Chapter 453 - 443: Busy

"Besides the food, was there anything else?" the man asked.

"No." The other person shook their head. "They only sold food and didn’t even list anything else. However, according to our intel, this latest batch included a new food item called Xisuo Vine."

"Xisuo Vine? Do you know what that is?"

"Yes. We investigated it the moment we learned the name. Xisuo Vine is a plant that grows in the sea. It’s edible and highly nutritious, but it needs to be eaten with fish."

He told them everything he knew about Xisuo Vine.

The man was silent for a moment before saying, "It seems SoySauceDrunkard is in the same game as you all. But that’s good."

SoySauceDrunkard’s actions had undoubtedly helped them stabilize morale.

Meanwhile, after Moira Lynch came down to the first floor, she saw Hugh Finch, Shane Rhodes, and Kai York holding notebooks, scribbling away with very serious expressions.

Seeing this, Moira Lynch didn’t disturb them, instead tiptoeing outside.

She took a bamboo basket from her dimensional space, first harvesting the ripe vegetables from the garden and planting new ones. Then came the mushrooms.

This was a major undertaking; after all, the mushrooms were growing everywhere.

As Moira Lynch was picking mushrooms, a pure-white Snow Duck waddled over and gently nudged her hand, as if trying to remind her of something.

Moira Lynch turned her head and saw a pristine white duck egg hidden under a vegetable plant.

’Strange, why did it lay its egg here?’

Moira Lynch picked up the egg and wiped off the dust.

The duck egg was still warm in her hand. It must have been freshly laid.

Moira Lynch patted the Snow Duck’s head, then looked toward the nesting area. Just as she expected, all the nesting spots were full.

She estimated there were over thirty duck eggs in total.

When she bought the Snow Ducks, she knew they were a high-yield breed, but she hadn’t expected them to be *this* prolific.

Wait!

’If it’s like this with the Snow Ducks, then the Treasure Chickens must be...’

At this thought, Moira Lynch hurried to the backyard.

Just as she’d suspected, the place was overflowing with chicken eggs too.

She could clearly distinguish the freshly laid eggs from the ones that had been there for a while.

"Why hasn’t Zion collected the eggs?"

Suddenly, Moira Lynch seemed to realize something. They had forgotten to give the command.

’But isn’t Zion an artificial intelligence? He has no initiative at all. Maybe I should just rename him Artificial Idiot instead.’

With a single thought from Moira Lynch, all the eggs in the chicken coop vanished, collected into her dimensional space.

After a thorough cleaning, she arranged them neatly in baskets.

Among the eggs, Moira Lynch also found quite a few that were fertilized.

After some thought, Moira Lynch put these eggs back into the nests for the hens to continue incubating.

She also carefully checked the Snow Duck eggs. There were some fertilized ones, but only about five or six.

Moira Lynch put these duck eggs back as well, letting the mother Snow Ducks continue to incubate them.

Once she was done with all that, Moira Lynch went back to picking mushrooms.

"I feel like I’ve forgotten something important."

Just as Moira Lynch was trying to recall what she’d forgotten, Patience spoke up to remind her. [Master, did you forget that you accepted a mission?]

"Ah, I remember now."

The Golden Celestial Eye had returned at dusk.

Because they were about to dock and she was feeling a bit seasick, she hadn’t submitted the mission right away.

If Patience hadn’t spoken up to remind her, she would have almost completely forgotten about it.

"Submit mission."

After sending the video, Moira Lynch breathed a sigh of relief. Now all she had to do was wait for the review to be completed, and she would receive her reward.

Casually, she opened her Intelligent Brain and clicked on her private messages from Ellers. It was filled with messages he had sent over the past while.

Perhaps because he later realized Moira Lynch wasn’t replying at all, Ellers had even started to suspect something had happened to her.

When there was still no response after a while, his messages became less frequent.

The last message was about the armor.

[The thing you wanted is almost ready. Give me your address, and I’ll send it over when it’s done.]

Moira Lynch edited her Cloudsea Planet address and sent it. The other party replied almost instantly.

[Ellers: Whoa, you finally replied! I was starting to think something happened to you since you weren’t responding.]

[Moira Lynch: I was on a mission. It wasn’t convenient to communicate.]

[Ellers: Oh, so that’s how it was. Totally understand. By the way, the thing you wanted is almost done. I’ll send you the images and data. See if there’s anything you want to change.]

[Ellers: This is your last chance. In a little while, the armor will enter the final phase and can’t be modified.]

[Moira Lynch: Okay, got it.]

She looked at the information Ellers had sent over.

Seeing the armor in the picture, Moira Lynch’s eyes lit up. This armor was just too cool.

She thought every part of it was perfect; it hit all the right aesthetic notes for her. It was just a shame it wasn’t for her to wear.

Although Moira Lynch felt the armor was already excellent as it was, she wasn’t the one who would be wearing it, after all.

So, Moira Lynch bundled up the data and sent it to Black Wolf. Fearing it wouldn’t understand, she thoughtfully sent Patience over to explain.

After that was done, she went back to picking mushrooms.

"La la la, la la la, I’m a little girl picking mushrooms..."

She didn’t know how much time had passed until her stomach started to GRUMBLE. Only then did she stop what she was doing and head back inside.

When she reached the living room, she found Shane Rhodes and the other two lying on the sofa, their eyes glazed over, looking completely mentally exhausted.

"Oh, right. You all looked so focused before, I didn’t want to disturb you. Take these and switch to them."

As she spoke, Moira Lynch placed three palm-sized boxes on the table.

Hearing her voice, the three of them looked at her at the same time.

"What are these?" Kai York asked.

"Intelligent Brains. The latest model, even better than the ones you’re using now," Moira Lynch explained with a grin.

"The latest model of Intelligent Brain must be expensive, right? Where did you get them?" Shane Rhodes asked curiously.

Moira Lynch already had an excuse prepared.

"You know how I caught those two A-rank wanted criminals? This was part of the reward."

"But wasn’t the reward the bounty money?" Shane Rhodes said.

"It was the bounty money. But I did them such a huge favor; it’s not too much to ask for a small favor in return, right?" Moira Lynch said righteously.

Fair enough. It really wasn’t too much to ask.

"How do you use these? Is it the same as our old Intelligent Brains?"