Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

Two hours later, the teleportation sensation returned Lin Yi to reality.

He habitually pushed open the doors and windows of the traditional Chinese medicine clinic, letting in the fresh air.

Having grown accustomed to fighting in the dangerous environment of the original world, one's body will unconsciously relax upon returning to the real world, and this applies to both the mind and body.

The aroma of tea hadn't even faded from Lin Yi's fingertips when the chair beneath him suddenly jolted, nearly spilling the tea from his cup.

"boom--!"

A muffled thud, like a pressure cooker exploding, was followed by the sound of glass shattering. The source was crystal clear—Su Xiao's jewelry shop next door.

Lin Yi sighed softly and put down the kettle he had just picked up.

He stood up, straightened his slightly faded linen shirt, and strode out the door.

At the shop entrance, Fatty Ma's round figure and Hai Dong's tall and thin frame had just approached, both with a look of surprise and uncertainty on their faces.

Fatty Ma was still holding half a scallion pancake in his hand, the oil glistening on his fingers.

"Oh my god, Bai Ye's shop is making quite a stir. Have their enemies come knocking on their door?"

"Let's go take a look." Lin Yi nodded, and the three of them walked together toward the jewelry shop that was currently filled with a slightly burnt smell and smoke.

Pushing open the rickety glass door, the scene inside made Lin Yi raise an eyebrow.

The shop was fairly tidy, not as messy as I had imagined, but the burnt smell lingered in the air.

The most conspicuous one is Bubuwang. Its once majestic, snow-white fur is now patched with blackish-gray, especially near its rear end, where the fur is all singed and tangled, with some suspicious ash stuck to it.

The big dog was lying dejectedly next to the cashier, its eyes filled with grievance and lingering fear. When it saw Lin Yi come in, it let out a low whimper, and its tail didn't even have the strength to wag.

Looking further up, Baha, that noisy fellow, was unusually quiet at this moment, hunching his neck and squatting on a thick beam in the ceiling, his beady green eyes scanning the surroundings warily, as if he were ready to take flight at any moment.

A cough came from behind. Su Xiao lifted the curtain leading to the kitchen and came out.

This hunter, who usually exudes a cool and aloof aura, now looked rather disheveled.

The sleeves of his black T-shirt were burned off, revealing his muscular forearms. The front of the shirt was also torn in several places and covered with soot and unidentified stains. His face was smeared with black ash, and his hair was a mess.

He was carrying something that was also badly deformed... probably a pot lid?
"It's nothing." Su Xiao casually tossed the broken pot lid into the corner with a clatter. He wiped his face, trying to appear calm. "The old gas stove in the kitchen has been around for a long time. When I lit it just now, there might have been a leak at the valve. A spark ignited it, and 'bang!' it exploded. Luckily, no one's hurt, but the stove is ruined, and the kitchen door is broken too."

Fatty Ma and Hai Dong exchanged a glance, both seeing a "you'd be a fool to believe me" look in each other's eyes.

However, both of them were shrewd people who had been around this street for a long time, and they knew that Su Xiao had many secrets, so they never asked questions they shouldn't.

"Oh, it's good that everyone's alright, it's good that everyone's alright!" Fatty Ma quickly laughed it off, wiping his greasy fingers on his clothes. "Bai Ye, you really need to get this old house inspected. Well, if there's nothing else, we'll head back now, the shop's still open!"

Hai Dong quickly chimed in, and the two of them slipped out of the jewelry shop as if they would get tainted by something unclean if they stayed any longer.

Watching the two figures hurriedly leave, Su Xiao forced a smile.

Lin Yi didn't leave. He slowly walked to the only armchair in the shop that looked relatively intact and placed the teacup he was holding steadily on the small table next to it.

As soon as Bubuwang saw Lin Yi sit down, it seemed to have found a savior. It immediately got up from the ground, carefully avoided Su Xiao, rubbed against Lin Yi's leg, put its fluffy head on Lin Yi's knee, made pitiful whimpering sounds, and its eyes were full of accusation.

