Autumn rain drifted outside the window, continuing through the night.
When Xia Zhi woke up in the morning, he felt his head was slightly hot and painful.
The temperature had dropped very low last night, and he had slept without a blanket, probably catching a cold.
He should have drawn a "Heat Talisman" and stuck it on the bedboard.
Xia Zhi sat up in bed, leaning against the headboard, and opened his system panel to look. Sure enough, he saw a red abnormal effect in the character attributes.
[Cold]: Disease type, manifesting as mild headache and fatigue, spirit value recovery speed reduced by 10%, stamina recovery speed reduced by 10%.
As a Master of Medicine now, Xia Zhi had a hundred different prescriptions to treat a mere cold.
However, taking medicine was too troublesome.
Xia Zhi raised his hand, and a light glowed in his palm as he cast a second-tier light system spell on himself - [Dispel]
A warm current passed through his body, instantly taking away all discomfort.
Xia Zhi felt refreshed and checked his system panel again; the red abnormal effect had disappeared.
Good, saved some medicine money again.
Light system spells were really convenient.
Xia Zhi took out the [Transformation Badge] and began charging it with light element power.
By the time he used up his magic power, about half of the badge was lit up.
Today Xia Zhi woke up earlier than yesterday, so he could stay in his room a bit longer. He got up and walked to the window, opening it as a damp cold wind blew in his face.
It was still drizzling outside.
Because clouds covered the sky, the morning sunlight wasn't very bright, but it was enough to activate the [Light Healing] ability.
[Light Healing]: Rapidly recovers life force and magic power when bathed in light.
Xia Zhi stood by the window, watching his depleted magic power continuously recover on the system panel.
Actually, it didn't have to be sunlight. Xia Zhi had tested before that the light from a first-tier light spell could also activate [Light Healing].
Even the light from a four-sided lamp at night would work, but sunlight had the best effect, and it varied by time — noon sunlight was better than morning sunlight.
Xia Zhi held the [Transformation Badge], recovering his magic power while injecting light element power into the badge.
It strangely reminded him of charging a phone with solar power.
After being in the cold wind for a while, the [Transformation Badge] finally finished charging, completely lit up.
Xia Zhi heard the system's voice in his mind.
"Charging progress has reached 100%, randomly drawing transformation ability, type restricted to light system."
"Drawing ability..."
"Obtained [Giant of Light] transformation, time limited to 3 minutes."
At the same time, the entire badge turned pure white.
Xia Zhi was stunned.
Giant of Light... isn't this Ultraman?
He loved watching various types of Ultraman fighting monsters when he was little, and had even saved money to buy many DVDs from street vendors.
He didn't expect to draw this transformation ability.
Although it was only for 3 minutes, having the chance to personally become Ultraman was like a dream come true. Too bad there were no monsters in this world...
Xia Zhi played with the pure white badge in his hand, suddenly remembering Osial's figure he had seen in that dream.
Just from those five giant heads that broke through the sea, he could tell its size was quite large.
He wondered if he could wrestle with this Archon if he transformed into Ultraman — three minutes of time, hard to say...
Better keep this as a trump card for now.
Xia Zhi put away the [Transformation Badge], closed the window, finished his morning routine, and went downstairs to wash up.
This morning he made fish slice congee, which was white and delicate, with a very delicious taste.
After making the congee, Xia Zhi marinated the chicken legs, wings, and small river fish he had bought, preparing to fry them in the afternoon.
Affected by the rainy weather, the shop wasn't as busy as usual in the morning.
Around ten o'clock, Miss Yelan came to the shop again.
She ordered two rainbow fruit juices and sat drinking slowly at a corner table.
Xia Zhi "watched" her through his god's eye view.
The silver progress bar on her was still at [2%], unchanged these past few days.
This was the result of being fed two glasses of juice during her last visit to the shop.
Xia Zhi remembered she had many fresh bruises and injuries then. This time he carefully examined her physical condition again but didn't find any new injuries.
Yelan was also discreetly observing Xia Zhi.
Last night she went to find Ganyu and chatted with her for a while.
Although Ganyu didn't reveal her source of information, Yelan had her own professional intelligence team and had already found out that Ganyu had requested a thorough investigation of what happened at Zhiyi that day.
According to information collected by her subordinates, Ganyu had stayed overnight at this Summer Shop the night before. The next morning, this Boss Xia took everyone to the Northland Bank to deposit money, then he and Ganyu had tea and listened to stories at Heyu Tea House while others went shopping at Feiyun Slope. After Ganyu left Heyu Tea House, she hurriedly returned to Yuehai Pavilion and reported this news to the Qixing.
Unraveling these events, Yelan couldn't help but suspect that Ganyu's source of information was this mysterious Mr. Xia.
Although he was blind, he seemed to have awakened divine consciousness power. Perhaps when he was depositing money at the Northland Bank, he inadvertently discovered some secrets using his divine consciousness and then told Ganyu... this was a very possible truth.
Yelan took a sip of rainbow fruit juice; the taste was different from when she came last time but still very good.
She slightly narrowed her eyes, thinking of the things she had previously investigated, and suddenly revealed a strange smile.
Because of her suspicions about this Boss Xia, Yelan had her subordinates collect more recent intelligence related to Summer Shop, and they discovered some interesting things.
Regarding business competition.
Summer Shop's business was too good, attracting most customers with this rainbow fruit juice, causing many tea houses and taverns in the Feiyun Slope area to become very unprofitable. Even Yelan's own Yanshang Teahouse at Chihu Rock had decreased revenue last month, affected quite a bit.
Yelan herself didn't mind; she opened this teahouse just as a cover, and with Ningguang providing money, it didn't matter if it didn't make a profit. But other owners couldn't accept this, and they were all very jealous and angry.
They gathered together to think of crooked ways, looking for connections everywhere, but found that official personnel were unwilling to intervene and even severely warned them. The Feiyun Commerce Guild had the same attitude.
They could only try to find loopholes themselves, but discovered that all the shop's procedures and contracts were handled by the great lawyer Yanfei, completely thorough with no weaknesses at all.
They even tried to bribe the seemingly most bribeable ordinary girl from Inazuma, approaching her when she went shopping for groceries in the morning, offering huge sums of money to steal the formula from the shop, but she rejected them without hesitation.
...
So, her coming to the shop this time wasn't because she suddenly wanted to drink rainbow fruit juice, but because she had become interested in this Boss Xia again and wanted to observe him more.
Thinking this, Yelan took another sip of rainbow fruit juice.
It really was delicious.
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