230: Chapter 230 Trying on Jewelry, an Absolute Beauty!

"What's wrong? Is the Commander feeling unwell too?"

Lin Xiao looked at the flustered Jing Hua, deliberately deepening his tone of concern. "It's fine, I'll help you take a look later."

Hearing this, Jing Hua was initially confused.

She looked up and met Lin Xiao's playful gaze.

As her eyes darted, she suddenly understood the meaning behind his words, and her expression became even more flustered.

How could such a thing be spoken aloud?

Are humans all this bold and uninhibited?

But thinking of the scene where the flowers competed for beauty last night, Jing Hua felt that this statement was actually somewhat conservative.

"Can the Master treat illnesses?" Pearl Tear's voice came from behind.

This girl didn't know how to read the room and continued to pester him relentlessly.

"A little." Lin Xiao replied with a smile, his tone nonchalant. "You guys go back first. I'll take Jing Hua to Vehicle 7 to see the vacant rooms."

After saying this, he turned around and naturally took Jing Hua's hand, walking toward the connection between the carriages.

Jing Hua's fingers stiffened slightly in his palm.

But, in the end, she didn't struggle.

Pearl Tear stood in place and nodded.

She led the other Merfolk toward the private room, her hand already on the doorknob, but she suddenly paused.

As if remembering something, she turned her head abruptly and looked in the direction the two had left.

"Eh." Pearl Tear tilted her head and muttered to herself, "Lord Jing Hua actually agreed to let someone hold her hand?"

In her memory, as the daughter of the High Priest, Jing Hua needed to use both hands, especially her fingers, to manipulate complex rune powers.

Every stroke of a rune, every guidance of energy, relied on the most delicate tactile sensation of her fingertips.

Therefore, to always maintain the perfect state, she protected her hands with almost paranoid care.

She applied homemade hand cream every day, which was an extract of deep-sea giant kelp.

Moreover, those hands couldn't even be touched by Princess Xiyao, whom she was closest to.

Once, Pearl Tear had accidentally touched her fingers and had been glared at with a cold face for three whole days.

"But... after all, it is the Master."

Pearl Tear tilted her head and thought about it.

Right, if it was the Master, then everything made sense.

While deep in thought, she opened the door and walked in.

...

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao held Jing Hua's hand, passed through the airlock, and returned to the territory.

Disinfectant spray poured down from the ceiling, carrying the familiar scent of citrus.

Jing Hua subconsciously held her breath, then immediately relaxed.

Come to think of it, this was already her third time entering this space.

At this moment, the lights in the conference area were all on.

Jiang Wanwan and the other two women had finished selecting their jewelry and were gathered around the conference table organizing the remaining supplies.

Skill books were piled into small hills, equipment parts were categorized by type, and jewelry blueprints were stacked neatly.

But there were so many items that those that couldn't fit on the table were piled onto the floor; an outsider might think they had looted and emptied some public shop.

Seeing Lin Xiao walk out of the airlock, Jiang Wanwan put down the blueprints in her hand and went to greet him.

Her gaze fell on Jing Hua behind him, and she nodded slightly, raising her hand to say hello.

This enthusiastic attitude made Jing Hua slightly stunned.

Out of politeness, she immediately bowed and returned a faint smile.

"Xiao Lin, this is the jewelry we carefully selected."

Jiang Wanwan handed over a stack of blueprints, her fingertips tapping lightly on the paper. "One set for each of us, from head to toe, not a single piece missing."

As she spoke, she blinked again. "It was your strict order; we wouldn't dare disobey."

"That's right." Lin Xiao took the blueprints and flipped through a few pages, his lips curling up. "Wait a moment, I'll craft them for you right now."

He looked at Jing Hua and gestured with his chin toward the sofa in the conference area: "You sit first. Don't be restrained when you come here; we're all family."

Although he said so, Jing Hua was still not quite used to it.

She looked at the supplies all over the floor and quickly said: "I'll help organize too."

Before Lin Xiao could respond, she had already bent down to pick up a piece of equipment by her feet, learning from Wen Yiran, and began to categorize it.

Her movements were a bit stiff at first, but she quickly found a rhythm.

Armor went with armor, weapons with weapons, and consumables were placed in a separate pile.

Lin Xiao glanced at her, didn't say anything more, and took the blueprints to the second-floor workshop.

Jiang Wanwan followed him up: "I'm going to prepare dinner; it's already getting late."

