Chapter 89: The Space Rule

Lin Xiaosu stretched out his hand, and the cell phone on the table vanished into thin air.

A moment later, a set of keys disappeared as well.

Both the phone and the keys had entered his hidden realm.

With a thought, he retrieved the phone. It immediately began frantically searching for a signal, demonstrating that in that instant, when it was within the realm, it had lost all connection to the outside world.

What did that signify?

That the space, for that fleeting moment, was not a part of this world.

And the keys? Lin Xiaosu had long found them cumbersome, so he decided to leave them in the realm.

The primary function of this realm, at least for now, was storage—a place to keep items that were inconvenient to carry.

He tested the phone, the keys, and then struggled a bit with a table lamp. When he tried a chair, he couldn’t even budge it. He had found the limit. Anything roughly a foot square could pass in and out unimpeded.

And once inside, it was as if it had simply vanished, weightless.

Eventually, he drifted off to sleep…

He awoke late in the afternoon, as the sunset began to paint the sky.

When he went downstairs, the detective agency was locked and empty. Lin Xiaosu went out, ate a meal at the mall, and by the time he returned to the agency, the stars filled the night sky. As he poured himself a cup of tea, he saw the two women returning side-by-side, walking instead of driving.

Something seemed off about their appearance.

They were both wearing makeup and dressed to the nines.

What was going on? Miao Ruolan and Zhou Xi, across the street, suddenly noticed the lights on in the detective agency. Both women squealed with delight, gathered their skirts, and dashed across the road.

They burst into the agency at the same time.

"You’re back?"

"Yeah, arrived last night! You were sleeping so soundly I didn’t want to disturb you," Lin Xiaosu said.

"It must have been around dawn then. I checked your room around one or two in the morning," Miao Ruolan said.

"Yeah, probably four or five," Lin Xiaosu replied, eyeing them. "What have you two been up to?"

"Guess!" Zhou Xi said, with a playful tone.

"Dressed up this fancy, did you find yourselves a boyfriend?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"You’re close!" Zhou Xi replied. "We went to a dating event."

Miao Ruolan quickly added, "Don’t get the wrong idea, we were there to work on a case."

"A case?"

"Yeah, we have a client who is in a pretty bad situation. Someone introduced him to a girl, and they were talking about marriage. They slept together, and then the girl turned around and accused him of rape. She won’t return the 380,000 yuan bride price he gave her, and she wants to send him to jail. He hired us to help him find some evidence…"

"Did you find any?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"That woman is a complete con artist! Over the past three years, the ‘Old Man in the Moon Matchmaking Agency’ alone has introduced her to four different men. This is the fourth time she’s done this! The other three times, the men chose to settle the dispute quietly and let her slaughter them, so she never actually pressed charges for rape…"

Zhou Xi said, "Tomorrow we’re going to hand over the evidence to the Public Security Bureau, and they’re going to arrest her for fraud. It’s infuriating… modern society’s views on marriage are being corrupted by scum like that…"

She went upstairs to shower and remove her makeup. In truth, not all girls enjoy wearing makeup. For those who aren’t used to it, it can be quite uncomfortable, like having paste smeared on their faces. The two women at the agency were of that type.

Miao Ruolan got up, refilled Lin Xiaosu’s cup with water, and poured one for herself as well.

She sat down. "Where did you go yesterday?"

"You won’t believe it, but I went chasing after a bird."

"A bird?" Miao Ruolan was astonished. "You can even find birds?"

Finding pets was a routine service offered by the detective agency.

Miao Ruolan had searched for them several times.

But those were always cats or dogs. She didn’t take bird cases, because they were impossible to find.

"With a flying car, there’s always a chance."

"If you’re willing to spend that much money, I suppose it’s possible, but… is it worth it?"

The price of a flying car was astronomical, far beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Even the most basic models cost millions.

The high-end ones were beyond imagination.

But that wasn’t the most expensive part. The most expensive thing was the flight permit.

Many people in Feng City could come up with a few million yuan, but a flight permit was something only the extremely wealthy or special government departments could obtain.

As a result, flying cars were a rare sight in the skies of Feng City.

Using a flying car to find a bird… that bird must be extraordinarily valuable…

"This bird has killed thirty-seven people!"

Miao Ruolan’s expression changed. "What kind of bird?"

"A species that doesn’t belong to this world. You can think of it as a demonic creature!"

Miao Ruolan’s mouth hung open, speechless…

"This world is beginning to change, Ruolan. You need to increase your cultivation and level up!"

Miao Ruolan said, "I’ve been practicing every night, but the progress is very slow."

"What’s the biggest obstacle?"

"I know that opening up even one more meridian will give me an advantage, but finding them is extremely difficult."

Finding the meridians…

Lin Xiaosu pondered for a moment. "Come to my room later, and we’ll try a new method."

"Okay!"

Zhou Xi had already showered and gone to her room, but she’d secretly left the door ajar.

She felt that something was off about Sister Lan.

For example, just now, she had really wanted to see Lin Xiaosu’s reaction when he found out they had gone to a dating event.

But Sister Lan, afraid that Lin Xiaosu would misunderstand, didn’t waste a second before confessing everything…

What was their relationship, exactly?

Before joining the detective agency, she, like most people in Feng City, had assumed that they were a couple, that this was a shop run by lovers.

But after joining, she learned that they slept in separate rooms.

