Chapter 156: Feeling the Baptism

"However."

Yun Mu looked at the painting in front of her.

Setting aside the blush-inducing content, this was already a work with a very high degree of completion.

However, no game prompt for gaining experience points popped up.

"Is it really impossible if I don't use a Spiritual Painting?"

Damn it! It was truly a waste of her drawing it so excitingly! Although she had anticipated this in her heart, Yun Mu was still somewhat unwilling to accept it.

Come to think of it, if she could gain experience points just by drawing ordinary lewd pictures, then as a Transcendental, she could draw dozens of unique ones a day! As long as she did nothing but eat and sleep every day, and just kept drawing lewd pictures, she could go into seclusion for decades... Oh, wait, no, there are job advancement quests, so that's fine.

Shaking her head, she extinguished the fantasies in her heart.

"Bugs really aren't that easy to exploit," she thought with some regret.

She could only find an opportunity later to test whether she would gain extra experience points after spreading the lewd pictures.

Logically speaking, spreading pornographic publications should count as behavior consistent with being Fallen.

Perhaps the more people who see it, the more experience points she gains?

After all, in this world, she wasn't sure about other countries, but in the Frost Kingdom, the social atmosphere was actually quite conservative.

Hey~ don't say things like "there are so many brothels on Yongle Street, how is the social atmosphere conservative?"

It's not like everyone goes to those kinds of places.

The vast majority of people look at brothels with disdain.

Furthermore, the laws of the Frost Kingdom also have regulations.

It is forbidden to publish content related to erotica in newspapers, magazines, and other publications facing the general public.

At least on the surface, that is. As far as Yun Mu knows, in the shadows, through various social venues and private dissemination, there are still many pornographic readings in circulation.

If nothing else, her predecessor once found one in a trash can.

After using it a few times, it was sold by her predecessor to a Black Market merchant who specialized in such readings for the "high price" of 2 Silver Frost Coins.

As for the fact that the other party turned around and sold it for 5 Silver Frost Coins after acquiring it... Heh.

Yun Mu did not want to comment too much on this.

You have to know, for her predecessor at the time, two Silver Frost Coins was nearly a month's worth of living expenses!

It is conceivable how deep an impression that pornographic reading left on her predecessor.

Finding one meant not having to work for over a month!

Driven by this idea, her predecessor really did find many similar books one after another.

Among them, the vast majority were novels.

Occasionally there were one or two with illustrations, but the quality was not very good.

Even so, they could sell for 5 Silver Frost Coins a book! If Yun Mu, a Second-rank Painter, took action personally and sold an entire book full of stories and pictures, wouldn't it be reasonable to sell it for 1 Gold Frost Coin a copy?

"Ah, no, why did I suddenly start thinking about making money?" She snapped back to reality.

Her goal wasn't to make money, but to gain experience points! It should be spread as widely as possible; raising the price would only reduce the number of people who have seen her work.

However, there is actually one more problem that needs to be solved, and that is... how is she going to sell her books?

"Would it work to ask Brenna?" Yun Mu looked at the content on the canvas with a guilty conscience.

With Princess Brenna's status and connections, it shouldn't be difficult to spread her paintings.

As long as she explained clearly about how she could become stronger just by selling books... "Forget it, forget it." She was thin-skinned; it would be better not to let people she knew see such scandalous works.

Subconsciously shrinking her neck, Yun Mu put away the draft on the Painting Board. A single color painting couldn't support the content of an entire book; she would just use that one as the cover.

As for the remaining content, she planned to complete it all with color paintings.

Heh heh, a Transcendental can do whatever she wants.

Before transmigrating, it would take a month of slacking off to squeeze out a chapter like toothpaste, and it wasn't even colored.

Now, she can finish a color painting in just half an hour; it's simply invincible! Unless there are other shameless Transcendental competitors in this field, no one will be able to out-grind her!

And even if they could, so what?

Could she, who has mastered the various fetishes of 21st-century youth, possibly lose to a bunch of old antiques? Impossible, absolutely impossible! Let everyone in this other world witness the waves that can be stirred up by this era-leading drawing style, combined with her precise grasp of the fetish system! Hehehe!

The next day, early morning, inside the first-floor lobby of the Frost Bank.

"What's wrong with you?"

Brenna asked, looking strangely at Yun Mu, whose face was written with the word "exhaustion."

"No, nothing," Yun Mu responded with a guilty conscience.

"It's probably that my nutrition hasn't kept up..."

"Nutrition?" Brenna tilted her head.

"... Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything," Yun Mu said, covering her face.

The other world clearly hasn't formed a meme culture like Earth, and plus, Brenna is a girl, so naturally, she wouldn't understand what she meant.

"Alright." Hearing her say that, the other party stopped dwelling on the matter.

She looked at the clock hanging on the wall and said, "The Steam Train leaves in two hours, let's go quickly."

"Okay." Yun Mu looked at the clock and nodded.

The time was three in the morning, and the Energy Tower standing in the center of the city had not yet stopped working.

The two first washed up, then spent half an hour putting on makeup.

After leaving the Frost Bank, they proceeded in the direction of South-Pointing Star.

Along the way, no one could be seen on the quiet streets, and the only thing in their ears was the roaring of the Energy Tower, which became clearer as they approached.

"Is that the Energy Tower?"

Borrowing the faint light coming from the distant horizon, Yun Mu looked at the cylindrical mechanical body that was constantly releasing high-temperature gray-black waste gas into the air.

"That's right, but that is only the part exposed on the outside," Brenna explained to her, "The main body of the Energy Tower is actually underground; the cylinder above, which is 55.8 meters high and 8.62 meters in diameter, actually only accounts for one-fifth of its total volume."

She paused, then added, "At six o'clock in the morning, before the Energy Tower shuts down, it will transport excess steam to various parts of the city, including supplying power to the Steam Cores of the Steam Trains."

"This is also the reason why the train departs at five o'clock in the morning."

"I see," Yun Mu said, withdrawing her gaze from the Energy Tower.

She had been transmigrated for some time now, and she felt she had already grown accustomed to the Black Technology of steam in this world.

Hilarious; if robots can be manufactured, what is a mere Energy Tower? Making a fuss over nothing.

The two continued forward, and soon, whether it was because they were nearing the station, they gradually began to see some hurried figures on the surrounding streets.

After Brenna handed the train tickets and the forged Identity Cards to the attendant at the ticket inspection point, the two boarded the Steam Train heading to the Royal Capital. PS: I took a bath tonight.

I felt sleepy after my bath, but at the thought that I hadn't updated yet, I finally hurried to get up and write this chapter.

I don't know if there will be another update tonight; probably not?

Everyone, go to sleep early~ (End of chapter)