morning.
Li Yang was woken up by the alarm on his cell phone.
She usually sets the alarm when she needs to get up at a specific time for something. She has kept this habit for many years, so she won't turn off the alarm and oversleep just because she wants to stay in bed.
When Li Yang saw Mo Qing sitting on the sofa with snacks in his arms watching TV, his brain froze for a moment, and he almost suspected that he was still in the dungeon.
"You're up now. Do you want to eat?" Mo Qing stretched out the pork jerky in his hand.
Wearing new clothes and maintaining his human skin color, Mo Qing looks more like a real person, if you ignore his conspicuous red eyes.
I don't know how he managed to avoid other people's strange looks when he went shopping for clothes yesterday.
"No." Li Yang glanced at his phone on the coffee table. "You should know how to use your phone. If you want to eat lunch, make it yourself. I'm going out."
Mo Qing immediately stood up alertly, "Where are you going to play? Take me with you!"
"You want to go to the Ghost Hunting Bureau too?" Li Yang looked at him with amusement.
"...Oh, forget it. I'm allergic to ghost hunters."
Although Mo Qing doesn't like to eat people and hasn't done anything illegal since coming to the real world, it doesn't affect his unwillingness to contact ghost hunters.
Compared to ordinary humans, weirdos and weird hunters are the real enemies, the kind that we will confront face to face in the future.
Mo Qing bit a piece of meat jerky, "But why are you going to the Ghost Hunting Bureau? Are you going to betray me?"
"Yes, I will bring a company of ghost hunters to catch you later." Li Yang raised the corner of his lips, "If you are scared, go out and hide."
"Wow, I'm so scared." Mo Qing hugged himself cooperatively, curled up on the sofa and shivered, "Sister Ruoruo, please don't let the ghost hunters catch me, ah."
"Tsk, that's not fun."
Li Yang was dissatisfied with his emotionless cooperation, so he just left without wasting time.
*
There was really only one coffee shop near the Ghost Hunting Bureau. Li Yang found it by searching on his mobile phone and arrived there smoothly.
As she pushed the door open, the wind chimes hanging on the door made a crisp sound.
Perhaps because it was morning, there weren't many customers inside, but there were a few young men and women at the bar waiting for their coffee to go.
Li Yang immediately caught sight of Fu Xiuyuan sitting in the booth by the window.
He was wearing casual clothes today, but both his jacket and the short-sleeved shirt underneath were dark in color, making him less unapproachable. However, his expression still made him look calm and serious.
"Captain Fu, sorry for the long wait." Li Yang gave him an insincere apologetic smile, then sat opposite him, took out his mobile phone, scanned the code and placed an order.
Only then did she notice that there was a cup of green tea in front of Fu Xiuyuan.
"It didn't take long." The man dragged the cup towards himself and spoke slowly.
Li Yang just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard him say, "It's just my second drink."
"…"
"We agreed to meet at 10:30. Look, it's exactly 10:30 now." Li Yang turned his phone around and pointed to the time on it to prove that he was not late.
Fu Xiuyuan nodded calmly, "I know, but I'm used to arriving early."
"Then you can't blame me. Let's get down to business, Captain Fu."
"Yes, but you don't need to call me Captain Fu in this situation. Just call me by my name."
Li Yang was stunned for a moment, "Isn't this a question?"
Fu Xiuyuan pointed at the clothes on his body and said, "I'm taking a break today and won't be working."
What this means is that it is not a very formal question and there is no need to be as restrained as in the Ghost Hunting Bureau.
"Oh, thank goodness I agreed to chat outside, otherwise you would have to work overtime?"
"That's true." Fu Xiuyuan took a sip of tea. "Do you remember the registration form you filled out when you left the Ghost Hunting Bureau last time?"
Registration form?
Li Yang had actually forgotten about it, but he remembered it as soon as he was reminded. "I remember. What's wrong?"
