Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 12: New Game Launch [Complete]

1458: Glass Shards in Money

As Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes in deep concentration, the room fell silent, and all the humanoid Special Items remained still. Occasionally, a ghostly game character would flash past behind the sofa, or a cabinet door would silently open, revealing a man's face that peeked out, glanced around, and then retreated.

A few minutes later, Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes.

The Life Coach leaned in eagerly, his eyes shining. "How did it go? What power did you obtain?"

That was a difficult question to answer.

"I didn't expect... It's not the [The Spirit of All Things]," Lin Sanjiu said, frowning. "It seems more like a personal advantage of hers, although it feels very similar to an ability."

She had initially thought that one of the two must be [The Spirit of All Things]. Such a widespread, cheat-like ability would likely be among Advaita's top three most important powers. She hadn't anticipated acquiring two things that were even more critical to Advaita than [The Spirit of All Things].

"What do you mean?"

"For example, if I can run exceptionally fast, that's an advantage. But if I use [Planar World], that's my ability," she explained, carefully choosing her words. "What I obtained from Advaita wasn't an ability. It's more like an innate quality she was born with that became her advantage. Unless she wasn't human when she was born, I don't understand why a person's innate quality would be... like this."

The humanoid Special Items were all intrigued. Since these two things were neither abilities nor items, there were no descriptions or explanations. Lin Sanjiu had to figure them out gradually.

"Let me demonstrate," she said, standing up. She surveyed the living room then slowly lifted her foot to take a step forward.

All three humanoid Special Items watched her foot intently. Her combat boot stepped down as usual, the sole forming a forty-degree angle with the floor and continuing its descent—then, suddenly, it disappeared. They looked up, startled, to see Lin Sanjiu's body from the calf upwards rapidly vanishing, even though she was still in a forward-walking pose.

The Life Coach was the first to react, his eyes wide. Just as he was about to speak, the combat boot reappeared in the air, landing smoothly on the floor. Along with it, Lin Sanjiu's entire body reappeared.

It seemed as if she had briefly become invisible while taking that step.

"What happened?" the Life Coach asked. "Was it invisibility?"

Lin Sanjiu's eyes were even wider than the Life Coach's. She stood there, momentarily stunned, feeling as if she were a child seeing fireworks for the first time. Mesmerized by the dazzling display, she was so captivated by the shifting lights and shadows that she forgot how to speak.

The Life Coach's voice brought her back to reality. Even without a mirror, she was certain her cheeks were flushed with excitement. Her voice trembled slightly as she said, "You... you need to see this."

She opened her tightly clenched fist over the coffee table in the living room. A moist bundle of sand, mixed with a few white pebbles and a fragment of a broken shell, fell onto the table, releasing a faint but distinct scent of the sea.

The humanoid Special Items recognized it. "Sand? When did you...?"

"Just now," Lin Sanjiu replied, still trying to grasp what she had just experienced. The sensation made every nerve in her body tremble as if the strings of a harp had been plucked.

"Just now?"

"I used one of those qualities... Well, think of it as if I activated it. It's hard to explain," she said, gesturing around. "The place I wanted to reach was just a step ahead... Just one step, no actual path. But after activating this quality, I felt I had countless routes to that single step... Some could even take hundreds of years."