Is There Hot Coffee?

"Your Raw Coconut Lattes."

Frequent use of his first soul skill had drained more than half of Bai Ran's soul power, and he was already starting to feel tired.

A ten-thousand-year soul ring was powerful, sure, but the soul-power consumption was truly no joke.

But that made sense. After all, on the road to becoming stronger, you always had to lose something. If a ten-thousand-year soul ring had powerful effects and low soul-power consumption too...

Then what were other soul masters supposed to do? They might as well just hand him the win.

"Little Brother Bai Ran, don't you have takeout boxes here?"

Although the cafeteria had a rule forbidding food from being packed up and taken away, for drinks like this, there should at least be a bag or something, right?

Besides, rules were dead, while people were alive. Apart from the honest lower-year students, the higher-year students had all sorts of methods.

"Sister Xiao Ya, don't you have a storage soul tool?"

Bai Ran really had not considered the matter of packaging bags.

Mainly because soul-tool technology had exploded in this era, and storage soul tools like storage rings were nowhere near as precious as they had been ten thousand years ago.

The students in Shrek Academy might not each have one, but it should not be far off.

Since a customer had brought it up now, Bai Ran felt he could get a batch of takeout bags printed with the Luckin logo custom-made.

"That's true, but what if your coffee spills?"

"I'll seal it with tape for you."

Huo Yuhao, off to the side, did not think much of it.

After all, it was just a cup of coffee either way. Couldn't she just hold it in her hand?

"Speaking of which, Little Brother Bai Ran, does your coffee only come iced?"

After putting all three cups of Raw Coconut Latte into her storage ring, Tang Ya suddenly felt a chill coming from her right hand.

When she looked closely, she realized that inside the Luckin Coffee cup she had already finished, more than half a cup of ice cubes remained.

Tang Ya: Just how much ice did he add? No wonder it was gone in two sips.

"For now, that's how it is."

"Is there no room-temperature or hot version? Little Brother Bai Ran, you don't understand. Girls always have those few days when they feel unwell and can't drink anything iced."

"Then Sister Xiao Ya, tell me which days you feel unwell, and I won't sell to you."

As Bai Ran spoke, he pulled out a notebook from who knew where, looking as if he really was about to write it down.

"Ah, you rotten little brother."

"Beibei, let's go."

As Tang Ya spoke, she dragged Beibei away.

"Boss Little Bai, see you next time."

After saying goodbye, Huo Yuhao also picked up the remaining cup of Raw Coconut Latte and turned to leave.

There was still Teacher Zhou's class in the afternoon. As class monitor, it would be hard to justify taking the lead in being late.

"Hot coffee?"

Watching the three of them leave, Bai Ran put away the notebook and began to think about this problem.

Back when his martial soul awakened, it had been Iced Americano.

If it had an attribute, then Bai Ran's martial soul would be an ice attribute close to Ultimate Ice.

Hot coffee, meanwhile, represented the fire attribute.

Could the ice attribute and the fire attribute really coexist?

Bai Ran's coffee came from his martial soul, not from him brewing it with coffee beans and various raw ingredients.

Simply put, for now, he could not actively adjust the coffee's temperature.

If he wanted to drink a cup of hot coffee, he would probably have to think of a way through his second soul ring or one of the later ones.

For example, he could absorb a plant-type soul beast with an intense fire attribute and thereby obtain a cup of hot coffee.

But in the current season, the average temperature was above thirty degrees. Even if he had hot coffee, he probably would not sell many cups.

If there really was no other way, next time before handing the coffee to a customer, should he pick out all the ice cubes himself?

Tang Ya: Uh, one-third of a cup of coffee. Little Brother Bai Ran, are you raising mice in the kitchen or what?

Bai Ran: I don't knowww, this is the normal amount without ice.

In Freshman Class One's classroom.

After spending these two weeks together, the class basically no longer had any troublemakers.

Even if there had been any, they had already been expelled by their homeroom teacher, Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi: A low advancement rate? Just kick out the poor students, then.

Because the first class that afternoon was taught by that "old hag" Zhou Yi, even though there was still nearly half an hour before class began, more than half the seats were already filled in the classroom that could hold a hundred people.

"Yuhao, where did you go at noon?"

Huo Yuhao had only just walked into the classroom and returned to his seat when Wang Dong began sizing him up with a scrutinizing look.

As his roommate and desk mate, paying a little more attention to him was perfectly normal, right?

If the Sky Dream Iceworm had not seen through Wang Dong's true identity as a girl with his spiritual power, he would have suspected there was something wrong with this child's sexual orientation.

Of course, Tian Meng knew, but knowing was one thing; he had not mentioned it to Yuhao.

After all, with Yuhao's emotional intelligence, if he found out, he would probably report it on the spot and tell Wang Dong to hurry up and move to the girls' dormitory.

"I had lunch with Teacher Xiaoya and Senior Brother Beibei."

"So that's all it was?"

"What else could it be?

"Wang Dong, look what I brought you."

Huo Yuhao placed the raw coconut latte coffee in his hand on the desk in front of Wang Dong.

Because it had been jostled quite a bit on the way over, the Luckin Raw Coconut Latte, which should have been black on top and white on the bottom, had now turned almost completely white.

It looked pretty much no different from a cup of fresh milk.

"Is this... milk?"

"Yuhao, are you trying to kill me?"

In just over ten minutes, it would be homeroom teacher Zhou Yi's class. With that old hag's personality, if she did not make them run until they threw up, then her surname was not Zhou.

And drinking a cup of milk before physical training?

Wang Dong could already imagine how miserable she would be next class.

"This isn't milk. It's a Luckin Raw Coconut Latte. It costs 9.9 Gold Soul Coins a cup. If you don't want it, forget it, Wang Dong. And here I kindly brought it for you."

"Luckin Raw Coconut Latte?"

Wang Dong said that in all her years growing up, she had never even heard of this kind of drink.

Wang Dong (girl): Strange. There's actually something in this world that even I, the little princess of the Clear Sky Sect, haven't heard of.

"It's from a new coffee shop in the cafeteria. Teacher Xiaoya and Senior Brother Beibei both said it tasted pretty good after drinking it."

More than pretty good. It was so delicious they had almost taken off flying.

"In that case, I'll have to give it a proper taste."

Since Huo Yuhao had put it that way, Wang Dong no longer declined.

However, just as Wang Dong inserted the straw into the coffee cup and was about to take a sip...

The sound of high heels suddenly came from outside the classroom, like the whisper of a demon.

The classroom, which had still been somewhat noisy, fell silent in an instant.

Wang Dong, who had not even had time to take a sip of the raw coconut latte, could only stuff the cup of coffee into her desk first.

In other freshman classes, if students ate something, the teacher might turn a blind eye.

They were eleven- or twelve-year-old children, after all. Those who knew, knew. If their mouths got greedy and they wanted a little snack, there was nothing wrong with that. Who had not gone through that age?

But Zhou Yi was different.

Under her nose, forget eating a snack—even taking a sip of water could very likely earn a stern scolding.