Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 1051 - 496: Reaching the Summit_2

Chapter 1051: Chapter 496: Reaching the Summit_2

"I’ll make sure not to hold back then!"

Long Miaomiao laughed, due to her plumpness, her eyes were not visible.

"I..."

Fang Mingyuan wanted to say, "I won’t pass, and I’d even eat plain steamed buns for three months to save living expenses to treat you," but the words reached his lips and he couldn’t bear to say them.

In plain terms, Long Miaomiao had a good personality, but she was just too overweight.

Fang Mingyuan was above average in looks, and having been part of the school sports teams during junior and senior high school, always making a big splash at the sports meets, he was never short of girlfriends. Long Miaomiao held no attraction for him apart from her status as a God Hunter.

He also thought of Zhang Hao, that mature beauty whom even Cao Cao would surely fancy if he were alive, and also Xia Hongyao of Xiong Da, as well as the female anchor Hua Yue Yu...

These women all seemed much more interested in Lin Baici than in him; they wouldn’t even bother giving him a second glance.

After all, apart from being handsome, Lin Baici was also powerful.

Truth be told, if he were a girl, he’d like him too.

Thinking this, Fang Mingyuan, who had initially planned to give up the assessment, now found a little motivation again, because success would mean money and women throwing themselves at him.

If he were just an ordinary person, he’d never be able to win over women like Xia Hongyao in his entire life.

While Fang Mingyuan was lost in his wild thoughts, the rest period ended, and the team continued on their way.

When the soreness in his legs hit him, Fang Mingyuan again felt that giving up was the most sensible choice.

Tonight, Lin Baici clearly had no intention of letting anyone sleep.

Moonlight poured down like water.

Midnight arrived.

Just as Fang Mingyuan was so tired he wanted to call out for his mother, an excited shout came from Xia Hongyao ahead.

"Here come the fruit monsters, chop them down!"

For High Ponytail, these weren’t deadly monsters, but resources.

"We don’t know how long it’ll be before the next wave of fruit monsters attacks, if at all, so everyone kill as many as you can this time!"

Gu Qingqiu yelled, drew her katana, and summoned the Red Demon.

It stood in the front, the katana slashing wildly!

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

With each strike, over a dozen fruits were sliced apart, falling onto the steps and rolling down below the tower.

Juices splattered everywhere.

"Qingqiu, you’re cutting too fiercely, leave some for us!"

Lin Baici shouted, clutching the Bronze Sword tightly.

Four types of fruits to collect, enough for eleven people, was not easy—plus there was the possibility that they might need to be taken whole.

Lin Baici watched fruit monsters with legs surge down like quicksilver and immediately gave up the idea of ’capturing them alive.’

They were too hard to catch.

He would chop this wave first, and if that didn’t work after eating, then he’d try to catch a whole one.

Lin Baici, holding the Bronze Sword, aimed for a bright red passion fruit, but the fruit seemed to have a reaction stimulus—just before the blade touched it, it suddenly split open, and the seeds inside spurted out like a frog laying eggs.

A large swarm hung in the air, reminiscent of frog spawn.

Lin Baici had guessed that the four types of fruits capable of teleporting someone to the top of the tower wouldn’t be easy to kill, and trouble indeed started with the first kind.

"Don’t chop the durians, let them go down!"

Gu Qingqiu still remembered the repulsive stench from when they blasted open a durian not long before, a feeling that still hadn’t subsided.

"Got it!"

Xia Hongyao watched as a spikey durian hurtled towards her face; she ducked her head to dodge.

Whack!

The durian hit the steps, powered up on all four legs, and lunged towards Gu Qingqiu.

Gu Qingqiu wanted to stay close to the Sky-reaching Tower, but two lemons collided in front of her and then exploded.

Bang!

Gu Qingqiu had closed her eyes as quickly as possible, but she still got splashed with lemon juice, a lot of it landing in her eyes.

The sour, stinging sensation made her instinctively shut her eyes tight.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The fruit monsters began to ram into Gu Qingqiu, especially the big durian, which came booming over like a grenade.

"Qingqiu!"

Lin Baici stepped forward and grabbed Alumnus Gu’s collar, pulling him in front of him.

The staircase was too narrow; otherwise, he would pull Gu Qingqiu behind him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Gu Qingqiu took more than a dozen hits, the pain making her want to curl up.

"Damn!"

Gu Qingqiu cursed, the pain felt like domestic abuse, but in an instant, the fruit hitting her lessened significantly.

She knew Lin Baici had stepped in.