After comforting the poor Bubuwang, Lin Yi finally looked up and calmly looked at Su Xiao, who was standing in the mess and looked equally "tragic." His tone was as indifferent as if he were discussing the weather: "Bai Ye, wasn't your 'gas stove explosion' a little too loud?"

Su Xiao glanced at Bubuwang huddled to the side, then at the Baha on the roof beam that seemed to say "This place is not safe to stay for long," and finally met Lin Yi's calm gaze that said, "I'm all ears, go ahead and do your thing." She knew that this little trick might fool Fatty Ma and the others, but it was a bit too early to fool Lin Yi.

He sighed, resigned himself to his fate, and sat down on a low stool opposite Lin Yi. He poured himself a glass of water to moisten his throat, which was dry from the smoke and dust, and explained the matter of the cursed gold coins to Lin Yi.

Upon learning that the negative effect of the cursed coins was a temporary reduction of 15 points in luck attribute for 24 hours, Lin Yi immediately pulled his chair back.

Anyone who's been in the cycle of reincarnation knows that the attribute of "luck" is mysterious and unpredictable, but it can be a lifesaver or a death trap in a critical moment.

Su Xiao's luck stat is a mystery among contractors, but he is definitely not destined for "good fortune".

This deduction of another 15 points... it's not just bad luck, it's practically a walking, talking source of calamity.

It's perfectly reasonable for cooking in the kitchen to blow up the gas stove; it could even be said that your bad luck hasn't reached its peak yet.

He glanced at Bubuwang, who was stubbornly clinging to Lin Yi's leg and refusing to come over, and then at Baha, who was on guard on the roof beam. He felt a little tired.

Crash—bang!!!

The loud sound of shattering glass, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, rang out again without warning.

The jewelry shop's already cracked glass door facing the street, along with the adjacent window glass, was instantly shattered by a violent force.

Glass shards shot in like hail, scattering all over the floor with a crackling sound.

A massive, brownish-yellow figure, carrying the stench of a large, ferocious beast, crashed through the remaining door frame like an out-of-control heavy truck and roared into the shop.

It was a fully grown brown bear, with a robust build, thick shoulders and back, its brown fur covered in bits of grass and dirt. Its huge paws crunched on the shards of glass scattered on the ground.

It seemed bewildered by the sudden impact and the shattered glass, its massive head swaying from side to side, emitting a grumbling sound from its throat, a mixture of confusion and a touch of irritation.

"Don't run! Don't provoke it! It's domesticated! It won't bite!" Several anxious shouts came from outside the shop.

Lin Yi didn't even lift his eyelids. His hand holding the teacup was as steady as a rock, but his other hand, which was stroking Bubuwang, stopped.

Su Xiao's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He stood still, but his eyes suddenly turned sharp and cold, and a chilling aura belonging to a top hunter instantly spread out.

This wasn't intentional; it was just an instinctive reaction to an unexpected situation.

Outside the door, several people wearing zoo uniforms scrambled out of the car, one of them holding a tranquilizer gun, looking extremely panicked.

In the distance, the sound of sirens grew clearer and clearer as they approached.

The brown bear that barged into the shop, after a brief moment of confusion and agitation, suddenly stiffened when its small eyes met Su Xiao's cold gaze.

"Ooh... Awooo..." The brown bear's growling sound instantly turned into a terrified whimper.

It didn't even look a second time. Its massive body began to tremble like a leaf. Then, in full view of everyone, its hind legs buckled, and its huge rear end landed heavily on the broken glass.

Immediately afterwards, a strong, foul odor filled the air.

The brown bear, terrified by Su Xiao's single glance, quickly had a pool of murky, foamy yellow liquid spread beneath it, mixed with some unidentifiable solids... It was so frightened that it lost control of its bladder on the spot.

The scene was quite awkward and the smell was unpleasant.

Lin Yi silently brought the teacup close to his nose, using the delicate aroma of the tea to slightly ward off the mixed biochemical attack in the air.

