Chapter 92: Mirror
The next day.
As dawn broke, Chu Jiu was already riding his Bodo bird out the door.
Usually full of energy, Chu Jiu yawned, hugging the dodo bird’s neck.
Little Can poked out its small head, looking a little worried: “Meow, meow?”—”Why are you so sleepy? Didn’t sleep well last night?”
Chu Jiu glanced at Little Can and shifted his gaze: “I’m fine…”
He really hadn’t slept well.
Lu Qingyan’s last few words kept floating into his mind.
Despite what Chu Jiu said, Little Can’s ice-blue eyes were still full of worry.
Chu Jiu, who usually chatted about everything with Little Can, certainly couldn’t tell the little guy what he was really thinking.
He could only stammer, “Oh, I was thinking about that strange village.”
Clara had sent him a map and also a ?Doctor’s Village Exploration Diary?, left behind by the exploration team she had sent before.
The diary was a thick roll of parchment. In summary, the exploration team’s conclusion back then was: that village was haunted.
Little Can and Chu Jiu had read this diary together.
Hearing Chu Jiu say this, Little Can’s expression became particularly firm: “Meow.”—”Don’t worry, even if there are ghosts, we can drive them away.”
At this time, the other little guys also raised their paws and waved their tentacles: “Drive them away! We’re not afraid of ghosts!”
Chu Jiu: “……Haha, haha…”
Actually, I’m not afraid of ghosts either…
Little Can rubbed against Chu Jiu’s face and jumped onto the dodo bird’s head: “We’re going into the underground passage soon, you should sleep for a while, I’ll lead the way.”
Chu Jiu: “…Mmm.”
He rested his head against the dodo bird’s fluffy, warm neck and really fell asleep.
*
Running along the underground passage for the better part of a day led to the “Underground Market” established by the chestnut sprites and dwarf orcs.
As soon as the dodo bird clattered out of the passage, a group of little chestnut sprites rolled over: “Teacher Chu Jiu!”
Several little squirrels with bushy tails jumped over: “Friend of the Sprites!”
And a flock of little birdmen fluttered over: “Our two-legged beast friend!”
Chu Jiu hadn’t been here for a while, and this “Underground Market” was getting more and more lively, with an increasingly diverse range of goods being exchanged.
He jumped off the dodo bird, greeted everyone with a smile, and ran towards [Chu Jiu’s Little Shop – Underground Branch].
During this time, his branch store had been looked after by the chestnut sprites.
He only needed to replenish the goods outside the Pioneer Cabin every so often, and the chestnut sprites would naturally come to pick them up, leaving behind “payment”—initially various nuts and ores, and later the textiles of the little birdmen and other rare materials.
Sometimes, Chu Jiu needed specific materials—for example, when he needed limestone to make glass, he would ask the chestnut sprites to send a message to the little squirrels, and within two days, the little squirrels would come running with large bags of limestone.
In this way, Chu Jiu no longer needed to farm for materials in the [Sunny Plateau], [Sanctuary Valley], and [Frostwind Rock] areas himself; he only needed to exchange with the little guys.
Today, since he happened to pass by the market, Chu Jiu sorted out the goods in his branch store himself, ordered some quartz sand from the little squirrels, ordered some rock rabbit fur from the little birdmen, politely declined the little chestnut sprites’ invitation to “drink mushroom soup on the Sunny Plateau,” and continued on his way.
Emerging from the underground passage in [Sanctuary Valley] and running south for another twenty days brought him to the [Sunlight Plains].
Compared to the places he had visited before, the scenery of this [Sunlight Plains] was so normal that it felt abnormal.
There were no demon beasts the size of mountains, no two-headed skeletal mountain goats, no bugs suddenly crawling out of the ground…
Looking around, there was only gentle sunlight scattering across the plains, with wildflowers swaying in the breeze.
Even the “demon beasts” here were good demon beasts with tender meat!
For example, Chu Jiu finally found [Firm-Meat Plains Cattle] here, made a delicious stew of potatoes and beef, and also braised beef shank and grilled beef skewers…
Of course, he also collected good things like [Durable Cowhide].
Not only were there cattle, but also sheep, real sheep.
That night, Glup-Glup set up a yurt, and Chu Jiu made a [Roasted Whole Lamb] under the moonlight.
The roasted lamb had a crispy golden-brown skin, while the inside was rich in flavor and juicy with every bite. Combined with the strong aroma of the seasonings, the taste was incredibly layered.
