Let's debut, fairy!

Chapter 28 It turns out you were the one spying on me while I was bathing (Thanks to Jie Xi for the generous donation)
"who!"

A scolding.

Meng Bai's consciousness returned instantly.

He suddenly opened his eyes.

'Who is that woman? She looks quite young. Is she a mortal or a celestial being? She must have some spiritual power, otherwise how would she have discovered me?'

'No, I need to find a sapling quickly. What if that woman senses something's wrong and cuts me up by the roots with a shovel? Who knows if I'll be able to open a second account?'

Putting aside his troubled thoughts, Meng Bai looked around.

It's still that old, run-down house with all sorts of shelves lining the walls.

Meanwhile, Su Xintang, dressed in a white T-shirt and black sweatpants, was bending over and rummaging through a large box.

After admiring her shapely figure for a few seconds as she bent over, Meng Bai communicated via voice, "What are you doing?"

Hearing the voice in her mind, Su Xintang quickly sat up, turned to look at him, and smiled, "You're awake? I'm going to find some clothes to change into."

"Clothes?" Meng Bai was puzzled. Weren't all of Su Xintang's previous clothes in the storage space?

Su Xintang seemed to have guessed what he was thinking and explained, "The moment we traveled through time, one incense stick was inexplicably missing from the storage on my right hand."

I was wondering if the clothes I was wearing or the magical artifacts I was carrying had been worn down during the journey. So I took out a pair of socks from my spatial storage, which turned out to consume a stick of incense.

Retrieving socks on Earth only requires a single stick of incense—a difference of a hundredfold! I even tried taking out the spare phone you gave me to see if the incense needed for retrieval was the correct amount.

As a result, retrieving the phone required approximately forty-eight incense offerings; retrieving items from other realms likely involves consumption calculated based on their value.

As she spoke, Su Xintang's face showed a hint of pain.

It took nearly fifty incense sticks to retrieve the two items.

This is absolutely terrible!
Fortunately, I can recover when I return to Earth, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat for three months.

Upon hearing this, Meng Bai immediately took out a pack of napkins from his storage space, which actually consumed one stick of incense.

"Damn it, there's a tax?" He was dumbfounded. If that was the case, his life as a middleman would probably be in trouble.

wrong.

A napkin only costs a few dollars.
The phone cost over two thousand yuan, so the proportion seems wrong, doesn't it?

With this thought in mind, he took another look inside his storage space, which contained all sorts of odds and ends that he had gathered from the table.

One of the mineral water bottles had a thin plastic wrapping.

He took out the wrapping paper, which probably only cost a penny, and another incense stick was gone.

"Not only are they charging me a 'donation tax,' but they also have a minimum charge?" Meng Bai's lips twitched. It seemed that the minimum charge for taking something was one stick of incense, and anything more would be charged according to the price.

Not right either.

The clothes Su Xintang was wearing only cost sixty yuan in total.

But her pair of silver bracelets and jade belt were magical artifacts. Magical artifacts shouldn't be cheap, so why did she lose a single incense offering when she transmigrated?

Thinking of this, he said in a voice, "Xintang, try taking out your helmet and blue robe."

"Let's not take it, it's too much of a drain on incense offerings. I'll just find some other clothes to wear." After saying that, Su Xintang took out a purple and gold dress from the box.

"These were issued to everyone when I was cultivating at the Purple Lotus Temple. What do you think?" Su Xintang said, gesturing to Meng Bai as she spoke.

"Are we so poor that we're starting to wear school uniforms?" Meng Bai's eyes welled up with tears.

"Uniforms?"

"Never mind that, try to get the blue robe and helmet first. Maybe all you need is a stick of incense."

This time, Su Xintang did not refuse. She took out her clothes and helmet from her space, which only required a wisp of incense.

"What's going on?" Su Xintang asked, both surprised and astonished.

"Tax-free goods?" Meng Bai thought to himself, "Just as I thought. It seems that everything Su Xintang wore and brought when she first traveled through time was tax-free."

But I guess that's about all you can bring. From now on, everything you bring will probably be taxed.

With this thought in mind, he put the pack of napkins back. This time, he only needed a wisp of incense. He took it out again, and still only needed a wisp of incense.

In other words, the napkin has already been "cleared through customs".

He then tried collecting the teacup from Su Xintang's table, which only required a wisp of incense. This made sense; collecting things from He Gu in He Gu didn't require an extra "incense tax."