Bubuwang took two steps back in disgust, his nose wrinkling up.

Su Xiao's lips twitched, and the veins on her forehead throbbed faintly.

He hated this damn negative effect.

Zoo staff, holding tranquilizer guns, stared at the bizarre scene inside the shop—a ragged but intimidating man, a young man in a long robe calmly sipping tea, a large dog with charred black fur, a noisy parrot perched on a rafter, and their brown bear, trembling and defecating in terror, slumped on the ground… This scene was far beyond their handling procedures. “Um… sir, please don’t panic, we’ll get it away right away…” a staff member tried to reassure him, his voice trembling.

However, Su Xiao's bad luck was clearly not satisfied by a brown bear that had peed its pants in fright. As if to add an even more shocking footnote to this absurd scene—

Boom! ! !
A deafening roar, ten times more violent than the gas explosion and as loud as an earthquake, suddenly came from the side of the jewelry shop!
The entire building shook violently, and the teacup in Lin Yi's hand rippled wildly, with a few drops of tea splashing onto the back of his hand.

Bubuwang was jolted and staggered. Baha screamed and flew off the beam.

"What's going on?!" The zoo staff turned around in alarm.

The load-bearing brick and concrete wall on the side of the jewelry shop collapsed with a roar, like a biscuit struck by a giant hammer! Smoke and dust instantly shot into the sky!

A heavy truck, fully loaded with some kind of bagged cargo, with its front end severely deformed and its hood twisted and warped, billowing white smoke, crashed through the collapsed gap like an out-of-control steel behemoth.

The huge tires crunched over the broken bricks and tiles with a heart-stopping creak, and finally came to a wobbly stop in the open space behind the jewelry shop.

The driver's cab door was smashed and deformed, and painful groans could be heard coming from inside.

A truck driver, wearing blue overalls and covered in blood, struggled to crawl out from the twisted gap in the truck door and collapsed to the ground, his eyes glazed over, clearly still reeling from the violent impact.

Smoke and dust filled the air, obscuring half the sky.

A collapsed wall, a truck embedded in the backyard, a brown bear urinating in fear in a jewelry shop, dumbfounded staff, wailing sirens, and two people, a dog, and a bird with varying expressions in the shop...

Fatty Ma and Hai Dong hadn't actually gone far. They were squatting under the eaves of Lin Yi's Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic, pretending to smoke while peeking into Su Xiao's shop.

First, they saw a brown bear burst through the door, which shocked them so much that their jaws almost dropped to the ground.

The horrifying sight of the truck crashing in next startled Fatty Ma so much that he dropped the half-smoked cigarette he was holding.

"My goodness..." Fatty Ma's face turned pale, his lips trembling, "This...this Bai Ye...is he having a run of bad luck today or did he dig up the King of Hell's ancestral grave? Bears and car crashes...can we even stay in this place?"

Hai Dong was still shaken and nodded repeatedly: "It's weird. I think we should stay away from each other. If we stay any longer, a plane might fall from the sky! This bad luck is like a plague!"

The two exchanged a glance and tacitly shrank further into the porch of Lin Yi's clinic, only showing half their heads. They dared not approach Su Xiao's shop again, no matter what.

They didn't understand what cursed coins were, but the increasingly outrageous "accident" before them was enough to make them keep their distance from Su Xiao, afraid of getting even a little bit of that terrible bad luck.

Su Xiao looked at the truck still smoking in the backyard, then looked down at the land beneath her feet that seemed to be shrouded in a curse, and she almost didn't have the strength to curse anymore.

He took a deep breath, trying to suppress his agitation. He was about to say something to Lin Yi, or at least get the still-incontinent bear and the truck driver out of there—

"Bang! Bang bang bang!"

Sharp, piercing gunshots, like popping beans, rang out without warning at the other end of the street, shattering the brief silence.

The gunshots came extremely suddenly and were frequent, definitely not accidental discharges or firecrackers.

The screeching of tires rubbing against the ground and the furious roar of the engine grew louder as they approached, at an astonishing speed.

