Chapter 66 Let’s take a bath together! (Part 3)
Before officially entering the bathhouse, Fu Xiaoju suddenly remembered something.
He quickly took the cell phone out of the basin and called Mu Yu.
"Hello?" Mu Yu's puzzled voice sounded in his ears.
"I saw there was still a signal, so I wanted to try calling you," Fu Xiaoju lowered his voice and said stealthily, "I'm going in now, let's see if the signal will be cut off."
"good."
There is also a curtain hanging at the entrance of the bathhouse. It is made of transparent plastic. After so many years of use, the plastic curtain is already covered with scratches and is as blurred as a mosaic.
Mu Yu chatted with him in a steady tone: "Is there anything going on in the locker room?"
"No, the vending machine is right here. I exchanged a stick."
"Be careful not to slip in the bathroom."
"I know. In order to make it easier to run, I didn't even wear slippers. I was barefoot!"
Fu Xiaoju stealthily lifted the plastic curtain, and the entire bathhouse came into his sight.
Mu Yu smiled, then said one word, "you", and then fell silent.
The other end of the line became silent.
Fu Xiaoju moved the phone away from his ear and saw that there was no signal.
…It still doesn’t work.
He hung up the phone in dismay, then looked at everything in front of him, his heartbeat speeding up again——
It’s quite different from the real bathhouse!
In reality, each cubicle in this bathhouse is really separated by a door. When everyone closes the door, it becomes a solid independent space.
However, at this moment, each cubicle in this bathhouse has only a light blue curtain as a door.
The curtain hung straight down to the bottom, only about two centimeters away from the ground.
Although each shower stall is separated into an independent space, the curtain always gives people a feeling that it can be lifted or torn by others at any time, which makes people feel insecure...
What made Fu Xiaoju even more nervous was——
At this moment, there was no one in the public area of the bathhouse, not even a single NPC could be seen, and the curtains of each cubicle were drawn.
Article 6 of the Rules for Use of the Bathhouse in the First Area of the Polytechnic Institute: To respect personal privacy, when others have closed the shower door, please do not open it at will or lie on the ground and peek through the crack of the door.
...So, at this moment, all the NPCs are hiding in the shower room? ?
Fu Xiaoju took a deep breath and turned to look to his right.
On the right was a small table with two enamel basins on it, one containing a pile of red soap and the other containing a pile of green soap.
A sign was erected behind the two basins, which read:
1. Please keep your own soap well and do not exchange it with others.
2. If you feel your body is very light, you can choose red soap, which can calm you down. If you feel your body is very heavy, or everything is normal, you can choose green soap, which is the most versatile.
3. Do not dirty your soap. If the soap is dirty, remember to rinse it clean in time.
Fu Xiaoju hesitated for a moment, feeling that his physical condition seemed to be quite normal, so he took a piece of green soap.
Then he walked into the bathhouse carefully.
There is a straight passage at the entrance of the bathhouse, which leads to three shower areas. The shower areas are all on the left hand side, and are area 1, area 2, and area 3 in order of depth.
Each shower area is a rectangular space. The cubicles are all distributed on the two long sides of the rectangle, two by two facing each other. There are a total of sixteen shower stalls in one area.
Fu Xiaoju took a closer look and found that the curtains in the shower rooms in Area 1 were indeed drawn...
But the whole bathhouse was silent at this moment, without any sound of water, as if no one was bathing.
...Are all the NPCs standing in the cubicles motionless, just standing there?
Even if he twisted his body, he should have made some sound, but now it seemed like he couldn't even hear his breathing!
Fu Xiaoju looked under the curtain again. The gap was too thin. He couldn't see anything from his angle. The rules also said he couldn't lie on the ground to look...
He quickly turned around, and immediately saw a row of blood-red characters on the wall of the passage:
"If you feel shy, you can close the door and wash!"
Fu Xiaoju: “…………”
This line of words does not normally appear and is obviously a derivative of the copy.
He was a little speechless, holding the washbasin and walking carefully towards Area 2.
Area 2 is the same as Area 1, with curtains drawn in all sixteen compartments.
Fu Xiaoju ran to Area 3 with a bad feeling - the results were all the same, all the cubicles were occupied!
He was stupid.
Wasn’t there an empty seat inside as promised?
Where is he going to take a shower now?
*
Lobby.
Fu Xiaoju's call was forcibly interrupted, which was not too unexpected. After everyone discussed it for a while, they soon quieted down again.
...It seems like this is the first time I feel so relaxed in a dungeon.
Mu Yu thought about it, poked Lu Chongnian's arm, and when the boy looked over, he quietly handed him the thousand paper cranes he had brought with him before going out.
Lu Chongnian curled his lips, took it, and gave the thousand paper cranes he brought with him to Mu Yu.
