"Alright, I've done your upper body, now take off your pants," she said with a laugh as she patted Xue Jing's broad shoulders.
"Uh, I'll handle the rest myself, no need to trouble senior sister,"
Xue Jing hesitated, speaking somewhat awkwardly.
"Hehe, I'm just kidding."
Zhu Shanying's eyes were filled with amusement as she found Xue Jing's discomfort quite entertaining.
"You're cute, junior brother."
"Okay, then I'm going to start on my homework. Junior brother, you follow the method I just used, apply the Sleeping Dragon Salve, and massage it in with Power. I'm heading out first."
The girl stood up, bid farewell, and left the practice room with light steps.
After she left, Xue Jing took off his pants and, following Zhu Shanying's earlier instructions, braced himself against the pain as he applied the medicine and massaged his legs with Power.
The Sleeping Dragon Salve truly was Hidden Dragon Dojo's secret medicine, its efficacy was exceptionally remarkable; initially, it was hot and painful, but soon the areas where it had been massaged emitted a warm and comfortable sensation, relieving much of the pain caused by practicing the Coiling Dragon Art.
Not yet recovered and unable to continue practicing, Xue Jing, having nothing else to do here, left the Hidden Dragon Dojo and took the bus home.
At this time, Miao Miao was still not awake, and Xue Jing didn't disturb it but instead turned on the computer in his room.
After discovering that Miao Miao had accessed the computer, he installed a covert screen recording software to start automatically with the computer, not knowing if it had recorded what Miao Miao was doing.
After about ten seconds of startup time, Xue Jing used the shortcut key to open the screen recording software and then opened the video folder, indeed finding a recorded video.
He unconsciously turned his head to glance at Miao Miao still sleeping on the bed, hesitated for a moment, but still opened the video.
In the video, the mouse slowly moved to the browser on the computer desktop. It seemed that due to the inconvenience of the cat's paw, the operation was very slow.
After opening the browser, Miao Miao first entered a website in the address bar, then downloaded a software named in garbled text from a hidden spot on the page.
After a series of incomprehensible operations by Xue Jing, the software was successfully installed.
When the software opened, no screen appeared, only a small icon was added at the bottom right corner.
Then, Miao Miao opened the browser again, entered another address, and after a few seconds of connection, what appeared in the video was a website named 'Inside World'.
It appeared to be a forum with very many subchannels.
[Banned Drug Trading Zone][Alien Implant Trading Zone][Bounty Order Zone][Intersecting Boundaries Hunter Zone]...
At this moment, an advertisement popped up on the screen.
[Still annoyed by your neighbor's non-stop noise? Still angry at your partner who betrayed you? Still troubled by the existence of competitors? Kill'em APP at your service. Place an order and someone dies, quick resolution, saves time and effort, place an order now, the first order comes with a free death style selection package ...]
Xue Jing: "..."
In the video, Miao Miao didn't even seem to look, directly closing it with an 'X'.
Then, it didn't enter any channel; instead, it clicked on the login in the upper right corner, entered the username and password, successfully logged in, the username was [Sect Leader], with an avatar of a chibi anthropomorphized dragon.
The mouse moved and clicked into a personal interface, which opened a private chat function, and a chat interface popped up immediately.
Chat history:
[October 10, 10:29]
[Sect Leader: I'm still alive, currently very safe, do not worry]
[October 10, 21:39]
[Followers of the Dragon: Sect Leader!! It's so good that you are still alive!]
[October 10, 22:46]
[Followers of the Dragon: Sect Leader, Kangde Corporation is trying to kill us, everyone is talking about disbanding, we can't stay in the Fifth Urban Circle anymore...]
[October 11, 01:23]
[Followers of the Dragon: "Sigh, Mr. An said the old Sect Hierarch is dead, and persisting is useless. He took a cab and left in the middle of the night…"]
[October 11, 08:31]
[Followers of the Dragon: "Miss Ji said she's going to the Third Metropolitan Circle to take refuge with relatives…"]
What followed was a string of who left.
[October 13, 12:18]
[Followers of the Dragon: "Sect Leader, what shall we do? So many people have left…"]
In the video, Miao Miao started typing. Since typing with cat paws was inconvenient, she spelled out one letter at a time, very slowly.
[October 14, 15:26]
[Sect Leader: "It's fine, it's much quieter now."]
After replying, Miao Miao clicked on the X, cleared the browsing history, uninstalled the software that looked like a VPN, and then shut down the computer.
After watching the video, Xue Jing pinched his chin and thought: "Looks like the Dragon Cult is about to disband…"
But fortunately, it seemed Miao Miao wasn't too heartbroken about it. All she did was send a 'It's fine.'
Xue Jing stood up and walked to the bed, reaching out to touch the sleeping Miao Miao's head, his gaze gentle, and softly chuckled:
"If you have nowhere to go… staying by my side is also fine."
The next day, Monday.
When Xue Jing got up in the morning, the pain from practicing the Coiling Dragon Art had completely subsided. He wasn't sure if it was the effect of the Sleeping Dragon Salve or the [Health Cultivation].
As usual, after making food for Miao Miao, he headed out to school.
He went straight to the Qingcheng University campus, entering the seventh floor of the library.
To activate the active effect of "Twin Lifes," he still needed to keep searching for clues about the Divine Relic.
This time, having obtained specific names from Miao Miao, finding them became much more efficient, feeling able to skip over any books and records unrelated to the words 'Divine Relic.'
"Classmate, you come here every day specifically, is there something you're trying to find? Maybe I can help you."
A soft and pleasant voice came from beside him, Xue Jing turned his head.
He saw the high ponytail girl who had always been on the seventh floor standing next to him, her pretty face and slightly purple eyes were looking at him.
The girl was dressed in a pure white form-fitting T-shirt, her hands holding a book against her chest, the upper half of the book compressed in her well-developed southern hemisphere, making the title invisible.
Xue Jing subconsciously opened his panel to check and saw that Charm Art wasn't active, clearly, this was a purely benevolent inquiry without any ulterior motives.
He shoved the book he was holding back into the shelf and casually responded:
"Are you a student at Qingcheng University?"
The girl replied, "Um… I suppose so."
Xue Jing pondered for a moment, though not hopeful, he still asked: "Have you heard of a 'Divine Relic'?"
Upon hearing this word, the girl's expression visibly paused, then she revealed a slight smile.
"It seems, classmate, you're not just any ordinary student."
Xue Jing raised an eyebrow:
"You actually know about this thing?"
"I know a bit." The girl gestured with her hand towards the seating area.
"Let's go there and sit down to talk more."