Wen Le pushed open the door of the dormitory and saw Han Ya and Mo Yan cleaning the room.
“Back already? Where’s the boss?” Han Ya, who was mopping the floor, glanced at Wen Le as he entered. Normally, Wen Le and Xiao Wen were inseparable, but this time only Wen Le came back alone.
Wen Le collected the newly disassembled bed sheets and duvet covers from the floor and took out the new ones.
“Xiao Wen went to Lin Yan’s side, so I came back to help.”
Han Ya took back his gaze and continued to mop the floor. After they arrived at the aid station, they arranged for the elderly and children to stay in several dormitories obtained through material exchanges, while they and the remaining men stayed in the warehouse.
Wen Le finished arranging the four beds and entered the other two dormitories. After finishing the exchange,she saw everyone busy with their respective tasks and quietly walked back to his own dormitory. Sitting on the bed, he watched Han Ya and Mo Yan continue to clean, and his thoughts went back to ten days ago.
Upon returning to the rescue station with the army ten days ago, the three of them returned horizontally after going out vertically, causing concern among those who stayed behind. While for himself, Wen Le was fine but just felt weak and needed to rest. Zhou Quan examined Chen Ye’s leg injury and found it to be well-fixed, so he removed the bandage and steel plate and replaced them with medical supplies Wen Le had taken out from his space. The worst was Yin Chengyang, who didn’t trust the surgical skills of Lin Yan, the traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and delayed treatment for two days. Zhou Quan had to reopen the coagulated wound, clean it, apply medicine, and stitch it up. It took a whole night to handle it.
Afterwards, everyone was amazed at Yin Chengyang’s recovery speed. He formed a scab in two days, got out of bed in three days, stretched his limbs in five days, and was now jumping around like nothing happened.
As for Wen Le, he recovered his spiritual power on the second day after his return. All bodily functions returned to their previous state, and even better than before.
Thinking about his mental recovery, Wen Le is still confused and doesn’t understand it until now.
On the night they returned, after everyone else had fallen asleep, Wen Le quietly slipped into his space from Xiao Wen’s embrace.
After waking up from his coma, something in the space seemed extremely tempting to him. If he wasn’t outside and within Lin Yan’s range, he would have been worried about being discovered. Otherwise, he would have entered the space long ago.
Wen Le was very curious about what was tempting him. Even though he was with Han Ya and the others at the moment, he couldn’t resist the temptation. He knew that even if Han Ya and the others found out about the secret of the space, it wouldn’t matter.
Xiao Wen naturally felt Wen Le’s disappearance and tried to stay still, waiting for him to come back.
As soon as he entered the space, Wen Le found himself in the spring, not next to it. So the next second, he was choked by the water and couldn’t breathe.
With his body still weak, he couldn’t wave his arms to swim out, and he couldn’t breathe oxygen. Wen Le’s vision gradually blurred.
Drowning in his own space made Wen Le feel like a complete tragedy. He wanted to leave the space, but it seemed like the space couldn’t sense his thoughts at the moment, letting him sink slowly to the bottom.
Just when Wen Le thought he was done for, he suddenly realized that his spiritual power, which was originally empty, was rapidly recovering. The speed of recovery was astonishing. In just two blinks of an eye, Wen Le felt that his spiritual power had fully recovered. But the recovery didn’t stop there. His spiritual power was still growing at a terrifying rate. Wen Le felt that his head would explode from the sudden increase in spiritual power at any second, but countless seconds passed and he was still alive, enduring the pain caused by the intensifying spiritual power.
Even in the water, he knew that he was sweating profusely, which was caused by the pain.
As the pain increased, along with suffocation, Wen Le finally passed out.
He didn’t know how long had passed, but he vaguely felt that his body was filled with strength. Wen Le opened his eyes and found himself lying by the spring, with his lower body still soaked in the water.
Although he didn’t know what the current situation was, Wen Le quickly climbed out of the water. The suffocating pain was deeply imprinted in his perception.
Gasping for breath, he tried to calm down the fear in his heart. Whether it was the feeling of suffocation or the pain caused by the sudden increase in spiritual power, he thought he would not survive.
After calming down, Wen Le suddenly remembered what had happened in the spring. He thought about the inexplicable increase in his psychic power and tried to activate it, feeling that it had become incredibly strong. Although the space belonged to him, until now, he had only been able to spread his psychic power within a radius of about 20 meters both inside and outside the space. With this increase in psychic power, Wen Le found that he could sense a radius of about 100 meters around him.
Wen Le was overjoyed, but he couldn’t suppress the confusion in his heart. What could have caused his psychic power to increase so dramatically? And why did he end up in the spring?
Thinking back carefully, when he entered the space, he was thinking about the thing that had been tempting him to enter all along, which meant… that the spring was the thing that had been tempting him?
Wen Le looked quietly at the spring, which was still crystal clear, and he could see the smooth stones on the bottom.
Suddenly, Wen Le thought of the time when the apocalypse had just begun and he had lost consciousness along with Xiao Wen. His physical body was outside the space, but his thoughts were trapped in the spring. At that time, because the spring was very small and couldn’t accommodate his size, he thought it was just a dream. But when did the spring expand? From its original size of only a fist to now being two meters on each side?
If this time his psychic power had recovered and increased rapidly because of the spring, could it be that the reason why his psychic ability had awakened half a year earlier than it should have after his rebirth was also because of the spring? Was it because he had inexplicably gained the space with this spring after his rebirth that his psychic power, which should have awakened half a year later in the apocalypse, appeared earlier?
So what exactly is this spring? Why does it have such a miraculous ability?
Wen Le was preoccupied with the issue of the spring, until his wet clothes made him uncomfortable and he remembered that he had sneaked into the space. He quickly changed into a new set of warm clothes and flashed out of the space.