"Stop! Don't run!"

"Damn it, leave the goods here!"

"Bang bang bang-!"

The chaotic shouts and gunshots mingled together.

A dilapidated Santana sedan without license plates, like a drunken madman, covered in fresh bullet holes and impact dents, with black smoke billowing from its rear, sped out of the street corner at an almost out-of-control speed.

Two equally reckless and battered vans followed closely behind, with figures leaning out of the windows, holding pistols and firing incessantly at the Santana in front.

Bullets struck the walls and lampposts along the street, sending up a trail of sparks and pebbles.

Clearly, this is an ongoing gang shootout.

And the direction from which these three reckless vehicles rushed out... unfortunately, was directly in front of Su Xiao's jewelry shop, which no longer had a main gate, had a large hole in the side wall, and had a large truck standing in the yard.

The Santana driver seemed to be in a frenzy, or perhaps he was so desperate from being chased that he didn't notice the terrible state of the jewelry shop ahead or the obstructing truck. He showed no intention of slowing down and suddenly turned the steering wheel, attempting to drive directly through the relatively open space in front of the jewelry shop to bypass the truck blocking the way.

"Holy crap! This guy's crazy!" The driver, who had just climbed out of the truck's cab, was terrified when he saw the Santana rushing towards him and scrambled to the side to avoid it.

However, the Santana's driver clearly underestimated the slipperiness of the road surface and overestimated the performance of his beat-up car.

Just as its front end was about to glide past the jewelry shop's door, its massive front wheel slammed into a pile of bear poop mixed with shards of glass!
Squeak—!!
The ear-piercing sound of tires skidding filled the air!
The black Santana instantly lost control, its rear end whipping around like a giant, out-of-control top, performing a breathtaking drift on the narrow open space.

Bang! Crash!

The rear of the car slammed into the last remaining pillar at the entrance of the jewelry shop, completely collapsing the already crumbling doorway.

But that wasn't the end of it. The immense centrifugal force caused the wrecked car to spin, its front end heading in another direction—to smash into the heavy truck that had just crashed through the wall and was parked in the yard.

Clang!!!
A deafening metallic clang that sent shivers down one's spine!

The front of the Santana crashed solidly into the massive tires of the heavy truck! The entire front of the car instantly caved in, the hood flew up high, and it was completely totaled.

The figures inside the car were thrown about by the enormous inertia, their screams drowned out by the echoes of the impact.

The two vans chasing behind were completely caught off guard by this turn of events and couldn't brake in time!
To avoid the out-of-control Santana and the truck, the driver of the first van swerved sharply. The van also went out of control on the slippery ground, veering off course and crashing head-on into the relatively intact wall on the other side of the jewelry shop.

With a loud crash, another section of the wall was destroyed, bricks falling and burying half of the front of the car.

The second van was even more audacious. Seeing that the road was blocked by a chain-reaction accident ahead, the driver, a ruthless individual, stepped on the gas and tried to force his way through the open space next to him.

However, it forgot that there were not only broken glass and bear poop on the ground, but also a large number of bricks and wood scattered from the porch that had been knocked down by the Santana.

Clang! Thud! Snap!

The van's chassis was scraped hard several times, making it bounce like a roller coaster ride.

Just as it was about to rush out of this "minefield," its right front wheel unfortunately ran over a sharp, broken goalpost base...

puff!

The tire burst instantly!

The van, having lost its balance, veered off course like a wild horse and crashed headfirst into a roadside tree about the size of a bowl.

Boom! Snap!

The tree was violently shaken by the impact, and the front of the van was dented, with white smoke billowing from under the hood. It was completely broken down.

In less than a minute!

At the entrance and backyard of Su Xiao's jewelry shop, a scene resembling a disaster movie unfolded, combining animal escapes, traffic accidents, and gang shootouts.

Broken glass, rubble, twisted metal, overturned vehicles, smoking engines, a brown bear slumped and incontinent, a truck driver with a bloodied head, and a motley crew of gangsters all crammed together. (End of Chapter)