It's not the earth as we know it conclusion

The sushi looked incredibly authentic. The way it's wrapped, the way each roll is placed on wide bamboo leaves..

Jiushu took chopsticks and tasted one with the wasabi and soy sauce…

Ah.. that gave the right kind of kick.. Plus it is the best sushi she has ever tasted…

MoQiu looked at her, eager as a puppy.

"It's quite authentic." She complimented.

"Believe it or not, I brought it from J-country." MoQiu answered.

"Really?" Jiushu exclaimed.

Aunt and uncle Fa are coming over. MoQiu offered the bamboo box to them.

They each tried a sushi doubt fully.

"Did you really go to J-country..?" Jiushu asked.

MoQiu nodded.

After they had snacks, they started walking again, this time, MoQiu and Jiushu walked together, Xiao Xing was resting in space.

"You can teleport as far as J-country. ? I thought you can't teleport over the sea." Jiushu whispered.

MoQiu looked like he was bursting at the seams wanting to share this secret.

"Just so. There is no sea at all. There is only one land mass here. We are living in the supercontinent Pangea." MoQiu informed her excitedly before she could ask.

"How did you figure that?" Jiushu asked curiously.

"I was trying to go to places I have been. We moved around for my father's work. We lived in Jakarta for a year, and I hiked on mount Gede. well, I went there. Then I went to Mount Fuji… then Yao Wang mountain, El Chalten and mount washington.. The point is not that. My most basic skill is map. It maps the area that's encircled by all the places I have been to. Look." Mo Qiu retrieved the map.

Jiushu stared at the round and neat holographic map in front of her.

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Angel Daren! You must answer me today. Why is the power given to MoQiu so OP and cooler than my own? I am your most obedient, diligent and polite worshipper… did you forget that?

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Oh, Yes! The map.

Jiushu looked at it. The countries are all marked in their own languages. There are only few she can recognize, by the virtue of watching television. There's j-country, stuck to the continent like hemming of a dress, then there's the broken piece of their own, attached to Antarctica of all things… then there are european countries, stuck like sardines in a box. Most of which Jiushu can read somewhat owing to her international education.

She can tell clearly from this MoQiu is indeed telling the truth. She calculated the pros and cons of this information.

Pro One … I can do a backpacking trip to Europe without any worries.

Con One … It will only take a lifetime to walk there.

Pro Two … I can see extinct animals if I am lucky..

Con one … I can get eaten by extinct animals if I am unlucky..

Con two … even if I were to hide in space, I could get eaten accidentally along with grass.

Con three.. If my space is accidentally eaten, I could get stuck forever as part of fossil poop…

Jiushu shuddered..

No more pessimism… think positive.. Think positive.. She hyped herself.

Pro three … I can probably collect every last species of vegetable and fruit in the world..

Con one … If I live that long in this pest infested backwards world…

Con *** one Pandemic can wipe out the entire world.. ***

Jiushu looked at MoQiu's over excited face. 'Fine. I will not rain on your parade this day' she decided. After all, it's not bad news, and almost all the cons existed even without the continent turning out to be Pangea.

For now, she will just stay here, and collect fruit. They have reached the village they are trying to get to. Jiushu finally understood why she hadn't seen a single fruit tree. As long as a fruit tree survived down in the slope, the villagers transplanted it into their own orchards, and grafted their fruit tree saplings on to the roots.

'I did not expect a technique as modern as grafting is already practised here.' Jiushu thought.

This particular village had a broken thatched house, which the villagers have given for their stay.

Jiushu wondered if she bought this house, she would become a homeowner.

The house is in a very poor position, but the view is killer. The mountain range increased and increased in height, with multiple summits. The thatched house is located one such side wards summit, in the opposite direction of the village. It's like the tall mountain is a candle that has dripped a lot of wax, then some one cut off the head of the melted wax. On top of this plateau, they built a small thatched cottage.

Three quarters of the yard borders into a steep fall. The mountain side makes back of the cottage. A half circle shaped dome is in the front, while the other half of the house is a shallow mountain cave, roughly carved. It's connected to the village by a stone path carved in the steep mountain side. You have to walk holding a rope for the balance, and if there's a strong wind, the stones falling from above can break your head.

