208: Snake Price List

(May Shenhe be safe for a lifetime, may Shenhe never die)

"How come you thought of coming to see me today?"

Eula stood with her hands on her hips, asking Huo Xi with a smile.

Huo Xi greeted the knights nearby and looked at Eula: "Didn't I come to find you as soon as I was unfrozen?"

"Give me a break. Time flows differently in your Realm of a Thousand Stars; who knows how long you've been busy in there."

"During this time, I've recorded a grudge against you every day. From the battle with Osial until now, let me see... it's over thirty pages."

Eula had one hand on her hip and waved her little grudge-recording notebook with the other. She even raised an eyebrow at Huo Xi, as if showing off.

Huo Xi had nothing to say, but he could express his feelings in other ways.

Huo Xi pointed in a certain direction: "Jean said there's another area over there that needs to be scouted. Let's go take a look."

Eula immediately saw through Huo Xi's failed acting. What area needed scouting over there? There was only a cave.

After Eula and Huo Xi left, Godwin jumped down from a tree and elbowed a knight beside him: "Hey, do you think we should still go clear the mines in that area?"

The knight looked quite honest and simple: "Huh? Didn't the Captain go over there with the Honorary Priest? Why should we go then? No need, right?"

...Two hours later, Huo Xi took the initiative to help the Knights of Favonius remove all the mines in the area, then told them all to go back and sleep.

He couldn't stay overnight at Eula's place either. He needed to return to the Realm of a Thousand Stars to make sure Mobius hadn't caused any trouble.

But Eula needed to absorb the energy essence, so she couldn't make any major movements. Huo Xi had to send her home first.

Eula still felt like she hadn't had enough. If her 'backpack' hadn't been full and unable to hold any more, she would have invited Huo Xi for more tea.

Returning to the Realm of a Thousand Stars, Huo Xi witnessed a surprising scene.

Skirk, Mobius, Egeria, Nabu Malicata, Guizhong, and Clervie were sitting around a table, chatting and laughing over tea.

Huo Xi didn't understand, but he was greatly shocked.

Wait, what do you guys have to talk about together? Did your relationships suddenly get this good?

Approaching them, Huo Xi realized that Snake was purely a listener, while the others were just asking Skirk about the current state of various nations.

If you were to ask who among everyone present had truly traveled between nations, it was undoubtedly Skirk.

And Skirk was unusually willing to speak a few more words today. Perhaps it was because the childhood version of her within had been almost completely unsealed, or maybe the three days spent alone with Huo Xi had made her almost forget that her mouth could be used for talking.

On the other side, after Maricatta heard that Sumeru's current deity was called Lesser Lord Kusanali, and Egeria heard about the dramatic state of justice in Fontaine, they both more or less showed strange smiles, frowning and grimacing. Why did it feel... not quite right?

Seeing Huo Xi return, the girls instantly formed an alliance; of the six, only Mobius was still smiling.

Mobius looked at everyone, then at Huo Xi, and giggled while covering her mouth: "Oh my, little lab rat, it seems you're being a bit disliked~ But it's okay. Come to Big Sister; Big Sister will dote on you."

Mobius's plump buttocks rested on her floating suitcase as she beckoned Huo Xi like a temptress.

Clearly, a truly mature older sister wouldn't care about this or that. What, my friendship level is already off the charts, and I still have to play hard to get with you?

No need for that; just do it and be done with it.

Moreover, these Gods had been pestered by her all evening without budging; it seemed there would be no chance to study Gods today.

It didn't matter because she had her little lab rat. Given how much Huo Xi doted on his women, even if she pulled out a bathtub tonight and asked him to fill it, as long as she satisfied his fetishes a little, she believed Huo Xi would absolutely do it.

Huo Xi gave the others a helpless look and followed her closely.

There was no helping it. Who else would sit on a mobile device and sway their waist like that? Mobius knew exactly what she was doing.

But just as the two were about to enter the main house, a voice suddenly called out to Huo Xi from behind.

"Wait."

The voice was as cold as moonlight. Huo Xi turned around and saw Skirk with her arms crossed, looking at him sideways.

She didn't say much, just rested one foot on the crossbar of a chair leg and crossed her other leg in a lethally attractive way.

She shook her leg and said, "That dirt-resistant slime Clara and the others have—give me one too."

Huo Xi: ?!"

What's going on? Such a big change in just three days? She's taking the initiative to give me fanservice?

The rest of the group, including Snake, looked at Huo Xi and Skirk in confusion. Clearly, they didn't know what 'Coating' meant.

Huo Xi walked straight to Skirk and showed everyone what it meant for a veteran craftsman to 'speak lotuses.'

The look of disdain on Skirk's face finally couldn't be maintained. She turned her head, propped her chin on her hand, and looked away with a flushed face.

The others were all dumbfounded.

It can be done like that?!

Clervie looked at everyone's thighs, then at her own small feet wearing leather shoes and white cotton socks, suddenly feeling like she didn't fit in.

She silently kicked off her leather shoes.

A moment later, after applying the Dust-proof film to the other four at their strong request, Huo Xi wiped his mouth and walked up to Clervie, meeting her blushing face.

Clervie pursed her lips and asked somewhat shyly, "Should I... take off my socks?"

Huo Xi shook his head: "It's fine. Doesn't Big Griseo also run around in white silks every day? Just apply two layers of dust-proofing."

Not long after, he retired after a job well done.

I've had my fill, brothers... Time quickly reached the early hours of the next day, and Huo Xi came out of Snake's room again, grumbling.

"You're really something, Mobius. Equivalent exchange, huh! Who pulls out a jar on the first meeting!"

Mobius's strategy was quite unusual.

The moment Huo Xi entered her room—or what should be called her laboratory—Mobius immediately pulled out a menu.

Or rather, a price list.

"Here, you have to follow this while you're with me. I can do anything for you, but you must pay the corresponding milliliters of 'experimental solution.'"

Huo Xi looked closely. Good grief, it was incredibly detailed.

For example, the levels were divided into five milliliters, ten milliliters, fifteen milliliters... and so on, with over a dozen tiers.

And the items on the menu ranged from hair care to oral care, hand care, and foot care—everything was there. Of course, these were just four of the dozens of categories.

Every single 'dish' was specified and divided very meticulously.

For instance, common items like 'porridge' that everyone understands, 'boiling dumplings,' 'student aid funds,' and 'applying Dust-proof film' were divided into three price points.

Not to mention the sandbox simulation games, which included many famous historical memes, such as whether Liyue's march to attack Fontaine should take the water route or the land route, or whether to simulate the famous Battle of Red Cliffs, and so on.

Huo Xi's scalp tingled; it was hard not to suspect that Pardo Felis had taught her this.

But, brothers, that's how consumer traps work.

Even if you know many things might not be worth it, when an incomparably beautiful mature woman is beside you, blowing fragrant air into your ear and inviting you, it is undoubtedly a challenge to your self-control.

Huo Xi showed his self-control.

He wasn't let go until he filled the bathtub with 'water.'

"I'm really speechless!" Huo Xi thought of Mobius happily catching up on her sleep alone, getting angrier the more he thought about it. But these words were suddenly heard by Eunectes, who walked out from around the corner.

Eunectes grabbed Huo Xi's wrist: "How did you know I wanted to float?"

Huo Xi: ???"

Not long after, having played 'female suspension' with Eunectes, Huo Xi finally arrived at the Cat's Tail Tavern in Mondstadt when the sun was high in the sky.

"Come on, let's see what Yakoda is doing inside."