"You have a kidney deficiency."
"You're the one with a kidney deficiency."
"I can cure it."
"Divine Healer!"
"..."
Bailu watched speechlessly as Chen Li sent off another outworlder.
"Chen Li, haven't you already gone to the Divination Commission for an internship? Why are you still here swindling people?" Bailu finally couldn't help but ask.
Although Chen Li had been consistently supplying her with all sorts of snacks, making Bailu not mind playing the "Divine Healer" game with him on the roadside, she was genuinely curious.
At the same time, Bailu didn't understand how Master Danshu of the Alchemy Commission could be so indulgent towards Chen Li. She had specifically ordered people to concoct 300 doses of a medicine that could cure kidney deficiency while also nourishing one's health—a formula the Alchemy Commission had almost never prepared before—and gave them to Chen Li to use for his scam.
Was Chen Li her father? Or an illegitimate son? Or had the two of them just hit it off?
"You wouldn't understand," Chen Li said, shaking his head.
[Kidney Deficiency] Entry extraction in progress. Progress: 43/100 (Progress can be increased by giving away free medicine to patients with kidney deficiency.)
[Divine Healer] Entry extraction in progress. Progress: 102/200 (Progress can be increased by being called a "Divine Healer" while treating kidney deficiency.)
[Deception] Entry extraction in progress. Progress: 59/200 (Progress can be increased by giving away free kidney deficiency medicine to patients who do not have kidney deficiency.)
Chen Li's professional skill, [Extraction], could pull Entries from events for free. However, since the word "free" was included, there were naturally limitations. For instance, Chen Li could only extract Entries from events he personally witnessed or experienced.
Moreover, the Entries from different "stories" were mutually exclusive. For example, the progress for [Deception] from different events could not be added together.
It was like playing two different games at the same time; even if you were pulling on gachas in both, you couldn't use Honkai Impact 3rd's crystals to pull on Honkai: Star Rail's limited banner.
Using a sword from a past dynasty to execute an official of the current one? What audacity.jpg
Ever since obtaining the [Extraction] skill, Chen Li had developed a habit of seeing things through to the end. Besides, he was genuinely curious about what use the [Kidney Deficiency] Entry could possibly have.
The Entries on a fixed item had a limit, but a story did not. Because you could never imagine just how absurd a story could become.
"But I can only accompany you for half the morning. The rest of the time, I have to go see my own patients," Bailu said while munching on snacks.
"No problem. My schedule isn't free enough to set up a stall here all day either," Chen Li nodded.
Although he wouldn't mind staying here for a whole day to distribute all the medicine, there were always some rather strange matters that would personally come knocking on his door.
Furthermore, the brightness of an Entry extracted from a story was also influenced by the story's length. The farther Chen Li's reputation in this "story" spread, and the more progress he accumulated beyond the limit, the brighter the extracted Entry would naturally be.
The richer, more colorful, and more dramatic a story was, the more generous it would be with its Entries.
Just as Chen Li was about to receive his next outworlder patient, his Guide to Forging Curios appeared before him in a translucent form and automatically opened to a new message he had received.
"Oh, you have a kidney deficiency, but I can cure it."
"Divine Healer!"
This time, after quickly finishing the cutscene, Chen Li began to check the new message.
Oh, it turned out he had received a new Miracle Commission.
"Er..."
Honestly, Chen Li was a bit stunned when he saw this commission.
[Suitable Glasses]: I hope to obtain a pair of glasses that can block my eyes' petrification ability without causing me to petrify myself. Posted by: Medusa Reward: 5~15 Crystals Risk: Low
"Medusa? Which Medusa?" Chen Li was a little curious.
There were simply too many Medusas in different worlds; it could even be the name of a race.
He took another look and found that this Miracle Commission had come to him through another one. The two were from the same world, so they had been grouped together.
And the person who posted that other Miracle Commission was... Hatsune Miku?
"Wait a minute, could it be..."
After his brain short-circuited for 0.1 seconds, Chen Li chose to spend one Star Jade to use the [Prophecy] skill and observe the future risks associated with the client.
The information one could see with just 1 Star Jade was extremely limited, but at the very least, he could see the client's appearance.
Earning Star Jades was easy for Chen Li now. He had already earned 20 just by pretending to be a divine healer for half an hour. Who knew what those people would do after finding out they had a kidney deficiency? Surely they wouldn't join the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, right?
Just in case, Chen Li sent a message to Danshu, ordering her not to recruit people into the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus just because they wanted to cure their kidney deficiency.
Don't join the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus for such a simple reason! You bastards!
Chen Li didn't know what Danshu would think upon seeing his message, but after "seeing" Medusa's image, he was so excited that he dropped the Elation Die in his hand onto the ground.
"So it really is that Hatsune Miku!"
