Chapter 92 Xiawei Temple revealed its fangs
Yu Naixin gave a soft "humph," stood there with her hands on her hips, looking a little sullen.
She didn't intend to do anything to the monk NPC; she just wanted to ask him if her attire was inappropriate within the Xiawei Temple setting. This was to confirm whether the NPCs in this instance recognized her modern clothing and thus determine the approximate era in which the Xiawei Temple was set.
After all, Yu Naixin knew very well that the NPCs in "Heartbeat 1000%" were actually quite "intelligent" and could indeed extract some information from them.
As a result, the NPCs treated her like a monster.
[Wow! How can she be so cute?! Oh baby, don't be angry! It's all the show's fault!]
These unconscious little gestures and expressions are so adorable they make my heart melt. She stands there with her hands on her hips like a little cake; I almost want to call her my daughter!
[What does it mean to be the epitome of sweetness? This is it!]
Although the NPC left in a very hurried manner, he did not forget to deliver lunch to Yu Naixin. However, instead of coming back himself, he handed it over to another NPC.
This is yet another face that Yu Naixin doesn't recognize at all.
Now, of the nine NPC monks in the entire Xiawei Temple, Yu Naixin has already interacted with four of them.
Yu Naixin gave them a number: Monk A, who opened the door for her and the butter flower monk at the beginning; Monk B, the breakfast delivery guy who was scared away by her; Monk C, who helped her with the trays and utensils; and Monk D, whom she had just met.
Like the three NPCs before him, Monk Ding never looked directly at Yu Naixin. He seemed to have heard some news from Monk B. He put down the tray at the door of the room and left immediately, walking hurriedly without saying a word.
Yu Naixin: "..."
Okay.
It seems that trying to verify historical background information through NPCs is not feasible.
Looking at the newly delivered tray, Yu Naixin realized that her request had been met. Although the tableware was still large, the amount of food inside had been greatly reduced.
It was just right for her appetite.
The vegetarian lunch consisted of a bowl of white rice, a plate of stir-fried bamboo shoots, and a bowl of vegetable and tofu soup. The presentation was still very good, but the taste was still just average.
After finishing the last sip of soup and completely finishing her vegetarian meal, Yu Naixin, still holding the bowl, suddenly changed her expression.
...She felt a faint spiritual energy, as small as one ten-thousandth the thickness of a hair, flash from her stomach.
Yu Naixin had always thought that the spiritual power she sensed from Sister Rosluna in "Swan Castle" and the golden key was already so small that it could be almost ignored.
But now Yu Naixin has come to realize that there are even smaller quantities of spiritual energy.
If it weren't for the nine days and nine nights of research and training in making potions, even someone as gifted in spiritual power as Yu Naixin wouldn't have been able to detect this fleeting trace.
[What's wrong with the little witch? Is there really something wrong with this vegetarian meal?!]
[Everything was fine at breakfast. Was the intention to lower the female guest's guard with harmless food before tampering with it?]
[I also feel it's possible she didn't finish her breakfast, so it wasn't effective, or it could be due to the dosage, since the female guest's breakfast portion was clearly smaller than her lunch portion.]
Wow, there are so many expert viewers in the live stream these days, and their analyses are all so insightful!
[Many viewers who watch the regular guests and even the title-list guests are here, right? In the last episode, many viewers were complaining in the live chat that they couldn't understand the Great Demon King's moves and that the pace was too fast. This kind of thing is most attractive to viewers who like to make inferences and predictions while watching the live stream.]
It was because she ate a whole vegetarian meal.
It's confirmed that Yu Naixin is the one.
This tiny amount of spiritual energy, so faint that even Yu Naixin herself found it difficult to describe, served to replenish the energy needed to maintain normal physiological functions in Yu Naixin's body, just enough to sustain her for almost half a day.
That is, the period from breakfast in the morning to dinner in the evening.
Yu Naixin placed the bowl back on the dark wooden tray.
If she could finish her vegetarian meal in the morning, she could probably obtain enough spiritual energy to sustain her from morning until noon.
It seems that the butter-flower monk, who hadn't shown his face since sending her to Xiawei Temple, was well aware of her leftovers and had specially prepared some "special meals" for her.
NPCs cannot possess spiritual power. A case like Lulu's might only appear once in tens of thousands of game instances, and there is no such extremely special NPC in "Xiawei Temple".
Therefore, this could only have been done by the butter monk.
When eating vegetarian food in the morning, Yu Naixin felt like she was full, but also like she hadn't eaten anything at all.
Later, when no toilet facilities were found in the entire front courtyard of Xiawei Temple, Yu Naixin could roughly guess that what she ate was not food at all, but a kind of illusion disguised as food, which was actually no different from air.
