13. Sweet taste
In the previous life, Shen Ling was also thirteen or fourteen years old, and he stumbled upon this hidden dog cave. After that, he also secretly went to the temple of the beast god on days other than the worship day.
The Temple of the Beast God can be said to be the most majestic and tall building complex in Mengdian City.
The temple represents the highest faith in the entire letter D galaxy covering an area of about 40,000 square meters, the most notable of which is the towering tower-like building, the Great Sanctuary dedicated to the statue of the beast. Around the tower-like building, four smaller domes guard the temple, each of which is dedicated to the four guardian beasts of the beast god.
At the back of the shrine is the small hall and living quarters of the monks.
What Shen Ling took Celia into was the place where the monks at the back of the temple lived their daily lives. But at this time the monks were doing their morning service in the cathedral, and no one lingered here.
Shen Ling, who was familiar with the Beast God Temple, estimated the time, it was almost noon, and now he could smell the fragrance of the food coming from the direction of the temple's kitchen. In a little while, the monks will gather here for dinner. So Shen Ling simply pulled Celia in the direction of the Great Temple.
The door of the Great Sanctuary in the temple is always open, which means that the Beast God will always open his heart to his people. However, Shen Ling knew that except for the cleaning day on the day of worship and the day after the worship day, basically no one would appear here.
Celia's calves were almost restored and she was able to walk on her own. Shen Ling took her all the way to lurk and trotted to the front of the Great Temple. On the way, he met two monks who were in charge of cleaning, but fortunately Celia was keenly spotted and avoided by them.
The chandelier in the temple was not turned on, but the bright midday sunlight reflected in the tall rose windows depicting various exotic beasts on the walls on both sides of the temple, illuminating the inside of the temple in a magnificent and colorful light.
Shen Ling took Celia's hand and stepped on the cold stone brick floor of the Great Temple, walked past the rows of mahogany benches, and walked to a place more than ten meters in front of the Beast Sacred Statue, and the two of them stopped in unison.
The statue of the beast god is almost as tall as more than twenty Shen Ling, I don't know what material it is carved from, and the whole is simple and heavy gray-black. The Beast God's appearance is that of a tall and muscular man with a dragon's tail underneath, with thick curly hair that reaches to the waist, and an unobstructed upper body that shows off its muscles. On his back, a pair of huge flame wings stretched out, and the raging fire seemed to burst through the gray and black icon.
Such a lifelike icon, but his face is smooth and flat, without any carved decoration.
In the minds of the people of the letter D galaxy, the beast god has countless faces, and these countless faces are the countless alien beasts under his control. At different times and on different occasions, the beast god will appear in front of people with different faces.
Celia grabbed Shen Ling's hand and tightened, and she asked Shen Ling in a low voice, "Is there really a beast god?" ”
Shen Ling was asked by Celia, although he lived on the D13 planet with a strong religious atmosphere since he was a child, Louis is an atheist, so Shen Ling himself does not believe in gods. Just experienced a rebirth, saw the guardian holy beast phoenix of the beast god again, and learned that he was actually a legendary mermaid, Shen Ling faintly felt that this qiē seemed to be really manipulated by a god behind his back.
"Probably." Shen Ling pondered his words, "I've seen the Phoenix, one of the guardian holy beasts of the Beast God. ”
Celia blinked her eyes and asked in disbelief, "Is there really a creature like a phoenix in this world?" ”
"Absolutely." Shen Ling said a little proudly, "The upstream of the Linas River town where I used to live is the Alien Beast Forest, and the phoenix lives in that forest, and he is the holy beast responsible for guarding that forest. Of course, now that the Phoenix Soul is in his body, Shen Ling feels that it is better not to brag about it.
"What does a phoenix look like?" Celia asked intriguingly.
Shen Ling recalled for a moment and briefly described the phoenix in his memory.
Powerful, capricious, and a little self-righteous.
“…… It's like a flame. He concluded with this sentence.
"Oh~" Celiano nodded thoughtfully, then her eyes lit up, and she continued to ask excitedly, "I heard that there are mermaids on planet D13, so have you seen mermaids in the alien beast forest?" ”
"......" The light in Celia's green eyes was too bright, making Shen Ling stunned for a while, not knowing how to answer.
Fortunately, the "cooing" sound from Celia's small belly saved Shen Ling, she smiled shyly and said embarrassedly, "I'm hungry." ”
Shen Ling was also hungry, but he had no food. The small package he carried with him contained only a few changes of clothes and thirty-five new Galaxy Coins.