The two of them sat in the corner, huddled together, and their quiet movements did not attract anyone's attention.
After exchanging the paper cranes, they had no intention of opening them and just hid them in their pockets without making a sound.
Mu Yu was quiet for a while, but couldn't help but leaned close to Lu Zhongnian's ear and whispered, "The birthday gift you mentioned in the letter..."
Lu Zhongnian leaned his body slightly, put his ear to Mu Yu's lips, and responded softly and gently: "Hmm?"
"...How big is it?" Mu Yu asked with a red face.
Lu Chongnian recalled and compared with his hands.
It's about the size of a doll.
Mu Yu was very curious: "What is it?"
"Are you sure you want me to tell you?" Lu Chongnian turned his face slightly. The two of them still maintained a very close distance, and the volume of their voices could almost be called a whisper.
Lu Zhongnian's voice was low, cold and pleasant, like the sound produced by some musical instrument.
"The gift was placed in a box, and the box was wrapped in a layer of wrapping paper," Lu Zhongnian said seriously, "I spent a long time wrapping it."
The words seem to mean the same thing -
Are you sure you don't want to open it and look at it yourself?
Mu Yu pursed her lips and smiled, feeling sweet and itchy in her heart.
He moved closer: "…When did you buy it?"
"It was the day after the class reunion."
Mu Yu was immediately stunned: "...You still had the energy to run out that day?!"
Lu Chongnian seemed to be stunned by Mu Yu's questioning.
The next second, his eyes naturally slid down to Mu Yu's waist, and his brows slightly frowned: "Your body..."
...Even walking is difficult?
"I, I'm in good health!" Mu Yu almost bit her tongue, "It's just that I didn't sleep much that night, so I was very sleepy the next day and went to bed very early..."
The more he spoke, the redder his face became.
After Lu Chongnian was stunned for a moment, a thoughtful and meaningful look appeared in his eyes.
He crossed his legs, bent his elbows and rested them on his legs, his palms lazily supporting his cheeks, and looked at Mu Yu intently, and asked with a smile: "Are you really okay?"
Mu Yu shuddered, his eyes darting around guiltily: "...It's okay, what could, could it be!"
"Oh, I was worried for a long time."
“…”
"After buying the gift that night, I actually bought a tube of ointment. I wanted to send it to you directly, but I couldn't get through to you on the phone. I thought you were angry."
“…………”
The boy lowered his eyes and said softly, "I thought you didn't like it that night."
The "that night" in the previous sentence and the "that night" in this sentence obviously do not refer to the same night.
Mu Yu: “………………”
He was dumbfounded.
Lu Chongnian seemed to be really a little disappointed about this.
He stammered, "I...I don't dislike it!"
Lu Zhongnian raised his eyelashes and looked at him dimly: "Really?"
"Really, really! How could I not be happy--" Mu Yu suddenly stopped.
Lu Zhongnian tilted his head.
"So, that night, did you like it?"
Mu Yu: “…………”
He suddenly found himself like a fish put into hot water. He was about to be scalded to death and his entire body was turning red.
However, the guy who put him in the pot was still looking at him intently, waiting for his answer without any shame.
…………Mu Yu was very shocked that Lu Chongnian had such a personality!
He actually set a trap for him!
He hesitated and didn't answer, and Lu Chongnian seemed not to let him go and stared at him intently.
That gaze was like a substance, lingering and lingering, and all the places that were swept by it felt a slight itchiness.
My eyes are itchy, my cheeks are itchy, the tip of my nose is itchy, and my lips are itchy.
Gradually, Mu Yu lowered his head, and his ears and neck turned red.
Lu Zhongnian let out a helpless sigh and smiled again.
He reached out his hand and gently rubbed Mu Yu's neck with his fingertips. The cold fingers formed a great contrast with Mu Yu's warm skin.
It seemed like a comfort, but Mu Yu was stimulated instead and his eyelashes trembled slightly.
The boy whispered to him: "...I like it very much."
Mu Yu’s breathing stopped.
His heart was beating, boom, boom, boom, hitting his eardrums.
My throat felt dry as if I hadn't had water for a long time, and my Adam's apple rolled involuntarily.
"That night..." the boy said softly and slowly, "...I felt very comfortable."
Mu Yu suddenly felt that the water was no longer hot, but had become a kind of heat that made him dizzy.
The warm water wrapped around him, and the waves gently rolled towards him in circles. He became a small boat floating on the water, swaying back and forth, not knowing what day it was.
He opened his mouth, but he didn't know if he made any sound.
"……joyous."
"Hmm?" The boy's voice was still gentle and patient.
"I say..." Mu Yu moved closer and said in a hoarse voice, "...I...like it too."
"That night, I also felt... quite comfortable."
In an instant, this small space fell into silence.
A lingering silence.
Mu Yu's breathing became a little disordered.
