This isn't a souls-like game at all.

"it is good……"

Ye Yiyi got up from the bed in a daze, walked barefoot to the bathroom, and ran the water to take a shower.

On the way, he saw clothes torn into rags in the corner of the bathroom, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

If I remember correctly, that's what he wore last night.

It's so pitiful, it was ravaged to the point that not even a trace of it was left...

He exhaled silently and took the opportunity to check his condition while taking a shower.

The skin was white and clean, without any suspicious red marks or bruises.

"Crazy woman..."

He muttered softly, wiped off the water stains, changed into a new set of clothes, and then walked out of the bathroom.

By the window, Alice sat on a bench with her legs crossed, holding a glowing dagger in her hand, staring at the light curtain in thought.

Hearing the door open, she put down the dagger and turned to give him a relaxed smile.

"You look much more refreshed now... How was your rest?"

"Why are you asking when you already know the answer?" Ye Yiyi rolled her eyes.

"Can't you show some concern?"

"That's because I care about you, right? Don't you think it's a little strange for you to say that?"

"Really?" Alice raised the corners of her mouth with a smile.

Ye Yiyi sat down opposite Alice with a pout. She was looking down at the cake in front of her when she suddenly heard Alice say.

"...But it was you who begged for mercy at that time, my Yi Yi."

"Just eat lunch together, why are you talking so much!" Ye Yiyi picked up the dinner knife with a bad look on his face.

Then he sighed deeply under Alice's teasing eyes, feeling exhausted and outrageous.

"Why would life have that effect? ​​It's ridiculous..."

"That's a great thing for me~"

Alice gracefully picked up the knife and fork and cut the cake, but the smile on her lips never disappeared.

"Such a powerful vitality, even an ancient dragon would not be able to withstand it, and would be burst by it.

"But you are different. Those vitality were not absorbed by you. Instead, they were stored in your body in another metaphysical form.

"After the transformation of your body, you will be able to use your body fluids as a carrier to produce an extremely precious life essence!

"That essence can grant almost unlimited vitality and physical strength for a period of time."

Alice seemed to remember something, and her smile became brighter as she looked at Ye Yiyi.

"And if you continue to consume this liquid, you might be able to permanently increase your vitality and physical strength.

"Yi Yi, do you know what this means?"

"It means I have become Tang Monk, and if I eat it I can live forever." Ye Yiyi answered expressionlessly, raised his fork and stuffed a small piece of cake into his mouth.

Then his eyes lit up, "This cake is amazing! It tastes just as good as the cakes I ate in my previous life!"

The next moment, a light curtain suddenly jumped out from the plate.

【Green Flower Matcha Cake】

Item Description: One of the desserts with special effects produced by Yue Mi Shu Pastry Shop.

Delicate appearance and sweet taste.

Temporarily increases energy recovery speed.

I learned the craftsmanship from one of the Cybersons.

The mysterious pastry workshop that is famous for its superb craftsmanship,

It is said that there are many mysterious mysteries hidden behind it.

"Huh? This pastry can actually increase energy recovery speed? How awesome is that?"

After reading the item description, Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Where did you buy this cake?" He looked up at Alice.

The girl was racking her brains to figure out who Tang Sen was. When she heard the question, she looked up and couldn't help but smile.

"It's delicious, isn't it? And it's no worse than our 'Pomegranate' from that era."

"Yes, it is delicious, and it also has the effect of accelerating the recovery of energy. Didn't you realize that?" Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows.

"Did you figure it out?"

Alice's smile widened. "How was it? Wasn't the effect amazing?"

"Uh……"

Ye Yiyi was really surprised by the girl's reaction. It turned out that she had known it for a long time?

Alice touched her lips with her fork as she recalled:

“That cake shop is called Moon Mysticism, a very strange name, and the clerk selling cakes is actually a puppet!

"No! There are some differences between that and a puppet. Although there are some technical references, the core is completely different from the puppeteer's puppet."

Alice couldn't help but fall into deep thought, then squinted her eyes and ate a piece of cake.

"Anyway, their cakes are really delicious!"

"Puppet master?!" Ye Yiyi was even more surprised.

Alice went out to buy some dessert and unexpectedly ran into a puppet! ?

He did not forget that in his four-dimensional chrysanthemum, there was also the Stone Gold Earth Dragon King's Ring Blood Heart.

It can be handed over to a psychic medium to be made into a transformed psychic, or it can be handed over to a puppeteer to be made into a puppet core.

Maybe he could find a puppeteer in this cake shop?

"Let's go to that shop later." Ye Yiyi suggested: "I want to see if there are any puppeteers there... and then go to the cemetery to complete the commission."

"Okay, I'll show you the way."

Alice agreed happily, then picked up another piece of cake with a fork and handed it to his mouth with a smile.

"Come on, open your mouth, ah~"

"?"

Ye Yiyi looked confused and hesitated for a moment, but finally opened her mouth and ate the cake.

