The middle-aged man made a threatening gesture as if he was about to hit the young man, his face full of anger and frustration.
“Don’t ruin my business!”
“It’s been sitting here for three years and no one wants it. So many people have come to look at it, and they all said there’s nothing inside it. What are you still bragging about?”
The young man wasn’t afraid of him at all and kept chattering back. Then he turned to look at Xia Sisi.
“Miss, if you want to buy rough stones, come look at mine. That guy’s not honest. His stone may look big, but it’s just junk inside!”
Xia Sisi rolled her eyes slightly and acted like a total beginner who knew nothing. She walked over to the young man in confusion.
“Brother, I’m just here to look around… That stone looks big, kind of interesting. Do you really have ones that can produce jade? I want to try and get a bracelet myself.”
It was obvious the middle-aged man and the young man didn’t get along. The middle-aged man stomped his feet and cursed.
“Liu Lao’er, don’t think I won’t hit you—you’re stealing my business every day!”
After scolding the man called “Liu Lao’er,” the middle-aged shop owner turned back to Xia Sisi with a smile.
“Let me tell you, miss, the stone you’re eyeing is our shop’s treasure!”
Hearing the words “shop treasure,” Xia Sisi almost rolled her eyes.
Every shop says the same thing. Do they really think customers are that easy to fool?
She ignored the shop owner. Since the stone had been sitting here for so long without anyone buying it, she wasn’t in a hurry.
She really wanted the stone—but she didn’t want to be taken for a sucker.
She followed “Liu Lao’er” around the shop casually, then declined his continued persuasion and returned to the shop owner.
“Boss, I kind of like this stone. It feels… like it has a connection with me. Sell it to me.”
In the end, Xia Sisi bought the huge jade rough stone for 1.2 million yuan.
The stone had been cut in several places but showed no green jade—only a small patch of milky white jadeite.
So the price wasn’t high.
In fact, many people thought it was just for show and likely had nothing inside.
She refused the request to open it on the spot and had them deliver the stone to her hotel instead.
Then she left with them.
By the time everyone was gone, it was already past 7 p.m.
Looking at the purple jade pendant space in her hand, and then at the enormous jade rough stone in front of her, Xia Sisi was very satisfied.
A good harvest today!
Happily, she first released Da Hei.
Da Hei appeared in the new environment a bit confused, but quickly calmed down. It quietly looked at Xia Sisi—and then at the strange big rock beside it.
Xia Sisi walked over and gently patted its head.
“After you go back into the space again, you’ll know how good this stone is.”
Da Hei already knew that the strange place it entered was called the “space,” but even with its improved intelligence, it still couldn’t understand how this huge rock was related to the space. It simply wandered around the hotel, bored—because it needed to use the bathroom.
Although there was cat litter in the space, it felt its owner would take it out for a walk, so it didn’t use it inside.
Seeing this, Xia Sisi knew it couldn’t stay still anymore, so she quickly put the stone into the space.
This time, she also entered the space.
She watched as the huge stone inside the space broke apart into smaller stones.
Then those small stones turned into powder.
Blue starlight-like particles floated out from the stone and merged into the space.
The space seemed to “absorb nutrients,” swallowing all those glowing particles.
At the same time, the spring water in the space became even more brilliant and sparkling.
The house in the space also doubled in size.
And the black soil farmland expanded as well—now reaching about five acres!
This time, Xia Sisi again placed a piece of bread into the soil to see what would happen next.
To her surprise, the bread was absorbed by the black soil.
Although she didn’t know what would grow later, it at least meant the soil could now accept processed food like bread.
All of this made her extremely excited.
This trip was absolutely worth it.
At the same time, she looked at the purple pendant in her hand, tempted—wondering what would happen if she also fed it to the space.
But she quickly dismissed the idea.
After the apocalypse begins, there will be countless unpredictable risks. It was better to keep the pendant for now.
After all, the space’s current upgrades were already more than impressive.
Once the space stabilized, she tried bringing Da Hei into it together with her.
To her delight, it worked!
That meant the space could now accommodate both her and Da Hei at the same time.
This added another layer of safety for the future.
That night, Xia Sisi took Da Hei for a couple of walks nearby and bought a large amount of local specialties.
The locals especially loved cured sausages—almost every supermarket sold them.
Besides sausages, there were cured ribs, cured fish, and other preserved foods.
Xia Sisi cleared out several nearby supermarkets, buying out their stock.
After that, she found the largest tea snack wholesaler in the area.
Even though they were already off work, she called them back and insisted they open up.
Once they arrived, she immediately rented a vehicle and loaded two truckfuls of frozen semi-finished snacks.
She also went to a night market street, bought all kinds of street food, fed herself and Da Hei, and finally returned to the hotel completely satisfied.
No matter how you looked at it, this trip had been absolutely worth it.
But… before going to bed that night, Xia Sisi checked her bank account and discovered that she still had over two million yuan left!
Tomorrow morning, she absolutely had to spend it all!
Da Hei was curled up beside her, sleeping together with Xia Sisi.
It had already been half-asleep with drooping eyelids when it suddenly heard Xia Sisi’s surprised voice (she had seen her account balance).
It immediately opened its eyes wide.
After confirming there was no danger nearby and that Xia Sisi was safely lying under the blanket, it finally relaxed.
However, even though its intelligence had improved compared to before, it still couldn’t understand Xia Sisi’s emotional swings.
Just like now—after a moment of shock, she suddenly became gritting her teeth and acting like she was ready to face death.
Seeing this, Da Hei simply turned around and presented its big butt to Xia Sisi—humans are really hard to understand. Whatever. I’m going to sleep.
The next day, the rain was still falling.
And it was even heavier than before.
Xia Sisi got up at around five in the morning.
She didn’t have much to pack. After taking Da Hei out for a short walk, she sent it into the space, packed her backpack, and headed to another jade market.
Her goal—spend every last cent of her savings. Not a single yuan left!
With that thought in mind, Xia Sisi stepped through the gates of the so-called “New Market” jade trading center.