Bubu Pharmacy.
"Baizhu, Medicine Lord, are you here?" Jun Bai searched for familiar faces inside Bubu Pharmacy. "It looks like neither Baizhu nor the Medicine Lord is here. So is Qiqi currently house-sitting?"
"Qiqi, Qiqi, are you here?"
"Qiqi is here."
A cute voice came from behind the counter.
Everyone followed the voice and saw Qiqi behind the counter.
[Everyone, look! There's a loli here!]
[Qiqi is so cute!]
[After smoking a cigarette and thinking about it, I've decided to take the risk of becoming a criminal once. Wish me luck, brothers!]
[My bullet is already loaded. Please do not make any rash moves, sir. (pistol.jpg)]
"Qiqi, have you been feeling better lately?"
Jun Bai reached out and gently patted Qiqi's small head, smiling.
Qiqi stared with her big eyes, carefully examining Jun Bai's face.
After a long while, Qiqi finally recognized him. "…Thank you for your concern, Mr. Marshal. Qiqi has been feeling very well lately."
"You haven't had any more memory loss episodes, right?" Jun Bai asked.
"No. Qiqi remembers everything written in the diary." Qiqi shook her head.
"That's good." Jun Bai nodded slightly, then turned to introduce Qiqi to the others. "Everyone, this is Qiqi. She is a zombie who moves according to talismanic commands, so her speech and behavior may seem a bit different from ordinary people."
The three suddenly understood.
Zhongli stepped forward and asked, "Little friend Qiqi, may I ask if you have any Everlasting Incense?"
Upon hearing this, Qiqi thought for a moment and said, "Do you have a prescription? If you have a prescription, Qiqi can help gather the medicine. This is the command Qiqi gave herself."
"Uh… but Qiqi, we want to buy Everlasting Incense, not gather medicine." Paimon reminded her.
"If there is no prescription, Qiqi cannot casually touch the herbs in Bubu Pharmacy. When Mr. Baizhu and Sister Medicine Lord return, they will scold Qiqi." Qiqi said firmly.
"So we're not here to gather medicine…" Paimon felt speechless.
Jun Bai helplessly shook his head. "Her memory has returned to normal, but her logical thinking still needs some work. It looks like we'll have to continue researching talismans with Guizhong."
"Little friend Qiqi, we don't have a prescription, but we still hope you can help us find some Everlasting Incense." Zhongli continued along with Qiqi's logic.
Qiqi cupped her small face and thought seriously for a while, then slowly said, "If you can find a coconut sheep for Qiqi, Qiqi can issue herself a command through a contract to help you look for the Everlasting Incense."
"The coconut sheep is a legendary half-adeptus beast."
"Why are you looking for Ganyu?" Jun Bai asked subconsciously.
Zhongli silently looked at Jun Bai and said, "Jun Bai, from the perspective of ordinary reason, although Ganyu is a half-adeptus beast, she is a qilin, not the coconut sheep that little friend Qiqi mentioned."
"Sorry. The moment I heard 'half-adeptus beast,' the first thing I thought of was little Ganyu."
Jun Bai looked at Qiqi and asked, "May I know why Qiqi is looking for a coconut sheep?"
Qiqi squatted down and hugged a bottle of coconut milk. "Coconut milk tastes better than regular goat milk, so Qiqi wants to find a coconut sheep."
Paimon: "Huh?"
Lumine: "?"
Zhongli: "…"
Jun Bai: "Not only does her logical thinking need improvement, but it seems her common sense also needs adjusting."
After a brief silence.
Lumine stepped forward and told Qiqi that coconut milk is not produced by coconut sheep, but by coconut trees.
Having her fantasy shattered, Qiqi fell into deep thought.
She even looked a little dejected?
[A sudden strong sense of guilt.]
[I actually personally shattered a child's most beautiful fantasy. I'm really not a good person.]
[I'll probably slap myself awake in the middle of the night.]
Seeing little Qiqi's cute dejected appearance, not to mention the players—even Jun Bai felt a bit heartbroken.
Jun Bai took out 100,000 Mora and handed it to Lumine, asking her to buy coconut milk and bring it back to comfort Qiqi.
Lumine and Paimon left. When they returned, they brought back coconut milk as well as Mr. Baizhu from Bubu Pharmacy and the white snake Medicine Lord, who had appeared in her original form under the alias Changsheng.
"What a rare guest. The Marshal of the Millelith personally visiting this small pharmacy—what brings you here?"
The white snake coiled around Baizhu's neck spoke.
Even though Jun Bai was disguised, Changsheng still identified him through the aura on his body.
That aura which, even when perfectly hidden, still made Changsheng's blood tremble with fear could only belong to the Sky Phoenix Marshal.
"The s-snake spoke!" Paimon exclaimed in shock.
Changsheng glared at Paimon. "How rude. This seat is one of the Mighty and Illuminated Adepti, the Medicine Lord! Show some respect!"
Paimon was so frightened that she hid behind Lumine.
"Changsheng, don't scare the little friend." Baizhu advised, then looked at the group. "Thank you all for taking care of my Qiqi. May I ask if your visit to Bubu Pharmacy means the Millelith needs wound medicine prepared?"
As he spoke, Baizhu's gaze lingered on Jun Bai.
Jun Bai shook his head. "My visit this time does not represent the Millelith. Today we came to Bubu Pharmacy because we want to purchase Everlasting Incense."
"So the honored guests are here for the Everlasting Incense." Baizhu smiled gently. "Three million Mora for top-grade quality."
Jun Bai tossed over a Mora pouch. "Take it."
His movement was so fast that even Paimon didn't have time to be shocked.
[I hadn't even finished typing my particles when I saw Big Bro Bai pull out a pouch ten times larger than my total Mora.]
[I was still wondering whether I should sell Paimon.]
[Three million… I don't even have 100,000 Mora.]
[You'll never know how many Mora are in Jun Bai's private treasury. Pulling out three million Mora is easier for him than pulling out three hundred for me.]
Jun Bai grandly threw down three million Mora. The group successfully purchased the Everlasting Incense from Baizhu.
Everlasting Incense, get!
After obtaining the Everlasting Incense, everyone returned to the Rite of Descension venue and placed it in the appropriate spot.
Now everything was ready except for the wild Glaze Lilies coming from the Guili Assembly.
So Lumine and Paimon prepared to leave first.
At this moment, Zhongli suddenly offered to treat everyone as thanks for working together to prepare the Rite of Descension.
The location would be the old harbor tavern highly praised by the common folk—Three Bowls Cannot Pass the Harbor, near the docks.
Lumine and Paimon felt that getting someone like Zhongli, who never carried Mora, to treat them was harder than ascending to heaven. Such an opportunity could not be missed, so they agreed to meet in the evening.
Jun Bai suddenly felt someone was targeting his private treasury.
Sure enough, Zhongli's next invitation was directed at Jun Bai.
"Remember to bring money." — Jun Bai said as he left.
That evening, at Three Bowls Cannot Pass the Harbor.
Jun Bai was the last to arrive.
Zhongli sat elegantly in his seat sipping tea, Lumine was eating wine-marinated rice balls, and Paimon was waiting for the dishes to be served.
"Sorry for being late."
Jun Bai found a seat and sat down.
"It's fine. We also just arrived not long ago." Paimon said.
"Honored guests! Next, I shall tell you all about Lady Ningguang's Jade Chamber!"
A loud, resonant voice interrupted the chatting group.