308: Chapter 308 Space

The three of them looked at each other without speaking. Zhou Kai opened his mouth and closed it again; he really did not know how to start.

Su Qingxue made Xu Zhixia disappear?

Yang Ningcong poked his head out from a crack in the stone, wearing an expression of lingering fear.

This island is seriously fucking bizarre. There are countless monsters, and a living human being can actually just vanish into thin air?

"With me."

Su Qingxue spoke, and Lin Fan turned to look at her.

Su Qingxue stood there. In Yang Ningcong's eyes, the words coming out of her mouth were even more absurd than the Strange Bird outside.

"Hmm?"

"With you? Where?"

The others were utterly bewildered. She clearly vanished out of thin air, so how could she be with Su Qingxue?

Besides, where could Su Qingxue hide someone as big as that?

"Xu Zhixia was... put away by me." When Su Qingxue said this, her tongue was practically tied in knots, and she herself felt it was a bit unreal. "Inside that... that thing where I usually refresh supplies."

"Qingxue, speak more clearly." Lin Fan walked up to Su Qingxue. "How was she put in?"

Su Qingxue clenched her fingers, trying hard to make her explanation logical, but she was still in extreme shock.

"Just now, that Strange Bird rushed toward me. Xu Zhixia pushed me away and got intercepted there herself."

"I went to pull her, and my hand had just touched her clothes..." Su Qingxue paused and swallowed her saliva. "The interface in my head shattered, a vortex appeared, and then Xu Zhixia... was gone."

"Gone out of thin air."

Lin Fan fell silent for two seconds.

Su Qingxue's Superpower was refreshing bottled water, rice, machetes, and all kinds of supplies.

Where were those things stored before they appeared? Su Qingxue said it was a transparent interface that only she could see.

If what lay behind that interface corresponded to an actually existing space...

Then Xu Zhixia was now inside that space.

"Then can you see her?"

"Yes."

"What state is she in right now?" Lin Fan asked.

"Alive." Su Qingxue answered very quickly. "I can feel her heartbeat. Just like how I usually perceive supplies, she is right inside, quietly."

Zhou Kai couldn't help it anymore. "Wait... General Su, are you sure? A person was stuffed in there? A living person?"

Su Qingxue nodded.

Yang Ningcong slowly poked half his head out from the corner. "I have a question."

Everyone looked at him.

"Qingxue, that thing of yours... is there a size limit?"

"If there is air inside."

"Can you take me in as well? It's too fucking scary outside, I want to live inside."

No one paid attention to him.

Lin Fan directly skipped Yang Ningcong's nonsense and stared at Su Qingxue.

"What does it feel like when you usually take things out of that space?"

Su Qingxue was stunned for a moment. "Well... whatever you want to take, concentrate your energy, reach out your hand, and the thing comes out."

"Then try it now."

"Treat Xu Zhixia as an object and take her out from inside."

Su Qingxue: "..."

Treat Xu Zhixia as an object?

How did this analogy sound so obnoxious?

But she didn't have time to nitpick.

Su Qingxue closed her eyes and concentrated her energy to perceive that space.

Xu Zhixia was indeed inside, with a steady heartbeat and even breathing.

Su Qingxue extended her right hand.

That familiar feeling of grabbing items from the space appeared.

Only this time, what she grabbed was not a bag of rice, but a living person.

With a flip of her wrist.

The air twisted in front of Su Qingxue's hand for a split second, and Xu Zhixia appeared out of thin air in the Karst Cave.

Her feet landed on the ground, standing steadily.

Everyone's breathing seemed to stop; this thing was too magical.

Xu Zhixia stood in place, with no abnormalities around her body.

Her clothes were intact, her hair was intact, and even the red and swollen fingerprint on that half of her face was still clearly visible.

She raised her head to look around and was stunned for a moment.

"Lin Fan... What... what is going on?"

"Qingxue awakened a Superpower and may have brought you into the space where she gets supplies." Lin Fan explained.

"Space?"

Lin Fan didn't answer her, but instead asked: "How did it feel inside?"

"Or what does it look like inside?"

Xu Zhixia lowered her head to look at her hands, and then looked at the ground beneath her feet.

