Hey, Yangzhou Yunjin Workshop has a whiff of "sweet pesticide" drifting through it today! Ali from the Western Regions caravan is holding a bug-eaten piece of cotton-linen and crying out, "Miss Xiao! The date palms of our Arab lands have been hit by a 'sugar pest disaster,' and the bugs are sweeter than candied fruit!" Huwa crouches under a fruit tree and snickers, half a Sichuan pepper candy clenched in his fist—he has sewn a ring of "bug-trapping sugar" into the dark blue lion motifs and hung it on a date palm. The bugs actually come buzzing over, stick to the sugary surface, and turn into "sweet insect skewers." Moli watches the sugary bugs writhing on the fabric and laughs heartily: "Well! This 'Huwa Bug Candy' is even greedier than our Venus flytraps!"
"Huwa! Quickly bring over the 'Bug Suicide Squad'!" Protagonist shouts out. Huwa immediately pours a bucket of peppermint and chili water into the loom, and the Arabian star map he weaves actually fizzes with cool air while giving off the aroma of hot and sour noodles. Ali hangs up the starry banner, and the pests recoil with a yelp the moment they get close, proving even more effective than Huwa’s slingshot. Huwa puts his hands on his hips and laughs: "Pests eat sweet, beneficial insects eat spicy! I call this 'snatching sweetness from the jaws of pests'!" The Abacus Bead displays an animation of someone tapping their head: "Actually, it's insect pheromone sugar-luring technology!"
Manager Jin from Silla stomps his feet…
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