Bab 329: The “Throwing a Hundred Darts and Seeing Which Stick” Strategy

Shoutout to Bruh_Vista for beta-reading and providing extensive feedback for this chapter!

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Watching paint dry. Watching grass grow. Watching mountains crumble to dust as they withstand the test of time.

Jean wondered if either of those activities would be more entertaining and fruitful than what she was currently attempting.

"What am I even doing right now?" she wondered aloud.

She was presently sitting on a rock that she had manually moved from a distance to a location precisely 100 metres away from the exact boundary where the plague-affected region ends. She sat with her head resting on her palms, lost in thought. Kili sat behind the rock, working through one of the many workbooks they had brought along.

"Did you say something, Big Sis?" Kili asked absentmindedly, tapping the pencil against her forehead in deep thought.