"Finally, it's over."
In the dimly lit room, Xu Mu frustratingly put down his brush and paper.
"Why does this world have things like mathematics and physics?"
As if asking no one in particular, Xu Mu leaned back in his chair, gazing at the ceiling with a sense of utter despair.
He had spent the better part of the day racking his brains, using fifteen large sheets of Xuan paper, enough to fill the entire room. This was merely for less than half of the tasks assigned by Charles.
"At the seventh hundred and forty-ninth point, the decimal should be moved two places to the right. You wrote it incorrectly."
"Therefore, all the subsequent data is also wrong."
Charles floated out of Xu Mu's body and, in a very short time, scanned all the calculated numbers.
Xu Mu held his forehead and pushed aside the stack of Xuan paper, finding the error in the upper right corner of the third page.
"I was distracted."
He dejectedly scratched his head. He had been sitting here all day, hadn't even eaten lunch, his nerves were numb. He wasn't a robot, of course he would make mistakes.
"In the construction of nuclear weapons, every joint is indispensable. I asked you to extract uranium using ion exchange, but you miscalculated its adsorption content after solid-liquid separation."
"This is just one small part. If this data is wrong, the final result will inevitably be wildly off."
"Be careful, you might blow yourself up before you even manage to kill Velitann!"
Charles snorted coldly, criticizing him without hesitation.
Actually, Xu Mu was already quite intelligent. It was just that it was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, and hard to go from extravagance to frugality. At night, that person had only taken thirty minutes to learn the extraction and purification of uranium.
His speed and precision in thinking could rival his high-tech chips. All he needed to do was be told, and then calculate. He didn't need to worry about anything.
"Let me quietly be a salted fish. Humanities suits me better."
Xu Mu leaned against the wooden chair, exhaling exhaustedly. Compared to the humans in this world, he felt that humans living on Blue Star were the true superpowered beings.
They, from being ignorant barbarians, had managed to explore step by step, creating such complex weapons, even capable of destroying the world. And the atomic bomb he was learning about was considered relatively backward!
"This is just the data. When you've figured out the calculations, I'll take you to make the necessary tools and then go to the mines to purify uranium."
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Unexpectedly, there were additional tools to be made, which were also extremely difficult high-tech tasks. Hearing this, Xu Mu's head began to spin.
He finally understood why that fellow in the Heavenly Palace didn't want to learn. This wasn't just a waste of time; it was a complete waste of life!
"My Nangong family also has fixed schools, but unfortunately, not many young people are willing to go."
"Even if forced to go, they just sleep in class."
From the side room, a woman in a white dress emerged. She looked at Xu Mu with considerable admiration.
"You're about the same age as me, why do you speak so old-fashionedly?"
Xu Mu sat up straight, then stretched comfortably. It was already five in the afternoon. This was the second time the woman had come out of her room. She had stayed in her room all day. Who knew what she was tinkering with.
"What are you learning?" the woman asked curiously, ignoring Xu Mu's comment.
She knew Xu Mu had been sitting here all day, so she couldn't help but be curious.
"Just learning aimlessly, that's all."
Xu Mu got up from his chair, then crumpled the stack of Xuan paper piled high beside him into a ball and tossed it near the stove.
"Senior Nangong, hasn't he returned yet? How is his injury?"
Xu Mu felt he had nothing else to say and asked casually.
"He should be back any moment now," the woman in white still didn't mind Xu Mu's actions. "About... five seconds from now."
Xu Mu heard the number, and then he heard footsteps at the door.
"How my injury is, you should know better than anyone else!"
Nangong Mao Guan's voice carried from a distance.
Clearly, as the Domain Lord, his perception ability had reached an incredible level.
In fact, if he wished, he could have conversed with Xu Mu from a thousand meters away.
"Today, I followed your prescription and soaked in the medicinal bath at Bu Luo City for a full three hours. I feel like my blood is much warmer than before."
The old man walked into the room with a ruddy complexion, his qi and blood surging, looking much better than yesterday.
"However, on my way back, I ran into someone. Guess who?"
Xu Mu shook his head.
"I'm not curious about such things."
"But even if I didn't ask, you would have told me, right?"
"You know me so well."
The old man chuckled and then took out a booklet from his embrace, its cover golden yellow and sewn with silk.
He unfurled the booklet and read in a low voice:
"Xu Mu, male, nineteen years old, an unofficial member of the Demon Extermination Division, night watchman of Feng Qing Village. Last night at midnight, while rushing to reinforce West Mountain, he was accidentally caught in a mist and perished in the jaws of a tiger."
"Due to his meritorious service in saving lives and his loyalty to his superiors, Xu Mu has been exceptionally promoted to an official member of the Demon Extermination Division, and awarded one hundred taels of silver, and a total of five hundred catties of meat and animal hides. Please have Li Fengtian, the village chief of Feng Qing Village, come on stage to receive this at the West Mountain Incident Summary Meeting ten days from now. Above."
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The old man finished reading everything in the booklet in a calm voice, then handed the booklet to Xu Mu.
Xu Mu silently took it, scanned it briefly, and scratched his head with a strange expression.
"Can this be considered my... death notice?"
"Yes, they must think you are dead," the old man replied.
"This is my death notice."
Xu Mu nodded with a smile, the feeling was truly peculiar. He then took another close look at the text on the booklet, muttering to himself.
"They saw me get dragged into the mist and assumed I was dead, so it's understandable."
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"But clearly, someone pushed me, and many people saw it. Yet here it's just casually mentioned as an accident. It seems that person's background is quite powerful?"
His gaze suddenly sharpened.
He had helped destroy two pollution sources, only to be framed by his own people. Who could tolerate this!
That fellow in the Heavenly Palace certainly couldn't tolerate it either.
"No matter who they are, when I cultivate my lightning magic, I will kill him!"
Hearing the faint sound of thunder rumbling from the shadow, Xu Mu and Charles exchanged a look and simultaneously shivered.
—Such deep resentment.
"You're right, that person did disturb his dating."
"But even if you didn't look for him, I would have gone. At the very least, I need an explanation."
Xu Mu took a deep breath, then pocketed the scroll and sent a telepathic message to the Heavenly Palace through the shadow.
They shared one body. Whoever wanted this body dead was his enemy.
If his attitude of admitting fault was good, he could consider letting him off the hook.
If his attitude was bad...
Then he'd shoot him. kuAiδugg
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