Looking at the dry rations Chen Yu handed her and his sincere gaze, Yang Yue felt a mix of emotions.
"Thank you," Yang Yue whispered, her voice low but exceptionally clear.
He took the dry rations, found a rock to sit on, tore open the packaging of the compressed biscuits, and began to eat them in small bites.
Chen Yu found a flat stone surface, took out a biscuit, and put it in his mouth.
As soon as he put it in his mouth, he frowned. It was hard and dry, and really hard to swallow.
He couldn't help but turn his gaze to Yang Yue, who was eating with great relish, as if savoring a rare delicacy.
Helpless, he had no choice but to bite down and start chewing. Before he could finish a biscuit, his throat felt dry and he could no longer swallow.
He wanted to retrieve a bottle of water from the other-dimensional space to quench his thirst, but considering Yang Yue was nearby, it was rather inconvenient.
Just then, Yang Yue seemed to choke as well, but she didn't panic at all. She picked up a small stone from the ground, smashed a crystal-clear icicle against the cave wall, and then carefully held it in her palm and gently licked it.
The icicles melted quickly on her warm tongue, turning into a cool and sweet stream of water that moistened her throat and relieved her discomfort.
Seeing this, Chen Yu followed suit, picking up a pebble from the ground and smashing a piece of icicle off the cave wall. However, he held it in his hand for a long time without being able to bring himself to eat it.
"Sigh~! It's one thing to suffer like this in my past life, but now that things are better, to suffer like this is just asking for trouble," Chen Yu sighed inwardly, then threw the icicle in his hand directly to the ground.
"Ahem~" Chen Yu coughed lightly and said to Yang Yue, "You eat first, I'll be right back."
Upon hearing this, Yang Yue looked up at Chen Yu and asked in confusion, "Where are you going?"
"Uh... well, I... I..." Chen Yu struggled for a long time but couldn't come up with a suitable reason, so he simply said, "Do I need to tell you where I'm going?"
Chen Yu's guilty look instantly alerted Yang Yue, who immediately stood up and said to him, "I'll go with you!"
Upon hearing that Yang Yue wanted to come with him, Chen Yu immediately objected. His original intention was to avoid Yang Yue and have a private meal on his own. If Yang Yue came along, wouldn't his plan be ruined?
In a moment of desperation, he blurted out, "I'm going to take a dump, are you sure you want to come with me?"
Yang Yue was slightly taken aback upon hearing this, then two blushes appeared on her cheeks, and she silently sat back down on the rock.
Seeing this, Chen Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally able to focus on giving his child extra help.
He then held up his flashlight, turned around, and walked towards a corner at the back of the cave.
"Wait a minute," Yang Yue called out to him.
Chen Yu's heart tightened immediately, fearing that Yang Yue might change her mind and come along again. He quickly turned around and asked, feigning composure, "What's wrong? Is there something else?"
Yang Yue, holding a small wooden stick, jogged up to Chen Yu. She bit her lower lip, seemingly hesitant to speak, but finally mustered her courage and handed the stick to Chen Yu: "It's cold, you can use this."
Chen Yu was stunned for a moment, then instantly understood what Yang Yue meant, and couldn't help but feel a little amused and exasperated.
However, since Yang Yue was being so kind, and to avoid any further complications, he forced a smile and said, "Thank you."
Chen Yu took the wooden stick, then suddenly seemed to remember something and asked cautiously, "This...you've never used it before, have you?"
"Chen Yu, don't push your luck!" Yang Yue immediately retorted angrily.
"So, have you used it or not?" Chen Yu continued to ask seriously, after all, you can't be careless when it comes to something you've just started using.
"You..." Yang Yue glared at Chen Yu, her eyes seemingly spitting fire. She gritted her teeth and said, "No! I just picked this up on the road, just in case!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness, otherwise he probably wouldn't have been able to eat later.
"Thank you for the stick. Here, take these biscuits. Eat more." Chen Yu thanked Yang Yue again, and to keep her happy, he gave her the two compressed biscuits he had just eaten.
He then left without looking back; he was simply too hungry to bear it.
Watching Chen Yu's departing figure, Yang Yue stomped her foot angrily, her face turning green with rage.
Although Chen Yu gave her another serving of compressed biscuits, she couldn't eat anything after talking about that kind of topic.
In a fit of anger, she picked up the cookie and was about to smash it on the ground.
However, at the last moment, she calmed down, lowered her raised hand, and carefully put the biscuit into her pocket.
After doing all this, she realized that since Chen Yu had already turned the corner, the cave without any light source was plunged into darkness, as if the whole world had been swallowed up by silence and the unknown.
Her heart began to race, and the surrounding darkness seemed to transform into an invisible pressure, making her feel an indescribable loneliness and unease.
Yang Yue took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.
She reached out and groped her way to a rock near the cave wall, where she sat down. Feeling the solidity of the rock behind her, she felt a little more at ease.
"One sheep, two sheep, three sheep..." To distract herself, Yang Yue counted on her fingers and muttered to herself.
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"199 sheep, 200..."
Suddenly, Yang Yue felt a chill run down her spine, and her heart skipped a beat.
He stood up abruptly, but the chill behind him did not disappear; instead, it became even more pronounced.
She couldn't help but look in the direction Chen Yu had left, opening her mouth as if to shout, but she felt that she couldn't make a sound.
Under such immense fear and pressure, she could no longer care about anything else. She lifted her trembling legs and carefully moved towards Chen Yu's direction.
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Chen Yu had just finished a steak, but he still felt something was missing.
After thinking for a moment, he took out a steaming hot roasted sweet potato from the other dimension.
He had baked these sweet potatoes a long time ago, and to prevent heat loss, he put them into the other-dimensional space as soon as they came out of the oven.
Because there is no concept of time in his alternate dimension, the sweet potato remained at the same temperature as when it was fresh out of the oven.
As soon as Chen Yu held it in his hands, he was burned by the high temperature of the sweet potato and instinctively threw it on the ground.
Fortunately, the sweet potato hadn't been peeled, and Chen Yu was a very frugal person, so he picked up the stick Yang Yue had given him earlier and speared it.
Next, carefully peel off the skin of the sweet potato to reveal the golden, soft, and glutinous flesh inside.
He gently blew on the sweet potato to cool it down slightly, then took a bite. The warm and sweet taste instantly filled his taste buds, dispelling the chill and fatigue he had felt earlier.
This scene was witnessed by Yang Yue, who had just turned the corner of the cave...
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