Bai Bai wiped her hands on her pants, then brought them up to her nose to sniff.
“Ugh…”
Just having her hands hold it for a few seconds, the odor stained on her hands almost made her spit out her breakfast.
That little brat was still lying on the ground. He had stopped vomiting, and his body was twitching convulsively.
The neighbors coming and going all walked tightly along the edges of the main gate, not daring to get a single bit on themselves.
Everyone was fed up with this family. Although they didn’t know what had happened to this child, no one felt any sympathy; it was purely joyous and gratifying.
Bai Bai threw this little interlude to the back of her mind and headed straight for the street.
Based on yesterday’s experience, she wouldn’t grab any orders; she would just copy and expand her spatial storage.
Passing by the rice ball stall, Bai Bai didn’t stop either.
She would never need to eat rice balls again.
Arriving on the street, the various shops had just opened, and teams were already waiting to pick up goods.
Bai Bai perfectly played the role of a freelance worker struggling to find odd jobs. She walked from one shop to another, pausing at the entrance of each shop for a moment to pretend to wait for an opportunity.
Of course, now was the teams’ time, and there wouldn’t be any freelance orders for her.
Bai Bai just walked back and forth on the street like this, pacing around.
Whenever a team at a shop’s entrance went inside to pick up goods, she would walk over, stand at the doorway for a while, watch, and duplicate.
Then she discovered a limitation she hadn’t known yesterday.
Spaces that had already been duplicated could not be duplicated again.
In other words, several familiar faces she had duplicated yesterday could no longer help her expand her capacity.
This blow truly made Bai Bai feel depressed for just a brief moment.
Fortunately, she was very open-minded and figured it out on her own.
You couldn’t just keep shearing wool off the same sheep, right?
That was very reasonable.
Otherwise, binding a target and camping out every day to duplicate them would turn her into a spatial tycoon in no time.
Her cheat wouldn’t let people take advantage like that.
She had to keep finding new targets.
Fortunately, there were quite a few members in the transport teams of this street. Aside from those few who couldn’t be duplicated anymore, there were still a few fresh faces making contributions to Bai Bai.
Her spatial storage continued to expand by 1 cubic meter and 2 cubic meters.
She didn’t mind it being small; if quality wasn’t enough, quantity would make up for it.
When she left home, her space was 13 cubic meters. By the time she duplicated a total of nine people across two teams, it had expanded to 27 cubic meters, exactly doubling in size.
Among low-level spatial ability users, not everyone had only 1 cubic meter; there were some larger ones, they just didn’t reach the threshold required to apply as logistics members for adventure teams.
The larger the space and the stronger the mental power, the easier it was to duplicate these tiny spaces. Along the way, it only consumed one tier-2 source crystal.
Those two teams set off right after picking up their goods. Other shops still had people picking up goods, but Bai Bai’s expansion speed slowed down.
The handovers of goods all started around the same time. The fast-acting teams had already left, and how much slower could the slow-acting teams be? It only allowed Bai Bai to pick up scraps from three more people, expanding her capacity by a total of 5 cubic meters.
Her current spatial volume was 32 cubic meters.
Perfect~
Bai Bai walked contentedly toward the outside of the street district.
As she walked, she organized her spatial storage, dragging the shelves and miscellaneous items to new positions and continuing to place them flush against the spatial walls.
The shelves remained tightly packed against each other as well.
32 cubic meters was such an awkward size.
It happened to be 4×4×2, but the total height of the shelves was 2.5 meters. The leftover upper space was filled by the iron basins, buckets, and empty bottled-water containers that she couldn’t fit yesterday.
Looking at that frighteningly piled height, if this weren’t her own spatial storage, it would have already collapsed.
She still needed to continue expanding; she had to expand to over 100 cubic meters to be slightly adequate for use.
Bai Bai pondered in her heart as she walked. When she reached a three-way intersection, she decisively turned left.
