Chapter 52: Ruan Chanchan : I got a Trash System
Ruan Chanchan was simply speechless. She knew that Xiao Xi was unreliable, but this little system had refreshed her worldview about him again and again. What did he mean by there was only half an hour left? Did he even stop to think about what would happen if Xie Daiyu didn’t return before that? What face would she have to look at in Nuan Nuan’s eyes, who had left his wife’s life and death in her hands?
"Xiao Xi, tell me honestly. What rank are you in the system ranking right now?" Ruan Chanchan asked. Her voice was neither hot nor cold, but there was something amiss which made Xiao Xi shiver slightly. He blinked his eyes and raised his ball-like head to look at Ruan Chanchan before replying, "I am in 99th position."
"And how many positions are there?"
"Hundred".
Ruan Chanchan: "..."
So the immortals above decided to create a bunch of systems and sent her the most lousy one? She had to admit that she was touched. Not!
Fortunately, what she was worried about didn’t happen. More than her, Xie Daiyu seemed to be worried about Ah Man. he returned within ten minutes, which was well under the thirty-minute timeline.
"Here you go," said Xie Daiyu as he handed the Moon Mist and Red Toxin herbs to Ruan Chanchan.
Ruan Chanchan looked down at the two kinds of herbs that the mer was holding and immediately called Xiao Xi, "Transfer the knowledge of how to make the antidote to me, quick. Don’t waste any more time."
[Right away, darling!]
As soon as Xiao Xi finished speaking, Ruan Chanchan felt a bunch of information rush inside her head. The little silvery ferns that Xie Daiyu was holding were known as Moon Mist due to their colour and how easily they were destroyed the second they were touched. Just like how Moon was impossible to hold, these ferns were just as impossible to touch.
Because of this very reason, they were called Moon Mist.
As for the Red Toxin, it was a rather ugly-looking herb. The sight of it made Ruan Chanchan think of a mushroom that had gotten a bunch of ugly and uneven pimples. And it was quite high in toxicity, but then again, there were a bunch of poisons that helped in cutting out poisons. And the Red Toxin had the same properties.
Even though it was poisonous when it was eaten alone, it was quite powerful when it was used to deal with other poisons.
Once Ruan Chanchan had finished processing the information, she knew the correct amount of each herb that she needed to use. She nodded and took the herbs from Xie Daiyu. Her actions were swift, and yet she didn’t let even a single fern get ruined, which proved that she knew what she was doing.
Xie Daiyu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this.
"You can leave now." Ruan Chanchan saw that the mer hadn’t walked out of the cave; she turned and spoke to him in a stern voice.
"But I already know what you can do." Xie Daiyu had not expected to be kicked out of the cave; he thought that with the two of them aware of each other’s big or small secrets, the woman would show him some face. Clearly, he had thought wrong.
Ruan Chanchan sneered and said, "And that is exactly the reason why I am asking you to leave. I trusted you, which is why I told you the truth about my abilities, and I even asked you not to spread the word. What did you do? You relayed it all to the tribe without even asking me."
Ruan Chanchan was not unwilling to save Ah Man, but there was more than just one way to deal with this trouble. However, Xie Daiyu took the most straightforward one and caused her so much trouble; she would be a fool if she didn’t teach this mer a lesson!
When Xie Daiyu heard her response, he was slightly abashed because what Ruan Chanchan said was indeed correct. He was in a hurry and didn’t even care about what Ruan Chanchan wanted. He simply dumped the responsibility, which wasn’t even hers to begin with and had her deal with the mess that he had created.
He sighed. Exhaling heavily, he bowed his head and apologised, "I am sorry about this."
Ruan Chanchan didn’t say anything. She waved her hand and dismissed the mer; she was not in the mood to talk to him when her mood was already not good enough.
Xia Daiyu also knew that he couldn’t disturb Ruan Chanchan when the woman was working hard to make an antidote for Ah Man. he turned around on his feet and headed out of the cave.
Once the silence returned, Ruan Chanchan turned her entire focus to making the antidote. She first took three to four stalks of the ferns called Moon Mist and then picked up the entire red mushroom known as Red Toxin.
Taking out a dagger from her space, she cut these two herbs into pieces and then squashed them in a bowl that she had taken out of her space as well. As the two things combined, Ruan Chanchan waited for the juice to turn into a fine shade of pastel blue. She had no idea how this colour came out from something that was so bloody red that it could even make the colour bloody red shy, but it was how the information was displayed in her mind.
Fortunately, Xiao Xi was still reliable. The liquid soon turned pastel blue, and Ruan Chanchan heaved a sigh of relief. Taking out two pills of aspirin, she broke them into a pinch of fine powder and then threw the powder into the bowl.
The antidote changed the colour again, and this time around it became transparent, just like the information stored in her mind. Ruan Chanchan felt the weight on her shoulders disappear and turned to look at Ah Man before swallowing hard and picking up the bowl and bringing it to the lips of the woman.
"Well, here goes nothing."
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