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Chapter 200 - 20 Xu Shu: This world is just a damned loop_4

Chapter 200: Chapter 20 Xu Shu: This world is just a damned loop_4

At that moment, the other maids were arranging the scene, and the beautiful doctor cradled her lofty bosom, pausing before she said,

"Child, don’t think the fee is too high; your father’s illness is quite special. It’s a complication from long-term exposure to erosive pollution. I need to consume a large amount of spirit-invoking items and continuously bless him for about three days to completely remove all the filth. The expenditure is enormous, not to mention it also constitutes a great physical drain on me, so I hope you understand..."

"Doctor Gu, you misunderstand," Xu Shu interjected softly and politely, "As long as my father is cured, any amount of money will do."

The over two million he had obtained from the Gu family ultimately went back into the hands of another member of the Gu family. Of course, Xu Shu felt the pinch, but as long as it could save his foster father, that sum of money was negligible.

"Heh, you do have filial piety. The setting is almost ready; all family members and unrelated persons should leave. No one should enter before I come out, not for the next three days," Gu Yue Ming declared.

"And what after three days?" Xu Shu noticed a gap.

Gu Yue Ming looked at him expressionlessly, "Either he won’t be saved, or I won’t have saved him."

"Uh!"

Feeling that this lady had quite the temper, Xu Shu led his stepmother away. Before departing, he said to Gu Yue Ming, "Then I’ll leave everything to you."

"Mhm, leave," Gu Yue Ming replied coldly.

Creak!

The door to the sickroom closed,

Doctor Gu stood inside the room, but her gaze slid to the rear.

Only after seeing Xu Shu and the others leave and the Gu family members guard outside, her previously tensed expression, similar to that of a stingy boss, collapsed:

"Phew, that was close, too close... Thankfully, I had a stroke of genius..."

"If he found out how I actually like this outfit, the image I’ve painstakingly established in his heart would’ve been utterly destroyed!"

"That would be absolutely unacceptable~"

Gu Yue Ming rolled her eyes while fanning herself, muttering to herself.

She glanced down and sighed at the sight of her pale, snowy bosom heaving tumultuously, revealing only deep valleys and no foothills, an utterly seductive figure.

Seems like I need to be more mindful of my image in the future...

Then, she collected her emotions, gazed at the patient, and silently sat in the middle of the array on the ground, starting to form seals and chant:

"Fertility,..."

"Grace of the Mother Goddess, rebirth of all things..."

Mysterious sutra sounds arose; flowers occasionally flickered from the stones set up for the array, coloring these stones in splendid lights, reflecting on Zhou Junjie, who, in his coma, revealed a completely relaxed expression, as if returning to his mother’s embrace.

The doctor’s path leads to the Second Rank: "Witch"!

The blessing technique, a physical baptism.

The young woman prayed amidst...

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Xu Shu returned today to the home where he had lived for over a decade, along with his foster mother, Li Guoying.

Though Li Guoying had insisted on staying at the hospital to watch over the patient, Xu Shu managed to convince and persuade her after a long talk. Finally, she set her heart at ease and came home to rest. She had already fallen sound asleep.

Meanwhile, Xu Shu returned to his own former room.

Two years gone, everything as of yesterday.

Their home was a two-bedroom flat, barely eighty square meters, but filled with warm memories of family everywhere.

The smaller room was for his parents while the larger one he and his sister, Zhou Shiyu, had divided in half with a wooden partition.

Lying on the long-missed bed, sensing the crisp smell of insects on the quilt baked in the sun all day, Xu Shu stretched luxuriously to his heart’s content.

"Once the reward is credited, I can open the trading area, heh heh," he tapped his groin in anticipation.

Drip...

* Upgraded Network

* Gu Pan (Tai Chu), First-tier Warrior

* Contribution: 8

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"Hasn’t it been credited yet? It’s almost been 24 hours, right?"

Xu Shu lay upside down, glanced at the clock, and couldn’t help but fidget on the bed, kicking the wall with his feet.

A sense of unease began to rise in his heart.

"I can’t receive bounties, and the trading area demands a steep 20 Contribution Points for the Mirror of Illusion and Reality from a Dead Man!"

"Thankfully, I’m about to receive a 100-point reward for killing the Divine Chosen, granted by Lie Zhenzi; it should be sent directly to my account... right?"

Truth be told, the reward was supposed to be credited within 24 hours, and now... just five minutes remained.

Watching his account’s pathetic [Contribution: 8], Xu Shu was starting to doubt.

Though the reward was from Lie Zhenzi,...

Normally, when killing monsters in the Wasteland, Contribution Points were immediately allocated, depending on the monster’s tier, with either an addition of 1 or 2 points right away, no delay at all.

But now, he had to wait.

It didn’t make sense that delays would be longer in a safe zone, right?

Moreover, the professions of Divine Chosen like the Demon "Unclean" have been defined as a type of Transcendent, and killing them yielded no Contribution Points.

Like the previously encountered Sinful Unclean One, Yang Manman, or the Nagou fusion body, Ao Yaoqi, they only dropped Curse Crystals and could add to one’s kill count like other upgraded creatures, but granted no Contribution Points.

So, was there a possibility that the way Lie Zhenzi rewarded Contribution Points was different from monster drops?

Xu Shu had been pondering this since the moment his bounty claim at the Astronomy Association failed; he just suppressed it because of inner strength.

I mean, bounties and rewards are both rewards; could there be a chance...

"No, no, no, I shouldn’t think like this. It’s probably because the amount of 100 points is so trivial for Lie Zhenzi that it’s taking a long time to get to me, heh heh..."

Xu Shu shook his head, his breathing gradually steadied, and he clenched his fists, like a student awaiting exam results.

"Obviously, it must be so..."

He reassured himself as his eyes followed the second hand tick by tick.

Those long five minutes,

Finally.

The 24 hours were up!

His underwear vibrated slightly.

Xu Shu’s heart leapt, he took a deep breath, and looked over with an unruffled demeanor.

The Contribution remained unchanged.

But there was a new friend request.

[Alert: Melanie is requesting to add you as a friend, the message left says: Please accept the friend request; there’s an issue with your account, I can’t send the Contribution Points reward email.]

"..."

"Heh, heh heh, heh heh heh..."

Suddenly, his eyes lost their luster, and he sprawled across the bed like a corpse.

Fretting all day.

Only to see such a friend request message at the end.

Xu Shu’s hanging heart had finally broken.

Damn Lie Zhenzi, how dare you deceive me!