Volume 1, Chapter 295 – The Situation

The atmosphere in the living room was awkward for a moment.

The expressions of Xiao Jingchen and the others nearby all turned somewhat strange. Whenever they entered a world to complete a mission, they had never once considered what would happen to their hosts in that world after the mission was over.

It was like a man already dead. Who cared what floods came afterward?

“Gulp.”

Shi Lan swallowed the plain boiled pork in her mouth and said seriously,

“Once I’ve done what I need to do, I’ll give Ning An back to you.”

Ning Kangping let out a breath of relief, and Qin Yinhua beside him also relaxed a little.

The others nearby all had different expressions. In their eyes, Shi Lan was actually a somewhat strange person. Though her strength was terrifyingly great, in certain matters that no one else would even care about, she always had principles of her own.

With Shi Lan’s strength, even this small world was nothing much to her. There was no need at all for her to care about the feelings of Ning Kangping and Qin Yinhua. What was more, once she left this place, the world would soon restart once again.

Everything she left behind here would be washed clean by the world.

“You should all head back first.”

After eating a few more plates of boiled meat, Shi Lan patted her stomach, which was about eighty percent full, told Xiao Jingchen and the others to leave, then got up and went into the room. She needed to digest that energy so she could recover from her injuries as quickly as possible.

Once her injuries had healed, there were still things she needed to do.

Liang Yunnan came out of the kitchen, tossed the apron aside, and looked at Shi Lan’s tightly shut door, thoughtful.

…

The rain outside was finally beginning to let up. Liang Yunnan and the others walked along the curb, all of them silent for a while.

“What kind of person do you think she really is?”

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Xiao Jingchen suddenly asked, sounding somewhat puzzled.

“She definitely doesn’t seem like a normal person.”

Xue Qiong spread her hands.

“Why think so much about it? I think she has a pretty solid bottom line. Isn’t that a good thing for us?”

Bai Ji sounded fairly unconcerned.

“I actually think she’s pretty normal. The abnormal ones are us.”

Liang Yunnan narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly,

“Do you all remember when it was that we started losing our reverence for life?”

At those words, the other three all stopped walking.

For a moment, all of them were left somewhat bewildered. Since when had it started…?

…

After Shi Lan circulated the Jade Tempering Art and digested the energy in her stomach, she lay down and went straight to sleep.

When she woke up, it was evening again. More than half of the injuries on her body had already healed, and even the somewhat deeper wounds had formed thick scabs.

When she walked into the living room, Ning Kangping was watching television, sitting bolt upright on the sofa.

The footage on the television was of the factory in the suburbs from the previous night.

The factory had already been cleaned up completely. There was not the slightest sign of battle to be seen. Even the blood that had been everywhere had been cleaned away, leaving only one crater after another and blackened scorch marks from the fire.

The news report described it only as a military exercise, and even took the opportunity to praise the army’s hardworking spirit in carrying out a military drill despite the heavy rain.

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Shi Lan glanced at it once, then turned and went into the kitchen. Warmed food was sitting on the stove.

After casually eating a few bites, Shi Lan went out.

Bang!

Only when the sound of the closing door rang out did Ning Kangping finally relax his rigidly straight back on the sofa.

After learning that Shi Lan was not Ning An, for some reason, whenever Ning Kangping thought of the way Shi Lan killed people, fear rose in him for no reason at all. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, to the point that he did not dare speak to her at all.

Qin Yinhua cautiously poked her head out of the bathroom.

“She left?”

“Mm.”

“Whew…”

Qin Yinhua let out a long breath, but then worry rose in her again. That was still her daughter’s body, after all. If it kept being put through what happened last night, something was bound to go wrong sooner or later.

…

Only after leaving the house did Shi Lan remember that her phone had already been ruined. After searching for quite a while, she finally found a public telephone booth.

Those things were practically on the verge of disappearing altogether. Finding one at all was no easy matter.

Shi Lan immediately summoned Liang Yunnan and the other three to the villa where they usually met.

“Lin Mo definitely knows quite a bit by now. If you want to finish the mission through normal means, that won’t work anymore. Is there any other way?”

Reclining sideways on the sofa, Shi Lan got straight to the point and stated the current problem. She was planning to return to Lingyang as soon as possible. Staying in Ning An’s house made her uncomfortable.

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“There are two choices now. One is for us to give up the mission right now and go back directly. There’ll be some punishment, but the few of us have accumulated a bit over the years, so it won’t be enough to cripple us. As for the other…”

When he reached the second option, Liang Yunnan hesitated a little.

“Just say it.”

Shi Lan waved a hand.

“Find Lin Mo. If he refuses to hand the thing over… kill him.”

Liang Yunnan stared at Shi Lan and enunciated each word.

“Didn’t you say before…”

Shi Lan frowned slightly, then suddenly realized.

“You want me to do it?”

“Yes. I just don’t know whether it’ll cause any trouble on your side.”

As Liang Yunnan saw it, this was only a human-rank world. Even if there was a penalty, with Shi Lan’s fifth-tier strength, it should not amount to much.

Shi Lan fell into thought for a moment, then tried asking the All-Heavens Samsara System for an answer.

“Killing the Child of Fortune can easily provoke a backlash from the world’s consciousness. The current world is a low-level world. With the host’s original body’s strength, it can be suppressed.”

Hearing the system’s icy prompt, Shi Lan lowered her head and sank into thought.

“Find him first.”

After a long while, Shi Lan raised her head and said softly,

“After you find him, I need to confirm one thing first.”

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With Shi Lan’s approval, Liang Yunnan and the others set out immediately and began searching for Lin Mo’s whereabouts.

If they had been looking for someone else, it might not have been so easy. But looking for Lin Mo was relatively simple for them. They still had a few ways to track down a Child of Fortune.

In the span of a single night, just as dawn was beginning to break, Liang Yunnan and the others returned to the villa.

Lin Mo’s whereabouts had already been found.

Shi Lan was sitting in the villa courtyard, seated facing east, breathing in and out the first thread of burgeoning spiritual qi between heaven and earth.

At this moment, yin and yang qi were in the midst of changing over. It was not only beneficial to cultivation, but also quite effective in strengthening the soul.

Liang Yunnan and the others stood to one side, watching Shi Lan slowly finish her cultivation. A trace of envy involuntarily appeared in their eyes.

“Hm?”

Shi Lan slowly opened her eyes. Sensing that the gazes beside her were somewhat strange, she could not help feeling puzzled.

Only after hearing their explanation did Shi Lan understand.

Complete cultivation methods, especially high-level ones, were extremely expensive in the Cube. Most of the time, they could only exchange for one layer at a time. Sometimes they practiced the first layer of one method, then whichever method had the cheapest second layer, they would continue with that one. The cultivation methods the few of them practiced now were still a jumbled mix, lacking any real system.

Fortunately, all roads led to the same destination, so for the moment no major problems had appeared.

“Next time. I’ll keep an eye out for suitable cultivation methods for you.”

Every technique Shi Lan cultivated now was first-rate, but Liang Yunnan and the others still had not shown her what benefits they could bring. Naturally, she would not casually hand over such high-level martial arts to them.

She still understood the principle of not releasing the hawk before seeing the rabbit.