It was only a little past 8:30 PM, but the sky in South City in September had already completely darkened. The lights from the residential buildings opposite reflected into the window, and the distant buildings, seen through the windows, entered Su Xiaojiu's eyes.
"This is..."
Looking at the scenery reflected in the window, Su Xiaojiu's eyes went a little wide.
It wasn't that she hadn't seen tall buildings; many cities had buildings over a dozen stories high, and the most famous Tianji Tower was even a hundred stories tall. However, she had never heard of any place on the Kyushu Continent having such a sight of towering buildings.
The appearance of these buildings was also quite different from those she had seen in Kyushu...
Moreover, the scene outside this window was definitely not the mountain forest she had been in before.
"Where exactly... is this?"
"Huaxia, Earth, a world completely different from your so-called Kyushu Continent. This is another independent world."
There was no Fire Phoenix Sect, no East Continent...
And originally, there was no Su Xiaojiu.
"Why did I come here?"
"I don't know."
An Chen shook his head.
"But I guess it's related to that temple gate."
"Temple gate?"
Su Xiaojiu was a bit confused, clearly not understanding why.
"All your memories on the Kyushu Continent end at that door. After you pushed the door and entered, you arrived here. You can understand it as two different worlds on either side of the door; passing through the door allows you to reach another world."
An Chen didn't want to waste too much breath, but in the end, he patiently explained it.
Normally, he would be at school during the day and alone at home at night; An Chen wouldn't say this many words in a whole day.
"Can I go back?"
"I don't know."
An Chen shook his head.
He had already confirmed that the physical entity of that door in this world, Earth, was the door to his bathroom. This also explained why Su Xiaojiu appeared in his bathroom without leaving any traces outside the bathroom.
While Su Xiaojiu was unconscious, he had walked through the bathroom door several times, and even tried closing the door, opening it again, and walking in, but he clearly didn't enter the other world, the one called Kyushu Continent.
"Can't go back..."
Su Xiaojiu seemed to deflate, her eyelids drooping, and she leaned against the sofa.
She finally realized that An Chen didn't seem to be a bad person.
Even if he was a bit dull, the kind of dullness certified by the Sect Master, it didn't mean she was stupid or foolish. She could tell that this was indeed not the Kyushu Continent, but another world.
What An Chen said was indeed true; she was the intruder.
If a strange man had intruded into her boudoir, she would probably have drawn her sword and chopped him down immediately.
Just tying him up would be the lightest punishment.
Wait!
Su Xiaojiu suddenly discovered a startling fact.
The rope binding her wrists contained not a single trace of spiritual Qi; it was completely a Mortal object!
Just now, her hand was numb, and her wrist was sore and painful, so she hadn't paid attention. She had naturally assumed it was a kind of immortal-binding rope that could restrain spiritual Qi and was indestructible.
But this was actually just ordinary coarse hemp rope; she could break free with little effort.
"You don't have spiritual Qi?!"
Su Xiaojiu stared at An Chen, asking in surprise.
"Spiritual Qi?"
Hmm, this wasn't a new term; he had seen it in novels.
"Spiritual Qi is... spiritual Qi!"
Su Xiaojiu didn't know how to explain for a moment, so she slightly exerted force with her arm, and the hemp rope was easily torn apart by her.
She extended her right hand, raising her index finger, and flames burst forth from her fingertip.
"It's what you use to cast spells! Are you a Mortal?"
...
An Chen fell silent.
So she was a Transmigration from a Cultivation novel.
But then he realized something—Su Xiaojiu had already broken free from the rope's Bondage.
An Chen, as if electrocuted, reached his hand towards the outside of the sofa armrest, gripping the handle of a cleaver. But Su Xiaojiu clearly noticed his movement and raised an eyebrow.
"What are you doing?!"
Su Xiaojiu stood up and poked her head over to look.
And so, she saw An Chen's left hand holding the cleaver.
...
Was he really a bad person after all?
After a moment of silence, the flame on Su Xiaojiu's fingertip suddenly brightened, that cluster of flame became fierce, and the thin wisps of fire turned into arm-thick flames that lunged towards An Chen's hand.
An Chen immediately dropped the cleaver and retreated quickly, but the flames were faster, almost immediately about to envelop his body.
"It's normal for me to carry a knife for self-preservation when you intrude into my home, right?!"
An Chen shouted desperately.
"Oh... right..."
The momentum of the flames paused, and they dimmed.
Su Xiaojiu retracted her hand and stuck out her tongue.
"Sorry, I forgot."
An Chen had never been so speechless with anyone.
Within a single day, this person had left him speechless several times already.
"Speaking of which, is your family very rich? To actually live in such a tall building!"
Seemingly eager to change the subject, Su Xiaojiu deliberately looked around, putting on a very surprised expression.
She was indeed somewhat surprised, as there were many things in the room she had never seen before.
"Not at all... On the contrary, I'm very poor..."
Without looking around his sixty-square-meter two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, An Chen pouted.
This was the only apartment he owned, and even unnecessary furniture, he had sold quite a bit during the period he was short on money, like the television.
"Poor? How could that be! Such tall buildings, I've only seen them as inns in some large cities, and built by influential people. If you're not wealthy, how could you live in a place like this?"
"People in our world all live in these kinds of houses; one building can house thousands of people."
"Thousands of people?"
Clearly startled by the number, Su Xiaojiu exaggeratedly opened her mouth wide.
"Then one of your cities, wouldn't it be able to hold... tens of millions of people?"
"If this were on the Kyushu Continent, one province alone would have dozens to hundreds of large cities, tens of millions in one city, plus countless small cities, towns, villages, Sects..."
"That would be... that would be..."
Su Xiaojiu counted on her fingers, but couldn't figure it out for a long time.
"Yes."
An Chen nodded.
South City was a city with a population of over ten million.
"Your world is truly amazing..." Su Xiaojiu shook her head and praised, "Then you must have very powerful Cultivator here, right?"
"There are no such people..."
"Ah?"
Su Xiaojiu seemed very shocked to hear this answer.
"There aren't? Is it just that your term for them is different? Like me, those who can fly in the sky and burrow into the earth, who can control fire and water, who can use all sorts of spells, and who have very long lifespans..."
"I said, there are no such people..."
Su Xiaojiu's eyes widened, her expression stiff.
"How is that possible!"
She repeated these four words, but no others came out.