Chapter 540 — The Great Discovery
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"Xiaoshu, why do I have this strange feeling?" Gu Mengyao frowned. Something felt off, though she could not quite put her finger on it. In any case, Zhong Yongliang had been acting oddly all day.
"I've been feeling strange all along, Yao-yao. Why did you bring me here? It's no fun at all!" Shen Yushu scratched her head and frowned. "Yao-yao, you're not hoping to have a quick roll in the wild with Zhong Yongliang, are you?"
"Shut your mouth! As if!" Gu Mengyao went for Shen Yushu in a fury. "With him... doing that? I'd sooner die!"
"Oh! Then who do you want to do it with?" Shen Yushu asked.
"I want... I want nothing of the sort! I don't want it at all!" Gu Mengyao had nearly fallen into Shen Yushu's trap. "Xiaoshu, what is going on in that head of yours? Or is it you who's been thinking about it?"
"I'm just curious, it's not that I really want to!" Shen Yushu, caught out, showed no embarrassment at all; if anything, she grew more curious.
"Then wait for Wei Zhao to come back and try it with him!" Gu Mengyao said crossly.
"And you?" Shen Yushu asked.
"Me what?" Gu Mengyao was beside herself. Why did her best friend have to keep bringing up such nonsense? Was it some surplus of adolescent hormones?
"Are you going to try it or not?" Shen Yushu, utterly unbothered by Gu Mengyao's anger, pressed on.
"I'll try it with you, then!" Gu Mengyao was about to faint with rage.
"Oh, now I get it! Yao-yao, you really do like me — no wonder you get jealous the moment I mention Arrow-Brand Bro. You're a lesbian!" Shen Yushu said, as though a great truth had just dawned on her.
Gu Mengyao had nothing left to say. She knew Shen Yushu was only joking, and whether she explained or not made no difference; the more she explained, the angrier she would only become.
After a while, judging that the incense in the cave had reached about the right density, Gao Xiaofu nodded. Zhong Yongliang walked to the mouth of the cave and called out to Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu: "Mengyao, a great discovery, a great discovery!"
Gu Mengyao looked up, drew a deep breath, and pressed down the anger Shen Yushu had stoked in her before asking: "What great discovery?"
"Come over and you'll see! There's actually a door inside this cave!" Zhong Yongliang shouted. "It's the strangest thing!"
"Oh?" Gu Mengyao was taken aback. How could there be a door in a cave? She grabbed Shen Yushu and quickened her pace toward the cave.
When they reached the cave mouth, following the beam of Zhong Yongliang's flashlight, they indeed saw a security door, and she froze. "There really is a door here? What's going on? Does someone live here?"
"I don't know — we've been puzzling over it for ages and still can't make sense of it!" Zhong Yongliang said, a note of worry in his voice. "How about we call it a day here? This place gives me the creeps!"
"Go knock on the door!" How could Gu Mengyao give up now? Especially after seeing the door — which meant someone lived here. The first possibility that came to her mind was that her mother was living in seclusion here. Strange as it seemed, impulse had already outstripped reason.
"I... " Zhong Yongliang could only nod. "Since the lady asks, I'll risk my neck. But mind you, if anything happens, don't blame me — we're in this together, after all!"
"Why do you have to prattle so much? Hurry up!" Gu Mengyao was anxious, and seeing Zhong Yongliang dawdle only made her more impatient — yet in her impatience she noticed she was feeling dizzy, and she had no idea why. As Zhong Yongliang walked over and knocked on the door, Gu Mengyao grew dizzier and dizzier, and gradually her eyelids grew too heavy to hold up, as though she would drop off to sleep at any moment. "Xiaoshu, I'm so sleepy..."
"Me too, Yao-yao, I want to sleep..." No sooner had Shen Yushu finished speaking than she pitched headlong into Gu Mengyao's arms. And Gu Mengyao, pushed by Shen Yushu's weight, fell to the ground and slept.