Ye Xin stood frozen on the spot.
More precisely, only the few jade bracelets that Ye Xin liked the most had disappeared!
They were the exact ones she had fallen in love with at first sight and planned to give to her mother.
What a scam of a system!
If she had known it would swallow her belongings, she wouldn’t have gone through all that trouble collecting them!
But if the system had really swallowed her things, could it have given her some kind of corresponding reward?
Ye Xin began carefully examining her space.
The wooden cabin, with its two bedrooms and one bathroom, was unchanged. It seemed the living room hadn’t expanded either.
The patches of black soil outside were still exactly the same size as she had originally divided them into. They hadn’t grown at all.
The forest behind the cabin was still lush and thriving. The flowers, grass, birds, and insects were all the same. Even the fish swimming in the stream hadn’t increased in number.
The few hens were still freely foraging on the grass, and there was no obvious sign that anything had changed.
Ye Xin felt a little disappointed.
Just then, a fox was chasing a wild rabbit.
The rabbit, panicking, suddenly crashed headfirst into a tree trunk and immediately collapsed limply onto the ground.
Ye Xin frowned, feeling a trace of sympathy.
What a cute little rabbit! Is it really going to be eaten by the fox just like this?
She was about to enter the space to pick up the rabbit and chase the fox away.
But unexpectedly, the fox suddenly seemed to see something terrifying and froze in place!
Its two ears moved rapidly back and forth as if desperately trying to locate the source of the danger.
Ye Xin’s heart stirred.
Instead of entering the space, she silently commanded in her mind:
Rabbit, wake up. Fox, go away.
Sure enough!
The rabbit suddenly sprang up from the ground and hopped away as fast as it could.
The fox, meanwhile, turned around and quickly fled in the opposite direction.
How amazing!
Ye Xin couldn’t help wanting to test this ability on some other animals.
Not far away, several hens were pecking around for food while a rooster stood on a tree branch, crowing.
With a single thought, the hens scattered across different parts of the grassland quickly came running over.
The rooster perched on the branch also seemed to receive her command and flew down.
Ten chickens gathered according to Ye Xin’s wishes.
The rooster stood at the front, with the eight hens lined up behind it.
They walked in formation, circling around the grassland.
Ye Xin couldn’t help laughing.
So her space had this ability too!
Wait!
When she had first thrown the hens into the space, she had gone to great lengths just to drive them from the black soil toward the forest.
At that time, she couldn’t control the animals at all.
Could it be that the space had swallowed her jade bracelets and given her this ability as a reward?
Thinking of this, Ye Xin’s mind raced again.
If a person enters this space, can I control them too?
With that thought, Ye Xin completely forgot about going back to her room to sleep.
She shouted toward the bedroom,
“Dad! Mom! Xuanxuan! Come here quickly!”
Ye Xin’s parents had only just lain down.
Hearing their daughter’s voice, they hurried out of the room.
“Xinxin, what happened?”
Ye Xin gave a mischievous little grin.
“Help me with something. Come into my space for a moment.”
Before her parents could even react, she sent her father, mother, and Xuanxuan into her space together.
It was their first time entering their daughter’s space.
Ye Xin’s parents stared wide-eyed in astonishment.
“My goodness! Is this the legendary space?”
Her mother gently touched the potatoes that had just begun sprouting, then grabbed a handful of black soil and examined it carefully.
“How wonderful! There’s no torrential rain here, and the climate is so pleasant.”
Xuanxuan curiously ran toward the forest at the back.
“Wow! So this is Mom’s space! I came here in my previous life too, but it wasn’t this beautiful, and there weren’t this many animals.”
Ye Xin’s father, meanwhile, looked at the supplies drying in the garden and murmured to himself,
“It’s real! It’s really real! These are the things we salvaged from the underground warehouse.”
After letting them marvel at everything for a while, Ye Xin began silently issuing another command:
Everyone, gather in the forest. Catch the chickens!
