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Chapter 404

Chapter 404

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Hey, the Yangzhou merchant caravan was soaking in the "Sweetie-Pie Bathhouse" today! As the maritime caravan reached the Bay of Bengal, a torrential downpour came crashing down. Pei Hongxiu hugged her soggy Peace Talisman and stomped her feet, crying, "Huwa! If you don't think of something, we're all going to become an 'underwater caravan'!" Huwa squatted on top of the ship's cabin, snickering while clutching half a piece of melted tangerine candy. He had sewn a ring of water-expanding glutinous rice candy into the Dashi Star Brocade and tossed it into the sky, where it transformed into a translucent "sugar-gel raincoat" that went *pitter-patter* as the raindrops hit it, bubbling up sweet syrup. "Protagonist! Hurry up and bring over the 'Three-Piece Rain Gear Set'!" Huwa shouted. The protagonist raised an eyebrow and pushed out a candy jar, announcing, "Get a load of this! 'Lick-Lick Rain Gear'!" Opening the lid, inside were a hat with a straw, umbrella ribs you could suck on, and rain boots you could chew. Kim, the head manager of the Silla scholar delegation, tried out an umbrella rib and bit down with a *crunch* that released a peppermint flavor, startling his young attendant into shouting, "Sir! Don't eat the umbrella!" Huwa put his hands on his hips and laughed, "Turn the rain into sweet syrup, use umbrella ribs like candy sticks! Drink as you travel, how wonderful!" The Abacus Bead projected a head-knocking animation: "Recommendation to develop 'edible weather equipmen…

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