The QC520 Star Stone is no ordinary Star Stone. If ranked according to the SC level, this Star Stone would be ranked directly as A level.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have been auctioned off in the first place.

So if she wanted to get it, she definitely couldn't just take it for free; she had to be prepared to pay for it.

Just then, Zuo Chenxing came in.

"Rose, Dean Li said you need to talk to me."

"Hmm, have a seat first." After saying that, Qiao Mei hesitated for a moment and asked Zuo Chenxing if he could keep a secret if she wanted to tell him one.

The ward was very quiet, with only the faint sounds of the machines running.

Besides that, there was Qiao Mei's uncertain and tense voice that had just fallen.

The blond youth looked into Qiao Mei's red eyes, feeling a surge of pleasure that only comes with being valued by her. He suppressed the urge to smile and gave her an affirmative answer.

"Of course, what kind of relationship do we have? Why would you worry that I wouldn't keep my promise?"

If it were someone else, Qiao Mei might not feel at ease.

But if this person is Zuo Chenxing, the one who initially helped her a lot as Xingxing, then it's a different story.

She took a deep breath, her gaze falling on the blue and pink thick coat Zuo Chenxing was wearing, and revealed that Ao Cang was Cang Ao.

"Ao Cang...?" Zuo Chenxing was a little confused at first, but when he remembered that Qiao Mei's familiar, the little black dragon Cang Cang, was named Ao Cang, he looked at her in shock and asked, "You mean, Cang Ao is the familiar you had before?"

Qiao Mei nodded: "Yes, but his physical condition is very bad right now, and he can't switch to beast form at the moment, but I can assure you that this is true."

As she spoke, she recounted how she had helped Ao Cang, the abandoned beast's familiar avatar, heal his injuries.

"One is offering and praying, and the other is relying on star stones, QC520 star stones."

As for the fact that Ao Cang is the true form of the Holy Abandoned Beast, Qiao Mei does not intend to tell Zuo Chenxing, lest any unforeseen circumstances arise and others find out, which would likely cause a great upheaval throughout the entire interstellar space.

After all, let alone abandoned sacred beasts, there has never been a precedent for sacred beasts leaving the Awakening Domain.

Humans are mostly afraid of the unknown.

She dared not imagine what awaited her and Ao Cang if that day ever came.

Zuo Chenxing noted down what Qiao Mei said and sent the model number of the QC520 star stone to his maternal grandfather, asking him to help him look it up.

Perhaps because he rarely contacts his maternal grandfather and rarely asks for his help, he received a reply from his grandfather less than twenty seconds after sending the message, saying that he was already investigating for him, and then he even made a direct call to him via a personal terminal.

It's clear that he really misses his grandson.

Seeing this, Qiao Mei expressed her understanding and asked Zuo Chenxing to go out and answer the phone first. She then made some of the offerings that she hadn't yet made for Ao Cang that day.

Given Ao Cang's current situation, once the offering she makes reaches 30,000 interstellar coins, its subsequent effect will be minimal.

She decided not to make too many offerings, keeping a considerable amount, and then began to calculate her current assets.

If we add the 200,000 interstellar coins for the endorsement fee for the control gloves, we can barely scrape together 400,000 interstellar coins, and we don't know if that will be enough.

The extra money was partly forced upon her by Xu Hui, Xu Wenfeng, and Li Chonghua, and partly a small share she received for helping manage the Xu family's shop.

If it's really not enough, she'll see if she needs to borrow some from Xu Wenfeng or Xu Hui.

Ao Cang watched her constantly counting her interstellar coins, guessed the reason, smiled weakly, and reminded her: "An'an, have you forgotten that I also have quite a few interstellar coins on hand?"

Although Qiao Mei couldn't use the interstellar coins he had for her own offerings, she could still use them to buy star stones.

The girl looked up blankly, her crimson eyes reflecting Ao Cang's doting expression, and asked her question, "But didn't you say it wouldn't work before?"

Ao Cang was very patient: "That only applies to offerings; there are no restrictions on this."

As he spoke, he coughed a few times, picked up the new optical computer bracelet that Xu Hui had prepared for him, and transferred all the interstellar coins he currently had in his account to Qiao Mei.

Qiao Mei opened her smart bracelet and saw the more than one million interstellar coins that had been transferred to her, with the amount accurate to several interstellar units. After her initial surprise, she asked him if he hadn't kept any money for himself.

Ao Cang can make money again at any time, so there's not much difference between staying or not.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qiao Mei knew that she must have guessed correctly.

After sighing, she transferred over 100,000 Star Coins to him, keeping a full one million Star Coins for herself.

I plan to transfer any remaining Star Stones to Ao Cang after I've bought them all.

"You should at least keep some money on hand. Otherwise, when you're out and about, you'll have to ask me for everything you buy. Isn't that a hassle?"

Ao Cang wanted to say what was so troublesome; what was his was hers, and he didn't believe she would abandon him.

But seeing that she had already transferred the money, he couldn't say anything more and could only accept it.

"By the way, An'an, have you found out what exactly happened about us falling off the snow mountain?"

His intuition told him that this was more than just a simple coincidence.

Sure enough, Qiao Mei soon sighed and revealed that this matter might be related to him.

"But who it is is still under investigation. The tourists who came to Shizan Mountain, including local businesses and ordinary citizens, are all trapped in the interstellar police's investigation. The investigation is now halfway complete, and the truth should come out by the time we are discharged from the hospital."

After saying that, Qiao Mei felt a little guilty, and her eyes reddened again: "It's a good thing you're alright this time, otherwise I really don't know what I would have done."

Even though Ao Cang is a god, after transforming into a weaker human form, many of his characteristics are the same as those of a human.

She could hardly imagine how painful it must have been to fall so heavily from such a height and be used as a human punching bag.

But after Ao Cang awoke, he didn't mention the matter at all, instead constantly comforting her...

"I'm fine, aren't I? Besides, I'm not an ordinary person. Even if something really happens to me, it's still better than something happening to an ordinary human like you. If something really happens to you, I really can't help you."

His divine power cannot be used to heal severe human injuries, let alone bring humans back to life.

So he was actually quite fortunate that he was the one who was seriously injured.

“But…” Qiao Mei wanted to say something more, but there was a knock on the door of the ward. It was Zuo Chenxing returning from a phone call.

She had no choice but to keep quiet and let him in.