Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Lu Huan was supposed to go to the government office today to hand over the affairs to the Ministry of War and its subordinates to several officials until the next Assistant Minister took office. However, he took sick leave instead.
He had always been diligent and had never taken leave. In recent days, he had even been working himself to the bone to handle official duties. Therefore, his sudden request for leave was quite strange.
However, they had heard that Lu Huan went out of the city last night for some reason. So thinking he probably caught a cold on the way back, the Second Department Minister, who was now one rank lower than him, readily asked for leave.
Meanwhile, the Minister of War was frowning, wondering whether he should tell General Zhenyuan the truth about the Ninth Prince’s background that he had heard the night before.
Well, General Zhenyuan was a bit too impulsive, so let’s not tell him about this yet. Let’s send someone to find out the truth first and then discuss it with the Grand General once the matter is clear.
If Han Yue hadn’t run away from home again last night and gone to Changchun Temple to sleep, he probably wouldn’t have found out about this by accident.
Thinking this, after the servants told him that Han Yue had woken up, the Minister of War decided to teach her a lesson.
But to everyone’s surprise, Han Yue was completely bewildered and said, “Father, I went to bed early last night and don’t know anything after that. How could I have gone to Changchun Temple by myself?”
Han Yue was willful and had tried to fake being kidnapped before. Last night, seeing the window wide open and no signs of struggle inside, the Minister of War assumed that Han Yue had run off to Changchun Temple again, leaving clues to fake being kidnapped. Feeling extremely helpless, he cooperated and went to Changchun Temple to bring her back.
But to everyone’s surprise, she said no—?
The Minister of War’s expression immediately changed.
On this day, the atmosphere in the Minister of War’s residence was solemn and vigilant.
Of course, that was another story.
….
At this very moment, Lu Huan was still inside the official residence, staring at the strange, semi-transparent curtain that had appeared out of nowhere—
He didn’t know what it was for the time being, so he referred to it as a curtain.
He summoned a few servants from the courtyard to sweep and clean but sent them out shortly afterward.
Through the bewildered reactions of these servants, Lu Huan quickly confirmed three things:
First, all of this was not a dream.
Secondly, this curtain that appeared out of nowhere was invisible to everyone else except him.
Third, the curtain could be pulled out from the right side or closed at will.
This was truly unbelievable. If others knew, they would probably think that Lu Huan had lost his mind.
Lu Huan stared at the strange, semi-transparent object, his face grim. He had his own doubts, but the words “Do you want to see the person you long for?” that popped up on the screen kept lingering in his mind. He calmed himself down, asked for leave, closed the door, and began to study it carefully.
After the few lines of text disappeared from the screen suspended in mid-air, the room that Lu Huan had seen earlier was revealed.
Lu Huan frowned, scrutinizing everything in the room with a critical gaze.
He wasn’t wrong; there was indeed a bed in the very center, but it was completely different from the carved beds of his own dynasty. It was a very strange style that Lu Huan couldn’t describe. The two pillows at the head of the bed were also very strange, very swollen, as if they were filled with cotton. There had never been such pillows in either the common people or the palace.
Beside the bed was a very large object resembling a bronze mirror, about three feet wide, but much more reflective than a bronze mirror, reflecting the other side of the room— Lu Huan tentatively suspected that it was a mirror.
The window was also very strange. Lu Huan knew it was a window because he could vaguely see the sunlight shining through and onto the ground, but he had never seen the material of the window frame before. It looked like a kind of silver, but not quite.
Furthermore, the floor, the tables, and the chairs all gave Lu Huan a visual impact.
He could roughly guess what those things were, but to him, they were as novel as seeing the moon suddenly fall from the sky.
After carefully examining everything, Lu Huan discovered that the outside of this house was connected to the main hall— the main hall wasn’t very big, but he was immediately taken aback.
What was that?
There was a rectangular black object hanging on the wall in the main hall.
Everything was completely new to him, and he tried to figure out what it was. Then, after walking around the whole house, he subconsciously wanted to see more.
However, new text immediately popped up on the screen—
Sorry, little one, you don’t have enough points to unlock new sections. Please complete the main or side quests as soon as possible to unlock the section you want to visit.
This sentence was also read aloud in a mechanical voice.
When Lu Huan heard the word “little one,” his eyebrows twitched, and he tried his best to ignore the way the address made his face contort with emotion.
