Chapter 8 The Half-baked Fortune Teller's Shop

The group lined up, retrieved their luggage from the school's storage room, and then registered at the entrance by scanning their faces. After importing a series of sequence information into their personal computers, Zhou Jiu stretched. This marked the official start of their enrollment.

Starting today, she is a college student. She was a little excited. After sending a message to her dream lover Chu Zhao about her enrollment through her personal terminal, she said goodbye to Sun You and Lin Xiu and went to her dormitory.

Guided by the sequence information of the optical brain, Zhou Jiu entered another girls' dormitory building for mechanical engineering and biological sciences alone. The entire floor was empty, with only the sound of her shoes walking by.

Upon entering my assigned dormitory room, I found the living room to be empty, but there were signs that someone had lived there.

"Good evening, Zhou Jiu. I am the housekeeping service for dormitory 581, number c-581. Your dormitory is here. Please follow me." A smart robot slid over from the side.

"C-581, good evening." Zhou Jiu smiled and followed behind C-581. It's great, a fifth-generation intelligent household service robot. It's much better than the models they bought from outside during high school. The voice is much more natural.

Zhou Jiu opened the door to room 581-2 and looked inside. There was a single bed with a bedside table, a dark blue soft sofa, and a virtual space eyepiece placed to the side.

The wardrobe wasn't very big, but its interior design was one that Zhou Jiu liked. There was still a lot of space left in the room, so it seemed like she could easily add things to it. Zhou Jiu really liked this room.

After putting her things away, C-582 glided over again and began reciting the school rules to her.

Zhou Jiu noticed that C-582's voice was a bit slow, glanced at the time, and then stopped C-582 from continuing, saying, "C-582, pause for a moment. I'll go straight to the report manual in a bit. I'll contact you if I need anything. Goodbye."

"I have other activities at eight o'clock. If anyone needs to contact me, please let me know. Thank you." Zhou Jiu said goodbye, then gently pushed C-582 out, waved, and locked the door behind him.

"Okay." C-582 then glided into the living room.

Zhou Jiu quickly packed his things, then opened the virtual space eyepiece, logged into his original account, verified his military academy identity, and entered the virtual space.

Zhou Jiu clicked on the reservation form on his class schedule, selected to confirm the transfer, and was instantly transported into the classroom.

After leaving the battlefield and confirming that there were no other arrangements at the military academy that night, Zhou Jiu booked a Memory Palace course. She takes five Memory Palace courses every month.

"Hey, 999, I thought you were going to miss class this month."

“Savi, you always say this in class: something came up this month, I'm late. Didn't you finish your class?”

"I've been waiting for you. I've been waiting for you for three days, and your little shop still isn't open."

Just as Zhou Jiu was about to ask a question, it was eight o'clock, the teacher arrived, and the course at the Spiritual Palace began.

The class ended promptly at nine o'clock, and the teacher logged off without saying anything more.

After coming out, the two went straight into Zhou Jiu's "half-baked fortune teller" shop.

"A big businessman, is it a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Good thing."

"Tell me more details?"

“I have a friend who’s been having some trouble lately. He said he’s been having a lot of bad luck, and his family members are always getting sick. They went to the hospital for checkups, but nothing was wrong. However, they all feel like they have some kind of mental problem. I’ve consulted a lot of people, and it just so happened that I suddenly remembered that you’ve solved similar problems before,” Saiwei said.

Zhou Jiu frowned slightly. His mental energy was disordered, and the medical equipment couldn't find any problems. Perhaps it was a problem with the feng shui energy field.

"Tell me your friend's birthplace and date of birth, and I'll try to do a quick divination to see if I can figure it out. If not, I'll have to go to your friend's place to check," Zhou Jiu said, sitting down at the table.

"February 11th, 105th year of the Federation, Planet A," Saiwei quickly stated the date.

Zhou Jiu didn't notice Saiwei's virtual avatar. Virtual avatars can be slightly adjusted according to one's own appearance, so Zhou Jiu had long ago learned not to observe other people's appearances in the virtual space to avoid affecting her already inexperienced physiognomy skills.

The lower trigram is Li (☲), the upper trigram is Kun (☷), and the upper trigram is Mingyi (☐). Zhou Jiu took a moment to react before saying, "This is a minor misfortune hexagram. It indicates a villain. Tell your friend to check if there are any gifts from people he knows at his home or in places he frequents. I'll draw a talisman and stick it on it. When I have time, I'll go to the site in person and resolve this issue directly."

"Okay, are you not available lately?" Saiwei asked, sounding a bit anxious.

Zhou Jiu shook his head and said, "It's not convenient lately. There's a sealing talisman in a paper package with a ring. Have your friend find something that appeared during the period when he and his family started feeling unwell, and place the talisman directly on it. The talisman will automatically sense and adhere to it. As long as your friend doesn't actively tear it off, it will stay there for a while."

Seeing Saiwei's reaction, Zhou Jiu took out a talisman from each of the two jade boxes in the second drawer below, and randomly took out two small paper packets from the side of the table and put them in.

Then, Zhou Jiu pointed to the unmarked paper package and said, "Tell your friend to carry this with him. He started this whole thing, so he's probably the one who's most seriously involved."

Zhou Jiu pointed to the price list next to him and said, "Let your friend pay for it himself. If you pay, it will have consequences for you in the future."

After watching Saiwei hurriedly log off after taking a picture of the price list, Zhou Jiu propped her head up, opened the shop's order chat history, and started her evening customer service, Xiao Jiu.

"I have an exam coming up soon, do you have any talismans to help me pass?"

"Are you there? I want to buy that lucky Pixiu from your store. Name your price."

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Zhou Jiu ignored these kinds of greetings, pretending he hadn't seen them. He continued scrolling through the order and chat history, and finally saw someone who genuinely wanted to avoid disaster and seek help.

"Hi, this is customer service Xiao Jiu. I can customize a unique rune and disaster avoidance package for you. Would it be convenient for you to log in to the Divine Calculation Shop?" Zhou Jiu said via voice input.

The screen flashed, and then there was a knock on the outer door of the shop.

Zhou Jiu smiled slightly and said, "Please come in."

The door opened automatically, and Zhou Jiu looked at the hesitant lady outside. The moment he saw her, his eyes seemed to waver even more.

Zhou Jiu stood up, lit some incense he had bought in the real world using virtual currency and brought in through the folded space, then gestured for her to sit down and said in an extremely gentle tone, "Madam, please sit down and relax. I roughly know what happened to you. Would you mind if I did a divination for you first?"

Zhou Jiu consulted the oracle simply to make his judgments more accurate, as it's always better to be cautious in these matters.