Huh? Isn't this an adventure kingdom building game?!-Chapter 62 Soothing Incense

Every two hours, a notification popped up in Jiang Yuan’s sight, reminding him that the big cherries and big strawberries were ripe.

But no matter how the game urged him, he continued doing what he was doing and ignored it. After recovering, there was indeed around sixty thousand yuan in his bank card, but firstly, not much of the goods had been sold, only freeing up some space;

Secondly, Yang Hongye’s boss didn’t have that many clients needing gifts, so he had to hurry up to facilitate the registration of a sales path for the company, quickly penetrating the upper circle to sell the goods, that was the key.

Even if Wilderness World was not a game but a real world, he could currently only manage to turn out some fruits to cash in, he was counting on this to make money.

"Buzz buzz!"

In the dead of night, Jiang Yuan was sleeping soundly when suddenly the phone vibrating woke him up, groggily picking up the phone he instantly woke up — it was Chuci calling.

Calling at one thirty in the morning, it’s definitely not something good.

As expected, once he connected the call, Chuci’s weak voice came through, "I’m really not trying to trouble you in the middle of the night, but I’m out of ideas. After my old man heard about it, he found me a master. After fiddling for two hours, my throat indeed didn’t hurt and I wasn’t coughing, but I just can’t sleep.

Found another, reportedly even more powerful master, but he’s miles and miles away, if he manages to come over tomorrow it’d be a miracle. I’m so sleepy and my head hurts, even sleeping pills don’t work, so I’m thinking why not give it a shot with your incense."

"Okay, I’ll bring it to you now." Jiang Yuan climbed out of bed, casually took a handful of Soothing Incense from his storage bag.

After clicking to use the Incense Chart Skill Book, the skill grasped was incense making.

However, incense making was much more troublesome than folding paper figures, with various main and auxiliary ingredients used not as fragrances, but as herbs. For Jiang Yuan now, just gathering the materials was difficult, so he hadn’t gotten around to trying to gain experience.

Although he hadn’t made it, the Incense Chart recorded the method and effect of Soothing Incense, even if it wasn’t a perfect match, it could at least calm Chuci’s mind without any other harm.

It was still the car and driver who picked him up in the evening, Jiang Yuan arrived at the villa at 2:15.

Chuci’s hair was tousled like a bird’s nest, with slightly sunken dark circles, he weakly said, "If I really had another option, I wouldn’t be bothering you in the middle of the night either. If your incense doesn’t work, I’ll just go to the hospital, no matter what medicine, as long as it makes me sleep. The guest room is ready, just make yourself at home..."

"Don’t be so formal, hurry up and go lie down." Seeing his forehead’s black haze was even thicker than in the evening, Jiang Yuan knew there definitely was a problem but didn’t know how to solve it, had to rely on Soothing Incense to hopefully help a bit.

Once lit, the Soothing Incense emitted a faint, soothing aroma, Chuci turned off the lights and lay in bed restless.

He happened to have a problem, which was that when he was insomniac and couldn’t sleep, he felt itchy all over. On usual nights when he occasionally had insomnia, he’d endure it without scratching, take a sleeping pill, and fall asleep when the effect kicked in.

This time, with insomnia, Chuci himself could feel it was strange.

It itched, but scratching hurt, like a fishhook stuck in the flesh, the more it was like this, the more he thought of the dead fish he caught during the day, its hollow eyes seemed to stare at him, making him all the more restless.

Unsure whether it was just discomfort or tinnitus or hallucination, he thought he could vaguely hear the sound of water flowing, but with the doors and windows tightly shut and good soundproofing, even if there was a koi pond in the courtyard, it shouldn’t be audible.

"Amitābha Buddha, boundless Heaven Sovereign, God bless, nothing is forbidden, talk not of monsters, strengths, and spirits..." Chuci turned over again, his thoughts running wild with restlessness, just as a thread of incense aroma crept up his nose.

He opened his eyes to the gently flickering, bright red dot in the darkness, inhaling deeply the fragrant smell and exhaling a heavy breath of turbid air, his stifled chest seemed much lighter, and the discomfort gradually disappeared.

