Chapter 701: 701: In Maintenance

The following day, the King’s Headquarters Building was extraordinarily bustling.

Because Yan Qingwen had returned.

And she had returned unscathed – Yan Qingwen, Su Man, Lu Yuwen, Zhu Shu, none of them were missing.

These four people couldn’t say what they had gone through. They looked relaxed when they returned, but they were also terribly fatigued. They didn’t take the time talk about their ordeal in the maze and instead went straight to their rooms to sleep.

As they slept, the outside was in uproar, filled with joy and celebration.

Because Yan Qingwen’s return meant that the base’s four kings had all retained their positions from the first battle. It was a cause worth celebrating.

At noon that very day, Bai Youwei received notice: There would be a victory banquet in the Headquarters Building restaurant the following evening.

She didn’t really care, but Tan Xiao and Pan Xiaoxin were both very joyous. Even the staff who could be seen everywhere in the building were overflowing with happiness.

Perhaps because, this is the way people liked to encourage themselves.

However, Teacher Cheng was not among the invited.

Because his examination results had not yet arrived, he was temporarily restricted from traveling about and couldn’t interact with crowds, let alone attend such a banquet.

Fortunately, Teacher Cheng was open-minded and didn’t care for such things. He packed up his stuff and moved into the Dollhouse—

The Dollhouse had undergone a significant transformation.

What was originally just a house on the top of a hill now had flower beds in front, vegetable gardens at the rear, a wood frame overgrown with grape vines, and a few chickens fluttering their wings occasionally in the distance.

Teacher Cheng, dressed in a high-necked sweater with his trousers rolled up and gloves on his hands, was hard at work in the backyard, looking somewhat unorthodox. He was trying to expand the fish pond he had drilled earlier.

No doubt, he was preparing for his future food reserves.

Straightforward Teacher Cheng was only mindful of covering his upper body, little realizing that the tiny scales on his heels had long been clearly seen by Bai Youwei.

Bai Youwei sat with her legs propped up, sunning them on the balcony on the second floor.

Exposure to the sun promoted the absorption of calcium in the bones, which is also a way to guard against osteoporosis and one of the ways of self-care.

Downstairs, Teacher Cheng straightened up and waved at Bai Youwei, “Weiwei, I am going to pick a few eggs. Let’s have an egg pancake tonight.”

“Okay~” came Bai Youwei’s languid reply.

They hadn’t any experience in poultry farming, and the chickens they kept ran all over the place, laying their eggs here and there with no predictable spot.

They were content if they got any eggs to eat. Given the great living conditions at the Headquarters Building, there were no fresh eggs in the restaurant, only century eggs and salted duck eggs…

As Bai Youwei collected her thoughts from random things, she shifted her gaze, picked up her prepared face masks, and began to apply them one by one on her legs.

While sunbathing was indeed good, overexposure could accelerate skin aging and cause dryness due to loss of moisture. That’s why she had to replenish the moisture of her legs from time to time.

While masking her legs, which made it inconvenient to move around, Bai Youwei picked up her nail polish and began to paint her nails.

After finishing her fingernails, she painted her toenails.

A severed hand, weak and staggering, crawled towards her.

Bai Youwei was really frustrated at it, and with a swift kick, pushed it away.

She didn’t know if its character was influenced by Mary, despite being only a severed hand, it was fond of dressing up, coiling dozens of necklace-bracelets around its arm, its fingers full of rings, looking ever so silly with all the pearls and jewels.@@novelbin@@

The severed hand rolled around, the pearl necklace, the jade bracelet, and the gold bangles on its arm jingling and jangling. It crawled back towards the nail polish, relentless in its pursuit.

“Alright then, stop shoving, I’ll paint for you,” Bai Youwei said, cringing at the sight. “Once your nails are done, you can go pick up the eggs, understand?”

The severed hand lifted one of its fingers into a hook, kind of like nodding in agreement.

Suddenly struck by a thought, Bai Youwei curved her lips into a smile, saying to the severed hand, “I’ll give you a really good paint job…”