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Chapter 104 Tonight’s Torrential Rain_1

Chapter 104: Chapter 104 Tonight’s Torrential Rain_1

"So I’m not the only one encountering this problem!"

Mu You’s eyes lit up and he quickly clicked in to take a look.

The post even had two comparison photos; one with the skin on. The image showed a pure and beautiful girl with a 36D figure, dressed in a nun outfit with a cross hanging from her neck. She held her hands together in front of her chest in a prayer position, very endearing.

The other one was taken after the skin was removed, revealing a male. But it was undeniable, if you blanked out the other parts and focused on just the face alone, there were striking similarities.

Below were the despondent pleas of the original poster: can someone save me? Am I going to end up androgynous?!

Looking at the second photo, Mu You paused.

The person in the photo seems familiar...

Recalling more closely, he finally remembered: wasn’t the man the same host he met the first time he encountered Cola in the abandoned timber factory?

Unexpectedly, that guy had also become a player and even obtained a skin.

Keep in mind this was just the first day of the major internal test, and as far as Mu You knew, there was currently no way to trade skins. Hence, he must have found this skin himself.

Getting a skin within five energy points on the first day. What kind of luck is that?

Mu You scrolled down for comments.

"Damn, bro, I can relate!"

"Relate on your own, I need a rescue here!"

"Maybe you should just not revert back, or head to Country Tai for a full body transformation."

"True Trap King!"

"Hahaha, can I take a moment to laugh!"

"Sorry, thought this was a classified ad seeking a child..."

...

The first two pages of comments were pretty much all jokes.

Mu You scrolled through many pages before finally finding a serious response.

"This is an issue that’s been brought up countless times, the solution is quite simple..."

The rest of the information was hidden; it was a costly answer that charged a fee to view, with each click costing 100,000.

Thinking of this as small change, Mu You paid the fee and clicked open the answer.

"Ever heard of screensavers? In the old days with the desktop computers and their quite rudimentary CRT monitors, a still screen over a long period would cause a cannonade of electronic beams to hit the same spot on the screen continuously, causing color shading. So, it was necessary to set several different wallpapers that would change intermittently. That’s a screensaver.

The same principle applies to switching skins. You just need to have two or more skins and alternate between them regularly to refresh your state and prevent your original appearance from being permanently marked by a single skin."

"So that’s the case."

Mu You finally understood. After obtaining the Medicinal Plant Gatherer skin, he had been switching between two skins every day. He used the Plant Gatherer skin while refining medicine during the day and then switched to the Watchman skin at night. Since the usage was balanced, the dark circles under his eyes had disappeared instead.

The explanation from this person was indeed easy to understand, but the example made Mu You cringe: a fucking screensaver!

"Meow!"

Just then, a somewhat pitiful meow sounded.

Mu You looked up to see Cola hobbling down the stairs, its head full of bumps with Canary looking triumphant as it stood on his head.

Cola, being stepped on its head, dared to be angry but not to retort. It mewled pitifully as it approached Mu You.

But before it could get close, Canary took off and landed on the front desk.

Cola immediately stopped in its tracks. It cast a resentful glance at Mu You before running off to seek comfort from Little Ya.

"Cola?! What happened to you? Did you stick your nose in a hornet’s nest?"

Looking at Cola with its head full of bumps, Little Ya exclaimed, "Don’t move, let me find some medicine to bandage you up."

"Apply this to it."

Mu You directly tossed a jar of ointment from the counter. It landed accurately in Little Ya’s hands.

In no time, an astonished exclamation came from Little Ya who was at a distance, "Wow, Boss, this ointment is incredible!"

The magical item was naturally effective. Half a jar of ointment made all the bumps on Cola’s head disappear, leaving Little Ya in awe.

Mu You didn’t care much. He knew at a glance that it was inevitably Cola flirting with Vivian and getting punished for it again. As a catnip addict with a bad memory, Cola deserved it.

"Boss, is it okay to let this bird out like this?" Little Ya came over and asked doubtfully when she saw the Canary on the table.

"It’s alright, this bird isn’t a typical creature..."

"Oh? Is it also a magic creature like the pea?"

Little Ya’s eyes sparkled, she instinctively reached out to stroke the Canary’s feathers.

Mu You watched from the side, his heart skipping, worried that Vivian would lose her temper and slap Little Ya into the wall.

Luckily, the Canary quietly closed its eyes to rest and made no response to her touch.

"Speaking of which, Boss, why isn’t Sister Xue here yet?"

Little Ya gently stroked Canary’s feathers, suddenly said.