Luckily, it was still pitch black outside, so it seemed that he hadn’t been inside the space for very long.
Feeling Xiao Wen tighten his arms around him, Wen Le obediently lay on Xiao Wen’s chest, but his mind was still preoccupied with the spring.
If the spring could enhance his ability, then… what about Xiao Wen?
Wen Le thought he could give it a try, but at that moment, Mo Yan on the upper bunk turned over and continued to sleep, which dispelled his idea of throwing Xiao Wen into the space.
“Let’s wait for a safer place,” he thought.
When the dormitory was finally empty and no one would return for a certain amount of time, Wen Le took Xiao Wen to the side of the spring and let Xiao Wen hold his breath and dive deep into the spring. After a long time, when Xiao Wen couldn’t hold his breath any longer and crawled up to breathe, Wen Le asked him if his abilities had changed. Unfortunately, it seemed that this spring had no effect on Xiao Wen.
“Wen Shao?” Han Ya walked up to Wen Le and waved his hand in front of him.
Wen Le was only awakened from his thoughts and looked at Han Ya.
“Bai Yun just said to go downstairs with Bai Yang to celebrate the New Year,” Han Ya said.
Wen Le put on his shoes and stood up. The dormitory was already spotlessly clean, waiting for the New Year.
Tonight was New Year’s Eve, the first New Year’s Eve in the apocalypse.
“How about asking Bai Yun to invite Brother Bai up to celebrate the New Year with us?” Wen Le asked Han Ya.
Han Ya hesitated for a moment, thinking that most of the things in the dormitory were taken out from Wen Le’s space, even the New Year’s Eve dinner was as sumptuous as before the apocalypse. Han Ya thought that Bai Yun also knew that these things were not suitable to be seen by others, which was why she suggested going downstairs with Bai Yang.
“During this time, Xiao Wen has been leading the team to collect supplies frequently. It’s normal for us to have more things,” Wen Le thought and said when he saw Han Ya hesitating.
Indeed, during these ten days, Xiao Wen had led the team out five times under the guise of collecting supplies and trained Han Yifeng and the others. But…
“No, apart from other things, the dinner that Uncle Mo prepared cannot be seen by others. Those things cannot be collected as supplies,” Han Ya finally denied it. Even if the pork, beef, and mutton were forcibly said to be collected, they were barely fresh after over a month in the apocalypse. Moreover, what about the seafood on the table?
Wen Le did not continue to persuade him. He also thought of the food that Uncle Mo had asked him to take out, which indeed could not be seen by others.
“Let Bai Yun bring some normal things to Bai Yang,” Han Ya said.
Wen Le nodded. Han Ya was more thoughtful than him. Let his prepare for the outsiders.
As soon as Wen Le entered Uncle Mo’s room, the smell of food hit him. He quickly closed the door. The smell was too strong to cover up.
“The soldiers in the building have gone to the canteen. They also prepared a New Year’s Eve dinner there, and they won’t be back for a while,” Bai Yun explained when she saw Wen Le so nervous.
Only when the leader comes back can we start eating quickly and release some of the pressure before the soldiers come back, Han Ya pulled Wen Le to sit at the table. Wen Le had already collected all the beds in the dormitory into the space as Mo Gang had requested, barely enough to accommodate this table and a dozen chairs.
As Han Ya finished speaking, the door of the dormitory was opened, and Xiao Wen, who was faced with the smell of the room, quickly closed it.
It was not yet dark outside, and everyone sat around the round table, looking at a table full of delicious food but remained silent.
“Alright, forget about those things. It’s New Year’s Eve today. Let’s all be happy,” Mo Gang slapped the table.
Everyone at the table wanted to put on a smile, but they were not very successful.
“In the end times, it’s not easy to survive. On the first New Year’s Eve of the apocalypse, I’m glad that everyone can sit here safe and sound. The past year may not be a memorable one, but the next year is worth looking forward to. Perhaps everyone thinks there’s nothing to look forward to in the end times, but in my opinion, the struggle between life and death and cherishing every moment is much more exciting than the aimless drifting before the apocalypse. Who wants to live a mediocre life? This era has given us a chance, maybe not to achieve fame and fortune, but a life where every day is thrilling and full of expectations.”
As Han Ya sat on the left side of Xiao Wen, he looked earnestly at everyone and spoke. With his words, the young people present became more spirited.
Yes, which man didn’t dream of accomplishing great things in his childhood and long for a chaotic world where he could achieve fame and fortune?
The end times are cruel, but haven’t they just fulfilled their dreams and given them a platform to showcase their talents?
“Come on, guys! Let’s all be spirited! Don’t be like a bunch of women, moping around. So what if it’s the end times? Aren’t we still alive and kicking? Bring on the real danger! Isn’t it much better than having to pretend to be happy in front of those disgusting people?” Yin Chengyang was the first to pick up his chopsticks, waved his hand with boldness, and then plunged his chopsticks into the plate of spareribs in front of him.
Han Ya gave him a sideways glance and made him put his chopsticks back with a forced smile.
“We’re alive now, and we’ll continue to live well in the future!” Wen Le suddenly spoke. It was a brief sentence, but it was deeply engraved in everyone’s hearts.
Today is New Year’s Eve, and everyone has survived the past month and a half. Just being alive is reason enough to be happy. Perhaps the future will be difficult to navigate, but everyone will persevere and move forward. They may be weak now, but someday they will become strong enough to stand at the highest point and overlook this desolate world. When that moment comes, they can establish their own paradise, free from social and economic pressures, and follow their own hearts and rules. They will erase all the injustices they once could not bear and protect the people they want to protect. This is everyone’s ideal and goal.
Therefore, the future is worth looking forward to!
Thanks for the update!! 🤗🤗