At that moment, a strong, burly arm was wrapped around her waist, her waist and hips pressing against a warm body.

This involuntarily made her twist.

"Don’t move!"

Lin Baici sighed helplessly—he was a normal man, and Gu Qingqiu’s twist could cause him to ’stand at attention,’ especially since he couldn’t let go at this moment. If he did ’stand at attention,’ it would definitely be felt by the alumnus.

That would be super awkward.

"I’m sorry!"

Gu Qingqiu apologized, putting effort into controlling her body as she started to shift her attention to observing the fruits, thinking they were related to reaching the top.

"Be careful!"

Lin Baici watched a durian run past her and immediately shouted, "Zhang Hao, catch that durian, I need it whole!"

"Okay!"

Although Zhang Hao didn’t understand why Lin Baici said that, he was determined to accomplish the task with all his might.

The second passionfruit, just before Lin Baici could chop it, had a stress reaction, split open, and ejected a mass of seeds.

Lin Baici had intended to deal with the four types of fruits stealthily on her own, but seeing this situation, she sensed it was no longer feasible, so she yelled out.

"Red Medicine, chop the lemons and avocados!"

Lin Baici was still contemplating an excuse when Xia Hongyao spoke up.

"Little Linzi, I had no idea you had a taste for such niche fruits!"

High Ponytail was quite surprised.

You could brew lemons in water, but what the heck is an avocado?

However, she was relieved it wasn’t papaya; otherwise, Xia Hongyao might suspect Lin Baici had some peculiar fetish.

"Got it!"

Xia Hongyao targeted an avocado, drew her katana, but the moment the blade was about to hit it, the avocado, like a soccer player dribbling past an opponent, slipped to the side.

Successful evasion.

"Eh?"

High Ponytail paused, then smiled with delight; this fruit was out of the ordinary, she wanted to catch a live one.

The moment this thought crossed her mind, Xia Hongyao reached out.

Snap!

The avocado was caught by High Ponytail, but then, it secreted a large amount of sticky fluid and slipped right through her grasp as she squeezed it...

With a gush,

The avocado slipped out from her grasp.

"I don’t believe this!"

Xia Hongyao reached out again, as if catching a slippery loach.

If it had been anyone else, they would have failed, but Xia Hongyao’s reflexes were too quick, and she easily secured it.

Lin Baici stopped slashing at the passionfruit and chose to use the back of her blade to pat them, even activating her Lightning Fast skill.

Finally, taking the passionfruits by surprise, she knocked them out,

Secured!

Three minutes later, the fruit monsters had run past, leaving the scene in shambles.

Drip-drop! Drip-drop!

Juice trickled down the steps.

Since everyone had avoided chopping the durian, opting to catch or swat it away, this time no stench fog burst forth.

"It’s over!"

Fang Mingyuan looked at the pile of fruit remains on the ground, "Which can we eat?"

No one answered, because nobody knew.

"Just eat whatever, it’s a matter of luck."

Ai Xuri squatted down and picked up a piece of watermelon.

[The stinky durian can neutralize the bad reactions after eating fruit, but if you eat it, you’ll smell like durian for days.]

[Don’t eat too much, or the stink will never go away!]

"Xiao Bai, here’s your durian!"

Zhang Hao had caught three durians: "After they’re caught, they wiggle like stray dogs. I had to smack them a couple of times before they calmed down!"

"Little Linzi, here’s your avocado and lemon!"

Xia Hongyao came over, offering fruits.

"I stumbled upon a tasty way to eat this, try it!"

Lin Baici smiled, took the fruits, then grabbed a durian and forcefully pried it open.

A unique stench instantly filled the air.

Many immediately covered their noses.

"Anyone who can stomach this stuff is a deity!"

Hua Yue Yu couldn’t accept it, but if it was given by Lin Baici, she would eat it.

Lin Baici took out a piece of durian flesh, scooped a hole in it, then sliced open a lemon and mashed the pulp, squeezing the juice into the hole in the durian, followed by stuffing in some avocado chunks and topping it with passionfruit seeds.

"Done!"

Lin Baici grinned, his gaze sweeping over Hua Yue Yu and Gu Qingqiu’s faces: "Who wants to try first?"

No one took the bait.

"Little Linzi, do you find climbing the tower boring and want to play pranks instead?"

Xia Hongyao shook her head: "You’re being too childish!"

"Heh, no use pretending, I’ve been reading ’Sherlock Holmes’ in my spare time, you can’t fool me!"

High Ponytail was very confident.