31: Chapter 31 What is this?

Ye Qingqing was worried sick. Losing contact with her space meant all her supplies were gone—her luxury recreational vehicle, the massive amount of food she had prepared, even Ah Huang's dog food...

It was all gone...

"Qingqing, is that okay?"

Seeing that Ye Qingqing didn't respond, Huo Sixian asked again. Ye Qingqing, having no mind to pay attention to him, answered subconsciously.

"Okay, Brother Yan."

However, after Ye Qingqing said those words, she suddenly froze. What was she saying?

Was this what it meant to speak without thinking? For a moment, Ye Qingqing felt a surge of awkwardness so intense her toes curled.

An eerie silence hung in the air for a while. Huo Sixian hadn't expected Ye Qingqing to say that, but he felt very happy in his heart.

His eyes were filled with a hint of a smile: "Mm."

Space! Space!

Ye Qingqing screamed in her heart, praying for her space to reappear quickly, her anxiety causing her to break out in a cold sweat.

Ye Qingqing felt that her prayers were somewhat effective; at the very least, at the critical moment, the space suddenly finished its upgrade.

Before Ye Qingqing could check the state of the space, she heard a very high-pitched, miserable scream.

Huo Sixian's brow furrowed: "That's Meng Hangfei's voice! This is bad!"

After Huo Sixian spoke, he looked at Kong Ziyi. The two exchanged a glance, and then Huo Sixian tossed a very sharp small knife to Ye Qingqing.

"Qingqing, protect yourself." After Huo Sixian finished speaking, he and Kong Ziyi headed upstairs.

Meng Hangfei's voice continued to ring out from upstairs. Huo Sixian and Kong Ziyi quickened their pace, but to Ye Qingqing, this scene was actually quite exciting.

She reckoned it was probably just some thugs upstairs. With both Huo Sixian and Kong Ziyi going up, there shouldn't be any issues.

Moreover, Ye Qingqing's space had finished upgrading. She took this time to hurriedly check inside and found that the original three-bedroom apartment had expanded several times over. Not only that, outside the apartment, she could sense a ring of open land, which even had a lawn on it.

"This land..." Almost the moment Ye Qingqing saw that lawn, the farming gene etched into the bones of every Chinese person immediately awakened.

As if she could already sense those lush green vegetable leaves waving at her, Ye Qingqing couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.

She began to look forward to the next space upgrade. Now, Ye Qingqing was certain that once the stockpiled supplies reached a certain level, the space would automatically upgrade, and the changes this time were greater than ever before.

On the open ground outside the space cottage, a number '1' floated in the air.

Ye Qingqing was a bit curious, but she didn't know exactly what this number '1' meant yet.

However, the most pressing matter right now was to stockpile goods. Huo Sixian and Kong Ziyi were both gone; if she didn't do some 'zero-yuan shopping' now, then when?

Ye Qingqing was currently on the first floor, where there were many outdoor supply stores. Her eyes lit up when she saw the outdoor gear.

She started collecting from store to store. Ye Qingqing couldn't imagine how much more of a happy 'zero-yuan shopping' girl she would be if Huo Sixian wasn't in this building.

However, one of the outdoor supply stores truly surprised her.

Inside, there was a dazzling array of everything. Polar Cold Protection gear was just the basic stuff. Most importantly, there were many Alcohol Stove, alcohol blocks, and portable gas canisters.

She even found plenty of self-defense items like machetes and boning knives... and even entrenching shovels. Ye Qingqing really had her eyes opened in this store.

Because the store was very dark, she could only rely on the emergency lighting from the hallway. Suddenly, Ye Qingqing heard a faint sound of footsteps.

The string of tension in her brain warned her that danger was approaching. Ye Qingqing suddenly felt a cold breath behind her, and a chill ran down her spine.

Immediately after, a low sound of breathing reached her ears. Her scalp and the base of her ears tingled. The moment she turned her head, her Flashlight illuminated the thing behind her.

Ye Qingqing felt her heart stop. In a near-subconscious reaction, she held her breath.

Her body froze in place, not daring to move an inch.

But because of this, Ye Qingqing suddenly discovered that the 'Things' standing in front of her also didn't dare to move.

Seeing this, Ye Qingqing couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, while also whispering softly.

"Scared me to death. This store really dares to sell anything. Putting such a terrifying model in the store—aren't they afraid of scaring people?"

But just as Ye Qingqing finished speaking, the 'Things' in front of her suddenly moved. With a heavy low growl, it lunged toward her in an instant.

Ye Qingqing instinctively turned and ran. She had no idea if the thing behind her was human or ghost; she didn't even know if what was chasing her was a living person.

As she ran, she felt the thing behind her moving with her, and its speed was incredibly fast, as if it were glued right to her back.

If it weren't for the fact that now wasn't a good time to enter the space—fearing that the thing behind her might speak and thus expose her space—Ye Qingqing would have used a 'pee-break' excuse to dive right in.

Ye Qingqing felt like she was running for her life. Her throat was so tight with fear that she couldn't make a sound, and fine beads of sweat broke out on her forehead from the tension.

"What is this thing?" Ye Qingqing couldn't help but think to herself. In her previous life, it seemed such an unknown creature had never appeared.

Based on that hurried glance just now, Ye Qingqing felt that if her heart hadn't been fairly strong, she would have fainted right then and there.

What kind of face was that?

It still looked like a human face, but something was different. The pupils were an unnatural white; rather, the entire eye was a patch of gray without a trace of a black pupil.

Furthermore, black veins bulged and crisscrossed all over the face, looking extremely gruesome.

Its movement speed was also terrifying. Ye Qingqing felt like she was calling for help that wouldn't come.

Seeing that she was about to be caught by that 'Things', Ye Qingqing couldn't care less anymore. Risking the exposure of her space, she ducked directly inside.

After entering the space, Ye Qingqing slumped to the floor, gasping for air. Realizing how thirsty she was, she found a bottle of water and began to gulp it down, finally calming her heart slightly.

The time she could currently stay in the space, after subtracting the time used over the past few days, was still a full 40 minutes.