si-mexico Chapter 84 A Good Place
Chapter 84 A Good Place
Lin Yue and Gong Yong sat fifty meters away from the excavator, waiting to break through the hollow mountainside to see if they could find Jingjing. But to their surprise, after digging for almost twenty days, they hadn't found anything. They actually decided to give up, something Lin Yue and Gong Yong couldn't have imagined. Even though their daughter was inside, Lin Yue and Gong Yong clearly sensed life, and the eagle spirit had reported that Jingjing was inside, yet someone wanted to quit and give up. Lin Yue was furious. With a single palm strike, she sent the man flying ten meters away, spitting out a mouthful of blood. Those behind her were speechless. Why? Because no one had expected Lin Yue's cultivation to be so high. The person she had sent flying was already nearing the Golden Core stage, and Lin Yue had sent someone about to reach the Golden Core stage flying with just one palm strike. Was this cultivator about to reach the Golden Core stage so easily defeated?
This made everyone look at Gong Yong again, and when they were about to make another move, they all took a step back. Everyone knew that Lin Yue's cultivation level was lower than Gong Yong's. As for Gong Yong's actual cultivation level, no one knew. Throughout the entire process, Gong Yong stood behind Lin Yue, never uttering his own words, only supporting his wife and children, nothing more. Why didn't Gong Yong express his own thoughts? Because he knew that when he was at his poorest and most destitute, only his wife stayed with him, and his children never abandoned him, while his parents and siblings all looked down on him. Conversely, now that he was doing well and had money, his parents and siblings only cared about his money. This made him see through the true nature of life.
Because of Lin Yue and Gong Yong's suppression, the person who had planned for Jingjing to be buried by the mountain could only continue to assemble the construction team to dig day and night. Thirty-five days passed in a flash. You might ask what the two people inside were doing? Let's turn back time and see what Jingjing was doing.
From day one, Jingjing and Baifa Ge were constantly playing games. Jingjing played with Baifa Ge, and because they were using a newly registered account and Jingjing even used a new phone, no one knew they were playing games the whole time. As for where the electricity came from? Jingjing had a lot of batteries stored in her spatial storage. During the day, they played games to their hearts' content, and at night they slept in their tents and cabins respectively. Showering was also convenient; the nearby lake, with its contrasting ice and fire formations, served as a natural bathing spot. When Baifa Ge went to shower, Jingjing would return to the tent; when Jingjing went to shower, Baifa Ge would return to the cabin. You might wonder why Baifa Ge would be so self-disciplined? Yes, he was.
Either the white-haired guy is cultivating, or the two of them are either grilling or stewing meat and making delicious meals. Jingjing has learned Lin Yue's excellent cooking skills, and these past few days she's been stewing meat whenever she has free time. The cooked dishes are packaged into disposable boxes and placed in the storage room. Because it's a static space, the food is exactly the same when it's taken out as it was when it's put in. She keeps cooking, like braised beef with radish, stewed pork ribs with winter melon, stewed chicken with small mushrooms, braised pork belly, braised pork intestines, braised pork intestines, taro stewed chicken, and so on. She makes several of the popular dishes in Rongcheng every day and then packs them up. The white-haired guy has become a handsome man who drools over the pot every day. He used to say he wouldn't eat anything because he was fasting, but now he looks forward to Jingjing cooking every day. She'll give him a portion, eat one portion herself, and pack the rest up.
Besides cooking rice, stewing dishes, and packing, there were also fairy drinks for Xiao Jingjing. Jingjing took out the fairy fruits, many of which Baifa Ge recognized. Jingjing didn't know how to use them and just ate them raw, much to Baifa Ge's dismay. Jingjing asked, "Do you know what these are?" Baifa Ge then explained the effects of each fairy fruit, its benefits to the body, the best time to eat it, and the best way to practice after eating it. While Baifa Ge was introducing them one by one, Jingjing generously showed him all the spiritual fruits in Lin Yue's space. As Baifa Ge described one, Jingjing recorded it on video, made notes, and sent them to Lin Yue. While Lin Yue was directing the excavation of the cave, she also received these messages from her daughter.
