Luo Xiaoyu let Bai Mu return home first.
The girl herself ran into the rest room of the convenience store and began flipping through the system panel.
She understood that the matter had come to a temporary close, yet regarding the points from now on, those so-called “Exile Points,” and the Exiled Ones the system had told her about, there were still many things related to Weirdness and mystery that had yet to be clarified.
Until she could guarantee her older sister’s safety, the girl would not stop her steps.
[Current Allocatable Points: 10]
[Allocatable Exile Points: 4]
She first opened the shop—
As expected, after not opening it for a period of time the system had added some new things.
[Glimmer Candle Upgrade ×1]
[Requires consumption of 10 Points]
[The materials dropped after these Weirdnesses are defeated are collectively called spiritual materials. They may originate from the bodies of Weirdnesses, or they may be items condensed from their mysticism after the carrier disappears. They naturally possess mysticism.]
[The upgrade operation on spiritual materials will be carried out by the system on your behalf. Materials after upgrading will possess better efficiency and practicality, and their quality as part of a ritual or for crafting tools will also rise a level.]
Seeing the system explain it this way, Luo Xiaoyu began thinking about how she ought to allocate the remaining resources in her hands.
Such an upgrade service alone required 10 points.
One must know that previously even the maintenance of the firelock had only cost one point.
She always felt it was a bit of a loss.
Recalling the matter of taking a loss, the unpleasant memories related to the system shop once again surfaced in her mind.
[Calamity]
[Status: Adaptation Complete]
[Internal mysticism has been completely exhausted. Awaiting Host to replenish.]
Right, it was this.
The “Calamity” the system had strongly recommended before— as a result, even after she equipped it there seemed to be no particular use.
Luo Xiaoyu always had a feeling that the system had tricked her out of points.
Although it was not particularly expensive either.
[Reminder once more: Mysticism belongs to fixed skills similar to entries. The effects they exert sometimes will not be seen so quickly. Please discern carefully, Host.]
The thoughts in her heart were captured one by one without omission.
The black-haired girl felt a little flustered and awkwardly smiled as she glossed over it.
Yet if one were to say she had been tricked, that was not entirely the case either.
The information she had initially learned from the materials given by the system was that Fog Persons would drop equipment.
After later obtaining the “Glimmer Candle,” under the system’s guidance she had again placed these things into the inventory.
If not for the system’s prompts, Luo Xiaoyu might have directly thrown away these Weirdness items that looked frightening.
The kind without any hesitation.
[Confirm consumption of points to upgrade “Glimmer Candle”?]
This candle could help her see through the mist of Fog Persons.
As an auxiliary tool for obtaining points and grinding combat experience it was still quite good.
Then she would spend these points.
[Consumed 10 Points. Remaining Points: 0. Glimmer Candle upgrading…]
The “Glimmer Candle” in the inventory grayed out.
The ellipsis displayed on the panel jumped a few times.
Before long a check mark representing completion popped out, and the originally dim icon of the “Glimmer Candle” lit up once more.
This completed it?
The black-haired girl slightly widened her eyes a little.
She took the Glimmer Candle out from the inventory and examined the changes in the candle’s outward appearance.
It was still that same candle, burned and melted halfway, yet the flame carried upon it had become a little brighter.
Simply staying beside the candle already gave one a feeling of a clear and thorough state of mind.
[Glimmer Candle]
[Spiritual material belonging to drops from “Fog Person.” Currently upgraded once.]
[Effect: Capable of seeing through the Weirdness produced by “Fog Persons” (of a certain level). At the same time it can refresh the spirit and provide resistance against some abilities or toxins that influence the mind.]
In other words, besides “Mistification,” the means of assisting her own escape could next also include a “Glimmer Candle.”
Having used up her own points, the remaining Exile Points seemed to still have no place where they could be spent.
Luo Xiaoyu flipped through the archives and looked at the shop again.
Her gaze was drawn by the thing beside the Glimmer Candle.
That was a dark and gloomy scythe.
It was not marked with the required points, nor was it marked with any explanation.
It simply existed emptily in that place, yet radiated a presence that was difficult to ignore.