The entire roasted lamb was divided cleanly among one human and four spirit beasts.
Even Little Can, who usually only ate fish, also devoured a lamb leg and drank a cup of grape nectar with gusto.
In short, this trip to the [Sunlight Plains] had no annoying demon beasts and no troublesome weather; Chu Jiu even had the illusion that he was on an “autumn outing.”
It wasn’t until the tenth day.
At the end of the plains was a “flower wall.”
Blooming wild roses, deep red flowers, and dark green leaves grew extremely luxuriantly at the edge of the plains.
These shrubs, which were normally no more than half a person tall, grew here in an unknown way, intertwining and overlapping, forming a “wall” that one couldn’t see the top of.
Looking from afar, one would only find this wall bright, romantic, and very beautiful.
But upon closer inspection, one would find that this wall was covered in protruding, steel-needle-like thorns.
If some silly plains sheep buried their heads in the grass and forgot to watch the road, or were startled by [Plains Dogs] and started running around, they would eventually crash into this wall, their skin and flesh tearing on the spot, and could only be picked up to be made into grilled lamb chops.
This wall, these continuous thorns, combined with the deep-colored roses, seemed to smile and warn, “Do not approach.”
But Chu Jiu had to approach this wall.
He jumped off the dodo bird and carefully observed along the base of the wall meter by meter, finally finding the mark mentioned in the information: a rose-shaped relief carved into the ground.
He took a few steps back, looked at the dense thorns in front of him, and softly instructed the spirit beast babies, “Everyone close your eyes, don’t be afraid.”
The spirit beast babies all obediently responded.
Little Can even reached out a small paw to touch his face: “Not afraid.”
Chu Jiu took a deep breath, closed his own eyes, and strode straight towards this flower wall.
The flamboyant and hard thorns all softened the moment Chu Jiu touched them.
Chu Jiu only felt many fine and soft blades of grass brushing against his body.
He held his breath and continued forward, silently counting to five in his mind as instructed in the information.
When he opened his eyes again, he had already passed through the wall.
Looking back, there were still endless thorns, as if those soft blades of grass just now were an illusion.
At the same time, the system popped up a notification:
[Congratulations to the host for unlocking the hidden map – “Uninhabited Secret Village”.]
[Special reminder: All activities of the host in the hidden map will not cause changes in pioneering progress. Please plan your actions carefully.]
…So in the system’s view, this was still a hidden map.
Chu Jiu remembered that the ?Doctor’s Village Exploration Diary? given by Clara recorded this village as follows:
[After walking in the wilderness for a full three months, and passing through the wall at the end of the plains, we finally arrived at this village—
This village, at first glance, was clearly inhabited!
There were wooden houses, fields, water wells, and everything was cleaned up neatly and orderly.
Radishes and cabbage were planted in the fields, and there was even water in the buckets beside the water well.
We were extremely happy at the time, and all thought that this mission was proceeding very smoothly.
However, we walked around the village knocking on doors and loudly announcing our identities and the city lord’s request, but no one ever answered.
We decided to take another look at night. At night, the villagers would always light fires to cook. We could go knock on the doors again then.]
[An entire night passed. No one lit a fire, no one cooked.
It was as if everyone in the entire village had disappeared into thin air.
Helpless, we pried open the door locks and searched every house, but still didn’t see anyone.]
But we found something strange: although the rooms were very clean, there were human skeletal remains on the beds here.
Could it be that the villagers back then, after tidying up their houses, silently lay down on their beds to await death, eventually turning into skeletons?
Out of respect for the deceased, although we were a little scared, we still collected these remains in coffins and buried them.]
[After discussing for a while, we unanimously agreed that since it took us three months to find this village, we definitely couldn’t give up just like that.
We decided to stay in this village for a while.
Anyway, this village has everything, and we can still find mutton from the plains outside.]
[We have been here for a week, and haven’t found anything.] [We have been here for two weeks.
I don’t know if it’s because we’ve been staying here for too long, but we seem to be… having some problems.
For example, our memories have started to become confused to varying degrees, and our behavior has become increasingly bizarre.
I clearly remember putting my sword by the bedside before going to sleep yesterday. When I woke up this morning, my sword was hanging from the ceiling.
The team members all said they hadn’t entered my room.
And Lanlos said he remembered taking his clothes into the room before it rained, but the next day he found all his clothes, from underwear to cloaks, hanging on the clothesline.