The conversation with Monk C further corroborated this point.
The NPC was completely unfamiliar with the word "washing dishes" from Yu Naixin and did not understand it until he saw the tray in Yu Naixin's hand and realized what Yu Naixin meant.
It's not hard to deduce that the tableware used at Xiawei Temple did not require a regular cleaning process.
There is no food here for living organisms in the conventional sense; the "vegetarian meal" is essentially to provide the user with corresponding spiritual energy, so there is no need for a toilet.
Yu Naixin seems quite interesting.
Extracting one's own spiritual energy and applying it to other objects is no easy task, and the tiny amount in vegetarian food is even more difficult to control, requiring an extra amount of mental effort.
The monk who made butter flowers went to such great lengths just to keep her, a guest on the show, from going hungry.
Yu Naixin didn't know if it was because "Xiawei Temple" was a new dungeon, and the butter flower monk hadn't met other program guests before, so she wasn't aware that the program guests could buy food and drinks at relatively low prices in the system shop.
Holding onto preconceived notions, Yu Naixin never thought that the butter flower monk could be anyone easy to deal with.
No matter how kind-looking he is, what good can the guest on the show "Heartbeat 1000%" be? The "butter flower" is an even more cruel thing.
However, the act of the monk secretly adding spiritual power to the vegetarian meal with butter flowers does indeed have a touch of compassion.
Yu Naixin narrowed her eyes slightly.
The guests on the show aren't stupid. If they ate so much food without any corresponding physiological reaction, they would definitely notice the abnormality of the "vegetarian food" sooner or later.
Other guests on the show couldn't sense the spiritual energy in the vegetarian food like Yu Naixin could, but they could feel that they wouldn't feel hungry after eating it, and the vegetarian food had no negative effects on them.
Rather than believing that the monk who made butter sculptures was truly compassionate, Yu Naixin prefers to believe that he did it on purpose.
First, give them a piece of candy. Once the guests relax their guard, it's time to peel back the sweet wrapper and reveal the bomb inside.
Despite her inner turmoil, Yu Naixin remained outwardly calm and composed.
She carried the tray into the courtyard as she had done for breakfast, and it was still the same monk, Bing, who came to take the food.
Then, Yu Naixin returned to her room, lay down on the bed, and took a nap.
[Wow, the female guest is so relaxed! This is a scene from a reality show!]
[The pace of this episode seems to be slowing down; there weren't any particularly exciting scenes at the beginning, and it became more and more leisurely as it went on...]
I went out to take a look, and I remember this live stream was still on the popularity chart when it first started, but now it has completely dropped and is no longer visible. The number of viewers has also been steadily declining...
[She's done everything she could. She's thoroughly searched all the open areas, and tried to interact with every NPC she could find. What can a guest on a show do if the guest refuses to show up? Now she can only wait for either of the two male guests to show up. At this point, conserving her energy and maintaining her condition is the wisest course of action.]
Yes, whether it's during the night or starting the rituals tomorrow, there won't be a shortage of fierce battles. This female guest's qualities are truly on par with the titled guests; I'm really looking forward to seeing what her title will be in the future.
[If all the comments were rational like the ones above, I'd rather have fewer viewers in the live stream to avoid it always being so chaotic. *smile*]
The bedding and blankets in the room were more comfortable than Yu Naixin had expected. She took off her shoes and lay down, telling the priest in her mind that if she didn't get up early, he should call her at six o'clock in the evening. She could do this telepathically without having to show herself.
Yu Naixin slept very soundly.
There was hardly any noise in the courtyard outside the window, only the occasional sound of the wind and the white noise of the linden leaves rubbing together, which was very soothing.
Putting aside the fact that this is a segment of a TV program, Xiawei Temple is actually a very pleasant place to relax.
When Yu Naixin was awakened by the priest's folding fan, she opened her eyes and saw that it was already dark outside the window.
The evening vegetarian meal was also delivered by the monk Ding. This NPC still ran very fast, but this time Yu Naixin didn't pay attention to him.
Yu Naixin looked at the tray on the floor outside the door and curled the corners of her lips.
The tray contains a bowl of noodles with shiitake mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, and tofu skin. The noodles are brightly colored and look very appetizing.
In this vegetarian meal, one can no longer rely solely on appearance to detect any abnormalities in Yu Naixin.
She could clearly sense a very obvious fluctuation of spiritual energy in the broth of this bowl of noodles.
If this amount of spiritual energy were ingested, it could have many effects.
After a whole day of silence, the butter sculpture monk finally revealed his fangs as night was about to fall.
Yu Naixin carried the tray back to the table in the private room, scooped a spoonful of soup into her mouth, and savored it carefully.
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