The lights in the workshop turned on.

The metal surface of the [Crafting Table] reflected a cold white light, and the materials needed to make the jewelry had been prepared in advance, sorted and stacked on the table.

stardust crystal shards, Abyssal Water, and rare materials found from the old supplies of the Merfolk.

Some jewelry required precious metals or inlaid gemstones, so Lin Xiao simply used pleasure tokens to offset the cost.

Anyway, in a few hours, he would be able to harvest nearly two thousand pleasure tokens again.

The price was quite cheap.

1 unit of silver cost 10 pleasure tokens, 1 unit of gold cost 50 pleasure tokens.

The gemstones were surprisingly cheap, 10 pleasure tokens each.

After all, in this world, gemstones without special enchantments were useless except for decoration.

Soon, the jewelry was finished.

Lin Xiao carried several sets of items that gleamed with different lusters out of the workshop and placed them on the coffee table.

Then he came to the stairs and called out to the few people on the first floor.

Wen Yiran was the most enthusiastic.

Before she had even put down the furniture blueprints in her hand, she had already bounded up.

Perhaps because her movements were too large, affecting her not-fully-healed wounds, she hissed, but the smile on her face didn't fade at all.

Tian Xiwei and Jing Hua followed behind her.

These two actually had quite a few topics in common.

For no other reason.

Just now, while organizing supplies, Tian Xiwei had noticed Jing Hua's fair and slender hands, which were dotted with faint purple scales.

It was a texture different from human skin.

Smooth, but with a layer of extremely fine scale patterns that could only be seen when looked at closely, shimmering with pearlescent iridescence under the lights.

As a former top-tier actress who was almost strict about her own skin management, she subconsciously asked the other party what skincare products she used.

And Jing Hua had also noticed Tian Xiwei's smooth and delicate skin.

In the past few days, Xiao Tian was the human with the best skin she had ever seen.

Actually, she had observed this detail last night, but they weren't familiar with each other then, so she didn't dare to look closely.

Now that the two were chatting together, Jing Hua couldn't help but reach out to touch Tian Xiwei's arm. When her fingertips touched that delicate and warm skin, a trace of genuine surprise appeared in her eyes.

"Alright, try on the jewelry first."

Lin Xiao sat on the sofa and laid out the jewelry one by one.

Jiang Wanwan chose the [Blue Moon Ring] paired with a moon-white pearl necklace, and the earrings were two teardrop-shaped blue crystals.

After putting them on, her entire temperament became even more gentle and generous.

It wasn't the kind of beauty with sharp edges, but a kind of calm that nourished things silently, which could only be perceived after calming down.

It was like the moonlight in late autumn, not dazzling, but making one's heart quiet.

Wen Yiran chose a full set of gothic-style silver jewelry.

Three small silver rings were embedded on her ear cartilage, the necklace was a black braided leather cord, with a blood-red crystal polished into an irregular angular shape hanging from it.

She had a melon-seed face and a lively and cunning appearance.

This set of jewelry made the restless energy between her eyebrows even more distinct.

"How is it, how is it?"

Wen Yiran tilted her head, the silver rings on her earlobes swaying and clinking.

Lin Xiao smiled and pinched her face, "You look the best today!"

As he spoke, his gaze moved to Tian Xiwei.

Then his movements paused.

Tian Xiwei chose the [Star Speaker Necklace].

Paired with a pair of tassel-shaped star-shaped ear lines, and a ring inlaid with a blue diamond.

She was already wearing an evening gown, which Lin Xiao had bought for her from the Mysterious Shop before the Black Tide battle.

The satin was like water, fitting her slender waistline, and bright silver armor plates were embedded at the hem of the dress, swaying with her turning movements.

Those armor plates refracted the light of the ceiling lamp, causing the entire room to bloom with a brilliant galaxy.

And her face, in this galaxy, was not deprived of even a fraction of its radiance.

It could only be said, worthy of being a top-tier actress.

Even the jewelry blooming with fire color had to retreat three points, only willing to serve as a foil.

Wen Yiran noticed Lin Xiao's gaze, turned her head to look, and her expression froze.

A moment later, she stomped her feet angrily: "It's all because Xiao Tian is wearing an evening gown, it's unfair, it's unfair, I want to wear clothes like that too!"

Tian Xiwei was amused by her words and curled the corners of her mouth, turning with a larger movement, the skirt flying.

The galaxy rippled even more violently.