He had to borrow a pair of trousers from Carter to wear.]
[The first day of the third week. Since yesterday, the well water has become unusually difficult to drink. And after drinking it, we all started having diarrhea.]
[The second day of the third week. There’s something else in this village. They hid our swords, let our clothes get rained on, and sprinkled ash in our food… Are they demon beasts? But we didn’t sense any demonic aura.]
[The third day of the third week. We saw them! Heavens! They’re ghosts! Ghosts are floating around! No, no, we can’t stay here any longer! We can persuade humans, we can defeat demon beasts, but what can we do against ghosts?! Everyone is extremely scared. We huddled together in the house all night. It will be dawn soon. We will leave after dawn. I’m very ashamed that we didn’t complete the mission.]
The ?Doctor’s Village Exploration Diary? ended here.
Chu Jiu recalled the descriptions in the ?Diary? in his mind and turned his head to look at the village—
Huh?
What… what was this in front of his eyes?
*
Inside the secret village.
A small, half-human-sized skeleton saw from the window crevice: Ah, another human has entered this village!
Hmph, the last group that came, it took me so long to scare them away.
This time I’ll be more efficient!
Those last people weren’t afraid of bones, weren’t afraid of not having clothes to wear, weren’t afraid of diarrhea—but they were afraid of “ghosts”!
So, this time I’ll just greet them directly with “ghosts”!
The little skeleton thought confidently and began to busily set things up.
Here, let the ghosts float up!
There, let the ghosts move!
That’s right, later I’ll have the ghosts dance towards them head-on!
The little skeleton was busy huffing and puffing when suddenly a voice sounded:
“Hello..?”
“The bed sheet you hung out has dragged on the ground…”
The little skeleton shivered in fright, hugged the ghost in its arms, and looked down:
Ah, it was that human who had just?? (chu?ngrù – barge in, intrude)!
He, he, he wasn’t afraid of it?!
The little skeleton twitched twice, dropped the ghost, and? (s?u – whoosh) darted into the house to hide!
*
Before stepping into this village, Chu Jiu had discussed with the spirit beast babies what they might see inside.
Judging from the ?Diary?, the most likely things to see were perhaps skeletal remains, or perhaps?? (wánghún – departed souls, spirits)—similar to those that emerged from the “Graveyard of Departed Souls.” Glup-Glup and Rawr Rawr Rabbit had even seriously considered if there might be other kinds of ghosts, such as vampires or mummies…
Chu Jiu thought these things were all possible.
But he never expected to see:
A toy-like little skeleton, floating in the air, very, very diligently,?? (liàngshài – drying in the sun) bed sheets?!
The little skeleton didn’t seem to be able to fly very high, so the bed sheets weren’t hung high enough either, and a large part of the fabric was sweeping the ground?
Chu Jiu looked at the very diligent little skeleton and couldn’t help but remind it, “Your bed sheets have fallen on the ground!”
So many bed sheets, and all white, it must be tiring to wash them.
Unexpectedly, this reminder seemed to scare the little skeleton.
The other party dropped the bed sheets without a word and ran away.
Chu Jiu watched the white bed sheets fall onto the soil and couldn’t help but hiss, subconsciously walking over to pick them up.
As he picked them up, a small, hard object fell out.
This thing… a bone?
Chu Jiu picked up this bone and weighed it in his hand: Hmm, this texture, this feel, it’s less like a bone and more like some kind of carefully carved stone?
He used [Item Analysis] once.
[Analyzing…]
[Analysis result: A bone carved from “some kind of fossil.” It has been deliberately carved into the shape of a human finger bone for unknown reasons.]
…So this shape was a human finger bone! I really couldn’t tell!
Although Chu Jiu had collected countless materials and slaughtered countless pigs, cattle, sheep, and ducks, and could tell if something was a real bone by touch, he really didn’t know what a human finger bone looked like.
Chu Jiu clicked his tongue, thinking that perhaps this had fallen off that little skeleton just now?
He had to return it to the other party properly.
Thinking this way, he told the spirit beast babies: Come on, shake out all these bed sheets and see if there are any more bones in them!
Glup-Glup immediately extended its tentacles and very diligently re-hung the bed sheets, shaking them as it hung them.
Sure enough, just as Chu Jiu had guessed, small pieces of bone fell out of each bed sheet!
*
Inside the house.
The little skeleton hid behind the curtains, horrified to discover:
All those ghosts had been flattened and unfolded! And they were hung up high!
