My daughter has been possessed.

Chapter 19 Winning the Prize

The familiar sound of the flute sent a jolt through Li Jiuhe's heart.

He immediately left the bedroom and went to the living room, looking around but not finding Li Yi.

At this moment, the sound of the flute gradually faded into the distance and became increasingly inaudible.

Moreover, because the flute music was very soft, even though Li Jiuhe heard it, he didn't feel anything unusual.

He picked up his phone and saw that his daughter had sent him a text message an hour earlier.

[Dad, I'm going out for a bit. There's some food left for you on the table; if it gets cold, just put it in the microwave to heat it up. Call me if you need anything.]

"This girl, she won't say what she's going out to do," Li Jiuhe thought with some worry.

However, he had previously topped up Li Yi's phone with 1,000 yuan, which should be enough for emergencies. In addition, Li Yi took the silver-corroded dagger with her, so she would be able to protect herself if she encountered danger.

There's no use worrying now, Li Jiuhe lifted the food covers off the dining table.

There were two dishes and a soup on the table: a cucumber and lean pork soup, a green pepper and potato shreds soup, and an egg custard. Only a little of each dish had been eaten, with most of it still left.

However, the dishes were indeed a bit cold, so Li Jiuhe put each dish in the microwave to heat it up.

During this time, he kept a close eye on the situation outside the window, listening to see if the eerie flute music had returned.

In Li Jiuhe's view, the investigator named Xu Wei would definitely discover the body of the cannibalistic person very soon.

However, because he moved quickly and didn't waste any time at the sports park, there was a high probability that the other party didn't notice him.

Finding him now is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Moreover, he wore a helmet the whole time, and no one in the park saw what he looked like. Most importantly, no one associated him with a cannibalistic person.

Just as I finished my meal at the table, the flute music started again.

Li Jiuhe suspected that Xu Wei could find clues through the sound of the flute, but he didn't know exactly how she did it.

However, this time the flute sounded farther away and disappeared after only a few seconds, which suggests that Xu Wei may have been searching further and further away.

Li Jiuhe washed the dishes and waited in the house for a while.

Then I called Li Yi, and she answered quickly.

Where are you?

Li Yi did not answer directly: "I'm planning how to get my hands on the next item, the 27 Morning Bell."

"I'll come back first, I'll think of a solution. You're in a child's body now, so it's inconvenient for you to do anything," Li Jiuhe said.

"It's alright, sometimes a child's appearance is actually more convenient." Li Yi was clearly unmoved.

"Please be careful."

"Okay, Dad."

The phone hangs up.

Li Jiuhe waited in the room for a while, but he was still a little worried. Judging from Li Yi's voice, she must have gone to the city museum.

After waiting a while longer and confirming that she hadn't heard Xu Wei's flute playing again, Li Jiuhe changed her clothes and went out.

Instead of touching the electric scooter, he took a bus after leaving the house and headed towards the city museum.

When I arrived at the museum, it was almost dusk, and the place had already closed for the day. Only two security guards were still on duty at the security booth at the entrance.

Li Jiuhe did not approach, but only observed from a distance.

He circled the area again but did not see Li Yi.

I called Li Yi again, but no one answered after it rang for a long time. So I sent her a message.

Let's go home first and figure out a way to get our hands on the February 7th Morning Bell together.

Shortly after, Li Yi replied with a message that contained only one word.

【it is good. 】

Li Jiuhe didn't see her and had to return first.

As soon as he got off the bus, he looked up and saw the lottery shop he had seen earlier.

The lottery shop was bustling with people, mostly residents who had nothing to do after dinner and were just wandering around the neighborhood, many of whom were still dreaming of getting rich.

Most of these people are older, but they mostly buy large-sum, regularly drawn lottery tickets.

After a slight hesitation, Li Jiuhe also went into the lottery shop.

Just as he had considered, he ignored the high-value lottery tickets that were drawn regularly and instead turned his attention to the scratch-off section.

After giving Li Yi a thousand yuan, he now only has a little over three thousand yuan left.

I'll definitely be working less in the future, and making money continuously will be a hassle. So I thought I might as well use my task definition skills to at least ensure that I won't have to worry about money in the short term.

I wonder if there are any winning tickets among this pile of scratch-off lottery tickets, and if so, how much money would they be worth?

However, this was no problem for Li Jiuhe, who could reset the mission.

With a try-it-and-see attitude, he defined opening scratch-off lottery tickets as a new task.

His mission reset points have now been restored to the maximum of 6.

The text appeared quickly.

[Task definition successful. The task is temporarily named "I Must Win the Prize".]

【Title: I Must Win the Prize】

[Level: No Level]

[Requirement: Buy scratch-off lottery tickets until you win a satisfactory amount.]

[Reward: Reset points are instantly restored by 2.]

[Note: Just keep trying and making mistakes.]

Li Jiuhe had never bought lottery tickets before, but after taking a closer look, he roughly figured out the rules of scratch-off tickets.

After glancing at his bank account, he decided to take out three thousand yuan to buy three hundred lottery tickets, each costing ten yuan.

Seeing another skeptical person arrive, the lottery shop owner smiled and, after taking the money, noticed that Li Jiuhe didn't carefully select any tickets. Instead, he directly asked for three unopened boxes of lottery tickets, sat down, and quickly began to scramble them.

This box contained exactly one hundred lottery tickets. He thought it was too slow for one person to do it, so he asked the boss to come and help.

The shop owner sat there and scratched lottery tickets with him for a while. Just then, the shop owner's son walked into the store and sat down to help Li Jiuhe scratch lottery tickets.

The three of them quickly scratched all 300 tickets, winning only 60 yuan, which meant they lost everything.

The shop owner said regretfully, "Not very lucky. Would you like to open two more boxes?"

He felt that Li Jiuhe was a wealthy man, at least not stingy when it came to buying lottery tickets.

Li Jiuhe did not answer him, but instead reset the task directly.

The story goes back to when he first entered the store, where he still paid three thousand yuan and asked the owner for three boxes of scratch-off lottery tickets.

"I don't want the top three boxes, boss, give me the bottom three boxes."

He just scrambled the three boxes above, so he can only win sixty yuan.

The shop owner didn't think much of it, assuming it was just a superstitious belief held by every lottery buyer.

He quickly handed over the three boxes as instructed. This time, Li Jiuhe again asked the boss and his son for help, and quickly finished scratching the three boxes of lottery tickets.

I was lucky this time; I won 1200 in one box, and only won 30 and 40 in the other two.

The task was reset again, and Li Jiuhe repeated the previous operation, but this time he asked for three more boxes.

The shop owner only had nine unopened boxes of scratch-off lottery tickets, while the other four opened boxes were on the table, with more than half of them still unscratched.

After Li Jiuhe repeated the process and scraped off all the unopened boxes, he discovered that by purchasing two boxes, he could recoup approximately 2,500 yuan from an investment of 2,000 yuan.

He had already secretly memorized which two boxes it was; if things didn't go well later, making five hundred yuan wouldn't be bad.

He then turned his attention to the four boxes of lottery tickets that hadn't been sold after the lottery was opened.

After resetting the task for the third time, he chose to scratch all the remaining lottery tickets in the four boxes that had been opened, and still asked the boss and his son to come and help, which would save a lot of time.

Halfway through the scratching, the boss's sixteen-year-old son suddenly lit up and shouted, "Holy crap, we won! This is a huge prize!"

The shop owner didn't even look, and with practiced ease, slapped him across the face.

"You brat, who told you to swear?"