Chapter 58 Yu Sheng's Spirit of Exploration
The two Secret Service agents and the ghost detective (holiday worker) who called herself "Little Red Riding Hood" left. Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief at the door and turned back to the living room.
Irene, who was watching TV, turned her head immediately: "I thought you were going to talk for a long time. Don't you have a lot of things you want to ask them?"
"I mainly want to get in touch with them - now that Hu Li has been brought out, there's no rush for anything else." Yu Sheng said casually, his eyes falling on the coffee table.
The fox girl who was sitting on the ground guarding a pile of food felt the gaze, raised her head and smiled happily at Sheng: "Benefactor!"
"You need to take a shower, and most importantly, change your clothes." Yu Sheng glanced at the miserable Hu Li and said with concern.
This unfortunate fox has been trapped in a foreign land for many years. She was even a child when she was first trapped. Now, no one knows which dead person the clothes she is wearing were stripped from. One can tell at a glance that they are ill-fitting and now have been almost tattered into a pile of rags. Her body is dirty and covered with mud. Although there is water in that foreign land, she should have the opportunity to wash her body, but after all, she lives in the wilderness, far away from civilized society. Her tail is now sticky and tangled.
Hu Li lowered his head and looked at himself.
She had probably gotten used to herself being like this, and had never even thought about what would happen after she left the valley one day. When she heard Yu Sheng's words, some long-lost memories and common sense returned to her mind little by little. She was stunned for a long time, just like she had recently become familiar with speaking again, and finally began to mentally break away from the "beast" state.
Yes, I need to clean my body and change my clothes - my benefactor's cave is so clean, I can't make it dirty.
She nodded vigorously.
Yu Sheng looked at Irene again.
The little doll's two arms are still broken, and it actually looks pretty miserable, but she herself seems to feel nothing at all and is still watching TV heartlessly. Even a stupid variety show makes her very happy.
Yu Sheng couldn't bear to watch it: "Should I fix your arm first?"
"Take the fox to take a bath first. She definitely won't use anything in the bathroom," Irene waved her arms nonchalantly. "I'm not in a hurry here. I can fix it later."
"Okay then, I'll come and help you as soon as possible," Yu Sheng nodded, and stretched out his hand to Hu Li, "Come with me."
Hu Li stood up, but looked at the food on the ground hesitantly, as if he didn't dare to leave them even a step.
Yu Sheng laughed when he saw this: "Don't worry, the food won't run away. Come back after taking a shower and eat it. Irene is here to help watch over it."
However, Hu Li was still hesitant. She looked at the puppet watching TV on the sofa with concern, suddenly bent down and grabbed two cans of eight-treasure porridge and two packets of biscuits from the plastic bag, stuffed them into her tail, and then turned and came to Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng still had that smile on his face as he stood there in a daze, not realizing what had happened. After two or three seconds, he turned his head stiffly and looked at the big tail behind Hu Li.
"...Where did you hide it?"
Hu Li took out some biscuits and eight-treasure porridge from his tail, handed them to Yu Sheng to look at, then immediately stuffed them back into his tail, then blinked his big eyes at Yu Sheng.
Yu Sheng was shocked: "Can it be used like this?!"
"Yeah." The fox girl nodded, still looking like she didn't know what happened but took it for granted.
Yu Sheng then remembered something else: "...did you send out a tail before..."
“It has grown back.”
Yu Sheng: “……?”
He was full of questions - is this what a demon fox is like? However, no one could answer his question, and Irene didn't know any other fox like Hu Li.
Yu Sheng shook his head with a tense face, temporarily putting aside the question mark on his forehead, dragged the fox girl to the bathroom on the first floor.
"This is a water heater. Don't worry about it for now. The hot water comes out from here anyway. This valve controls the hot and cold. Turn it to the left for hot water and to the right for cold water. Pull it up to get the water out... The bathtub over here can be used the same way. The valve is here. This bottle contains shower gel for washing the body. You can use the sponge next to it to make bubbles, but don't squeeze too much. This bottle contains hair washing... It should also be able to be used to wash the tail."
Yu Sheng carefully and patiently introduced the things in the bathroom to Hu Li, speaking very slowly to make sure that the fox girl understood and nodded before introducing the next thing. But even so, he suspected that Hu Li would still be in a hurry when taking a bath.
"Anyway, you just need to know how to use the water. You can soak in the bathtub for a while. The towels and washcloths are hung next to the mirror cabinet over here. Remember to dry yourself before you come out to avoid catching a cold."