[Related information is temporarily inconvenient to disclose. Host may freely choose whether to receive it. It will always exist on the product shelf.]
The system that would ordinarily explain in detail was now not saying much, instead throwing all responsibility onto Luo Xiaoyu and letting the Host bear it herself.
What did “inconvenient to disclose” mean?
[The Host’s mysticism, the Mystery information obtained, the Host’s own traits, and the current position of growth jointly determine it. Knowing things that should not be known at present will bring unpredictable influences.]
The black-haired girl slightly furrowed her brows.
Then after she obtained this thing, would there not be any influence produced?
[There will be some, yet the system provides an inventory that Host may use.]
Seeing this, Luo Xiaoyu felt at ease.
It was probably something similar to “Calamity,” yet this one was free.
Buying it first and then leaving it in the inventory to gather dust was probably fine as well…
The “Scythe” entered the inventory.
“Xiaoyu.”
Hearing the manager’s lazy call, the girl placed her attention back onto reality once more.
Chen Ge opened the door, only looked inward with her gaze for a moment, then placed the keyring with the convenience store front-door key on the table of the rest room.
“Remember to lock the door when you leave later… Of course, if you find it troublesome then forget it. Directly going home to sleep is also fine.
Yuan Dong is waiting for you. Is it all right to let her in?”
“Manager, rest assured. It’s fine.”
Seeing this, the chestnut-haired girl lightly nodded her head, turned, and left the store straight away.
What replaced her in arriving at the rest room was Yuan Dong.
The pink-haired little loli walked in wearing her usual brilliant smile.
“Miss Nun specifically kept me behind—is there something the matter?”
“Just call me Yuan Dong, Xiaoyu. There’s nothing particularly special. I still wanted to understand a little with you about the matters in the store that day.”
“Xiaoyu, have you gone to the outskirts recently?”
Luo Xiaoyu’s mind stalled for a moment.
Seeing this, Yuan Dong hurriedly made up for it and spoke:
“It’s all right. You can freely tell me the related matters—
As a member of the Moon Church, I will carefully look after every lost lamb.”
Discovered?
This was Luo Xiaoyu’s first reaction.
Yet if one were to speak of when it would be exposed, she had in fact vaguely sensed it in her heart.
After all, her means of attack were extremely single.
Every time she was present she would inevitably use the firelock.
Then what should she do? Confess that she had eliminated the Thin Man and then be taken away?
“All right, I’ll just say it directly—
Xiaoyu, are you interested in coming to the Moon Church stronghold in the western district of Qiufeng City to serve as an external arsenal personnel?”
“That firelock was made by you, right? After investigating a circle, collecting evidence inside the convenience store, and verifying with Chen Ge, the remaining possibility is only this.
Don’t worry about possessing a firearm being illegal. If you can let me take a look at that gun, then I won’t arrest you.”
“Th-then I’ll go get it. Miss Yuan Dong, please don’t tell my older sister…”
Hastily responding with a trembling voice, the black-haired girl ran out of the rest room.
She came to the storage warehouse of the convenience store here and searched through the boxes with stumbling movements.
If one were to speak of why the other party would have such a conjecture, it was probably because Luo Xiaoyu’s older sister attended the comprehensive school, and in addition there were actually large numbers of old factory sites and similar buildings in the outskirts.
If one had the corresponding resources and was willing to research with concentration, it was not impossible to produce rough firearms.
It was only that the time consumed would be extremely long.
Taking the firelock out from the system inventory, the girl hurriedly covered it up a little, yet discovered that the originally quite exquisite firearm had at this moment truly become tattered and broken, looking as though it was composed of materials pieced together from here and there.
Just as the girl prepared to return to the rest room, she discovered that Yuan Dong had already come behind her with a smiling face.
Thus Luo Xiaoyu subconsciously bent her body and offered the firelock with both hands.
“Let me take a look…”
The pink-haired little loli fiddled with it for a while and finally returned it.
“It meets the standard. Xiaoyu can keep it for self-defense. Just don’t cause any safety accidents.
Then regarding my proposal, what do you think?”