Chapter 557: Chapter 557

After awakening this time, Jing Shu still felt an intense weariness, but it was, indeed, slightly better than before. Seeing that everything was fine, Jing Shu began to explore the upgraded Magic Cube Space!

She was very excited. If she wasn’t mistaken, her Magic Cube Space had upgraded from the Second Form to the Third Form!

The First Form of the Magic Cube Space was quite simple: when she first unsealed the Magic Cube, her consciousness would appear in the space, meaning she could see things inside the space and even manipulate items, plant vegetables, and arrange supplies using her consciousness, but Jing Shu couldn’t see her own self. Inside the space, she could do whatever she wanted, as her consciousness had absolute dominion.

The Second Form of the Magic Cube Space was a semi-materialized state that seemed to overlap with reality. Each Magic Cube could combine into any shape and swiftly appear before her, allowing her to control items from the Magic Cube Space while in the real world. She could control it with divided attention, making it perfect for multitasking, such as talking with others while simultaneously organizing the space. Ever since she acquired the Second Form, she had convenient, anytime-anywhere control over the Magic Cube Space. This made it much easier for Jing Shu to multitask, and she could utilize the space more intuitively because it was right before her eyes. The First Form and the Second Form could be interchanged at will.

Jing Shu had always thought that the Third Form of the space would be a complete materialization, no longer virtual but overlapping with reality. However, she never expected that one moment she would be lying in the tent, and in the next instant, she would suddenly appear in the Magic Cube Space!

Hundreds of Magic Cubes were neatly arrayed before her, emitting a soft white glow. The surroundings resembled an endless, dark night. Then, her gaze fell upon the vast stores of supplies... In the middle of the supplies was a field, now doubled in size. It was still unplanted and lay neatly beside the Spiritual Spring. The other half of the field was filled with various vegetables, fruits, and crops, growing in patches everywhere.

Jing Shu stood beside the field. She looked incredulously at her hands, then at the big, muddy cotton-padded coat she was wearing. She realized she had stepped on several pepper plants. She crouched down and grabbed a handful of soil. It felt incredibly real!

She carefully walked up to a cherry tree laden with fruit, personally picked a few cherries that were so red they were almost black, and popped them into her mouth. Dark red juice burst forth, its sweet taste lingering in her mouth. These cherries were a large variety, originally from Chile. She had sneakily planted one a few days ago while inspecting seeds with Wang Dan, thinking she’d satisfy a craving later. Now, in what felt like the blink of an eye—about ten days later—the cherries in the space were fully ripe!

Wait, that’s not the point.

The point was that Jing Shu had appeared in the space—this wasn’t virtualization, nor was it just her consciousness appearing; it was Jing Shu herself, her actual body, present within the space!

Can the Magic Cube Space actually hold people now?!

Jing Shu was thrilled. If the Magic Cube Space could really admit people, then the apocalypse wouldn’t be a problem! When danger arose, one could hide in the space. This space could simulate the ideal environments for animals and plants; surely it could simulate a habitable environment for humans too? It might even be possible to live in the space long-term!

But Jing Shu’s excitement was quickly dashed.

When she opened her eyes back in the tent, she was in the exact same pose as when she had closed her eyes, not having moved a muscle. The only difference was the lingering taste of cherries in her mouth, which convinced her she had genuinely eaten something and not just dreamed it. Otherwise, she might have thought her physical body had been frozen in time.

So, did I actually enter the space just now, or not? Latest content publıshed on 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩✶𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚✶𝕟𝕖𝕥

To figure it out, Jing Shu took out her phone, placed it in front of her head, and started recording. She then activated the Third Form. Her surroundings changed, and she entered the Magic Cube Space once again. This time, Jing Shu picked peaches, pears, apples, and various other fruits, eating several of each. Finally, she stuffed a handful of cherries into her mouth, eating as she exited the space.

The moment she opened her eyes, Jing Shu quickly swallowed the remaining cherries and checked the video on her phone. Indeed, her heart sank. The recording showed that after she closed her eyes and her consciousness entered the Magic Cube Space, her physical body had remained lying motionless in the tent!

So, it seems that with this Third Form, my consciousness fully enters the Magic Cube Space? Does that mean the ’me’ in the Magic Cube Space isn’t my actual physical body? What on earth is it then? A materialization of my consciousness? Jing Shu experimented repeatedly but still couldn’t quite grasp the purpose of this Third Form.

Could it just be for conveniently sneaking food?

After all, when she activated the Third Form and entered the space to eat, no one on the outside would notice anything amiss, nor would there be any scent. She could eat whatever she wanted, whenever and wherever, just by closing her eyes. This made sneaking food incredibly convenient.

But surely the space wouldn’t have developed this Third Form *just* to make sneaking food easier, right?

Jing Shu was perplexed. It seemed this Third Form required more investigation. Wait a minute! She scanned her space again and suddenly realized something: the black liquid, which she had obtained by sacrificing almost all her insects before she fainted, was gone! Completely gone! Not a trace remained!

She remembered having accumulated cubic meters of the liquid in her space before the upgrade!

Then it dawned on her: Previous space upgrades had only taken a few hours. This time, however, not only had she been unconscious for several days, but she still felt overwhelmingly drowsy, as if her mind was being forcibly stuffed with something. Could this be because the space absorbed all the black liquid?

Moreover, after this space upgrade, Jing Shu felt that the space itself was somehow different, but she couldn’t pinpoint what exactly had changed. Had her space undergone a Mutation?

Since Jing Shu was almost entirely focused on her upgraded space and was so overwhelmingly sleepy that she would fall back asleep after being awake for only two hours at a time, she had barely participated in the subsequent events of the rescue mission. Nevertheless, everything had proceeded smoothly.

To her surprise, Jun Bao had left with Hong Bin, Lu Liu, and Yang Yang. They had apparently gone to find a location with a large quantity of the black liquid. This liquid was considered to have significant research value. Jing Shu was both amused and exasperated by this news. She had recently promised Jun Bao that she would be responsible for the black liquid and in return, would receive shares in his research company. Now, her space didn’t have a single drop remaining.

Meanwhile, Li Dayou led all the crew members, transporting the Seeds, to Wu City. The local villagers were entrusted to the main rescue team, who would follow Li Dayou’s Seeds transport squad.

On the minibus, apart from Hao Yunlai, who looked at her with pitiful eyes each day, hoping she would wake up, everyone else had been replaced by a new group of rescue personnel. She didn’t recognize any of them.

After falling into a drowsy sleep once again, Jing Shu suddenly found herself in the Magic Cube Space, holding a 10-tier Magic Cube. She twirled the Magic Cube casually and discovered that practicing with it in the space made her consciousness more agile, her thoughts flow more quickly, and even her hands in the space became more nimble.