Chapter 77 What's all this nonsense?

  "Where... is this?" The little girl seemed to have a great deal of wariness towards outsiders, maintaining a crouching posture and staring at Nine Lives with extreme vigilance. Her eyes glanced at C.C., who was only wrapped in a bath towel, before returning to Nine Lives, whereupon her wary gaze took on a somewhat disdainful tone.

  Hey! Little girl, did you misunderstand something?

  She scratched her head, let out a sigh of relief with a hint of exasperation, this young girl who didn't look very old at all was acting just like one of those problem girls, an inconsiderate existence!

  "Go change your clothes first," Jiǔ Mìng pinched a stored card, and a large pile of things immediately fell into the empty space. Jiǔ Mìng flipped out a few bags and stuffed them into C.C.'s hands, "I'll talk to her first..."

  "Who are you? Don't come over!" The little girl saw Jiǔ Mìng approaching and immediately pulled out a rusty small knife, which was absolutely tetanus-prone...

  "Alright, calm down. The Ninth Life stopped in his tracks and pressed his hands together towards the little girl who didn't even flinch, "En, don't worry, I'm a legitimate businessman. You coming here is your good fortune, if you miss this chance, there won't be another one."

  "I can't see it." The little girl's hand holding the small knife didn't even flinch, her expression firm.

  "What did you see?"

  "Dog Man and Woman."

  "Damn it! Kids shouldn't talk nonsense."

  With a bang, in the little girl's astonishment, Jiǔ Mìng had unknowingly flashed behind her. The open "Cross-Boundary Gate" was closed by Jiǔ Mìng's outstretched hand. The little girl didn't hesitate either, and the rusty small knife stabbed towards Jiǔ Mìng's knee.

  "Monster..."

  The little girl's indifferent expression could no longer be maintained as she saw the knife that seemed to have stabbed into thin air, and yet it had indeed pierced through Jiǔ Mìng's knee. But what was even more frightening was that there was not a hint of resistance, and one could even see the scene of the knife inside his knee.

  "So we can have a good talk now?" Ignoring the small knife that had been stabbed into his knee, the little girl in front of him was just an ordinary little devil, it would be strange if she could hurt him!

  ... Seeing that she couldn't hurt Jiǔ Mìng, the little girl seemed to have resigned herself to her fate and simply closed her eyes, refusing to acknowledge Jiǔ Mìng's presence.

  "Tsk, troublesome. I've already said that I'm a good person, how can you still misunderstand me?" He reached out and grabbed the small knife from the little girl's hand, and with a few swift movements, he crushed it into several pieces. The broken knife quickly disintegrated in his hand and was discarded as trash by the mysterious shop. "Now go take a bath, you little devil who's covered in weird smells."

  "Ordinary people would misunderstand, wouldn't they?" C.C., who had already changed into her clothes, said with a lot of experience, and then pulled at the dress she was wearing, "Why are they all one-piece dresses?"

  "Never mind, let's just leave the misunderstanding as it is." As an outsider... being treated differently was nothing new, Nine glanced at C.C. who was wearing a light-colored lace-trimmed dress and nodded, "My eyes aren't bad, right? I only knew your height but not your measurements, so I chose this outfit with the strongest compatibility!"

  "Or... you take her?" The Nine Lives looked at the little girl who was still calm and collected, then turned to ask C.C.

  She quietly sized up the little girl for a while, and C.C.'s mouth corners rose with an arc, "Does she have anything to do with you? Since she's so repelled by this place, why not let her leave as she came?"

  "Of course not, since you're a guest, we can't cheat you." Jiǔ Mìng shook his head.

  "You're a good person."

  "It's hard being a good person... I'll go out for another trip, can you take care of things first?"

  When he came back again, Kaito brought several children's clothes, this time not forgetting to buy them. However, after coming back, he saw C.C sitting on the pile of books that hadn't been organized yet, one hand holding Cheese-kun and the other flipping through a thick book, while the little girl was imitating C.C from before, wrapped in a bath towel, quietly sitting on the sofa, gobbling down her food.

  Have you let your guard down?

  He looked at C.C. with a surprised expression, then withdrew his gaze, he wasn't there for this period of time... what exactly happened?

  "She's so honest, did you hit the kid?"

  She quietly approached C.C. and asked in a low voice, but was met with the girl's scornful gaze, "Don't categorize things you can't do as violence."

  "Alright..." He nodded and walked over to the little girl, tapping her head, "Stop eating, or you'll get into trouble!"

  The little girl who had her meal interrupted stared at Jiumeng with a hateful gaze, but Jiumeng calmly ignored it and continued, "Hey, don't you feel your nose itching? You've got a nosebleed."

  "... Did you poison me?" The little girl's gaze suddenly shifted to C.C, touched the philtrum, and indeed had a nosebleed. Her tone was trembling slightly.

  C.C. directly kicked the ball to Kamine, the thing was bought by him, she had been eating it for so long and nothing happened, so if there's a problem go find Kamine, "ask him."

