Blind Date in Time and Space

The next day, Chen Ji woke up in the tent, opened his eyes and saw the little lady. She was sleeping soundly, with a healthy blush on her delicate face, huddled in the blanket and very close to Zhou Wan.

Zhou Wan, who was very cold during the day, buried her face in the quilt when sleeping, like an ostrich, with her long black hair scattered, and her smooth forehead could be vaguely seen.

To be honest, Chen Ji wanted to hold them all in his arms at this moment.

Let’s have a most authentic hug.

Because there are these two beauties in the tent, the fragrance filling the air is very pleasant.

There were faint sounds of people outside. It must be those people in the world. They go to the center of the Arctic every day to explore. Yesterday, Chen Ji learned from their mouths that the Arctic continent has indeed changed a lot recently.

Some of them slept in igloos at night and woke up the next day to find themselves halfway up the mountain—the mountain had grown overnight.

Chen Ji once suspected that it was related to the northern snow-capped mountains of Shen'en Continent, but since there was no other evidence, he could only give up and wait for them to continue exploring.

"Well."

Zhou Wan woke up faintly, turned her head and saw Chen Ji looking at her.

A warm feeling followed, making her whole body feel like she was wrapped in happiness. She didn't want to talk or get up.

"Are you awake?" Chen Jichao smiled.

"Um...what time is it now?"

Zhou Wan huddled in the quilt. Last night, Chen Ji specially used his immortal power to clean the quilt. It was very clean.

"It's past eight o'clock. How did you sleep last night?"

"It's quite stable~, with you here I don't have to worry about wild beasts... Is there breakfast this morning?"

Zhou Wan smiled sweetly at him.

After spending the night in such a cold place, she suddenly thought of the basement of her home. In the dream given to her by Zhou Wan, she spent many times in the cold basement.

Now she had a feeling of reliving it, but Chen Ji was by her side again, and the comparison made her cherish what she saw before her even more.

"Yes! Wait, I'll go out and see if Lu Huai has cooked breakfast. If it doesn't work, I'll go back to Earth to buy it."

Xia Shumin is his time-travel anchor, allowing him to come back quickly.

"Forget it, don't go back, just eat whatever you want."

"I'll go take a look first!"

After getting up and dressing, Chen Ji came out of the tent. Outside, the prince's guards were drinking porridge and eating meat with steaming bowls. The rice was still the material he brought yesterday.

When Chen Ji returned to the tent with three bowls of meat porridge and some pickles, the little lady also woke up. Her hair was scattered and her face was red and tender. She was sitting on the quilt in a daze, not yet awake.

After the lady Begonia went to bed in spring, her youthful and slightly charming appearance made Chen Ji look at her a few more times.

"Son..."

Xia Shumin hugged the quilt, her face turned red with embarrassment, and she put on her clothes with her back to Chen Ji.

Zhou Wan suddenly realized that when Xia Shumin grew older, her graceful and quiet temperament would become even more attractive.

"Let's have breakfast first!"

Chen Ji looked away and greeted them.

Xia Shumin knelt down and sat on the blanket obediently. The north was called Kang. This was her second time living there.

After breakfast, the three of them went out together.

After Chen Ji said hello to Lu Huai, he took them flying up. Soon they came to a rather stable space crack, and the three of them entered it together.

Zhou Wan traveled through the world through a space rift for the first time.

She held Chen Ji's hand tightly, and after a slight dizziness, she came to a place where she couldn't see her fingers and it was very cold.

"Son..."

Xia Shumin made a trembling voice, and her petite body leaned tightly against Chen Ji. She couldn't see anything, so she was particularly attached to him.

"It's okay, it's normal, don't be afraid."

Chen Ji comforted her, and with a thought, a ball of light emitted from his body, illuminating the surrounding area.

Zhou Wan immediately determined the location:

The doomsday base located thousands of meters underground is a research center in the middle of the city.

