"Did you feel anything?"

In the wooden house, Carl, who was carrying Hope and doing squats, suddenly stopped.

The special power bestowed by the dragon pattern made him sense some special waves sweeping across here just now.

"No, I didn't feel anything special. What happened?"

Seeing that Carl’s face looked a little serious, Hope twisted his body and jumped off Carl’s shoulder.

"I'm not sure, but some special force just flew over from there."

Carl raised his hand with some difficulty and pointed in a certain direction with a deep frown on his face.

"My danger sense didn't respond. It doesn't look like a disaster that's about to happen. Could it be related to your exploration of the dragon pattern? I remember that this thing can even sense dragon crystals."

The largest industry of the Dragonmark Family is to help search for various dragon crystals.

As the crystallization of the power of the three dragons of creation, dragon crystal will not be marked by detection magic.

But the holder of the Exploration Dragon Mark can discover the Dragon Crystal through some special induction.

"I don't know. The fluctuation just now feels different from the Eberron Dragon Crystal that was precipitated from the fluorescent mushrooms."

Rubbing the area between his eyebrows, Carl tried to eliminate the effects of fatigue.

"Maybe it's Khyber Dragon Crystal. After all, this is a dungeon, so the presence of Khyber Dragon Crystal is normal."

Hope shrugged and put his hands on his hips, his tone quite disapproving.

"But I always feel that there is malicious intent in that fluctuation. Let's go over there and investigate after we reach Level 3. I hope it's not too much trouble. If it's really something dangerous, we'll have to consider moving."

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Carl walked to the recliner and sat down.

"Don't sit down right after you've just finished exercising! Stand up straight first and wait until your heartbeat slows down before sitting down!"

Pulling Carl up by his collar, Hope ignored Carl's whimpers and let him continue standing.

Standing helplessly aside, Carl watched Hope wipe the sweat stains that had just stained the recliner, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Hmm~, let's heat some hot water tonight and take a bath. It can relieve fatigue and cleanse the body. Even though it has rained a few times recently, I still need to take a bath."

Looking down at the sweat on himself and Hope, Carl propped himself up and gave a weak suggestion.

Although there was no suitable container for boiling water, Carl could carve a few more stones with fire runes and then throw them into the basin full of water.

In this way, both of them can still get a basin of hot water.

The basin you soaked the monitor lizard skin in is perfect for this purpose.

When Hope heard that he could take a bath, a look of anticipation appeared in his eyes.

Although she had been living on a diet when she was in Zhuomu, she still paid great attention to personal hygiene.

But during the time she was in the dungeon, she had not taken a proper bath.

"So what are you waiting for? Do you need my help?"

"Hmm~, can you help me carve some fire runes? The same ones I drew on the stone slab before."

"certainly!"

Taking out the flint dagger he had sharpened earlier, Hope sat directly next to the stone slab and began to copy and carve the runes on it.

Carl emptied the last batch of lizard skins from the wooden basin and poured the ash and liquid out.

Carl then rinsed the tub with rainwater and placed it outside, waiting for it to be filled with rainwater.

After Hope had carved out two samples, Carl tried to inject spirituality into them, but found that only one could be used normally.

After teaching Hope some precautions, Carl brought back the wooden basin outside before the stones had fully heated up.

In just a few minutes, half of the wooden basin was already filled with water.

Analyzing the exaggerated rainfall phenomenon in his mind, Carl took a stone and threw it into the wooden basin.

He did not throw the slate used for eating in. Although high temperature can indeed kill bacteria, it is better not to cross-use some things.

After a while, Hope had carved out several more rune stones. Based on her learning progress, Carl felt that she might be able to strive for the expertise of a rune carver in the future.

Once again, spirituality was injected into the newly carved rune stones, and this time three of them were successful.

After throwing the rune stones into the wooden basin, Carl carried the basin to the corner of the room and set up a curtain around it using the clothes rack and the giant lizard skins.

"The water temperature is gradually rising. Hope, you take a shower first."

After testing the water temperature with his fingers, Carl left the alchemy pot next to the tub and walked out of the makeshift bathroom.

"Then I won't be polite!"

Stepping into the temporary bathroom, Hope quickly took off her clothes and put them on the rack, then took a bath happily.

The monitor lizard skin, which has been soaked in the wood ash solution for a long time, is somewhat translucent because it has not been completely dried in the shade.

This discovery made Carl somewhat uneasy.

But in the end he said nothing and just watched quietly.

After all, he has to go in and take a shower later...

I don't know how much time passed before Hope poked his head out from behind the curtain.

"Karl, can you bring me those dried monitor lizard skins? My clothes are soaked and need to be washed."

At this time, Carl remembered that their clothes were completely soaked with sweat. They had no change of clothes and could only use the skins of the monitor lizards that were still drying in the shade as bath towels.

"Wait a minute, I'll go check it out."

He ran his fingers over the leather and found it was dry enough to be used to make clothes.

However, due to the loss of moisture, the leather is not as soft as before.

"Try wrapping it around your body. It's not as soft as you first thought."

Carl took a larger one and handed it to Hope, then stood outside the curtain, waiting for Hope.

“It’s a little problematic, but not bad.”

After a while, Hope, using leather as a bath towel, came out from behind the curtain.

She was now like wearing a leather sheath dress.

After being thoroughly washed, the red skin, which was already faintly shiny, had a feeling of being half-covered under the cover of the leather towel.

Hope's red tail was shaking restlessly behind her at this moment. Obviously, its owner was not as calm as he seemed.

"Then I'll go in and wash too? Can you help me wash my clothes together? We can make spare clothes together later."

As he said this, Karl also took off his clothes and placed them on the rack.

The next second, the clothes were taken away by Hope outside the curtain and washed.

'Why do I always feel like our relationship is developing towards that of an old married couple?'

Shaking his head and sighing, Carl was about to bend over to scoop out the water from the basin, but he found that there was nothing else in the basin except a few stones.

"Where's the water?!"

On this day, Carl deeply understood a truth: never queue up behind a girl to take a shower when there is limited hot water, because you don’t know whether she will save hot water for you.

(End of this chapter)