It's like one of those extreme homes shown in documentaries. All the same, Jiushu liked it for the simple reason it's all on stone. She is sick and tired of mud. There's mud on the road, if the dew is a little strong, there's mud on the ground, even if the entire ground is covered by grass, she craved for the dry and clinically clean environment of the modern world.

This is a granite stone, no trees will grow on it, by it or otherwise. Thus, as long as she fixes it up, she is sure there will be no roof leakage and other such pesky problems. It will be hot in summer, cold in winter, but these things, jiushu can manage. So, she loved the little place. Only, they have to be very careful with Xiao Xing here.

On top of it, he might have a trauma about such a place. I will have to check for it, Jiushu noted down. For now though, she could probably add a safety railing or some such? Aunt Fa looked at her puttering about fondly. Jiushu gave her an awkward smile, and continued noting down things to do. They will be staying in this village from five to ten days, depending on how long it takes to hunt down the wolf pack.

MoQiu and his father left with a group of hunters. MoQiu has agreed to track the wolf pack, and Uncle Fa will be acting as the captain for the hunt. Aunt Fa and Jiushu are left to fix their cave-hut hybrid into an abode where people can actually live. She swept the place, then looked at the teetering beam, wondered what she should do.

She looked at aunt Fa.

Aunt Fa is glaring at the beams as if she could pull them off with the sheer amount of spite.

Normally, Aunt Fa has a pretty face, she has an heroic looking face, high cheekbones, phoenix eyes, and a strong jaw. Put together, her face is beautiful. However, if she is angry, or looks at someone sideways, it can make the other party feel she is mad. Now, that she scrunched her eyes in concentration at the beams, it's like she is trying to burn them with burning passion in her eyes.

After a few minutes of silence, Aunt Fa relaxed.

"Pull here, with me." she said, pointing to a location.

The hut is prehistoric, where all the bindings are secured with grass rope, each beam is set into another roughly by shaving them a little and tying together. Being an engineering graduate, Jiushu knew at least a minimum of woodworking and design drawing basics, them being a mandatory course for all engineering students. She is not an expert of CAD, but she can most definitely understand any blueprint in the world.

For a hut like this, with its skeleton visible, she just needs to determine which one is the load bearing beam and pull it to collapse it. Only, she could not determine that without modern equipment. It seems this is the kind of task where aunt Fa's power could be used. Jiushu went up to her, and held the beam along with aunt Fa.

"When I say pull, start pulling." aunt Fa said, and took a deep breath and centered herself, looped her hands around the beam along with Jiushu. Jiushu adjusted her posture accordingly.

"Pull" …

Jiushu and MoQiu's mother pulled at the same time.

The hut folded like a castle of cards.

"Ohhh….!" Jiushu let out a surprised sound.

"Let's clean it up now." aunt Fa said.

Aunt Fa is all for throwing the rotten wood down the cliff, but as a modern person, Jiushu disagreed. This wood is best burned off. If there was any termite infestation or even bed bug infestation, it's better to fumigate their humble abode than throw all the bug infested wood down the forest where bugs can flourish too much. Thus, she put all the rotten wood together, lit them up. The old wood caught fire all too easily. They swept all the other remnants of the wood into the bonfire. The villagers came to see them just as they were finishing.

"Aya.. Madam Fa! Why did you burn a perfectly fine house? We were being nice offering a new house to you, how could you burn it?" The village head started.

Jiushu started before Aunt Fa could answer. This is too much of a change of attitude from when they gave the house. Someone inspired him to be crooked while uncle and MoQiu are away.

"This GrandPa! Even if your tongue is crooked, you have to speak correctly. Where is this a perfectly fine house? It looked like we will die of falling beams before our men kill the wolves.." Jiushu took the tone of old fish wife immediately.

It's a bit unmatching with her supremely elegant and beautiful appearance, but the contrast struck them silent for a moment. At that moment, Jiushu had an idea. Let's buy this house. Her dream has been to buy a house before thirty, even if it's extremely dilapidated, in this time and day, this is a perfectly remote place to get lost in. yep, buy the house.

"In the first place, we wanted to buy the house. What did you say then? You said the house could be given to us for free just for coming to this village. Since you said so, isn't this our house now?" Jiushu asked. The old man did say that to be polite. However, that is only for the sake of being polite, he never thought there would be brazen enough people who occupy a perfectly good place just using polite words as an excuse.

