NOVGO.NET Chapter 3: First Step to Beauty
Chapter 3: Chapter 3: First Step to Beauty
The system heard her and began its mechanical explanation: "There are many kinds of rewards, such as Wood Element, Water Element, Gold Element, Fire Element, and Earth Element superpowers. Of course, there’s also Body Strengthening Medicine, various daily necessities, survival guides, and hidden rewards."
"Wait a minute. So you’re saying you can offer any reward *except* making me beautiful? Then why can’t you just directly reward me with beauty?"
"Because the Romantic Brain System firmly believes that one can successfully turn a person into a romantic brain without relying on beauty."
Su Luoluo: ...
’What a load of crap! Who’s going to become a romantic brain for someone who isn’t beautiful?!’
Su Luoluo didn’t believe it for a second, but her life was in the system’s hands, so she didn’t dare to offend it.
It seemed she could only take things one step at a time. But aside from the unreliable beauty aspect, she was quite fond of the other rewards.
But that was all for later. Right now, she had to get rid of the lice in her hair.
"You should at least have a starter pack, right? Seeing how stingy you are, I won’t hope for much. Just give me a bottle of lice medicine!"
"Apologies, Host. That is not within the system’s scope of service."
Su Luoluo: "..."
It had dragged her into this book and then provided nothing. Su Luoluo was completely furious.
She put her hands on her hips, looked up at the sky, and said, "Then why don’t you tell me just what *is* within your scope of service."
"Querying for Host. The following are the initial values for the conquest targets."
The moment the mechanical voice finished, a blue screen of light flashed in the sky.
Host: Su Luoluo.
Age: 18
Attraction Value: 0
Expected Meeting Value: 0
Attention to Your Status: 0
Skill: Water Ability (Level 1)
Conquest Targets and Love Brain Index:
Xiao Ye: Heartbeat Value 0, Love Brain Level (Stone Brain)
Mo Xuan: Heartbeat Value 0, Love Brain Level (Stone Brain)
Fu Feng: Heartbeat Value 0, Love Brain Level (Stone Brain)
Nantu: Heartbeat Value 0, Love Brain Level (Stone Brain)
Luan Ting: Heartbeat Value 0.0001, Love Brain Level (Stone Brain)
Staring at the string of "Stone Brain" entries, Su Luoluo’s mind went blank. She almost burst out laughing. It was just as she’d said—how could those guys possibly be romantic brains?
What surprised her, though, was that there was a 0.0001 mixed in among them.
’Great, so there’s a little bit of hope,’ she thought. ’But it might as well be nothing.’
...
What could Su Luoluo do, saddled with a system like this?
As long as she was still alive, she could only try to get by on her own.
The lice medicine was a lost cause. She’d have to figure out a way to get rid of the lice on her head herself.
The simplest, most direct method was to shave her head completely. But when she remembered she was already ugly enough, shaving her head would just be piling ugly on top of ugly. Su Luoluo couldn’t quite accept that.
Having lice on your head meant you didn’t just have lice, but nits as well.
She urgently needed a fine-toothed comb to brush out the lice and nits, and then she’d have to find some herbs to boil and wash her hair with.
There was a comb in the cave she lived in, but its teeth were too far apart. It wouldn’t be very effective for clearing out lice, so Su Luoluo could only make one herself.
Behind her was a dense forest, and Su Luoluo headed right into it.
The best wood for making a comb was boxwood. Su Luoluo searched among the trees for a while and soon found some.
The lower branches were too thin and weren’t suitable for making a comb, so Su Luoluo had to look higher up.
A branch growing from a fork higher up was just the right size. Su Luoluo spotted it and immediately set her sights on it.
Unfortunately, it was a bit too high for her. Su Luoluo had to stand on her tiptoes to grab the branch.
Xiao Ye was about to shed his skin, so he’d found a spot to sunbathe and replenish his energy.
He was sleeping soundly when a rustling noise made it impossible for him to sleep. He opened his eyes, planning to find another spot.
But when he glanced up, he saw the curves of Su Luoluo’s chest, exposed and swaying.
His brow furrowed instantly, his face a mask of disgust.
