Chapter 16.3 - Space? You mean hiding place?!
"But since the two of you seem to be hiding something from me, I'll give you a chance to come clean. Thirty minutes. If you can come back here in thirty minutes, I'll let you explain it yourself," Li XinWen told him before cutting off the line.
"Ah'Wen!" Li JingHua couldn't believe what she just heard. She looked at her younger brother who only looked back at her.
"Hua-jie, clearly you still love him. I don't know what's making you act cold towards him but, it's better to discuss these kinds of things with ALL parties involved present," Li XinWen told her. "Plus, I want to ask... Does Xue Rui have an ability?"
"... Three abilities..." Li JingHua muttered in a low voice. "But Ah'Wen, even without him, I'm sure we can survive the apocalypse! You don't need to-"
"I don't need to what?" Li XinWen quickly cut her off. "Li JingHua... Although you are my older sister... I am still the eldest man in this household. Keeping our family safe is my responsibility. If Xue Rui can help increase our survivability, then it would be wiser to include him in your plan. Don't you think?"
"That..." Li JingHua was still hesitant. She really did not want to include Xue Rui in her plans but she also knew that with him around, they would be a lot safer. After all, without Xue Rui's help, they might not even survive the first few months of the apocalypse. "Alright. Fine. I'll agree to include him."
"Great. Now, can you tell me what his abilities are?"
"Lightning, Fire and Ice... two variant elements so he was humanity's biggest asset back then but..."
"But?" Li XinWen asked but Li JingHua only shook her head, refusing to answer. 'Guess I can only search her memories later...' Li XinWen thought as he looked at her sister. "Alright, so let's have a check..." Li XinWen opened a notepad app on his phone. "Ah'Xiao have Fire and Ice, Hua-jie has water and, Rui-ge has lightning, ice and fire... and I have none..." at this, Li XinWen pretended to sigh.
"It's alright, Ah'Wen! As long as you can practice martial arts with Mr. Min, I'm sure you can still protect yourself!" Li JingHua quickly tried to assure her brother.
"Of course. I have to get stronger so I can protect you, Ah'Xiao and mom!"
"Right. Anyway, I still have another ability," Li JingHua told him. "How about I just show you?" as she said this, she waved her hand over the table and the cups on the table disappeared without a trace.
Li XinWen's eyes widened in surprise and used Mo Yan to see if it was concealed. The result was, the cup had completely disappeared. "Hua-jie, do you have a qiankun bag?" Li XinWen asked as he began to look at her from top to bottom trying to find the bag he suspected his sister as having.
"Qiankun bag? What's that?" this time, it was Li JingHua who was confused.
"It's... A bag with a spatial dimension inside. You can store items bigger than its physical size into the space within! The higher the quality of the bag, the larger the space! The bag's quality depends on the array that is placed on it and only high-level cultivators who have studied arrays can make a qiankun bag!" Li XinWen explained.
"Oh..." was all Li JingHua could say. She didn't really get what Li XinWen said but at least, she understood the gist of it. "No, Ah'Wen. I don't have that bag. What I did was put the cups into my space," she told him before she took out the cups again which now appeared on the table. "Space ability users are rare... And the space they have increased as the user's level increases. Right now, I can easily put everything we have in this house in my space and we'll still be left with space as big as our house."
"That big? No one else can access your space, right?" Li XinWen asked again.
"No. Unless I die, no one should be able to access my space."
Li XinWen's eyes were shining as he heard what Li JingHua said. "Hua-jie, I'm your younger brother, right? Can you help me keep something safe?" he asked in a childish manner.