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Jiang Fu's face was a little red.
He was just about to speak.
Then he saw Shi Jiu's soft, delicate body sliding down the smooth seat back.
He hurriedly reached out, slipped his hands under her shoulders and knees, and lifted her back up.
Shi Jiu's pale pink lips were pressed together slightly.
Her gaze remained fixed on her phone screen.
She showed no sign that anything was amiss.
Except that her character in the game had just been solo-killed by the enemy's squishy support.
Jiang Fu let out a small breath.
A little embarrassed, he said, "Sir, take us to Blue Shore Manor Residential Area."
Home first.
Take a shower and let these frayed nerves relax.
Everything else can wait until tomorrow.
Li Dazhi's eyes lit up slightly.
Blue Shore Manor Residential Area—one of the most exclusive martial artist communities in Bincheng District Nine!
He immediately stepped on the gas.
The car shot forward.
Inside the car.
Carried by inertia.
Shi Jiu's limp body first tipped backward.
Then pitched forward again.
Jiang Fu fumbled in a panic.
The hands he had just withdrawn reached out to steady Shi Jiu again.
When he looked up.
His gaze happened to meet Li Dazhi's in the rearview mirror.
Li Dazhi waggled his eyebrows suggestively at Jiang Fu.
Then turned the steering wheel again.
Shi Jiu had only just settled into her seat when she fell straight into Jiang Fu's arms.
At that moment.
Shi Jiu finally looked away from her phone screen.
"Sir, could you drive a little more smoothly?"
There was a hint of resignation in Shi Jiu's voice.
Li Dazhi put on an innocent face. "Ah, young lady, the road's bad here. Bear with me."
As he spoke.
The car seemed to run over something and gave a slight bump.
Jiang Fu instinctively held Shi Jiu close.
Shi Jiu sighed in surrender.
He had carried her all the way already, anyway.
A little more hardly mattered.
Still...
Riding in this car really isn't as comfortable as being carried by Jiang Fu.
At that thought, she instinctively nestled farther into his arms.
She did not even realize she had done it.
The taxi sped along.
Before long, they were back in the urban area.
It stopped at the entrance to Blue Shore Manor Residential Area.
"Sir, how much is it? I'll transfer the money!"
"And the fare from this afternoon, too!"
As he spoke.
Jiang Fu took out his phone.
On the way back.
He had linked his phone to his bank account.
He had also set up payment and social media apps.
And added Shi Jiu on both.
Li Dazhi hurriedly waved his hands. "No, no need!"
"You two just study hard and work on your cultivation. Kill a few more mutated beasts in the future!"
"Back then, my wife... ah, never mind!"
As he spoke.
A trace of grief appeared in Li Dazhi's eyes.
Jiang Fu seemed to understand.
He nodded. "All right, then."
"Oh, sir, that was my phone number earlier. Call me if you need anything!"
Li Dazhi's eyes lit up. "Will do!"
That's what I was waiting for!
He hurriedly took out his phone and saved Jiang Fu's number.
Holding Shi Jiu in his arms, Jiang Fu stood at the entrance to Blue Shore Manor Residential Area.
Watching the taxi drive away, he could not help remarking, "He's a good man!"
Shi Jiu rested her head on Jiang Fu's shoulder.
She briefly closed her eyes. "He'd be even better if he drove more smoothly."
Night had already fallen.
Jiang Fu used his spirit power to open the villa's front door.
The dark villa instantly blazed with light.
Jiang Fu set Shi Jiu down on the living room sofa.
Shi Jiu stared absently at the marble coffee table in front of her, which appeared to have been cleaved in two with a single slash.
"This is your home?"
Jiang Fu nodded.
The next moment.
An extremely strange expression appeared on Shi Jiu's face, one that was rather hard to describe.
"The third floor... is that your room?"
At the words "third floor."
A certain unpleasant memory instantly surfaced in Jiang Fu's mind.
He could not help dry heaving.
Seriously!
...I've killed people and slaughtered mutated beasts!
How can I still not stomach Guo Xiaofeng's room?
Guo Xiaofeng is scarier than a mutated beast!
No, I need to hire a cleaner tomorrow to clean that room of horrors.
Then seal it off!
Jiang Fu suppressed his nausea.
