After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 257

Purifying Xenoan rock salts was far more difficult than she had anticipated.

According to her database, Terran rock salt should’ve been finished by now. She had to study a lot of the composition and the differences with Terran salt and had to do some more trial and error for quite some time after that.

It took her a few more hours to finally end up with a powder that had few enough impurities that it wouldn’t cause any damage to even the weakest human (i.e. her babies) long-term.

She looked at the bowl of beautiful edible crystal that had finally formed. It was even more glistening than she remembered, and it had hints of pink at certain angles.

Quite pretty.

She placed her pinky on the bowl and closed her eyes to focus on the taste. As the powder melted in her mouth, her eyes brightened at the taste of the perfect saltiness.

"Hm~" She mumbled in satisfaction, though her face scrunched a little at the saltiness.

She opened her emerald eyes and admired her work again, tilting it to different angles. She tried testing its consistency and it was almost like snow.

Snow…

Suddenly, an image of a beautiful leaf appeared in her head. She couldn’t help but remember those beautiful snowflake-shaped leaves that now gathered at the corner of her space from as early as their arrival in Xeno.

She completely forgot about it.

No way, so much had happened since then…

Curiously, she rummaged the space to a small box and revealed the snowflake-shaped leaves that had already dried up a bit. After all, it had already been a few weeks.

If she remembered correctly, she didn’t even have the Appraisal skill back then. She looked at the leaf and used her skill.

[Estancia (Lv1): Relieves hunger, adds trace amounts of energy.]

"Oh?" She mumbled and immediately handled it so she could test it on Tori.

She didn’t expect much, probably some additive to a medicine or something. She was staring at her precious salt while waiting for the results to come out.

Ping!

Tori called and she turned her head to check on it. When she finally saw the summary of its composition, she gaped.

Her eyes widened the more she read, but she dared not make any assumptions. After all, there were some plants with similar composition but they couldn’t extract ’that’ at all.

She immediately scuttled to her testing area for more detailed examinations. She dissolved the plant in water. Using ceramic mortar and pestle, she ground the plant to a fine paste, later dried to a powder.

It went refractory test and also a density test, putting some powder in a test tube solution, making it cloudy.

The density of the solution changed, as it should if it became sweet because of the presence of… sugar compound.

She gulped but decided to make an extract to test its taste. Using a makeshift distillation process, she soon created a concentrated liquid.

A little shakily, she placed her pinky to the solution, tentatively putting in her tongue.

When she tasted the sweetness she hoped for, she almost cried.

So much time wasted!!!

Sugar!

Sugar was with her all along!!!! Her pregnancy cravings wouldn’t be so horrendous if she had this! She wouldn’t have had to eat the sweets she reserved for her babies!

Regret!

Much regrets!

She looked at them with pitiful eyes and the two gaped, really not used to it. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}