Chapter 20 My Name is Gege

Xia Xiao paused, glanced left and right, and finally set her gaze on the stone, saying, "Cao Hua Stone, was that you talking just now?"

"I'm not called Cao Hua Stone either." The voice rose again.

Xia Xiao felt the voice was coming from above in space, but the stone was in her hand. She asked, "Then what's your name?"

"I'm called gege."

"What?" she asked uncertainly, "Brother? Which gege?"

"Just brother." The cheerful voice came from above in space.

Xia Xiao: "..." Are you sure you're not taking advantage of me?

"Which two characters?" she asked again.

"Just brother, I'm called brother, you're so annoying," the stone even sounded displeased.

Xia Xiao silently looked at the stone in her hand, calling a stone 'brother'? Even if it was a stone from space, she couldn't bring herself to call it 'brother,' not to mention the stone had a soft and squishy voice of a little steamed bun.

Fawning over it, Xia Xiao suggested, "How about I give you another nicer sounding name, how's that?"

"No need, I'm originally brother, I'll just be called brother. You don't like my name, and now I don't like you either," the stone expressed haughtily, as if it were angry.

Xia Xiao had several lines of frustration on her forehead and asked another question, "Are you the spirit of this space?"

The stone showed its character, "Hmph, you don't like my name, I won't tell you."

Xia Xiao was speechless and explained, "It's not that I don't like you, you're very cute."

"You're lying, you just don't like me. You don't even call me by my name and just randomly give me a new one," the stone grumbled.

Well then, Xia Xiao kind of surrendered. Having acquired the space, what harm was there in calling a stone 'brother'? Calling it 'dad' or 'mom' would also be fine, and saying it in pinyin didn't feel so awkward. So, right then and there, Xia Xiao pragmatically called out, "gege, are you the spirit of this space?"

"Yes, this space is mine, so if you treat me well, I'll let you use it. Otherwise, I might cause trouble," the stone was trying to push its luck and even threatened her.

"What is this wall over here?" Xia Xiao asked.

Proudly, the stone replied, "If you don't call me gege, I won't answer you."

Xia Xiao sweated and said, "Gege, in our place, it means elder brother or sibling. I have a brother," as she sat down in the space and spoke to the stone.

"I am brother, you have an elder brother, what's that got to do with me? Besides, there can be more than one elder brother. It was your blood that activated the space and woke me up, but if you don't like me, we can't get along well."

Having heard the stone say this, Xia Xiao also felt it was the case, and she stopped obsessing over the stone's name. Still, she said, "But you haven't called me by my name either, have you?"

"I call you Xiaoxiao."

All right then, Xia Xiao nodded and asked, "Gege, do you know what this ice-blue wall is?"

"That's a circuit map. Wherever Xiaoxiao wants to go, I can take you there instantaneously."

No sooner had the stone finished speaking than Xia Xiao's eyes sparkled, "Really, I can go anywhere?"

"Not far for now, only to the county town. When the space level is upgraded, it can go farther."

With the stone saying so, Xia Xiao was not disappointed but rather thrilled. She originally thought the space could only be used for farming and consuming Spiritual Water for health. Little did she expect it could also be used as a means of transportation, and an instantaneous, invisible one at that. This was simply fantastic.

"Gege, how does the space get upgraded?" Xia Xiao asked, eager in her heart for the space to upgrade so she could save on travel costs to anywhere or to S city.

Furthermore, Xia Xiao wanted to farm and raise chickens in the space, to sell them later for some money. However, selling in the county wouldn't be safe or practical, as it would be easy to be recognized, leading to problems explaining the situation. But if the space could travel far, she would have no worries about that problem.

"I need to eat a type of energy stone to replenish my body. Once I am better, the space will gradually recover," the stone explained.

"Can't my blood work?" asked Xia Xiao. Mainly because it was easier to obtain her own blood, even though it meant bleeding herself. Finding energy stones would not be easy.

"Xiaoxiao's blood is not enough, but maybe with the blood of ten or a hundred Xiaoxiaos."

Upon hearing this, Xia Xiao immediately dismissed the thought and simply asked, "Then how do I find the energy stone?"

"That requires fate, just like meeting Xiaoxiao, and your coming to this era, too, is a matter of destiny," the stone stated.

Xia Xiao nodded, "The stone that hit me in my past life, that was you, right?"

"Yeah, I was picked up by someone and placed in a flower pot on a balcony. Then one early morning, the homeowners, an old couple, fought, bumped the flower pot, and I fell and hit you," the stone said with relief, "I didn't expect your blood could activate my space. Xiaoxiao, you are my destined person."

"And the small Xia Xiao that you hit, what's that about?" she queried further.

"Oh, that, you know. I was blasted off and happened to hit the little Xia Xiao, but I didn't hit her hard. The little Xia Xiao died from a snake bite, not from me hitting her. It just so happened that you were reborn in her body. Such an accident and coincidence aren't my doing; I don't have that kind of power. It was decreed by heaven, arranged by fate."

Xia Xiao had nothing to say to that. Wasn't it all about fate? Otherwise, how else could she have been killed by a stone and then, so coincidentally, reborn in little Xia Xiao's body in the 1960s?

"So gege, will we be in the space or outside? If I put you in the space, can I still enter?" Xia Xiao wondered. If she placed the stone in the space and she could still enter, it seemed safer to keep it there.

"I don't want to be in the space; I have to find the energy stone. If you put me in the space, you won't be able to come in," the stone clarified.

Xia Xiao said, "But you're not easy to carry, what if I lose you?"

"That's simple. I'll shrink, and you can hang me around your neck with a string. Plus, being outside can help you too; you can talk to me, and my voice can only be heard by you, no one else."

As soon as the stone finished speaking, Xia Xiao noticed a small hole had appeared on it; indeed, it could be strung with a cord.

But she didn't have a red cord. However, Xia Xiao asked a very pressing question, "Gege, can you hear my inner thoughts?"

"I can't hear them. Only if Xiaoxiao speaks out, then I can hear."

Xia Xiao was relieved to hear this; it was good that the stone couldn't hear her inner thoughts. Although she had a soul connection with the stone, Xia Xiao still wanted her privacy. Immediately, she suggested, "Then let's go to the county town now to buy some red cords."

"Okay, but Xiaoxiao, if you want to go somewhere, you have to drop some blood on my stone, then I can go."

Upon hearing this, Xia Xiao willingly dropped another drop of blood on the stone and said to it, "Let's go, let's try going to the county town."