"Kacha!"

"Kacha!"

Hearing the sound of a camera shutter, Li Changzhou knew his wallet was about to suffer again.

Do you know what portrait rights and privacy rights are?

"If that's the case, then I can only sell you lunches for two months." Not only did Li Qianxia not repent, but she also wanted to raise the price. She was simply lawless and didn't respect the law or her brother.

At the same time... reality was not taken into account—Li Changzhou's wallet was simply not enough to entertain guests for two months.

Yang Qinglan looked at Li Changzhou's face and saw that he was angry and helpless when facing his sister, but when he turned his gaze to her, there was a hint of a smile in his eyes.

She added with a slight smile, "There's a saying in philosophy: what you need, that's what controls you."

After a moment's thought, Li Changzhou suddenly realized what was going on and turned to Li Qianxia, ​​saying, "If you don't give me the photos, I won't have any living expenses next month."

"ah--"

"Teacher Yang, do you think my understanding is correct?" Li Changzhou asked Yang Qinglan.

Yang Qinglan thought about it carefully and decided to answer him with a quote from Nietzsche: "Student Li, you need something that is a little higher than desire."

“That’s right! You don’t need any money at all, just give me all the money!” Li Qianxia said, leaning closer.

Li Changzhou pressed his hand on her face, pushed her away, and ignored her.

He has now realized that Li Qianxia likes to keep her own money and swindle his money, so he will threaten her with living expenses.

"Are you feeling better? Is there anything else that's bothering you?" he asked Yang Qinglan.

"Alright." Yang Qinglan nodded gently.

"Can we continue?" he asked again.

"Give it a try," she smiled. "I won't know if I can do it if I don't try."

Li Changzhou was somewhat worried, but he didn't think Yang Qinglan would force herself to do something like this.

The black mist reached out its "hand".

Yang Qinglan's breathing was slightly heavy, her eyes were half-closed, and she looked pained and uncomfortable, like someone who was carsick.

After a while, she took on the third skill.

"That's about enough." She closed her eyes, her eyelashes fluttering like butterflies. "If we continue, my body will break down."

She felt the world was shaking silently, and things that were perfectly fine (like leaves in the air) seemed to be falling, making it impossible to determine the distance between things.

Despite the incredibly strange feeling, my brain seemed to be covered by a thin film, leaving me indifferent to all sensations and events unfolding.

After a while, Yang Qinglan felt the world return to normal. Li Changzhou was half a meter away from her, and Li Qianxia was slender. She regained her sense of things.

Before giving Li Qianxia the skills, the two siblings listened to Yang Qinglan summarize the "victim's" personal experience.

Yang Qinglan recounted her previous feelings in detail.

"It sounds like motion sickness and insomnia," Li Changzhou mused.

“A little,” Yang Qinglan agreed.

"But Aferona and the other two don't seem to have any serious side effects," Li Qianxia wondered.

Li Changzhou looked at Yang Qinglan, wanting to hear her opinion, as his own understanding of the black mist was far from comprehensive.

Just like a mobile phone with many functions, he only knows how to use it, but he has no idea how these functions are implemented.

Yang Qinglan is essentially a real person captured in a mobile phone, with cat ears, a cat tail, and cat paws photoshopped onto her using the camera function.

Yang Qinglan, who has become a "cat girl," may not understand the functions of a "phone" as well as Li Changzhou, but because of her personal experience, her understanding of its essence (probably limited to the photo editing part) surpasses that of Li Changzhou, who can only move his fingers.

“I have a guess,” Yang Qinglan pondered.

The two siblings remained silent, waiting for her to organize her thoughts.

“I see…black mist,” she said. “The more you resist, the more you distrust, the greater the side effects.”

"You don't trust me?" Li Changzhou seized on the key point and immediately asked.

"What do you think?" Yang Qinglan looked at him with an expression that said, "If I didn't trust you, I would have died long ago" and "Don't talk nonsense."

"So you mean you trust me less than you trust Aferona and Hed?"

“Brother,” Li Qianxia nudged him with her elbow, “you look as wronged as a baby right now.”

“Because our relationship is equal,” Yang Qinglan explained to Baby, “they treat you directly as their ‘master,’ so they naturally trust you unconditionally and wholeheartedly. As for me… I still need to assess you.”

"Why do we still need to be tested?!" Li Changzhou remembered that he had already passed the test the first time he entered the dungeon.

Yang Qinglan brushed a strand of hair from her cheek: "The ones being investigated... are different."

"......"

“Baby,” Li Qianxia nudged him with her elbow again, “your drool is about to spill out.”

Li Changzhou clenched his fist, coughed lightly, and then said to Yang Qinglan, who was watching him with amusement, "Go on. What if you don't trust me? What will happen?"

“The consequences of distrust,” Yang Qinglan paused, “whether it will lead to death or not is unknown, but it will at least be very painful, and may even cause a mental breakdown.”

Li Changzhou nodded and said, "I'd like to add something, though I don't know if it will be of any use."

When he manipulated the black mist to grant skills to others, he mentally "intimidate" the black mist, forbidding it from frightening people and telling it to be gentle.

This is another matter where no matter how much you speculate, you can't know the specific conclusion.

"When you give skills to others, if you think about it this way, it's not a troublesome thing, except for enemies, of course," Yang Qinglan said in the end.

"Mm." Li Changzhou replied, turning his gaze to Li Qianxia, ​​"My dearest little sister, the time has come to test whether you trust your brother."

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