’She knows I’m about to shed my skin and my body is weak, so she’s doing this on purpose to seduce me.’
’She’s getting more and more shameless.’
Su Luoluo hadn’t noticed at all that there was someone else above her. After realizing she still couldn’t reach it on her tiptoes, she decided she would have to climb the tree.
With this in mind, she did a few warm-up stretches. But she found that her bra was getting in the way, so she loosened it a bit and shifted it out of the way.
After her preparations, she bent down, tucked in her feet, and scrambled up the tree.
She was fat to begin with, and climbing the tree made the jiggling of her flesh even more pronounced. In Xiao Ye’s eyes, she was a living, rolling ball of flesh. Worse, her flesh wasn’t pale; it resembled a swarm of black maggots, causing him to frown deeply in disgust.
Seeing Su Luoluo get closer and closer, he said with a disgusted expression, "Get down."
His voice was ice-cold, as if laced with ice blades.
Only when she heard the voice did Su Luoluo realize there was someone above her. Silver hair, purple eyes—a pity that such a handsome face was twisted with an expression of disgust.
’What did I do to him? Just because climbing was awkward, I shifted my leaf bra down a bit and my big boobs showed a little? Is that any reason to be so disgusted?’
’He’s acting like I fed him a dead fly.’
"Why can’t I come up here? Is your name written on this tree, or did you plant it? You’ve got some nerve. If you don’t like it, you can get lost yourself!"
Her head was itching like crazy, and seeing this person acting so unreasonable made her anger flare up. After letting loose with a quick rant, she ignored him.
She broke off her chosen branch with her bare hands, then jumped down, not giving him a single glance the entire time.
Xiao Ye watched her nimble retreat, a strange glint in his eyes. ’So she really wasn’t here for me.’
Su Luoluo dragged the branch over and started breaking it down. She took out the stone knife she’d found in the cave and began whittling the twigs, first shaping the body of the comb, then carving out the teeth.
In the Post-apocalypse, due to the polluted environment, superpowers weren’t always effective. In times like these, only primitive methods were the most reliable.
Su Luoluo had done this a lot, so her handiwork was actually quite good.
After working on it like this for several hours, a comb was finally finished.
Once the comb was done, Su Luoluo found a spot by the river, sat down, and began to comb the lice out over the water’s surface.
As soon as the fine-toothed comb entered her hair, it got stuck. Her hair was completely matted and knotted on top of her head.
Su Luoluo had no choice but to step into the water and dunk her head. Once her hair was wet, it was much easier to comb.
With one stroke of the comb, Su Luoluo was able to smooth out a good amount of hair. But when she looked down at the comb, her scalp prickled with horror. It was crawling with a dense mass of brown lice.
Staring at the lice still scurrying around, with some nits clinging nearby, Su Luoluo was so disgusted by the sight that her stomach churned. She couldn’t hold it in and instantly retched, "BLECH..."
She threw up almost everything in her stomach, not even sparing the bile.
’Just how unhygienic do you have to be to let your head get completely infested with lice?’
’No, I can’t accept myself like this.’
’Even if I let myself go, I can’t be like this.’
Forcing down the sour taste in her stomach, Su Luoluo moved to a different spot and started again, this time with her eyes closed.
’If I don’t see it, it doesn’t exist.’
After combing through all of her hair, Su Luoluo felt that her head was much lighter.
It was probably because the lice and nits were no longer on her head. But those things reproduce easily; just combing was far from enough.
Su Luoluo took the mugwort she had just gathered, boiled it in a bamboo tube, and after waiting for the water to cool to a warm temperature, she washed her hair.
After washing her hair, she felt that a lot of the grease and lice had been removed.
Although she was still very ugly, at least the lice problem was solved.
Next up was the problem of her weight, and her dark face.
’The road to becoming beautiful is a long one, isn’t it?’
Su Luoluo sighed and started walking, only to be blocked by a fair-skinned, beautiful person. The contrast between them was like an ugly duckling next to a swan.
"Luoluo, I heard you jumped in the river. Are you all right?"
Su Nuannuan looked at her, the very picture of a White Lotus, with several other females standing behind her.