Chapter 116
Chapter 116: Continuation: Part 2
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Just as I’ve imagined it . You’ve always been this characteristically pragmatic, not even one bit impulsive . ” The girl laughed .
“I share your imagination . ” Lin Sheng laughed too . As they said, laughter was the best medicine for awkwardness .
“I like you, and that’s just me . It has nothing to do with you . Lin Sheng, I hope you well, healthy, and smart as ever . And no other girls will ever see your good might I add . ” She sounded as if she meant it .
“You’re a good girl, but I’ve no plan to get into a relationship just yet,” Lin Sheng said matter-of-factly . “There are many people attracted to you in our class as you’re such a catch . You deserve more than this and shouldn’t waste time on me . ”
“You’re all that I want . But that’s fine . ” The girl exhaled, broken-hearted . “I hope you will continue to remain single, just like you have said . ”
“I don’t lie . ” Lin Sheng smiled .
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They smiled at each other as if there was already a tacit understanding between them . They walked side by side for a while and then arrived at a junction . The girl clasped her hands and twitched her mouth; her delicate skin looked so tenderly soft under the soft light of the street lamps .
“Well, see you again, Lin Sheng . ”
“Yup, until we meet again . Goodbye, Bervie . ” Lin Sheng reciprocated as he finally recalled her name .
The girl’s affectionate smile suddenly collapsed and became stiff, her hand that she was waving at him just now had frozen midair . Her name was Sylvie, not Bervie . After a moment of silence, tears started to swirl in her eyes, and she turned around and left apace .
Lin Sheng stood there, dumbfounded . He then ripped the envelop open and looked at the letter, a confession of love . It was a long one . At the end of the letter was a heart with an arrow emoji, and the undersigned was Sylvie Adeline . The penny dropped, and it all made sense now . Lin Sheng finally knew why the girl ran away with such an emotional reaction . He crumpled the letter in his hand, tucked it inside his pocket, and gave himself a moment of silence for the relationship that died before it even started .
Lin Sheng trotted in the direction of his house . He had not rambled on the streets like this for a long while . It was seven something when the night market began to spring to life as stalls selling a variety of street food sprung up like mushrooms along the street .
Like an innocent child, Lin Sheng bought apple-flavored ice cream, happily savoring it in his mouth as he continued to meander in the night market . He passed by a food stall selling hot barbeque on sticks and bought a bunch of it, greedily devouring it until his lips swelled red from the spices .
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Furthering up ahead, he saw a hotpot stall with lots of fresh green veggies, meats, and seafood on the iron pan . There were also bright red tomatoes, yellowish-green cucumbers, and jade-green bok choy . Not to mention potato slices, Chinese yam slices, sticks of chicken, lamb, beef, pork belly, and all . The owner grabbed whatever his customers ordered and tossed the ingredients into the boiling broth . Before long, a tantalizing aroma of spices and meats began to waft around in the air . Lin Sheng quickly found himself a seat . “I’d like to have fifty sticks of lamb, fifty sticks of beef, and ten sticks of potato and veggie each . ”
“Sure . ” The stall owner who grew a large waistline responded loudly . Lin Sheng sat at the table, silently finishing off the barbeque sticks that he had bought earlier while observing the flowing traffic . For a moment, he fell into deep thought .
At the adjacent table, three youngsters with the dragon, tiger, and panther tattoos on their arms were gulping glass after glass of beer down their throats along with the hotpot broth .
On the other side, a pair of lovey-dovely lovebirds were feeding each other ‘bird-feed’ as if they were the only persons in the world .
At the far-end table, an old man with brown glasses was diligently wiping the oily residue off the table using a single-use tablecloth .
Retracting his gaze, Lin Sheng lowered his head and wolfed down another two sticks of barbeque . He got a big jump in appetite after practicing the sacred power . And as he got better at it, he began to feel that the sacred power was actually his own soul, more like the cultivation of his mental strength .
When the hotpot was served, Lin Sheng quickly finished off the remaining few sticks of barbeque and proceeded to slurp up the aromatic hot and spicy broth . He had never found eating so enjoyable for a long time . When he finally had enough of it, he stopped and was almost in sweat . He paid and went back in the direction from where he had come .
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After the break, it was time to study a way of dealing with the dark, fat dude . Lin Sheng would have to wait three days to recover before he could get back in after he died in the dream . He would not allow himself to fail again .
Back at home, his big sis, Lin Xiao, was watching TV in a wheelchair . It seemed she was recovering quickly . His dad was working hard in the study room, busily paring some wooden stuff . His mom, Gu Wanqiu, was laboriously weaving some ornament using colorful polyester thread for celebratory purposes in the kindergarten .
“You’re home late . Have you had your dinner?” Gu Wanqiu quickly stopped what she was doing and came up to Lin Sheng as he walked in the doorway .
“Of course, I did . Haven’t I told you not to wait for me?” Lin Sheng changed into a pair of slippers and closed the door behind him .
“There are still some leftovers in the kitchen . You can reheat them and eat if you want,” reminded Gu Wanqiu .
“I’ve had enough, mom . I have to do revision after cleaning up . ” Lin Sheng could not wait to meditate on the Ashen Seal .
“Go, go . ” Gu Wanqiu went into the kitchen and came back out with some bright-red strawberries that she had just bought today . “Come out to eat some strawberries if you are tired . It’s good for your body . ”
“Okay . ” Lin Sheng responded . He quickly went to clean himself up . Earlier, during the time when he did not have any dreams, he took the opportunity to digest thoroughly all the memories that he had previously acquired . Combining with the many armored soldiers and a spell-caster monster that he had killed last night, he got quite a lot of fragmented souls . Today, he was going to meditate on Ashen Seal-Furious Roar, purifying and turning the fragmented souls as his own power . On the other hand, he was in no hurry to recruit more people . His priority now was to accumulate more soul space for more powerful summoned creatures later .
The night went by without any dream . Lin Sheng mediated on Ashen Seal for a while and pondered the strategy of defeating the fire-spitting, dark fat dude . He then took a break before continuing on the Ashen Seal meditation . This routine went on for three days—meditating, resting, meditating, resting—over and over again until he got the hang of Ashen Seal-Furious Roar . It would not be long before he could use the Ashen Seal, he thought .
Finally, on the fourth day, the sequelae of death had vanished entirely . Lin Sheng reentered the dream to begin his second attempt .
He took a deep breath, vapor spurting out of his mouth for over ten centimeters in the vault before slowly diffusing into the gray fog . When he opened his eyes, he found himself resurrected at the spot where he had killed the spell caster earlier . This position was right at the corner, after which it would be leading straight into the prison section where there was a thick blanket of fog . He had no scale armor, wooden shield, broadsword, helmet, and whatsoever gear with him, just the white sports suit that he had put on the night before he went to sleep .
“It’s all back to square one…” Lin Sheng did some stretches, but he did not go down the corner . Instead, he jogged back in the direction from where he had come . He did not want to go head-on with the fat dude just yet because he first needed to gear up . He had learned firsthand how seriously disadvantaged he would be without some sort of powerful weaponry . He had to get some sharper sword .
After trotting for a while, he arrived back to the place where he first came in . He did not stop . Instead, he continued to run down the passage at an even faster pace .