Once the blinding light had become less intense, everyone finally opened their eyes. However, the scene before them was no longer Lu Yan’s room.
Instead, they found themselves standing inside a dilapidated warehouse.
The place they were standing in was a small courtyard enclosed by walls on all four sides, roughly fifty square meters in size. There was a dry well in one corner, with a wooden door beside it. On both sides of the courtyard were two bare patches of land, with only a narrow path left in the middle for walking.
The moment Lu Jiang saw the door, his first reaction was to go over and open it. However, no matter how hard he pushed, the wooden door did not move at all.
Seeing this, Lu Xiao went over to help. Even with the two of them pushing together, the courtyard gate remained completely motionless.
Gu Jin Huai ran over to push open the warehouse door, but the moment he lightly touched it, the entire door collapsed.
With a loud crash, it fell to the ground and sent a cloud of dust billowing into the air.
Gu Jin Huai was almost swallowed up by the dust, but fortunately, he reacted quickly and immediately ran back out.
“Ah, cough, cough, cough! What kind of hellhole is this?”
Although Gu Jin Huai had managed to get out, he had still inhaled several mouthfuls of dust.
“This is a space,” Lu Yan explained simply. She then casually tossed the necklace she was holding into the dilapidated warehouse.
The necklace was the key to activating the space, as well as the key to activating the warehouse. Once the warehouse within the space was activated, the necklace completely disappeared.
The very next second, the dilapidated warehouse instantly transformed into a magnificent, spacious warehouse, while the door that had just collapsed was transformed into a beautiful door made of premium pear wood.
Everyone was stunned once again as they watched the transformation.
At that moment, Lu Xi finally came to his senses and exclaimed in surprise, “A space? Yan Bao, do you mean an ability space? Like the ability spaces of those so-called ability users in online novels?”
As a famous celebrity, Lu Xi would occasionally read online novels in his spare time.
When he had seen water flowing from Lu Yan’s finger earlier, he had not realized what was happening. After all, things like that only existed in online novels, so how could they possibly appear in real life? The thought had never even crossed his mind.
But now that he was truly standing inside this place, he finally dared to believe that all of this was actually real.
Lu Yan shook her head. “No! The space we’re in right now isn’t an ability space. It’s a portable mustard seed space. Ordinary ability spaces can’t allow people to enter. Look at your chests. Don’t you all have a piece of agate shaped like this?”
After hearing Lu Yan’s explanation, everyone immediately checked their chests.
“We do,” they replied in unison after examining themselves.
“Does that mean anyone with this mark can freely enter and leave the space?” Lu Xi asked.
Lu Yan nodded. “That’s right. This space came from Mom’s agate necklace. Originally, it was a group space. Once everyone’s blood is merged together and the space is activated, everyone can freely enter and leave it. Of course, the prerequisite is that everyone who activates the space must be completely united.”
That was exactly what had been written in the novel. The whole family had to stand united, so Lu Yan naturally wasn’t worried that they would fail.
However, Lu Jiaoyang in her previous life had not known about the space’s unique properties. As a result, she had been the only one to activate it, and she alone had possessed the right to use the space.
In fact, when the space was first introduced earlier in the novel, the author had never mentioned that it was a group space. It was only at the very end of the story that the author revealed this secret in the final part. Lu Yan had only learned about it after hearing her third brother mention it.
As for why she had used the water from her spiritual spring to merge with everyone’s blood instead of ordinary spring water, she had simply wanted to see whether doing so would produce some other effect.
In the God Realm, every time her Divine Sovereign space ability leveled up, she needed divine water as an aid, so she had come up with the idea of giving it a try.
Now, looking at the scene before her and seeing that everyone could enter the space, it was clear that her experiment had worked.
The space Lu Jiaoyang had activated in her previous life had only been a simple storage space. It had neither a spiritual spring nor the ability to freely enter and leave.
The storage space should have been the warehouse they were looking at now.
But now, they not only had a warehouse, they also had a well. There should be water after the space is upgraded, so there is no need to worry about it being dry for now.
There was also the door that they could not open. There was definitely another world waiting beyond it.
In this life, their entire family had gained possession of the space ahead of time. Lu Yan refused to believe that they could still be killed by that woman.
Lu Xiao asked, “Since it’s a group space, why didn’t you wait until Big Brother and Third Brother came back so we could activate it together? That way, even if they’re overseas in the future, we could still meet inside the space.”
“We don’t have time,” Lu Yan replied.
“Why?” everyone asked in unison.
“Because three months from now, a series of natural disasters will strike one after another. Typhoon warnings, torrential rain and floods, a global freeze, extreme heat and other disasters will sweep across the world. After those disasters have ravaged humanity, the true beginning of the Apocalypse will arrive. Humans will begin to mutate, and plants and animals will begin to mutate as well. Some people will become zombies, while others will awaken abilities. This will mark the beginning of a new era, the Age of Zombies. This is one of the reasons I said earlier that I’m about to die and that all of you are going to die too. Of course, we won’t die because of these natural disasters. We’ll be killed by someone else.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Xi could not help but curse. “WC, so the end of the world really does exist!”
“Yan Bao, how do you know all of this?” Lu Zhengyang asked.
Before Lu Yan could answer, Lu Xi spoke first. “I know! Yan Bao, were you reborn? That’s how it always happens in online novels. After struggling through the Apocalypse for years, you’re either killed by someone or a laboratory explodes, and then you open your eyes and find yourself reborn.”
Lu Yan gave him an obviously forced smile, but in the end, she did not deny it.
Rather than telling them that she was not the real Lu Yan and making them feel sad, it was better to go along with it and let them believe that she was a reborn person.
Everyone chose to believe Lu Xi’s guess and Lu Yan’s tacit confirmation. Lu Jiang then asked, “Yan Bao, since you’re reborn, do you know how we died? Who killed us?”
Lu Yan revealed a name. “Lu Jiaoyang.”
“What?”
“Her?”
Seeing the various expressions on everyone’s faces, Lu Yan explained, “She’s also a reborn person, but she was reborn one month before the Apocalypse. The first thing she did after being reborn was steal Mom’s necklace, activate the space, fill it with supplies, and build a safe house.”
“Although she used her supplies and safe house to help our family during the natural disasters, that was nothing more than part of her scheme. She needed us to help her fend off zombies during the Apocalypse and help her achieve her goals.”
“Then how did we all die?” Lu Jiang asked.
“Exactly! Tell us how we died. At the very least, then we’ll know how to guard against it,” Lu Xi added.