The jungle was pitch black and mysterious at night, yet not at all quiet!
Most tropical animals were nocturnal, and the continuous downpour had left them feeling restless and hungry, venturing out for a stroll and to forage for food!
Lu Zhe held Shen Bing's hand, wading through makeshift streams and moving forward slowly.
Shen Bing had a feeling that countless pairs of malicious eyes were watching them in the darkness, waiting to see them make fools of themselves.
Well, yes!
Come to think of it, this was originally the territory of the animals, and the two humans were the trespassers who had barged in.
Back at the camp, in the cave, four girls were glued to the screen, ready to scare off any gorillas that approached.
But none came near; one just sat not far from the bird's nest shelter, cautiously watching them.
And when girls are together, there's always an endless stream of conversation topics.
Jiang Yao asked curiously, "Why doesn't it go inside the bird's nest shelter?"
"Two possibilities!" pondered Ning Shu. "One, the shelter is too small for its large size, and it might damage it!"
"And the second?" Tang Xiaoguo asked.
"The shelter has Lu Zhe's scent, which might make it feel a slight... sense of danger!"
Lin Qianqian asked, "Is Lu Zhe... dangerous? I feel very safe with him around!"
Ning Shu nodded. "For peace-loving wild animals, Lu Zhe is probably very reassuring. But for those with malicious intentions, I think he can be quite dangerous... right?"
She waved toward the cave entrance. "Sun bear?"
The sun bear, confused, emerged from the "fridge," yawned, and looked around for food.
But upon seeing two disemboweled alligators, it let out a yelp and retreated back inside.
Ning Shu remarked with exasperation, "Such a big coward, not even worth the effort?"
After a while, Tang Xiaoguo asked, "Hey, Class Rep, do you think Bing and Little Zhe might... do some things out there?"
"What kinds of things?"
"You know, the naughty stuff between guys and girls!"
Tang Xiaoguo's question piqued the curiosity of Lin Qianqian and Jiang Yao as well.
Ning Shu pondered for a moment. "Bing seems proper on the surface, but she's actually quite experienced. She might make certain... excessive demands of Lu Zhe!"
"Ah?" Tang Xiaoguo made a sour face. "Our naive Little Zhe wouldn't be able to resist the seduction of such a formidable woman!"
Jiang Yao considered this. "Today is Sunday. Saturday and Sunday are Lu Zhe's single days, so our relationship with him is just as classmates and friends. Out of respect for a classmate, we shouldn't engage in any naughty behavior!"
Ning Shu thought about it. "In theory, yes, but what if Bing is sly and breaks the rules?"
"Oh, that's right, Class Rep! When you and Lu Zhe went to the volcano bottom last time on Saturday, you were also just friends in theory. No naughtiness, right...?"
Ning Shu's face flushed, and she felt a twinge of guilt, but quickly regained her composure. "What are you all thinking? I'm a proper girl; I would never cross any lines before a relationship is established!"
"Is that so?"
"I swear to God!" Ning Shu raised three fingers solemnly. "By the way, you all need to maintain distance from Lu Zhe too when it's not our duty shift. It's for respecting yourselves and cherishing our friendship as classmates!"
The other girls found Ning Shu's words reasonable and nodded in agreement.
Just then, the gorilla seemed to have noticed something and cautiously crawled toward the spacecraft.
"Look, it's coming!"
"Get ready to scare it away..."
"Here it comes!"
But instead of approaching the spacecraft, the gorilla stopped some distance away and picked something up from the grass.
It examined the object curiously, then held it up.
The four girls stared wide-eyed at it.
It looked... familiar!
A long plastic pouch, with a fastener at the top and what appeared to be liquid at the bottom...
Ning Shu's jaw nearly dropped.
Tang Xiaoguo: "Is that..."
Jiang Yao: "TT?"
Lin Qianqian exclaimed: "The complete scientific application?"
Jiang Yao wondered: "Why would it be discarded here?"
Then, the three girls slowly turned their heads, shooting puzzled looks at Ning Shu.
"We got the TT from the plane, and it ended up there, seemingly used!"
"Bing and Lu Zhe haven't arrived yet, and it seems only you and Lu Zhe went there last Saturday!"
"Unless there's someone else in this cave! Otherwise... care to explain, Class Rep?"
"Didn't you say you're a proper girl who maintains distance from Lu Zhe when not on duty?"
Ning Shu's mouth hung open as she recalled carelessly discarding one of the two TTs she had used, unable to find it afterwards.
She never expected a gorilla to stumble upon it.
What was going through that ape's mind?
Picking up something like that out of boredom?
"I..."
Faced with the three girls' accusatory glares, Ning Shu didn't know how to explain herself.
"Just admit it, you're the least proper one among us!"
"Telling us to keep our distance, while you were sneaking around behind our backs?"
"Yes, Class Rep, you're so sly..."
"Hey! You're all misunderstanding!"
"Misunderstanding what?"
"Misunderstanding that you and Lu Zhe were innocent?"
"Well, not exactly!" At this point, Ning Shu had no choice but to come clean. "That day, we did... but there was a reason!"
"Of course there was a reason - you were being naughty, Class Rep!"
"No, of course not!" Ning Shu shook her head. "It's because I thought Lu Zhe might be... impotent!"
Jiang Yao remarked, "How could that be? He may be skinny, but his body is as strong as an ox!"
"Huh??"
"I'm his partner, so I would know, wouldn't I?"
"But I didn't know that! I thought he might be sick, so I wanted to probe a little and see if he had... that kind of problem!"
Tang Xiaoguo exclaimed in awe, "That actually makes sense!"
Lin Qianqian marveled, "I just imagined all sorts of reasons, but never this one!"
Jiang Yao shook her head helplessly. "Class Rep, you've taken the phrase 'talking nonsense' to new heights!"
"Believe me, that's really what happened!"
As they were arguing, Lin Qianqian suddenly said, "Hey, look, the gorilla's gone!"
The four girls turned their attention to the screen but saw no trace of the gorilla.
"Where did that thing run off to?"
Ning Shu controlled the camera, panning in different directions.
However, the surroundings were eerily still, with no sign of the gorilla anywhere.
Meanwhile, Lu Zhe and Shen Bing had made their way through the raging stream and arrived at the hot spring cave!
They exchanged a smile, shared a gentle kiss, then secured their equipment and dove into the hot spring.
It didn't take long for them to find the spacecraft, putting Lu Zhe at ease.
But there was no sign of the gorilla.
Lu Zhe's heart skipped a beat. "Maybe it escaped through another cave entrance?"
Then, addressing the screen, "Hey, did you see where the gorilla went?"
Ning Shu's apologetic voice came through the speaker, "Well... no idea?"
igrating to the cultivation world for two hundred years, I've managed to lie low and reach the Nascent Soul stage. Only now does my golden finger arrive? ...
spital. Good news: I've bound a system. Bad news: I'm still a baby. "Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not bully the middle-aged for being poor — Divorce Comeback System." "Your marriage may have failed, but your luck in love has never run dry. Your childhood sweetheart, out of contact for twenty years, reappears. Her beauty remains, yet her eyes are brimming with tears." [Listen to the childhood sweetheart's sorrowful story.] Chen Zhi looked down at the diaper he was wearing, then at the little childhood sweetheart crying her heart out beside him, and fell into deep thought. Can anyone relate? I'm having a midlife crisis at an age where even rolling over is a struggle.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
