strictlysupreme Chapter 119 Just Taking a Bath
Chapter 119 Just Taking a Bath
Lu Yize gently rubbed Jiang Yue's hair, melting away the ice crystals inside.
Feeling comfortable, Jiang Yue leaned back and pressed herself against Lu Yize.
"Don't move." Lu Yize turned her back.
On the other end of the power ring, all was quiet. Chen Mingzhang listened to the sounds coming from the power ring, hesitated, and then picked it up and put it down.
In the end, they could only be thankful that Lu Yize still had some sense of shame and didn't use holographic projection, only voice communication.
After a moment of silence on the other end, Chen Mingzhang coughed before continuing to ask, "What is the ability of that fourth-tier beast? Have you detected it?"
"No, that fourth-tier beast didn't show up. However, there are no fewer than ten third-tier beasts in the sea. But due to the low temperature, their abilities have been greatly reduced, so we managed to kill three of them by chance."
"No less than ten?" Chen Mingzhang gasped.
Lu Yize raised his hand above the water. "Hmm, if there are such a number of third-tier beasts, I suspect that they are controlled not only by fourth-tier beasts, but perhaps even by fifth-tier monsters above the fourth tier."
In comparison, the human advancement speed is far too slow. If they were to face a fifth-tier mutated beast at this point, they would be utterly helpless.
Jiang Yue was probably uncomfortable sitting with her knees drawn up, so she tried to get up, but her foot slipped and she bumped her head on the edge of the bathtub. Lu Yize didn't even have time to grab her.
This person isn't very bright to begin with; if they bump their head again, they might become even more mentally challenged.
Lu Yize grabbed Jiang Yue's arm and pulled the zombie, which was clinging to the edge of the bathtub, up. "Are you alright?"
Jiang Yue glared fiercely at the bathtub that had just bumped into her, wanting to break off that unruly piece of the bathtub and start a fight.
Lu Yize turned her head around, stared at her forehead for a while, but couldn't see any bruises. Then he looked down and saw a crack on the edge of the bathtub.
It's a good head.
Lu Yize put one arm around Jiang Yue's waist and helped her sit down again.
"Where were we?" Lu Yize asked Chen Mingzhang, who was outside the special ability ring.
Chen Mingzhang felt that what was happening on the other end of the power ring was a little inappropriate for children, and asked with a helpless smile, "What are you and Jiang Yue doing?"
Seeing that Jiang Yue was behaving herself, Lu Yize replied simply, "I just came back from outside, so I took a shower to warm myself up."
Hearing this, Chen Mingzhang looked embarrassed. He had thought they were doing something else. "It turns out they were just taking a shower. I thought..."
Wait, if I'm taking a shower, why is Jiang Yue's voice still there?
"You're all showering together?" Chen Mingzhang grasped the key point.
Lu Yize didn't refute it, "Yeah, it saves trouble and time."
Chen Mingzhang smiled and didn't ask any more questions, since he didn't believe Lu Yize's words at all.
Saves trouble? Saves time? If that's really the case, then Lu Yize is no good.
However, Lu Yize did not let him continue to let his imagination run wild. "I dug out three power cores from the abdomens of those three mutant beasts. I kept two, and the other one was sent to you through the black box."
"A third-tier superpower core?" Chen Mingzhang asked in surprise.
"Ah."
Chen Mingzhang quickly understood what Lu Yize meant and discovered that Lu Yize liked to calculate things clearly.
Previously, the central base had given them a large number of low-level crystal cores, and now Lu Yize was repaying the favor with a third-level crystal core.
Of course, Lu Yize probably gave him this power core so that he could improve his power as soon as possible, so as not to hold him back later.
"Thanks."
Hearing the continuous sound of water coming from the other side, Chen Mingzhang coughed and said, "Then let's leave it at that for now, I won't bother you any longer."
Chen Mingzhang immediately disconnected the power ring, fearing that if he hesitated even a moment longer, he might have overheard something he shouldn't have.
What could possibly disturb him? The words had barely crossed his mind when he noticed Jiang Yue had submerged into the water.
Lu Yize hadn't figured out what she was going to do a second ago, but his pupils contracted the next second.
He reached into the water, touched Jiang Yue's hair, ran his fingers through her hair, and said in a hoarse voice, "Get up."
Although that's what he said, he didn't actually intend to stop it.
Lu Yize's right hand, holding the power ring, rested on the edge of the bathtub, veins throbbing.
After a while, Jiang Yue couldn't hold her breath any longer. Lu Yize grabbed Jiang Yue's arm and pulled her out of the water. Her long black hair clung to her body, and the hot mist obscured her vision.
Neither of them had their hands above water; their limbs were burning hot. Lu Yize stared intently at Jiang Yue.
Jiang Yue did not flinch or show any embarrassment; she even looked up and met Lu Yize's gaze directly.
His gaze was intense, as if he were repeatedly touching Lu Yize's body with his eyes.
Their eyes met, filled with anxiety. Lu Yize looked at Jiang Yue, who was also rough with her hands and had a slightly arrogant look in her eyes.
Compared to her previous expressionless and emotionless demeanor, Lu Yize found Jiang Yue in front of him to be quite vivid.
At the peak of his emotions, Lu Yize gripped the back of Jiang Yue's neck with his hand, his fingers digging into her hair, and he lowered his head to kiss Jiang Yue's lips fiercely, pressing closer and closer in the water.
Jiang Yue was pulled back several steps, her back against the bathtub wall. Lu Yize's hand was on the edge of the bathtub, and as he kissed her from the side, the shadow of his nose covered her nose, and his Adam's apple bobbed.
The shadows cast on the wall intertwined, and the scalding steam formed fine droplets that slid down the wall.
The next morning, an annoying, piercing sound came from outside the base.
Feeling stifled in their room after absorbing crystal cores all night, the group left and gathered in an open area of the base.
Early in the morning, before they even woke up, Xiao Bai had already gone outside the base and brought back more than a dozen zombie-mutated krill, leaving him with many injuries.
When Sheng Xue saw that she was injured, she waved to Xiao Bai, "Xiao Bai, come here, let me heal your wounds."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Bai immediately sprinted forward, throwing two of the mutated shrimp in its mouth at Sheng Xue as a reward.
"Xiao Bai is so sensible. He knows how to behave so well. It makes us seem so clueless about social etiquette," Fan Jian commented as he ate, squatting down to eat next to him.
Since Sheng Xue's superpower level was upgraded, her healing speed has increased significantly. Xiao Bai's wounds healed quickly, and even the bald patches of fur that had been bitten off grew back.
After Xiaobai was cured, Zhang Wenjing dug out the crystal cores from the mutated krill that Xiaobai had brought back and gave two to Sheng Xue as a reward.
"Yesterday it was mutated krill, today it's zombie krill attacking the base. I don't know what's going on. Let's talk to Lu Yize when he comes out. Maybe there'll be news from the central base."
Zhang Wenjing looked down at the mutated krill. They seemed to be edible, and apart from being a bit darker in color, they were not much different from the mutated krill.
The observant Xian Wenrui noticed that Sheng Xue was sitting in her wheelchair tapping her legs, so he brought her a blanket.
Sheng Xue was surprised; she thought her subtle movements had gone unnoticed.
After receiving the blanket, Sheng Xue thanked her.
"You're welcome, it's no big deal."
Xian Wenrui waved his hand, telling her not to worry about it, but after staring at Sheng Xue's legs for a while, he still asked, "When will your legs be better?"