Chapter 1084: Chapter 35: Accidentally Triggered a Hidden Quest
Older generations who lack ability often pin their hopes on their children achieving success.
Older generations who have achieved success themselves mostly just want their children to be healthy and safe.
When Yang Qiming was young, he acted radically and with an extreme personality, making him a sharp blade in Xu Ziwei’s hand due to his tough style of doing things.
Now, as he aged, his attitude towards the Yang Family has also become more complicated.
Wang Yunxiao could tell that he genuinely wanted to give Yang Jian a chance.
He could even guess what kind of answer Yang Qiming wanted to hear.
Nothing more than, “I know I was wrong, I want to change, I want to be a good person.”
But even such a simple request, Yang Jian couldn’t fulfill.
Maybe he didn’t feel he had any problems at all, so there’s nothing to talk about regarding repentance.
The Emperor can’t raise military funds, and the postal station is laying off staff; why not look for problems within himself?
You can’t afford a seventy-six dollar eyebrow pencil, why not look for problems within yourself?
What could be my problem, except that I missed the startup phase of your family’s President and didn’t get the first slice of cake.
Put two people with the surname Yang together, who’s more noble than whom?
This is roughly the mindset.
There are still quite a few complicated follow-ups to this case.
Like how to deal with the inheritance of the exterminated families, how to wrangle and litigate with the Four Seas Commerce Guild.
What kind of guarantees and compromises Yang Qiming made privately with the two directors in order to fire that shot.
The identity of the other mysterious person at the battle scene near Xiao Bai Building last night, besides Yang Jian.
If she were found and made to pay, would she repay with her own body…
But Wang Yunxiao no longer needed to consider these issues.
Dragging his slightly exhausted body, he randomly found a hotel to catch up on sleep. Until the next morning, Wang Yunxiao got up and opened his notebook, and at a glance, saw 99+ message notifications.
“Are you there? Are you there? Are you there…”
Wang Yunxiao was overwhelmed.
Li Mumu, which wayward mood is this?
Originally planning to reply immediately, but thinking that he had already ghosted for so long that a few more minutes wouldn’t matter, Wang Yunxiao decided to freshen up first, and then go out for breakfast.
The sausages and biscuits he brought back yesterday were distributed to everyone. He found it troublesome to carry them, and seeing that Yan Yu’an quite liked them, he gave him half.
Which good Tianmen People eat biscuits with sausages early in the morning, wouldn’t they find it irritating?
Baked roll with pork chop is more fitting.
Just after getting cleaned up and sitting down for a big poop in the bathroom, someone started banging on the door outside.
Amidst Wang Yunxiao’s panicked attempts to pull up his pants, the door handle suddenly twisted open with a snap.
The ill-looking Li Mumu walked in from outside, her gaze first landing on the bed.
Great, no wild woman.
“Room inspection!”
“Li Mumu, are you crazy!”
Wang Yunxiao snapped in exasperation, “What are you doing early in the morning? And how do you know I’m staying here?”
Calculated it.
Li Mumu defiantly said, “Why didn’t you reply to my messages?”
“I worked overtime all night, girl! Just woke up!”
Li Mumu puffed up her cheeks, glared at him fiercely, then sat on the bed and began going through Wang Yunxiao’s notebook for reconciliation.
How about it… you still want to dig up my chat history with my ex-girlfriend?
Twenty minutes later, Wang Yunxiao and Li Mumu came to a breakfast stall downstairs, each ordering a serving of youtiao and soy milk.
Li Mumu tore the freshly fried youtiao into small pieces, soaked them in soy milk, and then carefully skimmed off the oil flowers on top with a spoon.
Sure enough, a lady-like demeanor, making the youtiao a needless sacrifice to the oil pot.
Wang Yunxiao silently drank his soy milk, silently mocking.
“This notebook is acting up again.”
“It always had issues, right?”
If it doesn’t have issues, that’s not normal. Do you really think that Apocalypse Sect is a charity?
“This time it’s not a small issue. You know that Uesugi Risa also has a notebook, right?”
“Yes.”
“She got into a fight at my doorstep the night before last, and went missing the next day.”
“I know.”
I also know that your dad nearly got kidnapped.
“Do you think that someone who can get lost walking three hundred meters away from home has any reason to show up at my doorstep?”
Wang Yunxiao thought about it and indeed.
Uesugi Risa is neither a staff member in the Special Service Bureau nor has any clear action purpose.
She is simply a free spirit.
For her to leave home suddenly and run such a distance, there are only two possibilities.
One is receiving a divine message from her family deity, but as far as Wang Yunxiao’s understanding of her and her deity goes, they’ve been free-ranging for half a year already; it’s unlikely they’d run into Yang Jian by such coincidence yesterday.
The other possibility is the one Li Mumu is implying.
Could she have been lured away by someone?
But who could lure her away?
The biggest suspect, without a doubt, is the notebook in her possession.
Uesugi Risa may be a bit clumsy, but she’s not low in intelligence. When she encounters unknown people or incomprehensible problems, she can check her notebook at any time, unless the information provided by the notebook misled her.
Or, some matter related to the notebook caught her attention.
Otherwise, what else could it be? Could it be she’s suddenly found the eighth Divine Witch?
“I went to find her yesterday and found that she hadn’t returned all night. So I tried to send her a message using my notebook…”
In fact, it was a calculation of cause and effect.
Li Mumu opened her notebook and handed it to Wang Yunxiao: “Then the notebook displayed this message to me.”
Wang Yunxiao took it and looked at it, seeing it said, “The apocalypse is near, destiny starts to converge. The seekers of knowledge are also pursued by knowledge; in the end, only the true Sage can bear the crown, reach the other side, and glimpse the sole truth among countless lost paths… What does this mean?”
A riddler again, huh?
Let it stew in the bathroom for a couple of days, and it will behave.
“I asked, and this is what it said.”
Li Mumu flipped to the next page, where another line of text appeared.
“Go search for the other notebooks. When the nine notebooks converge together, you will glimpse the truth of the world and fulfill your own desire.”
Is this the Holy Grail or Dragon Ball?
“Why has this thing suddenly gone haywire?”
Wang Yunxiao found it odd; though he knew this notebook had issues, it was usually low-key, with no presence. If you ignore it, it stays quiet.
Why suddenly start issuing a main quest?
Panic?
“I guess, it’s because the number of notebooks reached a certain standard.”
Li Mumu, being an avid video game player, quickly figured out the ins and outs of the whole deal by following the Cause and Effect Line after triggering this hidden quest.
“There are nine notebooks in total, all previously held by the Apocalypse Sect. Later… I found one, you have one, Uesugi Risa has one, plus others brought over by other people; we may have already surpassed half.”