Urban Demon Refining System

"Hello, Uncle Zhao!" Lin Xiaomo said sweetly as soon as she entered the door.

"It's Xiao Mo! Come in quickly!" Zhao Dahai hurriedly stood up and greeted her. He knew a little about his son's beautiful classmate.

"Xiao Chuan! Take good care of Xiao Mo, I have to go to work now!" He turned to Zhao Baichuan and said, "Xiao Mo, I'm sorry, I'm on night shift tonight, so I can't stay and entertain you."

"No need to be so polite, Uncle Zhao. I came here mainly to deliver Zhao Baichuan's homework and to help him catch up on his studies."

"Then we must treat her well, Xiao Chuan. Did you hear that? Xiao Mo is here to tutor you, so you'd better make sure she's well taken care of. I'm leaving now!"

"Dad, take care!" Zhao Baichuan hurriedly saw Zhao Dahai out the door.

"Goodbye, Uncle Zhao!" Lin Xiaomo followed suit.

The two watched Zhao Dahai leave.

"Xiao Mo, let's go inside!" Zhao Baichuan led Lin Xiao Mo into the room.

"Zhao Baichuan, are you alright now?" Lin Xiaomo asked as soon as she sat down.

"Illness?" Zhao Baichuan was taken aback, then realized that the days he had been unconscious must have been sick leave that his father had arranged for him.

"It was just a minor cold, look, I'm all better now!"

"That's good!" Lin Xiaomo breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and then took out a few notebooks from her schoolbag. "Here, these are the homework assignments for the past two days. I brought them for you."

"Uh, thank you!" Zhao Baichuan subconsciously took the notebook, glanced at it, and saw that it was filled with neat handwriting, which should be Lin Xiaomo's notes.

"It's okay. The teacher said the recent courses are especially important, so you must study hard and not fall behind!" Lin Xiaomo said a little embarrassed. "Oh, right, Zhao Baichuan!" She suddenly seemed to remember something, "The school recently organized a museum visit, would you like to go?"

"There are more activities?" Zhao Baichuan was taken aback. High school life was rather dull, and such activities were rare.

"Yes, that's right. I heard that the city is organizing an exhibition of cultural relics unearthed in the Western Regions. It includes many newly unearthed artifacts. To enrich and broaden our knowledge, the school specially organized this event." As she spoke, Lin Xiaomo took out a promotional poster from her schoolbag. It was printed with all sorts of photos, such as stone pagodas and stone tablets.

"Why does this poster look so familiar?" Zhao Baichuan examined the poster and realized that he seemed to have seen it somewhere before.

"Oh right, I remember now, wasn't the girl I met when I was catching the tricolor lizard holding a poster like this?"

"Zhao Baichuan? What's wrong with you?" Lin Xiaomo saw that Zhao Baichuan was in a daze and couldn't help but wave her hand in front of him.

"Oh! It's nothing!" Zhao Baichuan realized. "I was thinking about the Western Regions cultural exhibition."

"The date is the first of next month, don't forget!"

"Don't worry, I won't forget!" Zhao Baichuan said, but his mind was already focused on the poster. Like most cultural relic exhibition posters, this one was not very creative. It just showed a few pictures of the cultural relics and a few words of explanation. If the exhibition hadn't been free, probably not many people would have bought tickets to visit.

“But the things on this are quite interesting!” Lin Xiaomo said, pointing to a photo. “It’s a damaged stone tower, which is said to be over a thousand years old!”

"What kind of stone tower is so amazing!" Zhao Baichuan followed Lin Xiaomo's finger and saw a photo of only half of the tower in the lower left corner of the poster. It was full of pits and dents, covered with traces of erosion by time.

"Huh? There seem to be words on this!?" He examined it carefully for a while and suddenly exclaimed. On the lower part of the tower, there were three complex ancient seal characters, but his knowledge of ancient Chinese was too limited to recognize what the three characters were.

"Words? Where are the words? Are you seeing things?" Lin Xiaomo looked over curiously, only to find that there was nothing on it except for the bare tower. "Hmph! You're lying to me again! I'm ignoring you!" she pouted and turned her head to the side, pretending to be angry.

"No way! There are definitely three characters..." Zhao Baichuan was also confused by Lin Xiaomo's words. He rubbed his eyes carefully. "That's right, there are indeed three characters, they should be three ancient seal characters, but I just don't recognize them. This girl must be seeing things!"

He thought to himself, but then suddenly realized with a start, "Xiao Mo doesn't seem to be joking. Could it be... that only I can see this handwriting?" Since playing the game, his senses had become much sharper, and he quickly noticed something was wrong. "There's something strange about this stone tower!"

"Ding! Baihua Xiu has issued you a mission: find the Wave Moon Cave. Do you accept?" Suddenly, a sinister female voice sounded.

"There are missions here. It seems I guessed right. There's definitely something strange about this stone tower!" Zhao Baichuan thought to himself. "Accept!" Of course, he had to accept the mission. What else was there to do? Having only recently started playing the game, he didn't realize what the mission really meant. If it were an experienced player like Xiao Yang, he would never be so reckless. In the Myth game, missions are not easy to accept. Even veteran players who have been playing for many years have to be cautious.

Of course, Zhao Baichuan is just a newbie right now and doesn't know any of the inside stories. He's even a little smug about getting such a mission.

"Looks like I really do have the protagonist's halo protecting me, even managing to uncover a mission from this." The man thought shamelessly, a lewd expression on his face, unaware that this scene was viewed quite differently by Lin Xiaomo.

"What's wrong with Zhao Baichuan? I used to just find him a bit annoying, but after he got sick, he seems to have gone completely idiot. Good heavens, he's even drooling!" Lin Xiaomo gave him a somewhat "disgusting" look and deliberately distanced herself from him. "Hey, Zhao Baichuan, what are you thinking about! You're drooling!"

"Of course I miss you!" Zhao Baichuan blurted out without thinking. He actually wanted to say that he missed the exhibition you mentioned, but the words came out differently.

"Miss me?!" Lin Xiaomo's pretty face flushed red instantly. Miss me? And she was drooling—that meant she was thinking about...you know what?! Our poor Xiaomo was completely led astray by Zhao Baichuan's unintentional remark...