Previously, Lin Yue, who didn't quite understand the effects of these fruits, could only discover their uses through guesswork or research and testing. Now, with the white-haired brother's explanation, Jingjing made a new discovery. The white-haired brother was talking about the benefits of eating the fruits during cultivation, while Lin Yue and the others had only seen benefits in ordinary people, not in their own cultivation, simply eating them like ordinary fruit. With the white-haired brother's guidance, Lin Yue felt that the fresh fruits in her space had become incredibly useful.
Jingjing discovered that the white-haired man not only knew about fresh fruits but also the uses of immortal herbs and flowers. Without hesitation, Jingjing took out every special plant she had previously stored in her space and had the white-haired man explain their functions, uses, and names. Jingjing recorded these conversations and sent them to Lin Yue. When Lin Yue saw the videos Jingjing sent, she knew that Jingjing and the white-haired man were together and had discovered a great place.
Forty days had passed, and Jingjing was still nowhere to be found. The sect that had orchestrated Jingjing's burial couldn't bear it any longer and pushed the young man before Lin Yue to admit their mistake, saying they truly couldn't find her; they had been digging for forty days, almost exhausting the entire mountain. Lin Yue and Gong Yong said expressionlessly, "Then you should leave." Everyone, including Jingjing's team leader, hadn't found her after forty days, and couldn't even determine if she was still alive. But Lin Yue and Gong Yong knew Jingjing was still inside. If they weren't mistaken, it was probably due to the white-haired brother's formation.
Lin Yue screamed frantically, telling these people to get out. She and Gong Yong sat there silently, lost in thought, for three or four days. Then the little mouse, the willow tree spirit, and the sable spirit in the sky reported that almost everyone in the area had left, no one was passing by on the ground, and food, plants, two snow wolves, and even the ginseng spirit had arrived. At this point, everyone was gone, and then Coco was sent over by her superiors. Coco came to Lin Yue's side, hugged her mother, and said, "Mom, my sister will be alright." Lin Yue patted Coco and said, "She was alright to begin with, but I didn't want them to know your sister found a good place." Coco's eyes lit up instantly, and she asked, "A good place?" Lin Yue said, "Yes, they found the spring of ice and fire, but they hadn't been able to dig it out because Brother White Hair set up a formation." After everyone had completely left, Lin Yue and Gong Yong erected a barrier around the mountain, concealing the area. Only then did Lin Yue contact Jingjing by phone, telling her that everyone was gone.
Inside, the white-haired man noticed everyone outside had left, leaving only Jingjing's parents and sister. Remembering that he and Jingjing had already collected most of the rare treasures inside, but noting that the lake was extremely beneficial to cultivators, he had hidden it earlier. He quickly opened the barrier and came out with Jingjing; the contents of the lake had already been stored in their spatial rings. Once outside, Jingjing hugged Lin Yue, her parents, and her older sister, overjoyed.
Following this, Gong Yong, Lin Yue, and Coco quietly entered the naturally formed cave, a place of contrasting ice and fire. The descent was somewhat perilous. They had emerged using the White-Haired Brother's flying sword technique, but descending was difficult because the excavator's earlier digging had created a large cavity. The White-Haired Brother widened his sword considerably, allowing the five of them to float down lightly. Since the other four were all at least at the Golden Core stage, they only lightly touched his sword to cushion the impact, not actually standing on it, so he easily carried them inside.
Once inside, Lin Yue said, "You'd better set up an array here, and then make a doorway with stairs leading down, so you can come in again if needed." The white-haired man didn't understand why it had to be so well concealed. Lin Yue explained, "There are very few places in this world with such rare treasures anymore. Many are either hidden by heavenly secrets or concealed by human intervention. Because once discovered, they either become public or private. Think it through." The white-haired man considered this and still set up a barrier. He taught Lin Yue, Gong Yong, Jingjing, and Coco how to open the barrier, and then had them tell his underlings. He even recorded the method on video and passed it on to them.
