Chapter 266: Strange Omen

Not to mention that he did not remember what the night sky had looked like before. Even if he remembered the starry sky from the past, it would be completely useless for the current situation.

The stars were moving every moment, and even the slightest changes could cause the final results to differ enormously.

Therefore, Joo Joowon directly used his own year, month, and day of birth to arrange an astrological chart for himself.

The stars could never remain completely unchanged. Different matters required different stars to be used, and only supernatural beings could rely on their keen spiritual perception to find the true forms of each star hidden within the Sea of Quanta.

The stars observed with the naked eye could not be said to be completely useless, but their accuracy was indeed difficult to praise. They were completely incomparable to the "anchor points" established by the stars within the Ocean of Quanta.

The way Astral Diviners located the stars had always been simple. Unlike other astrologers, whose procedures were complicated, they did not need any auxiliary tools such as astrolabes. Instead, they would first locate their own Main Star, and then use their Main Star to derive the other stars one by one.

But Joo Joowon had never been an astronomy enthusiast in the past and had never come into contact with any of this before. He could not even remember all of the Twenty Eight Mansions clearly, so it was inevitable that he would be unfamiliar when calculating his own fortune at this moment. After all, calculating for someone else and calculating for oneself were actually two different levels of difficulty.

He drew out the astrological chart clumsily, and soon reached a result.

A sign of great misfortune.

Joo Joowon was not someone who refused to listen to warnings. Upon seeing this, he very decisively left the area.

Thinking about it carefully, such a result was actually not strange. There were so many corpses and pieces of flesh here, and they had already been left to ferment over time, making the smell so strong that ordinary people could not ignore it, let alone animals with their keen sense of smell. How could it not attract the creatures within a radius of a hundred miles?

It was even possible that while he had been unconscious, a great battle had already broken out here over the food, and the territory might have already been claimed by whoever won.

Therefore, if he made some kind of noise, the creatures attracted here would probably be far from few. Not to mention that under the special event, the attributes of the zombies had been increased by 30%. They were not only more difficult to deal with than before, but there would also be those mutated existences that had undergone distortion under the influence of the unknown whispers.

However, this result only meant that it was not suitable to use the wheel loader to lure monsters at the moment. It did not mean that he had to turn around and go home.

Although this was his first time dealing with fortune calculation, he instinctively began to calculate things carefully. He knew how to calculate minor matters in a way that saved the consumption of Mental Power while still allowing him to obtain the answer he wanted.

Frugality was a virtue, and he had always had good morals since childhood.

Joo Joowon changed direction and randomly chose another side to rearrange the astrological chart.

Bad.

He was not discouraged and changed to another direction again.

Bad! Bad! Great misfortune! Bad...

Joo Joowon began to doubt his life.

Although he knew that given the condition of his destiny, it would be difficult for anything he did to proceed without complications, was this situation not a little too bad?

The Celestial Fiend and Forsaken Star had always meant that other people would suffer misfortune while he himself would be fine. Why were all of these astrological signs so terrible?

Not to mention that he also had the buff granted by Hwi. Surely it was not possible that he could not even find a place with relatively better circumstances?

He did not expect to gain anything particularly great, but at the very least, he did not want to survive nine out of ten deadly situations only to gain absolutely nothing.

There were only two directions left. If neither of them worked, he decided that he would simply stay at home today.

It was an inauspicious day to travel.

Or could it be that his calculations were simply inaccurate?

However, the skills that came with his profession were essentially innate supernatural abilities. There was not even such a thing as proficiency. Using them could not be said to be as simple as eating or drinking, but the difficulty was probably about the same as a college student taking a middle school exam.

Therefore, in principle, there should be no problem with accuracy. Or rather, if the accuracy was insufficient, he would be able to sense it himself.

After all, what was being consumed was Mental Power, so he could still feel roughly how much was being consumed.

Perhaps becoming a supernatural being today had already consumed his recent fortune to an extremely low level.

Joo Joowon could only guess this much.

However, this time, he obtained a somewhat different result.

Good fortune hidden within misfortune.

Minor misfortune.

Joo Joowon was somewhat surprised.

The directions he had chosen before were entering the city, heading toward small towns or villages where people lived, and going to mountains with relatively sparse vegetation that had been developed by humans and did not have any large animals. Yet, the results for these places had shown either great misfortune or misfortune.

But now, one of his choices was a mountain standing in front of the protected area, while the other was to enter the protected area directly. In Joo Joowon's view, neither of these choices could be considered good. They should clearly have been more dangerous, yet the results he received were unexpectedly different.