Chapter 1: Inauspicious for All Activities
Zhou Jiu looked at the bamboo tube in front of her with reverence, secretly praying that this divination would be more accurate, since she had been studying it for some time.
"Sun You, you actually believe her nonsense? I don't know where she got that outdated way of bluffing people from." The boy next to me leaned back with his hands behind his neck and clicked his tongue.
Zhou Jiu rolled her eyes and ignored it; this wasn't the first or second time her old classmate had mocked her.
Zhou Jiu looked at the divination chart in front of him, then at Sun You's face, and then at Lin Xiu's face. He said in a serious tone, "Your divination chart is not good. It is not auspicious for anything today."
Zhou Jiu couldn't help but wonder, how could a simple divination of today's reported schedule have led to imprisonment? She couldn't help but wonder, could she have been wrong again? Although she was thinking this, Zhou Jiu didn't show it on her face. Although her childhood memories were incomplete, a voice still told her that even if her divination was inaccurate this time, she couldn't disbelieve it.
"We've arrived at our interstellar destination, which means we have to report to the military. And yet, everything seems inauspicious. Could it be that we've encountered space pirates?" Lin Xiu couldn't help but tilt his head.
Sun You showed no worry. After listening, he transferred the money. Once the transaction was completed, he waved and leaned closer to the two, saying, "I think you've got it right this time. I have some news for you. Do you want to hear it?"
Zhou Jiu glanced at the hundred star coins in his account and, realizing they were about to disappear again, his smile vanished. "Can I say I don't want to hear it?"
Sun You stretched out her hand, "No, give it to me!"
Lin Xiu picked up the watch and fiddled with it for a few moments. "I said, aren't you bored? You keep fiddling with these things, don't you find it troublesome?"
Sun You looked at the star coins that had arrived in his account, glanced behind him, and leaned closer to Zhou Jiu in the middle seat. The three of them huddled together. "Do you know about the freshman training at the military academy? I guess the training started when we boarded the spaceship. I observed carefully, and today's crew consists of soldiers and freshmen, with no other personnel. And these soldiers are probably our training instructors."
"Did you notice? From the moment we boarded the spaceship, they were subtly observing us. Considering your divination, I feel that disembarking from the starship marks the beginning of another round of trials."
"It seems so. That explains why things felt a bit off on the starship," Lin Xiu said softly, his eyes darting around.
Zhou Jiu stroked his chin and nodded. If all three of them had similar feelings, then there was definitely something wrong. So he asked directly, "What's your plan?"
Sun You said with a playful expression, "Of course it's a counterattack."
The three of them simultaneously revealed sly smiles. They needed to achieve excellent results and constantly make their presence felt, and this was a good opportunity.
Zhou Jiu picked up three copper coins, tossed them aside, and saw that it was another inauspicious divination. He laughed and said, "Alright, I'll just pretend I miscalculated again this time. I hope everything goes well for us."
"Let's find out the arrangements on the ship first, lest we cause trouble and get ourselves into trouble," Sun You said.
"I'll be in charge of the interior cabin," Lin Xiu said.
“Then I’ll do what I’m good at,” Zhou Jiu replied.
"Don't let your swindling and cheating backfire on you in the end," Lin Xiu muttered habitually before leaving his seat.
Zhou Jiu took out the divination sticks again, making a louder noise as he shook them. He turned around and said to the student across the aisle, "Hey, classmate, you're also from the First Military Academy, right? Interested in having your fortune told?"
Seeing that the classmate across the aisle turned around but didn't say anything, Zhou Jiu stood up on his own, leaned against the back of another chair, and said, "Let me introduce myself. My name is Zhou Jiu. I'm a fortune teller from the ancient planet Blue Star, and I'll be your classmate for the next four years."
"How did you know I'm from the First Military Academy?" the male student asked curiously.
"Haha, of course I predicted it. I feel we're destined to meet today. Would you like to have your fortune told, classmate? There's a discount, 100 coins per reading." Zhou Jiu smiled warmly, as if they had known each other for a long time.
"You're a freshman, right? Brothers and sisters... do you have a younger sister? And... is there someone in your family who works in the medical field?" Zhou Jiu said, carefully examining the boy's face while recalling the conversation the boy had with others when they boarded the spaceship.
"You could figure that out? That's amazing! I need to calculate it." The boy looked at Zhou Jiu in surprise.
Zhou Jiu asked, "What aspect of divination do you want to have divined?"
"It's about relationships; let's see if I can find love at military academy." The boy's voice lowered.
Zhou Jiu clearly felt a tall military officer from a few seats behind him glance in their direction, and his eyes flickered.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jiu's first reaction was, "Ha, classmate, finding love before going to military academy, that's promising!" His second reaction was a sudden realization: if they could hear each other from this far away, had their previous conversation been overheard? He wondered if there was some kind of listening device, or was it just that everyone's attention was focused on this location, making it easier to hear?
Zhou Jiu shook the bamboo tube in his hand and dropped three copper coins.
"Classmate, I'm sorry, but love seems a bit far away for you. It will be at least five years before you can even think about dating. Anything beyond that will just be bad luck with potential partners," Zhou Jiu said with a regretful expression as he looked at the divination results.
“You’re quite right. I have a girl I like, but she said she won’t date during her studies, so I have to wait until graduation to confess to her.”
Faced with the shocked look on his classmate's face, Zhou Jiu was a little dumbfounded, thinking to himself: Classmate, you have a lot of confidence. Where do you get the confidence that you can just confess to someone and they will accept you!
"Alright, transfer the money. Let's add each other's contact information first. If you have any bad romantic encounters that you can't avoid, I'll help you avoid trouble." Zhou Jiu extended his personal terminal and connected with the classmate's personal terminal.
"Hello, I'd also like to have my fortune told," another person said.
Zhou Jiu was prepared and asked, "What do you want to calculate?"
"I'm majoring in mecha engineering, but I'm not physically fit. I'd like to ask if I'll be expelled after the first semester," the female student said frankly.
Zhou Jiu looked at the divination chart in front of him, pondered for a moment, and then said, "No, the divination chart says that you will have a benefactor to help you, and you will not be discouraged."
"A distinguished person?"
"Excuse me, would you mind telling me your birthday?"
The female student replied that she didn't mind, and then gave her birthdate.
Zhou Jiu looked at her face and then calculated the girl's birth date and time.
"This indicates that your benefactor is someone close to you, probably a family member secretly helping you. Of course, you only need one person to help you to rise to prominence, and you will be rich and prosperous throughout your life, with everything going smoothly."
The female classmate looked slightly surprised. Zhou Jiu looked at her expression and understood that this classmate was not worried at all. Her birth chart was too good, and her family had both power and wealth. Her wealth and power would continue to be in her hands.
Seeing that the girl did not refute him, people gradually began to gather around Zhou Jiu in the cabin. Most people are curious about things they don't understand.
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