Si Rui smiled and said, "Thank you for your help again, Sister Xie."
"It's nothing!" Xie Xiaoxian instructed, "Don't get it wet tonight. The wound is quite big. It's not too late to deal with it after the scab falls off."
The group chatted for a few more minutes and agreed to meet again at the dinner party.
Cheng Shuang wanted to bring up Si Rui's unusual excessive sweating again, but the adults kept ignoring it while chatting. The little girl sighed helplessly, quietly packed up her books, picked up her schoolbag, and walked to Du Jun's side.
Du Jun gently patted her head and said softly, "No rush, I'll take you back to your room first."
Upon hearing his voice, Hei Zishan and Lie Fu bid farewell, and the few maintainers who had just met each other returned to their own rooms.
Cheng Shuang turned to Du Jun before opening the door and asked, "Little brother, will it be okay to sweat so much?"
"How much is too much?" Du Jun asked, and Lie Fu and Hei Zi Shan, who were chatting in the back, also looked over.
Hei Zishan asked with a smile, "Don't you know that sweating is a way to detoxify?"
"Now I know! So, the amount of sweat that soaks the sofa is like a detoxifying beauty treatment for the whole body? Like... the sauna that adults love to go to?" The little girl tilted her head and asked curiously, "I'm not sure if it's too much. It just drips down, and it probably only takes a few seconds for the sofa to get wet!"
Du Jun immediately became serious, and Hei Zishan also stopped smiling.
Lie Fu frowned. "Sweating this much would cause the body to become exhausted, thirsty, and even suffer from aftereffects such as numbness, palpitations, and dizziness. Is her body temperature high?"
Cheng Shuang thought about it carefully; at that time, Si Rui's breath was a little cold...
"Not tall, but quite energetic!" She shook her head. "Sister Sirui said she was hungry as soon as she woke up. She ate while sweating and only calmed down after she fell asleep." The little girl sniffed. "Sister Sirui definitely didn't eat properly. She looked like she was going to eat me up! The way she looked at me was scary."
Cheng Shuang wasn't complaining; she just couldn't understand how her usually gentle and lovely older sister could have such a terrifying look in her eyes.
When it comes to hunger, Kuroko Han has more to say. He patted his empty stomach and asked, "Don't you guys feel like you get hungry really fast on a cruise ship?"
"Yes, Kuroko and I actually ate something when we got up early, but we were so hungry that we woke up starving."
Cheng Shuang was alright; she loves snacks and her mouth is never idle whenever she has a spare moment. But today she was really hungry and ate a large hamburger without feeling full at all.
However, the topic veered off course again, and the little girl was led astray without even realizing it. She nodded vigorously and replied, "Yes, my appetite has increased!"
Hei Zishan chuckled, "You call that a big appetite with such a small stomach?"
Cheng Shuang snorted at him, then was pulled into the house by Du Jun, who invited the other two to come in as well.
“I suggest we stay here with Shuangshuang until the banquet, and it would be best if we didn’t separate,” Lie Fu said. He was always thoughtful and liked to take precautions in advance. Qing Nai and the other four might not let it go easily. Although they were outwardly friendly but inwardly at odds, they would definitely put aside their differences and unite against a common enemy when faced with shared interests and goals.
"Okay, okay!" The little girl needed her friends, and as soon as she heard that everyone was with her, she immediately clapped happily.
Du Jun agreed, and Hei Zishan had no objections either.
"That's why they say it's better to offend a gentleman than a petty person!" Hei Zishan sighed. "You don't need to guard against gentlemen, but you can't guard against petty people!"
He grinned and moved closer to Cheng Shuang, "Shuangshuang, my feet smell a bit, please forgive me!"
The little girl was confused. "You won't smell after washing, Brother Hei Zi Shan. We'll take turns taking a bath tonight. Don't worry, there's plenty of water. If you... if you don't like taking baths, you can wash your feet too!"
Having successfully instilled the impression that he didn't like taking baths in the child's mind, Kuroko chuckled twice and obediently stopped blinding the Taoist priest.
The bed was naturally given to the little girl to rest on. The three of them were exhausted from the day and sat scattered around, closing their eyes to rest.
After an unknown amount of time, Du Jun suddenly opened his eyes, his voice cold and sharp, "Do you remember what forms the monsters you encountered were?"
"The first one is a jelly man with eight pairs of arms, the second is a rotting man, the third is a twisted man, and the fourth is a mummy..."
"The jelly-like human body has no liquid inside and the flesh is transparent; the rotting human body only sheds bits of flesh; the twisted human body is in a state of boneless and bloodless..."
"The mummy is a dried corpse!" Lie Fu stood up and pulled Hei Zi Shan up as well, asking, "Shall we go check out Si Rui's room?"
"I'm waking Shuangshuang up." As soon as Du Jun finished speaking, the little girl, who had been unable to sleep, threw off the covers and got out of bed, saying energetically, "I'm up, I'm up! Let's go quickly! If Sister Sirui gets into trouble, Brother Xiaguang will also be in danger!"
The four of them didn't even have time to wash up. They quickly tidied their clothes and left the house, then hurriedly climbed to the seventh floor.
Standing at the door of the Fourth Room, Du Jun protected Cheng Shuang while Hei Zi opened the door.
The boxing glove had barely touched the door when it creaked open.
"Too late!" Kuroko said, speechless.
The room was pitch black, with a faint, fishy smell wafting out. The breathing was shallow and clear, making it impossible to tell whether it was one person or two.
"The glow of dawn?" Kuroko called cautiously from the doorway.
"Even if Xia Guang were alive, he wouldn't dare answer you!" Lie Fu glanced at him, then turned to ask Du Jun and Cheng Shuang, "Shall we go in?"
Cheng Shuang's foot had been sprayed with some medicine to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and it had improved somewhat. Running and jumping were no problem. When Du Jun looked at her silently and asked, she nodded, "Perhaps Brother Xia Guang is still alive!"
“But if Xia Guang dies…” Lie Fu looked at the little girl and said bluntly, “Would you be afraid that someone you know will turn into a monster?”
Cheng Shuang shook her head and said bluntly, "We're not that close yet!"
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