Chapter 245: Fortune Brings Misfortune
Lying comfortably on the recliner reading the newspaper, Boss Lin, even while in the Forest cabin, kept constant attention on world events, occasionally chatting with Wei Jiang and the others, who had already read this newspaper from the day before yesterday, about their respective views on certain events.
When Chen Xiaolin, dressed in a white outfit, passed by, she would glance at Boss Lin’s empty teacup and immediately step forward to pour him a cup of tea.
The tea was clear with a mysterious fragrance; this was Boss Lin’s special flower tea, and its origin had to start with Lin Ling’s cat.
The black cat in the shop was mischievous; as soon as no one was paying attention, a few flower petals would be missing from the pot of lycoris radiata on the table, and the octopus in the fish tank would likely be missing a few limbs or eyes.
This little guy, relying on Boss Lin’s favor, its own cuteness, and an indescribable intimidating presence, roamed freely in the Small Dwelling, giving almost no face to anyone except Boss Lin.
If the octopus in the fish tank was missing a few limbs or eyes, it must have been eaten by this little guy. And if the lycoris radiata was missing a few flower petals, it must be the little guy getting bored, purely out of itchiness, deliberately knocking them off while messing around to pass the time.
Lin Ling never got angry about this; he always smiled and collected all those fallen petals, which struggled on the table like fish out of water, storing them in a jar.
Sure enough, after collecting for some time, the entire jar was almost stuffed full of twisted, twitching lycoris radiata petals.
Should one say this cat was mischievous, or that the lycoris radiata was truly alive? Li Duojin saw all this in his eyes and often sighed in amazement.
After collecting a full jar of lycoris radiata petals, Lin Ling announced he would use them to make his exclusive flower tea, utilizing these lycoris radiata petals along with the black tea he brought back from outside whose origin was unknown, mixed with some strange spices and stir-fried into three jars of lycoris radiata flower tea.
Leaving aside whether this stuff was harmful or drinkable, not to mention that lycoris radiata itself was poisonous, even if this wasn’t real lycoris radiata and was non-toxic, could the tea produced after such processing be drinkable? All the employees in the Small Dwelling, except Li Duojin, had doubts in their hearts.
Whenever they couldn’t help but ask, Lin Ling would smile and invite them over to taste it and find out.
Taste it?
The Small Dwelling’s employees didn’t dare touch a drop of it… tasting anything would only harm themselves.
No matter, whether it was drinkable or tasty was no longer important; as long as the boss liked it, that was fine.
Li Duojin scooped a ladle of water from the fish tank into the watering can, then watered the lycoris radiata flowers that trembled every day, carefully controlling the amount of water sprayed while asking Boss Lin: “Boss, where has Miss Yu gone now?”
He was actually a bit curious, because every guest who came to the shop would eventually have their own belonging.
Retribution or good ending, but he couldn’t see Yu Lianyun’s whereabouts, which was exactly what he was most curious and attentive about recently. Taking advantage of this relatively leisurely and pleasant moment when Boss Lin seemed to be in a good mood, he seized the opportunity to ask.
Lin Ling replied: “Fortune depends on misfortune; she was enjoying fortune before, so now she naturally has to repay the fortune.”
“In other words, she is now being ‘enjoyed’ by fortune?” Wei Jiang mused thoughtfully; his face no longer showed concern for his former colleague, but to be precise, he actually wasn’t worried about Yu Lianyun’s situation.
“More or less.” Lin Ling thought for a moment and did not deny Wei Jiang’s statement.
“In other words, where the blessing is, she is.” Chen Xiaolin offered her guess.
Lin Ling smiled faintly: “The blessing is already everywhere…”
Hearing this, Wei Jiang and the others suddenly understood.
Indeed, nowadays, the blessing had long been scattered throughout the Human World, released by Yu Lianyun herself.
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He Jia’an ran madly and finally returned to Kisaragi High School, which resembled a massive graveyard, but the journey back was not easy.
It wasn’t that he had been attacked or harassed by Inner world creatures, nor had he encountered blood race flesh worms again; rather, there was a massive wind belt in the area near Kisaragi High School—that enormous storm from last time had moved here after some time, enveloping Kisaragi High School within its eye.
Crossing the wind belt to reach the eye was not easy; he took the sewer, evading the lock-on of various decaying creatures from the Flesh and Blood Dimension without incident, emerging from a manhole cover on the street in the eye area, thus arriving here unscathed.
“This is the source of the anomaly event on Sakura Island; if the Blood Race’s plan is about to succeed, they will surely return to this place, not letting anyone destroy their soon-to-ripen fruit of victory.” He Jia’an thought to himself; he was very certain those Blood Race bugs were here.
“How many will there be?” He Jia’an clenched the red envelope in his pocket tightly with the hand inside.
The New Year’s red envelope had few uses left; if this continued without breaking those rituals, he would die here, and this Earth might also be destroyed.
If a terrifying, greedy, and powerful abnormal god like Thousand Illusions Moon descended to Earth, it would only bring a catastrophe, a terrifying disaster that most species on Earth could not survive.
He Jia’an didn’t know how many more times his New Year’s red envelope could help him deal with the Blood Race’s invasions; he only knew his time was limited, his ability insufficient, and after the New Year’s red envelope was completely blackened, he would face an unprecedented nightmare.
Everything purchased from the Forest cabin came at a price; even using “money” under that Small Dwelling’s laws and concepts for consumption was already a price, but compared to outsiders, for insignificant and vulnerable humans to gain permission to use such over-spec abilities was already an exceptional act of mercy.
He Jia’an stepped once more into the grounds of Kisaragi High School; in the corridor, he indeed discovered traces of Blood Race activity. They had incarnated as bizarre humans, bizarre dogs, and other monsters with extremely deformed expressions and limb postures wandering the campus. They brazenly dropped their disguise, treating their deliberately created distorted forms as something like toys, playing with them freely. For them, He Jia’an would evade whenever possible, his action focus was to infiltrate into the campus, to break all the advent rituals in the campus as much as possible, rather than confront all outsiders head-on.
Based on his experience last time at Kisaragi High School, he still remembered the locations of some individual space channels, one of which was in the Principal’s Office.
Whoosh!
A elusive blood race flesh worm lunged at He Jia’an again; to the Blood Race, He Jia’an was as tempting as a fat pig waiting to be cooked.
However, before the Blood Race could fully close in, a brilliant light flashed, and the blood race flesh worm attempting the sneak attack was scanned by the light, decomposed into particles, dying cleanly.
