Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse-Chapter 838 - 507: Returning Home on Earth!

He is now standing at the intersection by the roadside.

Even Keke, who he had been holding in his arms, was nowhere to be seen.

"Lou Fei’Er? Zeng Tao? Jin Yue? Are you there?"

Xu Xin instinctively called out to his surroundings.

But the only response was the honking of cars and the loud cursing of some drivers.

"Damn it, newbies shouldn’t drive manual during rush hour, stalling at the intersection is deadly!"

"Shut up! Aren’t you embarrassed? The more you push, the harder it is to start the car!" said the person in the passenger seat, unable to stand the person next to them.

"Damn, the traffic light is about to change! I’m going to be late! Who learns to drive during rush hour?"

"What’s up with the car in front?"

"Beep—beep—"

"Beep————"

A line of cars behind honked frantically, watching as the car at the front repeatedly stalled and eventually missed the green light.

This scene was so familiar. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

If it were the old him, he would just frown at such a scene, but now he felt a strange sense of familiarity.

Once again, he reached out his hand toward the surrounding pedestrians.

He still couldn’t touch the people around him.

The people around were like phantoms; when his hand touched them, they momentarily flickered before he passed right through them.

It was as if he were in a virtual world, where everything he saw was an illusion.

But... was it really an illusion?

Here, apart from being unable to touch anything, everything else felt too real.

It wasn’t just what he saw or heard.

The most authentic thing wasn’t the sound, but...

The smell!

The air, more turbid than in the jungle, had the faint smell of car exhaust...

Even the perfume of the woman who had just collided with him and passed through his body, he could smell it vividly!

Here, apart from being unable to touch, everything else was too real!

Real enough to stir an inexplicable thought in his mind.

The environment he was in, this world, wasn’t an illusion.

This was his real world.

Earth, his home.

And now, he himself was the fake one.

Yes, that’s what he truly thought now.

What on earth was happening?

Around him, people continued to come and go, and behind him was the familiar subway station, from which people kept pouring out.

Because of the red light, he was surrounded by a crowd of people standing still.

The sun was shining brightly.

It seemed to be the morning rush hour, and everyone was in a hurry, not stopping.

In front of him, the traffic light turned green, and Xu Xin instinctively began to walk with the crowd across the street.

But after just two steps, he stopped and let people walk through his body.

He hesitated to go any further.

He looked around once more.

What exactly was happening now?

If everything he perceived now was a hallucination, or a virtual world based on his memory, then he should be on the second level of the Crystal Palace.

Due to the dangers of the first level, he didn’t dare to move carelessly without seeing his surroundings!

If he accidentally triggered a trap, given the strength of the traps on the first level, there was no chance he’d survive!

But if the world around him was real, and he was the virtual one...

How to verify this...

That’s it!

As soon as he stepped onto the second level, he entered this situation.

Meaning, if he stepped back from his current position...

If he were still in the Crystal Palace’s second level, he should be able to retreat to the stairs and exit the second level!

He turned around, walked back to where he appeared, took a deep breath, and stepped forward again.

However, there were no stairs, and he was not freed from the predicament.

This...

He kept walking forward, stepping directly onto the subway stairs.

"...?"

He immediately thought of something, reaching out to touch the handrail of the stairs.

He could touch it!

He could actually touch the handrail!

This was indeed the real world!

He even wiped some dust off the handrail with his hand.

Completely removable!

He could even affect this world!

He tentatively stepped onto the escalator, and it carried him inside the subway station.

All the way until he reached the bottom layer, he remained in a daze.

He felt his heart pounding!

As if it was about to jump out of his throat!

He... was back?

He really came back?!

But...

He instinctively reached out again to stop the people around him, but of course, it had no effect.

Still, he seemed to have returned in another way.

He and these people, though in the same world, couldn’t directly interact!

He could see others, but they couldn’t see him!

He and these people seemed to exist in different dimensions of the same world!

Why?

No matter why.

He didn’t want to think about it now.

Home wasn’t far from here!

He wanted to go home and see!

What to do?

The subway... it should work!

His home was only a few subway stops away, and if he could take the subway, he’d be home in about fifteen minutes!

He couldn’t wait any longer!

He started running towards the subway station.