Chapter 99 Sudden Enlightenment
At this moment, Zhou Jiu was completely unaware that Chu Zhao and Elsa both thought she had a psychological problem. However, due to her long-standing habit of talking to Qi Qi, she did not realize that in the eyes of outsiders, she was indeed talking to herself.
A few days after the search, they may have discovered that the spacecraft had left, the same spacecraft that Elsa had used to arrive.
Zhou Jiu continued his normal life for a few days, maintaining the routine he had before Chu Zhao left him any food.
Sure enough, the spacecraft carrying Elsa arrived again. This time, Major Elsa had the guards retrieve a package of supplies from the spacecraft. "Two months' worth of nutrient solution should be enough for you if you use it sparingly. I hope you'll still be alive by then."
"Thanks, of course I'll live." Zhou Jiu raised his lips as he carried the supply bag that a guard was holding in both hands.
Time passed little by little, and the daily routine of hunting and practicing mystical arts resumed.
With Qi Qi's help and Zhou Jiu's practice, on the third to last day before the end of his imprisonment, Zhou Jiu set up the formation.
The copper coin remained suspended in the air for about a minute as Zhou Jiu drew mysterious and complex runes within the array's amplification. Inside the array, Qi Qi's figure was half-hidden, half-revealed. Accompanied by the vibration of the copper coin in the air, the copper coin finally disappeared after Zhou Jiu exhausted his mental energy to draw the last rune. Qi Qi's black shadow gradually materialized and stepped onto the ground.
Zhou Jiu squatted slightly to ease his discomfort. "Qiqi, how are you feeling now?"
"Comfortable," Qi Qi said, biting her lip and enunciating each word clearly.
Qiqi, who had just finished speaking, vanished instantly, leaving behind a copper coin lying on the ground.
"What are you going in for?" Zhou Jiu asked, puzzled.
"Energy, energy, delicious!"
Zhou Jiu smiled slightly, pressing his brow: "You've become the spirit of the copper coins. They're yours even if you don't eat them, but if you do, they'll still scatter among the copper coins."
"Delicious, delicious."
Hearing Qiqi's childish voice, Zhou Jiu shook his head helplessly and said, "Fine, eat whatever you want. Anyway, to avoid breaking the laws, you can only eat what's inside the magic artifact from now on."
Qi Qi, who was completely engrossed in running around inside the copper coins, didn't hear Zhou Jiu's words at all.
Zhou Jiu looked up, shielding his eyes, at the sunlight filtering through the leaves. "This is truly a blessed place. Fortune and misfortune are intertwined; the old saying is indeed true."
Zhou Jiu gradually recovered, and once her dizziness subsided, she stood up and returned to the cave, where she inscribed her epiphany: "A year of cultivation yielded no results, yet one day I had an epiphany, understanding the true essence of talismans..."
Zhou Jiu looked at the ancient blue-and-white Chinese characters on the stone wall and wrote his final signature at the bottom: Half-baked.
Zhou Jiu, carrying her backpack, slowly walked towards the highest point on the deserted island. This time, the copper coin was not in her hand, but floating on the top of her hair, bouncing up and down as she walked forward.
This time, the strange beast passed by Zhou Jiu as if it couldn't see him at all.
Zhou Jiu poked the strange beast that was about to crash into her. Startled, the beast quickly retreated to the side, glanced around, and, finding nothing amiss, continued walking in its original direction.
Zhou Jiu narrowed his eyes and revealed his figure to the side. Instantly, the beast let out a howl, and upon seeing Zhou Jiu, its eyes filled with terror. It tucked its tail and quickly flew forward.
"Hehe, this is so much fun, it scared it." Qiqi revealed its true form, a miniature version of Zhou Jiu, playfully tugging at Zhou Jiu's sleeve with one hand and pointing in the direction the frightened beast had fled with the other, giggling.
Zhou Jiu glanced at Qi Qi with disdain: "Your expression really makes you look a bit silly. I'm not usually like this, am I?"
"Not stupid, not stupid, Qiqi is not stupid." Qiqi's speech gradually became more fluent. As a spirit born of heaven and earth and now possessing a parasite, its intelligence is sufficient for it to learn and grow quickly.
“Yes, she’s not stupid, after all, she has such a cute face.” Zhou Jiu raised an eyebrow.
Zhou Jiu led Qi Qi and continued walking towards the highest point of the deserted island.
On the second-to-last day, Zhou Jiu held Qi Qi's hand and stood on the highest mountaintop of the deserted island. "Qi Qi, look, that planet brings light. That planet is a star called Hydrogen Meteor, which looks a lot like the sun from my childhood."
“Qiqi, we’ve been here for over a year, and we haven’t really taken the time to appreciate the scenery. Today, let’s witness the sunset and the sunrise together, and then tomorrow we’ll begin our new journey.” Zhou Jiu stood on the mountaintop, facing the direction from which the hydrogen meteor had fallen.
"But why aren't the rising and setting of hydrogen meteors called 'falling stars' and 'first stars'?" Qi Qi scratched her hair, sat down on the ground, snuggled up to Zhou Jiu's legs, and asked curiously, "Shouldn't these be the names that A Jiu said for the rising and setting of the sun?"
"Hmm? I didn't say that the sun is pronounced 'ri' in the ancient Chinese language of Blue Star. Qiqi, how did you know?" Zhou Jiu thought about it carefully; she didn't think she had ever mentioned this to Qiqi before.
"I just know! I know so many things, from when the ancient planet was called Earth, to when I saw someone create me during the Republic of China era..."
"Wait, are you talking about you or copper coins?" Zhou Jiu twitched his fingers, squatted down, and sat next to Qi Qi, asking with interest.
“Back then it should have been a copper coin, but now I feel like I am Him, and He is me.”
“But isn’t the Qianlong Tongbao a coin minted during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty? The Palace Museum’s catalog of Qing coins records that in the first year of Emperor Qianlong’s reign (1736), the Qianlong Tongbao coin was issued and its weight was changed to 1.2 qian per coin. Everything matches this.” After Zhou Jiu finished speaking, she read the contents she had seen earlier to herself again.
"My memory tells me that it was called the Republic of China era, and it was made by an old craftsman."
“…It’s alright, they’re all antiques anyway, and they’re quite useful,” Zhou Jiu added.
"And I know that many, many people have me, until a person named Zhou Qian got me and put me in a box. At that time, there were a few other little friends. Oh, I remember, I also saw Ajiu when she was little, about the same size as me now." Qiqi remembered some more things and suddenly said excitedly.
"Me? Are you sure?" Zhou Jiu's eyes trembled slightly as he considered a possibility.
"Yes, it's you. You haven't changed much since then."
"And then what happened?" Zhou Jiu asked nervously.
"Later, when I opened the box, I was outside the ancient blue planet. Then I saw a person, and that person sold me and a few of my friends to you." Qiqi said, blinking her eyes, and then looked in the direction where the hydrogen meteor fell.
"Ajiu, look, the sunset, the afterglow... it's all so beautiful."
Zhou Jiu's gaze fell on the spot where the hydrogen meteor had descended, and a smile gradually appeared in his eyes. He leaned against the little Qi Qi and said, "Hmm, it's really beautiful."
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