Chapter 5: Lich Food
"Wow, it's cool, sweet, and smells like roses, just like eating real rose candy!" Jiangyou slurped up the soul fire and licked the corner of his skull's mouth with relish.
Her soul tongue - or 'soul tongue' - greedily sucked away every bit of soul fire residue attached to the bones, but unfortunately, apart from a very good taste, Jiang You did not get the slightest sense of fullness, nor did his magic energy increase at all.
"My soul fire is just a small snack, it's not enough to satisfy my hunger." She sighed, "It's not pleasant to be hungry, and I can't use magic without energy... It seems I need to put earning soul energy on the agenda... Huh? There's a small room here?"
She opened the small door on the right side of the restaurant and found that it was a storage room. There were some cloth bags piled up in a mess on the ground. She picked up a bag curiously and opened it. She was surprised to find that the bag was filled with soybeans!
She quickly turned over all the cloth bags and the result was very pleasing. Among the ten large cloth bags in the storage room, there were five bags of soybeans and five bags of glutinous rice - or rather, they were alien species similar to soybeans and glutinous rice, anyway, they looked quite similar!
"Hey, we've got the raw materials!" Jiang Youxi said happily, "It seems that the products in this world are quite similar to ours... We still need to test them first to see if they can be used, but at least there's hope!"
There was no more gain in the storage room, so Jiangyou closed the door and went up the stairs on the left side of the restaurant to the second floor.
She had previously given the house a quick tour and discovered that the second and third floors, except for the fireplace, were made of wood, perfectly integrated into the stone base wall of the first floor.
This construction method can effectively reduce the load on upper buildings, lower the difficulty of building all-stone high-rise buildings, lower costs, and make buildings more durable and more suitable for the general public.
In the Middle Ages when construction techniques were not very advanced, this was a very effective way to "cut corners" and improve the quality of buildings. Later, because the finished product was beautiful and unique, it formed a unique aesthetic fashion.
There were two rooms on the second floor. Jiang You quickly found the bedroom belonging to the owner, Mi You, and dragged a box of books and picture albums from under the bed. She took out a book and looked at the title: "The Tyrannical Knight Commander Fell in Love with Me"... Hmm, it seems this kind of thing is popular even in this era..."
In addition to a pile of romance novels, the box also contained various explicit picture albums of handsome men. Jiangyou flipped through them and found that the novels in this world were extremely vulgar, but the quality of the picture albums was extremely high. There were all kinds of oil paintings, sketches, and watercolors, and each painting was very well completed. Among them, "The Collection of the Most Beautiful Men in Huntington" was indeed a classic among classics.
"It can be like this..." she murmured, the soul fire in the skeleton's eye sockets burning brightly, and the white bone claws turned the A3 volume over and over again. "There is actually such a posture... Wow, these muscles, this appearance! Is this album really realistic?!"
At first, Takumi Yuu was simply curious about how such a picture book could be so socially destructive that the owner, before her death, could still cling to it and be reluctant to dispose of it. But as she finished flipping through it, the skeleton couldn't help but feel the urge to break her promise. She wiped the nonexistent saliva from her mouth with her bony claws and said, "I'm sorry, Mi Yuu. It's a waste to destroy this book..."
She thought about it and said silently to the deceased owner, "Since you are dead, then this book will be inherited by me! I will bear all the social consequences! Anyway, I have no shame left~"
Having accidentally told another hellish joke, Jiangyou seemed to have forgotten that she was still acting as the owner of the house, but that was no longer the point. Jiangyou was fully focused and carefully read the picture album, feeling that her body and mind had been cleansed by the handsome man.
"The quality of handsome men in this world is too high! It doesn't feel like reality at all, but rather like some kind of two-dimensional O-game world! Hehehe~"
Her favorite paintings in the album were those of the Kingdom's Knights. The handsome knights, sweating profusely, embodied the perfect combination of power and beauty of this era. The emerald green eyes of one of the black-haired knights reminded her of cat's eyes, turquoise, and green phantoms...
"It's so beautiful!" The white skeleton scratched its ribs, dug out another pink soul fire, and ate it with a smack - this time the soul fire had a sweet strawberry flavor, and she liked it very much.
Takumi Yuu isn't particularly interested in romance, but he's incredibly interested in admiring handsome men. After all, who doesn't love beautiful things? Just looking at them can be pleasing to the eye and bring joy.
——Of course, some men can only be watched from afar, but once they open their mouths they might cost you three barrels of oil.
Takumi You happily placed "The Most Beautiful Man in Huntington" on the bookshelf in the basement. All the other books and picture albums that made one's IQ drop were stuffed into the fireplace. She lit a match and threw it into the fireplace. Looking at the blazing flames, she drew an unruly cross on her chest: "Rest in peace, Mi You. I have fulfilled your wish for you~!"
——Well, it’s about 90% complete. Who says it’s not complete?
While waiting for the books to burn, she walked around the remaining rooms: another room on the second floor seemed to be a vacant bedroom, and Jiangyou thought it would be perfect to clean it up and use it as her own room.
She didn't really want to occupy Mi You's room, but rather wanted to redecorate it. This empty room with only a bed frame provided her with a lot of space to play freely.
There are also two rooms on the third floor, both of which are attics with sloping roofs, filled with a lot of miscellaneous items. Jiangyou also saw a dressmaking mannequin and a vintage sewing machine - of course, the so-called vintage style is relative to Jiangyou's understanding of the other world, and here it might be a best-selling popular style of the current era - although it is not known whether this machine can still work normally, but maybe it can be of great use after some sorting and research.
The optimistic Jiangyou went downstairs humming a song and eating soul fire. This time the soul fire was a happy Coca-Cola flavor. She was already curious about how many flavors of soul fire she could make.
However, eating only her own soul fire was not enough to satisfy her hunger. No matter how many flavors she tried, she would only become more greedy. She had to start thinking about how to legally obtain other people's soul energy to fill her stomach.
"Well, if I could use the crucible to brew some food and sauces, I could sell them for energy."
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