Chapter 866: Shi Ruizhi’s Roommate
“By the way… Senior, are you sure you don’t want to contact your roommate again? After all, they should be your friends for many years, right? Maybe if you talk to her…”
Just as Yue was about to persuade her, there was a gentle knock on the door of Shi Ruizhi’s bedroom.
At this moment, apart from Shi Ruizhi and Yue, there was only one roommate left in the dormitory.
Although there were technically two people in the dorm, the other one barely came back during the day or didn’t return at night.
“Coming.”
Standing outside was indeed the roommate Shi Ruizhi had met as soon as she entered the dormitory.
After an introduction, she called herself Fang Zhi, claiming to be Shi Ruizhi’s best friend.
However… Shi Ruizhi didn’t have a strong impression of her; it seemed that their friendship was somewhat superficial.
“My dear Ruizhi~ you finally opened the door! You’ve been cooped up in your room for so long; you should get some fresh air!”
“Sorry… I still find it hard to recall the relationship we had in the past. If possible… I would prefer we start over. Being overly enthusiastic…”
“Hey? Are you not thinking of coming out yet?” Fang Zhi was disheartened. “Call me! My dear sister! In this dorm, you and I are the closest! Everyone else has left; you’re the only one still willing to stay with me! Now you’re also suffering from amnesia… wow… my life is so hard!”
“This senior~ Shi Ruizhi needs gentle guidance right now. Being so forceful will actually decrease Shi Ruizhi’s favorability towards you!”
“Eh? Is that true? I saw in a drama that people regain their memory after being stimulated! As her good friend, I have to make sure that happens!”
“Senior, you should know that the plots in dramas are just for narrative purposes. In reality, that’s absolutely impossible!” Yue spoke with a hint of helplessness.
“I think Yue makes a good point.” Seizing the opportunity, Shi Ruizhi pushed Fang Zhi away; she still felt that the other person was too enthusiastic.
She couldn’t handle it.
“You! You! You really pushed me away!” Fang Zhi looked at Ruizhi in disbelief, then sadly wanted to cry.
“No, it’s just that right now I can’t handle this enthusiasm. Can you give me some time to adjust?”
“Of course! So, how about we go outside to watch TV? Or… a movie? I know what you like to watch! If we get to feeling it, we can even chat on the couch…”
“Shut up!” Shi Ruizhi instinctively reached out and held Fang Zhi’s lips, fearing that she would say something inappropriate next.
After all, there was still a lower-year female student beside them!
“Mmm… phew! Sure enough! It feels so familiar!” Fang Zhi shook her head and said excitedly.
“Let’s go, let’s go~! What fun is there in the bedroom? If you don’t want to watch TV, then I can go shopping with you!”
Under Fang Zhi’s persistent entanglement, Shi Ruizhi had no choice but to leave her bedroom for now. However… she didn’t opt to go shopping.
After all, she had just checked her balance and found she didn’t have much money left.
She didn’t know what her source of income was; maybe she still had a part-time job, but it was evident that, having worked for so long, she probably hadn’t had time to continue.
However, the thought of still having compensation to collect brightened her mood significantly. She could neglect those part-time jobs!
Aside from this good news… she was more concerned about the messages on her phone.
During this period, her phone had received quite a few texts from people regarding her situation and confirming her condition.
Although she had some contacts saved, there were some names even she couldn’t make sense of.
There were also quite a few group chats like that.
For instance… in the dormitory group chat, at least three groups were identifiable to her.
It really left her a bit confused. If she remembered correctly, the maximum number of people in this dormitory was six, right?
How did it get so complicated?
Now that she had amnesia, with a vacant head reflecting on her life from a third-party perspective, she suddenly realized that such a life felt really chaotic…
Had she been continuously depleting her life in the midst of these things before?
Shi Ruizhi looked at the large TV screen in the living room, thinking about the content being played… honestly, she felt that she didn’t really enjoy what was on. However, according to Fang Zhi, she seemed to have liked it very much in the past.
For a moment, she didn’t know if Fang Zhi didn’t understand her well or if her tastes had changed.
As time went on, the villa’s front door was opened.
