Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 388 - 307: Encouraging Learning

When Duan Mingyuan returned to the room, Jiuyue was sitting alone in front of the dressing table mirror, talking to herself, occasionally picking up lipstick and smearing it on the mirror.

Usually with keen hearing, Jiuyue did not hear the door open. Duan Mingyuan stood where the mirror could not reflect, silently observing her for a few minutes. Jiuyue then frowned, put away her lipstick, and muttered to herself, "This won’t work either."

She was trying to summon the Mirror Spirit using ancient and modern methods, those of Blue Star and other civilizations. She had tried all sorts of folk remedies, but the mirror showed only her reflection from beginning to end.

"What are you doing?"

Seeing that Jiuyue had paused, Duan Mingyuan finally asked.

Jiuyue was startled by the sudden voice behind her, leaping from the chair with her tail straightened and her pointed ears erect.

According to Duan Mingyuan’s "Fox Demonology," this was the reaction of a Fox Demon when scared.

"There it is!"

Still unsettled, Jiuyue brandished the lipstick as if it were a weapon, threateningly pointing it behind her. Only after seeing the newcomer was Duan Mingyuan did she relax and then complained discontentedly, "Mr. Mingyuan, you can scare someone to death with such frights! If you scared me to death, you’d have one less young and pretty wife!"

Duan Mingyuan had always found Jiuyue’s courage a mystery.

When watching horror movies or reading horror novels, she would shiver just like other girls her age, sometimes burying her head in his chest, too scared to watch the screen. But once confronted with evil spirits in reality, this little fox had more courage than anyone, stepping over grounds paved with flesh and blood without even blinking.

"Is this some kind of summoning ritual?"

Duan Mingyuan glanced at the array of ritual tools on the dressing table from afar—staplers, candles, makeup bags, crystal balls—a veritable showcase of free and diverse culture.

"I’m trying to call Ah Jing; she has gone missing."

She had tried every folk remedy she found online, but all to no avail.

Duan Mingyuan expressed his doubt, "Smearing lipstick on the mirror can summon her?"

"This is a folk remedy of my own creation, and it’s scientifically based."

"What scientific basis?"

"Ah Jing once said she hates it when people scribble on mirrors with pens."

As she spoke, Jiuyue glanced at the mirror smeared with pink lipstick, realizing the severity of the problem.

If this had happened before, Ah Jing would have burst out of the mirror to start an impromptu fight with her.

The two sat on the bed, and Jiuyue organized her thoughts before telling Duan Mingyuan what she had learned from her parents.

They didn’t know Ah Jing, nor had they ever entrusted her with Jiuyue’s care.

What’s more important, all of what Ah Jing had done later went against her parents’ expectations.

Ah Jing had exploited her bloodline as a calamitous Fox Demon and her hatred for the Extraterrestrials, which should have been infuriating, but Jiuyue couldn’t muster any anger.

The life her parents expected was at odds with her desires; she did not want to stay on the mountain forever, protected by her tribespeople like a child, which was no different from house arrest.

But the skills taught to her by Ah Jing were exactly what she needed.

Therefore, Jiuyue didn’t notify Duan Mingyuan immediately. She wanted to find Ah Jing and get some answers first.

By now, Duan Mingyuan had a rough idea of what was going on.

He Ya had mentioned a genius witch who had created the Reverse World, her greatest skill being using mirrors to travel between two worlds. Considering the relationship between the sixth of Saintfield and the wizards, the truth was on the verge of coming to light.

Perhaps Ah Jing genuinely knew Jiuyue’s parents, but it was one-sided.

After her parents signed the contract with the Department of Life Sciences and were sent to the Eco-Ship, Ah Jing took notice of them. Consequently, she also learned about a Fox Demon descendant on Blue Star with an even purer bloodline, inheriting the strength of both.

For a "Specter" who could freely traverse the Department of Life Sciences, finding Jiuyue was not difficult.

And now, Jiuyue had arrived on the Eco-Ship, where the wizards had launched their revenge plan, so it was no longer necessary for Mirror Spirit to stay by Jiuyue’s side.

"To find her now, one must locate the interface leading to the Reverse World."

Duan Mingyuan conveyed He Ya’s deduction to Jiuyue.

Jiuyue, with her head down and her ears drooping, replied, "So Mirror Spirit is actually a witch, and she came to me just to use me for revenge against the company?"

Duan Mingyuan rarely saw Jiuyue looking so downcast, and very few could truly hurt her feelings.

In Jiuyue’s own words, as long as one never gives one’s heart away in human interactions, one will never be betrayed and no one can hurt one’s feelings—this was her defensive strategy in the past.

"You’ll have to find her and ask her to know for sure," he said.

"Alright, I’ll teach you how to enter the Conscious Space!"

Jiuyue perked up.

Apparently, Mirror Spirit had closed off the interface to Conscious Space to dodge her questioning, but Jiuyue believed with Mr. Mingyuan’s skills, he would surely be able to break through the other’s methods.

Jiuyue took a deep breath, "Mirror Spirit said that when humans sleep, they are at their closest to their self-consciousness, and the first step to reaching Conscious Space is learning to control one’s own Dreamland."

Duan Mingyuan neither confirmed nor denied this.

This aligned precisely with his theory; most of the evil spirits he encountered started with dreaming.

Controlling Dreamland was not difficult for him, the key point was...

His thoughts were abruptly cut short by the sight of Jiuyue undressing, "What are you doing?"

"Teaching you," she said.

Jiuyue spoke as if it were the most natural thing in the world, "Mr. Mingyuan, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and take your clothes off."

"This, this seems somewhat improper?"

Duan Mingyuan felt an uncommon pressure.

"There’s nothing improper about it, do you understand the Conscious Space or do I?"

Jiuyue urged him on, presenting her self-taught academic theories with the air of a strict teacher, "Only by stripping away all the miscellaneous trappings can one’s spirit be truly calm and free. I am the teacher and you are the student, you must do as I say!"

Nevertheless, Duan Mingyuan didn’t feel any sense of calm at all.

The first thing Jiuyue did after undressing was leap high into the air and pounce on him like a starving tiger.

Soon after, her legs and tail wrapped around him.

He now had ample reason to doubt the validity of the method Jiuyue provided.

"Where did you learn this method, did Mirror Spirit teach you?"

"No," she said with assurance.

"I improvised it!"

"Who asked you to improvise?"

Duan Mingyuan truly couldn’t see anything that fit the criteria for "improvisation."

"Never mind that, you just focus on learning!"

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