Chapter 6: No Turning Back
The place he was staying was less than a forty-minute drive from the airport. Lu Weiyi set off three hours early and bought a pendant on the way in less than twenty minutes. Yet, he still ended up being late due to a traffic jam.
When he arrived at the airport, the plane had already taken off again. The next flight back to the Capital was at two o’clock in the morning and required a transfer. However, the total travel time after the transfer was only three hours, which was still much earlier than the next direct flight at ten o’clock the next morning.
It wasn’t worth going back for five or six hours, so Lu Weiyi immediately booked a room in a hotel next to the airport.
As soon as he got to the room, Zhuang Mingxu called, asking if he had arrived in the Capital.
“I overslept,” Lu Weiyi said, his voice muffled and somewhat dejected as he lay on the bed.
Zhuang Mingxu found Lu Weiyi’s rare display of small emotions quite endearing. A soft chuckle traveled across thousands of miles and over a dozen hours. Then, he gently coaxed, “It’s okay, it’s just over an hour’s flight. By the time you arrive tomorrow, I won’t have gotten off the plane yet.”
“Mmm,” Lu Weiyi responded without saying anything more.
His relationship with Zhuang Mingxu was somewhat complicated. Calling them lovers, Zhuang Mingxu had forcefully used means to “snatch” him and solidified their relationship without asking his consent. If they were enemies, they had known each other since childhood, and Zhuang Mingxu had treated him wholeheartedly for years, already becoming a part of his life.
Lu Weiyi had never dwelled on their relationship from the beginning. With the apocalypse about to arrive, he wouldn’t be idle enough to think about these things. He only had one thought now: to quickly return to the Capital and reunite before the end of the world.
Seeing that Lu Weiyi had stopped talking, Zhuang Mingxu on the other end of the phone proactively brought up the reason for his trip to Wutong City – Ji Jin’s birthday banquet.
“Not going!” Lu Weiyi felt disgusted just thinking about that family. “Don’t you go either.”
Lu Weiyi wasn’t sleepy for the two o’clock in the morning flight, so he studied his space.
Thanks to those apocalyptic novels and his own memories, Lu Weiyi tried a few targeted methods and understood the difference between the yin and yang sides of his space – the yin side was similar to a vacuum environment where time was still, and living things couldn’t enter.
The yang side, however, had flowing time and could accommodate living things. However, probably due to the damage, the moment he put the little hamster in, the cracks that had been repaired earlier in the space slowly began to collapse again, only stopping when he killed the hamster.
There were two types of spaces in the apocalypse: naturally awakened space abilities and jade pendant spaces. The difference was that space ability was a type of power possessed by ability users, with the basic abilities of an ability user – great strength, strong physique, and size increasing with the upgrade of the ability. Moreover, the time in the space was still, so stored materials wouldn’t expire, which was a major advantage that made space ability users popular.
Jade pendant spaces, on the other hand, were merely storage spaces. Compared to space abilities, jade pendant spaces could be forcibly taken away by others. Of course, only a few people knew this, but it led to a period of snatching jade pendant spaces, with most eventually falling into the hands of the strong.
Lu Weiyi’s yin-yang space, however, possessed the characteristics of a space ability, which would allow him to conceal some things and avoid being coveted.
Given that he had missed two flights, Lu Weiyi left early without waiting for the scheduled time and successfully arrived at the airport, letting out a silent sigh of relief.
However, this relief came too early – his ID card was gone.
He couldn’t board the plane.
He had used it when checking into the hotel, and he clearly remembered putting it in the inner pocket of his bag.
Without much time to think, he rushed to the place to get a temporary ID, but then the temporary photo machine was broken, and he couldn’t get one.
After a flurry of activity, the plane had already taken off. Lu Weiyi opened his handbag again, and the ID card in the inner pocket was clearly visible.
Lu Weiyi had a bad premonition. He suspected that he couldn’t escape the trajectory of his previous life and that he simply couldn’t leave Wutong City at this time.
This premonition was confirmed the next morning when his flight was missed due to an almost impossible reason – an error with the ticket.
