Chapter 89: The Laws of Space

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What functions did the laws of space have?

Lin Xiaosu stretched out his hand, and the phone on the table vanished into thin air.

The next moment, a set of keys also vanished.

Both the phone and the keys had entered this secret realm.

With a shift of his intent, the phone reappeared, frantically searching for a signal. Clearly, the instant it had vanished into the secret realm, it had lost all signal.

What did that mean?

That pocket of space was not of this world.

And the keys?

Lin Xiaosu had long found the keys to be an annoyance, so he simply left them in the secret realm.

For now, the first use of this secret realm was storage—putting away things that were inconvenient to carry.

Lin Xiaosu tested it with his phone, then with the keys. When he tried the desk lamp, it was a bit difficult, and when he tried the chair, he couldn't budge it. He had found the limit: objects roughly a foot square could go in and out without obstruction.

And once something entered, it was as if it had vanished into nothing—it lost all weight.

He eventually fell asleep...

When he woke, the morning had already passed, and it was now sunset.

When he went downstairs, the detective agency's front door was locked, and no one was there. Lin Xiaosu stepped out, went to the mall for a meal, and by the time he returned to the agency and brewed a cup of tea, the sky was full of stars. That was when he saw the two women walking back side by side—on foot, not by car.

From this angle, something seemed off.

They were both made up, dressed up to the nines.

What was going on?

Miao Ruolan and Zhou Xi, across the street, suddenly spotted the lights on at the detective agency. Both of them jumped for joy, lifted their skirt hems, and dashed across the road in a flash.

They ran into the agency at the same time.

"You're back?"

"Yeah, got back last night! You two were sleeping soundly, so I didn't want to disturb you," Lin Xiaosu said.

"That must have been the wee hours—around one or two in the morning, I even went to check your room," Miao Ruolan said.

"Yeah, around four or five," Lin Xiaosu said, sizing them up. "So what were you two up to?"

"Guess!" Zhou Xi was a bit mischievous.

"Dressed up so prettily—did you go on a date?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"Close!" Zhou Xi said. "We went to a matchmaking event."

Miao Ruolan immediately added, "Don't get the wrong idea—we went to the matchmaking event to work a case."

"A case?"

"Yeah. A client was in a really miserable situation. He was introduced to a girl, they hit it off, were already talking marriage, and had even slept together. Then suddenly the girl turned on him and accused him of rape. The thirty-eight thousand in betrothal gifts he'd given—she refused to return a single cent, and she wanted to send him to prison. The man came to us to help dig up some leads..."

"Did you find anything?" Lin Xiaosu asked.

"That woman is a pure scammer! In just the past three years, the 'Matchmaker Agency' alone had set her up four times, and this was the fourth time she'd pulled this! The only reason the first three times didn't end with her actually pressing charges was that the men chose to let it go and let her fleece them..."

Zhou Xi said, "Tomorrow, once we hand the evidence to the police, she'll be nailed for fraud. It's infuriating... The dating culture of modern society is being poisoned by trash like her..."

She went upstairs to shower and remove her makeup. In truth, not every girl liked wearing makeup. For those unaccustomed to it, makeup was a very uncomfortable thing—it always felt like there was a sticky film on their face. Both of the agency's two women were of that type.

Miao Ruolan got up, refilled Lin Xiaosu's cup, and poured one for herself too.

She came over and sat down. "Where did you go yesterday?"

"You wouldn't believe it if I told you—I went chasing after a bird."

"A bird?" Miao Ruolan was astonished. "You can even find birds?"

Finding lost pets was a routine service of the detective agency.

Miao Ruolan had done it several times herself.

But they were always cats or dogs—she never took bird cases, because those really were impossible to find.

"If there's a hovercar involved, then finding it becomes possible."

"With that kind of investment, sure, it's possible, but... was it worth it?"

The price of a hovercar was so high that ordinary people could never dream of owning one.

Even the base model cost millions.

The premium model went without saying.

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And that wasn't even the most expensive part. The most expensive part was the flight permit.

Millions of yuan—plenty of people in Feng City could afford that. But a flight permit? That wasn't something just anyone could obtain. To get one, you truly had to be wealthy, powerful, or connected to a special department.

Hence, hovercars that appeared in the skies above Feng City were exceedingly rare.

To use a hovercar to chase a bird—unless that bird was of extraordinary value...

"That bird killed thirty-seven people!"

Miao Ruolan's expression changed. "What kind of bird?"

"Not a species belonging to this world. You can simply think of it as a demonic creature."

Miao Ruolan's lips parted slightly, but no sound came out...

"This world has already begun to change, Ruolan. You need to raise your cultivation as well—make an upgrade!"

Miao Ruolan said, "I practice every night, but my progress is very slow."

"What's the biggest difficulty?"

"I know that every extra meridian I open brings additional benefits, but finding the meridians is extremely difficult."

Finding the meridians...

Lin Xiaosu pondered for a moment. "Come to my room in a bit, and we'll try a new method."

"Mm!"

Zhou Xi had already showered and gone into her room, but she'd quietly left a crack in her door.

She always felt that Sister Lan was a bit off.

Take just now, for instance—she'd really wanted to see Lin Xiaosu's reaction when he learned they'd gone to a matchmaking event.

But Sister Lan, afraid that Lin Xiaosu might misunderstand, didn't waste a single second before quickly coming clean...

What exactly was her relationship with him?

Before joining the agency, she'd judged the same way most people in Feng City did—that the two were a couple, and this was a couple's shop.

