Journey In A Fantasy World
Grassland

Blup up!

Neo held his breath. his head buried into the soft ground, his feet were on top. Neo immediately stood up, and realized he was landing on something soft but disgusting.

"Oh! This what?" Neo bergedik, immediately get away from something soft. It was bright yellow, and smelled strange. But many small animals that come to collect it into a small container to be taken somewhere.

"What exactly is this place?" Neo muttered softly, he checked around and only found those yellow padded blobs in some places.

Neo saw there was a vast meadow far ahead there. It seemed that the grass was towering high, higher than his current height. Where could Neo find Jian and Rui in this place of nowhere?

"Dian! Rui!" Neo exclaimed as he placed both of his hands in front of his mouth.

"Where are you?!"

"Did you hear my voice?!"

Neo was silent for quite a while after shouting loudly. Realizing there was no truth, Neo let out a disappointed breath, "Know this I shouldn't have to interfere and get dragged in here. If only I hadn't followed them, I might have been on my way home." Neo regretted his alleged fabricated actions.

"But if it wasn't me who saw them enter, they might not be able to return anymore" Neo imagined the consequences he would have if he didn't enter the room. Jian and Rui will disappear and probably won't be back in a long time. He can't let that happen.

"alright. Let's go around for a minute. While looking for food, maybe I will meet them again. Although we've never been good friends, at least they'll owe me a favor if I save them from this strange world." Neo is determined in his heart. Indeed only he could save Jian and Rui, but somehow Neo could save himself in this possibly dangerous place?

Neo goes into the woods behind him. The forest was filled with these yellow soft clumps. Neo closed his nose because the forest was filled with a strange smell from the blob.

"Areally where is the fruit that is safe to consume?" Neo looked up, all these tall trees are indeed bearing fruit. But the fruit has an unusual bright color like the fruits he saw during his life.

"What is this world? I need to find Jian and Rui soon in order to find my way home." Neo climbed one of the trees. The tree is full of fruit, there is a group of small birds that eat the fruit, Neo sure this one fruit is not toxic and safe to consume.

Neo took the fruit as much as he could. As soon as the crowd gathered together, Neo immediately went down and ate one, he kept the other in his school backpack, "Jian and Rui must be hungry when we meet later," he thought.

Neo came out from the yellow clumped forest, he saw a clear sky filled with flying animals and something flying higher. Neo can't see it because it's too tall and looks small from below.

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In that vast meadow, Jian and Rui were playing hide and seek and ran around with pleasant laughter.

"Rui, look at me!" Jian exclaimed, his body filled with cotton from the weeds surrounding them. It was that tall tares that filled this meadow. Rui let out a crisp laugh, "You look like a cotton princess, Jian, so cool!" Rui clapped her hands.

"Eh, uh! Rui, what happened to me?! Rui! I'll fly, take my hand, Rui!" Jian exclaimed in panic. The cotton on his body carried him flying very high. Rui jumped up and down trying to grab Jian who was flying higher and higher.

"Don't worry, Jian! I'll catch you!" Rui ran downstairs, occasionally looking up to ascertain where the wind was taking Jian away.

"Rui! It turns out it's fun! Put the cotton on your body, Rui! You'll catch me flying! Hurry on!" Jian exclaimed, Rui immediately climbed up the high weeds, the cotton-cotton itself clinging to his body, but he did not immediately fly like Jian.

"Jian, why don't I fly like you?!" Rui exclaimed in worry. He was afraid that Jian would fly so high that he would be unable to reach him.

"Add more cotton, Rui!" Jian exclaimed, his voice getting further and further away.

Rui immediately added his cotton, slowly, his body lifted, Jian laughed looking at Rui who was screaming in panic as soon as his body lifted into the air.

"Rui! Hurry up and chase me!" Jian exclaimed, now his body darted rapidly among the low clouds floating in the sky.

Rui laughed, "It's fun, Jian!"

Unknowingly, they flew away from the territory of the cotton-covered meadow. As soon as it came out, the wind that was originally able to blow its cotton-filled body began to disappear.

The cotton-cotton on Rui and Jian's bodies detached from their bodies. Jian and Rui shouted in panic. Now their bodies are free-falling from a height of hundreds of meters.

"Yahoooooooooo!"

The screams were heard until where Neo rested. Neo looked up, "That's what?" he wonders.

Neo's eyes narrowed, "That guy fell?"

Neo's eyes immediately rounded as soon as he knew what ya6bg actually fell into, "Jian, Rui!"

Neo immediately looked for a way to keep Jian and Rui from falling into pain. He realized the yellow blob was able to protect him from the pain when he fell from the dimensional portal.

Neo immediately collected the blobs just like the small animals did. With his hands larger than those of small animal containers, Neo collected the clumps for a fairly short period of time.

Blup up!

