Building My Empire in the Frozen Apocalypse (Riley Carter) novel Chapter 162

Chapter 162 The Marshmallow Sheep

Chapter 162 The Marshmallow Sheep

Tartking grabbed the long minute hand and began to nudge it.

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Sure enough, just as Riley suspected, the clock was linked to the time within the cottage. As Tartking moved the hand, the shadow of the candlestick on the table shifted in real–times

Riley turned to look at that weird coat rack and said, “Spin the hour hand, TartKing. Fast.”

“Got it!”

Tartking started cranking the hour hand.

What happened next was breathtaking. As the hands spun, the light and shadows in the room began to dance. Sunlight whirled from window to window as if the sun itself were orbiting the treehouse at high speed.

Day turned to dusk, and then to a hazy, ethereal moonlight.

“Woah, that is so cool!” Tartking exclaimed from her stool.

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Riley kept her eyes on the shadows.

“Slow down. Keep turning the hour hand.”

The light shifted inch by inch. Dawn broke, sunlight flooded back into the room, and the shadows shortened as noon approached.

“Stop!”

Riley called out when the hand hit eleven.

Now, the sun was coming through a different window, and the shadow of the coat rack was pointing directly at the desk with the stuck drawer.

“TartKing, can you see the tip of the rack’s shadow?” Riley asked.

“Yeah.”

“Now, adjust the minute hand slowly. I want to see if we can get the tip of that shadow to point exactly at the red gem on that

drawer.”

“On it!” TartKing replied, her movements becoming precise.

As the light outside rotated, the shadow crept toward the desk.

Click.

The moment the shadow overlapped with the red gem on the handle, a mechanical sound echoed from inside the desk. The drawer that had been stuck for so long popped open on its own.

Riley rushed over, eyes wide with delight.

Sitting inside was a massive brass key.

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12:22 pm Pppp.

Chapter 162 The Marshmallow Sheep

Tartking! We get it! The key was in here!” Riley held it up for her friend to see.

“Yes! Riley, you are a genius!”

Tartking hopped down and scurried over

“Quick, quick! Let’s open that door!”

They took the key to the landing on the stairs.

It slid into the lock perfectly. With a satisfying clack, the wooden door swung open.

They climbed the spiral stairs to the second floor.

But the vibe on this floor was… different.

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While the architecture was still wooden, the room was filled with thin, floating white clouds. Visibility was low, and the space felt much larger than the floor below. There was also a distinct, sugary smell in the air.

They moved forward cautiously through the “cloud piles.” Suddenly, the mist in front of them moved.

Even though the system said there were no hostile mobs, Riley instinctively gripped her dual axes.

“Baaa-”

A soft, impossibly cute sound echoed through the room.

A round, pink creature wiggled out of the clouds.

It looked like a sheep, but instead of wool, it was covered in layers of fluffy, pink marshmallow–like fleece.

It stared at the two intruders with big, blueberry–colored eyes, looking more curious than afraid.

Riley and TartKing both froze.

“What… what is that?”

Marshmallow Cloud Sheep (Lv. 5 Special Mob)

Attribute: None

Habits: Lives in the clouds. Feeds on dew and sweet breezes. Loves sugar. Shy and clingy. Drops Sugar Dust when startled. Note: Its fleece is actual marshmallow.

Specialty: Produces high–quality Marshmallow. Can be used as a sugar ingredient (Restores Morale when eaten).

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