The darkness’s only source of light flickered as if it had a hypnotic magic power, Chuci closed his eyes slightly, feeling like he was sitting under a big tree in the forest, watching sunlight filter through the treetops onto the grass;

Or as if lying in a rocking chair under an eave, watching raindrops fall onto algae-covered bluestone slabs, feeling peaceful and serene, and breathing more evenly, Chuci finally sank into a deep sleep amidst the swirling smoke.

"Wealthy people’s beds are not as comfortable as they’re rumored to be." Jiang Yuan, however, was now wide awake and unable to sleep, turned over and sat up in bed.

He had been used to sleeping on a hard wooden bed since he was a child; now lying on a thick, soft mattress that nearly swallowed him, he felt uncomfortable no matter how he lay.

Coupled with having formed a good sleep routine since binding with the Wilderness game, going to sleep before ten at night, having been asleep for over four hours when the call woke him up, the drowsiness had long since vanished after staying up washing up and about for over half an hour after taking the call.

Jiang Yuan turned on the light and looked around, there were no books to read in the room, his phone wasn’t connected to the villa’s Wi-Fi, and his mobile data plan couldn’t support playing games or streaming videos, so bored, he opened the floor-to-ceiling window to the open-air balcony to get some air.

"What is that?!" Scanning around the garden’s night scene, he suddenly froze—a line of "black smoke" drifted out from a dark area in the southeast corner of the garden, like a flowing beam of black light slicing through the air straight for the top left corner.

Jiang Yuan leaned over and looked, realizing that the entire third floor was Chuci’s suite, that black line might very well be the culprit causing Chuci’s darkened forehead!

But the question was how to resolve it?

Involved was some unknown domain of metaphysical knowledge, he initially thought of entering the Wilderness Game to think of a solution, such as consulting the Tian couple. Yet he worried that if he entered the game and left his body here, what if the black line also ensnared him?

And unsure if others could see this phenomenon, had he learned Heaven-Burning Flame and inadvertently opened Celestial Eye?

Oddly, he felt like maybe he could use Heaven-Burning Flame to try burning it, after all, it didn’t cost anything and the second-floor balcony didn’t have surveillance so it wouldn’t be exposed, besides, whether he could hit the target was another question.

Thinking this way, Jiang Yuan rubbed his right hand, a small flame appeared, he casually aimed and tossed it.

"Bang!"

Unexpectedly, although the flame’s original trajectory deviated from the black line, it seemed to get attracted, tracing an arc through the air straight toward the black line, exploding into sparks upon contact.

The sparks vanished instantly, and the black line disappeared, startling him, afraid he’d been caught on surveillance or noticed, he hastily retreated to the room, closed the floor-to-ceiling window securely and turned off the lights.

The big cherry and big strawberry ripeness notification popped up again, but Jiang Yuan resisted entering the game.

Besides Chuci’s uncertain situation, there was another issue—time in the Wilderness World passed quickly, if it was a real otherworld, what if staying too long caused rapid aging?

He didn’t believe that just being spontaneous for two days, lifting iron, and jogging in the morning would make his muscles gradually prominent, never mind that he was eating well and didn’t get fat but rather developed muscles, definitely cutting trees and mining in the Wilderness had its benefits.

If his physique got altered, skills could be used in the real world, and his lifespan was synchronized, indulging in it meant starting to age prematurely!

Mulling over random things, his body sunk into the "cotton heap," Jiang Yuan didn’t know when he fell asleep.

"What a comfortable sleep!" When Chuci opened his eyes, there was a slight upward curve at the corners of his mouth.

He vaguely remembered having a particularly beautiful dream, the extreme pain of insomnia and the comfort of naturally waking from deep slumber stood in sharp contrast, he looked at the ashes of the incense that had burned out, sniffed the fragrance lingering on his pajamas, his goodwill toward the new acquaintance Jiang Yuan soared.

Not only was he a dependable colleague, but he also didn’t flinch at crucial times and could help solve such metaphysical problems. Originally thought of as a minor favor, it turned out the unassuming individual was a boon indeed!