The group went down to investigate and found the cavern to be quite large, easily accommodating fifty people for long-term survival. Lin Yue thought to herself, "If an accident were to occur, wouldn't this be a perfect place to escape disaster?" This place had a water source and good air circulation; cooking inside wouldn't be detected. It was practically a natural underground castle, requiring only simple modifications.
Lin Yue thought for a moment, then reported Jingjing's situation to the elderly and children at home, sending a short video to say that Jingjing was alive and in good health, and asking everyone not to misunderstand the information from the outside world. Jingjing also sent a short video to her maternal grandparents, who were very worried about her due to their advanced age, as well as her uncle and aunt and their children; everyone understood that they couldn't tell anyone else. Then, Lin Yue and Gong Yong simultaneously told their relatives outside that they would be staying here for a while to train, and since they were already there, they wouldn't be going out for the time being.
The five people began building the shelter. They had just finished drawing up the blueprints, and Lin Yue and Gong Yong had barely completed their sketches when Coco's husband, the lone wolf, also took leave and arrived. However, after searching everywhere and not finding his wife, the lone wolf quickly sent her a message. After sending the message, the white-haired man flew out from a corner of the mountain and, taking advantage of his momentary lapse in attention, struck the handsome man on the back, knocking him unconscious. After knocking him unconscious, he carried him on his shoulder and smuggled him down below using a flying sword.
When they brought him in, Lin Yue and Gong Yong were stunned. Why was this person unconscious? The white-haired man explained, "I didn't know if you were going to tell this person any information about this place, so I knocked him out and brought him in." When Lin Yue told him to go out and bring someone in, she hadn't been very specific, only saying that this was their eldest son-in-law. Coco was both amused and exasperated, and quickly told the white-haired man to wake him up. The white-haired man quickly woke Lone Wolf, who was startled to see his wife. Feeling embarrassed at being inexplicably knocked out, he stood up and saw the white-haired man grinning foolishly behind him, then understood what had happened. With this ancestor around, being knocked out was normal.
Then Lin Yue and Gong Yong felt their help had arrived. The blueprints were drawn up, outlining a plan for twenty suites. The ground floor, due to the dampness from the water and lake within the cave, was entirely empty. The rooms were on the second and third floors, where the dampness was also high, with water dripping from some places on the ceiling. The lake-facing side of the ground floor resembled a stilted house, entirely empty. Accommodation was on the second floor; the third floor had no accommodations but served as a space for activities, exercise, or storage, in case a large influx of people came. The third floor could be easily partitioned and converted into temporary accommodations. Lin Yue thought it unnecessary to make it too large; she'd build about ten rooms first, enough for her family, including her three children, and for their future marriage and children. If not, she'd build more. After much deliberation, she decided to build all twenty rooms. Construction began on twenty identical rooms under Lin Yue's guidance. Because Lin Yue had everything in her spatial dimension, with exposed steel bars, and because they were both at least at the Golden Core stage, construction started quickly.
To prevent the cave from collapsing, Lin Yue erected several large cement pillars in the areas where the house was to be built, which were quickly erected by the six of them. The cement was of a very high grade, and it was hauled out boatload by boat, all done manually—you probably can't imagine. The outer timber was actually plastic, like trays, which could be simply clipped on. At first, Lin Yue found this strange, but Gong Yong explained that because of the war, they were worried that they wouldn't be able to find wood to build a house quickly after leaving, so they had these reusable boxes. Lin Yue's warehouse and Gong Yong's space had a lot of these, and they quickly prepared the materials needed for building the second floor using these plastic materials, erected them, and secured them with steel bars.
