Chapter 22
After leaving the night market, Murong Jiao walked into a desolate dark alley. Turning around the dark corner, she quickly flashed into her spirit courtyard. Behind her, a group of men quickly followed. Unfortunately, when they turned around the corner, even her shadow could not be seen.
“Where is she?!” A bearded man asked angrily.
“She should still be around here, Boss.” A skinny man replied quickly.
The other man looked around and said, “Look here. Her footprints suddenly stopped here. It was as if she had just disappeared.”
The bearded man who was called the boss by the other party went to check the footprints. He squatted down, studying the small footprints left in the dusty ground. Due to the hot and dry weather, there is dust everywhere. The same is true here. A thick layer of dust had accumulated in the desolated alley, allowing them to see the footprints clearly.
The bearded man stood up, scanned the alley for a while, then pointed to two people and said, “You two, guard this alley. Others, follow me back.”
“Yes, boss.”
Leaving two thin and dirty people keeping an eye at the dark alley, the group quickly left the area. In the spirit courtyard, Murong Jiao had already showered, and she was sitting in the middle of the mirror room when she saw them leave the alley.
Murong Jiao drank the watermelon gazpacho leisurely while her eyes followed those men all the time. She looked at where the two men were hiding. With the straw in her mouth, she closed her eyes and tried her best to send her spirit body out of the spirit courtyard.
After a few minutes, her forehead was covered with sweat. Opening her eyes, she sighed. She needs to become stronger in order to conjure the spirit body. With the spirit body, she can go out and walk normally in the spirit body form. How convenient is it? Unfortunately, she is still too weak. She stared at the two men reflected in the mirror, and pursed her lips.
“Looks like I’ll have to wait until they’re gone before I can get out.”
Sighing, she got up and left the mirror room.
“Let’s practice harder.”
Ignoring them, she walked out of the house and started working diligently. Outside the spirit courtyard, the two thin men were already dripping with sweat. Crouching in the corner of a dark alley, they feel that the temperature today is a little higher than yesterday.
The tall man looked up at the sky and said, “I don’t think we can wait here all the time. It’s really hot today. I feel like my skin has been peeled off by the sun.”
The other man wiped his sweat for the nth time and said, “I feel the same way. Don’t you think the temperature is rising every day? “
The tall man thought for a while and said, “I’m not sure.”
While they were chatting, a middle-aged woman walked past them. She glanced at the two of them, casting suspicious glances. Looking at the two of them, she quickened her pace, muttering something in a low voice.
Not long after the middle-aged woman disappeared from the corner of the dark alley, she returned with two patrolling soldiers.
“They’re hiding there, sir.” She pointed to the corner of the dark alley.
Following the direction she pointed, the two soldiers raised their weapons and cautiously approached the dark alley. Seeing the soldiers, the two skinny men shouted in unison. “Damn it!”
Hearing their panicked shouts, the soldiers rushed over and pointed their weapons at the two of them. “Don’t move!”
The tall man stood up, climbed up the wall behind him, and shouted, “Run!”
“Stop right there!”
Bang! Bang!
The soldiers reacted quickly when they saw the two skinny men ran away, and shot them mercilessly. When the soldiers fired the first bullet, the middle-aged woman who reported the two skinny men had fled. Murong Jiao sat in the middle of the mirror room, watching this scene while clapping her hands happily.
“Good shot!”
She watched it for a few minutes, then stood up from the floor in a good mood. Seeing the two soldiers still working hard in the hot weather, she decided to give them something in return. Although they were unknowingly helping her. After thinking about it, she decided to give them the popsicles she made.
She went to the study, sat on the gaming chair, and checked her supplies list. After a few hours of finishing her routine, she stretched and went to take a shower before going to sleep. After sleeping for eight hours, she woke up naturally.
“Engh~”
Looking at her watch, she counted the time. It has only been forty minutes since she came in, and there are about twenty-three days before she could go out again. Thinking about the long list she made before going to bed, she washed up, ate something light, and started working.
Her main task this time is to use the power of the water attribute to create ice cubes. Although she has made ice cubes using ten freezers, there is only enough for her own consumption. If she wants to sell ice, she needs to find more freezers or do it manually.
Since she couldn’t find those freezers alone, she could only use her water element spiritual power to make ice for the time being. This will take more time and energy, but for her, it is a good way to cultivate her water element spiritual power. Now, her wood element spiritual power has been raised to level 2, but her water element spiritual power is still at level 0 because she didn’t use the water element spiritual power much.
After eating, she walked towards the vast lake in the middle of the forest. When her wood element spiritual power reached the second level, forests and lakes emerged from the mist. When she knew about the forests and lakes, she knew that only when her spiritual power became stronger could she open up new areas.
Standing by the lake, she raised her hands and closed her eyes. She directed her mental power to the lake water, wrapped the lake water into a bubble, and then used the water element’s spiritual power to turn the lake water into ice. By lowering the temperature of the water inside the bubbles, she managed to turn the water into a big block of ice.
She used her mental power to take out ice cubes from the lake and put them into the ground. She looked at the large ball of ice with satisfaction. She calculated how much mental power and water element spiritual power a block of ice needed. After calculating, she could make at least 200 blocks of ice before she needed to rest.
With a smile on her face, she continued to make ice. As she continues to create ice, she can create about 1,200 pieces of ice in one day. Judging by the size of this ice ball, she estimated that it could be cut into at least 2.000 pieces. At this rate, she can produce 2.4 million ice cubes in one day.
She worked hard for 23 days and produced 55.2 million ice cubes by herself. For those ice cubes produced by the freezer, she does not plan to sell them, but to use them herself. Her wares also needed ice to cool it down. When she came out of the shower, it was already ten o’clock in the evening outside.
This time, instead of using the ice box, she plans to rent a small shop not far from the night market. Wearing a one-piece dress with a ponytail and a backpack, she went to the mirror room. Seeing that there was no one around, she quickly left the spirit courtyard. Appearing back to the dark alley, she made her way to the stations located at the entrance to the base.