He understood the meaning of the sentence and asked, “What mission?”
Text appeared on the screen—
[Ten main quests have been completed so far. The eleventh quest is not yet available. Please complete side quest eight: Before leaving, handle all affairs of the two ministries of the Ministry of War and earn the respect of the officials in charge.]
Although these things seemed unbelievable and fantastical to Lu Huan, perhaps his obsession with seeing the ghost was too deep, so he didn’t bother to figure out what was going on. He simply took down the curtain and hurriedly rode his horse to the government office!
He lifted his robe and sat down behind the desk. Within half an hour, he wrote down solutions to all the problems accumulated in the files of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel!
Then, to the astonishment of those in charge, he appeared and disappeared without a trace, galloping onto his horse and riding back to the official residence, panting as he pulled a curtain from his right sleeve.
The curtain seemed taken aback by his speed, pausing slightly before new text and mechanical voices appeared again.
[Congratulations on completing side quest eight! Reward points: +2. You can now choose to unlock a new section.]
Lu Huan stared at the curtain.
The next second, an image popped up on the screen, seemingly a map of a city.
As Lu Huan looked at the various novel terms on the map, such as “school,” “hospital,” and “CBD building,” he felt his worldview being challenged. He opened his mouth slightly and stared blankly for a few seconds.
He tried to match those nouns with what he understood. School, does that mean private school?
As for the crooked English letters “CBD”, he had absolutely no idea what they meant.
But wait, Lu Huan suddenly remembered the tiny characters on the lantern that the ghost had given him, and some of them looked somewhat like these three characters.
He quickly went to the eaves, took down the lantern, and compared it with the small, crooked characters on the map. Surprisingly, he found that some of them actually matched!
Lu Huan’s heart pounded, his blood rushed to his head, and the thoughts that had been dormant all night were rekindled in an instant.
He suppressed his excitement, first placing the lantern on a table to the side, then clenching his fist and continuing to look up at the curtain.
He didn’t know which section to unlock yet, but he figured that the scene that suddenly appeared on the screen was of that room, and that room must have something special about it.
So he chose to unlock the area around that room.
The newly unlocked section of the screen quickly appeared on the screen.
That was—
Lu Huan’s worldview was once again shaken!
He looked up and saw a four-wheeled flat-bottomed carriage speeding past on the long street!
On the long street, the people coming and going were dressed in strange clothes. The women were barely clothed, the men had very short hair, and most of them were holding a small, long black brick and muttering something to it.
Lu Huan was filled with doubts, but he remembered what the wandering Taoist had said last night: “You and the person you want to see are not in the same world.”
He suddenly understood something.
Could it be—
Is this the world she lives in?
Those towering buildings seemed to be reaching for the sky, making one feel as if they could pluck stars from the sky.
Such a tall building would have been impossible to build in his own dynasty, not even the observatory in the imperial palace!
Those four-wheeled carriages that traveled at extremely high speeds could be described as covering a thousand miles a day; even the finest BMW could not achieve such speeds.
The objects held by those pedestrians seemed to be legendary devices that could transmit sound over long distances. He saw one of them say something to the black brick, and soon, another person across the street waved to that person.
Lu Huan recalled the blueprints for the frost-proof shed and greenhouse that the ghost had given him. The contents of those blueprints were also very novel, and they had never been heard of not only in Yan Kingdom, but also in the entire Four Continents.
Could it be that the world she lives in is… the future, many years after a change of dynasty?
Lu Huan recalled everything that had happened since his encounter with the ghost. His blood rushed to his head, and a thin current surged through the back of his neck. Almost instantly, he confirmed his guess.
Almost instinctively, he took a few steps forward, excitedly wanting to go through the semi-transparent curtain and chase after them.
However, he walked straight through the curtain and onto the other side of the room, only to find nothing.
At the same time, a line of text appeared on the screen—
[Hi little one, your points haven’t reached 200 yet, so you can’t unlock the next big gift pack. Please don’t be impatient, and complete more main and side quests to increase your points as soon as possible.]
Lu Huan’s face turned pale instantly. Was he unable to enter her world?
Although he didn’t understand what points were, he roughly understood that he had to do some tasks like the ones he had just done to accumulate a number before he could go to her world to see her.
Thinking of this, Lu Huan felt there was still a glimmer of hope, so he rubbed his face to calm himself down.
He continued to learn about this entirely new future world.
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