Medusa, from Jashin-chan Dropkick, was Jashin-chan's good friend and ATM. Just like her name suggested, she had the ability to turn humans who met her gaze into stone. To avoid petrifying people, she usually wore a paper bag over her head when she went out in the human world. She herself could wear contact lenses to suppress this ability, but it would cause her to petrify herself. This was probably the reason she wanted to have such glasses forged.
That's right. The commission Chen Li had received to forge a delicious and weaponizable giant leek, posted by Hatsune Miku, was actually from the Hatsune Miku of the Jashin-chan world, the one whose leek was constantly being stolen by Jashin-chan.
How bizarre! Chen Li truly had not expected this.
"This world is worth a visit..." After learning who his clients were, Chen Li quickly analyzed the advantages that world held for him.
For example, the meat of that infinitely regenerating Jashin-chan should taste pretty good. If Yurine Hanazono and the others could casually eat Jashin-chan's snake-tail meat, there was no reason Chen Li couldn't. Although Jashin-chan acted weak in front of Yurine, she was indeed a true evil god.
And Chen Li was also very curious about the taste of the angels' halos from that world...
At the same time, Chen Li had heard that Yurine Hanazono's true identity was the strongest black magician on Earth. As an existence who could knock out "God" with a single punch, she might have some interesting collectibles in her possession.
And Chen Li was also very interested in learning magic.
[You there?]
Chen Li sent a communication request to Medusa.
Hatsune Miku? She could wait a little while.
"Speaking of which, did I forget something? Oh, right, my good brother Argenti!" Chen Li slapped his palm, finally remembering what he had forgotten.
Chen Li's original purpose in coming to the Honkai-verse was to give the [Eternal Rose] to Argenti and to forge a Curio for Jingliu that could summon Heroic Spirits. But after actually arriving, he had completely forgotten about both matters.
Jingliu could be put aside for now, because she would come to the Xianzhou on her own after some time. Chen Li could just wait for her on the Xianzhou.
But Argenti was different. Who the hell knew when or where Argenti would appear? Or rather, as a cosmic wanderer, it was reasonable for Argenti to appear anywhere, which made him impossible to find.
"Maybe... ask Aha for help? Forget it. I'll just use [Pale Justice] to summon Argenti and have him come to the Xianzhou."
In any case, Argenti had his own ship, and he didn't really care where he went.
"Alright Bailu, let's pack up. I just remembered something urgent," Chen Li said, turning to Bailu after remembering this.
A reputation needed time to ferment. Chen Li didn't urgently need the [Kidney Deficiency] Entry, so he planned to spend a few days accumulating Abundance Value.
"Oh."
"You don't seem to be in a good mood... Hey, don't touch the Elation Die!"
Seeing Bailu, out of curiosity, pick up the Elation Die he had just dropped, Chen Li finally remembered that it hadn't returned to his hand.
And seeing the [9] on the Elation Die, Chen Li also knew why Bailu was in a bad mood.
"What does this thing do? Why do I feel unhappy just holding it?" Bailu asked, her spirits low.
"This thing is a Curio. I feel happy when I hold it, but others feel unhappy. The higher the number, the more unhappy they feel," Chen Li explained.
Chen Li couldn't do much about Bailu's bad mood. Even the Aeon of Elation couldn't laugh at a great joke after holding this die, let alone Bailu. Fortunately, the die only made people unhappy and had no other effects.
To compensate Bailu, Chen Li took the initiative to pull out 20 [Approbation of Sublime Morality] to prevent her from doing anything irrational while her mood was low. People indeed tended to do things they would regret when they were depressed.
He also gave her a large number of snacks.
"I really don't understand why Bailu doesn't want this cup of Douzhi. This is one of the Xianzhou's specialty snacks that I asked Qingque to spend a lot of credits to buy," Chen Li said, drinking the Xianzhou Douzhi, his heart full of confusion.
At least to Chen Li's taste, this Douzhi tasted pretty good. What was strange, however, was that this Douzhi gave him a considerable boost to his physical fitness, almost on par with an ordinary Honkai beast.
As for where Chen Li got his credits? Thanks to the generous support of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus!
"Hmm? A visitor?" Just as he was about to head directly to the Divination Commission's archives to summon his good brother, Chen Li suddenly sensed feedback from the Friends Circle terminal he had deliberately placed in Tingyun's home—[Someone is knocking].
He didn't know if it was because he had used Yukari Yakumo's gaps to forge the Friends Circle, but when Chen Li tried to print out a pinhole camera as a Friends Circle terminal, it had actually worked.
A true voyeur, in the same vein.
"Jing Yuan?" Chen Li was even more surprised when he saw the visitor.
"Excellent. My career as a double agent may truly be about to begin!" Chen Li was thrilled.
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