Yanqing watched him and silently took a few steps back...
Mmm, mmm~
The next day, Liuge was jolted awake by a sound like someone smashing into the door.
He groggily looked toward the doorway.
Standing there was a petite figure with her hands on her hips, slowly walking toward him.
Liuge yawned, scratched his hair that had become a bird's nest from sleeping, and looked at Qingque.
"Morning, Qingque!"
"Morning my ass! Move, move!"
Qingque had no time to greet Liuge. She pushed him toward the exit.
"Wh... what's wrong?"
Liuge was completely baffled.
"What's wrong?!"
Qingque's voice suddenly rose.
"You don't know?"
"Know? That you wear height-boosting insoles?"
"You're the one who wears height-boosting insoles!"
Qingque rolled her eyes at Liuge.
Then she pointed at the Mara-Struck Soldier charging toward them from ahead.
"There's been an incident of people falling to mara nearby!"
"Oh!"
Liuge nodded, yawned, and raised his hand.
The instant the Mara-Struck Soldier drew near, his right hand clenched into a fist and slammed down.
With a bang.
The Mara-Struck Soldier was knocked flat onto the ground with a single punch.
But after falling to mara, not only did their physical abilities become extraordinarily high, their recovery abilities were also astonishing.
Even though Liuge's physical abilities were now twenty times those of an ordinary person, he had not dealt even the slightest bit of damage to a mara-struck soldier like this.
Unless Liuge transformed directly into Kazami Yuuka.
However, Liuge was grumpy from having just woken up, so before the Mara-Struck Soldier could get up, he opened the Stat-Stick Library.
After directly equipping Attribute, he felt an entirely new power surge from within his body.
Even though he had never mastered it before, the instant Liuge obtained it, Aether Edit's instant mastery enhancement brought him straight to the level of skilled manipulation.
He raised his right foot, and purple lightning seemed to glow beneath his sole.
The instant the Mara-Struck Soldier raised his head, a size forty-one foot stamped directly onto his face. That powerful kick poured lightning damage of the lightning attribute into the Mara-Struck Soldier's body.
At that moment, Qingque finally saw what it meant to shake like a sieve.
"Hm? You can still move?"
Liuge yawned, realizing that this Mara-Struck Soldier's recovery ability was truly powerful.
Then he raised his foot again.
"Feel Professor Liu's electrotherapy!"
His foot came down once more.
With a thud.
This time, he stomped the Mara-Struck Soldier's head two or three centimeters into the ground.
Even Qingque felt that had to hurt terribly.
Yet Liuge, who did not care about that at all, discovered that a Stat-Stick Light Orb had dropped from the Mara-Struck Soldier as well.
Super-Speed Recovery Quality Effect: Recovery ability ten times that of an ordinary person.
Looking at this stat-stick, Liuge fell silent for a moment. It seemed this could be combined with certain special Character Stat-Stick Cards.
And the resulting Stat-Stick Card would definitely be pretty good.
But before Liuge could do anything, Qingque had already grabbed him and hurriedly pulled him forward.
Before long, they saw a squad of Cloud Knights Army soldiers stationed at the intersection ahead.
Only after the two passed by the Cloud Knights Army did Qingque finally let out a sigh of relief.
Sitting on a long bench in Chang'le Sky-Garden, Qingque swung her pale little feet as she ate the large meat bun in her hand.
"Qingque, what do you think is going on? Why did people who fell to mara suddenly show up all over the world... ahem, around Aurum Alley after one night's sleep?"
"It's simple. It has to be the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus pulling something, doesn't it?"
Listening to Qingque, Liuge realized he had asked a stupid question.
Yeah, he really was stupid, so there was no need to deny that fact.
"Mmm, mmm~~"
With her mouth full of meat bun, Qingque had no desire to talk anymore.
She seemed to have completely forgotten that she still needed to check in at the Divination Commission. Instead, she was leisurely enjoying breakfast here.
"Hm? Benefactor? And... Miss Qingque?"
At that moment, a gentle voice came from beside them.
