Chapter 9: Grasp the things in front of you well

  "Reached...” He hesitated for a moment, and Du Fei reconfirmed the number of photos once again. Just as Jiu Ming had said, there were exactly seventy chapters, all of which were school flower's pajama photos... Although nothing was exposed, the content of the photos made him feel like covering his face.

  This is basically just a forced shot after being discovered!

  How did he come back?

  "This is a bit too much... can't we have less? After all, it's a seventy-day life, more than two months' time, ten days and half a month would be fine, but the ninth life is really something, and I ended up with so many!"

  "Alright, I'll give you a discount, 50 days is fine." He shrugged his shoulders. Jiǔ Mìng wasn't worried about the other party, as long as they took one look. Judging from this kid's expression, he probably wanted every single photo inside, even if it was just a snapshot. Jiǔ Mìng had taken them very well.

  "This..."

  Looking at Du Fei's hesitant appearance, Jiu Ming lightly shook his head. The fact that he reduced the amount so much could also be considered a kind intention on his part. Earlier, I asked Faceplate Jun about the effects of extracting life force from others. Apart from reducing one's vitality, there is another side effect which makes the opponent weak, in other words, their vital energy is injured. Even if the extracted life force exceeds a certain amount at once, the opponent will directly die.

  For ordinary people, it's no big deal if it's less than half a year, and the stronger ones can even increase in number. Du Fei is an ability user, so he's inherently better than ordinary people, so he can still increase.

  Does his good intention seem to have given him more room for bargaining?

  With a wave of his hand, Jiǔ Mìng easily took the phone from Du Fēi's hand and pulled out the memory card inside. "Young man, don't take many things for granted. You've obtained something that you might not get in your lifetime, so you should pay the price. Of course, if you have any doubts, I'll leave with this thing myself, as if I never appeared."

  "Wait!" Seeing the microSD card in Jiǔ Mìng's hand slightly deformed under his pressure, Du Fēi hastily blocked him, "I agree!"

  "The transaction continues." The memory card was thrown back again, and Jiǔ Mìng saw that Du Fēi still wanted to say something else, so he continued to ask, "Are there any other questions?"

  "A bit..." Du Fei smiled awkwardly, "You, can you help me pursue the school beauty?"

  "What can you offer?" Jiuming asked back, he really couldn't see what kind of capital this kid had to reverse the situation... Reverse the situation... That's relying on effort, but this guy... Relying on writing diary YY?

  But his ability, really didn't have much room for development, was just a scout's material, as for training the body, an Esper with a physical ability would break through the conventional way of progress through hard work.

  "Is it still life?"

  "Firstly, I'm not a great philanthropist, secondly, I'm not an unscrupulous villain either. Fairly speaking, the difficulty of this matter is beyond your means to pay for it. You can't do it in your lifetime, let's just say you've wasted thirty years of your life. By the way, if one loses too much vitality, they will grow old."

  One sentence and Du Fei was scared off by the nine lives, he himself had lived for almost twenty years, minus thirty years... Hey, what's with this middle-aged uncle?

  "So, just take a good look at the things in front of you, you don't have any extraordinary encounters, this photo can be a beautiful memory for your school days, don't neglect the people around you." Jiǔ Mìng also saw another girl's name on the previous pages of Du Fei's diary, but afterwards it was all about that campus belle.

  Du Fei scratched his hair in distress, and the thoughts in his heart also became uncertain due to Jiu Ming's words. Perhaps it was time to give up some unrealistic ideas?

  "You wouldn't want to experience this feeling again." Looking at Du Fei's struggling expression, Jiu Ming thought for a moment, probably due to the human mind's lucky psychology, what if? What if pursuing the school flower succeeded? But you're not the protagonist... A sly smile, "Continue the transaction?"

  "Go on."

  "Hold steady!" Summoning Panel-kun, Ninth Life activated the collection function, targeting Du Fei's life force!

  A sudden and intense feeling of weakness made Du Fei feel like the sky was spinning in front of him, and the extreme nausea almost made him vomit. At the same time, a kind of inexplicable panic arose in his heart, which was the feeling that his life was being "taken away".

  He finally understood the meaning of the nine deaths, this feeling is not a temporary end, but a continuous one. The severe weakness, dizziness and dry heaving sensation that could erupt at any time made Du Fei extremely miss the moments when his body was fine!

  Never want to go through it again!

  "Your willpower is a bit weak, and your physical quality is also a bit poor. As an ability user, you should be able to withstand this kind of side effect." Nine Lives said with a somewhat cold tone, for an ability user, 50 days of life was indeed not an unbearable amount. "Just exercise more in the future, don't worry, at most it'll take a week for you to recover to your original state, and if your physical quality is even stronger, the time will be shorter."

  He patted Du Fei's shoulder and turned to leave the dormitory. Du Fei made a bit of noise, which was about to wake up his roommates.