Surprisingly, six people completed the main framework of twenty rooms in just fifteen days. The men were responsible for gluing the parts, while the women installed the bulletproof glass. As for doors and windows, Gong Yong had stockpiled some in his storage space and used them directly. Initially, there weren't enough panes of glass of the same size, so they pieced them together, and each of the twenty rooms had simple sliding windows. Considering the possibility of children falling from above, safety railings were also installed in every room. There was also a corridor facing the lake, which every room accessed. The twenty rooms had five or six staircases, all pre-assembled like a Rubik's Cube, and the team worked remarkably quickly.
After completing the main framework, they began working on the details. In the room near the ventilation opening in the cliff face, Lin Yue modified the ventilation opening and installed a fresh air system she had obtained from Gong Yong to remove moisture from the house and prevent it from affecting the living environment.
Subsequently, Lin Yue and Gong Yong decided to install large glass panels on the entire wall, which would not only provide a view but also prevent moisture and allow outside air to enter. They commissioned a glass company to customize about 20 large glass panels, each 3 meters high and 2 meters wide, as well as several smaller glass panels for irregular areas at the top. During the installation of the glass, a 60-centimeter-high step was built underneath to completely block moisture, ensuring the picturesque view without affecting the second-floor view or the brightness of the space.
Although Jin Guan Jin Jing and Bai Fa Ge had taken away many of the spiritual flowers and herbs near the spring, some regrown within a month or two. Lin Yue discovered that this place was a natural gathering place of energy, conducive to the growth of spiritual flowers and herbs, and also an excellent place for cultivation. Therefore, Lin Yue dug ten small holes near the spring to facilitate undisturbed cultivation when one person was working alone. These small holes were about fifty meters away from their residence. Finally, Lin Yue and Gong Yong took out daily necessities from their spatial storage and decorated the place beautifully.
You're probably wondering why Lin Yue and Gong Yong decided to make this place so beautiful. The reason is that they're getting older and want to find a secluded place to live out their remaining years, and they think this place is perfect.
On the other side of the mountain wall here is a sheer cliff, below which flows a narrow and treacherous river. This ventilation shaft, located in the cliff face a thousand meters high, is an inverted crevice, little known to others. The cavity inside is Lin Yue's sacred place and an excellent gathering spot.
About two kilometers away, there is another cliff face suspended in the air with a relatively large cave, which Lin Yue and Gong Yong detected with their divine sense.
After discussing it with their two daughters, Lin Yue and Gong Yong decided to dig a narrow path, just wide enough for one person to pass through, behind their room, leading to a larger, open space. This open space resembled a natural cave, a large, oval-shaped opening in a fissure, about fifty acres in size, like a valley, surrounded by cliffs, and about two kilometers away from the hot springs. Lin Yue planned to carve a small door in a secluded spot below their room to access it, creating a living area where they could grow vegetables, use it as a backyard garden, hunt for food, and cultivate flowers and plants. There, they could get sunlight, unlike here where they couldn't see it. However, that area was easily discovered; it was a dense, untouched forest, likely home to many large animals, given that it was a primeval forest. The only challenge was digging a tunnel two kilometers away without heavy machinery.
At this moment, Lin Yue and Gong Yong simultaneously thought of the pangolin family of three they had encountered before. Now, there was a family of eight, but the pangolin spirit only had that family of three; the other five were still ordinary pangolins. They decided to ask the pangolins for help. After thinking it over, Lin Yue took Gong Yong out, and the eagle spirit carried them to the previous mine. They found the pangolin family of three, and Lin Yue used a lot of persuasion, offering them many delicious spiritual fruits, to finally get the three into her spatial dimension. Then, Lin Yue and Gong Yong flew back on the eagle spirit to the cave. Lin Yue led the eagle spirit to walk around the path leading directly to the valley. After confirming the route, she had the rat spirit, led by the eagle spirit, place a small location-tracking device in the valley. The rat spirit was clever; it found a flat corner with cover and placed the device there. Based on the location, the pangolins dug a burrow.