But after coming in, she learned they slept in separate rooms.

From her assessment, Sister Lan was in love with him—in love to the bone. You could see it in her eyes. When Sister Lan looked at Lin Xiaosu, her gaze was full of tender affection.

However, there was nothing the least bit improper in her actions.

Today she'd come up first, leaving the space to them. Would something play out?

After all, Sister Lan was wearing the most beautiful outfit she'd ever worn.

But to her surprise, Miao Ruolan quickly went into the bathroom to wash up...

And that washing was a direct removal of makeup.

Her beautiful getup was gone just like that.

So it seemed nothing was going on between her and him.

Just as Zhou Xi was cementing this belief, something suddenly happened...

Miao Ruolan, hunched low, slipped past her door—light, silent, and noiseless. Zhou Xi, startled, watched half of Miao Ruolan's body through the crack she'd deliberately left in the door.

She was wearing her sexiest pajamas, and she was carrying her slippers in her hand...

Yes, slippers held in her hand...

She practiced ancient martial arts. Even in slippers, when she didn't want outsiders to hear her, ordinary people couldn't hear a thing. But she'd deliberately carried her slippers...

Oh my god, Sister Lan—I thought you really had nothing going on with him.

Now I see. I was being shallow.

What you're about to do is far deeper than I imagined.

What confirmed it further was that Lin Xiaosu's door wasn't closed.

No need for knocking—she could just push it open and walk in.

The next moment, the sound of Lin Xiaosu's door lock clicking shut.

She locked the door.

Confirmed!

Zhou Xi quietly rose and, very, very softly, closed her own door.

Lin Xiaosu smiled under the lamplight. "Zhou Xi has misunderstood!"

"What?" Miao Ruolan's face was a flush of red under the light.

"A normal closing sound isn't like that. The quieter she closed it, the more it shows she knows you entered my room."

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Miao Ruolan's face turned even redder. "You told me to come..."

"Come, get on the bed—we have business to attend to!" Lin Xiaosu said.

Miao Ruolan's heart was a tangled mess.

Getting on the bed to attend to business, and it was still 'business'...

Why did that sound so embarrassing?

Her mind raced with a hundred thoughts, but she still got onto the bed. "How do we do it?"

Lin Xiaosu took her hand. "I'll stimulate the meridians in your arm with true qi. You calmly sense the points where the stimulation occurs."

"Alright!" Miao Ruolan closed her eyes.

"Your mind isn't settled..."

Miao Ruolan took a deep breath. "Just a moment!"

That 'moment' still took several minutes—too thrilling, too embarrassing, too many stray thoughts swirling inside...

Finally, with the aid of the Returning Spring Technique, she managed to calm her mind...

Once her mind was settled, she sensed the stimulation points along her arm. These points formed a route for true qi circulation.

She couldn't yet fully sense the entire route—only certain points—because the true qi pathway wasn't yet opened. Lin Xiaosu was merely marking it for her.

Like surveying the terrain before building a road.

Her understanding slowly solidified.

Miao Ruolan's perception gradually took shape.

About two hours later, Miao Ruolan opened her eyes. "I think I've got it!"

"Do you want to open it now?"

"I don't have your kind of ability—finding the route and opening it directly. It'll be good if I can open it within a month," Miao Ruolan said. "How about I go back to my room?"

"Mm!"

Miao Ruolan got off the bed, put on her slippers, and silently crossed the corridor. She quietly opened her door, slipped inside, and the lock clicked shut with the faintest sound.

In the middle room, Zhou Xi took out her phone and glanced at it: three hours. So this was the ferocity of a martial artist?

Three hours—that was intense...

Sister Lan practiced martial arts too, so she could take it...

If it were me, I probably couldn't...

Miao Ruolan returned to her room and, out of habit, unfolded that portrait. She looked at it for a while, then gently pressed her lips to it. Afterward, she put the portrait away and sat cross-legged.

She began her cultivation session.

The Returning Spring Technique had been passed to her by Lin Xiaosu; now he was teaching it back to her. She had to elevate her cultivation. She couldn't let him down!

Only if she could walk forward in step with him would she be worthy of touching the most beautiful vision in her heart...

That night, Lin Xiaosu was pure.

Miao Ruolan was pure.

Only Zhou Xi was deceived by her own eyes, thrown so off-kilter she couldn't find her bearings...

The next morning, Miao Ruolan was radiant, Lin Xiaosu was bursting with energy, but Zhou Xi was groggy and muddled.

The two actors were spirited, while the audience member looked like an eggplant that had stayed up all night—now that was a strange spectacle...

The detective agency opened for business, and today it was Zhou Xi who went out.

She drove the agency's sky-blue compact car to the police station and delivered the evidence of the woman's fraud.

Miao Ruolan smiled softly. "When Zhou Xi heard about this case, she was angrier than the man's own mother."

"Is the man a relative of hers?"

"No! It's probably that the girl has a beautiful view of love deep in her bones. She felt that woman had defiled her ideals."

"So it seems she's a bit different from you—she's quite sentimental," Lin Xiaosu said. "She once mentioned to me that she wanted to practice your family's ancient martial arts. I told her to go straight to you. Did she?"

"She did. I gave her the manual. She started practicing the day before yesterday, but you certainly can't expect her to get started as quickly as you did..."

Miao Ruolan's voice abruptly stopped.

Her gaze went to the outside of the detective agency.

Lin Xiaosu turned his head and was slightly startled...