Is It Too Late to Leave the Chat Group?

Book 4: Chapter 71:2: I’ve Seen It in the Future, Part 2

After buying the swimsuit, Chen Heng continued shopping for clothes with Nightingale and Skadi. How could they not buy nice clothes on this rare trip to Lungmen?

Chen Heng initially thought this. However, the developments surprised him.

To preserve his shopping experience, Chen Heng did not use the Absolute Precognition to see the entire day.

After two strengthenings, the Absolute Precognition could not only show him the future but also answer stipulated questions.

For example, Chen Heng had set a target before making the schedule: a better and more effective tour of Lungmen.

So, various suitable scenes of the future flashed before Chen Heng, letting him pick.

It was the same for today. To preserve today’s shopping experience, Chen Heng had just set a target before going out: would there be an accident today?

After he received the answer from the Absolute Precognition, Chen Heng did not watch the rest.

Chen Heng suddenly felt his Absolute Precognition had evolved into a supercomputer that could see the future.

Saying so much was just to express Chen Heng’s shock. He had never expected Nightingale and Skadi to be so enthusiastic about going shopping.

Even after Chen Heng felt tired, the two were still going strong.

There was no need to explain Skadi. As a human-shaped killer whale, she definitely had good physical strength. However, he felt shocked that Nightingale could last this long.

Although Chen Heng only had a mundane body, he was still a martial artist at his peak, so his physical strength was decent, yet he actually lost to her when shopping.

They shopped from nine in the morning to past three in the afternoon. Besides some rest during lunch, they were shopping for the rest of the time.

This was especially so since Chen Heng had said to buy whatever they wished without standing on ceremony, and each person had to spend at least 100,000 LMD. The two bought increasingly more things.

Fortunately, Chen Heng had a spatial storage item and could occasionally find a secluded place to put the things away. Otherwise, he would be like the other tired men at the side, with arms filled with all sorts of shopping bags.

Skadi appeared indifferent when they returned to the hotel. However, Nightingale and Chen Heng collapsed onto the sofa, extremely fatigued.

Since you are also exhausted, can’t you shop less?

Thinking about Nightingale’s health, Chen Heng took out a medicinal pill for recovering from fatigue and got her to eat it. After all, she had just recovered from something major.

Since saving Nightingale, Chen Heng had used many medicinal pills on her. Although they were just low-grade pills, he was still making a loss and felt he had made an unprofitable transaction.

After a while, Chen Heng could only drag his tired feet to the Lungmen Guard Department to get that business license done.

“Ah Heng, where are you going?”

“I’m going to get a business license. I ran into Madam Ch’en when I set up the stall yesterday. In the end, I discovered she was actually a distant relative, so she told me to go to the Lungmen Guard Department for a temporary business license.”

“…” Nightingale was dumbfounded at the shocking information Chen Heng’s words contained.

Your romance fortunetelling stall can get a business license? Furthermore, that fierce Ch’en is actually your distant cousin?

However, this also answered one of the questions in Nightingale’s heart: the one about why Chen Heng had so many secret medicines unique to Yan. It turned out this was the reason.

------

“You are called Chen Heng, right? You are Ch’en’s younger cousin? Hello. I’m Ch’en’s friend. Just call me Hoshiguma.” The one who received Chen Heng when he arrived was not Ch’en but the brutal Hoshiguma.

According to Hoshiguma, his “cousin” still had work to do and could not receive him.

Anyway, not just Ch’en would feel awkward if they met again; Chen Heng would too. After all, they were just distant cousins who had never met. Furthermore, that relationship was fake.

The Oni were truly strong. When Hoshiguma patted his shoulder a few times, Hoshiguma’s strange strength was palpable.

[TL Note: The Oni is Terra’s version of a Japanese ogre. They also come from Higashi, Terra’s version of Japan. Here is more information about the Oni: /wiki/Oni.]

Also, Hoshiguma was indeed tall.

Chen Heng was 179 centimeters, considerably tall, at least 11 centimeters taller than Ch’en. However, that was still nothing compared to Hoshiguma.

However, the 184-centimeter-tall Hoshiguma gave people a sense of security.

Hoshiguma was not just tall but also had a splendid figure. She also gave Chen Heng an unusually rowdy feeling. She truly lived up to being a mobster leader who had been recruited as an exception.

However, the shield named Hannya in Hoshiguma’s hand did not look as gentle as she acted. From Chen Heng’s perspective, in his professional terms, this shield had a baleful aura but not much resentment.

This was a good shield that was hard to come by.

Speaking of Hoshiguma, Chen Heng kept thinking of Touhou Project’s Hoshiguma. They were both called Hoshiguma and were both Oni. They also had that singular horn and ridiculous strength.

[TL Note: Here is the profile of Touhou Project’s Hoshiguma: https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Yuugi_Hoshiguma.]

“Elder Sister Hoshiguma, sorry to trouble you.”

“Indeed, you are as Swire described. You are quite polite. It’s fine. It’s just a temporary business license. The procedure is easy and quick.”

Normally, the commerce department was in charge of business licenses. However, Chen Heng only needed a temporary one, which the Lungmen Guard Department could issue.

[Author Note: Arknights’s world is different from reality, so there’s nothing wrong with the laws and rules being different, right?]

Hoshiguma brought Chen Heng to an office in the Lungmen Guard Department responsible for complaints against roadside stalls.

The Lungmen Guard Department initially did not have this office. However, Lungmen citizens would go to the Lungmen Guard Department whenever problems arose. Although the Lungmen Guard Department had no jurisdiction in that area then, people kept coming to complain about roadside stalls. Long story short, they set up such an office.

After filling out the application form for a temporary business license, Chen Heng left the office while chatting with Hoshiguma.

The ferocious dragon, the fierce tiger, and the brute. Chen Heng had met all three of them. It was perfect; his only regret was not seeing them in action together.

While it was described as Chen Heng chatting with Hoshiguma, it was mostly Hoshiguma telling Chen Heng about Ch’en.

While these two chatted about Ch’en, the Lungmen Guard Department operating on the other side gossiped about Chen Heng, Ch’en’s “younger cousin.”

Getting discussed while discussing others, Chen Heng now experienced it for himself.