"It’s our turn to take the stage." Ji You squinted, looking at Shaun’s camp in the distance, and with the tone of a major villain, said these words.
He Yu and Liu Jia couldn’t help but shiver at the inexplicable goosebumps rising on their bodies.
Liu Jia covered his eyes and said, "Can you... can you use a more normal tone and expression to say sothing like that? It always... always feels like we’re about to do sothing heinous and inhuman."
Ji You glanced at him sideways, "Otherwise, what do you think you’re going to do now?"
Liu Jia: "..."
Ji You said, "We’re villains, after all, we’re spies."
Liu Jia opened his mouth, whispered, "Seems like it."
He Yu held his chest, feeling sowhat emotional, "I... I thought that when we arrived at the 6th Camp, it wouldn’t be long before we would escape, but I didn’t expect... we would be undercover for so long, long enough for to almost forget my traitorous identity."
Liu Jia whispered, "I... too." He really almost thought that this ti coming out with Ji You was for a mission.
Ji You listened, feeling speechless, and upon seeing He Yu and Liu Jia’s poor ntal state, felt even more speechless: "Didn’t I tell you to sleep?"
"..." He Yu pursed his lips and said, "With these conditions, it’s a bit difficult for to sleep."
With her eyes closed, she could still sll the dampness between the gaps of the stones; He Yu really couldn’t sleep.
Liu Jia reached out, brushed the dust off himself, and said, "I’m all muddy, it’s so uncomfortable, I can’t sleep."
Then, the two thought they would hear a sympathetic word from Ji You, but Ji You said, "You’re picky about the environnt for sleeping?"
He Yu, Liu Jia: "..."
Is it... not allowed?
He Yu and Liu Jia held back this question, not daring to ask it, because they both felt that saying such words in front of Ji You was not sothing they could confidently do.
"Do you think you’re on holiday?" Ji You glared at the two with drooping faces, and said in a very serious tone, "Wake up, my little darling babies, next ti I tell you to sleep, you must sleep, even if you have to knock yourselves out, just go to sleep!"
He Yu and Liu Jia didn’t respond, and Ji You’s tone grew more somber: "I’ll say this once, do you think arenas, future battlefields... are sothing you can choose? You have no right to choose. The outbreak of war isn’t sothing you can control; the only thing you can do is manage yourselves. At any ti, you must work hard to find opportunities, and if there are no opportunities, create them and keep yourselves in the best state."
"Look at your current state?" Ji You squinted, her tone bearing a hint of severity, "If this match were to last two days, maybe even three, four days... the more it drags on in the end, the lesser ti you have to rest. Will you carry on in this state?"
Liu Jia and He Yu, imagining such a possibility, hung their heads.
Ji You said, "Frankly, with your current condition, forget two or three days, you wouldn’t last two hours."
The two felt ashad.
Indeed, although the real battle hadn’t begun, just the journey alone had exhausted them, making them feel a bit fatigued. If it lasted any longer... even He Yu, who was very confident in herself, began to doubt her ability to persist.
Ji You listened to the rumblings outside, squinted, and said, "Now, I’m giving you five minutes to sleep for five minutes, then set off imdiately."
The two were stunned: "Huh?"
Ji You’s dark eyes were intense: "Sleep."
No matter if they could actually fall asleep, He Yu and Liu Jia instinctively closed their eyes. He Yu could hear Ji You’s calm, steady breathing by her ear, very rhythmic... but He Yu thought there was no way she could sleep. She could still hear the interference from the outside; it seed a battle had already broken out sowhere, where could it be?
Where could it be?
...
Sohow, He Yu felt her head grow heavy, her eyelids started to droop...
Whoosh~
Whoosh~
Beside her, there ca two long breaths, Ji You raised her eyebrows, and thought to herself: [Who said they couldn’t fall asleep? Aren’t they sleeping soundly now?]
Then—
Spiritual World.
Lying on Old Five’s head, Fourth was in a very listless state: [Master, Sisi is exhausted, next ti don’t let Sisi do such work.]
As he said this.
Fourth curled up even tighter, barely as big as a fingernail, lying on Old Five’s massive head. Its shadow couldn’t be found at all, and if it weren’t for its Spiritual Silk, Ji You might really not have been able to find it.
Ji You said, "Fourth, well done, I’ll reward you with candy beans when we’re back."
As expected, sweet words are no match for rewards. Fourth, who was originally weak and ready to kick the bucket, suddenly straightened up, eyes wide at Ji You: [Master, can I eat the candy beans now?]
Ji You said, "No, not now."
Upon hearing this, Fourth was a bit disappointed, but not too much, and instead energetically started counting: [I warned Master 3 tis, got 3 candy beans as a reward. Found a hidden passage, got 2 candy beans and 1 cup of Cloud Mist Milk Tea as a reward. Helped Master fight moths, got 1 candy bean as a reward...]
Ji You listened, and listened, beginning to feel a bit dizzy.
Then—
Fourth suddenly slapped its tail loudly: [Wow! I’ve counted, Master owes 99 candy beans, and 10 cups of Cloud Mist Tea in total.]
Ji You nearly fainted: "How... how can that be?"
Fourth: [Sisi has everything noted down.]
Ji You steadied herself and firmly denied it: "No way!"
Fourth was dumbfounded, as it hadn’t considered the possibility of Master defaulting on a debt. For a mont, even soone as smart as Sisi was stunned, its whole strand stiffened, floating in the Spiritual World.
The next mont, Ji You laughed, "Silly Sisi, I rember, 99 candy beans altogether, 10 and a half cups of milk tea, half a cup was earned with Old Five for working together."
Fourth, stiff as a chopstick, knew for the first ti what it felt like when spring breezes ca overnight, and pear blossoms blood all at once... Its whole strand, from top to bottom, felt unobstructed!
So great!
Master didn’t renege on the debt!
Master is still that trustworthy good master!
Old Five, hearing himself being ntioned, jumped up in an instant, rolling constantly in midair: [Master rembered too, Master is so nice...]
Looking at Fourth and Old Five’s beaming smiles, the expression on Ji You’s face beca increasingly warm and amiable, and her tone grew softer: "All you silly kids, not just Fourth, Old Five, but also Boss, Second, Third, Sixth, I rember exactly how much reward all of you Six Strands should get."
Instantly, all six strands spun around in a frenzy~
The smile on Ji You’s face deepened.
——Silly little strands, do you know what owing a debt ans? The regular operation of owing a debt is just not to pay it back, that’s all.
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