While Meng Bai was trying it on, Su Xintang put on her blue robe over her short-sleeved shirt and said, "Let's go, and let's call Achen along too, so we can go find the saplings together."

Meng Bai also wanted to find the sapling, but he shook his head and said, "There's no rush. The Heavenly Realm is not like Earth. We still need to figure out what's on us and understand ourselves. Luckily, there's no one else here right now."

“That’s true.” Su Xintang nodded, then asked curiously, “I really want to ask, where is your physical body? Is it still lying at home?”

“It’s not at home.” Meng Bai looked into his mind’s sea of ​​consciousness. “It’s in my space. I can’t take it out. I don’t know if it’s because there aren’t enough incense offerings or if other conditions are required.”

"What does time travel consume? Incense offerings?" Su Xintang asked curiously.

"It's not incense, I can't tell what it is either, I might have to wear it again to find out."

After saying that, Meng Bai thought of something and continued, "Do you have anything here that can keep accurate time?"

"What do you need this for?" Su Xintang asked, puzzled.

"Convert the time flow between Earth and here. What if one day in the celestial realm is equivalent to one year on Earth? That's hard to say. Is the day-night cycle the same in your celestial realm and on Earth?"

“It’s the same.” Su Xintang replied, running to the cabinet and pulling out a handful of incense. “This is Jade Lotus Incense. One stick can burn for an hour, which is equivalent to two hours in your area.”

"Didn't you just take out the incense and phone? Take out your phone too. Let's use the incense and phone together to keep track of time. That way it will be more accurate."

Actually, a mobile phone would be enough, but Meng Bai was worried that the phone would malfunction after time travel, so it would be more reliable to place two reference points.

Su Xintang obediently did as she was told. First, she lit the Jade Lotus Incense, then noted the time on her phone, put the phone in a box, and placed it on the shelf.

After doing all this, she sat down at the table, waiting for Meng Bai beside her to initiate the time travel.

But Meng Bai pointed to the opposite side and said, "You sit on the shelf over there. I'll see if it can be activated remotely. I'll also leave a coordinate in the corner so we can choose the coordinate when we come back."

"Oh." Su Xintang floated up and sat on the top of the empty shelf opposite.

As soon as she sat down, she couldn't help but sigh inwardly: Meng Bai is so thoughtful! He calculated the flow of time, the distance required to initiate the time travel, and even knew to place the coordinates...

and many more!

He controlled the time travel, and he also knew that all he needed to retrieve the blue robe and helmet was a wisp of incense.

How come he's so skilled?

Is it...

Her heart suddenly became flustered.

After hesitating for a long time, he pretended to be casual and said, "You've thought this through very thoroughly. Could it be that you've used the light points to take other women through before and have some experience with it?"

Meng Bai was taken aback by what he was told, and looked up at Su Xintang sitting on the top of the shelf with a strange look in his eyes.

Su Xintang pretended to be natural, looking around but not daring to meet Meng Bai's gaze.

"Heh~" Meng Bai chuckled inwardly and said, "Where are the other women? You're the first."

Upon hearing this, Su Xintang lowered her head, did not reply immediately, and remained expressionless.

But her legs, dangling precariously from the edge of the frame, swayed back and forth, revealing her inner joy and shyness.

She actually believed Meng Bai's words.

But she couldn't help but mutter, head down, "Who knows if you're telling the truth or not...you want to...you want to touch my bare skin, I wonder how many people you've groped..."

"Girl, how dare you slander me out of thin air? My heart is pure and sincere, heaven and earth can bear witness!" Meng Bai said pretentiously for a few moments, then laughed heartily, "Sit tight, let's go back!"

With a "whoosh," the two collapsed into specks of light again and disappeared into the River Drum.

Beside the lake where the saplings were growing, the woman, accompanied by a maid, walked barefoot through a field of medicinal herbs.

A string of precious beads swirled around her left ankle, sparkling with lightning, unlike anything ordinary.

The woman stopped when she reached the sapling.

With a flick of her eyes, she instantly used her magic to hold a plump, adorable rabbit suspended in mid-air.

"So it was you peeping at me while I was bathing." She chuckled and tapped the rabbit's head, then asked the maid, "What do you think of this rabbit's appearance?"

"He's so adorable and endearing," the maidservant quickly replied with a bow.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's set up the pot, start the fire, and have an extra meal."

(End of this chapter)