He pointed to the maid's room at the bend in the staircase.
"That's my room."
"A family of parasites was living here before. I've already decided to throw them out."
Shi Jiu scanned the Maid's Room with her psychokinesis. It was little different from a storage closet.
She could not help falling into a daze.
Then she changed the subject.
"The thing you wanted is in a suitcase inside the Storage Badge."
Jiang Fu froze for a moment.
Then immediately caught on.
The Mental Cultivation Method.
He hurriedly took out the Storage Badge.
His spirit power reached inside.
There were two suitcases in it.
One held snacks.
The other held undergarments.
Jiang Fu took out both suitcases.
He set them in front of Shi Jiu.
Shi Jiu looked at the two suitcases, their lids already shut.
Only then did she realize something.
Her little face flushed despite herself.
She hurriedly released a strand of psychokinesis.
It reached into the suitcase containing her undergarments.
From the hidden compartment at the very back, she took out a thin booklet.
She placed it in front of Jiang Fu.
"Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night?"
Jiang Fu automatically read the words on the booklet's cover aloud.
A rainy night... and you can still stargaze?
Are there even any stars?
But soon.
Jiang Fu came to his senses.
This is a Mental Cultivation Method.
Of course ordinary logic can't explain it.
Without thinking, he sat down beside Shi Jiu as usual.
He opened the booklet in his hands.
The Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night contained nine illustrations in total.
There was very little text.
Most of it consisted of annotations for the nine illustrations.
As for the nine illustrations themselves...
...I can't understand them.
I can't understand them at all.
They looked like a jumble of messy lines.
Yet they also seemed to depict something.
Just as Jiang Fu was scratching his head in frustration.
Shi Jiu tilted sideways.
She slid along the sofa back and leaned against Jiang Fu's shoulder.
Her slightly drowsy voice sounded.
"There are no stars on a rainy night, so you can't look with your eyes."
As she spoke.
She gave another little yawn.
Hearing that, Jiang Fu set the booklet aside.
Then he put the suitcases on the floor back into the Storage Badge.
And tucked the Storage Badge into Shi Jiu's trouser pocket.
Once he had finished.
Jiang Fu scooped Shi Jiu up. "The poison in your body hasn't been cleared yet. Let me take you to rest."
On the villa's second floor.
Apart from Guo Fangdong and Ge Yanxia's master bedroom.
There was another bedroom and several guest rooms on the other side.
After a pause, Jiang Fu added, "Do you want to take a bath first?"
Shi Jiu looked at him with an indescribable expression. "Are you going to bathe me?"
Jiang Fu's face reddened.
"Ahem... Let's talk about that when you can move."
He couldn't help glancing at Shi Jiu's slender, pale hands.
Throughout the journey,
those hands had racked up who knew how many pentakills and shattered who knew how many crystals.
But
Shi Jiu's body was still limp.
It seemed only her hands had recovered.
Jiang Fu carried Shi Jiu to the second bedroom upstairs.
No one lived in it.
The original Jiang Fu had always kept it clean.
It was neat and tidy, without any strange smells.
Jiang Fu laid Shi Jiu on the soft bed and tucked her in.
"Get some sleep. Call me if you need anything."
Then he left the room.
Shi Jiu put down her phone.
Her large, dark eyes stared at the closed door.
Jiang Fu didn't go back to the Maid's Room to torture himself.
Instead, he went to the guest bedroom next door.
Even the guest bedroom was bigger than most people's master bedrooms.
It had its own bathroom and bathtub.
Jiang Fu filled the tub with hot water.
Then he sank into it.
He draped a towel over his head and let out a long, hard breath.
A moment later,
he stirred his Spirit Power.
He reached toward the first illustration in the Star Gazing Chart on a Rainy Night, which he had already opened.
His Spirit Power studied the seemingly chaotic image over and over, trying to make sense of what it was meant to convey.
At last, he reached a conclusion.
...He still couldn't understand it.
He had no idea where to start.
"Is my comprehension just that poor?"
Jiang Fu thought for a moment.
Then he muttered under his breath,
"Comprehension multiplied by ten for ten minutes!"
"Understanding ability multiplied by ten for ten minutes!"
"Cultivation speed multiplied by ten for ten minutes!"
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