Liu Chang'an felt that Shangguan Dandan was a little out of place. Her various abilities simply did not fit into ordinary urban life.
Normal people drank water from cups holding two or three hundred milliliters. She used a five-liter thermos.
Normal people ate one bite at a time and swallowed each mouthful. She had to stuff her mouth full before slowly swallowing.
After normal people died, they returned to nature. She lay in a coffin and wandered everywhere, crossing millions of square kilometers of land before finally finding Liu Chang'an, the only person she knew.
By all rights, her Little Coffin should have been an ancient-civilization life-support pod like Tesla's. Yet Liu Chang'an felt that Little Coffin was far more mysterious than Tesla's.
Perhaps he simply did not know enough. In any case, Liu Chang'an had a history of trying to seize Shangguan Dandan's little carriage, so Shangguan Dandan was extremely wary of him getting near Little Coffin and would not let him play with it.
Tesla had said that there were only two such life-support pods. One had gone with Tesla when Liu Chang'an smacked her beneath the Antarctic ice cap, and the other was Shangguan Dandan's.
If there really were only two, then what was that object in the architectural drawings Qin Minglin had shown him last time, the one that looked extremely similar to a life-support pod?
Could it be that that one and Tesla's were the life-support pods left behind by ancient civilization, while the Little Coffin in Shangguan Dandan's possession was something else entirely?
It was very possible. Liu Chang'an had always felt that this Little Coffin resembled an item from some immortal-cultivation world... Perhaps some great war had erupted in another such world, and a cultivator, while undergoing tribulation, passing through a spatial rift,