her long-lost companions with shock. Her mouth was wide open.

"Did we go back into the rhizomes?"

"Ah, yes." B. Rabbit's fur may be mangled, but that couldn't hide the faint pride on its face that he tried to suppress. "We didn't do much. We just built this 'boat' when you were asleep. We are traveling to the surface against the flow of the tree sap.

Lin Sanjiu looked vacantly at her companions. She had many questions on her mind, but she blurted the most important question that bothered her, "Where is Hui Chuyan?"

"Don't worry. She is not in the apple tree," Xueqin answered. Xueqin pushed B. Rabbit backward, afraid that it would ramble on and deviate from the topic, "It was time for her to go to the next world. She was sent away when we were in the rhizomes."

Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment before she remembered Hui Chuyan telling her that it was nearly her time to go to another world. However, Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that it would be this soon, so she found it rather abrupt.