Chapter 19: Oatmeal and Whole-Wheat Bread

【Your status "Scarlet Curse (Infection Period)" has changed to "Scarlet Curse (Blood-Thirst Period)".】

【Your Path "Scarlet" points +2.】

【You drank your fill of fresh blood; your status "Scarlet Curse (Blood-Thirst Period)" has changed to "Scarlet Curse (Dormant Period)".】

【Your bloodthirsty desire has subsided, but this is only temporary. (10 days)】

【Your Path "Scarlet" points +5.】

【Due to the effect of the equipment "Cat Bracelet (Blue)", your Path "Cat" points +1.】

【Your current Paths are: Scarlet lv1 (9/10), Cat lv1 (8/10)】

A series of notifications refreshed on the Game Panel.

After all this tossing and turning, Yun Mu was now completely awake.

"Does drinking once last for ten days?"

She looked at the Blood Brewing Bottle in her hand, then tucked it back into the lining of her coat.

After finishing this, she looked at the increased Path points.

Not to mention the Cat Path; she had long known about the effect of the Cat Bracelet.

But she had not known that entering the Blood-Thirst State and drinking fresh blood could increase the corresponding Path points.

At this moment, the Scarlet Path was only one point away from reaching lv2, and she had no idea what new effects it would have after leveling up.

Also, regarding the dream she had last night...

She had already forgotten what exactly happened in the dream, leaving only a vague impression in her mind.

She only remembered it had something to do with blood, something scarlet, and at the end of the dream, there seemed to be a cat's meow.

"Is it related to the Blood-Thirst State and the Cat Path?" she thought, lost in thought.

Whoosh!

Yun Mu reached out and pulled open the curtains of the inn room, and the previously pitch-black room instantly became bright.

She looked at the pendulum clock hanging on the inn wall; the time was already 6:30 in the morning.

"Time to get up."

Stepping down from the bed, Yun Mu went to the sink and simply washed her palms and face with water.

As for brushing her teeth, although there were toothbrushes in the inn, she dared not use them; after all, heaven knows how many people had used this thing.

Come to think of it, although her predecessor was a thief wandering the streets, she had never been sloppy when it came to washing up.

In her home in the sewers, there was actually a very crude homemade toothbrush.

It was precisely thanks to this that she did not inherit a mouth of terrible teeth after transmigrating here.

As for the stains on her body and face, they were merely a disguise her predecessor had made to protect herself.

Of course, being poor was also one of the reasons.

"After eating, I'll go get my Identity Card first, and once I have it, I'll go to the bathhouse for a wash," Yun Mu thought to herself.

Although she had been washed clean in the stomach of the Dust-Eating Flower yesterday, theoretically the liquid secreted by the other party's stomach could only be called plant sap, and it even had a bit of fragrance.

But she still felt something was strange and wanted to go to the bathhouse to wash thoroughly.

Pushing open the door of the inn room, Yun Mu first went to the restroom, then followed the stairs down to the first floor.

This time it wasn't the innkeeper sitting behind the counter, but the middle-aged woman who had brought Yun Mu food last night.

The other party's identity should be the inn's landlady.

She guessed so in her heart.

"Excuse me..." Yun Mu walked to the counter and said softly.

"You're here to ask about breakfast, right? Wait a moment, it'll be ready right away," the landlady behind the counter said enthusiastically before Yun Mu could finish.

"I see."

Yun Mu looked around and found that this inn was very quiet.

"Am I the only guest here?" she asked curiously.

"You are indeed the only one these past few days," the landlady replied.

Once the other party started talking, it was as if she had opened a floodgate, and she told Yun Mu about the history of this inn in an endless stream.

It turned out that, according to her, during the time when Frostfall City had just started port construction, there had been a great many foreign ships, merchants, and travelers coming to this city.

At that time, the inns in Frostfall City were simply not enough, and almost every one of them was packed to capacity.

It was in such an environment that the Gray Stone Inn was born.

Like other inns, after the Gray Stone Inn opened, it was crowded with foreign travelers within a few days, and the person who opened this inn at the time made a fortune.

But glory is always temporary; as the construction of the Frostfall City port stabilized, the city's influx of outsiders declined, and the inn's business became increasingly cold.

Many inns closed down because of this.

"Then here..." Yun Mu wanted to ask why it was still open, but felt it was a bit rude to ask this question, so she didn't speak.

"Hehe, this place is about to be demolished; after taxes, I'll get over a thousand Gold Frost Coins!" The inn landlady saw her thoughts and smiled somewhat proudly.

"Damn, so it's a demolition household!" Yun Mu's face darkened.

Damn it, give her back the emotion she just felt!

"Alright, breakfast is ready."

The inn landlady said, stood up, and walked into the kitchen behind her.

About two minutes later, the other party walked over with a bowl of steaming oatmeal and a piece of whole-wheat bread in her hands.

Well, the oatmeal was mellow and appetizing, and the freshly baked whole-wheat bread was not as hard as it was when cold, but instead fragrant and soft.

After finishing breakfast, Yun Mu said goodbye to the inn's landlady and walked toward the location of the Frostfall City Guard Hall.

After walking for about forty minutes, she arrived in front of the familiar black-gray building.

After walking into the interior of the Guard Hall, she headed straight for the counter where she had processed her Identity Card yesterday.

The Guard behind the counter seemed to recognize Yun Mu, and upon seeing her appearance, which was completely different from yesterday, a look of surprise could not help but surface on her face.

"Um, excuse me, are you Ms. Yun?" the Guard asked in a low voice after seeing Yun Mu walk over.

"Ms. Yun?" Yun Mu was stunned for a moment, because the "Yun" in the other person's words referred to the clouds floating in the sky.

"Ms. Yun?" Seeing that Yun Mu did not react, the female Guard called out to her again.

"Ah, it's nothing." Yun Mu came back to her senses, shook her head, and said, "I was just distracted."

"Can I take the photo now?" she asked.

"Anytime." The female Guard pointed her hand toward the camera on a stand not far away, as well as the clean and tidy white wall in front of the camera.

"Then let's do it now."

Yun Mu walked over to the camera on the stand.

"Okay."

Seeing this, the female Guard nodded.

While fiddling with the camera in her hands, she spoke to Yun Mu:

"Look at the lens, don't blink when the photo is taken, listen to me count: 3."

"2."

"1."

Click!

A white light flashed by. The female Guard took the camera off the stand and looked at Yun Mu, saying, "It will take about ten minutes or so for the photo to be developed; it's fine for you to wait here, right?"

"No problem." Yun Mu waved her hand, signaling for the other person to go about her business.

"Mm, then you wait here for me."

As the female Guard said this, she left with the camera, leaving her alone to wait idly in front of the counter.

Yun Mu looked around, found a random seat, and sat quietly on it to wait for the other person to return.

PS: The Frost Kingdom does have some items powered by electricity.

However, the technology for generating electricity is not the Magnetic Cutting principle from Earth, but rather low-level Sacred Rune technology transmitted from the Heling Empire.

Smart Partners should have already guessed it; that's right, the Heling Empire is the nation that worships Helington, the God of War and Thunder.

There, primary Sacred Runes can absorb Magic from the air to generate electricity self-sufficiently, but the voltage and output current are usually relatively weak.

High-level Sacred Runes, however, require temple officials such as priests and clerics to consume their mental energy through Prayer to generate electricity on a large scale.

(End of chapter)