Josh knowingly nodded: "Understood."
Yuze looked at her: "However, the cultivation thod your sect teaches should also be able to improve spiritual power. But I’m not familiar with it, so I can’t give you much advice."
Josh: "Thank you, Captain!"
Yuze patted her head and suddenly said, "I have so more things to take care of, you head back first."
Josh blinked: "What is it?"
Yuze: "I need to do a review of my own. You’ll be a distraction if you stay, so out you go."
Josh was shoved out of the logout room.
She twitched her mouth, "Who cares about watching your review anyway."
That being said, it seed Yuze had never shown his attributes interface in front of others.
She glanced at the tightly closed door and turned to leave.
Logout room.
Yuze’s expression turned cold as he summoned "Nightingale and Rose," choosing a forced login.
[Login failed, the instance is currently under irresistible damage, ergency server maintenance has been initiated!]
Yuze raised an eyebrow and tried again.
[Login failed, the instance is currently under irresistible damage, ergency server maintenance has been initiated!]
[Login failed, the instance is currently under irresistible damage, ergency server maintenance has been initiated!]
A mont later, a ssage box suddenly popped up on the floating interface.
[Error! The system did not detect the instance you searched for, please check if the search term is correct.]
Yuze stared solemnly at the interface, a dark flash crossing his eyes.
Soone forcibly destroyed the entire instance?!
How is that possible?
Was it that fish?
It shouldn’t be, he has no reason to do so.
If the instance was destroyed, the rmaid wouldn’t have enough ti to leave and would be destroyed with it...
Yuze stared at the flickering system interface, the coldness in his eyes growing stronger.
*
Josh stretched and ca down from the third floor.
She originally wanted to return to her room to sleep, but saw a lonely figure sitting outside the balcony of the second-floor lounge.
Is that Jiang Can?
Usually, Jiang Can appeared tall, honest, and straightforward, but Josh had never seen him with such an expression.
Josh thought for a mont, then stepped over, casually grabbing two bottles of soda from the snack area nearby.
"Want a drink?" A bottle was offered to him.
Jiang Can snapped back to reality and saw Josh beside him: "Little Tactician? You’ve finished the instance?"
Josh nodded: "Looks like you were a bit faster than us."
Jiang Can forced a smile: "I didn’t go in."
Josh had a flicker of surprise in her eyes, then rembered the anomalies she had noticed earlier, realizing it wasn’t just her imagination.
She looked at Jiang Can, her eyes calm: "You’ve been off ever since leaving the Ancient Castle. The coach seed to point it out a few tis, saying your mindset wasn’t right. What’s up?"
Jiang Can shook his head, his huge fra appearing particularly lonely in the sunset.
Josh had to tilt her head closer to see the expression on his face: "Jiang Can, are you unhappy?"
Jiang Can was amused by her unintentionally cute deanor, easing so of the bitterness on his face: "Yeah, a little unhappy."
The two sat quietly on the balcony for half an hour.
Josh opened the soda and took a sip: "I don’t know why you’re unhappy, but my master always told that if soone constantly feels unhappy, always filled with negative energy, it’s probably because they see themselves as too important."
Jiang Can looked at her: "Isn’t everyone supposed to think highly of themselves? The captain always says if we don’t value ourselves, no one else will."
Josh nodded: "I understand, people must respect themselves to be respected by others."
A look of confusion crossed Jiang Can’s eyes.
Josh smiled: "My master ant that we take the world too seriously. When we die, nothing is left, right? So why bother being so serious?"
"If nothing matters, what’s the point of us being in this world?" Jiang Can looked at her bewilderedly.
Josh nodded: "There is, of course there is. We co to this world, eat an incredibly delicious strawberry cake—isn’t that aning? Witnessing brilliant sunrises and sunsets—isn’t that aning? Waiting for the legendary rare blooming of the night-blooming cereus—isn’t that aning?"
Jiang Can stared at her blankly.
Josh recalled her days in the sect: "Look at us, our lifespan just a few hundred years, so small compared to the world. If the world’s ti is an endless, magnificent scroll, our brief lives are only enough to glimpse a small corner of it. Experiencing sothing new every day, witnessing a new beauty, we can never see all the world’s magnificent and new things in a lifeti, so why spend ti on things that make us unhappy? It’s such a waste."
She had actually noticed Jiang Can’s oddness before entering the instance and had seen he wasn’t himself but never found a chance to talk about it with him.
Jiang Can withdrew his gaze with a bitter smile: "That’s easy to say. But many things can’t just be let go of like that, and when it’s your own problem, how many people can really look past it?"
Josh looked at him, blinked, and suddenly asked: "Are you upset because of family issues?"
Jiang Can was stunned: "How did you know? Did the coach tell you?"
Josh shook her head, "Did you forget? I can tell fortunes. Just by looking at your face, I can guess why you’re troubled."
Jiang Can looked at her skeptically: "Can you really see that?"
Josh nodded: "I can. Not only can I see you’re upset because of family, but I can also tell that this family mber is one of your parents, right?"
Jiang Can’s surprise deepened, then he scratched his head: "Did you ask the coach about ?"
Josh burst into laughter: "Do you think I’d go to the trouble of asking about you just to make this joke?"
Jiang Can thought for a mont, then said: "Not necessarily, you might like . After all, I’m quite popular with girls."
Standing nearly two ters tall, he was big and muscular, yet not the artificial kind from a gym, but truly robust.
Josh rubbed her chin: "Seems you are pretty popular with the ladies."
Jiang Can scratched his head shyly: "Just a little less than the captain maybe."
Josh looked at him and smiled: "Want to give your birth date and ti, and I’ll calculate for you?"
Jiang Can found it interesting, and the gloom in his heart lightened a bit.
He reported his birth date and exact ti to Josh.
Josh rely counted on her fingers, and the playful expression in her eyes gradually faded.
Jiang Can watched her with a gentle deanor: "Did you calculate anything?"
His expression was like that of an older brother indulging a younger sister’s antics.
Josh looked at him, "Your father indirectly caused your mother’s death, then abandoned you and drove you out of the village. You respect him, yet you also hate him deeply, right?"
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