Chapter 73: Limit-Breaking Method (20,000-Character Update 3/7, Please Vote!~)
Li Baishi listened.
He walked in from the doorway with a cheerful grin, his steps somewhat unsteady. "I was out strolling around and just happened to stroll over to your place."
Jiang Ran's mouth twitched.
He closed the door, turned to the kitchen to steep a cup of warm tea, and brought it to the coffee table in the living room before saying helplessly, "If you need something, you could've sent me a WeChat message or called me. It's dangerous for you to come over alone this late at night."
Li Baishi waved a hand without touching the tea.
Instead, he took something carefully wrapped in oilcloth from his chest, placed it on the coffee table, and cautiously unwrapped it.
Beneath the oilcloth was an ancient book with yellowed pages.
"I came to give you something. Once I've delivered it, I'll leave."
Li Baishi spoke softly.
"You know my family doesn't have much, except for old things.
"Then, on the fourteenth—that was the day the Abyssal Void opened, wasn't it?
"While I was sorting through my things, I found this book glowing."
He paused and looked up at Jiang Ran. "I thought... it should be something related to the supernatural, so I put it away."
Jiang Ran was stunned by those words.
He did not reach for it. Instead, he frowned and said, "Even if you don't sell something like this, you could leave it for Brother Jia...
"Because..."
Before he could finish.
Li Baishi suddenly said calmly, "That boy is gone."
Those words cut off everything Jiang Ran had been about to say.
Jiang Ran could not help but freeze.
If he remembered correctly, his teacher's son, Li Jingjia, was nearly forty this year. He worked at a state-owned enterprise,