The reason why she was so sure was because she saw the withered World Tree, which she and Chen Ji had visited last time.

"……ah!"

It was Xia Shumin who exclaimed.

It was the first time she saw withered trees in this world. Coupled with the darkness all around, the trees with crisscrossed branches gave people a strong sense of fear.

"Don't be afraid!"

Chen Ji once again comforted her and said, "This tree is the World Tree I told you about. Do you still remember it?"

"World Tree? Elf...?"

Xia Shumin remembered.

She released her hold on the young master's arm, turned to holding the corner of his clothes, and walked with him to the foot of the World Tree.

"Sir, has it withered?"

Xia Shumin asked curiously.

She has been here twice, and this tree is the only plant she has ever seen, making it particularly precious.

Before Chen Ji could answer, after Xia Shumin spoke, the branches in front of the three of them suddenly trembled slightly, as if a gust of wind had blown by, and the branches rustled.

Xia Shumin took a step back in fright, and Zhou Wan also became nervous.

It is located underground, so there is little air flow. The research center has walls on all sides, so there should be no wind!

"strangeness……"

Chen Ji threw a ball of light onto the withered world tree, but there was no response. He threw a little more fairy power over it, but still no movement.

The tree must have withered.

Chen Ji and Zhou Wan looked at the little lady together.

"Master, Sister Wan..."

Xia Shumin realized her problem, looked at the tree in front of her, and tried to say a few words to revive it.

Unfortunately, except for the very first sentence, there is no movement.

"A dead world."

Zhou Wan said regretfully, "Or maybe it has never lived?"

This world is very small, only the size of Haicheng. It is a replica of the doomsday world of Haicheng. It is caught in the gap between space. Animals and plants cannot survive. Only some monsters from other worlds can survive.

"The dead world?"

Xia Shumin blinked, looked at Zhou Wan and said: "Sister Wan, Shumin feels that this place has just been born, just like before the creation of the world, waiting for the young master to hold an ax and split the chaos, separate the clear from the turbid, and then...ah , No, the young master is not Pangu!"

Xia Shumin quickly covered her mouth.

Pangu transformed into all things after the creation of the world, and she didn't want the young master to be like this.

Chen Ji laughed dumbly.

"Just born?" Zhou Wan said: "Will this evolve into an independent world?"

No one can answer her, and when faced with questions involving the world, she can only rely on guesswork.

The three of them left here, and Chen Ji asked Da Zhouwan to send another car.

This time he went to the ancient world with little Zhou Wan. There was no change in her place. She still came to the earth from the apocalyptic world. Yesterday, big Zhou Wan returned to live in the villa, and little Zhou Wan exchanged dreams with her again.

Chen Ji drove out of the doomsday base through the train tunnel, still thinking about their two guesses:

Is this world just born or has it died? Does it have what a world should have?

In other words, how to define a world?

There are many strong men in the Nine Realms who can open up small spaces outside the starry sky, but they cannot completely break away from the Nine Realms, and they certainly cannot be considered a world.

Each of his four blind dates has its own characteristics and must be considered a world.

What about this place where the four worlds meet?

"Where should we go? To the villa first, or to that building?"

Zhou Wan, who was sitting in the back row with Xia Shumin, asked Chen Jidao.

After the car left the doomsday base, there was not much change in the city. There was still the dim light created by Xia Shumin in the sky, and the starry sky garden that appeared after the arrival of the starlight goddess Astana was also dim.

This time Zhou Wan and Xia Shumin arrived at the same time, but it seemed that there was no change.

"Go to the villa first."

Driving all the way, we soon arrived at Zhou Wan's villa community.

With the wood that Lu Huai sent from time to time, the place became more lively, and the light of fire could be seen in the distance.

After Chen Ji and the others appeared, although everyone was happy, they were not too surprised.

Xia Shumin saluted her master, said hello to her mother-in-law, ate some barbecue, and then looked at the young master, as if asking what to do next.

