Chapter 470: Worthy of being a mayfly

Zhao Cheng'an and Xia Mubing stayed in the kitchen for a long time.

The soundproofing of the Fen Garden kitchen was quite good; once the door was closed, as long as the voices inside weren't particularly loud, you couldn't hear a single word outside.

Qin Huai and Zhang Guanghang stood guard outside like two door gods, unable to hear what was being said inside for a long time. After guarding for a while, Qin Huai felt a bit bored and wanted to reach into his pocket to take out his phone and play for a bit.

He reached in.

Where is my phone?

My phone, that big thing??

Where is the phone that I always keep in my pocket, inseparable from me in my daily life???

About 20 minutes later, the kitchen door opened. Zhao Cheng'an poked his head out from behind the door. Under the gaze of Zhang Guanghang—who thought, "You scammers better not really be pulling a scam on me; Fen Garden is not a lawless place"—he beckoned sneakily to Qin Huai: "Qin Huai, you come in first."

Then Zhao Cheng'an smiled apologetically at Zhang Guanghang: "Master... Master Zhang, sorry to trouble you to stay outside for a while longer; we have other things to chat about."

It was clear that Zhao Cheng'an still hadn't remembered Zhang Guanghang's full name.

Qin Huai walked into the kitchen.

Xia Mubing was sitting on a small stool in the kitchen, gnawing on a brown sugar steamed bun that Zhao Cheng'an had made, which wasn't particularly good. Seeing Qin Huai enter, Xia Mubing smiled kindly at him. This wasn't the smile of an elder toward a junior, but more like a friendly greeting between peers, which made Qin Huai feel a bit flattered.

"What did you say?" Qin Huai asked Zhao Cheng'an in a low voice first.

"Qin Huai, it's fine, I can say anything. You can say it loudly too; I've already said everything!" Zhao Cheng'an said proudly.

Qin Huai:... The aftereffects of you, a mayfly, taking over a body are much more severe than Chen Huihong's. Great, after we both return to Zhi Wei Ju, I won't be the only crazy person there anymore. Brother, your condition looks much more severe than mine.

"What does 'said everything' mean?" Qin Huai asked cautiously.

"It just means I said everything!" Zhao Cheng'an said, "Including that you've always been very honest with us about having a system. Before, we all thought it was something you imagined because there was something wrong with your brain. Now that I think about it, that system should be real. Wow, Qin Huai, you really are much smarter than me. I never thought there was such a way to be honest with each other. If I had known, the first time I would have just told Master and the others that I was a mayfly."

Qin Huai:...

Qin Huai looked at Xia Mubing with an incredulous gaze: "So, Old Master Xia, you accepted all of it?"

Qin Huai pointed at Zhao Cheng'an: "He is a mayfly, here in the human world to undergo tribulation. He has reincarnated who knows how many times now, and only just recovered his memories after waking up."

"Seven times. I am now in my eighth life. If nothing goes wrong, the next life will be my last." Zhao Cheng'an added.

Qin Huai:? Brother, even if you are a mayfly, I want to ask, how did you manage that? Your senior brother is still alive in this world, and you've already restarted seven times. Is this reincarnation speed a bit too fast? Even if you mayflies are good at courting death, aren't you a bit too good at it?

Qin Huai was choked by Zhao Cheng'an's words, then pointed at himself and continued: "I have a game system, there really is a system. This game system can issue me tasks, unlock the illustrated guide of spirit creatures. Besides Zhao Cheng'an, I have already met many spirit creatures."

Xia Mubing looked at Qin Huai calmly, with an expression that said, "Go on."

"You can accept this too?" Qin Huai almost screamed, feeling that the world was truly upside down after all.

Xia Mubing's tolerance was a bit too... high, wasn't it? Accepting Zhao Cheng'an could be counted as a filter for his junior brother, but what did accepting that he had a system count as? Does it count as Old Master Xia loving to read novels all these years?

"Do you... usually like to read novels?" Qin Huai asked tentatively.

"Don't read them," Xia Mubing said, "Don't like reading books."

"Then how can you accept it?" Now it was Qin Huai's turn to be unable to accept it. For such a long time, it had always been others accepting that he was a crazy person, and he had always felt it was nothing. Now that the identities were swapped, Qin Huai suddenly felt that Zheng Siyuan, Tan Weian, and the others were actually very tolerant.

It had been hard on them these days.

"What's there to be unable to accept?" Xia Mubing had an expression that said, "You young people just like to make a fuss; you really haven't seen the world." "I've lived for over ninety years, what haven't I seen? Although I don't quite understand what the system Ah Sheng mentioned is, it should be about the same as being possessed by a ghost. If Ah Sheng can be a monster reincarnated, it's acceptable that you, little Qin, can be possessed by a ghost."

Qin Huai:...

Possessed by a ghost...

Game system, look at yourself; you've been reduced to being equated with ghost possession to this extent.

Zhao Cheng'an looked at Qin Huai with burning eyes: "Qin Huai, you speak first."

"Alright then..."

Qin Huai skillfully began the work of introducing a newcomer to the group, observing Xia Mubing's expression from time to time as he spoke. It wasn't that Qin Huai was making a fuss; he really wasn't used to having a pure human present when introducing spirit creatures and the system.

Zhao Cheng'an nodded repeatedly as he listened, and Xia Mubing listened calmly with no expression, as if he were listening to a story. After Qin Huai finished speaking, Zhao Cheng'an added an explanation, telling Qin Huai that after he died, Chen Qiusheng had burned his house down, and incidentally told Qin Huai why Xia Mubing's acceptance level was so high.

Because Zhao Cheng'an in his first life was a blabbermouth.

Luo Jun, Shi Dadan, and the others, no matter how much they understood mayflies, only understood them through hearsay, because mayflies were also very rare spirit creatures where they were. They only knew that mayflies aimed for tribulation failure, but didn't know the specific operations of mayfly tribulation.

In summary, it was two words: courting death.

But you can't court death without a purpose. Courting death without a purpose easily leads to being like plant spirit creatures—coming in a muddle, dying in a muddle, and succeeding in tribulation with a blink of an eye.

For mayflies to court death, they must first enter the world and then court death. So, in his first life, Zhao Cheng'an first found a proprietor, contacted humans, and as long as humans were a bit bad to him, making Zhao Cheng'an feel dissatisfied, resentful, or regretful, he could confirm that his tribulation had failed, and then let himself go and do whatever he wanted.

As a result, things went contrary to his wishes. Zhao Cheng'an did find a proprietor, but everyone was a bit too good to him—so good that Zhao Cheng'an never failed his tribulation. Until right before he died, Zhao Cheng'an felt it was because he didn't recognize medicine and wasted too much time stealing it, causing Pingan to not be able to wait for his return. It was he who caused Pingan to die before him; he had broken his promise. He hated himself and felt guilty and unwilling, which was why he failed his tribulation before breathing his last.

But because mayflies were as muddled as plant spirit creatures, Zhao Cheng'an didn't know he had failed his tribulation before he died, and he had always thought he had succeeded and was going back.

"You are as muddled as plant spirit creatures. Then how do you judge that your tribulation has failed when you undergo it normally?" Qin Huai asked.

"Look at whether we have grown up," Zhao Cheng'an said. "We mayflies don't choose adult forms for tribulation; basically, we are all teenagers. Children are easy to die, adults are hard to see changes in, and teenagers are not easy to die and easy to judge. As long as you observe diligently, you can quickly determine that your tribulation has failed." ===== CHAPTER 471 =====