[1] Apocalypse: Third Rebirth

Chapter 85: Continue the Journey

After a much-needed sleep, I felt a million times better. This was only day two of my Aunt, and I knew that I would have at least one more day of it kicking my ass before becoming easier. I felt like I was forgetting something, but deciding that it couldn't be that important, I went into my bathroom and took a nice long hot shower.

Dressed in clean clothes that still looked similar to my old ones and feeling like a completely new person, I went down into the kitchen to get myself a cup of coffee and maybe... cheesecake? Blueberry pie?

While I thought about my options, I came to a dead stop when I saw Wang Chao and Chen Zi Han drinking coffee at my kitchen table... in my space. "Do I want to know how you guys got in here?" I asked as I walked over to the coffee pot to see if there was anything left in it. Seeing as they were smart enough to leave a cup for me, I added milk and sugar and then went to sit down with the boys.

"You pulled us in yesterday," said Chen ZI Han as he pushed over a plate of muffins that they must have found in one of my cupboards, grabbing my favorite carrot one, I pushed the plate back into the center.

"Huh," I said. I must have been in some pain to drag these two into here. I didn't want anyone else but me in this space. Then again, I don't have to bring them here again. "And it's still the same day," I clarified as I took a big bite of the muffin. The only thing better than carrot muffins was carrot cake... did I have carrot cake around?

"What do you mean? We spent a night here," said Chen Zi Han, not understanding what was going on. Taking a sip of his coffee I smiled to myself.

"And we can spend 5 years here and have it be less than a second back there," I said, gesturing to the outside. I wasn't sure what they called their world, so I always felt hesitant about saying Earth.

"It's referred to as Xangdu," interrupted Wang Chao as he took a bite of his blueberry muffin. Huh, I would have taken him as more of a bran muffin type of guy... or one of those abnormally healthy ones.

"What is?" I asked, my brain still too focused on his muffin choice.

"Our world, we refer to it as Xangdu," he said. Nodding my head in understanding, I turn my attention back to my coffee and muffin. If I ever bring the boys back here, I need to train them to be making bacon and French toast for breakfast... I would just have to find some table syrup or maple syrup first.

"Wait," said Chen Zi Han trying to get my attention back to him. I looked at him through one eye, the other still too tired to open. "What do you mean we could stay here for 5 years and only have it be less than a second outside?"

"My space literally freezes time. It's how I can keep all of my food from going bad. But that doesn't mean that there is not some type of time here. However, every time I hop in here, I end up back in the same time and space as I left. Like the outside world is the one to freeze instead of this one."

"That's kind of handy," said Chen Zi Han with a smirk. I rolled my eyes.

"Hardly. It's not like I can use this place to wait out an enemy or escape from something. As soon as I come out I would be placed back in the same situation."

"Still," said Chen Zi Han, not willing to concede.

"Still," I replied nodding. If he thought this place was paradise then who am I to disagree?

"So, Liu Wei and Liu Yu Zeng won't have any idea that we were even here?" asked Wang Chao for clarification.

"Nope," I said, shaking my head. "As long as we don't show up with anything that we didn't disappear with, they won't even notice that we were gone."