Chapter 86: Deserted and Empty

With great anticipation!

Inside the storage compartment lay two items in quiet repose.

The first was… “Desolate Doorstep”?

What on earth was that supposed to mean?

She looked closer at the description: “Desolate Doorstep—barren and deserted, bleak and forlorn; can be stacked and used…”

There was nothing more.

Shi Qingqing was dumbfounded for quite a while, unable to figure out what it was supposed to be or what use it had as an item.

Hey! Where’s the Lucky Candy you promised? If there’s no Lucky Candy, even a few Bad Luck Stickers would do.

Shi Qingqing felt as if her heart had suffered ten thousand points of damage.

What made it worse, the “Desolate Doorstep” even had a number next to it: 3.

That meant she had managed to snatch up three of these things all at once—her heart was bleeding!

If only they had been three Lucky Candies, how wonderful that would have been!

Shi Qingqing looked in the second compartment…

“Truth Sticker: when used on a target, there is a chance the target will speak their true mind…”

…

She had no words for this item either.

Still, at least this one had some use, even if it was only a chance—it was a great deal better than the three “Desolate Doorsteps.”

Oh well, she’d managed to snatch a few items for free again today; even if they were useless, it was still a huge haul.

All in all, she was satisfied.

Shi Qingqing didn’t think about it any further and finished up her work on her booster accounts.

It was already midnight. Tomorrow was the weekend and there was no school, so she could afford to stay up a little late and relax.

She logged into her own account, tidied up her inventory, put items up in the auction house to make some money, and did a bit of life skills where she could…

Her ace booster played a male character and had learned the most challenging life skill in Emperor Online: Spirit Chef.

To level it, she needed to gather spiritual plants.

Spiritual plants were hard to find, rare, and spirit dishes were the kind of luxury only the wealthy or high-level raid teams could afford to enjoy during the toughest dungeons.

Just as Shi Qingqing logged into her alt, a notification popped up: she had mail.

She happily went to collect it.

It was from Douglas.

“Little Lucky Hand, even though you didn’t get the rogue’s artifact this time, keep trying next time!”

It even came with an attachment—ten thousand gold coins.

Ten thousand gold coins equaled one hundred yuan.

What a generous guy!

Shi Qingqing accepted with a smile. Once money was in her hands, there was no way she was giving it back.

She deposited the gold coins in the bank, and while she was at it, glanced at the auction house. The top-grade spiritual plant she’d put up last night—King of Corpses Flower—had actually reached a sky-high bid of a hundred thousand gold coins!