After dinner, Bai Chen tremblingly controlled the robot to scan the restaurant's payment code. Nothing. There was nothing left. One meal had squeezed him dry down to the last drop. Kaslana was terrifying!
"A new kind of smartphone?"
Fu Hua looked at Bai Chen from the side.
"Maybe."
Bronya answered calmly. When she saw the bill, Bronya wondered whether she should go back and split it with Bai Chen. How could an older sister let her younger brother pay the whole bill?
"Hmm, this restaurant is holding an eating contest. Want to join? The first-place prize is eight thousand."
Apparently noticing that Fu Hua had casually mentioned the event being held at the restaurant.
"Huh?? An eating contest? A competition to see who can eat more?"
The moment Kiana heard there was an eating contest, she immediately perked up and hurriedly asked.
"Over there. Teams of two, probably desserts and the like."
Fu Hua pointed in a direction as she answered Kiana's question, then left on the excuse that she had work to do.
"Sister Kallen, let's go together!"
Unable to refuse Kiana, Kallen could only follow her and enter the eating contest.
"Can they... really eat that much?"
Bai Chen, disguised as a toy, finally couldn't help asking.
"They probably want to earn your money back for you."
Mei followed after Kiana and answered him.
"Huh?"
Had his embarrassing situation been discovered?
"Don't underestimate us."
Bronya stared at Bai Chen's screen as she answered. After living together for over a month, they knew Bai Chen's financial situation well.
"Ugh..."
The feeling of having his underwear exposed was strangely wonderful.
Before long, the eating contest reached its final stage, but only one team remained on the stage.
"That white-haired girl is still eating!"
"God! She's already doubled the previous record!!"
The surrounding spectators were thoroughly shocked by Kallen. Even unrelated passersby ran over, packing the place until it was impenetrable.
"My God! I heard they came here just to eat!"
"No! She's unbeatable! She's invincible!"
In the end, the numb-faced owner could only step onto the stage and regretfully inform the audience that the dessert machine had overheated and could no longer make more desserts, so the contest had no choice but to end.
At that moment, a dessert legend was born. She terrified every nearby contestant into retreating at the mere mention of her name. What was most infuriating was that the legendary white-haired girl had such a slim figure, which they found the hardest to accept.
Perhaps Kallen's record would remain unbroken for decades to come!
Fu Hua
At night, a somewhat capable-looking figure moved through the streets. From afar, one might instinctively mistake her for some handsome young man out for an evening workout.
Only upon closer inspection would one realize that she was Fu Hua, who had just finished work. She was preparing to take on another job, but before that, she needed to deal with the trouble following her.
"You have followed me for so long. Won't you show yourself?"
Fu Hua walked into an empty alley, removed her glasses, and addressed the shadow behind her.
"Beautiful miss, have you lost yourself in this lovely moonlight? Alas, even the most beautiful moonlight is but a false illusion meant to deceive."
Bai Chen, transformed into Sixth Serenade, descended before Fu Hua in a shower of purple petals as though he had teleported.
"Just like how you used that event as an excuse to take something that doesn't belong to you."
Bai Chen extended a purple-gloved finger toward the test tubes Fu Hua had hidden behind her back. The tubes contained something resembling cream, along with some crystalline liquid. They should have been leftovers from Kallen's participation in the eating contest.
A coincidence? Or a deliberate arrangement?
"Wow, why are you suddenly talking so weirdly?"
Kallen couldn't help feeling embarrassed when she realized Bai Chen was speaking in that manner. She remembered those clothes, but she had never said anything that exaggerated while wearing them.
"It suits the character."
"It absolutely doesn't!"
Fu Hua watched Bai Chen before her. The person gave her a familiar feeling, as though she had seen him somewhere before. Was he the guy who had eaten with Kiana? Had he discovered that she had collected their samples?
"Sorry? I have no idea what you're talking about."
Fu Hua assumed a stance and warily stared at the person before her. He gave her an extremely dangerous feeling. At her peak, she could naturally defeat him with ease, but now was far from her peak.
"You don't know? If possible, I would prefer to resolve this peacefully as well."
Bai Chen shot toward the guarded Fu Hua like an arrow, his sudden acceleration scattering purple petals across the ground.
Fu Hua observed the direction of Bai Chen's attack and threw a punch, but she merely dispersed a mass of dark-purple raven feathers. The real Bai Chen was not there.
Fu Hua immediately leaped away, narrowly avoiding Bai Chen's hands attacking from behind.
Why had those feathers suddenly appeared? An illusion? Yet as half an expert in spiritual matters, Fu Hua felt no spiritual interference at all.
"Heh."
Seeing his attack miss, Bai Chen immediately kicked off the wall, spun, and swept a kick toward Fu Hua's neck, only for Fu Hua to casually deflect it with her palm, leaving him wide open!
"Naive!"
In the span of a breath, Fu Hua's attacks came down like a torrential rain. Fists, palms, and elbows struck Bai Chen like a hundred different weapons.
Wincing in pain, Bai Chen turned into a streak of dim light and escaped Fu Hua's attack range. Though his physical abilities had improved, his experience was clearly no match for Fu Hua's.
"Oh my, so impatient. But even when you're impatient, you still look charming."
Bai Chen drew Nocturne of the Phantom Night and fired at Fu Hua, closing the distance between them once more.
Sensing that the gun was unusually powerful, Fu Hua did not choose to take the attack head-on and instead sidestepped it. But that movement was precisely what Bai Chen had been waiting for as he rapidly closed in.
Bai Chen directly swung the gun toward the back of Fu Hua's head, but upon sensing the attack from behind, Fu Hua did not dodge. Instead, she rapidly pressed her back against Bai Chen.
