CHAPTER 104: XIAO XI: NOVICE BUTCHERING PACK

Ruan Chanchan took the piece of hide that Xie Daiyu showed to her and carefully took a look at it. She frowned when she noticed the dirt and the gross-looking mould under it. Even though the white mould no longer smelled, it was certainly not good for using as a bandage, and even if she tried to clean it, these hides would naturally not work; after all, Ruan Chanchan had limited resources to clean them.

"Is this how the processing teams hand out the hides to everyone in the tribe?" Ruan Chanchan asked; she was curious because she thought that the processing team would do a much better job than this. Why in the world were they cleaning the hide in such a fashion that it allowed mould to grow on the back of it?

"Darling, you are forgetting that the people of this world care the least about hygiene! They simply dry the hides under the sun, and once the blood stops bleeding, they will hand out the hides to the elders and the tribe members."

Yue! After hearing what Xiao Xi said, Ruan Chanchan wanted to throw up. So she had been sleeping on hides that were not even washed clean? Ruan Chanchan didn’t know whether it was because of her imagination or something; she felt like something was crawling up and down her skin. If not for the fact, there were three mers, one being her own brother, sitting next to her, she would have taken her clothes off and wiped her body clean with a sanitiser. Damn it!

"Why didn’t you tell me this sooner?"

Ruan Chanchan was furious at Xiao Xi. This little troublemaker. He knew that these hides were not washed cleanly, and the blood had thoroughly seeped into them. Why didn’t he say so?

"Darling, it’s not that I didn’t want to tell you—I did. But you reacted so strongly after finding out that this body had once ingested maggot-filled beast flesh; I didn’t dare to tell you."

"And keeping the truth from me was your only option!?" Ruan Chanchan shrieked, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Xiao Xi eyed Ruan Chanchan innocently. "Isn’t that better? Rather than knowing the truth, being oblivious is much better. Don’t you think?"

Being oblivious was better? Ruan Chanchan closed her eyes and breathed in and out. She told herself that she couldn’t wring this system nor could she send it away. If she did that, then she would be the one who would end up in trouble!

"Darling, you want to kill Xi Xi? But Xi Xi only wanted to help you!" Xiao Xi was stunned when he heard that Ruan Chanchan wanted to destroy him or, worse, send him away. Oh, the humiliation. If his rivals’ systems heard that he was sent away by his host, he would be humiliated to the point where he would want to rip his own database with his own hands!

Ruan Chanchan simply ignored the annoying system. She turned to look at Xie Daiyu and asked, "Then why are you asking me to come to the hunting ground with you? If your hunt is going to be handed to the processing team anyway, what is the point of bringing me along?"

Xie Daiyu calmly turned and looked at her. He blinked his eyes and said to her, "It matters because if you come with us, then I will first hunt down the beast that we need to hand over to the tribe, and then I will take you to hunt down a beast separately. You can come with me; I will hunt down a beast for you to use. The only problem is that I don’t know how to process the beast’s hide."

"Thats–"

"Not a problem! You can buy a novice butchering pack. This will help you not only in skinning the beast but also in learning how to make hide bandages with zero effort! What do you think, darling?" Before Ruan Chanchan could say that it was quite difficult, Xiao Xi popped in front of her. With his eyes shining with glee at the prospect of selling another pack and a smile that would have perfectly suited a crook, the system looked quite amusing.

Ruan Chanchan felt her lips twitch. She wanted to refuse, but when the words of refusal came to her lips, she remembered that she still needed to take care of Nan Wu and her wounds. Since that was the case, even if she wanted to avoid buying this novice pack, Ruan Chanchan knew that she had to buy it. So gritting her teeth hard enough to make them churn, she turned to look at the mer and nodded. "Alright, I will think of a way to process the beast."

When Xie Daiyu heard Ruan Chanchan say that she was going to process the hide, he felt even prouder. Look at this! His destined one was certainly a wise woman. She even knew how to process beast hide and meat!

If Ruan Chanchan knew what Xie Daiyu was thinking, she would have choked on the spot. She was not a wise woman, but a woman in debt. Looking at the many packs that were lined in front of her, Ruan Chanchan felt like the system was cheating her again. She only had one thousand four hundred and ninety points, and the packs in front of her? They started at two hundred points! Was this not cheating? There was also a tag of discount. She wondered what kind of programming was used when making these systems, that they declared two hundred points as little!

"Darling, don’t be like this. These points might look like they are a lot of points, but these packs are all ultimate packs. Don’t forget that you are about to process a beast that never existed in your world. We have collected all the information, including about this world, to make this pack – I promise you will not regret it!" Seeing that Ruan Chanchan was still hesitating, Xiao Xi gritted his teeth and explained.