Since there are real flowers, does that mean there are...
Living creatures?!
Upon entering this place, Tata looked around, initially showing confusion in its eyes, which soon dissipated as it hurriedly moved in a certain direction.
"Ah! (✪▽✪)ᕗ" (This way!)
Tata moved directly through the flower-filled garden, bringing Lin Su, Yingying, and Youyou quickly past one small courtyard after another.
Finally, it stopped in front of a particular courtyard.
Lin Su keenly sensed that this courtyard was different from the others.
Each courtyard had a nameplate outside the door, but only this one had inscriptions on the nameplate.
They were characters from a parallel world.
Lin Su, who had researched the text of the parallel world, could only surmise that it was a person's name.
As for the exact name, he wasn't quite sure.
The name on the plate was probably the name of the courtyard's owner.
Watching Tata hesitate before the courtyard door, Lin Su gently patted its head, "Let's go in."
"Ah! (✪▽✪)ᕗ" (Okay!)
With Lin Su's support, Tata gradually set its nervousness aside.
It stepped forward quickly and pushed open the courtyard gate.
With a creaking sound, the interior was revealed to everyone.
Upon seeing everything before him, Lin Su's pupils contracted intensely.
The inside of the courtyard was adorned with various flowers, just like the outside.
It was evident that the owner of the courtyard took great care of these flowers; each one was vibrant and beautiful.
Among the clusters of flowers, there stood a small pavilion.
Inside the pavilion sat a graceful figure.
This was also what shocked Lin Su the most.
In this fake divine garden, could there still be a human who lived from a parallel world until now?
But soon, he noticed some peculiarities.
Upon his entry, the figure in the pavilion had no reaction, which was quite unusual.
With caution, he led the three little ones gradually towards the pavilion, observing the woman within.
She was a graceful lady in a white dress; her attire was unlike any Lin Su had seen before, featuring divine garden's signature golden patterns, lending a sense of sanctity.
Until the man and three pets walked inside the pavilion, the lady in white remained oblivious to the three, interacting with the small beast in her arms.
"Hello?"
Lin Su tentatively reached out his hand, which passed through the figure in the next moment.
His face garnered a couple of expressions of relief.
This was an apparition, not a real living being.
He promptly shifted his focus from the lady to the small beast in her arms.
With its pink fluffy long fur, its tail was long and tapered at the end.
This was Tata's true appearance.
Or, it was from Tata's clan.
Tata stared intently at the small beast held by the lady in white, with confusion emerging in its eyes.
The apparition of the woman in the pavilion soon made another move.
Her red lips opened slightly, as though she were instructing the small beast in her arms, but no sound came out.
Subsequently, the woman took out a peculiarly shaped gemstone.
Lin Su's pupils slightly contracted.
The gemstone was shaped like a droplet, featuring flashes of light blue, pale green, light yellow, light red, and crystal-clear colorless material.
A five-colored object?
But it differed from the other five-colored objects Lin Su had seen, with the five colors completely fused together.
What is this?
Lin Su reached out, wanting to grasp the gemstone.
Yet, in the next instant, he grabbed at nothing once more.
Like the apparition, the gemstone too was a fantasy.
The lady in white seemed unaware as she gently pressed the droplet-shaped gemstone against the small beast's forehead.
In the next moment, the gemstone melded into the small beast, disappearing.
After completing this, the woman kissed the small beast's forehead, watching as it transformed into a stream of light and flew away.
"Ah! (꒦ິ▽꒦ີ)ᕗ" (Don't!)
Suddenly, Tata's eyes welled with big tears.
"Tata?" Lin Su was stunned, "What happened?"
Tata shook its head, displaying confusion.
It didn't know what was wrong either; the moment it saw the small beast being taken away wrapped in light, an indescribable sadness abruptly surged in its heart.
"Coo! (ŏ◇ŏ)" (Don't cry, don't cry!)
Youyou flew onto Tata's shoulder, extending her wings to stroke its head.
"Ahh! (⊙▂⊙)" (It's okay!)
Yingying also popped its head out from the shadow, patting Tata's shoulder to comfort it.
With the concern of its two friends and Lin Su, Tata wiped away its tears, feeling slightly better.
Seeing Tata unhurt, Lin Su breathed a sigh of relief.
A vague conjecture formed in his mind.
That small beast might not be of Tata's clan.
It was Tata—or the former Tata.
If that were the case, could the woman be Tata's past Beast Tamer?
With this in mind, Lin Su continued to observe the woman in white.
After seeing off her small beast, the woman in white bowed her head, showing signs of sadness.
Next, she wiped her tears and slowly stood up.
Her clear eyes glanced towards Lin Su.
Lin Su felt that this was not the woman coincidentally looking in his direction.
She was looking directly at him.
"You…" Lin Su spoke with difficulty, trying to say something.
However, the woman in white just gave him a meaningful look, and her figure swiftly faded away.
"I will take good care of it." Perceiving the meaning within her gaze, Lin Su murmured softly.
With a quiet sound, a gemstone fell onto the pavilion's table.
It was the droplet-shaped five-colored gemstone from before.
Lin Su cautiously reached out, only confirming the gemstone's reality upon picking it up.
"Tata, this gemstone should be yours, go ahead and absorb it." Lin Su spoke softly, mimicking the apparition earlier and gently pressing it onto Tata's forehead.
No reaction.
"Ah? (⊙▽⊙)ᕗ" (What's going on?)
Tata's expression shifted from expectation to bewilderment.
"I forgot, you aren't the original species now, nor do you possess uniqueness." Lin Su paused momentarily before shaking his head helplessly, "So you can't absorb this gemstone now."
Tata: "???"
Lin Su glanced at the gemstone in his hand, displaying some helplessness.
This is a cycle of rebirth, where nothing can be brought back to reality.
Why did this gemstone, seemingly very important to Tata, appear here?
"Let's keep it for now and discuss it later."
He casually placed the gemstone back into the Space Ring, as voices sounded from outside the small courtyard simultaneously.
"This place isn't ordinary; there must be treasure!"
In an instant, several figures rushed in.
Lin Su: "…"
Perfect timing.
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