After a simple wash, Fu Xin ci slipped back into bed.
Lying on her pillow, she was still contemplating how to subtly get the straw passed by her grandfather.
Also, she hadn't been keen on upgrading her space before; she felt a space of ten mu was enough.
She wasn't greedy. With her current wood-elemental ability, she was equivalent to a top-tier expert in this ancient era. Moreover, she had her space for protection.
After the incident with Xiao Bai, she knew that living beings could survive in her space, making her even less afraid.
No matter what natural disasters or man-made calamities they encountered, as long as she brought her family into the space, they would be safe and sound.
However, now that she had connected with Long Cheng, she couldn't ignore others. But she couldn't ignore her companions and her captain.
It seemed the most direct way was to upgrade her space as quickly as possible.
Although the situation after upgrading was unknown, it was the only glimmer of hope.
"Squeak squeak squeak." Xiao Bai wanted to try again.
"I'm very tired today, going to sleep." Fu Xin ci was indeed exhausted today, and soon she drifted off to dreamland.
Xiao Bai: It had squeaked for nothing.
With something on her mind, she woke up the next day before dawn.
Her first act upon entering the space was to move some of the rice from the storage space into the planting space.
This rice was packed in twenty-jin bags, collected during her last mission with her companions.
She remembered Xu Ru yi had told everyone at the time that this was crab-field rice from her hometown. She said that once they returned, they would cook a large pot of rice to ease their homesickness.
The more Fu Xin ci thought about it, the more excited she became. If this rice could be put into the vending machine, she hoped her companions would remember.
To give her companions a hint, she found a pen and drew a heart on the same spot on each bag.
Then, in her mind, she could no longer restrain herself and silently chanted: Collect.
As she looked at the empty space before her, she burst into tears, laughing.
On the other side of the parallel world, Xiao Ai, who had been dozing beside the vending machine, saw that the rice section lit up and was so excited she almost yelled.
But she remembered the consequences of yelling and covered her mouth with her hand, then gently nudged Xu Ru yi, who was resting with her eyes closed, with her foot.
"Mm?"
"Ru yi, the rice you wanted is finally in stock," Xiao Ai whispered to her.
"Buy it quickly." Xu Ru yi's hands were faster than her brain; she deftly pressed the purchase button.
However, when she saw the purchase weight below, "Why are they all twenty jin?" she was a bit bewildered.
"...?"
"Xiao Ai, why are they all twenty jin? Not a single one is a hundred jin?"
"Silly Ru yi, you wouldn't buy the twenty jin ones?"
"Of course, I'll buy them." She had eaten rice since she was little, and she really couldn't get used to pasta.
As Xu Ru yi spoke, her hand followed her thoughts, and she clicked to purchase a twenty-jin bag of pollution-free rice, asking if the seller was willing to sell it.
But when she saw the twenty-jin crab-field rice displayed on the panel, she screamed as if she had seen a ghost: "Xiao Ai, look."
"Look at what! Xu Ru yi, are you crazy? Do you want to attract all the gang members in Long Cheng?"
"Xiao Ai, look, this is rice from my hometown," Xu Ru yi said in a small, pitiful voice.
"What's so special about rice from your hometown? It still fills your... stomach." As Xiao Ai said this, she remembered something. "Ru yi, why do I feel..."
Xu Ru yi couldn't speak either, just nodded vigorously. "Mmm-hmm."
As the two girls mumbled "Mmm-hmm," their eyes slowly turned red.
The captain, who had just come in from outside, saw the two of them there and pretended to be angry, saying, "Not sleeping late at night, I knew you two would be here."
The two girls looked up, their eyes brimming with tears.
Seeing the two girls crying, the captain immediately shouted, "Ru yi, Xiao Ai, who bullied you two?"
"Yes, who bullied you?" Xu Jia can and Yang Xin jie, who squeezed in from behind the captain, also asked loudly.
"Quickly tell us, who bullied you?" Although their mercenary team was no longer as glorious as it once was, he, as a level four high-ranking ice-elemental ability user, was still a rare gem in Long Cheng.
"Captain, no one bullied us," Xiao Ai replied with a crying voice.
Xu Ru yi, however, said in a trembling voice, gesturing to her two companions standing beside the captain, "Jia can, Xin jie, you two come quickly and take a look."
"Look at what?" The captain, seeing the expressions of the two girls were not right, also squeezed in to take a look. After glancing at the crab-field rice displayed on the selling panel, he teased, "You two managed to get rice, and you're crying about it?"
Xu Ru yi ignored the captain's teasing and looked very seriously at Yang Xin jie and Xu Jia can, asking them, "Do you still remember our last mission with Xin ci?"
"Of course, I remember. I will never forget Xin ci lying in a pool of blood, covered in blood. That vixen was screaming like a madwoman: How could this happen?"
"She also said: Those people are all liars. She did as they said, so why didn't she get the useless person's space, and lost her own space and abilities."
Yang Xin jie could recite what happened that day word for word, "Unfortunately, we were all tricked and lured out by that fox. Only Xin ci was left and fell into her trap."
Even though it had been several months, when the companions spoke of it, they still wore expressions of grief.
"Xin jie, Xu Jia can, you two take a look at this rice first." Xiao Ai saw that others had entered and quickly got to the point.
"Isn't this crab-field rice from Ru yi's hometown?"
"I remember the last mission we did with Xin ci, we collected the same kind of rice. Ru yi was so happy her tongue was twisted."
As Xu Jia can finished speaking, his expression changed greatly. He stared intently at a spot on the rice bag.
Then, without further ado, he snatched a small rabbit hair accessory that was stuck in Xu Ru yi's bun and placed it at the vending slot.
Except for the few companions in the Long Teng mercenary team, everyone else's eyes were fixed on the selling slot.
The other people who had gathered around thought that the members of the Long Teng mercenary team had gone crazy.
Someone even sneered, "I never thought Long Teng would be so poor that they would try to exchange a hair accessory for a bag of rice."
"Yes, even for twenty jin of rice, no fool would trade with them?" The person who came with him chimed in with a sarcastic tone.
As if to immediately slap them in the face, the moment his words fell, everyone heard a "ding-dong" notification sound, and the vending machine panel displayed: Transaction complete.