All its bones had been shaken out!
What to do? Without bones, those ghosts would turn into ordinary bed sheets, unable to scare people anymore!
That human, how, how did he find out?
Wasn’t he afraid of skeletons or ghosts?
Such a scary human!
The little skeleton shivered and decided to hide itself even better.
Just then, it heard that human loudly introducing his origins:
“Hello, I am a pioneer from Bean Village!”
“My name is Chu Jiu! I’ve come to find the doctor!”
…Sure enough, he had come to find the doctor again.
The little skeleton was still hesitating whether to go see this terrifying human when it heard the human shout, “I have a title, it’s ‘Friend of the Sprites’!”
“And another title, ‘Eye Protector’!”
Huh?
Eye… Eye Protector?
Could that even be a title?
The little skeleton, who had been hiding so well, couldn’t help but laugh.
The more it laughed, the harder it laughed, until finally, with a “crack”—
Oh no!
Its head fell off from laughing!
Its skeletal head rolled out of the window and???? (g?l?g?l? – rolling sound) rolled to the human’s feet!
*
Chu Jiu squatted down, held the small skull in his hands, and called out towards the window, “Hello, your head fell off! Aren’t you going to come out and put it back on?”
He had just announced the title “Eye Protector” naturally for the title’s attached effect: [When non-human intelligent creatures deliberately conceal themselves, loudly announcing this title will help the host discover their?? (z?ngjì – tracks, traces).]
But he himself hadn’t expected the effect of this title to be so good, so good that it made the other party’s head fall off from laughing?
After a while, there were a few clanging sounds from inside the house.
The small skull in Chu Jiu’s hands spoke, trembling:
“That, that, my head is outside, my body can’t see, it seems I fell down…”
“Can, can you help me put it back on?”
Chu Jiu: …!
He quickly said, “Don’t worry, I’ll put it back on for you right away!”
A moment later, a small skeleton with its head back on sat obediently in front of Chu Jiu.
It took a small handful of bones from Chu Jiu and put them back on its hands, feet, and ribs…
After it finally finished, Chu Jiu couldn’t help but ask, “Why did you hide the bones in the bed sheets?”
The little skeleton lowered its head and whispered, “T-that way, my bones can make those bed sheets move…”
“The bed sheets, in your human eyes, they, they become ghosts…”
Having said that, it actually threw another small finger bone onto the tablecloth beside it.
The next second, the tablecloth really flew up and floated around in the air, like a sunny doll.
Chu Jiu watched for a while, not only not feeling scared, but even having the urge to applaud: Isn’t this more interesting than marionettes or shadow puppets?
Just as he was thinking this, Glup-Glup behind him had already started clapping its tentacles “clap clap clap”: “Glup-Glup, so interesting! Can Glup-Glup play with these ‘ghosts’?”
Rawr Rawr Rabbit also perked up its ears: “Rawr Rawr Rabbit wants to play with them too!”
The little skeleton raised its head, and a hint of surprise appeared in its two dark eye sockets: “It’s okay, I guess…”
“But, aren’t you afraid? Those are ghosts made from the bones of my own body!”
Chu Jiu: “…But, aren’t the bones on your body carved out of stone? Since they’re all stone, what’s there to be afraid of?”
The little skeleton’s mouth opened wide, so much so that Chu Jiu subconsciously reached out to catch it—in case its jaw fell off.
Little Skeleton: “Y-you can even see that?”
Chu Jiu: “I can.”
The little skeleton lowered its head again to think for a while, then raised its head once more: “You said you came to find a doctor?”
Chu Jiu’s heart suddenly beat faster, thinking, here it comes! This little guy really knows about the doctor!
He nodded: “Yes.”
Chu Jiu briefly explained how short Bean Village was of doctors, and even how short the entire human residential area was.
The little skeleton said, “…M-my master was the last human doctor in this village.”
“But he left many, many years ago.”
Chu Jiu’s heart sank, but he still controlled the expression on his face, waiting for the little skeleton to continue.
“I, I was originally a skeletal specimen made of bones by my master, and somehow I ‘came to life’.”
“I stayed with my master for a very, very long time and learned some things.”
Chu Jiu pursed his lips, thinking things were looking promising.
The little skeleton continued, “My master told me, ‘If someone finds this place in the future, and if these people are neither afraid of white bones nor ghosts, you make three requests to them. If they can satisfy all three requests, you can treat them and also cross that wall to go to the human world with them.'”