Hu Li nodded vigorously: "Yeah."
"Before you take a shower, remember to take out the things you just hid in your tail... Never mind, you can do whatever you want, they are all packaged anyway."
"Uh-huh."
"I don't have any girls' clothes here. I'll get you a set of mine later. You can wear them for now. I'll go to the mall and buy you new ones tomorrow."
"Uh-huh."
It seemed that Hu Li could only nod continuously, nodding to whatever Yu Sheng said.
Yu Sheng was quite worried. At this moment, he suddenly envied Irene's broad-mindedness.
After instructing Hu Li on some other things and letting her try turning on the shower head herself, he finally felt relieved. He then took out a set of his own loose pajamas and placed them at the door, then turned around and left the bathroom and returned to the living room.
Irene was struggling to crawl onto the sofa with her broken arm.
Yu Sheng: “…What are you doing?”
"I just fell off the sofa because of Le Taihen," Irene explained awkwardly while crawling, "Hey, don't just stand there and watch, come and help me get up."
Yu Sheng took two steps forward and picked up Irene and her picture frame. "Okay, stop watching TV. I'll go fix your body."
Irene was stunned when she heard this: "Where's the fox?"
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"She's taking a shower in the bathroom," Yu Sheng said casually, "I taught her how to use those things."
"Is she okay? She just got rid of the effects of hunger, her brain hasn't recovered yet, right?" Irene hung on Yu Sheng's arm and glanced in the direction of the bathroom with some suspicion, "She won't blow up the bathroom, will she..."
Upon hearing this, Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment and looked towards the bathroom with a worried look - the sound of running water could be heard from there. "It shouldn't be that serious, unless she suddenly shoots out her tail in the middle of the shower."
"Forget it, don't think too much." Irene waved her arms and soon became relieved. "She's not stupid anyway. She's been surviving in the wilderness for so long, she must adapt to the environment quickly. Go upstairs, get my arms fixed first. It's inconvenient like this now. It's hard to even change the channel."
Yu Sheng said "oh" and took Irene up the stairs.
Coming to the attic and turning on the light, Yu Sheng took off the picture frame from Irene's back, and then carefully placed the little doll on the big table.
"Don't be so cautious. I'm not made of ceramic." Irene was amused by Yu Sheng's cautious action. "You won't crush me by accident."
Yu Sheng looked at the porcelain-like fracture on Irene's arm with a strange expression: "Don't blame me for being careful, it's mainly because the fracture looks too scary - doesn't it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt, it just hurt a little when it was first broken," Irene lifted her arm and took a look, "but it does look a little scary now... let's fix it quickly."
She paused for a moment and began to instruct on the operation: "The operation process is similar to that of making the body, but there is no need to make a torso. Just make the arms. The spirit infusion process is the same as last time. I will guide you through it. After the arms are repaired, it is the legs. There are a few cracks on my legs, but they are not completely broken. You need to activate the clay after alchemical treatment to repair it. This part requires more care. You'd better use a scraper to trim it well, and I can save some effort..."
Yu Sheng listened to the little puppet's explanation, and after the other party finished speaking, he spoke hesitantly: "By the way, there is something I wanted to tell you just now..."
Irene: “Huh?”
"The clay I bought last time has actually been used up," Yu Sheng spread out his hands, "I guess I won't be able to buy any more at this time."
Irene was stunned: "...Why didn't you tell me earlier! Then why did you bring me up here?"
Yu Sheng took out the lotus root he bought last time from the drawer next to him...
The little puppet's eyes widened instantly, and he almost jumped up (but he couldn't jump because his legs were broken): "Hey, you just can't get along with the lotus root, right? Didn't I tell you... Wait, why did you put the lotus root in the drawer of the alchemy table? You've been planning this, right?"
"I'm just curious, can this thing be used?" Yu Sheng admitted that he had a little bit of premeditation in it, but he attributed it to the scientific spirit of exploration - just like studying how to stew the meat of the "Hungry Entity" to make it delicious, all for research, "Let's give it a try, this lotus root is quite expensive."
"Try it!" Irene glared at him with bloodshot eyes. "Let's not talk about anything else. Before infusing spirits, they have to add your blood to the materials. You can even knead dough into it, but how are you going to give it a lotus root..."
The little doll was halfway through his words when he saw Yu Sheng take out a syringe from the drawer.
Irene: "... No, you are sick!"
(End of this chapter)
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