This also reminded Mu You, he had been feeling that something was missing in the store today, it turned out that Lin Xue wasn’t here.

It is known that Lin Xue is punctual. Before, she had never been late, and now it’s almost nine o’clock, yet she hasn’t shown up for work...

Mu You glanced out the window, the sky today was gloomy, dark clouds covering, the weather forecast in the morning seemed to say that there was a heavy rain in the evening, and an orange rainstorm warning was issued.

But the rain isn’t due till tonight, it shouldn’t be the reason she’s not coming to work...

"Boss, do you think... Sister Xue has become a player?" Little Ya hesitated.

Mu You thought about it and felt that it was indeed possible.

After Zhao Qian came that day, Mu You could guess some of Lin Xue’s purpose of coming to his store, probably because she noticed some peculiarities about him and came with the intention to solve the mystery.

Regardless, after spending time together for this while, Mu You felt that they could at least be considered friends. If Little Snow disappeared without a word because she became a player, it would leave a bad taste in his mouth.

"Ding..."

As the two of them were lost in thought, a WeChat message landed on Mu You’s phone.

Upon opening it, it turned out to be a sick note from Lin Xue.

It stated that she had urgent matters to deal with at home, she couldn’t come for the time being and needed to take a week off, hoping for his approval.

This formal request was undoubtedly in Lin Xue’s style.

Mu You let out a sigh of relief, so she was just asking for leave.

He texted back: "No problem, the shop isn’t busy right now. Also, don’t hesitate to ask if there’s anything you need help with."

After sending the message, he noticed that the status on the other end stayed for a few seconds before it read ’typing’.

Mu You waited to see what she wanted to say, the ’typing’ status lasted for four or five minutes and no message came through.

He wondered how long the message she was editing would be.

After waiting patiently for a moment longer, a new message finally appeared.

Lin Xue: Okay.

"???"

She took so long to edit and ended up sending just two words? Mu You wore a strange expression, so she was... hiding something difficult to mention?

However, since she clearly stated it was a family matter, Mu You didn’t feel it was right to ask, thus he let it go.

In the time that followed, Mu You played some games, once he ran out of energy, he went back to his room to start making cards.

He had to make at least one copy of each of the three new magic cards.

The other two cards, Summon Zombie and Tenacious Light, didn’t take much time, created smoothly in about half an hour each.

The one that gave him trouble was the Dark Transfer.

It certainly lived up to its name as the most difficult time-space magic, Mu You spent almost twelve hours trying to create this card, failing at least a thousand times in between. He was only saved by the Time Pocket Watch each time.

No wonder Scorpio said he hadn’t been successful in two weeks, this card really wasn’t made for ordinary people to use.

After completing the card making, Mu You immediately ran to the basement, cleared a space, and set up a Dark Teleportation Array to look at.

Dark and mysterious black flames emerged from the floor, forming a mysterious circular formation. Inside seemed to encapsulated a dark fog monster from hell, its huge mouth twisting and struggling inside the formation, as if trying to devour everything that stepped into it.

No wonder it’s called Dark Transfer, the principle of teleportation is probably devouring on this side and regurgitating out the other end. The consumed lifespan is either a sacrifice to the creature or a type of payment.

The visual of this formation is somewhat exaggerated, at least it can be hidden when not in use.

Mu You swung his Magic Wand, the black flames gradually disappeared into the air, leaving only a trace on the floor like a scorch mark from charcoal burning.

This magic is useful but it has one major disadvantage, it can only be used by the caster himself. Even if others stand on it, they cannot be teleported.

Mu You thought it’s because this is just entry-level black magic. If it were intermediate or advanced level teleportation, this limitation might be removed and others could be teleported with it.

If so, this formation would be really valuable. If one were recorded in every major city across the country, just the toll fees could make a fortune.

Shaking his head, Mu You covered the formation slightly with some miscellaneous items, then returned upstairs.

It was already eleven o’clock at night, thunder resounded outside the door with a downpour of heavy rain incessantly lashing the windows and doors.

"This rain is...somewhat outrageous..."

Mu You went to the door and peeked outside, he couldn’t help but exclaim.

When he saw the meteorological warning in the morning, he didn’t take it seriously until now when he saw the fierceness of the rainfall.

The curtain of rain outside the glass door was already dense enough to not see the darkness properly, as if someone was pouring water from a basin.

Mu You searched online and found that the orange rainstorm warning issued by the weather bureau in the morning had indeed been upgraded to a red warning.

According to the news, it was a once-in-a-century heavy rain in K city, accompanied by lightning and gusts of wind at level seven, extremely dangerous. It was urging all residents not to go out this night.