Chapter 5036 — You Call That Getting Online?
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"That's not what I meant..." Leng Leng shook her head helplessly. She wanted to explain, yet did not know how—or rather, she dared not explain rashly—and so she could only say, "You'll understand in time. I am fated to leave this place."
"That's all right. I don't care about forever—only about having had you once." Wei Zhao said.
At those words, Leng Leng's expression changed at once, and her tone turned somewhat unfriendly. "What do you mean by that? You only want to toy with me and be done with it?"
"Uh—that's a very famous saying. I didn't make it up myself, and it's not what I meant either." Wei Zhao said helplessly. This little cold girl was rather sensitive; they did not even have any relationship to speak of, so how had it come to toying with her and being done with it...
"Oh." Only then did Leng Leng's expression soften a little. After giving Wei Zhao a look full of complexity, she returned to her room.
Wei Zhao smiled, unperturbed. It still looked as though no real progress had been made, but in his eyes, for someone of Leng Leng's temperament to say such things to him at all was itself a heartening step forward.
Over the following days, Wei Zhao kept bringing meals every day without fail, and Leng Leng never refused. Once a precedent is set, such things only grow easier and easier. Gradually she had even grown accustomed to the snacks and pastries Wei Zhao scrounged up from all over; if he were suddenly to stop one day, she reckoned she would feel quite out of sorts.
Yet each time they met, she seemed to have something on the tip of her tongue. To quickly stabilize her relapsing injuries, she had to absorb a vast amount of heaven-and-earth spiritual energy every day in addition to drinking medicine and soaking in medicinal baths. As a result, the energy stored in the top-grade spirit jade was visibly dwindling. If she could not find another spirit jade to replace it, the consequences would be unthinkable.
She was tempted to ask Wei Zhao where the top-grade spirit jade had come from, but she feared that once he heard, he would truly go to great lengths to get her another. Accepting one piece of top-grade spirit jade was already an enormous debt of gratitude; if a second came, how could she ever repay it? She could hardly offer him her body in return—she and Wei Zhao belonged to two entirely different worlds, and such a thing was simply impossible.
After turning it over and over in her mind, she suddenly hit upon a compromise. That day, after accepting her breakfast, she asked out of the blue, "I've heard people say you can look things up online. How does one get online?"
"Huh? You want to get online?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. He had not expected this little cold girl to be so enterprising. After all, even when ordinary cultivators took an interest in the secular world's high technology, it was usually just a passing look; few would actually seek someone out to teach them.
"That's right. Could you teach me? I've even bought the net already." With that, Leng Leng gestured for Wei Zhao to come inside. This was unprecedented—Wei Zhao had only ever set foot in her room once, back when he changed a light bulb for her. Even after she had accepted the top-grade spirit jade and her attitude had shifted somewhat, she had never granted him this privilege.
Following Leng Leng inside, Wei Zhao took in the scene in the living room and his face twitched. He had not used his divine sense to probe much these past days, so he had no idea this little cold girl had actually gotten hold of an enormous fishing net and strung it across all three walls of the living room.
"What are you planning to do with that? You call that getting online?" Wei Zhao was caught between laughter and tears.