"Get lost." Lin Yue gave a curt reply.
"Huh?" Chen Xi murmured, her beautiful dream shattered. "How stingy."
After she finished complaining, the corner of the dessert shop fell quiet.
It was a workday, and it was only ten in the morning—the slowest time of day for business.
Chen Xi quietly enjoyed her mango coconut milk tea, recalling what had already happened by this point.
"I've talked to both Gu Yu and Zhu Li. The nightmare about the Headless Mummified Corpse first appeared at three in the morning on October third. We have seventeen days to prepare to leave the Spark Federation..."
"Looks like we have plenty of time."
Unfortunately, the fact that she'd taken the Legend Husk from the Tianhai City Countermeasure Bureau had already happened "yesterday."
Otherwise, Chen Xi really would have liked to draw another ability.
Maybe she'd get Lamentation?
Or perhaps just an ordinary page-based ability. She'd be happy with that, too.
Resting her chin on one hand, she idly toyed with the straw in her mouth, sucking up every last bit of residue from her milk tea.
As the conversation turned to that, Chen Xi suddenly thought of Lin Yue's Regression ability. She glanced at her. "By the way, why did you regress so far back this time? Has your ability evolved?"
Lin Yue raised an eyebrow and replied disdainfully, "You're only just realizing that?"
"I didn't get a chance to ask, okay? Come on, tell me."
Chen Xi shifted in her seat and leaned forward, as if they were discussing state secrets.
Seeing this, Lin Yue simply told her all the rules governing Regression.
"So that's how it works." Chen Xi nodded thoughtfully.
She'd had a vague idea of how the ability worked, but hearing Lin Yue explain it was far clearer.
As she