The entire morning quietly passed, and Luo Wei looked out the window to see Saint Callen experiencing a rare sunny day.
Evelyn was still sitting on the floor, silent and ignoring him, seemingly lost in a state of self-imposed isolation.
Seeing this, Luo Wei decided not to provoke her further.
He planned to go out and look for Helena, who had disappeared since he fainted. She was nowhere to be seen around the old mansion, and he had no idea where she had hidden herself.
The early spring air outside was still quite cold. Luo Wei put on a thick woolen overcoat and a cap before heading out the door.
Before leaving, he turned back to look at Evelyn.
"I'll be gone for a while, Teacher. Stay here and wait for me."
Although she seemed completely unmoved and silent, her eyelashes fluttered slightly when she heard him say he was leaving. This small gesture revealed her thoughts.
Luo Wei chuckled to himself.
Indeed... He knew that Evelyn wasn't the type to give up easily.
She was just quietly waiting for an opportunity.
Luo Wei smiled at her, "Without my permission, you can't leave this mansion. I believe you've already tried this morning."
"But I still advise you not to think of any other tricks, or else, you won't just be confined to the mansion, but..."
Evelyn suddenly looked up at Luo Wei.
Luo Wei's smile faded, and he sternly warned her, "But confined to your own Room 101, like being in prison."
"My dear teacher, you wouldn't want to completely lose your freedom, would you?"
"At least you still have such a large area to move around in."
Evelyn let out a cold laugh.
Luo Wei no longer looked at her, opened the door, and turned to leave.
As the door closed, Evelyn watched his disappearing figure and clenched her fists slightly.
...
After leaving the old mansion, Luo Wei first took a telescope and climbed to a high point to observe the area.
This area had once been one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Saint Callen. However, as the city of steam gradually flourished, the urban core shifted from the west to the east where he went to school, and this place gradually became desolate.
Although the surroundings were becoming less populated, and buying groceries required a few kilometers' walk, the tranquility was a blessing. Last night's major incident, where two aberrations battled for three hundred rounds, went unnoticed by the police, making it an ideal location for a "sanctuary."
However, what puzzled him was that his old mansion seemed particularly "lonely," with no neighbors within a radius of a kilometer.
In the game's storyline, it was mentioned that the surrounding land had been bought by a wealthy merchant to build a large factory.
But when he returned to the game four years later, the merchant had "mysteriously" gone bankrupt, leaving the mansion in its quiet state.
Luo Wei certainly didn't want noisy and polluting factories around, and it would make his activities easier to expose. But was this too much of a coincidence?
Was it Helena? Had she done something?
Luo Wei thought it unlikely. If it were Helena, there would have been news of the merchant's sudden death, not bankruptcy.
Helena wouldn't know anything about economics...
So, was someone else helping him in secret?
Luo Wei pondered, wondering who it could be...
...
While pondering, he noticed something unusual through the telescope.
In the direction of the bridge, the tall trees swayed slightly, which was quite strange.
It was Helena!
He quickly packed up and hurried towards that direction.
Arriving at the bridge's underpass, he parted the dense foliage and finally saw the black figure.
Helena's size was much smaller than the previous night, and her human upper body could be faintly discerned. To ward off the cold, she had wrapped herself in layers of tentacles, quietly curled up under the bridge.
It seemed she had made this place her shelter from the wind and rain. Beside the riverbank, there were several dried animal carcasses, which were likely her daily meals.
Although the underpass was better than the outside, it still let in the wind. Each time a gust blew past, the tiny tentacles on her body would quiver slightly, expressing her fear of the cold.
This scene made Luo Wei's heart ache.
He quietly approached the curled-up figure.
The faint sound of footsteps on the grass made Helena tremble like a startled animal, and she instantly spread out all her tentacles.
As a conditioned reflex, she stabbed towards the source of the sound.
Luo Wei stopped, and the tentacles halted half a meter in front of him.
"Brother?"
A voice of disbelief came from under the bridge.
"It's Brother!!"
The voice was filled with excitement and joy. Helena turned around, her bright blue eyes fixed on Luo Wei, who had suddenly appeared.
Luo Wei smiled and waved at her, "Come home with Brother. It's so cold here."
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, her excited expression suddenly changed.
"No... don't go home..."
She panicked and used her tentacles to shield herself, as if not wanting Luo Wei to see her current state.
Her tentacles crowded around her body, ready to flee towards the other side of the underpass.
"Wait! Helena!"
Luo Wei anxiously tried to call her back, "Don't go yet, Brother has something to say to you!!"
The black tentacles trembled.
But she still pretended not to hear, and the black shadow fled further away.
Luo Wei's heart ached as he chased after her.
However, Helena had too many "legs," and Luo Wei, out of breath, could only watch her figure grow distant.
He cupped his hands and shouted loudly, "If you don't want to go home with Brother, then we won't go home! Just stop!"
This shout made Helena's figure stop.
Then she was surprised to see—
Luo Wei kicked the dried animal carcasses into the river.
"Don't eat those things anymore, you might get sick..."
"And these..."
Luo Wei rummaged through Helena's temporary home, found two skinned and cleaned wild dogs, and threw them into the river as well.
"That was hard for me to... to..."
Helena helplessly watched her brother, seeing him dispose of her "reserve food."
Then he took out some items from his backpack.
A thermos of water, bread wrapped in oil paper, and fried steak with sauce...
Her extraordinary sense of smell made Helena immediately smell the enticing aroma of the food, and she unconsciously swallowed.
So delicious...
Luo Wei even laid out a clean napkin in the underpass and smiled at the distant Helena.
"Won't you join me?"
Helena looked at her brother's gentle smile. Although she was very resistant to being seen in this state,
So delicious...
She finally succumbed to her biological instincts.
Luo Wei watched the black shadow rush over in seconds, and several tentacles grabbed the food, which was instantly devoured by Helena.
After eating,
She sat beside Luo Wei by the riverbank, her face filled with satisfaction as she held her stomach.
Her swaying tentacles and tendrils expressed a very happy mood.
Luo Wei chuckled as he stroked her swaying tiny tentacles, "Was it good?"
Helena nodded, "Delicious!"
"Everything Brother makes is delicious!"
"That's good..." Luo Wei looked at her and asked,
"Still don't want to go home? You can eat these things every day at home."
Perhaps because she had eaten delicious food, Helena's defenses finally opened a bit.
She looked sadly at her brother and shook her head, "Want... to go home, but now... can't go home..."
"Why?" Luo Wei looked at her, puzzled.
She remained silent, merely lowering her head and silently gazing at her reflection in the river.
Luo Wei slightly furrowed his brow, wondering if she was afraid that her current state would cause trouble for him.
Thinking this, he rummaged through his backpack once more.
When he pulled out several **Suppression Potions**, Helena immediately tensed and retracted her tentacles.
"Brother... what are you doing?"
"Don't worry, these aren't for attacking you..." Luo Wei quietly recalled the incident that had occurred in the basement.
He gently placed the **Suppression Potions** on the ground.
"Helena, if you wish to return to your original form, you should need these potions."
"And you can always come back, even now."
Luo Wei stood up with a smile and slowly walked away.
"The door to my home is always open for you."
Watching her brother's figure gradually fade into the distance, Helena suddenly felt that the early spring in Saint Callen wasn't so cold after all.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
