After returning to her room and before she could even sit down, Ling Xiaoyou heard a knock on her door.
She exchanged a puzzled glance with Bai Shuanglian, who shrugged to show she didn’t know either.
“Who is it?”
Ling Xiaoyou walked to the door and pulled it open, only to see an orange figure charging at her.
Startled, she thought someone was trying to ambush her the moment the door opened!
Fortunately, Bai Shuanglian had followed her to see who it was and reacted in time, pulling Ling Xiaoyou to her side, causing the orange figure to miss.
thud!
Does it sound good? A good sound means a good head!
Watching the orange cat head connect with the floor, Ling Xiaoyou couldn’t help but think that thought.
Then she saw Miao Miaomiao, clutching her slightly swollen forehead, sitting on the ground in a duck-like pose, looking up at her with admiration and saying:
“Senior, you’re amazing! Even that Hui Jue Monk was easily defeated by you!”
Ling Xiaoyou: “…”
So you came all the way here, even bumped your head, just to say that?
Ling Xiaoyou sighed in exasperation and pulled Miao Miaomiao to her feet.
“It’s actually not that big a deal. He was just caught off guard by his habitual thinking and didn’t expect me to suddenly change my fighting style.”
Miao Miaomiao completely ignored Bai Shuanglian beside her, saying:
“I heard that Hui Jue Monk was a born Buddha. When he was alive, he was an eminent monk at a temple. After sitting down and transforming, he entered Ghost Temple and was raised as a successor! I even heard he only took five years to reach this realm!”
Hearing this, Ling Xiaoyou said, “Oh,” then replied:
“It doesn’t seem that impressive. I haven’t been cultivating for very long either.”
“Huh?!”
Hearing that, Miao Miaomiao looked at Ling Xiaoyou with curiosity and asked:
“Then Senior, how long have you been cultivating?”
Ling Xiaoyou thought for a moment, did some conversion, and said:
“Probably about a year.”
“If I exclude the time I spent slacking off… resting…”
She wasn’t lying. Even though she’d been transmigrated here for a few years, she spent very little time cultivating—maybe once or twice a week. If it weren’t for the fear of forgetting the technique after not practicing for too long, she would have preferred to cultivate once a month!
“Gasp!”
Hearing this shocking number, Miao Miaomiao inhaled sharply and then looked dejected.
“I’ve been cultivating for over ten years, and I’m only at this realm…”
“Well, Miaomiao, you’re just not good at cultivation. You have other strengths, you know.”
Ling Xiaoyou comforted her.
“Really? Senior, what are my strengths?”
Miao Miaomiao asked excitedly, her cat ears perking up and her tail swaying back and forth, looking very expectant.
“Umm…”
Ling Xiaoyou thought hard for a moment. She really didn’t know what special traits a cat girl had.
Then she noticed the constantly wagging tail and ventured a guess:
“A long tail?”
“Wah!”
Miao Miaomiao immediately burst into tears and ran out of Ling Xiaoyou’s room.
Ling Xiaoyou watched her back, wanting to say something, but she was already gone.
“…Did I go too far?”
Ling Xiaoyou looked at Bai Shuanglian and scratched her head.
“Not really.”
Bai Shuanglian held back a smile and ruffled Ling Xiaoyou’s hair.
This was just a minor incident. Ling Xiaoyou didn’t take it too seriously; after all, Miaomiao was just upset and would probably recover soon… hopefully.
Ling Xiaoyou remembered the important matter. She had been planning to call Captain Lin to ask about the situation, but Miao Miaomiao’s interruption had almost made her forget.
Thinking that, she pulled out her phone and gave Bai Shuanglian a look.
The latter understood and took a pillow out of her space ring, placing it in Ling Xiaoyou’s arms.
Ling Xiaoyou: “?”
She glanced at the Q-version Bai Shuanglian pillow in confusion, then looked at Bai Shuanglian, silently asking why she had given it to her.
“It’s more comfortable to make phone calls while hugging a pillow.”
Bai Shuanglian said with a light laugh.
“Ah, well, okay then.”
Ling Xiaoyou nodded and hugged the pillow tighter, then dialed Captain Lin’s number.
After a few rings of an old-fashioned song, the call connected.
“Hello?”
“Captain Lin, it’s me, Ling Xiaoyou.”
Ling Xiaoyou cleared her throat and responded:
“I wanted to ask about the situation with the Demon Grand Duke after the Research Institute incident. Has there been any progress?”
“Ah, that…”
Captain Lin sighed.
“Progress hasn’t been smooth. The Demon Grand Duke is a powerful demon after all. Our attempts to track him always get seen through or misdirected. So far, we’ve only caught quite a few of his underlings.”
“I see.”
Ling Xiaoyou nodded in understanding and fell silent for a moment before asking:
“Can’t we use curse-based magic arts to curse and kill him directly? Without the leader, even if his subordinates want to do something, it would be hard to continue, right?”
“That is possible, but it’s difficult.”
Captain Lin sighed again, sounding helpless.
“He’s too strong. Ordinary curses and curse casters are completely ineffective against him. It would take a cultivator stronger than him to do it.”
“But such powerful cultivators are rare in this era. And either they aren’t interested in worldly affairs, or they’re in seclusion waiting for a breakthrough. They won’t help us.”
Hearing this, Ling Xiaoyou sighed as well. It seemed that idea was a no-go.
Bai Shuanglian, who was sitting beside her, had also been listening to their conversation.
After thinking for a moment, she asked:
“How is the vaccine development going?”
Captain Lin was startled by Bai Shuanglian’s sudden voice, but didn’t seem too surprised.
“It’s going fairly smoothly. In a little while, we can start experimenting on lab mice.”
Hearing that, Ling Xiaoyou felt relieved. In her opinion, since the vaccine was almost done, even if the Demon Grand Duke tried to spread the virus, it would be useless.
After asking a few more questions about the situation at the Research Institute, Ling Xiaoyou hung up.
She thought for a moment and felt like she had forgotten something.
Suddenly, she clapped her hands together as if she’d realized something.
No wonder she’d felt like she was forgetting something these past few days. It was the reward from the system mission that she hadn’t claimed yet!
She really was quite forgetful, always forgetting to claim her rewards.
Hmm, it definitely wasn’t because she was too excited to go shopping and hang out with Bai Shuanglian!