Garden of Eden || Apocalypse...

By ApocalypseParadise12

2.2K 90 40

Lin Sanjiu is transported to the Garden of Eden, where she is about to find out that other posthumans and duo... More

108: The Second World
109: Lin Sanjiu Doesn't have Radiation Immunity
110: Lin Sanjiu the Widow
111: Captured
112: Where Will She Be Sent?
113: Lunar New Year Festivities, and It's None of Your Business
114: Contestant 97 Needs to be Taught a Lesson!
115: You Will Regret This
116: The Status of Women in the Garden of Eden
117: The Lunar New Year Tournament Begins
118: I Will Remember All of This
119: Night Security Guard
120: A Dazzling Entrance
121: Lin Sanjiu and the Chief of the Police
122: The Match Begins, and Long Ahtao
123: Sweet Revenge! But is Lin Sanjiu Crazy?
124: A Slight Modification
125: Losing the Ability to Move at a Critical Juncture
126: Lin Sanjiu the Saint
127: Tonight's Confrontation
128: I Want the Garden of Eden to Have the Same End
129: The Hidden Oddities in the Garden of Eden
130: The Dreaded Hero Complex
131: Malice
132: The Scenery Here Isn't Right
133: Neapolitan Cake
134: Neapolitan Cake (2)
135: Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf
136: Cinderella's Glass Slippers
137: Neapolitan Cake (3)
138: Lila's Bloodstained Key
139: A Killing Intent
140: Cinderella's Happily Ever After
141: It Isn't Easy to Kill Three Birds With One Stone
142: The Messy Timeline
144: The Reveal
145: What Are You Planning?
146: Do You Need Help?
147: Reunion After a Near-Death Encounter
148: Maniac
149: St. Peter Brews Tieguanyin Tea
150: St. Peter Isn't the only Sage
151: The Legendary Crappy Teammate
152: The Break of Dawn
153: What Kind of Shitty Method Is That?
154: Chicken Pie, Fruit Juice, Bread, and Beer
155: From Heaven Fell a Miss Lin
156: A Naming System When All Creative Juices Have Been Expended
157: A Popup Surprise from the Soil
158: General Knowledge About the Apocalyptic Worlds
159: The Place Where the Lights Stop Blinking
160: No Enemies
161: Boundary Line
162: The Great White Radish Harvest
163: A Western Cowboy-Style Belt Pocket
164: Let's Talk About the Next Destination Later
165: Eating Assorted Seafood Noodles Brings Hope
166: The Prison Warden and the Tree Roots
167: I've Actually Read Jin Yong's Works
168: Lin Sanjiu Likes
169: A Bitter Journey Through Culture
170: The World Called the Garden of Eden
171: An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
172: The Joy of a Fruit Farmer
173: The Secret Behind the Flesh Apple
174: The Head of the Demolition Crew Had Been Possessed
175: Returning from the Netherworld
176: Gong Daoyi Would Be Very Disappointed
177: School of Higher Consciousness
178: Goodbye Forever, Garden of Eden!

143: So That Was You

23 0 0
By ApocalypseParadise12


Lin Sanjiu found herself in absolute darkness, and she couldn't see a thing. The forward momentum of her body was too strong for her to stop herself, and she finally knocked into something hard, hurting her rib cage in the process. She hissed in pain. Ignoring the pain, she felt around and touched something. It had a smooth surface and seemed to be some sort of handrail. She felt as if she was blindfolded while she walked blindly in total darkness. When her heartbeat and breathing finally relaxed, she was hit by the pungent smell of mildew and the dust in the air. It seemed like no one had been here in years, so the air had probably been sealed for quite some time. Yet, this stench was like a god-sent gift.

She exhaled deeply and sat on the first step of a flight of stairs. She sighed, "I'm out." Honestly speaking, she didn't know how she managed to get out of the pocket dimension and even what she did just now. When there were only 40 seconds left, Lin Sanjiu thought that her journey would end in that fairytale pocket dimension. She had too little time, but even if given a week, she didn't have the confidence to unravel the mysteries.

Three carriages from three different directions were all heading for the palace. If the carriages didn't reach the palace, perhaps everything would be solved. Emma wouldn't enter the palace, so she might return to her daughter. Bluebeard wouldn't enter the palace, so he might not meet with the Old Man Fairy. Cinderella would also be saved. It might just have been Lin Sanjiu's wishful thinking, and the stories may develop in other ways—for example, Emma might become an erotic dancer in another place; the Old Man Fairy might take the initiative to look for Bluebeard; Cinderella might meet the prince two days later, etc. and so the characters may end up dying—but that was the best idea Lin Sanjiu could think of.

She mustered her strength and jumped off the pumpkin carriage's top. With a few leaps and bounds, with the remnant sensation of standing on the carriage still on her feet, she had sped far ahead of the carriages in the direction of the palace. She planned to destroy the only path to the palace. Even though it was a crazy big action, she thought it should be considered "one action." Lin Sanjiu activated her [Mosaic Censorship] and jumped up onto the tall statue of the king, which was positioned right at the palace's gates. She gathered all her focus on her hands and leaped down from the top of the statue, with her hands facing the ground.

She was at the gathering area outside the palace designated for parking carriages. If she destroyed that place, the carriages that hadn't reached the palace would be stuck outside—

"Destroy this road, 5 execution points. Proceed?"

While Lin Sanjiu kept the downward momentum, she shouted, "Yes!" The next second, her two fists struck the ground with an enormous impact, breaking the ground before the words disappeared.

The impact was much larger than Lin Sanjiu had expected, but she didn't know if it was because she had confirmed her action in the pocket dimension. Boom! A rain of broken cobblestones fell from the sky with Lin Sanjiu right in the epicenter of the eruption. They struck the ground, creating multiple deep holes. There was a large hole in the middle of the road, and a large fissure appeared quickly on the ground.

