Passing through the forest path and the grasslands, the family without transport means had gotten to the mapped location the town lord gave to them after two days of resting, walking and resting again. It was only in the morning of the third day they got to the city's transferral point.
Directly under the floating city a tube connected it to the ground where a few survivable houses are built around it. It was only through the tube one could get into the city unless one already knew the art of flying with swords or using travel artifacts.
Walking amidst the small village the has no defense wall or fence, but rather is covered by a barrier that circles around the transferral tube within a certain range, it is also within this certain range the village is careful built in. As for the use of the barrier or the lack of fear of the villagers in the middle of the wild, the travelling family couldn't possibly know and could only just wonder.
The family proceeded walking straight, looking at the bustling small village as children ran around them, some mothers could be seen in front of their houses seated on benches, some were breastfeeding their infants, while some gisted and chatted. Many women were doing some sort of joint washing as they made the activity of laundering a happy activity. The males could be seen playing some sort of old board games as they laughed and chatted amongst themselves, betting and boasting in loud thundering voices.
The family kept walking wondering why the villagers didn't seem to mind them walking amidst them, even though they were foreigners, and they just concluded with the fact that this was a normal occurrence and there was nothing to be surprised about.
Suddenly a child that was running from her friends hit one of the travelling family members as she was repelled back and she fell hard to the ground, scraping her knee in the process.
"Hey there sorry about that, how are you, hope it's not too painful?" The person that was hit bent down to the girl's level as he checked her knee, looking at the scratch that was present on the little girls knee.
The girl nodded her head as teardrops hung on the sides of her eyes unwilling to drop down her cheeks, "mister! It is painful a bit."
"Sorry okay, hold on let me do this." The mister replied as he dipped his hand into his pocket, opening a rift to a different pocket dimension inside his pocket as his hand entered and he rubbed it against the meat that was in there, then he brought out his hand closing the rift in the process.
Tang Zhan places his finger that he had used to rub the meat if the leaf-tailed Kinkajou that is still brimming with vitality that is still ever present since his inventory doesn't have the passage of time. He rubs his finger on the slight scratch on the girl's knee as the girl watches as the wound closes up.
"Wow! Thank you mister" the girl say in ecstacy as she runs to her friends to go and show them the knee Tang Zhan healed for her and to boast about it.
"You really do like children uhn?" His dad said as he watched his interaction with the little girl and the smile that remained on his face even after she had left.
"Well, you can say it like that" Tang Zhan replied.
'Considering the fact that I'm said to have three siblings around the same age as her, why wouldn't I then like children.' Tang Zhan continued his walk as his family followed right after, but this time some people were actively greeting them and waving at them.
[Reputation;
•Spheros terminal.(Village): +10.(Friendly)]
Tang Zhan could immediately see his reputation increase within this place now known to him to be Spheros terminal, where one will take the ride up to Spheros city itself.
They all finally reached the point where the tube reached the ground itself, and looking up from there only then could they see the true height of the floating island as the height was fat into the sky and even the shadow it cast unto the ground is so faint it could almost he ignored.
A man came out from a small building that was designed to look like a guard post, beside the transferral tube. He is a man of little height, and he is no more than four feets tall, his head is like a mirror reflecting the kindness of the sun in not any onlookers, and his teeth is pure enough to match the reflection from his head.
With the assist of his crutch supporting his left leg, he limps out calmly as he looks at the still fazed family that were staing at the bottom of Spheros city.
"You all aiming to go or you still gonna be fascinated by the dirt beneath the city." Hearing a new voice, Tang Zhan and the others looked back down as their eyes lock onto the short man holding the wooden crutch that was obviously tailored down to his size.
"Yeah, aim before you throw, we were just preparing our minds for the greater things that could possibly be up there. So you're the tube guard?" Tang Zhan took the initiative to speak with the man.
"Yeah yeah now come on dont waste any more time." The man said as he looked back towards the tube.
Banjo walked after the man, with Yufei fill right behind. Mr and Mrs Tang were still sceptical about the tube and the height of where the tube will probably be taking them to.
"Come on dad, even if mom is scared are you meant to be the same!" Tang Zhan teased as his father pretended to be annoyed.
"Who told you I'm scared, what's there in just going up a few feets in the air. Back on earth I stay at the top floor everyday, and the building is a skyscraper, so what's there to be afraid of in just this little tube... Darling let's go!" Mr Tang grabbed his wife by the hand as they both followed the others, although his wife was trying to stay back but he forcefully pulls her along.
Tang Zhan shakes his head as he and X both took a step together, their hands grazing against each other, the interaction made a special type of spark to run up their arms and go straight to the heart.
X turns her head sideways as she tries to hide the blush on her face as she holds her hand where the spark happened.
'Our hands grazed, our hands grazed... Aaaaahhhhhhh, what will I do what if he wants to hold my hand again, or what if he suddenly grabs me and, and...' X mind ran side by side with her train of thoughts as she was actually leading it with the way her thoughts ran.
She looks at Tang Zhan only to see he is about seven steps away from her, and his face is rigid as if he doesn't count it as anything, if only she knew she was wrong.
'Okay calm down, calm down... How the fuck will I calm down, you bastard, you've been trying to avoid her since the synchronic stuff happened, but here you are grazing hands with her, I, I, I have to tell her, no no no no... She thinks I hate her, it would be awkward if I suddenly told her I like her right?...' Tang Zhan thoughts were not just running faster than his train of thoughts, rather it was outright flying, leaving the train behind by more than a mile, his thought process was about twenty words and two sentences per millisecond.
X dejectedly lowers her head as she feels stupid for being the only one that thought the grazing of their hands was a special thing, she felt foolish for having a one sided love with a emotionless bastard.
Whereas Tang Zhan sneakily wiped away the blood that was slowly starting to slide down his nostril. 'Damn! No one told me too much thinking causes nosebleed... Gaaaahhhh!'
Finally after a short walk they reach the others, and see that the man is waiting for them to come together.
"The tube can contain twenty people at once, it would be a waste of vibrant stone to send you up one after the other. So gather and enter." The man explained as he channelled a small wave of energy in a patterned way into the tube, causing it to open up a door.
'uhn? I was expecting him to press a button, or pull a lever.' Banjo thought as he looks at Yufei who just shrugs her shoulder to show that she is equally confused. "I guess we truly are in a different world now, and things won't be as they used to be."
Mrs Tang hears Banjo and sighs, but a smile is still present on her face. "It's a new world, and so new beginnings, we just have to start all over again and I'm sure things will be alright." She comforts the kids as Mr Tang hugs her against himself as they walk through the door into the tube.
'New beginnings, I'm not sure that might be the case for me, as I have some digging of the past to do... No digging the past is also consider a new part of my life, so truly... It's a new beginning.'
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