In her judgment, Sister Lan was in love with him, deeply in love, you could see it in her eyes. Her eyes were full of tenderness when she looked at Lin Xiaosu.

But she never did anything out of line.

She had come upstairs first today, leaving space for them. Would something dramatic unfold?

After all, Sister Lan was wearing the most beautiful makeup she had ever seen her wear.

But, to her surprise, Miao Ruolan quickly went into the bathroom to wash up…

And washing up meant removing her makeup.

Her beautiful appearance was gone just like that.

It seemed that nothing would happen between her and him.

Just as Zhou Xi was solidifying this perception, something unexpected happened…

Miao Ruolan, hunched over and moving silently, passed by her door. Zhou Xi was shocked to see half of Miao Ruolan’s body through the crack in the door.

She was wearing her most revealing pajamas, and she was carrying her slippers…

Yes, carrying her slippers in her hand…

She was a practitioner of ancient martial arts. Even wearing slippers, she could move without making a sound if she didn’t want to be heard, but she was deliberately carrying them…

The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥9⊥⊥book⊥⊥bar⊥⊥first⊥ hair!

Good heavens, Sister Lan, I thought there really wasn’t anything going on between you two.

Now it seems, I was naive.

What you’re doing is much more involved than I thought.

What further confirmed it for her was that Lin Xiaosu’s door was open.

No need to knock, you could just walk right in.

The next moment, the sound of Lin Xiaosu’s door latch clicking shut.

Locked.

Confirmed!

Zhou Xi gently and quietly got up and closed her door, very softly.

Lin Xiaosu smiled under the lamp. "Zhou Xi misunderstood!"

"What?" Miao Ruolan’s face was flushed under the light.

"That’s not how you normally close a door. The lighter she closes it, the more it shows she knows you’re in my room."

Miao Ruolan’s face turned even redder. "You were the one who asked me to come…"

"Come on, get on the bed, we have business to attend to!" Lin Xiaosu said.

Miao Ruolan’s mind was a jumble.

Attending to business on the bed…

How could that sound so embarrassing? With a million thoughts swirling through her mind, she still got onto the bed. "How do we do it?"

Lin Xiaosu took her hand. "I’ll use my qi to stimulate the meridians in your hand. You focus and sense the stimulated points."

"Okay!" Miao Ruolan closed her eyes.

"Your mind isn’t calm…"

Miao Ruolan took a deep breath. "It will be soon!"

That "soon" still took several minutes. It was too exciting, too embarrassing. There were too many thoughts and distractions in her mind…

Finally, under the effects of the Rejuvenation Skill, she calmed down…

As her mind calmed, she sensed the points of stimulation on her arm. These points formed a line of qi circulation.

She couldn’t truly sense the path of the line yet, only a few points, because that line of qi wasn’t open. Lin Xiaosu was just marking it for her.

Like surveying the land before building a road.

The recognition solidified bit by bit.

Miao Ruolan’s senses were gradually taking shape.

After about two hours, Miao Ruolan opened her eyes. "I think I can do it!"

"Do you want to open it up now?"

"I don’t have your ability to open up a meridian as soon as you find the path. It would take me a month to open it. Do you want me to go back to my room?" Miao Ruolan asked.

"Yeah!"

Miao Ruolan got off the bed, put on her slippers, silently crossed the corridor, quietly opened her door, entered her room, and closed the door latch very gently.

Zhou Xi, in the middle room, took out her phone and glanced at the time. Three hours. Was this the toughness of a martial artist? Three hours. How intense that must have been…

Sister Lan was also a martial artist, so she could handle it…

If it were me, I probably couldn’t…

Miao Ruolan returned to her room, habitually unfolded the portrait, looked at it for a while, gently kissed the image, then put the portrait away, sat cross-legged, and began her cultivation.

Lin Xiaosu’s Rejuvenation Skill had been taught to him by her, and now he was teaching her. She had to increase her cultivation. She couldn’t let him down! Only if she and he could move forward in sync would she be qualified to touch the most beautiful vision in her heart…

That night, Lin Xiaosu was pure.

Miao Ruolan was pure.

Only Zhou Xi was deceived by her own eyes, misled beyond recognition…

The next morning, Miao Ruolan was radiant, Lin Xiaosu was energetic, but Zhou Xi was dizzy and muddle-headed.

The two actors were full of energy, but the one watching the show had turned into an eggplant after staying up all night. It was quite a strange situation…

The detective agency opened its doors. Today, Zhou Xi was the one going out.

She drove the agency’s sky-blue small car to the Public Security Bureau to deliver the evidence of the woman’s fraud.

Miao Ruolan smiled softly. "Zhou Xi was even more outraged by this case than the man’s mother."

"Was the man a relative of hers?"

"No! Maybe that girl has a beautiful view of love in her bones. She feels that the woman has defiled her view of love."

"It seems she’s quite different from you. She’s very emotional!" Lin Xiaosu said. "She once mentioned something to me, that she wanted to practice your family’s ancient martial arts. I told her to go directly to you. Did she ask you?"

"Yes, she did. I gave her the books, and she started practicing the day before yesterday. But you can’t expect her to master it as quickly as you did…"

Miao Ruolan’s voice trailed off.

Her gaze turned to the outside of the detective agency.

Lin Xiaosu turned around and was slightly surprised…

(End of Chapter)