So this little guy himself was the doctor! Only, not a “human doctor.”
All that stuff earlier about skeletons and pretending to be ghosts with bed sheets, it seemed those were their testing methods?
Chu Jiu’s voice immediately held more respect: “We are very sincerely looking for a doctor. Please tell us all your requests, and we will definitely satisfy them.”
The little skeleton held up a finger bone: “The first request. I need very sharp, very sharp knives. Sometimes I need to cut open people’s bodies—if you can’t accept this, I won’t leave here.”
Chu Jiu: “No problem!”
“We have the best blacksmiths. As long as you draw the shapes of these knives, they will definitely be able to forge them for you.”
So the little skeleton was also a surgeon.
The little skeleton held up two finger bones: “The second request. I need a dedicated place to practice medicine. It must have a clean environment and good enough lighting.”
Chu Jiu: “That’s doable!”
“I happen to have the ‘facility blueprints for a clinic’! After you return to Bean Village with us, we will definitely build a very suitable clinic for you!”
The little skeleton held up three finger bones: “The third request.”
“My master said that these people must be able to prepare a special medicine.”
“This medicine can prevent people whose bodies have been cut open from getting ‘infected,’ and won’t let large areas of their bodies fester.”
“Without this medicine, many of those who have been cut open will die from this ‘infection’.”
Chu Jiu: “…”
Chu Jiu, who had been answering very smoothly just now, suddenly got stuck.
He thought for a moment and then asked, “Did your master say how to make this medicine? Or did he leave any records…”
Little Skeleton: “Nope.”
Chu Jiu: “…Then, if we don’t have this medicine for the time being…”
Little Skeleton: “My master said that without this medicine, I can’t leave this village, and I can’t treat humans!”
The little skeleton spoke with particular firmness.
Chu Jiu: “…I see. The villagers in our village, because they used their abilities excessively before, are all very weak now. Do you know what kind of medicine can be used for this condition?”
The little skeleton shook its head: “No way. I can’t possibly know what medicine to use without seeing the patients in person.”
Chu Jiu sighed inwardly and stood up: “I will find a way to make the medicine you just mentioned.”
“It’s just… I might have to go back to the human residential area to find a way.”
“Once I make it, I’ll come back to pick you up.”
The little skeleton nodded its head and then looked at Rawr Rawr Rabbit and Glup-Glup, who were playing hide-and-seek with the “ghost bed sheets” beside it, a hint of envy appearing on its bone face: “Okay.”
“But, can, can you hurry up a bit?”
I, I also want to play hide-and-seek with them…
Chu Jiu nodded: “I will as soon as possible.”
*
Returned along the wall the way he came.
Coming out of the little skeleton’s room, Chu Jiu didn’t waste a minute, not even willing to rest there briefly, and immediately prepared to cross the “Rose…” Little Can, looking at the frowning Chu Jiu, touched his brow: “Meow?”—”Did the little skeleton say it too vaguely, so you don’t know what kind of ‘medicine’ he wants?”
Chu Jiu smiled wryly: “No.”
“He explained it quite clearly.”
What the little skeleton needed was penicillin.
One of the greatest inventions in Blue Star’s history, it saved countless lives. Before this drug was invented, more people died from wound infections in wars than from battle itself.
Little Can: “Meow?”—”This, is it difficult to make?”
Chu Jiu was silent for two seconds, a melancholy look appearing on his face: “How should I put it…”
“I heard that the method of making this drug is theoretically not too difficult.”
“But… I don’t know how.”
I’m not a medical student… I can make glass, I can make sugar, I can make gunpowder… either because I saw how these things were made in museums, or because I happened to learn that bit of knowledge.
Plus the passive skill [Clarity of Mind], even the vaguest memories will become crystal clear in my mind.
But now, Chu Jiu was very certain that he had never learned “how to hand-make penicillin” anywhere.
I do know that “there’s blue mold on oranges that have gone bad.” So what then? Collect all these oranges together, and you can get penicillin?
Impossible!
The only way now was to try his best to search and see if any books recorded a similar method; he also had to ask people to see if anyone knew a bit of relevant knowledge—just like old Mr. Nicola still knew how to grind lenses.
Chu Jiu left the [Uninhabited Secret Village], mounted the dodo bird, and headed straight for Bean Village.
Chu Jiu spent the entire time on this journey flipping through books.
He went through all the possible books in his backpack, but found nothing.