"Oh, Brother Chen, I'm so sorry."

Liu Sangu sighed and said: "We have been monitoring that building these days, but we did not see the man in black appear again, and there was no change in other places..."

Everything seems to have reached a dead end.

The Qianyuan Demon Ancestor from the Nine Realms and Corim from the Divine Grace Continent both looked at Chen Ji.

Only he can lead them out of this cage-like place!

"The man in black?"

Chen Ji pondered.

According to Astana, the person who owns this cloak of silence happens to be a bishop of the Church of Light. He disappeared while leading a team to leave the original city to rescue the survivors outside. There is no news yet.

But with the character of this bishop, he would not run away when he saw Chen Ji.

Was it the bishop who was tainted, or was it someone else?

"Lord Lord!"

Corim hesitated and whispered: "Not long ago, I found a person's footprints outside the villa. I compared it with everyone else, and it didn't match that footprint."

"oh?"

Chen Ji looked at her unexpectedly.

Corim is a centaur with extremely strong running ability and excellent hunting skills on the grassland. Correspondingly, her ability to track prey is also very good.

"However." Corim said embarrassedly: "This is not the Divine Grace Continent. It cannot be determined using magic. We can only infer from the position of the man's footprints that he was looking at this place at the time."

"Did you tell them?" Chen Ji pointed at Liu San and looked at them.

Corim shook her head and said that it was difficult for her to communicate with them. She didn't know how long ago the footprints were. They might have been left by someone from the past. She planned to track them herself and tell them when there was news.

Chen Ji hummed and told this group of people.

"footprint?!"

"Hey, is it the man in black who is spying on us!?"

"Damn guy, he actually touched outside our camp!"

Everyone was shocked, the wine in the bowl was no longer fragrant, and they felt uncomfortable being spied on.

Chen Ji said: "It's not sure yet, please don't make any noise. I plan to stay here for two days and see if I gain anything!"

He looked at Xia Shumin and Zhou Wan.

The two of them knew what he meant, and both expressed that they would stay and not be in a hurry to go back.

Chen Ji did not refuse their company, and it would not be too uncomfortable to stay for two or three days.

After eating something, he took the two of them and drove to the building to take a look.

Some people followed, and most people stayed in the villa community to wait.

"Sir, since we are going to arrest someone, will the car lights be too conspicuous?"

Xia Shumin looked at the car's headlights, which were so bright that they could be seen miles away.

Zhou Wan said with a smile: "He probably wanted to build a plank road to hide in Chen Cang. He would go there openly and then let people drive the car back. We stayed there and waited."

"...How do you understand me so well?" Chen Ji couldn't even admit it.

"Hmm."

Zhou Wan was very proud.

Xia Shumin blushed a little. Why didn't she guess the young master's intention?

The group of people arrived at the block where the building was located. The car lights shone on the building from a distance. It was dark inside the broken windows on the floor, and they could vaguely see——

"ah!!"

Xia Shumin, who was sitting in the back seat, screamed, which startled Chen Ji who was driving. He quickly asked her, "What's wrong with Shumin?"

Zhou Wan stared at her surroundings, her time powers ready at any time.

But no monsters appeared around.

"..."

Xia Shumin looked straight ahead from the car window for a long while, then rubbed her eyes and looked again, "I, I seem to have made a mistake."

"What did you see? Don't be afraid, it's okay if you see it wrong."

"Well... that's it, I saw many figures appearing in the building, in, in-"

"Don't be afraid, Shumin."

Zhou Wan held her palm and encouraged her to continue speaking.

Xia Shumin calmed down and plucked up the courage to say: "We were surrounding an dug grave, and a coffin was exposed in the grave. It is very similar to a dream I had before!"

Zhou Wan, who had originally encouraged her, now felt goose bumps and was a little frightened. If Chen Ji hadn't been in the front row, she would have been even more scared now.

Figures appeared in the building, and figures surrounded the grave and coffin... This ghost story makes people immerse themselves just by hearing it!

