38 Helping others for primogem
Speaker of the Congress's office
Congressman Krishna Wright was standing in the office, before Madam Booker, who was sitting at the table and was thinking of something.
"Now that General Tsarivich is going to be judged by the martial court. It's not good for us to continue pursuing the violation of the President. Withdraw the subpoena!" said Madam Booker. [1]
"But..."
"Listen, I have fought that dictator President who pretends to be democratic for years, trying to destroy him every time I see him violating some article of law, however minor it is, including the ones that can be interpreted differently. This is politics, just like battles, you must know when to attack and when to go in defense or retreat. When the tide of event turn against us, better retreat and attack again at another time. With the fact that General Tsarivich is going to court, the Supreme Court is not gonna look at our subpoena with favor."
"...*sigh*...I understand, Madam!"
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Monday, March 9
After eating breakfast, Alexy and Ivan left the house and walked to school.
"Brother, have you found out how to play this thing?" Ivan took out the Shard of Foul Legacy.
"...uh...sorry, I forgot to ask..." Alexy looked away, trying to avoid the disappointed gaze of his brother. "Next time, I'll ask that Toy-Seller, I promise..."
With nothing more to talk about, Alexy and Ivan kept walking in silence. However, it was not long until Alexy noticed something weird today.
"Huh, why does that person have a blue exclamation mark on the head...and that person too?"
"Huh, what are you talking about, Brother?" Ivan turned to him and asked as he heard something weird.
"...uh, no...nothing...My eyes must have hurt from studying too much...haha"
(Hmmm...I wonder what are those exclamation mark on those people.)
"Paimon knows" Paimon said loudly from inside Alexy's head "Those exclamation marks must be the ones that Gacha God talked about, solving the problem those people are facing will give you more primogem. Furthermore, you can send others to do it instead of doing everything yourself."
"Let check the system for the information of the exclamation marks so that you can choose suitable characters to help them." Paimon continued.
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"Hello, do you need help?"
A middle-aged man who looked like an office worker with thick glasses turned around. There was a boy with light blue hair in strange outfit standing next to him.
(Light blue hair...strange...maybe it's a dye...and the outfit...it looks like the outfits in Historical Chinese series I used to watch. Is this boy cosplaying?)
"Sorry, do I know you?" the man asked.
"No, you actually don't." Chongyun answered truthfully "But I can't ignore a person in need! Please tell me is there anything I can help you with!"
The man intended to refuse the help from Chongyun, even though he really needed help. However, there was something inside his mind that kept telling him to tell Chongyun what he needed. The more he resisted, the stronger the feeling became.
"Actually..." the man looked around to see if there was anyone listening to their conversation "recently, my family moved into a new house. We thought it was a nice house...until the first night. I had a dream...I heard strange noises when I was sleeping with my wife...it came from her...I asked her if she was fine...when she turned around, EKKKKKKKKK!"
Some people turned to look at the man when they heard him scream.
"Ah, it's nothing...the boy here just stepped on my foot. That's all!" the man said to them.
When other people have turned back to mind their business, Chongyun and the man resumed their conversation.
"Sorry for using you as an excuse...it's just I'm quite unstable since that dream...The face of the monster who was posing as my wife was...horrible beyond description. And when I talked to my wife the next day, she told me she had the same dream. Since then, there has been a lot of weird things happening in our house...like some silhouette in a corner of the house, or strange crying noises."
"So basically your house is haunted by evil spirits."
"Shh...don't say that word 'haunted' so loudly, this country is adverse to anything supernatural. That was why I couldn't tell this to anyone else...I still don't know why I told you my story."
"I'm glad you tell me your problem. I'll help you!" said Chongyun.
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On the side of a road, there was an old woman who looked like she was in her mid-70s. It was hard for old people to cross the road, especially crowded road that led to many important places like hospital, school and commercial center.
"Old lady, I, Fischl, Prinzessin der Verurteilung, shalt lead Thee pass this cross-road of the universe, where many busy creatures come and go!"
"O...thank you so much, Princess!" the old woman said happily as she held Fischl's hand and passed the road.
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A girl was walking on her way to school
(Ugh...I woke up too late and couldn't eat breakfast, now I feel like I don't have any energy!) the girl said to herself and looked at her small belly.
"Here's your food!"
Th girl turned around and saw an indigo-haired girl wearing something like a leotard. She was holding a box, which had irresistible fragrant.
"Th...thank you! You saved my life!!!"
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<<Quest completed>>
<<Obtained: 2 primogems, 20 EXP, 500 Mora>>
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<<Quest completed>>
<<Obtained: 2 primogems, 20 EXP, 500 Mora, Adventurer's Flower>>
(The primogems are so few!) Alexy complained as he was sitting in class before the teacher came in.
"The primogems of each time are few by themselves, but keep helping people, and before you know it, the accumulation at the end will be many big piles of primogems." said Paimon.
Alexy nodded as what Paimon had said makes sense. He had seen a lot of people with exclamation marks on their heads, helping all of them would grant him a lot of primogems.
(Look like Chongyun's task will have to wait to get the rewards.) Alexy looked at the system's screen, on which the quest had been assigned to Chongyun had the "Wait until 22:00" attached to it.
(By the way, Paimon, what is this?) Alexy looked at the new item "Adventurer's Flower, puzzled.
Paimon froze. She looked like she wanted to faint right there and right then.
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[1] If you don't remember, you can re-read chapter 29-30.
AR: 9 (65/8000 EXP)
Primogem: 64 (free part only)
Mora: 17,675 (free part only)
