Chapter 15: What Kind of Demon Are You!

"Didn't your phone break?" Shi Yufen sat down to eat her noodles.

"This is an old one I picked up on the street last night. Someone else threw it away. I thought it might still work, so I brought it home," Shi Qingqing explained.

"My daughter has such good luck," Shi Yufen tried to hide the sorrow in her eyes.

All the kids in Qingqing's class use expensive smartphones, while her own daughter is happily using a battered old phone she found by the roadside. She felt truly sorry for her daughter.

She resolved to recover her health and earn enough money to buy Qingqing a good phone.

Shi Qingqing had no idea that, upon seeing her shabby phone, her mother’s mind had filled with so many regrets and worries.

She was shoveling noodles into her mouth, getting ready to open QQ and snatch some red envelopes.

Suddenly, her phone beeped again and a dialog box popped up.

"Beep! You have a system level-up reward to claim!"

Huh? The system gives out rewards for leveling up?

What kind of reward is it?

Shi Qingqing clicked on it without thinking...

The phone screen displayed an interface resembling a game inventory grid. In the first slot of the top row, an item was quietly displayed.

What on earth is this?

Shi Qingqing poked at it with her finger, and a line of text instantly appeared:

"[Invincible X-Ray Vision]—after use, your gaze can penetrate any object, revealing what's inside. Duration: five minutes..."

What kind of nonsense is this?

It seemed like one of those power-ups commonly found in casual puzzle games. Ugh, she’d hoped it would be something worthwhile. What she wanted most was for the system to return the ninety percent of her red envelope money it had swallowed. All she needed, as someone poor but determined, was money!

A bit disappointed, she buried her head in her noodles. Her finger accidentally brushed the item again.

"Beep! Do you want to claim this reward now?"

Regardless of whether it was useful or not, she might as well claim it. Maybe it was just a prop in some pre-installed phone game—she could play around with it when she had time anyway.

Claim!

The moment she claimed it, Shi Qingqing found a small, round card in the palm of her hand.

It was tiny, reminiscent of those collectible cartoon cards that used to come in instant noodle packs when she was a child. As for the material, she couldn’t tell—it seemed like paper, yet not quite, like glass, yet not exactly.

But that wasn’t the point.

Staring at the inexplicable card in her hand, Shi Qingqing choked on her noodles in fright, coughing so hard that tears streamed down her face.

Seriously? The things in her phone could actually be extracted? Turned into physical objects?

Was this sorcery?

Sorcery, my foot!

How could there be so many supernatural happenings in this world...

"Qingqing, slow down. Don’t play with your phone while eating, you’ll choke," Shi Yufen quickly handed her a tissue.

Shi Qingqing was on the verge of tears—she was truly terrified. She had just pulled a real, tangible item out of her phone! What kind of cutting-edge technology was this?

Even after she finished her noodles and headed off to school with her backpack, Shi Qingqing was still studying that little card.

What on earth was it?

Unable to figure it out, she finally put it away, still feeling that it was utterly fantastical.

If she hadn’t personally drawn it out from her phone, she would never have believed such a thing could exist in this world.

Forget it, she thought—better to try out the phone’s initial-level system: the automatic red envelope search within a hundred meters...

She didn’t have to make breakfast today, so she had plenty of time and decided to walk instead of run.

Shi Qingqing opened QQ and, without hesitation, tapped the "Snatch" button.

"Beep! Searching for groups within a hundred meters currently distributing red envelopes. Please wait... Would you like to join the Ultimate Class Three Genius Group?"