Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 890: Chapter 524: Then What About Our Loved Ones? (5,100 Words)

He quickly and in detail recounted the experiences he had during the scorching summer.

The reactions of the others were roughly what he expected.

"A statue with your face? Holy crap, don’t tell me each of us has a statue too?"

"So that’s how you encountered the Underground Crystal City..."

"Shi Wanyun? The one from Area One? Huh? Is she here now?"

"Wait, why are you so familiar with the facilities in the underground palace?"

Their questions were endless, leaving Xu Xin no choice but to tell them, "Listen to what I have to say, and you’ll understand. What I’m about to tell you is the most important part, and the reason we’ve come to this world."

The explorers gathered in a circle all showed shocked expressions, then fell silent to listen intently.

"We... entered the second level of the palace, and there, I returned to... our world."

"What?!" Everyone around him couldn’t stay seated and exclaimed in surprise.

Wang Lei and Wen Guixin stood up directly, and Ji Chaoyang stared at him fixedly.

Even Lou Fei’Er, who had been adventuring with him all along, was too shocked to close their mouths.

"In that world, I returned to my home, saw my mother, saw my sister, met many familiar people."

He continued his tale steadily.

"But none of them recognized me."

Xu Xin’s words were like bombshells, causing the faces of those around him to change constantly, but no one interrupted as they continued to listen to his narration.

His experience in the past world had too many mysteries, leaving these people with too many questions they wanted to ask but decided not to.

"...We arrived at the third level of the palace..."

Amidst the ever-increasing shock on everyone’s faces and the ever-widening eyes fixed on him, Xu Xin clearly described the current situation of this world to everyone present.

"...And then we returned to the surface, and the Crystal City rose to the surface with us."

Silence.

Deathly silence.

Everyone around was completely speechless.

What Xu Xin said was too astonishing, so astonishing that everyone present couldn’t immediately believe it, only frantically conjure a storm in their minds.

Suddenly someone told them that this was not another world, but Earth a thousand years in the future...

Who could believe that!

If anyone else had said something like this, they’d just think the person had a screw loose.

But... it was Xu Xin who said it.

Moreover, the Crystal City outside, only a few hundred meters away, proved the situation he described.

Keke lay on Xu Xin’s lap, tilting her little head, wondering why nobody was speaking.

"Uh?"

The sound broke the deathly silence.

"Here... is future Earth? One... one thousand years in the future?!" Wang Lei’s eyes widened like saucers, "Brother Xin, it’s not that I don’t believe you, but... what you’re saying is too unimaginable, right?!"

Qin Yunlong and Qin Yunhu were too shocked to speak.

"Yeah!" Zhao Xiaochuan jumped up too, "This, this... Brother Xin, is there a possibility... you’ve been deceived?"

Xu Xin nodded lightly, "It’s possible, but... the likelihood is small."

The resources gathered, the statue of himself that had clearly existed for a long time, those images, and everything in this world similar to Earth...

Everything points to this place actually being Earth.

"No wonder..." Ji Chaoyang’s eyes sparkled as he muttered to himself, "No wonder the species in this world compared to Earth, except being larger in size, are almost identical, even down to the types of plants and fungi. Is this the reason..."

Ji Chaoyang’s words caused everyone around to be shocked.

If this was another world, there shouldn’t be species identical to those on Earth.

"Wait, wait...! Huh?" Wen Guixin felt her head struggling to process, "What you just said was so convoluted, something about being sent by future us to an even farther future, I didn’t quite understand — can you say it again?"

Xu Xin nodded and repeated the explanation.

Everyone listened very carefully, leaning towards Xu Xin for fear of missing even the tiniest bit of critical information.

"It’s still hard for me to believe what you’re saying, can we go see the statue with your face?" At this point, Qi Xuefei spoke up, her expression somewhat grim as if terrified, "That statue is on the surface now, right."

"On the surface," Lou Fei’Er spoke up, standing and motioning towards the window, "Just outside, less than a few hundred meters away, we can walk straight there."

She glanced at Xu Xin, a trace of dissatisfaction and resentment in her eyes.

That seemed to say, why is she only being told now?! Weren’t they exploring underground together?

Her fellow traveler felt like an outsider!

Zeng Tao beside her showed the same expression, glaring at Xu Xin, but due to the prominent figures present, she held back and fumed silently.

Jin Yue’s gaze was slightly dazed, staring vacantly at the ground, lost in thought.

Xu Xin felt a bit helpless.