  Vitality

  [Type: Consumable]

  Attribute: Life

  Quality: None

  Time limit: 50 days

  [Note: A product from a life transaction...... Are you a devil?]

  Convertible Source Power: 5

  Looking at the card sealed with fifty days of life force in his hand, Jiǔ Mìng nodded and quickly drew a few lines on his hand. The lines rapidly formed a thick book. He opened to the first page, placed the card on it, and the card was instantly printed on it, as if painted on it.

  The nine lives can be taken out at any time if they want to take them out.

  Converting the source power is not urgent for now, it's not particularly needed, this thing can still serve as a commodity for now. Everything starts with difficulty, and his main goal now is to solve the current situation.

  "Hmm, Panel-kun, I wonder if the Mysterious Shop just needs me to leave a message?" Nine Lives idly called out to Panel-kun and asked.

  As the shopkeeper, it is your duty to maintain the existence of the mysterious store. Every month-end, 1000 points of source power will be deducted. Every half year, based on 1000 points, an additional 50% will be added, until a maximum of 10,000 points. By then, as the shopkeeper of the mysterious store, you should have enough ability to maintain this level of supply!

  "Really can't?"

  The next store manager will take over from you, and the mysterious shop is not short of time.

  "You're not being honest, Panel-kun."

  Jiǔ Mìng's body swelled up, and as expected, the mysterious shop wouldn't raise a store manager who could mobilize its resources for nothing. Speaking of resources... weren't those resources collected by the store manager himself?

  This information will be prompted automatically in five days if it is not queried by the store owner.

  "I see, looks like I have to work hard then?"

  After waiting for a while, there was no new subtitle popping up from the faceplate, shook his head, and the chat range would not give a response.

  Go back and rest for a while, found a deserted place, the nine-life body appeared again with a faint ring-shaped ripple in front of him, and he walked in to block it.

  Lying on the sofa, yawning long and hard, the nine-life battle consumed not physical strength, but mental strength. Mental strength had almost replaced his explosive power, physical factors were non-existent, without a body he couldn't use every muscle to produce great power like a normal person.

  Fortunately, the special nature of his nine-life soul body made up for this feature. His burst of spiritual energy could produce an explosive force similar to that of his physical body. Similarly, his spiritual energy couldn't influence others or launch mental attacks like other ghostly entities.

  So apart from being a soul body, the other aspects of Jiu Ming are basically similar to those of humans. Even this spiritual force explosion is slightly more superior than human physical explosion, he can achieve super-level explosion beyond the super level.

  This is also one of the reasons why Jiǔ Mìng can easily suppress Wáng Duìzhǎng in a contest of strength.

  It's just spiritual power... The growth rate is destined to be slower than physical strength... At the same time, its own characteristics make Jiu Ming also need to sleep.

  It would be better if there were more of them so we could eat some, but now with only nine lives left, I can only go and smell the aroma.

  It's all right here for nine lives, but other places should have things and still have things.

  His behavior in this world's academy is already a blatant provocation, enough to be caught and done away with. Of course... from another perspective, it's not a big deal, but it depends on the nature of the matter.

  Based on the information provided by Captain Wang, who wished to remain anonymous, combined with someone's bizarre behavior, the nature of this matter was finally determined!

  A young man had a crush on Zhou Jing, the school flower of Changhe College, and made a series of impulsive moves - sneaking out at night to take pictures of her in private moments!

  Okay, the main thing is that no one was hurt that night, it's just a matter of taking sneak shots...

  In short, Changhe College had another rumor, and this rumor was quickly erased by time because it didn't have much momentum.

  "Who is it, after all." Puffing on his cigarette, Captain Wang stared at the computer in front of him. He had already pulled a lot of strings to get Nine Lives' identity, but unfortunately, apart from the other person's face, there was no other information.

  "Xiao Fei, are you feeling a bit better? I brought you some chicken soup." In one of the hospital rooms, a young girl suddenly pushed open the door carrying a thermos and asked with concern the person inside.

  Sitting on the hospital bed, Du Fei hesitated in front of his phone, wondering whether to press the confirm button. At the moment the girl appeared, he felt a slight panic and his finger directly pressed the confirm button.

  He opened his mouth and stared at the delete prompt on his phone for a while.

  "What's wrong?" The young girl with a youthful smile walked over carrying a thermos, leaned in to Du Fei and asked.

  "It's nothing, just some unimportant stuff." After a moment of hesitation, Du Fei's last bit of unease dissipated as he looked at the girl beside him who was opening a thermos box. "Rong Rong, want to go watch a movie together this weekend?"

  "Really?" The girl excitedly put down the lunchbox in her hand, "We haven't gone to see a movie together for a long time."

  Du Fei looked somewhat embarrassed and scratched his head, "En, it won't happen again, I guarantee!"