516: A wall of cow horns

"What's with that expression?"

Liu Shihhan leaned in, staring at Xiao Yun, trying to catch a flicker of emotion on his face.

To her disappointment, Xiao Yun didn't show the reaction she expected upon hearing the news.

Instead, he stood there dazed, as if his brain had suddenly crashed.

"Sister Shiya is back. Aren't you happy? Or are you thinking about something else?"

"No, I'm happy. Of course I'm happy."

Xiao Yun forced a smile, though a faint cold sweat was breaking out on his forehead.

Liu Shiya—the moment he heard Liu Shihhan mention that name, Xiao Yun was indeed stunned, but then memories of her immediately flooded back.

Xiao Yun remembered that Liu Shiya was Liu Shihhan's twin sister, but she had gone abroad to study with their parents very early on, probably around middle school.

Unlike Liu Shihhan, she didn't like to smile. In his memory, she barely spoke and usually maintained a cold expression.

Although Xiao Yun remembered her appearance now, he couldn't recall when they had last met.

Since being reborn into this world, Xiao Yun's memories felt like a giant puzzle where he had to collect the pieces himself; it often took a while to gather a few pieces and remember past events.

Xiao Yun found this strange, but he didn't dwell on it too much.

After all, so far, these missing memories hadn't affected his actions. On the contrary, not carrying the baggage of those memories made it easier for him to move forward.

"How is she doing abroad? Is she okay?"

Xiao Yun asked.

"She should be doing quite well. I heard she became a professional GTI Operator over there and is now planning to return to attend university."

For some reason, when talking about her sister's return, Liu Shihhan didn't seem happy or sad; she was rather indifferent.

In Xiao Yun's memory, the two sisters' relationship should have been quite good.

Perhaps the lack of contact after she went abroad had affected their bond.

"It seems... you've almost forgotten her, just like me."

Liu Shihhan looked at Xiao Yun's expression and gave a faint smile.

"Has she never come back since she went abroad?"

"No."

"Then your parents also..."

Xiao Yun fell silent. He hadn't expected Liu Shihhan's situation to be like this.

Her parents had taken her sister abroad, leaving her alone in the country, and neither her parents nor her sister had come back to visit her in the meantime.

This campus-belle-level young miss had actually lived alone for so long since middle school.

Realizing this, Xiao Yun gave a faint smile.

"No wonder you followed me around like a little tag-along all day back in Haibei City. You just had nothing better to do."

"I did not! That's not the reason, okay!"

Hearing Xiao Yun's words, Liu Shihhan inwardly cursed him for being such a hopeless straight man.

She was clearly feeling a bit sad, yet he didn't think to comfort her and instead started cracking jokes.

However.

Being annoyed by Xiao Yun like this, Liu Shihhan felt the sorrow in her heart lighten a bit.

This surprised her. Did Xiao Yun intentionally provoke her to make her negative emotions cancel each other out?

Was he actually not a clueless straight man, but a high-EQ, considerate, and warm guy?

"Let's not talk about that anymore. Come open the scratch-offs. We still have to search the other half of the Core Area after we're done with the Presidents Office!"

"Coming, coming!"

Xiao Yun smiled faintly as he saw Liu Shihhan's mood improve. He then walked toward the President's key room, preparing to continue searching for high-value containers in this match... "Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun! Come look at this!"

A few minutes later.

Liu Shihhan's surprised voice came from the scratch-off safe room in the President's partition.

"What is it?"

Xiao Yun had just finished searching the two large safes and one small safe in the key room. Nothing good dropped, so he didn't even bother searching the clothes. After all, even if they dropped something, it would likely be a keycard, and keycards in this world weren't worth much, nor did he need them.

So he also went to the scratch-off room and looked in the direction Liu Shihhan was pointing.

"Look!"

Liu Shihhan pointed at the row of scratch-off safes on the left.

In the Aerospace Base Forbidden Zone map of this world, scratch-off safes were the same as in the game Xiao Yun played in his previous life—only a few could be opened for free.

The remaining safes were locked and couldn't be opened by normal Operators.

And right now.

In the scattered open safes on the left, a glance revealed they were all filled with bull horns.

[Item: Horn Wall Decor]

[Quality: Purple]

[Value: 17,348]

[Evaluation: Sharp-tipped horns taken from an adult bull. Intact and slender, the weight in hand makes one can't help but exclaim, "Whoa, this bull must have been huge!"]

In the row of opened safes on the left, they were all filled with bull horns that even a dog wouldn't want.

To find so many bull horns was quite a spectacle.

"Xiao Yun, Xiao Yun, I remember you have a knife that can break open safes, right?"

"You mean this?"

With a thought, Xiao Yun pulled out his family heirloom military knife and swung it twice in the air.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's the one! Why don't you slice open all the safes on this wall and see? Maybe they're all bull horns?"

"That's impossible, right? And what's the point?"

Seeing Liu Shihhan's excited look, Xiao Yun expressed his lack of understanding.

Even if this entire wall of safes was stuffed with bull horns, wouldn't it be a waste of time to hack them all open?

A bull horn was only worth a little over ten thousand, not even as much as a purple Painkiller.

Was Liu Shihhan secretly a hoarder who liked collecting these flashy items?

"Oh, how can you say it's pointless? Think about it, a whole wall of bull horns—it's a spectacle!"

As Liu Shihhan spoke, she had already pulled out the special phone she bought from the GTI Exchange and started taking pictures of the spectacle on the wall.

"If I post this online, imagine how many likes I'll get!"

"Oh... so that's what you mean."

Hearing this, Xiao Yun understood.

Girls generally liked taking photos and checking in at places. Every time he ate with Liu Shihhan, she'd be snapping away and posting to her social media.

For Liu Shihhan, this was both a hobby and a job.

After all, she also worked part-time as a fashion model and was signed with an agency; she had to post a certain number of updates every day to maintain fan engagement.

Of course, Xiao Yun had asked Liu Shihhan before; actually, the entertainment company she was signed to was her own family's business... "Roughly how many followers do you have online now?"

Xiao Yun asked curiously.

"Well, if you're talking about the number of followers on the platform, I have a bit over thirty thousand now. But most of them follow me to learn about outfits; there might not be many real fans."

"What if you changed to being a Forbidden Zone blogger?"

Xiao Yun suggested.

Hearing his suggestion, Liu Shihhan's eyes gradually widened.

"Xiao Yun, you're a genius!"