"Don't move, let me wipe your mouth."

Alice smiled, took out a handkerchief from her bosom, and reached out to wipe his mouth.

Ye Yiyi chewed the cake in her mouth and suddenly felt sad.

Although the relationship between the two has made substantial progress, isn't the identity reversed?

"Oh, right, Bai Yu sent me a message earlier. She has arrived at the city where the Lingering Temple is located, and is now figuring out how to get in..."

"arrival?"

Ye Yiyi looked up in confusion, "Didn't Bai Yu say it would take two days to arrive?"

"She canceled her nighttime rest and traveled by car overnight, arriving a day early."

"Take a car...Oh~" Ye Yiyi suddenly realized.

I almost forgot, the Baiyu people border us to the east.

Influenced by the Empire and the Sons of Cyber, the technological level there has reached the level of the Industrial Revolution compared to here in the Middle Ages.

It would be better to say that although he was on the southern border, the shadow of the eastern border was everywhere around him.

He looked down at the glass goblet on the table, thought of the tap water in the bathroom, and even thought of the craft beer shipped to the southernmost tip of the world for sale.

Speaking of which, the Moon Mystic Cake Shop also received technical instruction from the Sons of Cyber, so perhaps the puppet's technology also bears some of their influence.

"They border each other to the south... and to the east. The technological gap between these two places is like that between Africa and Europe."

He sighed softly, swallowed the cake in no time, and prepared to set off with Alice.

Before leaving, he thought again and again for a moment, and finally, with Alice's teasing smile, he put the battle-scarred and blood-stained bed sheet into the Four-Dimensional Chrysanthemum.

"In this case, does it mean that I will always be the original winner?" She put her arms around the boy's neck, looked at his slightly embarrassed expression, squinted her eyes and blew air into his ear.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Do you know what the ceremony is that involves passing the incarnation test with Bai Yu and finally being teleported to the Lingering Temple?" Alice raised the corners of her mouth.

Ye Yiyi shook his head. Even though he had been beaten to the punch by this woman, he still felt that Alice looked a little unhappy.

Alice played with the boy's jaw, a cold glint in her eyes.

"That's a ceremony to establish a bond through the earth's veins... In layman's terms, it's a lovers' ceremony~"

"what?"

Chapter 218 Oath and Mission

Coming out of the castle along the winding road, under the gaze of the garrisoned soldiers and the Knights of the Fire Crown, the two left the monastery and came to the city streets of Lupe Castle.

It was afternoon now, the sun was shining brightly, the weather was clear and cloudless.

Under the sapphire-like clear sky, Alice and I walked on the wide streets filled with the atmosphere of the city.

Ye Yiyi looked at the people around him who were coming and going in their daily lives, his expression a little dazed.

Lupe Castle is very big. Apart from the capital of the Kingdom of Rit, which was a city in the era of the land kingdoms, this is the largest human settlement he has seen so far.

"Thanks to you, even though the battle was fierce last night, I still woke up early today."

Alice walked beside him, her eyes sweeping over the children running across the street with laughter, and she spoke casually with a smile on her lips.

"While you were still asleep, I took a quick look around the city and found something very interesting."

Although Alice's words were a little ambiguous, Ye Yiyi's curiosity still overwhelmed her desire to complain.

"What's interesting?"

"The technological level of this city is significantly different from the living facilities we saw in the castle."

She pointed to the dirty excrement scattered everywhere on the ground, then to the group of people with pale faces, numb eyes, and shackles on their ankles, and then she spoke.

"There is a separate metal toilet in our room, which can flush away excrement with just one press of a button.

“This shows that the castle had sewage and drainage pipes, and a manure dump for processing excrement.

“But only a small portion of the streets in the town are paved with a thin layer of bluestone tiles. Most of the ground is muddy dirt roads, and all kinds of excrement and sewage can be seen everywhere, which shows that the city has no sewers at all.

“Once it rains, this accumulated sewage mixed with feces becomes a breeding ground for the plague.

"I wandered around the town and finally came to the Fire Sparrow Order's church—of course, functionally speaking, it's a hospital.

“I was surprised by the number of patients waiting there even in the early morning, and as I estimated, most of them were suffering from infectious diseases.

"If the monastery's priests hadn't mastered a hymn that could kill pathogens with fire, this city would have long since become a cemetery."

Alice said this, frowning and shaking her head.

"I can't imagine that inside and outside the castle are like two completely different worlds. There are even slaves here!!"

"So that's what you're talking about."

Ye Yiyi glanced at the dung beetle that was flying in the air following the scent and said casually:

"It's normal to have differences. Most of the 'advanced' things you see in the castle come from the Rodno Empire bordering the east."

"Oh? The eastern border?"

Alice turned her head with great interest. "Is this the country where Bai Yu is from?"

"I'm not sure, but since we can take a car, it's at least in the surrounding area."

Ye Yiyi thought about the background setting of the game, and then began to explain: