322: Chapter 322 The Unknown Woman Who Appeared Out of Nowhere in Room 015

After entering the room, he instantly felt a chill run down his spine.

The lights in the room were off, but it wasn't dark.

Light poured out from Qin Lin's palm, illuminating the entire room.

The room wasn't large, and its furnishings were the same as the other bedrooms.

The bed was in the center of the room, with white blankets and white pillows.

Someone was lying on the bed.

A woman.

She wore a set of white robes—not modern clothes, but ancient attire.

With wide cuffs and a cross-collared right lapel, a pale blue ribbon was tied around her waist, and her skirt spread across the bed like a flower in full bloom.

Her hair was black and very long, cascading from the pillow and scattering across the sheets like a dark river.

Her skin was snow-white—not the pale kind, but a porcelain-like, warm, and lustrous white.

Her features were so exquisite they didn't seem real; her eyes, nose, and lips were all perfectly proportioned, as if carved by someone using the most precise ruler.

Her eyes were closed, and her long eyelashes cast fan-shaped shadows beneath them.

Her breathing was light, her chest rising and falling slightly, like a sleeping statue.

Qin Lin stood at the door, his hand still gripping the doorknob.

He had seen many beautiful women—Su Yuran, Li Ying, Han Qing—each with a face that was one in a hundred.

But the woman on the bed didn't belong to the category of "beautiful"; her beauty was something else entirely, like a snow-capped mountain, a deep lake, or the unpolluted starry sky before the apocalypse.

It wasn't attraction or temptation, but a sense of distance.

You knew she was beautiful, but you knew you couldn't touch her.

Qin Lin let go of the doorknob and walked into the room.

The light from the crystal stone pulsed in his palm, maintaining the same frequency as the woman's breathing on the bed.

When she inhaled, the crystal light brightened; when she exhaled, it dimmed.

He walked to the bedside, knelt down, and brought the crystal stone in his palm closer to the woman's face.

She didn't wake up.

Qin Lin reached out, his finger hovering just above the tip of her nose, feeling the warm, steady flow of her breath.

She was alive.

"System, scan." He opened the System panel and scanned the woman.

[Scanning...]

[Target: Unknown Lifeform]

[Race: Human (Suspected)]

[Status: Deep Hibernation]

[Vital Signs: Stable]

[Energy Reaction: Extremely High]

[Source: Untraceable]

[Remarks: The target contains a large amount of unknown energy, resonating with the The Ark's energy System.]

Qin Lin looked at the line "resonating with the The Ark's energy System" and then at the white crystal stone in his hand.

The light from the crystal stone was no longer flashing; it had turned into a stable, soft, breath-like glow, perfectly synchronized with the breathing frequency of the woman on the bed.

"Did she come in along with the The Ark's upgrade?"

Qin Lin looked at the glowing crystal stone in his palm, then at the sleeping woman on the bed.

Did the crystal stone that caused his Rebirth come from this woman?

This woman came from the The Ark's Room No. 15.

The The Ark's Room No. 15 was one of the nine new bedrooms added since the Lv8 upgrade.

He had never used it, nor had he ever assigned it to anyone else.

Because it always lacked presence, few people even noticed it existed.

And now, there was an extra person in the room.

No, perhaps she had always been there, just unnoticed.

Qin Lin stood up, backed out of the room, and closed the door.

He stood in the hallway, the light from the crystal stone in his palm slowly fading as the door closed.

He looked down at the stone, which had returned to its milky-white color, remembering the first day of the apocalypse when he crawled up from the ground, opened his palm, and saw this crystal stone lying there.

At that time, he didn't know where it came from, why it was in his hand, or what it could do.

Now he knew.

It had brought him through Rebirth, through the interdimensional channel, and then to this woman.

Footsteps came from the end of the hallway.

Su Yuling came around the stairs carrying a glass of hot milk; she was wearing a milky-white cotton nightgown, her hair down, barefoot, and her belly was slightly protruding, its silhouette already visible.

She was startled for a moment when she saw Qin Lin standing in the hallway.

"Brother Qin Lin, why are you standing here?"

Qin Lin put the crystal stone in his pocket and looked at her:

"I just finished checking the flight path and came out for some fresh air."

Su Yuling walked over and handed him the milk: "It's hot, just warmed up."

Qin Lin took the glass and took a sip.

The temperature of the milk was just right, neither too hot nor too cold.

Su Yuling leaned against his shoulder and looked at the door at the end of the hallway:

"Room No. 015, have you been inside to look?"

Qin Lin's hand holding the glass didn't move: "No, why?"

Su Yuling tilted her head and thought for a moment: "Nothing, I just feel like that door is a bit strange. Every time I pass by, I always feel like there's something inside, but I can't say what it is."

Qin Lin didn't answer and reached out to pat her head.

Su Yuling smiled, lifted her head from his shoulder, and pulled his hand to walk back.

"Let's go, time to go back to sleep. Mom said pregnant women shouldn't stay up late."

Qin Lin was pulled along for a few steps before he looked back.

The door to Room No. 15 was quietly closed, looking no different from the other doors in the hallway.

He turned back and followed Su Yuling.

The next morning, Qin Lin gathered everyone in the living room.

"There's someone in Room No. 15."

The living room went silent for a moment. Then Han Yurou put down her bowl, her face full of disbelief:

"What? Someone? Who?"

Qin Lin recounted the process of discovering the white crystal stone's reaction yesterday, tracking it to Room No. 15, and seeing a sleeping woman.

He didn't mention that the crystal stone was the key to his Rebirth, only saying it was a special crystal stone he had carried since the Early Stage of the apocalypse.

Everyone fell silent after listening.

Li Ying was the first to stand up, handing Qin Xu to Xu Xue nearby, and strode toward the hallway.

Qin Lin followed, and the others followed behind.

In the hallway, the front of Room No. 15 was crowded with people.

Qin Lin grabbed the doorknob and pushed the door open.

The room was the same as yesterday.

The white bed, white blankets, white pillows, and a sleeping woman with long black hair and snow-white skin, wearing white ancient robes.

Li Ying stood at the door, looking at the woman on the bed, silent for a long time.

Then she turned to look at Qin Lin and said, "Are you sure she's a person and not a fairy?"

Qin Lin didn't speak; he couldn't tell either.

Su Yuran stepped forward from the crowd, stood next to Qin Lin, and looked at the woman's face.

Her expression was calm, but Qin Lin noticed her grip on Qin An tightened slightly.

"Who is she?"

Su Yuran's voice wasn't loud: "Why is she on the The Ark?"

Qin Lin shook his head: "I don't know, but she has the same source of energy as the white crystal stone, and I've had that crystal stone since the first day of the apocalypse."

Su Yuran looked at him, remained silent for a while, and didn't ask further.

Han Qing rushed over from the Medical Room, pushed through the crowd, knelt by the bed, and reached out to feel the woman's pulse.

Her fingers rested on the woman's slender wrist for a long time.

"Pulse is normal, around sixty beats, very stable. Pupil reflex is normal, skin elasticity is normal, body temperature is 36.7 degrees—all vital signs are normal. She's not in a coma; she's in a deep sleep, like..."

Han Qing frowned, trying to find the right word.

"Like someone pressed the pause button on her."

"Can she be woken up?" Qin Lin asked.