He raised his eyes slightly and met Lu Chongnian's deep black eyes.
The boy looked at him, quietly, smiling with joy as if he could enjoy this moment forever.
Mu Yu then discovered that Lu Zhongnian's ears were also red.
*
...Fu Xiaoju's face was also red.
But he became famous because of the pressure.
He walked around the three shower areas several times but couldn't find any empty shower seats!
No, are there really people in these showers? If so, why is there no movement?
Article 6 of the bathhouse rules: Do not open the shower door when someone else has closed it.
Fu Xiaoju thought deeply.
"Please do not hesitate" means... you can actually try to open it and take a look, right? !
He doesn't care.
He walked back to Area 1 and came to the shower door closest to the bathhouse entrance. He mustered up his courage and asked nervously, "…Is there anyone there?"
The bathhouse was so quiet that his voice even echoed.
There was still no movement at the other end of the curtain.
Fu Xiaoju gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, stretched out his hand and pulled aside the curtain in front of him.
——It’s empty, there’s no one in the shower!
He breathed a sigh of relief, walked in happily, and quickly drew the curtain.
There was a regular card swipe machine on the shower rod. Fu Xiaoju placed his campus card on it and dropped it. The small display screen did not show the balance in the campus card as usual, but instead displayed [Remaining: 5].
In other words, taking a bath in zone 1 costs 1 point?
Fu Xiaoju quickly turned on the shower and hot water rushed down.
He was careful not to let the water get on his hair, then turned around, facing the curtain, and rinsed it cautiously.
He rubbed the soap on his body, rubbed it twice and then quickly rinsed it off.
He moved quickly, and just as he dried his upper body with the towel, he heard a voice coming from the entrance of the bathhouse.
——Click, click, that’s the sound of slippers stepping on tiles.
Fu Xiaoju paused, held his breath for a moment, and his body tensed.
...Someone came in.
who?
Could it be that the dungeon added players so quickly?
Click, click.
The footsteps came straight in the direction of Fu Xiaoju, slowly. The slow pace did not sound leisurely, but more like... the other party was silently checking these compartments.
Fu Xiaoju immediately realized that he was overthinking, this could not possibly be the sound of a player's footsteps.
He was on guard, his heart almost jumping out of his throat, and the next second he heard -
"Anyone want a bath?"
Old Li’s rough voice sounded.
“……” Fu Xiaoju swallowed and his muscles relaxed slightly.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer to him.
Snap, snap…
A black shadow suddenly hit the curtain.
It's a silhouette.
Fu Xiaoju still held his breath.
The next second, the silhouette moved to the left, and the footsteps followed closely into the depths of Area 1...
"Anyone want a bath?"
No one responded.
The footsteps walked slowly to the end, turned around, walked out, and went deeper into the bathhouse.
...Fu Xiaoju carefully lifted a corner of the curtain and looked out.
Lao Li's familiar figure was heading towards Area 2.
The other person was wearing the same sweatshirt and shorts that he usually wore, and was holding an old cloth mop in his hand, looking shaky.
Old Li is not actually that old, but maybe because he can’t straighten his back, people always feel like he is an old grandfather.
Fu Xiaoju was always afraid that this old man would accidentally fall in the bathhouse and get into trouble, so every time he saw him he would subconsciously remind him to "be careful".
But now... forget it now, it's better for him to worry about himself...
Fu Xiaoju lowered the curtain, quickly dried himself, and looked at the time. He only had four minutes left to stay in the bathhouse.
Then he fell into hesitation.
Mu Yu and Principal Dou both told him not to worry about the fifth rule that was suspected to be the trigger for the task. Fu Xiaoju himself was indeed quite scared just now and had no intention of touching that rule.
But surprisingly, from the time he entered the bathhouse until now, he had not encountered any danger and everything was safe and sound.
Is he really going to go out like this?
Wouldn’t it be a waste of time and opportunity?
Fu Xiaoju was a little conflicted.
Finding clues was indeed not his task alone, but it was also not a task for any of the other seven people in the lobby at the moment.
It is their common mission.
...So, he can't just leave all the danger to his companions.
If there is still room for improvement, shouldn't you give it a try?
Old Li should have reached Area 3, and the sound of footsteps could be heard clattering back and forth there.
Fu Xiaoju hesitated for a while, opened his mobile phone, and carefully read the fifth rule of the bathhouse.
[The bathhouse provides a bath scrubbing service. You can find Master Li when he appears and use points to purchase the service.]
If Lao Li is just an NPC, then as long as the player doesn't wake him up, his life shouldn't be in danger... ?
Fu Xiaoju pursed his lips and made up his mind.
He took a deep breath, opened the curtain and walked out, shouting, "Lao Li, I, I want a bath!"
In Area 3, the clattering footsteps stopped.
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