The old man is tongue-tied for a moment. He came here expecting Jiushu and Aunt Fa to be like elegant noble ladies, thus all too willing to not engage in a fight with a black handed village man like him. Where is this noble lady? This is worse than the old fishwife under the mountain.

"This.." the old man began in an unsure voice.

Jiushu picked up before he could.

"How about this? You said this house belonged to the village. Now that all you guys are here, you guys decide a price this house could be sold at. The money could be used as the village fund. How about ten iron coins?" Jiushu asked.

Ten iron coins is too low of an amount. However, now that she has given a reference, the villagers will not go wild over it.

"Ey.. this young girl, you are too miserly.. What can you do with ten iron coins for the village?" the old wife commented.

"GrandMa! Then let me ask you this. I will sell this house to you for ten iron coins. Will you buy it?" Jiushu asked.

The old woman became silent.

Jiushu did not want her to become angry with her, so she added something.

"In fact, ten iron coins will be more than enough to buy a tub to hold water from the stream. You can just fill your bucket with water in the tub." Jiushu said conversationally.

The village collected water from a mountain stream. The stream is slow, it takes a while to fill water. Jiushu saw people queuing up there to get drinking water. It must be annoying to stand there for a while.

"Hmm.. that's right.. It will indeed be convenient." some of the village women started mumbling.

The old man shut up. Jiushu promised funds, and a collective property.. Now even if the man tries his best, it's very doubtful any of the villagers will side with him.

"Then tell me once you decide. I will give you an hour." Jiushu told them.

The fire burned merrily all the while. The villagers left to discuss this with the people in their house.

Finally, they came back with a price, ninety iron coins.

Jiushu went to the village head's house in ceremony, along with Aunt Fa and Xiao xing in tow.

Aunt Fa has written the document. Jiushu suggested she add the house description in drawing, highlighted by red ink. Aunt Fa did so. They took the handprints of the village head, and two of the villagers for witnesses, then, all of them put a thumbprint on the document. Jiushu gave over her ninety iron coins.

The villagers ooh'd and aah'd throughout the process, given the village did not have a single scholar. Aunt Fa prepared two copies, one for the village head, one for themselves, thus villagers can go and verify it with the scholars or officials some time.

When Jiushu told her to put her name as Chi Jiushu, and her brother's name as Chi Xiao Xing she did not blink an eye. Given aunt Fa did know their real names, it's quite an achievement to not give a reaction. It seems she has underestimated aunt and uncle Fa. It's not that they are not able to deal with villagers, it's just that they did not.

The village head is unhappy that they are such hard bones, but there's nothing he could do. Aunt Fa set up their tent for the night. Jiushu retrieved the smooth stone tripod from the space, which is used to cook ceremonial food. Jiushu gave the excuse of collecting vegetables and went to space.

The plans have grown as expected. Yu Choy has expanded from one side of the field, while chinese broccoli is spread on the other. They are separated by a giant infestation of gourds. In the middle in a straight line. Winter melon grew out a little, but it kept to it's corner of the field, looked a little sad as if it's defeated by Yu Choy.

The chinese broccoli flourished, but so did Bok choy. They were neck to neck in the competition, while eggplant silently carved a small island for itself, surrounded by bok choy and gourd. It seems the winner for vitality is Yu choy, while the winner for crop quality is Bok choy. Winner for crop quantity is obviously gourds.

'Don't be sad' Jiushu told eggplant and chinese Broccoli. 'I will leave the field only to you guys in the future. You need not compete with those bullies.. She consoled them.

She did not think much of her actions, but the space as a whole became brighter. The angel smiled in her garden, as her garden space grew a little.

Jiushu pulled out a Bok choy. The words popped in front of her again.

'Do you wish to pull out all plants identified as BokChoy?' [ Yes ] [ No ]

Jiushu chose yes decisively.

All the Bok choy entered storage. She followed the example, and pulled out all the plants in there. She exited the space and went to aunt Fa with vegetables. Aunt Fa made a pretty good rice soup. Now that she is eating at her own home after a fully packed working day, the rice soup is even more tasty.

'Ah.. if only MoQiu and uncle could have this..' Jiushu thought.

"Hey.. what's for dinner?" MoQiu's voice came from the corner.