Regret?
This abrupt question from Grandma ng caught you off guard.
What does regret an?
You didn’t understand, and you didn’t have the inclination to figure it out either; after all, you had been prepared to restore Zhao’er’s sanity from the beginning.
This task was necessary, both for you and for Zhao’er.
As for what would happen after Zhao’er regained her sanity, that would be dealt with later.
Seeing your determined expression, Grandma ng did not say anything more. She slowly turned around, grabbed a thermos of hot water from her cart, and took a plastic bowl ant for dumplings. From the thermos, which looked utterly ordinary, she poured half a bowl of steaming water.
When Grandma ng handed you the plastic bowl filled with hot water, you took it with a puzzled face. Looking down, you scrutinized the water in the bowl and found that no matter how you looked at it, it was just hot water, far from the legendary Grandma ng Soup.
"Grandma, is this the Grandma ng Soup?"
When you looked up, Grandma ng had already ridden off on her tricycle, slowly disappearing into the drizzling night.
Thump, thump thump...
Early in the morning, aside from Wu Qiyi and Lin Panxia, the other mbers of the supernatural detective society gathered at Guihua Cafe. Everyone was surrounding a table, so sitting, so standing, their gazes fixed on a cheap plastic bowl on the table, half-filled with lukewarm water.
Sitting by the table, Xiao Feng, who had been staring at the bowl of clear water for half an hour, couldn’t resist extending a finger toward the rim of the bowl.
"It’s so strange. It’s been more than half an hour; why is the water still lukewarm?"
On the other side, Wei Shuxian took off his glasses from his nose, wiped them with his cleaning cloth, then rubbed his sowhat red eyes. He sighed, "This thing has been emitting wisps of warm vapor since I ca in. But after so much ti has passed, it has not decreased at all, which is really bizarre."
"This is the legendary Oblivion Water, I never thought I’d see it while I’m alive," Yu Xiaoi said, as she reached out to pick up the plastic bowl but froze midway when Yang Kai slapped her hand away.
"Don’t tempt fate, this is no re Oblivion Water. Grandma ng Soup is not as simple as you think; it is a divine object among divine objects, and Grandma ng herself has warned us. Once a person drinks this, their Three Souls and Seven Spirits will instantly be extracted from their body, thrusting them into the six realms of reincarnation from which no one can save them!"
Lei Jianhua had been frowning all along, holding a Parker pen and scribbling in a little notebook.
Seeing this, Zong Wangyue slapped his shoulder and asked, "Little Pen, what are you writing?"
After writing a few more sentences, Lei Jianhua finally let out a long sigh and said, "As expected of Grandma ng, truly formidable!"
"Hmm?"
As everyone turned their heads to look at him, Lei Jianhua spoke up, "Just now, I tried to operate the Order Barrier on the plastic bowl and the Grandma ng Soup inside of it three tis, but neither was affected in the slightest. It appears that not only the Grandma ng Soup inside the plastic bowl is a divine object; the bowl itself is no ordinary item."
Yang Kai clapped Lei Jianhua’s shoulder and said, "Hey, Little Pen, speaking of which, what exactly does this ’Order Barrier’ an? Brother here still hasn’t figured it out."
Lei Jianhua was about to explain when you, who had been leaning over the table, fixated on the Grandma ng Soup, suddenly said, "Jian Hua, since Yang is bored anyway, let him experience it. Hmm, create an Order Barrier where he has to walk backward and must use his left hand to pick up chopsticks when eating. Let him go through it for a couple of days, then he’ll know what an Order Barrier is."
When Lei Jianhua heard this, he touched his glasses’ fras without looking at Yang, took up the Parker pen, and based on what you had just said, wrote down a section of text in his notebook.
anwhile, Xiao Feng, who was watching Yang, noticed an Energy Barrier suddenly emanating from him, invisible to the naked eye. The barrier quickly expanded, enveloping the entire cafe.
"Alright, Little Kai, you can now start walking around," Xiao Feng said with a teasing smile.
Seeing Xiao Feng’s teasing expression, Yang didn’t dare to take a step.
"What, what does that an?"
"Co on, let’s go for a walk."
Zong Wangyue and Liao Yong exchanged glances, then each grabbed one of Yang Kai’s hands and pulled him from his seat, with Liao Yong giving Yang Kai a final push.
After Yang Kai stumbled back three steps, he quickly steadied himself by grabbing the corner of a nearby table.
He turned to Liao Yong and cursed, "Black Bull, next ti you eat instant noodles, don’t ask for sausages and pig’s feet!"
However, as Yang Kai was cursing and preparing to walk towards Liao Yong, he was shocked to find that he was actually moving backward!
"Damn it! I clearly wanted to move forward, why am I going backward! Ouch, I hit the table leg!"
Seeing Yang Kai clutching his waist where he had bumped into the table leg, Lei Jianhua finally said with a laugh, "I didn’t expand the range to our school as the president instructed; this Order Barrier only works inside the cafe. Once you leave, you’ll recover."
Yang Kai rolled his eyes and asked, "Is there a way to remove it?"
"Yes, the only way to break the Order Barrier is to grope around for clues and unravel it layer by layer..."
"Speak human language!" Yang Kai slapped his forehead, his face expressing complete speechlessness.
"What’s your speed in the 100-ter dash?"
Yang Kai scratched his head, "Forgot."
"In any case, to break this Order Barrier, you have to run the speed of a 100-ter dash, but backward."
"Crap!"
For Yang Kai at this mont, moving forward ant moving backward, and moving backward ant moving forward.
The Order Barrier that Lei Jianhua set up for Yang Kai was actually quite simple, intended just to make Yang Kai understand its aning and how to break it.
As Yang Kai huffed and panted, sprinting on the side, Wei Shuxian, who had been counting on his fingers, looked up at you and said, "Old Shu, have you been hiding sothing from us all this ti?"
With that said, everyone’s gaze suddenly focused on you.
"Hmm."
No denial.
Because you had also been pondering this question just now.
In fact, you’ve been very concerned about what Grandma ng said last night.
She never ntioned anything about the success rate of restoring Zhao’er’s sanity, as if restoring her sanity were a very simple matter.
After returning last night, you lay on the dorm bed, and the words "you won’t regret it" that Grandma ng said kept surfacing in your mind.
Most importantly, you had a dream last night.
Upon waking, you couldn’t rember anything else from the dream, except one clear part: Zhao’er had turned into two!
There were clearly two identical people, but they felt completely different to you, utterly distinctive!
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