  "Don't worry, it's just an overdose, you can think of it as accidentally eating a thousand-year-old ginseng." Jiǔ Mìng explained, glancing at C.C. again, the special version of food for espers was all highly nutritious, and yet apart from her immortality, she seemed like a normal person in every other way, eating non-stop throughout the day without any issues.

  To know that an ordinary ability user dares to be so aggressive, the most likely reason is that they will end up in the hospital directly.

  The little girl found herself really just having a nosebleed, and the panic on her face lessened a bit. She stared at the food in front of her, hesitating whether to eat some more. Anyway, it was free, and she wasn't full yet.

  "If you want to eat, then just eat this."

  Jiu Ming handed her a regular pizza, and C.C., who was watching from the sidelines, nodded in understanding. No wonder there was such a huge difference in taste between the two pizzas.

  After the little girl had eaten and drunk enough, Jiǔ Mìng brought out those children's clothes. The little girl saw them and immediately shook her head, "Too pretty, easy to attract attention if worn."

  It's clear she still wants to give it a try.

  "Just wear it here." Jiǔ Mìng didn't say anything else, put down the few clothes and walked to the front of the book pile to start tidying up... categorizing?

  It's too much trouble, just put them away for now and deal with it later. After all, the books he bought are of all kinds, from military encyclopedias to pregnancy and childcare... How did this type of book even get mixed in?

  Hesitated for a moment, looked at the book with "Parenting and Health" printed on the cover in his hand, Jiǔ Mìng shook his head and put it directly back onto the bookshelf... Maybe it'll come in handy someday?

  Hahaha... stop teasing!!

  Let it be sealed here forever then.

  "The Self-Cultivation of a Maid"? He squinted his eyes and looked at another bizarre book that had popped up, his gaze involuntarily shifting to C.C., who was quietly reading a book. Then he knocked on his own head, thinking, "This one should also be sealed away."

  "Countermeasures for Dealing with Arrogant Young Misses: 100 Entries"? What a long name! Nine Lives glanced at the cover, then flipped it open and quickly scanned a few pages. Hmm... this... forget it, without an iron-like physique, I'd probably be exhausted just by the first ten entries.

  Dusty!

  "How to Raise a Perfect Baby"

  Dust seal! This distance is still 108,000 miles away from me!

  "Otaku teaches you how to make a high-energy beam gun!" Wait, isn't making this stuff illegal for civilians?!

  Jiǔ Mìng felt that the boss of that bookstore he casually found had a rather extensive network, to have such 'forbidden books' and still dare to sell them!?

  After hesitating for a moment, Jiǔ Mìng put it aside, not intending to seal it away. He would ponder over it from time to time; after all, with so much idle time on his hands, he might get moldy. Most importantly, he was interested now.

  "Manual for Homemade Guns" Uh... Jiǔ Mìng thought to himself that making a phone call might just result in seeing the news of a certain bookstore owner being executed for selling illegal books on tomorrow's newspaper.

  "The Tyrant's Weapon! Homemade High-Energy Bombs!" Jiǔ Mìng smiled slightly with a bit of distortion, glancing at the pile of books beside Lǎo Gāo. How many more weird books like this were hidden in there?

  The tycoon's weapon, the nine lives who were attracted by various strange books didn't even have the mind to sort them out, and he honestly looked at this book... En, it was indeed the tycoon's weapon. Let's not say that throwing high-energy crystals is a wasteful behavior, but the description in this book is also very detailed, and even the feasibility is very high.

  But don't forget the prefix of Tuhao!

  Because high-energy crystals are too stable, ordinary methods can't make them explode, and there are too many common high-energy crystals, it's impossible to restrict them as contraband.

  In short, the primary condition for making this thing is two kinds of attribute conflicting high-energy crystals, such as water and fire. Water attributes are generally produced in coastal areas, more in deep-sea areas, but going there is basically a dead end. Fire attributes can be found in volcanoes, but those places have many derived monsters.

  Wow, this book is written in great detail. Even if I can't do it, I can still broaden my knowledge. Ordinary encyclopedias don't have such records.

  Apart from that, an ignition device is also needed, which is a component built into the energy conversion furnace. To detonate high-energy crystals, it is necessary to stimulate the internal ability to the most active degree, but the cost of that thing is very high. To be honest, one or two are fine, but if there are more, even ordinary tycoons can't afford it.

  And... doing this kind of thing is also against the law, seriously, it's a case of "first collapse then ask"!

  "No way! The old man's hands are already unbearable!" He took a deep breath, and Jiǔ Mìng put the book in his hand aside. Although he didn't know why there were so many banned books mixed in, it seemed like... maybe he should try making one himself, even if it was just as a toy.

  It's decided, from today on I'll start studying properly!!

  "What am I doing?" Noticing a gaze on himself, Nines wondered and turned his head towards C.C.

  "Has being so engrossed in reading already made you mentally abnormal?"

  "Uh... what just happened?"