"My ship has cakes, fruits, and nutrients in it, but I can't get them right now." Celia held up the crystal bracelet in her right hand, looked at it, and said, "There seems to be only some candy in the bracelet, let's make do with some first." ”
Celia pulled Shen Ling to sit on the row of mahogany benches closest to the icon, and she took out a large red delicate cloth bag from the crystal bracelet.
Celia took things out of the space of the crystal bracelet, but in Shen Ling's eyes, Celia seemed to have taken out the big red cloth bag out of thin air. She was like this before, taking out a frisbee out of thin air.
Shen Ling had heard from those servants in General Landon's mansion in his previous life about the space storage device, but he had never seen such a magical high-tech device. Even Nicholas, who was the eldest son of the Lanton Star General, didn't have this kind of thing, so Shen Ling always thought that this kind of thing was just an idea and had not been invented.
The little loli in front of her actually had space storage, and Shen Ling felt more and more that she was a rich lady.
Celia poured out the small snacks from the red cloth bag, and the colorful candies were scattered on the mahogany chairs, all of which were candies that Shen Ling had never seen before.
Celia stared at the candy for a long time, and finally chose a milk candy, peeled off the candy wrapper, and handed it to Shen Ling's mouth.
"Granny Maria's house is the best in this milk candy besides chocolate! You taste it! ”
Shen Ling opened his mouth and swallowed the milk candy into his mouth. The rich milky aroma immediately diffused in his mouth, just the right amount of sweetness, pure milk without any superfluous ingredients, it could be regarded as the best candy he had ever eaten in his life and his previous life!
Of course, the number of candies he has eaten in this life and his previous life can be counted with one pair of hands.
"It's delicious." Celia asked with a smile.
Shen Ling nodded repeatedly.
Celia took out a delicate box with a pink ribbon tied around the crystal bracelet. She untied the ribbon and opened the lid, and the sweet smell overflowed from the inside of the box.
The box is divided into twelve small squares with cardboard, and each small square contains a black candy wrapped in pink candy wrapper. These black candies are carefully shaped into the shape of roses, hearts, and little mermaids.
Celia happily sells her favorite chocolate: "This is a limited edition custom chocolate from Granny Maria's house, if it weren't for my second grandfather knowing Granny Maria, even I wouldn't have been able to grab it!" ”
Celia is not exaggerating at all, Maria's mother-in-law's candies are the most primitive handmade zuò, the taste is pure, sweet, and some people even exaggerate that the taste of this candy is more memorable than the first love, and anyone who eats one will fall in love with it deeply and can't help but want to eat the second.
But because the candy is handmade, the method of making zuò is a secret method that is not passed down by my mother-in-law's family. Therefore, the amount of candy made by Granny Maria's family is very limited every year. In particular, there are only dozens of boxes of limited customized chocolates, which cannot meet the needs of the vast number of people in the New Galactic Empire.
Coupled with Granny Maria's unique way of selling, it is difficult to buy a box of limited-edition customized chocolates.
Granny Mary is a romantic old man, so the way she sells chocolates is also very romantic. A story for a box of chocolates, as long as the story moves the old man, then he will get a box of chocolates, and he will also have an autograph from Granny Maria.
Because of this unique way of selling, Granny Maria's chocolates have become a romantic representation. If you propose to your lover with a box of chocolates from Granny Maria's house, congratulations, your success rate is at least 80 percent.
In this way, the chocolate of Granny Maria's house has now been called diamond chocolate by the people of the New Galactic Empire, and the value of a chocolate is almost equal to that of expensive diamonds.
Celia chose a peach-shaped chocolate and handed it to Shen Ling, seeing Shen Ling's outstretched little black hand, she disliked Shen Ling's hand for being too dirty, so she simply fed it to Shen Ling's mouth again.
"Is it delicious?" Seeing Shen Ling bite down on the chocolate, Celia asked expectantly.
"Yes!" Shen Ling nodded excitedly. The taste of this candy is simply wonderful, the slightly green sweetness envelops his taste buds, and the wonderful feeling makes him feel that his body is light and fluttering, and the whole person seems to be trapped in a pile of pink bubbles. Compared to this wonderful chocolate, the milk candy just now is nothing!
Celia in front of her seemed to have become more cute, and at that moment, Shen Ling was a little impulsive and wanted to kiss Celia's trembling, thick long eyelashes.
"Except for the little mermaid-shaped ones, you can eat everything else." Celia very generously pushed the box in front of Shen Ling. "I'm going to eat it myself in the shape of a mermaid." She picked up a mermaid-shaped chocolate and stuffed it into her mouth, and ate it intoxicatingly.
After the two of them wiped out a large pile of candy, Celia remembered the previous topic and asked Shen Ling, "You haven't told me yet, have you ever seen a mermaid in the Alien Beast Forest?" ”