Jian and Rui fell down with their heads immersed into a yellow wisp. Neo laughed and saw him. "You're silly!"

"Ney?" Jian and Rui looked at each other, "What are you doing here?"

Neo patted his forehead, "What are you doing! I have obviously come to save you. You guys seem to be having fun, I shouldn't have to worry about." Neo grumbled in annoyance.

Jian and Rui once again stared at each other, "What are you talking about, Neo?"

"Oh!" Neo complained, "I should have asked. How did you find this world? And enter it easily? You don't know, if we're not in our school anymore. We may not even be on earth anymore! We are lost in another world, Jian, Rui!" Neo explained emotionally, "We have to find a way out so we can go home!"

Jian and Rui looked at each other again, Rui lowered his head, "But this place is fun," he muttered.

Neo looked at Rui with disdain, "You're an eleventh grade High School kid is still unable to think rationally? Even though I was stupid, I knew what to avoid and what to face. Now we are in a situation that we should avoid as far as possible!" Neo tapped on Rui's forehead in a daze, "Listen, Rui. We are trapped in another world. Whereas in our world, we disappear out of nowhere, the teachers must be panicking as soon as they realize three students are just missing in the school library. Our parents who heard it must have panicked even more and called the police to find us. While you guys here have fun without thinking that? We either can go home or not. Don't play here playing flying cotton. Better find a way out before dark."

Jian and Rui fell silent. It seemed like the explanation of the foolish man in front of them had a point. Having fun for a while won't keep them happy forever. They will definitely have a time where they want to go home and miss their family.

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Tired of scolding Jian and Rui, Neo decided to take them to rest with him, "Eat, this fruit is safe to consume. I'm guessing you guys haven't eaten anything and chose to play around." Neo thrust some fruits at Jian and Rui.

"Actually when did you come here, Neo? You even got to pick up some fruit." Jian asked as his mind calmed down.

"I came a few minutes after you guys, maybe." Neo Cuek pulled out a pen and a book.

"What are you doing?" Jian asked again seeing what Neo was doing.

"Otherwise? This is my journal. I'll take note of what we did while we were in this world. Maybe if we were to tell it on the TV station when we get back, we'd be very famous, "Neo laughs softly, "That's cool, right?"

Jian and Rui did not respond.

"Alright, for you guys it's mediocre." Neo scowled in annoyance.

"Neo, can you give me one more?" Rui wiped her hands on the shirt. Then thrust back his right hand in front of Neo.

Neo looked at him in disdain, "You're smart but very greedy! We have to divide our food. This food is not easy to get anywhere. We have to enter that forest! It is also difficult to find fruit that is safe to eat. Some of them are poisonous and not worth eating." Neo kindly explained.

"We'd better start walking, Rui, Neo, you said we should find a way out, right?"

Rui and Neo nodded, they immediately tidied up their school backpack, Neo leading the way. Jian said he and Rui did not see the yellow blob forest when it landed earlier, directly tracing in the Grassland, they did not know where to go. As a result, Neo just takes them around checking which road they can cross.

"Hey, do you think this place has any living creatures?" Rui asked randomly.

Neo patted his forehead, "If there are no living beings, we will starve, Rui."

Rui who understood the meaning of Neo's reply immediately poked him, "I mean, not animals and plants. But humans are like us."

Jian nodded, "There may be, but we haven't arrived at their settlement yet. So far there's only grassland, right?"

"Some, guys." Neo stopped his steps. Jian and Rui stopped. Neo let out a 'sstt' sound to tell Jian and Rui to shut up.

"You hear that? The cry is a human voice. Although we do not understand the language, it is impossible for an animal to cry out in a tone and intonation like a cry for help." Neo go ahead a little, "Tolooonggg!!!!" he shouted so loudly that Jian and Rui closed their ears.

As soon as Neo shouted, the sound of screaming from a distance was gone, Neo waited for them to shout again.

"Who's there?" it was a shouting sound from afar, but using language that they did not understand.

Jian, Rui and Neo stared at each other, this might be their first clue!

Jian, Rui and Neo dashed towards that shout. They found a group of small-bodied and slightly stocky humans pulling their comrades trapped in a strange light formation.

The light danced around as it continued to drag one of the dwarves into it. Three of his colleagues helped pull the dwarf from being dragged inside.

Neo runs up to them, "Let's help them!"

"Dee, Neo. We can't just make a decision. What if they are dangerous? Then intend to eat us after we save them?" it seems that Rui has her own rational mind.

"Hey, do they look so creepy that they make you think they're gonna eat us? Look at their adorable looks, there's no way they're man-eating." Neo brushed off Rui's excessive worries.

They decided to help the dwarves pull his partner who was almost dragged into a circle of light dancing.

"Whoops!" Neo wiped the sweat on his forehead. Finally the dwarf was successfully removed and re-assembled with his friends.