Chapter 33: The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 2 (Second Update) Avoid...
033 The Empire's First Beta Crown Princess 2
The "friend" who asked Luanma to cover for him works as a cleaner in the manor. He asked Luanma for help today because he had something urgent to do.
——Why didn’t you ask for leave from the administrative supervisor according to the rules, but had to secretly let Lu Jiu take over?
Of course it’s because the other party doesn’t want to go to work, but still wants to get paid!
This guy was someone Luanma met in a casino three days ago. I don’t know if Luanma’s appearance of losing money pleased him, but the guy hooked his arm around Luanma’s shoulder like a good friend and said with a grin:
"Jiujiu, you can take my place for a day. The manor is huge, and everyone goes their separate ways after clocking in and taking their computers. As long as you stay out of the way, no one will find you! My buddy is going to have a big gamble tomorrow, and I'll split the winnings with you in half, so you'll have enough money for rent, right?"
Luanma agreed with a silly smile.
At this moment, Lu Jiu found the person's contact information and called him, only to find that he had been blocked.
He sneered.
The day hasn't even ended yet, and you've already dared to do this. Are you sure that Luanma will work obediently until the end of the day?
111 was also indignant: "Swindler, playing people like fools!"
Lu Jiu let out a breath.
Forget it. Wasn’t he a fool in the previous year?
Ten minutes later, he left the slum apartment building with a tattered backpack on his back, and the landlord spat at him and mocked him for being poor.
111 was very worried: "Then Jiujiu, where should we go now?"
"Let's go to the pharmacy and see how much birth control pills cost first."
Compared with other areas, the slums are obviously dilapidated and gloomy.
Looking into the distance, you can see tall buildings and towers reaching into the sky, and aircraft of various and dazzling styles shuttling through the air routes. Occasionally, a team of humanoid or animal-shaped mechas flies by, which are either the military or mecha student teams from schools of all ages.
After walking about 400 meters ahead, there was a small pharmacy at the corner. The owner was sitting behind the counter, playing games. When Lu Jiu entered, he didn't even raise his eyelids, let alone say a word.
The holographic screen suddenly popped up.
【Asange requests a call】
Lu Jiu raised an eyebrow.
It's that casino friend.
I had blocked him a few minutes ago, why is he calling me now?
"Could it be that he has a change of heart and wants to give you money?" 111 said quietly.
"I think this fool is still useful. It's time for him to come to his senses." Lu Jiu said lazily, hung up the phone and blocked the person.
As soon as I lifted my foot, the holographic screen popped up again.
【Stranger 189xxxxxxxx requesting a call】
111: "Who is this?"
Lu Jiu touched his chin and reminisced. Luanma didn't seem to have bought anything online recently, so it shouldn't be the courier's call.
That's a harassing phone call.
He hung up again and blocked the call.
【Stranger 190xxxxxxxx requesting a call】
Lu Jiu: "Ha, if you can't get through, just change your number and keep calling. It's definitely a harassment call."
This time, he not only blocked the number, but also activated a temporary one-click protection function to block all calls and text messages from unknown numbers.
It's finally quiet.
Lu Jiu took two steps forward.
The holographic screen popped up for the fourth time.
【Uncle Zhao requests a call】
111: "Who is this again?"
"Landlord." Lu Jiu looked thoughtful.
"Why did he call you? Did he feel guilty and knew you had nowhere to go so he wanted to give you a few days' grace?"
"...if you want to find fault and get more money from me, then that's fine."
In the past, when it rained continuously, other tenants' rooms became damp and the walls fell off, he always blamed the tenants.
Calculating the time, from the time he left the apartment until now, it was almost enough time for the uncle to check the room again with a magnifying glass.
Lu Jiu hung up the phone for the fourth time without hesitation and blocked the person for the fourth time.
The world is finally quiet.
He walked up and asked the boss, "How much is the cheapest beta contraceptive pill?"
The boss raised his drooping eyelids and looked Lu Jiu up and down: "You didn't wear a condom when you slept with someone else? Beta cells don't have such a strong ability to cause pregnancy."
