“I’m so dumb. I thought I would be just a little slimmer. I didn’t expect it to be so slim…” His mechanical arms clasping on the edge of the freezing cabin, Rong Gui knelt down with a thump.
But he soon found himself to be really too short now, that once he knelt down, he couldn’t see anything. What’s more, he knelt a little too forcefully, that his arm accidentally fell down again…
What a desperate accident which added insult to injury –
And under such dreadful despair, there’s actually someone who was adding insult to the already insulted injury.
“I think this can no longer be described as ‘slim’. Shouldn’t it be called…a mummy?” Yes, that “someone” was Xiao Mei.
Straightening up his body again, Rong Gui stood on tiptoe to reach the arm that fell into the freezing cabin, but failed. With no other choice, he had to climb in to get it. Yet in this way, he would be able to examine his body closely:
Xiao Mei was right. His body was now very similar to those mummies in a certain dynasty which…he once saw during a museum visit organized by his primary school.
Similar, not only in terms of the degree of emaciation, but also somewhat in terms of the color.
The last time he saw his body, he only cast a glance at it. There was no light at that time, and he could only see with an image detector, so his grasp of his body color couldn’t be so accurate as to allow him to spot any problem with it. But even though he didn’t see clearly the color last time, at least he remembered that his body had not yet become so thin. Although all the abs were gone, it wasn’t so skinny then as if suffering from this much of dehydration!
“Am I…even thinner than the last time I saw it?” Standing between his own legs, Rong Gui momentarily forgot to search for his lost arm. He just asked Xiao Mei dryly, who’s standing next to him.
“Well, it seems that your body was still a bit affected by the incorrect way of opening the freezing cabin last time.” Xiao Mei also climbed in. His goal was very clear – once he bent down, he picked up Rong Gui’s arm and, before Rong Gui realized, already helped to put the arm back in place.
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Rong Gui took a furious look at the face of another corpse…no, body, in the coffin. As he looked, he couldn’t help but feel a stir in the heart.
Compared to Rong Gui’s own mummy-like body, Xiao Mei’s little face was like a flower, soft and fresh. His eyes were closed, and his eyelashes were sooo long, like an angel in slumber.
“Well, since you are so good-looking, Xiao Mei – just a little less than me, I’ll let it pass.” Rong Gui tentatively stretched out a finger. He originally wanted to touch Xiao Mei’s cheeks, but remembering those crushed seeds of earth beans, he finally withdrew his hand.
“Am I so good-looking? No one has ever said that before.” Xiao Mei, on the other hand, was indifferent to his praise.
Hearing Xiao Mei’s words, Rong Gui couldn’t help but feel a surge of urgent worries in his heart.
“Such beauty and yet no one has ever praised? Exactly how good-looking are people these days…” Rong Gui imagined for a moment, and then nodded, “Then I can only rely on the fine body figure to stand out.”
Xiao Mei: ……
Quickly gathering himself, Rong Gui carefully examined Xiao Mei’s face (and thus conveniently cleansed his eyes), and only then did he find: “Xiao Mei, you are still of young age!”
“Hmm, I’m still young at this point.”
“Don’t be too envious of my height now~ Haha, most people out there of my age were not as tall as I was! Not only me, basically all kids in our orphanage were taller than their peers – I’m telling you in private, there’s a secret tip to it! Unable to afford to buy milk, I would go help Butcher Wang in the market to sell pork, and the leftover pork ribs were basically all mine. Every day I would carry them back to make bone broth for everyone to drink, and it could both replenish calcium and improve the skin…”
Rong Gui did not dwell too long on the matter of age, and he began to boast about his past glory again. Yet as he boasted, he soon got a little frustrated:
“Here are probably no bones for me to make broth…”
However, Rong Gui’s frustration would never last for more than three seconds. Before finishing his last sentence, he perked up once more.
“It doesn’t matter if there are no bones. Since your people could sustain themselves only with these earth beans, then earth beans should be something quite good as well. Xiao Mei, give me a full guide on earth beans!”
Thus speaking, Rong Gui took the initiative to extend his hand, revealing the chip socket below his wrist. This was the temporary chip reading socket reserved by Xiao Mei when he previously made Rong Gui’s body, which could be connected to Xiao Mei to achieve the purpose of reading information. In the past few days, Xiao Mei indicated several times that he could share some common knowledge with Rong Gui, but after Rong Gui just used this function once, he stated that he had “a headache as soon as he started reading books”. Since then, this socket became a mere decoration. It’s really the first time that Xiao Mei met anyone who had such a low brain capacity, so low that it’s even difficult for it to store any temporary information. But now, just when he was about to find some time to completely seal the socket, this guy actually held out the socket himself.
How incredible – inserting his own plug into the socket on the other’s body, Xiao Mei sighed to himself deep in the heart for the first time.
However –
Watching Rong Gui, who became quiet and looked like a real robot for the first time, Xiao Mei inwardly felt a little relieved.
Why relieved?
Perhaps, it was because the other had shifted the attention so quickly from his body to learning the common knowledge related to earth beans?
This saved him a lot of troubles.
Such as explaining why he chose to hide in this place, fending off the other’s defiance resulting from his action of sharing the nutrient solution, or countering the other’s scorn when the other saw his young self inside the freezing cabin…
Xiao Mei gazed quietly at himself in the freezing cabin – a self much younger in age, as if looking at a stranger.
Author has something to say:
Xiao Mei was unfamiliar to his own body.
He had abandoned his body a long time ago.
He didn’t love himself.
But Rong Gui was a person who cherished his own body too much, and it just so happened that Xiao Mei’s body was next to his own, so he conveniently cherished Xiao Mei’s body altogether.
Don’t worry, he’d ask Xiao Mei to help him on this~
Thanks for the chapter! ❤
Thank you for the chapter ❤
Look at Xiao Mei’s original body’s face for (eye) cleansing!
Look how optimistic my Ah Gui is (ㆁωㆁ)
Isn’t it adorable? Xiao Mei doesn’t love himself so Ah Gui will do it for him
Thank you very much for this chapter! (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