At that moment, Ye Xin’s mother, who had still been standing in front of the wooden cabin admiring everything, suddenly turned around and walked toward the forest.
Ye Xin’s father stopped looking at the sky and black soil of the space.
Xuanxuan also stopped watching the fish swimming in the stream.
The three of them unconsciously headed toward the forest together.
Once all three reached the designated location, they exchanged glances before splitting up to catch the chickens.
Ye Xin’s mother blocked the path of one hen, then looked up at Ye Xin’s father.
The two exchanged a nod.
Her father suddenly lunged forward!
The hen was immediately caught in his hands.
Ye Xin was even more astonished!
She had only given them a simple command to gather together and catch the chickens.
She hadn’t controlled their movements or thoughts at all.
Yet they had actually known how to cooperate with one another!
Ye Xin’s thoughts shifted again, and she canceled the command to catch the chickens.
Instantly, the three of them returned to their normal states.
Xuanxuan cheered and ran toward the stream, while her mother continued marveling at how, in this life, they would never have to go hungry again…
Ye Xin moved them out of the space.
The moment Ye Xin’s parents returned, they were stunned.
“That’s it? We’re out already?”
Xuanxuan hugged Ye Xin’s thigh.
“Mom, the space in this life is so much better than the one in our previous life! Last time, there wasn’t even a stream in the space, and there were no fish!”
Ye Xin gently rubbed Xuanxuan’s little head.
“What did you feel just now?”
Xuanxuan thought for a moment.
“It felt really comfortable in there. It wasn’t cold or hot. I just don’t know why, but when we were catching the chickens, I felt like I couldn’t control myself. I didn’t want to catch the chickens at all, but I couldn’t stop my body from doing it.”
Ye Xin’s parents nodded as well.
“We felt the same way. There was just a voice that we couldn’t disobey, telling us to catch the chickens. It was as if something extremely serious would happen if we didn’t.”
Ye Xin was absolutely thrilled!
With this ability, she now had absolute control over her space.
Inside this space, she was practically like a god.
No one could ever take her space away from her!
Trading two pieces of jade for such an incredible reward was absolutely worth it!
The only downside was that the space was simply too small.
She had to hurry up and upgrade it so that it would become larger.
Since the space seemed to like jade, would giving it more jade objects make it level up faster?
Ye Xin began thinking about how she could get her hands on better jade.
Suddenly, the security door in the hallway was knocked on.
Ye Xin heard the sound of Bai Bing and Su Jing opening the door.
The person who came upstairs was none other than Su Jing’s boyfriend, Jiang Chao, whom she had kicked out of her home!
Jiang Chao had brought two men with him.
Pointing angrily at Su Jing, he cursed,
“Give me back my speedboat! And you also have to give me half of the supplies you salvaged yesterday!”
Su Jing frowned.
“Why should I give you anything?”
“Because you used my speedboat!”
Ye Xin walked out of her apartment carrying a baseball bat over her shoulder.
“Who said it belongs to you? Why don’t you call it and see if it answers you?”
Jiang Chao: “…”
The two men behind Jiang Chao were unhappy.
“You’re being unreasonable! We all paid for that speedboat together. How did it suddenly become yours?”
Another man chimed in.
“Exactly! Even though Jiang Chao paid more than half for the speedboat, it still cost the rest of us more than half a month’s salary!”
Bai Bing and his father stepped in front of Su Jing, shielding her behind them.
“Kid, I don’t know whether you have a speedboat or not, but the one we used yesterday belonged to my family.”
Ye Xin looked back at the father and son.
Both of them looked completely calm.
Bai Bing even nodded slightly, seemingly confirming his father’s statement.
Ye Xin’s heart sank.
Oh, hell! Don’t tell me this father-and-son pair is planning to keep Su Jing’s speedboat for themselves!
This was truly a case of driving away a wolf through the front door only to welcome a tiger through the back door.