Lu Jiu: “…………”
He smiled wryly: "How much?"
The boss looked as if to say, "I did advise you, but it was you who wanted to spend this money." He leaned back, grabbed a box of medicine from the second row of the glass cabinet at the back, and threw it to Lu Jiu.
"Two dollars."
Lu Jiu put his wrist close to the payment sensor where the chip was located.
With a beep, a female voice sounded, "Two yuan for payment." The boss lowered his head to play games again, and Lu Jiu walked out of the store.
He found a secluded place to sit down, opened the medicine box, and took out a folded instruction sheet and a medicine plate with only one pill attached.
111: "Jiujiu, I was wondering, if you can still get pregnant in this world, then if you get pregnant this time, will it still be Chenxi...?"
"Of course I've thought about it," Lu Jiu admitted frankly, "but if I really want to get pregnant, it can't be at this time. I'm penniless now, how can I support him? Am I going to rely on his other father to marry me into the palace and provide me with food and clothing?"
He took out the pills.
"It's not 24 hours yet, and the fertilized egg hasn't formed yet. I'll stop the process now. If I have a chance to get pregnant again in the future, maybe it will be him," Lu Jiu said calmly. "If I can meet him somewhere else as an adult, then there's no need for me to get pregnant. Why bother?"
Having a baby is not fun.
He popped the pill into his mouth and swallowed it dry.
The small pill slid down the esophagus, like a heart gradually sinking to the bottom, and Lu Jiu slowly exhaled.
111 fell silent.
Lu Jiu looked at the twilight in the sky and was quiet for a while.
After a while, he stood up and patted his trouser legs.
"Let's go find a place to sleep tonight."
*
The advantage of a second-class star is that the government will still find a way to house the homeless.
Before it got completely dark, Lu Jiu ran to a resettlement site on the edge of the slum. There was already a long queue there, all of which were people who had nowhere to go. Some of them were carrying backpacks like him, and some were with their families.
Lu Jiu stood in the line, her clean clothes and bright and beautiful face attracted many subtle glances.
However, all those gazes disappeared when they met his sharp and calm eyes.
People who have been hardshiped by life for a long time are best at reading people's faces and know what kind of people they should not mess with.
As soon as eight o'clock in the evening, the gate of the resettlement site opened. Under the arrangement of the staff, the homeless people went in one after another and slept on the floor in the hall in an orderly manner.
Lu Jiu heard 111 sobbing.
This little system actually cried out of pity for him.
Lu Jiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"It's not that bad, really." He took out some old clothes from his backpack and put them on the ground, comforting himself in his mind, "It's not that bad as long as I have a place to sleep."
To be precise, Lu Jiu doesn't care about the level of material living standards.
To him, the only difference in life is whether it is lively or quiet.
He lived a happy life in his previous life, but he has never forgotten the lonely days in his original world.
…
The silent night fell and soon the only sound in the hall was the constant snoring.
111 picked up the broken pieces of her heart and disappeared for a while.
When it came back, it was quite excited: "Jiujiu, I just checked, the system calculated your achievements in the previous world and gave you 100 achievement points!"
Lu Jiu became more excited: "How can I use this money?"
"First of all, you can use it to activate some basic functions on me! For example, scheduled shutdown and scheduled startup. With these two functions, you don't have to give commands in real time! Also, you can adjust my voice and shape my voice into what you like!"
Lujiu: =_=
"Anything else?"
"There are so many basic functions that I can't list them all. Anyway, they are all unlocked with 1 point. If you need anything, just tell me and I'll see if there's a corresponding function!"
If 111 could transform into a human, it would definitely be holding its head high and patting its chest.
"Then is there a function to scan whether I have a uterus?"
"No."
“…”
“…”
111 screamed: "No player has ever asked for this kind of feature! I'll report it right away! I'll have the quick-play feature added in!!"
Lu Jiu chuckled.
"Besides these basic functions, what else can points be used for?"
