Chapter 00259: Time Flies
# Time Flies
Chapter 259
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 259: Time Flies
Time flowed like water, swift as a weaver's shuttle, like a white steed glimpsed through a crack...
In short, it was now December.
The temperature had dropped completely, and pedestrians outside were all bundled up in down jackets and thick cotton coats.
Nothing major had happened during this period.
Li Chengxi's daily life was a simple loop of opening and closing his shop.
Qian Sen hadn't called again during this time.
He seemed to be very busy lately.
Li Chengxi had wanted to ask about the results of the Jinniu Mountain incident investigation, but he never found the chance.
Lei Lei had previously said that someone close to her would experience a major upheaval soon, but neither Li Chengxi nor Gan Xiaoyan had encountered anything significant.
He felt that the divination result her master had mentioned was probably just pure nonsense.
In the game, things were just as calm.
Yang Yiyi was still staying at Li Yingluo's house.
This time, she wasn't running around all over the place.
Instead, she had settled down to practice her martial arts seriously.
Zheng Yinping, who would occasionally visit, remarked that Yang Yiyi's martial arts were becoming more and more refined, and areas that were once crude had shown clear improvement.
Her progress with the Ultimate Intent Vajra Technique obtained from the Heavenly Absolute Palace was also going smoothly.
According to Yang Yiyi, she had already reached the second level, and her internal breath was steadily growing stronger.
Li Chengxi saw that Yang Yiyi's mana bar had increased quite a bit, which showed that she had indeed not been slacking off during this time.
Viola's side was still in a state of pre-war preparation, but it seemed to have become even more tense than a month ago.
They were in the process of gathering supplies and diligently training their soldiers, ready for a fight at any moment.
Audel's research in the City of Academics had yielded new results.
She was very busy lately.
Every time Li Chengxi moved the camera view over to her, he would see her either furiously writing at home or presenting her thesis in a place that looked like a grand hall.
She also hadn't expressed any intention of visiting again.
In short, the month had passed very peacefully.
The only thing worth mentioning was that with an extra ten million in his bank account, he received calls from managers of different banks almost every day, recommending financial products...
But today, Li Chengxi received a call from Qian Sen, who told him that the warehouse he had found for him was settled.
Section Nine would be responsible for the rent, management fees, and so on.
He could use it whenever he wanted, just by giving them a heads-up.
Furthermore, he said that if Li Chengxi needed any supplies, he could call at any time.
Section Nine would help with the procurement and would definitely get him a discounted price.
He even offered to help draft a list of supplies and assist with transporting them to the warehouse; Li Chengxi would only need to handle the payment.
To be honest, Section Nine's proactiveness was definitely because they wanted to know how Li Chengxi planned to transport the supplies to Viola.
Whether it was Li Chengxi or Audel who did it, it was an event worth observing and recording.
It was foreseeable that when the time came, Section Nine would surely be observing in secret, perhaps with Qian Sen himself present to watch.
Li Chengxi still hadn't figured out a good way to deliver the supplies to Viola without exposing his ability to stuff things through the screen.
He hadn't really thought it through at the time; he had just figured that supplying a medieval army with the productivity of modern society would be a piece of cake.
The only solution at present was to discuss it with Audel later and have her open a teleportation portal in the warehouse.
At least then it would look like the items were going through a portal rather than being thrown into a screen.
After hanging up the phone, Li Chengxi immediately took a taxi to the warehouse's location to have a look.
It was a vacant warehouse belonging to a pharmaceutical company on the outskirts of the city.
The place was quite spacious.
And although Li Chengxi said he wanted to buy supplies for Viola, in reality, he was mainly buying medicine.
Food could be requisitioned from the Leon Territory, and weapons and armor were also being forged in the Leon Territory, so he didn't need to worry about those at all.
It was quite convenient that the warehouse was located within the pharmaceutical company's premises.
Since Section Nine could find him this warehouse, they probably had connections at the pharmaceutical company.
It was even possible that the medicine Li Chengxi would buy would merely be moved from one of the company's warehouses to another.
Besides, the quantity wasn't actually that large.
It sounded a bit exaggerated to supply an entire army's medicine by himself, but in truth, Viola only had a force of two thousand soldiers.
The required medicines were just things like wound medicine, iodophor, and penicillin.
They weren't expensive even if bought from a pharmacy, let alone with Section Nine finding him a wholesale price.
Li Chengxi walked around the warehouse a couple of times.
He was very satisfied with the place, but he was again stumped by the problem of how to get things into the screen.
A home computer monitor was clearly not large enough.
Li Chengxi opened his phone to check the prices of televisions.
A hundred-inch TV cost a little over ten thousand, which was acceptable.
But a hundred-inch TV was only a little over a meter tall, which was still a bit small for tossing in packed boxes.
So he thought of perhaps using the kind of spliced screens used for outdoor advertisements, but there was no guarantee that such a screen would function like a television or monitor.
After thinking it over and over, Li Chengxi saw projectors for sale online.
This seemed more suitable.
He just needed to hang one on the wall and project the image directly onto the white wall.
The screen size would be much larger than a hundred-inch TV.
The only small problem was that he didn't know if a projected screen would work.
Li Chengxi decided to buy a cheap home projector first to try it out.
If it worked, he would buy a better one to put in the warehouse.
...
After the trip to the warehouse, the sky had already darkened by the time he returned.
A layer of fine snowflakes drifted down from the sky, and the cold wind felt like a knife cutting his face.
Li Chengxi rarely went out, basically living a life of air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter.
Since he had made a rare trip out, he might as well have some hot pot on the way back.
Not far from Li Chengxi's home, a new restaurant had opened that served barbecue and hot pot all in one.
The pot in this restaurant was half for hot pot and half a barbecue griddle.
If needed, they would also provide a small electric stove to keep the skewers warm.
The food was quite delicious and not expensive.
The only thing was that eating alone felt a bit socially awkward, but Li Chengxi, being used to being by himself, didn't care at all.
By the time he had eaten his fill and come out, the dark clouds had already scattered, revealing a bright moon that shone on the remaining snow on the road.
Li Chengxi carried the leftover skewers he had packed and headed home.
Since he had already closed the front door when he left, he now walked to the back door and took out his key to open it.
Just as the key was inserted into the lock, Li Chengxi suddenly felt a sense of panic.
His scalp tingled, as if some immense pressure was descending from the sky.
Feeling something in his heart, as if drawn by something, Li Chengxi looked up at the sky where a bright moon hung.
A layer of fine points of light appeared in the pitch-black sky, seemingly growing brighter and brighter.
Then, those tiny points of light turned into a massive meteor shower that swept across the sky.
For a moment, even the moonlight was obscured by the brilliance of the meteor shower, a sight that was breathtakingly gorgeous.
Li Chengxi hadn't seen any news about a meteor shower today, but it wasn't every day one could see a meteor shower.
He quickly took out his phone, intending to take a couple of pictures.
After snapping several photos, Li Chengxi looked down, only to find that there was no image of the meteors in the pictures at all.
What the hell?
Was the phone's camera too crappy to capture it clearly?
A little puzzled, Li Chengxi raised his phone again, trying to take a few more shots.
And right at that moment, among the meteors flying across the sky, he saw one that seemed to be heading straight for him...