After returning to Bean Village, he asked Tata to help, but still found nothing.
And Clara also sent news: no one in Sea Moon City, Cloud Mountain City, the Royal City, or the entire Carrot Continent had ever heard of this strange medicine Chu Jiu was talking about.
At this time, three months had passed since those high-level ability users had arrived in Bean Village.
Chu Jiu could see that these people’s bodies were weakening day by day.
He even heard them quietly discussing in private, “While we can still walk, let’s leave here and go to the Demon Beast Forest… Let’s not cause trouble for people here…”
Chu Jiu felt a pang of sadness.
But he himself had made no progress at all.
Chu Jiu pondered for a long time, tried all sorts of strange methods, and even followed a “folk remedy” he had seen somewhere, putting mustard greens in a vat to let them mold and liquefy, trying to make the legendary “aged mustard green brine” that could reduce inflammation—but all he got was a vat of fuzzy green water.
After all this fruitless effort, Chu Jiu felt a deep sense of powerlessness for the first time.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to work hard, it was that he didn’t even know how to work hard.
That evening, Chu Jiu racked his brains in the workshop for a long time without any progress, and finally could only prop his head up, feeling extremely frustrated.
If, if he could go back to Earth, even for just an hour!
As long as he could find the method, could know the steps…
Chu Jiu frowned, so upset that he bit his lip until it bled.
Just then, Little Can quietly walked up to him.
Little Can spoke.
Huh?
Although it was still a meowing sound, the tone was clearly Lu Qingyan’s voice.
“Chu Jiu.” Long time no see, Lu Qingyan’s voice was still so calm and steady.
But the extremely anxious Chu Jiu had no idea what he could say to him at this moment.
“Chu Jiu, I once had a dream.”
“I saw you in my dream.”
Chu Jiu: …?
Why would Lu Qingyan say this? At this time?
“I remember, in your dream, you said you found a mushroom. This mushroom felt very good to pinch.”
“You also said, ‘But food isn’t a toy, you can’t play with food like this.'”
Chu Jiu: …?!!
Wait, this, this is…?
“Later, you said you made dried grilled fish.”
“That dried fish… even in the dream, I seemed to be able to smell the fragrance.”
“After that, the you in the dream did many, many things.”
“You even made hot pot.”
“Unfortunately, ever since I dreamed of you eating hot pot, I haven’t dreamed again for a long time.”
Chu Jiu was so shocked that he forgot to breathe.
Chu Jiu had an impression of all the things Lu Qingyan said.
But these things, especially the mushroom and dried grilled fish at the beginning, these things happened when Little Can didn’t even exist yet!
He had recorded all these things in the form of logs in front of that small mirror!
How could Lu Qingyan know these things?
But he really did know!
The only possibility was that Lu Qingyan had watched those video logs!
Looking at the pale-faced boy, the little black cat sighed softly and touched his cheek with its paw.
“Chu Jiu, if I can see you in my dreams…”
“You might also see me in your dreams.”
“Try dreaming.”
The little black cat retracted its paw, meowed again, and turned back into the usual Little Can.
But Chu Jiu had even forgotten to pull Little Can into his arms at this moment.
Try dreaming?
Although Lu Qingyan’s identity was becoming increasingly mysterious, Chu Jiu was certain that this person would never say meaningless things for no reason.
Then what was the meaning of these words…?
Chu Jiu’s heart leaped violently, and he took out the small mirror that he hadn’t used for a long time from his backpack.
He remembered that the system had previously prompted that as long as he paid 20,000 pioneering points, he “could repair this mirror,” and the mirror would also have “more powerful and unexpected functions.”
20,000 pioneering points was really too much, and Chu Jiu hadn’t been willing to spend them at the time, so he had put this matter aside.
Now…
Chu Jiu looked at his total pioneering points: 26,517 points.
All the pioneering points he had accumulated for more than a year.
Without the slightest hesitation, he paid 20,000 points and chose “repair and upgrade mirror.”
*
[Host has redeemed “Mirror Repair and Upgrade Service”]
[Repairing…]
[Upgrading…]
[Repair and upgrade have been completed simultaneously. Host can use this mirror again.]
[Please host look at the mirror surface.]
The mirror, which had been dark for a long time, suddenly shone brightly.
Chu Jiu raised the mirror and pointed it at himself.
This is…?!
!
With a “thwack,” the mirror fell onto the table.
Chu Jiu’s head fell forward, and he collapsed onto the table, falling into a coma.