Lin Sanjiu squinted her eyes as she stood in the middle of a great cloud of stone, dust, and smoke. She tried to look out for the forthcoming carriages. However, she suddenly felt her body go cold. Past the destruction cloud, she realized it was a cool afternoon again.

It wasn't nighttime yet, and she hadn't seen the decorations from the ball. Cinderella's and Bluebeard's carriage had disappeared. Lin Sanjiu stared blankly as a large stone, half a person's size, crashed into a carriage. It instantly destroyed the entire frame of the carriage and broke into pieces. The sharp cries of a few women followed this. That carriage, which belonged to the dance troupe, wasn't the only one that was damaged. The drivers of a few carriages couldn't react fast enough, so their carriages overturned to the side of the road with their horses. The air was suddenly filled with the fearful cries from the people and the sound of the agitated horses neighing.

The countdown had already ended long ago, but Lin Sanjiu was still in the pocket dimension. The road had been destroyed, but other than injuring the dance troupe members, it seemed useless. Lin Sanjiu felt her body go cold. Instead of stepping forward, she tumbled to the ground. Lin Sanjiu did not expect Cinderella and Bluebeard to be transported away like her previous experiences.

She stuck her fingers into her hair and looked expressionless toward the dance troupe. She couldn't even feel an ounce of strength. What would happen to her if she failed the quest in the pocket dimension?

"Ah, ah! Please be gentle. My leg. My leg."

Lin Sanjiu heard a familiar voice sobbing out. She turned and saw a few soldiers from the palace working together to rescue the people who were trapped under the broken carriage. The person who was sobbing was none other than Emma.

"It's alright. You just fractured your leg. You will be fine after some time," a soldier who had a blushing face consoled her softly, but he didn't dare to look directly at Emma's face.

"No, I have to dance, I need to dance..." Emma wiped her tears as she continued whimpering by the roadside. As a piece of large rock struck her leg, blood poured from her wound, creating a large blood stain on her dress.

'I'm a person who is going to die soon, yet I still implicated Emma.' Lin Sanjiu sighed. She couldn't help feeling guilty about her actions.

"You can't dance like this..." The soldier who had helped Emma came over again when he was less busy. He handed Emma a handkerchief, "Why don't you use this to clean your face first?"

Lin Sanjiu felt her vision blurring. Somehow, Lin Sanjiu felt her eyes welling up with tears. She didn't want to die just like that. But before she finished her track of thoughts, her body suddenly felt very light. It was as though someone had pulled her up by her feet and tossed her into the air. As the scenery turned upside down and the world around disappeared into a spiral. She suddenly blacked out. The last thing she saw was the gray stone tablet, and then she found herself in total darkness.

After she hit the handrail, it took quite some time before Lin Sanjiu realized something: she was back. She was back in the black tower. 'But what happened? Emma was hurt, so she couldn't dance. Following that logical track, I probably saved only Red Riding Hood and Cinderella.' Lin Sanjiu froze for a few seconds as the confusion from the pocket dimension slowly sunk into the back of her mind. She was once again faced with the cold reality. 'I am out of there, and that's all that matters!' Being in the pocket dimension had delayed her plans. She didn't know how much time had passed outside. Maybe everyone else was still fighting. For Lin Sanjiu, her priority was to look for the power source in this black tower so that she could destroy the glass globe!

Feeling her legs grow weak, Lin Sanjiu wiped the tears from her face and drew out her [Ability Polishing Agent]. A silver light instantly gushed like water, filling the surrounding space. The large door where she entered through was still sitting silently in place. Just as she expected, the space within the black tower was very small. The area was not more than ten square meters. The flight of stairs she was now sitting at took up much of that space and crawled upward in a spiral.

Lin Sanjiu didn't know how tall the black tower was, but the spiral staircase seemed to reach the top. 'After escaping the pocket dimension in the first story, there shouldn't be any more dangerous traps, right?' Lin Sanjiu held her [Ability Polishing Agent] and climbed up the staircase cautiously.

She could only hear her breathing and footsteps as she climbed the quiet black tower. After being surrounded by this still silence for too long, Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat when she suddenly heard an ear-piercing sound of the doorbell resonating through the tower. For a moment, she thought she had misheard that sound—

However, the doorbell continued ringing. "Ding dong. Ding dong." It rang a few times, annihilating the silent atmosphere. Lin Sanjiu aimed the light toward the door, and her heart thumped violently. She had already stealthily activated her [Mosaic Censorship].

The large door opened with a loud rumble, just like when she first entered. When the door opened, the light from outdoors leaked in. Lin Sanjiu subconsciously felt a sense of relief. Only a dim light came in from the door, so it was probably still deep in the night.

The person who walked in seemed surprised to be greeted by a bright light. The person paused and called out, "Miss Lin?"

Lin Sanjiu sighed in relief and put down her hand. She let out an exhausted chuckle and replied, "It's you."

Continue Reading

You'll Also Like

Kairos By leigh heasley

Science Fiction

846K 23.1K 28
Time travel is legal and Ada Blum is looking for love. But what happens when one of her charming bachelors from the past makes his way to the present...
5.5K 266 9
Minji has always said that she won't fall in love again. Well, turns out she was lying. -♡- Minji has always wanted to be a writer. Therefore, after...
2.8K 118 27
Beatrice opens her eyes into a weird space. A programmed voice tells her that she needs to go through different novel plots and complete certain task...
6.5K 554 106
Lin Sanjiu has survived eight worlds, and now she faces the newest danger. But first, Lin Sanjiu and co jump at the opportunity to fulfill a long-he...