Shi Ruizhi turned her head curiously towards the entrance, then a figure appeared in her line of sight.
Looking at this figure, Shi Ruizhi felt very unfamiliar. In fact, the tall woman before her had a much stronger mature vibe than what Fang Zhi had left her with.
At least she didn’t give Shi Ruizhi the feeling of someone she couldn’t remember, yet had some impression of.
“Shi Ruizhi, you’re back in the dorm and didn’t even tell me? Why haven’t you replied to my messages?”
“You are…”
“Huh?” The figure frowned at Shi Ruizhi, sounding somewhat impatient, “Are you playing amnesia with me? Who are you?”
“Ji An! Shi Ruizhi indeed has amnesia; you can’t just act grumpy because you couldn’t return together!”
“Amnesia? You’re playing such a boring game with her?” The one called Ji An said nonchalantly, her tone somewhat confrontational.
“I’m talking to you! Ruizhi has been in the hospital for so many days, and she just came back. Is it really necessary?”
“Isn’t it good? You can’t tell she looks like a patient who has been lying in the medical room so long.” Ji An took a quick glance at Shi Ruizhi but still couldn’t let go of her stance.
“This senior, Shi Ruizhi indeed has amnesia…”
“Who are you? Why are you in our dorm?” Ji An directly interrupted Yue’s interjection, as if she wouldn’t give anyone face here.
However, seeing Yue’s white hair, she frowned in distaste.
“I’m responsible for taking care of Shi Ruizhi; she just got released from the hospital, and she has amnesia. I’m here voluntarily to help her with daily living.”
“Then you can leave. Ruizhi doesn’t need you to take care of her; she’s a grown woman. Even if she has amnesia, can she not live on her own?”
“Sorry, but I can’t do that. I’ve already moved in to take care of Shi Ruizhi, and I heard that Ji An usually doesn’t come back to the dorm, so I thought you wouldn’t mind.”
“I mind! Get out! This place is for everyone to reside in!”
“I have a room card~” Yue clearly wasn’t afraid of the girl in front of her.
She could tell that the girl had issues.
Whether it was due to poor character or bad temper, or if there was some hidden story, it was evident that her attitude towards Ruizhi was not good.
Moreover… more importantly, Yue learned from the Great Knowledge Seed that Ji An had once been a student of Daniel!
However, during the last two years at school, she had already stopped needing the guidance of her mentor, but the connection between the two was unclear.
“Ji An! Why are you getting angry with a junior? She didn’t provoke you!”
Fang Zhi said a word of “justice” from the side.
“Fine, just wait. You’ll soon see the methods of a senior; you’ll regret it sooner or later.”
After Ji An made that harsh remark, she left the dormitory directly, not staying even for a few minutes.
“Wait! Ah…” Fang Zhi had initially wanted to stop her, but Ji An simply brushed past and slammed the door, making such a loud noise that the entire villa trembled slightly. One couldn’t help but say that the quality of the villa’s front door was indeed good.
“Yue, or should I call you Xiao Yue… you shouldn’t be like this… Ji An is really just that kind of person.”
“Sorry for bothering the seniors…” Yue quickly apologized, but apologies aside, the person had already left.
There was no need to put in too much effort to get along with someone who couldn’t communicate properly; otherwise, she might end up positioning herself as a subordinate.
“That’s not the case~ But Xiao Yue~ you might want to avoid her for now. Ji An isn’t bad, but… she has some issues.”
“I understand, but senior, you don’t need to underestimate me! My strength shouldn’t be taken lightly!”
“Ah… alright, then since you’re usually with Ruizhi, even if she has amnesia right now, her strength is quite impressive!”
“Is that so? The one saying this is Shi Ruizhi herself.”
Even she wasn’t aware that, in others’ eyes, she could be evaluated as “very strong.”
She didn’t feel anything special about it herself.
“It’s okay~ Even if my strength isn’t high, my connections are extensive. I can easily bring the older sisters here!” Yue said nonchalantly.
“Ah? Older sister? That legendary one? Miss Yue, don’t boast too much; I guess I suspect you’re a part of her support team, but that team can’t possibly have anyone other than Millien who qualifies to bring that legendary one here.”
