Ashen God
Chapter 376 - 375: Time Pause When in Doubt

Chapter 376: Chapter 375: Time Pause When in Doubt

For the portion of time wasted, Zhang Yanhang decided to lay all the blame on the thief. After all, if it weren’t for her stealing in the district, he might have been asleep by now. Although it seemed to follow a bandit’s logic, there was still a bit of reason to it.

"Just ten more minutes until 3 a.m., and I must fall asleep within these ten minutes."

As he spoke, Zhang Yanhang pulled out a big bag of boxed meals and rice balls from his waist bag and immediately began eating.

Thanks to the superior physical fitness of a Second Tier Awakened, what would have normally taken Zhang Yanhang at least half an hour to eat—six boxed meals and fifteen rice balls—took him just a few minutes to consume entirely.

After eating all the boxed meals and rice balls, Zhang Yanhang lay on his bed and felt a bit sleepier than before eating. So, he immediately closed his eyes and began trying to fall asleep, believing there was a high chance of success this time.

...

On October 20, the twelfth day after the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, and also Zhang Yanhang’s first day back in the Main World, at 3:30 a.m., Qin Island City, Xingfuli District, room 505, bedroom.

After trying hard to fall asleep for half an hour with his eyes closed, Zhang Yanhang had to admit that he was probably engaging in a futile effort. Despite feeling sleepy, he just couldn’t fall asleep.

"Ah, when I don’t want to sleep, I always seem to fall asleep mysteriously (like during classes), but when I try to sleep on purpose (like when I get home), it just never works—insomnia is truly a headache-inducing issue."

This time, Zhang Yanhang didn’t go online to look up any sleep tips anymore; he had realized all that crap was a scam. So, he now planned to adopt a more direct approach to falling asleep, such as making an autonomous choice.

"Choice! I want to sleep!" For something as trivial as sleeping, Zhang Yanhang thought Multiple Choice wouldn’t be too tough, and indeed, no sooner had the words left his mouth than Time Pause descended upon the bedroom.

Seeing a big row of text options quietly appear in front of him, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction, "Indeed, ’When in doubt, pause time’ is the right solution—perhaps, I should have used Multiple Choice to help me sleep right from the start."

After a brief moment of reflection, Zhang Yanhang began to look through the contents of the text option box.

[Should I immediately lie down in bed to sleep?]

[Option One: Yes (After trying various sleep tips found online, you had to admit that, while these sleeping tips might work for ordinary people, they are utterly ineffective for a person like you, an Awakened. You regret the time wasted on trying those sleep tips.

After giving up on these sleep tips, you started considering whether to sneak into a nearby hospital to steal some sleeping pills. Although these pills mostly don’t work for you, you thought that maybe if you took several pounds of them, the sheer quantity could replace quality.

Just as you were thinking this, sleepiness mysteriously surged, and you quickly fell into a deep sleep under its heavy influence, continuously sleeping for over four hours until nearly eight in the morning before you finally woke up and went to school.)]

[Option Two: No (Though all the sleep tips you tried had failed, you thought it might just be coincidence. There are so many sleep tips online; it seemed impossible that not a single one would be useful. You felt you might have just encountered the ineffective ones, which is why you couldn’t sleep at all.

With that in mind, you started searching online again for other sleep tips. Perhaps because there are indeed many people with insomnia, making the target audience quite large, you once again found a heap of sleep tips you hadn’t tried before. You thought there must be some effective ones among them.

Thus, you began trying these newly found sleep tips one by one, but regrettably, you had tried them all by 5:30 a.m. and still hadn’t found a single effective tip. You fell into despair, feeling you might indeed not be able to sleep that day.)]

[Option Three: Sleep (Because you really wanted to sleep, you couldn’t help but start using ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil’ to scan the environment around you, eager to find a suitable sleep partner. Coincidentally, just as you began your search, you spotted a woman that seemed easy to sleep with.

She had just come out of a nearby nightclub, appearing somewhat drunk, staggering, and constantly muttering unintelligible words. While standing by a streetlamp, she suddenly took out a needleless syringe from her bag and injected herself in the arm.

Observing this woman, who seemed much more spirited leaning against the streetlamp, you thought she was probably a menace to society—it might be better if you ’made her your own.’ You quickly carried her home, and with the impenetrable Energy Shield insulating you from all poisons, you slept with her. The next day, you took her to a detox center.)]

"Wow, although I said I wanted to sleep, the kind of sleep mentioned in Option Three surely isn’t what I meant."

Looking at the woman described in Option Three, Zhang Yanhang couldn’t help but curiously use ’Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil’ to scan her, and indeed, he quickly found her. What shocked him was that this woman not only had dyed her hair green, it was a freaking fluorescent green, which looked kind of creepy in the dead of night.

Moreover, Zhang Yanhang discovered that this woman had a pink-colored lotus platform tattooed on her buttock, with the words ’Safe Entry and Exit’ written on it!

"Damn! Nightclubs, green hair, tattoos, drug abuse, sexually transmitted diseases—this is literally ’full of poisons.’ Wow, I must say, if such a creature were brought home, the excitement would indeed be enormous—it’s practically inviting disaster."

According to Zhang Yanhang’s observations, this woman had more than one sexually transmitted disease, including gonorrhea and even the famously dreaded Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or AIDS (HIV).