The candlelight in the dilapidated temple flickered in the wind and finally died out.
Pi Yanlin slumped beside the offering table, his back scraping against the mottled plaster of the wall. The System’s prompt buzzed in his mind: "Host detected at a nexus of causal intertwining. The 'Get Something for Nothing System' has automatically triggered 'Lying-Flat Check-in'—Current duration: fifty-seven minutes and three seconds." He crossed his legs, fished out a bamboo fortune stick tube, and gave it a shake. The clatter of bamboo against bamboo startled the sparrows in the rafters, sending them fluttering away.
"Just three more minutes," he muttered with his eyes closed, his fingers unconsciously stroking the Trace-Seeking Eye cloth at his waist.
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