"Hmm... It's very quiet. You can't see the outside, and you can't hear the outside sounds." She answered very slowly, as if recalling, "There is nothing, but there is light, not the kind that is pitch black."

"There is a sense of breathing, a heartbeat, and no physical discomfort at all."

She paused.

"But the space is very small. When I reach out my hand, I can touch the boundary, probably only... the range of a person standing. Any further out is a layer of soft wall that cannot be pushed."

Lin Fan quickly digested this information: the space existed, could hold living people, but had limited capacity.

Currently, it could only accommodate the range of one person standing.

Then the question arose: could this space be expanded?

No rush for now; what needed to be verified right now was not the capacity issue, but the controllability and stability of this ability.

"Qingxue." Lin Fan turned to Su Qingxue. "When you carried Xu Zhixia, could you feel her body weight?"

Su Qingxue shook her head. "It's no different from usual. I can just see her existence."

"Then try it again."

Su Qingxue had just breathed a sigh of relief, but upon hearing these words, her entire body tensed up again. "Try what?"

"Try to see if you can take others in as well."

As Lin Fan spoke, he took a step forward and walked straight up to Su Qingxue.

"Take me in."

The Karst Cave fell silent for a split second.

They raised their heads, several pairs of eyes staring straight at Lin Fan.

This guy had just returned from hacking Strange Birds outside, still stained with black blood, and turned around to offer himself as an experimental subject?

An idea popped up in Yang Ningcong's mind: what if Lin Fan went in and couldn't come out?

Then would he be the boss of this island?

If he came out, wouldn't he be Su Qingxue's child?

If he slept with Su Qingxue in the future, wouldn't he be Lin Fan's father?

Heh heh, thoughts are thoughts, he certainly wouldn't dare say it out loud.

Su Qingxue looked at Lin Fan, her lips moving. "Are you sure?"

"Sure." Lin Fan's answer was crisp and neat.

"What if I... take you in and can't let you out?"

"You could take Xu Zhixia just now and let her out too." Lin Fan's logic was simple and crude. "Then you can definitely take me in and let me out as well."

Su Qingxue: "But what if..."

"There is no what if."

Lin Fan interrupted her. "If this ability is stable and controllable, its value on this island is greater than ten machetes combined."

"Taking people in to avoid danger in battle, taking people in to retreat and transfer, or even storing the wounded to wait for treatment."

"But the premise is that we must confirm it is effective for everyone, not just for Xu Zhixia alone."

The reasoning was entirely correct, and the logic was impeccable.

Su Qingxue bit her lower lip.

"Then... stand properly."

Lin Fan stood firm.

Su Qingxue let out a breath, trying her best to stay calm.

She focused her attention on that transparent interface in her mind.

Just now it was a critical moment; she hadn't thought about anything, driven purely by instinct.

Now, actively triggering this ability instead required more energy to find that entrance.

Her right hand lifted, and her fingers reached toward Lin Fan.

Her fingertips were still ten centimeters away from Lin Fan's chest.

Five centimeters.

Touch.

Su Qingxue's fingers rested on Lin Fan's forearm.

The transparent interface in her mind trembled again, the cracks expanded, and the vortex opened.

Faster and more decisively than when she took in Xu Zhixia just now.

Lin Fan's body began to disappear inch by inch from the point of contact.

It was as if he was directly erased from this world, the whole process taking less than a second.

Lin Fan was gone, along with the dagger and clothes on his body, all disappearing completely and cleanly.

The air in the Karst Cave froze once again.

The back of Yang Ningcong's head knocked against the stone wall.

He couldn't care about the pain anymore, muttering in his mouth, "Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit..."

There wasn't much fluctuation on Xu Zhixia's face; she had just come out of that space and knew what it felt like inside.

It was definitely safe, but stifling.

Su Qingxue herself was also dumbfounded.

Although it was an ability she actively activated, the moment Lin Fan truly disappeared under her hands, her heart still twitched.

Su Qingxue closed her eyes and confirmed the internal state of the space.

Lin Fan was inside.

Still alive, and even, she could see Lin Fan reaching out inside to touch that boundary...