She had an appointment from yesterday, but it was still early, so she decided to go to an alien market elsewhere to trade for a few source crystals before heading over, which wouldn’t be too late.
Halfway through her walk, a small gust of wind blew up. Perhaps due to the influence of her water-control ability, Bai Bai smelled a hint of moisture hidden in the wind.
“No way? Is it going to rain?”
She looked up at the sky: cloudy, not looking like it was going to rain.
But her ability wouldn’t lie to her.
Not wanting to lower her guard, Bai Bai took off her outer jacket and put on the raincoat top.
Just as she zipped it up and pressed down the wind-blocking velcro, she suddenly felt a coolness on her nose as a drop of water fell.
Bai Bai wiped her nose and quickly took out the raincoat pants.
She put the lower pants on directly. Just as she thrust her legs into them and before pulling them up to her waist, a torrential downpour began.
Her rotten sneakers, which had been unglued at the foot, instantly gave off a wet, chilly feeling as water seeped in.
Bai Bai discarded her shoes without hesitation and put on her rain boots.
The dry socks she had put on that morning were already slightly damp from the leaky old shoes. After putting on the rain boots, it felt much better and was completely tolerable.
She didn’t need those rotten shoes anymore; there were new ones in her spatial storage.
Besides, walking every day on dirt roads overgrown with alien plants, Bai Bai felt that rain boots offered better protection, wrapping securely around both ankles and calves.
Having finished changing her gear, Bai Bai quickened her pace and continued on her way.
Rain already delayed her itinerary, and she certainly didn’t want to mess up today’s money-making business.
After walking only a few steps, Bai Bai discovered that the raincoat offered a bit too much protection. The rain hood and front collar wrapped entirely around her head, and the front brim of the hood constantly blocked her eyes, making it a struggle just to look at the road. She figured anyone looking at her would see the same thing.
With her vision obstructed, she walked even slower, and the rain-soaked dirt road had also turned muddy, making it impossible to see whether there were ankle-twisting potholes lying in wait to ambush her.
Bai Bai decisively projected her spiritual power outward.
If not now, when?
The mental power enhanced by her 32-cubic-meter space allowed her to ignore the visual interference caused by falling raindrops and clearly observe road conditions.
It was high-definition and effortless.
Only the range was limited; anything beyond two meters became blurry, like having astigmatism.
Bai Bai didn’t mind; as long as she could walk safely, that was enough.
The road became increasingly muddy, and even with rain boots, every step was slippery.
Bai Bai worked up a sweat.
Just as she wanted to take a break, she suddenly heard the sound of fast-approaching footsteps from behind.
She immediately dodged into the alien vegetation thicket by the side of the road.
Turning back to look, it was a disheveled man drenched all over, running wildly in the rain.
Before Bai Bai could envy his good physical stamina, she saw the other person stop in his tracks, sizing her up with a greedy look in his eyes.
Bai Bai withdrew her projected spiritual power, feigned fear as she took two small steps back, rustling the bushes of alien vegetation behind her.
Shielding her line of sight beneath her rain hood, she stared fixedly at the ground beneath the other person’s feet while preparing her earth-type ability.
The other man also made up his mind at that moment, flipping his palm to reveal a long-bladed knife.
“Hand over your raincoat!”
“Get lost!” Bai Bai retorted directly.
“Haha, a woman? You’ve got guts!”
Without wasting words, the man brandished his knife and rushed forward.
“Fall down!”
Playing the chuunibyou, Bai Bai formed a sword-finger gesture with her right hand and pointed directly at the ground beneath the other person’s feet.
The earth-type ability, which had long been primed and ready, instantly caused a trench to open up right beneath the man’s feet.
“Aah!”
Caught completely off guard, the man stepped his left foot right into it. With a very crisp crack sound, he directly twisted his ankle and crashed to the ground.
“Ah!!!”
The man clutched his leg and cried out in pain.
Bai Bai quickly switched to her strength ability, channeled it into her feet, swiftly arrived right beside his head, and delivered a powerful kick straight to his cheek.