Chapter 30: [Lu Sisi the Experience Pack]

In the room, Fang Fang Zong sat on the hospital bed, and only after Chen Yan left did his expression slowly reveal a ruthless, fierce look.

A few minutes later, fury surged across Fang Fang Zong's face, then he grabbed a glass cup from the bedside table and smashed it hard onto the floor!

"Damned bastard, he's made at least two hundred grand off me these past few years!

And now he has the nerve to screw me over!!"

Anyone who dares to invest in haunted-house business—Fang Fang Zong is certainly no pushover either!

Steadying himself, Fang Fang Zong picked up his phone, let his breathing even out a bit, then dialed.

"Xiao Yan, no one around you, right? I've got a job for you.

Quietly look into that Uncle Qing's recent movements…

Then find a few new faces to do me a favor!"

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It wasn't that Fang Fang Zong trusted Chen Yan so easily—rather, after Chen Yan exposed 【Sandalwood】, he suddenly saw through a whole chain of links.

He'd gone to visit Master Zi last month, but Master Zi wasn't home, so he'd been received by Master Zi's senior brother, Uncle Qing.

That tube of sandalwood incense—during their casual chat, Uncle Qing had heard that he had a refined habit of burning incense, so he'd given him a tube, saying it was a top-grade product from their Luoyun Studio, made from precious materials.

Ever since he'd taken that tube of sandalwood, he'd occasionally burn a stick or two after going home, and it seemed… all his rotten luck had started right after that!

And then, thinking back, all his various misfortunes, and that Uncle Qing had sweet-talked him, saying some evil presence was haunting the villa, then tricked him into paying to have a ritual performed…

Damn it—one link after another, didn't it all just connect?!

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Chen Yan walked out of the hospital inpatient building, heading on foot toward the hospital's main gate, mentally tallying his earnings.

The waived rent and management fees weren't cash, but future expenses saved.

In cash, he'd taken a total of three hundred thousand from Fang Fang Zong over the past two days.

Chen Yan couldn't help but sigh…

No wonder Old Grandma had managed to accumulate so much wealth.

All that gold in the Hong Kong City vault, plus that huge pile of jade, gems, and whatnot.

You don't know until you're in the trade—Old Grandma's line of work really does make money fast.

After finishing with Fang Fang Zong, Chen Yan deliberately checked the state of his circulating qi…

No obvious increase.

Isn't helping people turn their luck and break through calamities supposed to boost cultivation?

It worked the first two times—why no reaction with Fang Fang Zong?

So…

Only that little girl named Lu Sisi can serve as an experience pack?

Chen Yan's heart stirred.

Such a rare experience pack—one session and his cultivation jumps a notch.

How could he possibly pass that up?

Mmm, it's not like I'm purely trying to use her to boost my cultivation.

I, the great philanthropist Chen, do genuinely want to save a life.

It's been a few more days now—with her walking-disaster-level luck, who knows if she's run into more trouble.

Thinking this, he picked up his phone, found a number in his contacts—the day before, after taking the number from the little girl's subordinate, he'd saved it into his phone when he got home.

He dialed a contact saved as 【Experience Pack】…

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The call went through, but the ringtone made Chen Yan chuckle.

The little girl was quite the character—her ringtone was actually a leisurely, melodious Buddhist sutra chant?

Just as he was thinking that, the call connected.

"Hello? Who is this?" The little girl Lu Sisi's voice on the other end still had that soft, timid quality.

This Miss always seemed to speak like that—like a timid little rabbit.

Chen Yan cleared his throat: "Is this Lu Sisi?"

"Speaking, may I ask who's calling?"

The little girl was quite polite.

Chen Yan was about to say something when he suddenly felt something was off.

Huh?

Why was there a stereo effect to the voice?

His heart jolted. Chen Yan looked up ahead and, sure enough, about twenty steps in front of him, by the roadside at the hospital's main gate, stood a familiar figure.

A tiny one, not tall, wearing a cream-yellow down jacket, mid-length hair tied in a ponytail, a backpack on her shoulders.

She looked every inch the picture of youthful, invincible student energy.

What a coincidence?

Chen Yan couldn't help but laugh.

The weather was quite cold, and the little girl's cheeks were flushed red from the chill. She held the phone to her ear, still going "Hello? Hello? May I ask where this is from? Speak up, hello?"

