Chapter 355 : The Time Has Come
"Hey~~~"
The girl's delicate cry rang out clearly in the somewhat empty Lust Shadow Forest.
A silver-white elegant bone umbrella swung forward, leaving an afterimage in the air.
"Gob?~ Gob! Goga..."
The next second, an already excited green goblin let out an unwilling death cry, clutching its unreleased big OOO and collapsing to the ground.
As the goblin dissipated, strangely enough, despite being entirely green, it turned into a puddle of wrong white scalding liquid.
And in the white liquid, even more unscientifically, a small and crude coin appeared.
Bending down, Su Mo in her little boots picked up the small coin.
After casually picking up a fallen leaf to wipe it clean, she collected it.
As for why Su Mo was collecting these coins?
The reason was quite simple.
Because through the intelligence she'd gained from her earlier conversation with Chu Tianlan, Su Mo learned that in this other world... at least in this Lust Shadow Forest, these coins were the common currency.
By killing demons, one would occasionally obtain them.
In a sense, it was like a game where you kill monsters and they drop equipment.
As for what collecting these coins was for?
Su Mo's plan for this was also very simple.
Her sister system needed 5 days to gather the 'rewind formation.'
During these five days, rather than subjugating the Demon King—that high-risk venture—Su Mo just wanted to simply kill time.
After all, if she really fell into the hands of demons now, Su Mo instantly thought of many bad endings: "Saintess and Goblin Ranch Diary," "Parasitic Seedbed Life of White Rice Worms," "Strong Pig-Head Man's Underwear Velvet Balls."
Although Su Mo's constitution and strength had both improved now.
But as a human, Su Mo still needed normal food and drink.
While there were many plants and some fruits in the Lust Shadow Forest.
But... considering that she didn't recognize the other world's fruits, and their shapes were all wrong one by one.
Su Mo worried that eating them would cause side effects—like if she ate a paralysis fruit and then a pig-head man came along, that would be problematic.
For safety's sake, Su Mo decided that for the next five days, she would buy basic water and food from Senior Chu's little wooden cart.
But buying things required money, and Senior Chu had already taken care of her once—freeloading wasn't right.
So now Su Mo had begun simple hunting.
Although with Su Mo's current physical attributes, she could easily defeat ordinary goblins.
But to avoid overturning and being gang-beaten, this afternoon Su Mo had been very cautious, targeting isolated demons.
In one afternoon, Su Mo had purified 18 goblins, 6 pig-head men, dozens of little rice worms, and some demons that looked like flowers but were actually tentacle monsters, obtaining 13 coins.
Looking at these coins like precious treasures, Su Mo walked toward Senior Chu's little cart stall while recalling the items on the cart. Soon Su Mo's pale little face took on a pained expression.
After all, these 13 coins now could apparently only buy one bottle of water and that gray-brown bread that looked dry just from appearance.
Just thinking about that bread's appearance, which seemed like it could only be cut with a saw, Su Mo felt discomfort rising in her stomach.
Just as Su Mo was looking around the forest, seeking something to season or soften the bread, she suddenly heard a notification sound in her mind.
[Ding, detected host's inner distress. Challenge System warm reminder: given that the host possesses White Rabbit Candy constitution, consider adding ingredients to make the bread delicious.]
Hearing this notification.
Su Mo's pale little face first took on a faint pink tinge, then her delicate eyebrows couldn't help but furrow slightly, and her cute little fists also clenched.
Emmmmmmmmmm she felt like her originally innocent sister's thoughts had become somewhat impure recently!
Education was necessary—how could a girl have her mind full of lewd thoughts?
While chatting with her sister system in her mind, Su Mo continued walking forward, but perhaps because she'd been reminded about White Rabbit Candy.
This time walking on the road, Su Mo felt like her little white rabbits seemed to really be unconsciously accumulating something.
Noticing this situation, Su Mo was somewhat stunned.
Something was wrong.
Although her White Rabbit Candy constitution was special, generally speaking, unless her little white rabbits were under great pressure, like from the Mysterious Chest Binding Cloth, or her body was in a lewd state, this situation wouldn't occur.
But the problem was she'd spent the whole afternoon purifying demons and hadn't done anything else.
What was going on?
Could it really be as Senior Chu had said—the subtle effects of the Lust Shadow Forest's aura?
But that didn't make sense either.
Her current identity was a Saintess—could a Saintess be affected by this aura?
Just as Su Mo hadn't figured out the reason, she suddenly noticed a familiar campfire appearing ahead.
At this moment, beside the campfire, Senior Chu, the little wooden cart's owner, was wearing a white home apron, slightly bent over, stirring in a pot with a ladle.
It had to be said, Chu Tianlan's aura was perfectly compatible with the white apron. Plus, while cooking with one hand, she gently tucked mischievous strands of hair behind her ear with the other, perfectly displaying a housewife's virtuous nature.
Seeing such characteristic Senior Chu, Su Mo was quite amazed.
While amazed, Su Mo was surprised to discover that she currently had an impulse to embrace her from behind and sneak attack her big white rabbits.
Feeling her evil thoughts and sensing her footsteps quickening.
Su Mo quickly shook her little head.
Wrong, nine out of ten parts wrong.
Normally, I shouldn't have such thoughts!
After Su Mo cast out these distracting thoughts, as she got a bit closer to the campfire, Su Mo finally saw the food in the pot.
Those were mushrooms, cooked into a rich broth.
The broth had a pure white color and just looked very sweet and fragrant.
Getting closer, she could smell a rich, clear fragrance—a mysterious taste that modern food didn't have.
Gurgle~
Because the smell was too appetizing, and today's demon-purifying exercise had been quite intense, Su Mo's little belly couldn't help but let out a small protest.
Perhaps because the forest was very quiet as evening approached, this protest sound just happened to catch Chu Tianlan's attention.
Looking up from the full pot of rich mushroom soup, Chu Tianlan watched Su Mo in her exquisite evening dress slowly approaching, every movement displaying incomparable beauty and the sacred aura unique to Saintess that made people want to dye her with their colors.
For this, Chu Tianlan first thought that the little sachet Su Mo wore had had enough time, then looked down at the rich mushroom soup in the pot.
In her long phoenix eyes looking at Su Mo, a bright gleam couldn't help but flicker.
Hehe... it seemed she could have a good feast soon!
"Lady Saintess, you're back. Would you like some mushroom soup?"