"Grab the door handle and pull it back, but make sure you tuck your legs in. Otherwise, the door will catch your feet and hurt them," Tang Wen instructed.
Lin Xian'er closed the door. Tang Wen stepped on the brake and started the engine. It roared to life, making Lin Xian'er flinch.
"Don't be afraid. That's the car starting," Tang Wen reassured her. He released the handbrake, and the car began to roll.
"Ah! Your iron horse can move?" Lin Xian'er screamed in fright.
"Remember, this is called an off-road vehicle, not an iron horse," Tang Wen said, pressing the accelerator harder as he drove toward the cave.
"Ah, it's so fast! It can even pant..." Lin Xian'er cried excitedly.
Tang Wen deliberately honked the horn, too.
"It can even cry out!" Lin Xian'er grew still more excited.
Tang Wen opened a music file and played it.
"Who's singing?"
"The car," Tang Wen said.
"Is there someone inside the car?"
"No."
"How can it sing with nobody inside? It even sounds like a woman."
"It's a kind of mechanism."
"What an amazing mechanism."
Tang Wen answered a hundred thousand whys. Lin Xian'er was like a little girl who knew nothing, chattering away with endless questions...
Once they entered the cave, Lin Xian'er started again upon seeing the colored lights lining both sides of the passage. "Is this an immortal's cave abode?"
"Hehe, this is somewhere you and I will be coming often from now on. For instance, you'll have to come here to practice martial arts," Tang Wen said with a smile.
When she saw the enormous cavern, Lin Xian'er's mouth fell open, her face besotted. "It's so beautiful. There are even houses, little bridges over flowing water, a little lake, and goldfish... There even seems to be a