Seeing this, Chen Yan hung up his phone directly and shouted loudly in that direction.

"Lu Sisi!"

Lu Sisi heard him, seemed to freeze for a moment, then turned her head to look at Chen Yan.

Chen Yan put on a kindly smile, striding toward her as he called out loudly: "Lu Sisi! It's me!! I was just looking for you, didn't expect to run into you here…

Huh? Huh huh?

Why are you running!

Hey!

Don't run!!"

Lu Sisi had already turned and sprinted off more than ten steps!

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Chen Yan jogged after her, stuffing his phone into his pocket as he shouted loudly: "Lu Sisi, it's me!! Me!! I'm not a bad guy! Wait a moment!"

Lu Sisi's little face went deathly pale, and hearing that she not only didn't stop, she ran even faster.

Exactly because it's you!,

You are the bad guy!

If it weren't you, I wouldn't be running!!

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One ran, one chased, and they'd gone maybe a few dozen meters past the hospital's main gate—this private hospital was both expensive and remote, so there weren't many people around the entrance to begin with.

Chen Yan watched as Lu Sisi had already reached the intersection; the little girl sprinted at full tilt, but didn't notice the cars coming from either side of the intersection.

Chen Yan had sharp eyes and spotted an electric scooter just then tearing through the intersection, ridden by a delivery rider in a yellow uniform.

Probably rushing to make a delivery, the scooter was flying along, and going the wrong way to boot.

The little girl had her head down fleeing and didn't notice; the scooter was about to hit her!

At that speed, with that force, if it hit her, the little girl would have to lie in the hospital for over ten days just to do justice to her luck!

Chen Yan had no time to think; he suddenly took a deep breath!

Decree·Escape Character Art!

Whoosh—Chen Yan's body suddenly felt light, his figure flickered, and like a gust of wind he covered more than ten meters in an instant!

He was already right behind the little girl, and the scooter couldn't brake in time and was about to hit Lu Sisi.

By then Lu Sisi had already spotted the oncoming vehicle and let out a terrified shriek, but in that split second she was frozen, rooted to the spot as if she couldn't move at all.

Chen Yan's figure was like the wind; mid-air he went straight into a flying kick!

"Move!!"

Bang!

Lu Sisi went flying; while she was in the air, the little girl formed a perfect spread-eagled shape.

And then…

She plunged headfirst into the roadside green belt's bushes!

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Chen Yan had kicked Lu Sisi flying and stood steady on the ground, when suddenly he heard the whistling of wind by his ear.

He turned his head…

In his line of sight, another delivery rider in a blue windbreaker—who had no idea where he'd charged out from—was already shouting as he barreled into him, scooter and all.

Chen Yan: "Shit!"

Bang!

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Speaking of which, this private hospital's emergency center really wasn't cheap.

At this moment Chen Yan was sitting in the emergency room's treatment room, a nurse cleaning the wound on his forehead and finally taping a piece of medical gauze over it.

Although he was in so much pain he kept sucking in cold air, he didn't dare move around.

The wound on his head wasn't serious—just a scrape that broke the skin and bled a little.

What was really killing him was that the last blue rider's crash had directly twisted Chen the Good Samaritan's waist.

Now even the slightest movement hurt.

Chen Yan was grimacing in pain, and not far from him, Lu Sisi sat at another treatment table. Another nurse was giving Lu Sisi the same treatment: cleaning the wound on her forehead.

A moment later, the two of them actually looked quite the couple: both had gauze taped to their foreheads.

One on the left brow, one on the right.

Lu Sisi's face was pale, her eyes a mix of fear and anger, and she kept sneaking peeks at Chen Yan, but the little girl was timid, looking like she wanted to speak up but didn't dare.

Chen Yan sighed, and once he saw the two nurses walk out, he said quietly: "Um, classmate Lu Sisi, are you okay?"

"…You were the one who kicked me into the bushes just now!"

The little girl gritted her teeth; her voice was quiet, but there was clearly a gnashing-of-teeth tone to it.

"Well…I did that to save you just now. If I hadn't kicked you out of the way, you would've been hit by the scooter."

But the little girl's eyes held a hint of hostility as she looked at Chen Yan: "Last time at the fountain, you were the one who kicked me into the water too!"

"No no no, that wasn't me, it was my classmate who did it, and I even criticized him afterward."

