Alex logged out of the game and woke up from his bed. He had woken up on time today. He freshened up and decided to check his school works for a bit before going to the kitchen for dinner.
Hannah was out already and had cooked the food.
When she saw Alex walk in she asked, "Don't you want breakfast? Why didn't you log out earlier?"
"Ah, I had things to do in the game," he said.
"This early in the morning?" Hannah asked.
"Yes," he replied.
Hannah stopped asking any further questions and got the food ready. "Sorry about not helping you sister. I will try to log out to at least help with the vegetables, "he said.
"No need, I can do it myself. Besides, I don't like eating potatoes with blood all over them," Hannah teased him.
Alex sighed as he looked at the finger he had cut. 'Mom was somewhat right about us losing our abilities to function normally, wasn't she?' he thought.
He quickly got ready for his classes and walked out of the house with Hannah. Sarah and Emily 'happened' to be outside their door when they arrived at the bottom of their buildings.
"Oh, you guys are finally down. We waited for nearly 10 minutes," Sarah said. It seemed Hannah was now good friends with Sarah after their last meetings and Hannah had asked Sarah to take them with her in her car.
Alex was still somewhat shy around Emily but did his best to not show it. Soon, they arrived at the University and walked towards their own classes.
While returning, however, Alex was stuck walking back with Emily. It seemed Sarah had more classes even after 3 pm, while Hannah's classes were done more than an hour ago.
So they walked back together, talking about different things. Alex came to know a few more things about Emily, while she learned a few more things about Alex. Both giggled their way back home.
Alex wanted to bring her to their apartment to serve her some snacks while she waited for Sarah's classes to be over, but he remembered that he left his body alone back in the game. So he hurriedly said his goodbyes and went up the elevator.
Thankfully, Hannah had the lunch prepared which he hastily ate and went back to his room. Then, he logged in.
Alex realized that he was right where he had left his body, his food right next to him as well.
GRRR
He felt himself go a little hungry and was surprised. "Just how hungry can I get? I only ate this morning," he thought. But then he remembered that what he ate this morning was nowhere near what a mortal would eat in a day, so he just shook his head and ate a bit more.
He hung the bag in front of him and looked at the size of it. Only half a day had passed, and he was already done with more than a third of the food his Martial uncle had sent him.
"Urghh… martial uncle miscalculated how much food a mortal needed to eat," he thought. He was disappointed, but he didn't have time for that. He needed to search for the yang jades.
He put his food inside his robes and walked around the land waiting for his body to tell him anything. 'I hope I don't need to have Qi for my body to find the yang jades. That would be tragic,' he thought.
He didn't believe that to be the case, however, since it had to do with the Body and not cultivation at all. He walked around for hours searching the yang jades but found nothing. "Damn, just how rare is it?" he thought.
Suddenly, Alex heard some groaning nearby. He looked back and saw someone lying down on the floor, trying to move around, but unable to. He couldn't tell what was happening, but he immediately ran towards the person.
The person was on the floor, with chapped lips and sunken cheeks. "What's wrong?" Alex asked seeing the dastardly look on the person's face.
"Wa— wat—er ," the man said, unable to form a single sentence. Alex was shocked to see someone like that. He didn't have any water on him, so he decided to carry him to the river source a few kilometers ahead.
He picked the man upon his back and started walking in the direction of the river. It didn't take him long to arrive at the river source where he put the man down and walked forward to the river to get him some water.
"What do I gather water with?" he thought for a second. He didn't want to bring the dying man here due to the dangers his Martial Uncle told him about. He decided to gather water in his two palms.
By the first time he walked back to the man, he realized how ineffective that was. He needed to find another way. Suddenly, an idea struck him. He took off his robe and dropped it in the river, waiting for it to absorb the water.
He then brought it back to the man and put it over the man's mouth, letting the water drip on his face. Within a few minutes, the man started to show signs of recovering and by 10 minutes, he was back to walking and talking.
The man still had chapped lips and sunken cheeks but his complexion was healthier than before. He looked at Alex with his hollow eyes and said, "Thank you brother. You saved me. If you weren't here, I would've died of thirst in this treacherous place," he said.
"It's okay brother. It is my duty to save a fellow disciple from my own sect," he said. Alex only now looked at the man's robe and realized that he was actually an inner sect disciple.
"My name is Zheng Min, what is your name, brother?" he asked.
"Yu Ming," Alex replied, giving him his in-game name.