Fu Xiuyuan turned on his phone, tapped on the screen, and placed it in front of her. On it was a clip of the dungeon live broadcast. "You wrote about talisman making and weapon refining in your esoteric arts, and the unlocking and door locking talismans used in the dungeon, as well as the talisman paper that can heat up the room, were all created by you?"
"yes."
Fu Xiuyuan was a little surprised that she would admit it so directly, and couldn't help but ask again, "Can you really create your own runes?"
Li Yang said with a 'high' sound, "Yes."
"...You can also make talisman paper?"
"meeting."
"Ordinary yellow talisman?"
At this time, the waiter came over with coffee. Li Yang took it and said thank you, then took a big sip. "That thing is not worth me making specially. It's more cost-effective to buy it directly."
"Is that a blue talisman?"
Talisman paper comes in five colors: yellow, blue, purple, silver, and gold. Yellow is the most common, while gold is the strongest and rarest.
The difference between them lies in the upper limit of spiritual power they can carry, and there is also a medium in the middle that can double the effect.
For example, a relatively simple fire talisman can be cast by a mid-level earth spirit mystic, that is, an A-level ghost hunter, using a yellow talisman. The power of the fire talisman can hurt a B-level ghost; if blue talisman paper is used, the ghost can be directly burned to ashes; and purple talisman paper can burn a group of ghosts to ashes.
Not to mention the silver and gold colors, the destructive power is huge, it is no longer a matter of a few monsters dying.
As long as a mystic who can draw talismans is able to use the talisman paper of the later levels, regardless of his realm, his strength will be raised by several levels.
"Well, you can say that." Li Yang nodded.
"There can't be any more purple talismans." Fu Xiuyuan added jokingly, although his expression didn't seem to indicate a joke.
Li Yang nodded again, "I can do it."
"Is there anything you can prove?"
"No."
"?"
Seeing his expression that said, "You seem to be kidding me," Li Yang shrugged and said, "I don't have money to buy raw materials."
Hearing this, Fu Xiuyuan suddenly remembered that she had taken the initiative to go to the dungeon, and was a little surprised: "Since your profound skills are not as ordinary as you said before, why are you still short of money?"
"Well... this matter is very complicated. Anyway, you just need to know that I am very poor and have no money to make talisman paper."
She was reluctant to talk about it, so Fu Xiuyuan didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he asked another question, "You also wrote about refining weapons before. Is it true or..."
Li Yang suddenly stopped drinking coffee, and when he looked up at him, a cunning look flashed across his eyes, "What do you think?"
Fu Xiuyuan, who always interrogated others and was rarely questioned in return, was stunned for a moment before answering truthfully, "I don't quite believe it."
It's not that he looked down on Li Yang, it's just that a weapon refiner in his early twenties was unheard of, and no one in the entire Xuanshu world had ever seen one.
He no longer believed the information he had previously investigated about Li Yang, because based on her performance in the C-level copy, none of the information was true.
But the problem is that the Ghost Hunting Bureau could not find any trace of falsification in the files, and there was nothing wrong with Li Yang's file information.
Even so, he still couldn't believe that such a young weapon refiner existed.
"How about we make a bet?" When Li Yang heard his answer, instead of getting angry or sarcastic, his eyes lit up, as if he had been waiting for him to say that.
Of course, Fu Xiuyuan also noticed her excitement and asked, "How do you want to bet?"
"I'm going to the Xuanshu shop later to buy materials for refining. Captain Fu, come with me. If I refine a magical weapon, how about you reimburse me for the materials?"
"…"
I can see that you are really short of money.
Fu Xiuyuan didn't know what he was thinking. After two seconds of silence, he nodded and agreed, "Okay, but what if you don't succeed?"
"Except for money, you can propose any conditions you want." Li Yang smiled like a fox whose conspiracy had succeeded.
In fact, she was so confident that Fu Xiuyuan already believed her to about 70% of the point, and the remaining part was the habit he had developed over the years of not trusting anyone easily.
However, he had no intention of canceling the bet because he was afraid of losing. If Li Yang really knew how to refine weapons, what would be wrong with giving her some money?
This is not just a gamble, it also concerns the future of mankind.