"Dream?"

Chen Ji stopped the car three hundred meters away from the building.

Xia Shumin's dream is different from Zhou Wan's dream. Her dream seems to make no sense. She said before that when she was continuing to write Dream of Red Mansions, she would often dream. She saw the development of the plot in her dream. When she got up the next day, her thoughts came to her. , the plot was written quickly.

But now, she suddenly had hallucinations in this building?

"Shu Min, please tell me about your dream in detail."

Chen Ji said, rolling down the window and asking Liu San who was following them to wait for a while.

"Yeah." Xia Shumin didn't ask any more questions, and recalled: "I only had this dream once, but I remember clearly that a barren tomb stood on the black soil, and the sky was pitch black. It was very desolate. The barren tomb The tombstone was broken, the grave was dug up, and the bones inside disappeared... I was frightened in the dream, but fortunately the young master was there."

Her cheeks were red with embarrassment, she glanced at the building, and continued: "I took this as a lesson and wrote about the world of immortality and underworld... Fortunately nothing happened~"

Under the light inside the car, Chen Ji and Zhou Wan looked at each other.

"Any other dreams?"

Chen Ji asked the little lady again.

"Well, I don't remember other dreams... The only one I still remember clearly is that someone asked me something. I don't remember the answer. I just remember that I read him a poem I wrote and he was deeply moved. He sighed deeply and said he was going to sleep."

"poetry?"

Chen Ji is no stranger to poetry. He likes ancient poetry very much. He is deeply impressed by the hymns of the Divine Grace Continent. According to Astana, the evil god came because of a poem.

It can't be that outrageous.

"Barren tombs, tombstones...the underworld?"

Chen Ji got out of the car, Xia Shumin and Zhou Wan followed him, Liu Sangu and others followed closely, and the group entered the building.

As soon as they got closer, a cool air hit her face, making Xia Shumin tremble, and her petite body subconsciously moved closer to the young master.

Chen Ji gave her a small ball of light to warm her body.

"Son."

Xia Shumin shouted softly, her eyes shining with shame, but she didn't speak and followed closely behind him.

The group of people went up to the restaurant floor, went downstairs soon, and drove away.

Less than five minutes.

A figure dressed in black slowly walked out of the mist that suddenly appeared. As soon as he appeared, he cursed: "Damn, you are chasing so hard, Chen Ji deserves to be damned! He actually brought Zhou Wan here with him!!"

He walked out of the restaurant and suddenly stopped again.

There was something strange in the silence all around.

"Are you scolding me?"

Along with the light, a man's voice came from outside the window.

The man in black looked up and saw a large group of warm light pouring in from the window. His face suddenly changed, his body twisted, and he tried to turn around and run back, running to the weakest place in the space to escape.

However, his movements suddenly became extremely slow.

And another girl shouted in a clear voice: "The sneaky guy shows up!"

"you!"

The expression of the man in black was extremely exciting. The three of them attacked together, forcing him to throw out a sword he got from somewhere. With a bang, he broke through the time blockade and shattered the surrounding light, but his body A small fragment inside was pulled by some force and flew out of his body.

"not coming back!"

The man in black turned around and tried to grab the fragment, but it was too late. Chen Ji and three others had already flown in from the window, and the next move came quickly.

He hated that he had received a lot of benefits in that place, but in the end he still couldn't defeat them!

"Wait for me!!"

After saying a few words, he turned around and fled into the mist, leaving this small world and the mist disappeared with it.

Chen Ji asked Ma Yien to search for traces of remaining space, but unfortunately found nothing. She didn't have this ability at all, and she relied on instinct to travel through time.

Zhou Wan tried to use time power to reappear, but only the afterimage of the man in black appeared in the air, unable to catch him.

but.

The identity of the man in black has been exposed.

Chen Ji found the sword he threw and a fragment that flew out of his body.

This is a fragment of destiny.