That voice immediately made both Qingque and Liuge turn to look.
Before them stood Tingyun, the chief representative of the Minghuo Merchant Guild.
At this moment, Liuge noticed that Tingyun wore a pendant around her neck. It was the cross pendant he had given her last night.
The moment Qingque saw Tingyun, her gaze seemed to turn wary.
However, Tingyun's next sentence broke Qingque's composure and even made her panic a little.
"Miss Qingque, at this hour, are you still so leisurely eating breakfast?"
Tingyun's voice was gentle, but her words sent chills down Qingque's spine.
At that moment, Qingque realized she really seemed to be late.
When she imagined a certain short pink-haired girl standing before her and lecturing her while she could only lower her head and stare at those delicate little feet wrapped in white stockings, Qingque found it somewhat... amusing?
Qingque abruptly sprang to her feet, stuffed the half-eaten meat bun in her hand into Liuge's hand, wiped the grease from the corner of her mouth, and slipped away without saying a word.
Workers have a worker's soul; workers are all above other people!
So Qingque had to rush to the Divination Commission and check in successfully as fast as possible!
After watching Qingque leave, Tingyun seemed quite satisfied with the situation. But when she saw the half-eaten meat bun with bite marks in Liuge's hand, her brows still furrowed involuntarily.
"This girl..."
Liuge looked at the half-eaten meat bun in his hand with a helpless smile.
He shook his head and placed it on the spread-out greaseproof paper beside him.
"Anyway, good morning, Tingyun!"
"Good morning, Benefactor!"
"Ahem... You should just call me Liuge!"
Tingyun's words were so sweet they made Liuge unable to take it.
It felt nice, but he could not handle it!
"All right, Liuge!"
Tingyun smiled and did not argue.
Instead, she looked at Liuge and said, "Young Master Liuge, do you have time to come with me to Liuyun Wharf?"
"Liuyun Wharf? What are we going there for?"
Liuge found it strange. Why did she suddenly want to go there?
Liuyun Wharf was where merchant ships, cargo vessels, and some visiting spacecraft docked.
Generally speaking, most of the vessels there were merchant ships and cargo ships.
"Hm? Young Master Liuge, you don't know?"
Tingyun looked slightly surprised.
When she had gone to the Ministry of Interdimensional Affairs this morning, Yukong had told her to find time to visit Liuyun Wharf.
Because the Nameless of the Astral Express were arriving.
Thinking of the Nameless, Tingyun seemed to recall that Liuge himself was also one of the Astral Express's Nameless, who had only been transferred onto her merchant ship by accident.
"Know what? A new game?"
"Even more fun than a new game~"
"What exactly is it? Don't keep me in suspense, Miss Tingyun!"
Seeing Liuge like this, Tingyun finally laughed aloud.
"You don't know that your Astral Express people have arrived?"
"Huh?!"
Ro~bo~t~
"Oh, those guys are coming?"
Liuge's eyes lit up at her words.
"Yes. Originally, the Xianzhou only intended to welcome the Astral Express people as travelers. But..."
At this point, Tingyun glanced at Liuge.
"But because of Young Master, the General asked me to receive them."
Liuge fell silent upon hearing Tingyun's words.
Well then, in the end, it was an inescapable destiny for Tingyun to make contact with the train crew, wasn't it?
With that thought, an idea popped into Liuge's mind.
Seeing Liuge's contemplative expression, Tingyun somehow felt that this brat was up to no good.
"Um..."
"No!"
Before Liuge could speak, Tingyun directly cut him off.
"You..."
"You want to turn into a young woman and make contact with the train crew, don't you?"
Tingyun seemed to see through Liuge's thoughts and spoke irritably.
"Uh..."
Liuge was helpless. Was his idea really that easy to see through?
"Young Master, it's not that I disagree. The main issue is that this concerns Xianzhou etiquette." Tingyun explained, "If we handed the task of welcoming guests to an outsider and used deception to make contact with them, how would outsiders view our Xianzhou?"
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