"It can be used to open treasure chests! One hundred and fifty points can be exchanged for a low-level treasure chest, and three hundred points can be exchanged for a high-level treasure chest!" 111 said this with great interest, and paused, "Also, as you already know in the last world, destroying me can get you a treasure chest of the collection level."
"Yeah, I know," Lu Jiu replied nonchalantly, "What's in the low-level and high-level treasure chests?"
111 started talking excitedly again: "All of them..."
…
The night deepens.
*
When Lu Jiu woke up the next day, most people in the hall had left. The bright morning light shone in from outside the door, casting a golden glow on the ground.
He stretched.
It's a nice day today.
After washing up in the bathroom, he put on his backpack and came to the gate of the resettlement site. Government workers were distributing charity breakfasts. Lu Jiu took one and thanked them with a smile.
After eating a bun on the side of the road, he called the Academic Affairs Office of Canxing First-Class College.
"Hello, my name is Lu Jiu. I passed your school's entrance exam last year, but was unable to report due to some special reasons."
The person on the other end of the phone was very polite at first, but as he listened, he probably finally remembered this "person" and his tone became a little subtle.
The other party asked him what the so-called "special reasons" were, and Lu Jiu honestly said that he had been stupid in the past year.
The other party: "…………What do you mean by 'stupid'?"
"It's just that I bumped my head and something went wrong." Lu Jiu looked up at the sky.
"…So are you okay now? Can you read?"
"Yes, maybe the blood clot in the brain was absorbed naturally."
“…………”
“…………”
There was a strange silence on both ends of the line.
The other party was probably thinking whether Lu Jiu's fluent but extremely ridiculous answer was a sign that his brain had returned to normal or had completely deteriorated.
Lu Jiu said sincerely, "I am really sorry for causing you a lot of trouble last year. I hope you can give me a chance. If you have any doubts, you can give me a physical examination and retake the test."
The other party remained silent.
After a moment.
"I will talk to my boss about your situation and give you a reply tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, thank you."
After hanging up the phone, Lu Jiu thought that even if Canxing Academy could make an exception and accept him, he wouldn't be able to go to school right away, and he couldn't waste these few days.
What's more, you need living expenses to go to school.
Still gotta make money.
Technology is advanced in the interstellar age, but in order to provide jobs for humans and earn wages, basic labor work has not been completely replaced by robots.
Lu Jiu quickly found a part-time job in a milk tea shop, where she was paid daily and could leave at any time.
The boss was a very nice person, and since he was free, he taught him how to make milk tea.
In the small shop, the young man's waist was outlined by the thin straps of the apron.
The oval face, fox eyes, and two small moles under the left eye and on the side of the nose make this face look pretty and handsome. The calm expression and the serious action of shaking the milk tea create a lovely contrast for him.
Soon, some little girls with starry eyes gathered in front of the store.
They held their faces, talked in low voices, and glanced at Lu Jiu from time to time.
"Boss, do we order by scanning the QR code?"
“Yes, yes, just scan the code!”
The boss was flattered by the sudden boom in business.
The other end.
In a slum apartment building.
"I still can't get through. He must have blocked me too!" The landlord put down his phone and said with a bitter face to the two men in black suits in front of him who had contacted him last night.
The two men looked at each other and frowned.
One of them asked, "Are you sure you didn't enter his identity information?"
"Really not. I've said it before. We're very casual here. You can live here as long as you pay. No, it's not like the rich areas, where it's so particular..."
The man's face darkened. "You know this is illegal, right?"
The boss shuddered: "Who are you? You are not the police, right? If you are not the police, why do you care so much? We are the people in the slums and we are miserable too. We are just trying to make a living!"
"You don't need to buy new equipment to input tenant information. It can be done on your own chip. What does it have to do with whether you make a living or not?" The man glanced at him and said, "You know the purpose of illegal leasing."
The boss's face turned pale, but the two men ignored him.
One of them contacted the police.
Another person also turned sideways and made a phone call: "Still can't track his chip? Okay, re-confirm the available surveillance along the street, and tell me the result when you are sure, and I will report to His Highness."
The boss was devastated.
Who did that kid Lu Jiu offend?
How can Heitu be more unreasonable than him?
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