That night, Jiang Mian returned home and casually set the shopping bags on the table.
Thinking about it, this was the first time since arriving in this world that she had truly let herself relax and taken a full day off.
Aside from the initial probing and those inexplicable little feelings in her heart, the atmosphere had clearly lightened considerably after she spoke up to clear things up.
Ye Chenyang had even taken her to try all kinds of delicious food.
To her, it was much like the street food from her Previous Life, but it really did taste good. In a place this short on supplies, it was quite a rare treat.
The only problem was that the prices were hard to look at.
Her brief respite was over. That evening, it was time to get down to business.
Jiang Mian planned to check how well the Suppressor had recovered, then properly explore that space of consciousness.
She knew full well that place hadn't appeared out of thin air, nor could it have been brought into being by that Chaos Apex.
Because... it was too vast.
She had already sensed that, beyond the area she controlled, the adjoining regions held none of Chaos's aura.
In other words, the land around her "territory" was unclaimed.
Perhaps she could try "expanding her territory" and see whether it helped her resist the erosion.
Ever since she had absorbed the derivative of that Chaos Apex as Fuel, it had felt as though she'd flipped some kind of switch.
Even though her level hadn't broken through, all her basic abilities had continued to grow stronger, as if the power within her were gradually awakening.
No matter how much she thought about it, action was what counted.
But before that, Jiang Mian still wanted to