Chapter 105 Birthday
Qiao Suisui was so sick this time that she made up for the sleep she hadn't gotten in recent days. She dreamed that she had finally returned to the real world and ran home excitedly to see her family whom she hadn't seen for a long time. However, she froze in place when she opened the door. It turned out that the family was sitting at a round table celebrating her brother's birthday.

They happily sang the birthday song and asked the younger brother to make a wish. After blowing out the candles, he took the gift from his mother and opened it. It was a new mobile phone that cost over ten thousand yuan. In the past eighteen years, she had only eaten cake on her younger brother's birthday.

They sit so complete together.

It seems like no one is missing from this family.

Qiao Suisui stood at the door of her home, slowly closed the door, and stood there for a long time. In a trance, it seemed as if someone was calling her name.
"Jojo."

"Jojo."

"Qiao Qiao, don't cry, I'm sorry."

"Qiao Qiao, I love you."

Qiao Susu opened her eyes, panting, her eyes were full of tear marks and her pillow was wet.

Her forehead and neck were covered in sweat, and when Zongfang saw that she had woken up, he picked her up and patted her back gently.

"Okay, okay, it's all over."

Qiao Suisui looked at him absentmindedly and said in a trance, "Did you call me back?"

"What?" Zong Fang thought she was not fully awake yet, so he wiped the sweat off her body and asked, "What did you dream about?"

Qiao Suisui took a long time to come out. She leaned her head on Zongfang's shoulder and whispered sadly: "I dreamed about my birthday."

There is no such thing as birthdays in the interstellar world, let alone such a sense of ritual. The birth date of each orc will be printed as a number in the file, as a citizen certification code, at most this is the only use. They pay more attention to marriage and some sacrificial ceremonies. Perhaps it is because the birth rate of newborns is too low, and reproduction itself has been industrialized, so there is no custom of celebrating birthdays.

But Zong Fang had read about this kind of folk custom in books on paleoanthropology, so he knew that the "birthday" that Qiao Susu mentioned was a meaningful thing for her.

"when is your birthday?"

Qiao Suisui shook her head, used this small action to wipe away her tears with his clothes, and said, "I don't remember."

She quickly forced herself to calm down, and asked Zongfang to leave on the pretext of taking a bath in the bathroom. In fact, she wanted to sort out her thoughts by herself about what to do next.

This dream reminded her that she was only one step away from activating the teleportation function. She wanted to go back, but was the life after that really what she wanted? Going back seemed to be an answer to avoid thinking from the beginning.

She was unfamiliar with this world, so she felt scared. After understanding the rules of this world, she decided to be able to protect herself. But after eliminating those fears and uneasiness, she began to adapt more and more to this world, its rules, and being taken care of by Luka and others. She even found a way to improve her strength. It seems that she is not as repulsive as she was at the beginning.

But in the real world, is there really someone waiting for her to come back?
Qiao Sui Sui counted in her mind and only counted three people. One was her good friend Lin Xixi, one was her mentor Guan Weizhi who had helped her, and the other was her younger brother, Qiao Jiming.

Thinking of him, Qiao Susu's emotions became complicated.

She was resentful, complaining about why her mother was always partial to her. She was only one year older than Qiao Jiming, but she had to give in to him in everything and take care of him everywhere, and she could only have one share of all the good things.

At the same time, she had no place to vent her resentment, because Qiao Jiming would always leave the good things for her, and would save money in private to buy her birthday presents. Her first skirt was given by him. She wished Qiao Jiming was a bad and selfish person, so that she could hate him with a clear reason. But he had a clean appearance and good grades. Since childhood, he has been chasing after her and calling her "sister" and "sister". Wherever she went, he followed. The heat made her cheeks flushed, making her delicate eyebrows and eyes even more attractive. Qiao Suisui opened the storage compartment, took out the [Beauty Pill] and put it in her mouth. This thing cannot be exchanged for points, and it is only rewarded after giving birth. She didn't care because of her bad mentality in the past few days, and now she began to take inventory of her own small warehouse.

In addition to the unused [Earth Building], she was also rewarded with an [Apartment] this time. She planned to expand the hotel and open another branch. In addition, there were many weapons. She casually took out an Emei Spear and thought it was short and sharp, which was very suitable for her to use, so she pinned it to the top of the storage grid. There were also some miscellaneous supplies, the most important of which was the Spiritual Power Stone.

Qiao Sui Sui took out a piece, closed her eyes, and used the same method as last time to turn the raw stone into stone on her chest. Sure enough, after a while, a warm current flowed to her limbs and bones, and the system's voice sounded -

[Congratulations on upgrading the host's mental power. Your current mental power level is B. ]

She used the theoretical knowledge she learned in school to mobilize her mental strength. This time, without the burden of pregnancy, she felt like she had endless energy. Moreover, her thoughts could be transmitted farther and had a wider range.

Qiao Susu was not satisfied. She directly took out the remaining four raw stones as a reward and pressed them all against her chest.

"Um"

She bit her lower lip in pain. The impact was too strong this time, and heat was running through her body. She pressed her hands on the edge of the bathtub, and her fingertips turned white from the pressure.

Qiao Susu reluctantly mobilized her mental power. After a while, the heat in her body finally dissolved, and the power of the raw stone and her original mental power merged well together.

[Congratulations to the host for upgrading his mental power. Your current mental power level is: S. ]

The improvement from B to S was something Qiao Susu herself had not expected!
It seems that the effect of using four pieces of raw stones together is much greater than using one piece, but you just need to be patient with the fusion process.

She put her hand in the water and closed her eyes. Suddenly, a blue flame appeared in the water. This was the fire in the water that she created by using the fire control technique taught by Sang Yan, combined with her own understanding and current mental strength.

The original simple fire control technique has a weakness, that is, it can be restrained by water control. But Qiao Suisui's fire control has completely evolved away from this weakness. Sang Yan's fire is the dragon vein, which cannot be restrained by ordinary water. Only beastmen with higher mental power than him have a chance to break his fire. Qiao Suisui's mental power is already among the best among male beastmen, and combined with the original water and fire, his combat ability is directly doubled.

It's just that her basic attributes are relatively low now, such as physical strength and endurance, which are far inferior to those of an ordinary male. This can only be exchanged for attribute points with 3000 points. But she has not really decided to stay in this world, so she doesn't want to waste points.

Qiao Susu was very satisfied that she could improve her mental strength without spending a single point.

"Qiao Qiao, are you okay?"

Hearing Zong Fang knocking on the door outside, Qiao Sui Sui asked the system to help her disguise her mental strength so that others still looked like C-level, and then she answered: "Okay."

She walked out barefoot in her bathrobe, her wet hair still draped over her shoulders.

As the door opened, fog and heat rushed out, blowing out the candle flames and making them flicker.

Zong Fang stretched out his hand to protect the candlelight. Qiao Suisui stared at him holding a small cake with a candle on it. She heard him say, "From now on, when we celebrate your birthday every year, let's add a candle, okay?"

　Zongfang: I have become honest and am trying my best to please you.

　　(End of this chapter)