After bidding farewell to Chen San and the others, it was already early morning when they returned to the Star of Art. Tang Xin turned on the lights in the security room, and dust swirled and floated in the air.

The girl's face was flushed from the cold, and after softly exhaling, she looked around the room:

"It's only been a few days outside, yet it feels like a long time has passed, and everything seems to have changed a lot."

"The room hasn't been occupied for a few days; it really needs a good cleaning."

"You, who should shower first, you or me?"

Tang Xin's voice brought Xu Xiaoyou back from her thoughts. She gave the girl a slight smile: "You go first."

Watching the girl's back, Xu Xiaoyou thought, letting a greenhouse flower experience the rain is necessary. The other party's personality has grown significantly from this experience, and at least in crisis situations, there won't be any weakness or hesitation.

The experience will subtly influence the girl's character, and in future interactions, she will also appear more confident.

But she also noticed a problem; like Anya, Tang Xin was somewhat overly reliant on her, lacking her own opinions.

If it hadn't been for Chen San saving the day at the last moment, the Little Blue Bird might have stopped singing for real.

Xu Xiaoyou spread her hands.

Fostering growth takes time, turning an imperfect goddess into a perfect one, making someone lacking in confidence become confident, turning the weak into the strong, letting the wolf grow, allowing the flower to bloom.

If everything were perfect by default, what would there be for her to foster?

In the bathroom, the sound of water running came from outside, snowflakes drifting down; she sat on the sofa, planning to take proper stock of what she had gained.

As soon as she connected to the internet, there was an explosion of information from every direction: gossip about celebrities, content from marketing accounts flooded in, making Xu Xiaoyou's head spin.

She quickly scanned and found that in the three days she had been out on the commission, nothing notable had happened in the city other than various media companies promoting their celebrities, creating buzz and public opinion.

Suddenly, she glanced out of the corner of her eye at an inconspicuous news headline in a corner of the screen.

[The second performance of the Melancholy Girl Band was successfully held, and a fan signing event with the teen idol Xiaomeng will be held at 3 PM tomorrow afternoon.]

She searched the earlier dates under Melancholy Girl and found that their first performance also happened as planned and was well-received.

She chuckled softly. Back then, Tang Xin was too kind to let that girl named Xiaomeng go on stage with a swollen face after all.

There are only four days left before the Starry Art Competition's preliminaries begin, and at this point, with Tang Xin's condition, making it to the next round is a given.

What she wants isn't just to make it to the next round; she wants Tang Xin to astonish everyone from the start, to be the most dazzling star under the same sky, to overshadow all the other contestants, to grab enough attention, and finally, to feed it back to her Dream Chasing Media.

To make Dream Chasing Media a household name, she needs to make good use of the Little Blue Bird.

There are too many glamorous things in the Star of Art. Simply standing beautifully in the sunlight doesn't make you stand out; it won't create a big enough gap to draw attention from the majority.

Xu Xiaoyou thought of something, and the corners of her mouth turned up slightly.

Just then, she received a new email from the Talent Strategy Resources Department of Cosmic Heavy Industries.

[S-Class agent Xu Xiaoyou, your commission has been completed.]

[Due to your outstanding performance and contributions, we hope you can participate in the company's internal S-Class agent mutual aid exchange meeting, get to know other S-Class agents, which will be helpful to...]

Xu Xiaoyou couldn't even be bothered to read it, deleting the email and blocking the sender in one go.

She had developed a dislike for the company after fulfilling their mutual needs and didn't want any further dealings with Cosmic Heavy Industries.

This time the commission intelligence was severely flawed, causing them to face setbacks repeatedly against the puppet brothers during the process. In the end, when the truth came out, the company didn't even apologize, much less offer any satisfactory commission remuneration.

In this regard, she found Diamond 9 to be better; at least they knew to offer some perks to draw people in, unlike the Strategic Talent Resource Department that treated people as mere cheap labor.

Thinking about Diamond 9, Xu Xiaoyou's heart stirred, and the hundred-section bone whip appeared in her hand, dragging from her leg to the ground, making a crisp sound.

Each section of the whip was made from unknown creatures' spines, with fine bone texture reminiscent of bone crafts in antique markets. Each end was so razor-sharp with barbed bone spikes that they could cut skin with a gentle rub, channeling blood into the center channel. Looking from that channel to the whip's grip, Xu Xiaoyou noticed a groove.

Engraved with mysterious runes, the groove had an ancient aura flowing through it. Judging by the size of the groove, Xu Xiaoyou contemplated thoughtfully.

She turned her palm up, producing the Hundred-sided Dice in her hand. When she tried to move the Hundred-sided Dice close to the groove, something astonishing happened.

The dice and the groove repelled each other like two magnets before suddenly bursting with strong mental waves and attraction, gluing tightly together.

Upon closer observation, the appearance of the Hundred-sided Dice had transformed—from a hundred-sided shape to a four-sided solid, becoming an iron-gray triangular prism. The blue mist-like numbers disappeared, and each of the four sides floated with pale numbers, corresponding to one through four.

Her fingertip gently turned on the triangular prism, and after the facets changed, the side corresponding to the number '1' lit up.

Xu Xiaoyou nodded and stood up, swinging the long whip forward. As the consecutive collisions erupted, a force exploded from her wrist to the end of the whip, producing a crackling bang!

Resonance and vibrations erupted in the void, and space in front of her was forcibly sliced open, spreading like a shattered mirror.

A rift appeared out of thin air, and beyond the rift, a man sitting in a bathtub was clutching his chest, staring at her blankly without a stitch on.

The man and his bathtub's little yellow duck were both stunned!

The man had been enjoying a bubble bath, soothing his tired body and mind after a long day.

"Hey!" the man shouted in anger and shyness.

The rift closed, and the man and his little yellow duck disappeared from Xu Xiaoyou's sight.

Xu Xiaoyou covered her face filled with black lines, deeply questioning life.

What was that about just now?

After briefly calming her thoughts, Xu Xiaoyou tried swinging again, but this time it didn't trigger any spatial fluctuations; the clear sound of the whip faded into the dark night outside the window.

She judged that this Hundred Bone Whip could indeed slice through space, opening a spatial rift upon activation. The rift itself had a time limit, and the ability to slice through space also had a cooldown period.

Judging by the layout of the other side's bathroom, it seemed like a typical apartment in the Queens District. Being in the residential area meant the direct distance from her apartment in the Dream of the Black Swan wouldn't exceed three kilometers.

"I just don't know what the maximum distance between the two sides of a spatial rift is," Xu Xiaoyou pondered.

If she could open a spatial rift to another Nest City, then she would have a way to travel to other Nest Cities without a ticket in the future.

She decided to continue researching the spatial abilities once the cooldown time was up. Before that, she wanted to try the other abilities of the Hundred Bone Whip.

After turning the four-sided die to number '2,' she tried swinging the long whip again, and something terrifying happened to Xu Xiaoyou.

With a loud bang, the entire marble coffee table in front of her was sliced in half; the section was so neatly trimmed that it looked as if it had been cut by precision machinery.

But what terrified her wasn't that; it was the twin bell alarm clock lying on the floor, also sliced in two.

That twin bell alarm clock seemed to have been with Tang Xin for quite some time...

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