8:03 am, Alps Chain Hotel.

In a luxurious standard room, Gu Chi was sweating profusely on the bed near the door.

Xia Ling's face was flushed.

But Xia Ling was on another bed.

It was already November, almost winter, and Gu Chi never expected to wake up feeling hot.

But when he saw the system announcement, he felt relieved. Without thinking, he knew that time had jumped two days again.

So the real arrival time of the "Flame Curse Library" should be "today" - regardless of whether time in reality jumps or not, players in the instance will always fail at this time. It's just that the "eye" included the two days of jumping in its prophecy, predicting three days later.

If time is really controlled by the "eye," then it predicted itself.

Quite reasonable.

Fortunately, he had thought of this in advance, otherwise the "eye's prophecy" would probably have been wasted.

Sudden time fluctuations would cause traffic chaos. Even if flights could fly today, they would first carry passengers for Wednesday and Thursday. If he booked a ticket for Friday, he might not have even boarded the plane before they canceled it.

Gu Chi and Xia Ling arrived in Yunhai City at 8 o'clock last night. After entering the city, they ate something first, and then Gu Chi accompanied the girl to watch a movie.

They had agreed to meet at noon, so he couldn't back out.

After the movie ended and they returned to the hotel, it was almost midnight.

Xia Ling was a girl who loved to sleep. Even with a quilt in the high temperature of over 30 degrees, she couldn't be awakened. She just furrowed her eyebrows slightly, revealing a fair and smooth long leg from the quilt. Her bare feet were like pearls, making Gu Chi inexplicably think of braised chicken feet.

Xia Ling was wearing pajamas to sleep, and Gu Chi put on slippers and walked over to lift the quilt for the girl, and then turned on the air conditioner before going to take a shower - even though the temperature was high, he still used hot water, fighting poison with poison.

While showering, Gu Chi used his phone to browse the news.

As expected, the internet was in an uproar again.

The Clock of Light and Shadow appeared in multiple regions around the world again, just like last time.

"Where are the experts? Come out and explain!"

"Is it the aurora, magnetic field, or wastewater this time?"

The leaders of various countries were at a loss. The previous incident hadn't even passed, and now it happened again in just a few days!

The only consolation for them was that people in this era had a strong acceptance of new things in all aspects.

Compared to last time, this time the time jump didn't cause as much panic. Instead, people started to make jokes.

"I have a bold idea, planning to try it with my girlfriend next Tuesday."

"First of all, you have to actually have a girlfriend."

"Suppose I say something one second before the time jump, and the sentence is completed exactly one second after the jump. Then, please tell me, is the sentence I said one second ago still the sentence I said one second ago?"

"Family, I suspect this is a conspiracy against Crazy Thursday. All the sellers of fried chicken burgers are suspects!"

"It's my wife's birthday on Thursday, I guess I don't need to buy her a birthday present anymore? Yeah!"

Gu Chi laughed along with the silly netizens for a while, then logged into the game community.

The players' discussions were more serious.

Especially experienced players, whenever something unreasonable happened in reality, their first reaction was always to check the announcement records.

This time, they actually found something.

"Oh fuck, an S+ level has arrived, hurry up and save the situation!"

"Are you sure it's saving the situation and not just trying to get rewards?"

"High EQ: I remember that the resident guild in Yunhai City seems to be quite powerful, so there shouldn't be any problems."

"Low EQ: Even if we go, we won't be able to snatch it."

Theft is never good, try looking at [ pawread dot com ].

"Middleman: The main problem is that we can't go."

"The General Administration just issued a notice, they are holding a meeting to coordinate shifts. Please be patient, everyone."

"Do you guys think it's possible that the guy who obtained the legendary item last time did this?"

"It's very possible! Everything was fine before, but as soon as he got the legendary item, things started to get weird."

"Should we find him and report to the government?"

Gu Chi: "?"

He almost posted this question mark in the world channel.

Fortunately, he held back.

After a while, the person said again, "Huh? Why isn't anyone coming out to refute?"

Huh, just as I thought.

A troll.

Gu Chi snorted lightly, no longer paying attention to their chat, and opened the auction house.

Various essences for upgrading skills below level 5 were only selling for 500 each, but crystals for levels 5 to 10 were selling for 2000.

If the clearance score couldn't be raised, it would take quite a bit of time to max out a skill.

It's not hard to understand why many players would go to the game library to farm whenever they had free time.

If talent is not enough, sweat will make up for it.

Gu Chi had quite a bit of money in his bag, and Dream Manipulation Technique was useful, so he didn't hesitate to spend money and bought two spiritual crystals.

Combined with the four he received from the previous clearance.

He upgraded it first, it might come in handy for the instance at night.

【Skill level upgraded!】

【Dream Manipulation Technique Lv6 (+1) → Lv10 (+1)】

The bonus from the achievement directly broke through the skill's limit.

Gu Chi was very satisfied.

He was now an old player with a graduation skill.

After taking a shower and coming out, the heat in the room had already been dispersed by the air conditioning.

Xia Ling had also woken up and was sitting on the bed, holding the quilt tightly to her chest, staring at him vigilantly.

Gu Chi couldn't help but ask, "What kind of look is that?"

Xia Ling's gaze was fixed, as if she wanted to see through this man in hotel pajamas. "When I woke up, the quilt was lifted. What did you do to me?"

Gu Chi: "…"

Did you think I would deny it?He glanced at the young girl, wiping his hair while saying indifferently, "I've done everything."

Xia Ling's eyes widened in surprise. She hadn't expected Gu Chi to be so straightforward. Angrily, she retorted, "You're too much!"

Gu Chi replied, "Mentally, you're my girlfriend. Physically, you didn't resist. What's excessive about that?"

Xia Ling protested, "Why didn't you wake me up first? I didn't feel anything!"

Gu Chi: "…"

That's so like you.

Dealing with a girl who is both naive and playful is quite simple.

Gu Chi immediately approached Xia Ling, "I just finished taking a bath. Let's do it again, so you can get the feeling."

Xia Ling quickly hopped onto another bed, extending her hand and shouting, "Hold on, Father. I'm not feeling well today, and I have to work later. Let's continue another day."

Gu Chi asked in confusion, "Did you get something wrong?"

Xia Ling was surprised, "Doesn't Father like this kind of play?"

Is this something that can be discussed openly?

Gu Chi changed the subject, "How come I never noticed your acting skills were so good before?"

"It's something I've practiced," Xia Ling casually replied, "There aren't many old players who aren't good at acting."

Gu Chi thought about it and agreed. Even if one's acting skills were poor, they should improve after being performed by others a few times.

"Is Xia Leng also a player?" Gu Chi asked again.

Xia Ling: "Her?..."

Actually, before coming to find Gu Chi, Xia Ling had asked her sister's opinion, "If Gu Chi asks if you're a player, should I tell him?"

Xia Leng had replied, "Not for now, let him discover it himself. Don't put pressure on him."

Xia Ling usually listened to Xia Leng's advice.

So she told Gu Chi, "Xia Leng asked me not to tell you for now, so you can discover it yourself, to avoid putting pressure on you."

Gu Chi: "…"

What a tease.

However.

"Pressure?" Gu Chi was puzzled, "Why would I feel pressured?"

"She's very strong," Xia Ling said.

Gu Chi asked, "How strong?"

Xia Ling gave an example, "If Xia Leng was in the last game, it would have ended within a day if she wanted it to."

Gu Chi: "Huh?"

My wife is so powerful?

…

(End of the chapter)