Chapter 17 Blooming Flower (1/2)

Chapter 17 Blooming Flower

The sensation Zhao Lingjun received from touching the lotus with his fingers, was like touching the real thing.

Before, Zhao Lingjun had guessed that the Black Lotus was made out of an unknown hard metal. But now, he was baffled, it was as if he was touching a real lotus petal instead of a metal replica.

This kind of sensation, for no intelligible reason, made Zhao Lingjun a.s.sociate it with a memory from his childhood. When he was a child, there was a pond in front of his home with a lotus, the lotus would sway as the light breeze swept across it.

Just as he was reminiscing, the light from the center of the Black Lotus pulsated in ripples, illuminating the room with an obscured vibrance.

“Whats happening now?”

Before he could react, he heard a loud thump, and a black metal box dropped on the ground before him, just a few inches from his leg.

No matter who it was, a black metal box appearing before them would cause them to quiver uncontrollably in fear.

This kind of feeling was more unnerving than a flower pot cras.h.i.+ng down and smas.h.i.+ng into smithereens from a high rise building just barely inches away.

Zhao Lingjun almost blacked out as he fell to the ground.

To Zhao Lingjun, the scene appearing before him, was just too strange.

Zhao Lingjun was sure that it was caused by a spirit of sort, and everything that just played out before his eyes was a figment of his imagination. It wouldn’t be explainable otherwise, a black metal lotus floating, giving off light, changing its shape, and finally a black box appearing, none of these would happen under normal circ.u.mstances, or even any. Therefore, Zhao Lingjun’s first cause of action was to drag his limp legs, scream for help and hobble out of the apartment. However, just as he was about to put it into motion, he heard an annoyed snarl from below.

“Zhao Lingjun, what are you up to!? If you want to commit suicide by jumping of a building, go to the roof. Why are you jumping around in your bedroom. You don’t want to let us sleep? We still have to work tomorrow, do you not have any sense of social responsibility?”

Zhao Lingjun knew that it was his neighbour from below, Lin Yiren.

Immediately after Zhao Lingjun heard Lin Yiren, he suddenly turned around.

“Was the thump created by the box real, and not my hallucination?”

Coming to the realization that everything may not be a hallucination, Zhao Lingjun couldn’t resist taking another look.

The Black Lotus was calmly hovering over the black box, but the center was no longer exuding its brilliant rays.

“What happened to those vibrant and brilliant rays? Why did they suddenly disappear?” Zhao Lingjun once again couldn’t resist but reached out and poked the floating Black Lotus.[1]

Once his finger grazed the Black Lotus, he hurriedly hopped backwards with his one good leg, in fear of the lotus materializing another box. Even if it didn’t crush him, or flatten his feet, it was still not something to be trifled with.

However, his fears didn’t transpire, and Zhao Lingjun only saw the Black Lotus begin whirling in the air.

He also noticed that the dull and lifeless middle part started to give off light again.

Another pulse of rippling light illuminated the room.

As soon as that happened, Zhao Lingjun felt like he was really going crazy, the black metal box disappeared right in front of his eyes.

Dumb struck, Zhao Lingjun couldn’t accept that such a big thing appeared and disappeared whimsically like a magic trick.

While in a daze, the multicoloured rays of light emitted from the Black Lotus all but disappeared.

After which, the Black Lotus slowly fell from the air, and dropped onto Zhao Lingjun’s bedroom floor, making a ‘ding’ sound.