The little girl's response to that was to roll her eyes straight at him.

Her expression was stubborn as she said quietly: "And that time on the plane! You said you mistook me for someone else when you hit me, but I feel like that wasn't true at all, you, you did it on purpose that time too!"

Looking at Lu Sisi's eyes, Chen Yan understood—oh boy, she'd developed a resistant, contrarian attitude toward him.

"You, you're a bad guy! But why do you always bully me! I don't even know you, I never did anything to you!"

As Lu Sisi spoke, her eyes suddenly reddened, her little mouth puckered, and she looked like she might burst into tears at any moment.

"Don't, don't cry!" Chen Yan hurriedly soothed: "Don't cry, please don't cry first! I didn't bully you, I really didn't bully you!

I'm telling you, don't cry! This is a hospital, if you start crying, people will think I did something to you!"

As the saying goes, speak of the devil; at those words, Lu Sisi's grievance welled up from the heart, and she suddenly opened her mouth and burst out crying with a "Wah!"

Sobbing while hiccuping, she cried, "I, I, I don't even know you! You, you why... I, I've already had enough bad luck! You, you person... why do you always stare at me, always come to bully me!"

"I, I've already had enough bad... Wuuuuuuuuuu!!"

The little girl suddenly widened her eyes and struggled with all her might.

Chen Yan covered her mouth with one hand and pressed down on the little girl's arm with the other. "Stop crying! I have something urgent to tell you!!!"

"Wuuuuuuuuuu..."

"Have you been unlucky recently? All sorts of bad luck? Either getting hurt or falling ill, basically nothing going right anywhere?"

"Wuuuu..." Chen Yan felt that although the girl was still struggling, her strength had clearly diminished, and her expression had become strange.

"Let me tell you, that time on the plane, I saw you were about to face a major disaster.

That slap I gave you was actually to help you break the calamity! Otherwise, your accumulated bad luck wouldn't be as simple as a bloody nose.

And that time I kicked you into the fountain, I saw you were destined to suffer a drowning disaster during that period!

Do you understand what a drowning disaster means? You would have drowned!

That's why I kicked you into the pool.

The fountain was shallow, and I was watching from the side. At worst, it would only make you choke on a few mouthfuls of water; nothing serious would happen.

Choking on a few mouthfuls of water is far better than drowning to death!

Get it?

Plus just now...

You weren't blind to what just happened! Didn't you see a delivery rider's vehicle was about to hit you?

You saw it, right!

If I hadn't kicked you away, your bones might have been broken by now!"

Lu Sisi suddenly stopped struggling.

She might not believe the other explanations, which were hard to clarify.

But just now, she had indeed almost been hit by a delivery rider—she had been so terrified she froze and forgot to dodge.

The little girl did not forget that fact.

Chen Yan covered Lu Sisi's mouth while staring into her eyes and continued, "Look! I really have something serious to tell you.

Let me tell you, I can help you!

Listen carefully, maybe I can help you turn your bad luck around!"

"Huh?"

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The hand finally let go.

After Chen Yan released her, he stepped back one pace. The little girl immediately moved farther away, gasping for breath, and looked at Chen Yan with tear-filled eyes.

"You, you almost suffocated me just now."

"... Uh, sorry." Chen Yan glanced at the large door of the treatment room behind him, then spoke quickly, "This isn't the place to talk. Let's find another spot to chat properly.

Anyway, I'm not a bad person. I genuinely want to help you.

If you think what I said just now was accurate—that you've indeed been having all sorts of bad luck and misfortune lately—then I..."

"No, you... you...", Lu Sisi suddenly looked at Chen Yan with a strange expression: "I, I believe you."

"Huh? You... believe me already?"

Even Chen Yan was somewhat surprised by this.

Is this little girl so easily trusting of others?

I did punch you once, and I even kicked you into the water!

And you believe me just like that?!

I still had a whole bunch of arguments saved up that I didn't even use!

No, little girl, with your intelligence, you won't even make it to old age before you start listening to people's scams and buying health supplements!

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"No, that's not it. I believe you because what you said was indeed accurate, but... but...", Lu Sisi's expression grew even stranger. Her next sentence left Chen Yan stunned:

"I, I haven't just been unlucky recently.

I, I've been unlucky for eighteen years... From childhood to now, I've always been an unlucky person..."

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