“Alright~ looks like Fang Zhi knows quite a bit~”
“Not really~ haha, just heard about it!”
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Laboratory.
After seeing the Academy Head off, I focused my energy back on the experiments.
As for Yue, who was with Shi Ruizhi, I occasionally thought about her, but I no longer monitored everything closely.
After all, Shi Ruizhi was the first and only person whose soul I upgraded through soul drawing…
Naturally, I cared about her changes.
As for helping her familiarize herself with daily life and checking if she had come into contact with others, those were just side tasks.
What I didn’t expect was that even with the barrier of the experiment zone, Shi Ruizhi could still sense a hint of anomalies in my primordial dream experiment.
It seemed that compared to the soul and spirit, the gap was still significant; at least in terms of sensitivity to primordial dreams, they weren’t on the same level.
I wondered if she could give me surprises in other aspects; after all, as the only non-extraordinary soul essence life in the main world, I was curious if she would also become similar to me?
Of course, when I said “similar,” I meant in terms of talent.
From the current perspective, after Shi Ruizhi’s revival in her soul state, the changes before and after were quite substantial, to the point where her interaction with her roommates had transformed.
This could be compared through her roommate and the historical records of the Earth Vein information.
In fact, I wanted to cultivate Shi Ruizhi into an extraordinary being, as her life level had nearly reached Real Time after nine years of accumulation.
This wasn’t an exaggeration; after all, among the more than a hundred who could be chosen by Millien, who wasn’t a genius?
The Witch Academy never lacked geniuses, only geniuses who could advance to the extraordinary.
Since Shi Ruizhi could be valued by Millien, at least through the analysis of the Great Knowledge Seed, I could confirm that she had no issues.
Now the problem arose… the credibility of the Earth Vein information.
Modifying Earth Vein information is actually quite simple, even without any technical expertise.
A brute force method could work too.
From the information shared by the Academy Head, it seems they have already confirmed the signs of tampering with the Earth Vein information, though they didn’t specify how it was verified.
So it clearly demonstrated that this was a man-made accident.
“Sister Xiao Han~ Nightmare Number, we have already sorted it out in our own way~” Yu Lan came over to tell me at this moment.
“Awesome~ Did I just zone out for a while? The efficiency is really high!”
I threw away all thoughts about Shi Ruizhi and the self-generated magic power experiment accident, then headed towards the experiment platform.
The “Nightmare Number” Yu Lan referred to was the experiment where I “purified” nightmares through various means to extract Dream State Soul Material.
By relying on the instinctive aversion of dreams, I screened the effectiveness of the methods through staged progress.
This was just a small supportive experiment for dreams; after all, before I had definitive results, I needed to choose the optimal solution. Only by succeeding could I qualify to waste more time on screening efficiency.
“Oh? You all actually ranked the third Dream Demon first.” I held up the “specimen” of the third Dream Demon. Due to the unique nature of Dream Demons, this specimen wasn’t of the ordinary kind.
It meant that it had to be fully contained within the primordial dream.
Although it could be done differently, experiencing the primordial dream at that depth allowed for a more intuitive grasp of some harder-to-detect aspects.
Since this Dream Demon was ranked first by the Dreaming, it indicated that the method corresponding to this rank had the best purification effect.
At least for this stage, it was the best.
The method represented by this rank was what I termed the “Nurturing Purification Method,” rather than the initial “Information Accumulation Method” I had observed.
“Ugh… I’m experiencing decision fatigue here… I’m in a bit of a dilemma,” I said to myself.
After all, the methods I’m currently considering have at least a dozen variations. If I were to run all of them in parallel, it would severely slow down my progress, even though many methods seemed ludicrous at first glance; I must say, the Nurturing Purification Method was originally one of those.
However, now, this method had outperformed the most straightforward approach.
“Forget it… I’ll just go with both, treating one as a control group… the others will have to be temporarily set aside, and I’ll check which succeeds first or if all fail before considering which one might yield efficiency miracles.”
In the end, I had to make this decision.
