Sure enough, as long as people had Chinese blood, they could turn anywhere they went into a thriving place!
After leaving the little hotel and eating some American-style, heavily modified Chinese food in Chinatown, Qi Jun headed toward the small apartment that had just been transferred into his name, a strange expression on his face.
To think that just the day before, he could have delicious Chinese cuisine anytime, anywhere. What on earth was this American-style, heavily modified Chinese food he was eating now?
Qi Jun could swear he had never eaten such awful "Chinese food"!
In the end, Qi Jun had no choice but to spend a full ten dollars at a supermarket on a bag of utterly tasteless whole wheat bread and a jar of Lao Qian Niang, supposedly from the Eastern Ancient Country. He ate them together, barely managing to appease his rebelling stomach.
With a sigh, Qi Jun followed the navigation to the address and finally found his "new home" with "great difficulty."
After feeling around the doorframe for a moment, finding a key, and opening the door, Qi Jun no longer had the energy to complain.
Sitting in his "new home," he stopped paying attention to the old furniture. It was only a temporary residence, anyway.
Qi Jun began thinking about how to make the most of his remaining 14 energy points.
The language problem had to be solved!
All along the way, although most of the people around him were Chinese or of Chinese descent and spoke Chinese, their accents, each more awkward than the last, had really made Qi Jun's head hurt.
Besides, the thought that even communicating would be a problem once he left Chinatown meant he still had to solve the language problem.
Although he could blend into the surrounding crowds and gradually absorb the language from his environment until everyday conversation was no problem, that would waste too much time.
And time was precisely what Qi Jun lacked most!
Sunset Purple Sweet Potato and the like were still relatively far off, so he could leave them aside for now.
Just taking tonight as an example, Qi Jun would definitely follow Hit-Girl's location and trail behind her to pick up the scraps.
Although picking up scraps did not require communication, he still needed to know what other people were saying and doing, right? And to know that, he first had to understand what they said, right?
So using the [Mutated Stone] to learn English quickly became Qi Jun's most pressing task.
Qi Jun first tried using the [Mutated Stone] to grant himself proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing English.
But the feedback from the [Mutated Stone] startled Qi Jun, and he hurriedly sent it a mental command to cancel.
A full 10 energy points!
That was the information the [Mutated Stone] had given Qi Jun.
Qi Jun did not know whether granting a human proficiency in a skill really required that much energy, or whether it only required that much for him.
Nor did Qi Jun know whether the 10 energy points needed to grant a human proficiency in a skill was a lot or a little.
But Qi Jun only had 14 energy points left. If he directly granted himself English proficiency, wouldn't he be left with a mere 4 energy points?
What could 4 energy points do?
Perhaps add some money to his bank account?
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