Lying Down Brings Peace of Mind

"Madman?" Zhou Bai stroked his chin, a thoughtful look flashing through his eyes.

A moment later, Christina asked, "What is it?"

"Nothing." Zhou Bai shook his head. "Then what about this Divine Map? Can I add to it?"

Christina said, "Theoretically, a Divine Map can only be cultivated once the power of the Primordial Spirit has reached a certain level. You probably can't do it yet."

"Anyway, increase your Primordial Spirit power first. Raise it until you can't raise it anymore. That's called laying a solid foundation; future cultivation will get twice the result with half the effort."

Zhou Bai tried it and found that he truly could not add any more. He stopped dwelling on it, rested for half an hour, then added another 5 points of Primordial Spirit power.

His head immediately swam slightly. He simply stopped adding Primordial Spirit power and decided to take the whole morning to recover.

"Oh, right. I forgot to ask yesterday. How did that gemstone get onto you? What exactly does it do?" Zhou Bai looked at the white cat in his mind. A gemstone was now hanging around her neck.

It was precisely the gemstone Zhou Bai had stolen back from the laboratory at the last moment yesterday.

Christina began howling, "After you fell asleep yesterday, the gemstone came in by itself. And it was my gemstone to begin with. This gemstone is far more formidable than your lousy system. It is the standard of space-time and mass, the balance of the universe, the entanglement of cause and effect. Its significance far surpasses the sum of everything you have ever seen. It cannot even be described by significance alone..."

"What a blowhard." Zhou Bai curled his lip. "Didn't you lose your memory? You can still brag like that?"

"Hmph. When I got the gemstone back, I remembered those things." Christina guessed, "My memories should return as long as I come into contact with things familiar to me."

Zhou Bai said, "So what does this gemstone actually do?"

Christina said, "I don't know... but it is definitely important. Extremely important."

Early in the morning, Zhou Bai headed for the classroom with Elsa. Halfway there, he spotted a tense-looking Alice.

The two met each other's eyes and each gave a slight nod. Yesterday's operation, and the moment they had witnessed the outside world together, had made Alice trust Zhou Bai even more.

Elsa asked, "What's wrong, Zhou Bai? Why did you stop walking?"

Alice walked up to Elsa and rubbed her head. "Good girl, Elsa." She took out a biscuit. "Sit."

Elsa obediently sat down.

Alice placed the biscuit on Elsa's head. "Elsa, wait here obediently. If the biscuit is still on your head when Zhou Bai and I come back in a little while, then I'll give it to you to eat."

Zhou Bai said, "..."

Elsa nodded with a conflicted expression. "Mmm~~"

Alice pulled Zhou Bai a few steps away. "Zhou Bai, Bandu, he..."

Zhou Bai cut Alice off. "I know. Let's not talk about that yet. If you believe me, then wait a few more days. I'll think of something then."

Although they had left the base yesterday and come to the outside world, everything had seemed just as Dr. Zhuang had said.

Yet there were still many suspicious points.

The most suspicious of all was the two Bandus.

One was in the underground laboratory, while the other attended classes and lived upstairs.

And whether through oversight or some other reason, Dr. Zhuang had not explained the matter of the two Bandus to Alice and Zhou Bai yesterday.

He had not even come to ask Zhou Bai about the cat and the gemstone. It was as though something more important was urgently demanding his attention.

But Zhou Bai was happy to leave things that way. For the time being, he had no plans to meddle in these matters. After all, his trip to the Underground Level 5 Laboratory had allowed him to truly use the Auxiliary System. As long as he was given some time, he could grow stronger at astonishing speed.

Once he possessed enough force to stand above Dr. Zhuang, he would naturally be able to unravel every mystery in the base one by one. Until then, Zhou Bai intended to lie low and avoid touching the doctor's nerves.

After soothing Alice with a few words, the two returned to Elsa and saw that the biscuit on her head had vanished without a trace.

Elsa said in a panic, "I didn't eat it! I only looked up for a moment, then the biscuit fell to the ground and disappeared!"

The three of them went to class together. Zhou Bai alternated between resting and adding points. During Demonology Class that afternoon, he finally raised his Primordial Spirit power to 30 points.

Daoization Degree: 0%

Primordial Spirit Value: 30

Divine Map: Nine Calamities of Heaven and Man

Laziness Qi: 0

"I feel much stronger than before." Zhou Bai thought to himself, But with the apocalyptic environment and these so-called demons, I need to become even stronger.

Zhou Bai thought, The Auxiliary System only mentioned one method: lying down. There should be other ways to increase Laziness Qi Value, right?

Just as Zhou Bai was thinking this, with his strengthened Primordial Spirit power, he seemed to hear faint whispers by his ear.

He froze slightly, and the whispers vanished again.

Zhou Bai looked toward the demon statues around him. He felt that those statues seemed a little more lifelike than before.

Christina, who was seeing these statues for the first time, also frowned. Her voice rang by Zhou Bai's ear. "Don't look at those statues. There seems to be something wrong with them."

Zhou Bai asked, "What's wrong?"

Christina said, "I can't remember, but don't look at them anyway. Your Primordial Spirit Value has suddenly increased, so your Primordial Spirit is very sensitive. Don't go looking at things recklessly."

Thus, during the rest of Demonology Class, Zhou Bai stopped looking at the demon statues, and those whispering sounds never appeared again.

Before Demonology Class ended, Dr. Zhuang said from the podium, "After sorting the supplies last time, I took inventory and found that we are consuming food too quickly. From now on, the daily portions of nutritional paste and compressed biscuits will be reduced once more..."

At Dr. Zhuang's announcement, disappointment appeared on the faces of the children below.

Elsa's eyes widened. A misty sheen seemed to well up in them, as though a bolt from the blue had struck her mind. Her whole body went slack with shock.

Dr. Zhuang sighed. "I think everyone knows that the base's supplies are limited. Although I often go out to search for new food sources, there is the threat of demons outside, so food sources are unstable.

"To keep the base running for longer, we can only cut back on meals for a while. My own meals will be cut in half, and each of yours will also be reduced by one quarter."

Seeing the worried expressions on the children's faces, Dr. Zhuang comforted them, "Don't be afraid, everyone. Once I find a new food source, everything will get better."

Listening to Dr. Zhuang's words, Zhou Bai sighed inwardly.

Christina said, "You can't keep this up. You still need to find a way to raise your cultivation. I think high-level Primordial Spirit power should be able to resist the so-called apocalyptic environment and avoid being infected by polluted Spiritual Machine. Otherwise, if you keep cooping yourselves up here, it's a dead end."

Zhou Bai thought, Humans in this situation... really do have a hard life...

Zhou Bai sighed. Everything proceeded as usual afterward. He had originally thought Dr. Zhuang would come speak with him about Primordial Spirit power, the cat, and the gemstone, but the man never came. Instead, the moment class ended, he hurried off in a great rush.

That night, Zhou Bai eagerly lay down on his bed again. Though he was in the midst of the apocalypse, watching the Laziness Qi Value on the Auxiliary System rise bit by bit filled his heart with peace of mind.