"Something's wrong!"
By the time Bai Chen realized it, it was too late. The instant they made contact, he was sent flying as though struck by a truck, while purple raven feathers scattered through the air like falling snow.
"Cough, cough, cough."
Bai Chen took several breaths before climbing up from the ground. As he watched Fu Hua approach, an inexplicable smile appeared on his lips.
"Stop. Although your physical training is impressive, your combat experience is worthless. You cannot fight against instinct with desire alone."
Having figured out Bai Chen's fighting style, Fu Hua planned to step forward and subdue him directly. What puzzled her was that despite his tremendous physical strength, his actual combat ability was so poor. It was as absurd as an elementary school student playing on their older brother's account.
"Not necessarily."
Bai Chen raised his left hand, holding several test tubes. They were precisely the tubes Fu Hua had hidden at the beginning. Bai Chen was no fool. After discovering in their first exchange that they were on entirely different levels, he was not about to keep going in just to get beaten up.
"?"
Fu Hua reached behind her waist and found that the test tubes were indeed gone. Damn it, she had been tricked. So those raven feathers had been used as a distraction? Such an ostentatious fighting style was truly unpleasant.
With an irritated expression, Fu Hua stomped the ground and lunged at Bai Chen like a released rabbit. It made no difference—she could take the samples back after knocking him down!
But Bai Chen was completely unfazed, even though he knew he was no match for her.
In theory, as a dual-pistol character in the game, Kallen should only have been able to summon and use dual-pistol weapons. But there were exceptions to everything. As Kallen, perhaps she possessed that weapon?
Before Fu Hua could reach Bai Chen, her body abruptly stopped. She could not advance even half a step, because golden chains shot out from behind and bound her tightly!
"Judah, unfold!"
"Why is Judas Vow here?!"
Fu Hua incredulously turned to look at the Judas Vow glowing with golden light behind her. Its ability to bind someone and restrict the use of Honkai energy within their body was undoubtedly the genuine article! Why? Had Theresa discovered the spy Otto had sent?
Bai Chen swiftly pulled a spear from Judah and placed it against Fu Hua's throat to stop her from moving again. Although Fu Hua's Honkai energy had been restricted, he feared she might use some mysterious Eastern power to escape. If that happened, it would not be easy to ambush her again.
"Don't think about using Feathered Dust. Using that power now would harm you considerably, wouldn't it? I couldn't bear to see a beautiful miss get hurt."
Bai Chen raised the spear in his hand, remaining constantly alert for a Feathered Dust ambush from Fu Hua. Without mental defenses, he had no means of protection.
"Who are you?"
Fu Hua narrowed her eyes at Bai Chen. Only now did she truly take the person before her seriously. Anyone who even knew about Feathered Dust had to be treated seriously.
"Let's have a talk, Immortal Crimson Kite. The price I offer will satisfy you, Guardian of Shenzhou."
Bai Chen removed his mask and smiled. What Bai Chen and Fu Hua were about to discuss was both cooperation and a threat. With power, he could become a hero or a demon. It depended on the other person's choice.
Drawing
Late at night, Bai Chen lay on his bed, recalling everything that had just happened. When he closed his eyes, a crimson feather floated through his mind.
"Do not forget your promise."
Such a sentence drifted faintly from the crimson feather, startling the dazed Bai Chen into sitting upright in bed.
"Don't suddenly say things like that in the middle of the night."
Bai Chen grumbled angrily.
"I will naturally keep my promise. Didn't you leave yourself a backup plan too?"
"Still, I didn't expect things inside your body to be so lively."
When Fu Hua first entered Bai Chen's body, it had truly opened her eyes. Someone had already been there. She was not the first resident.
"Haha, let's get along well."
Kallen leaned over and greeted Fu Hua. She had never expected that the immortal of Shenzhou whom she had once enlightened would become like this. No wonder when Kallen had brought the box to search for the immortal back then, she had found only a ruined mountaintop.
"Hmph, you two have a nice chat and get to know each other."
No longer paying attention to the conversation between those two ancestor-level women, Bai Chen focused on the system interface. Although he had not checked it for some time, the system showed that after resolving Kallen's incident, it had given him another ten pulls.
Including what he had saved up over the past few days, he had thirteen pulls.
Not bad. It seemed he could collect another dozen bottles of Nutrient Solution.
"Draw!"
Nutrient Solution *11 Advanced Collapse Energy Manipulation Nutrient Solution *1
"!!!"
Bai Chen, who had been absentminded moments ago, instantly perked up. After rubbing his eyes and confirming he had not seen wrong, a wild grin gradually spread across his face.
It hadn't been easy! More than a month! He had nearly drunk Nutrient Solution until he wanted to throw up, and he had started treating the system like a Nutrient Solution production machine. He had never expected it to produce something besides Nutrient Solution!
Unable to suppress his excitement, Bai Chen thanked the cheat for finally being useful. Next, he began wondering how this skill would be taught to him. Would it be like other systems, directly adding a new memory to his mind?
As Bai Chen indulged in his fantasies, he suddenly felt his surroundings brighten. Without sensing anything at all, he had arrived in a pure white space.
"Huh?"
The abrupt change from a dim room to a brilliant white space left Bai Chen intensely uncomfortable. He squinted for a while before his eyes gradually adjusted.
"Where am I?"
Bai Chen looked around in confusion. There was nothing around him but white, not even a single line. For a moment, his sense of direction was completely thrown into chaos.
Except above his head. Bai Chen looked up and saw purple words hanging in the sky.
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