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Chapter 706: Do You Still Remember the Monkey?
Chapter 706: Do You Still Remember the Monkey?
Chapter 706: Chapter 706: Do You Still Remember the Monkey?
——They dispersed in displeasure.
It wasn’t quite a falling out, but it was still not far from a cold war.
Bai Youwei was still seething during the celebration feast the next day and refused to leave the dollhouse.
Shen Mo wasn’t talented at placating girls. He tried to soothe Bai Youwei with a few words but she grew tired of hearing the same two phrases and pushed him out of the door.
“You’re really not going?” Shen Mo asked her for the last time.
Bai Youwei turned her head away in disdain, expressing her contempt with a huff.
Shen Mo said, “If only three of the four kings show up, they might think you’ve given up on the competition for the title of king.”
“Then you shouldn’t go either!” Bai Youwei seethed.
“Preparing for a feast requires a lot of manpower and resources, Chu Huaijin has sincerely planned this celebration for us. If neither of us attends, it would be disrespectful.” Shen Mo’s voice was even and calm, “Besides, Yan Qingwen has come out of the maze. Don’t you want to know what happened to them? Su Man and Zhu Shu must have a lot to tell you…”
Bai Youwei lunged at him, attempting to shut him up by grabbing his mouth, “You are really annoying!”
Shen Mo caught her hands with ease, subduing her and coolly said, “You’ve been more lively since your leg recovered.”
Bai Youwei: “…”
Teacher Cheng chimed in from the side, cheerfully saying, “Your liveliness is a good thing, Weiwei, you were too quiet before. Weiwei, you should go with Xiaoshen. When everyone sees you standing up, they’ll surely be happy for you. You don’t have to feel embarrassed.”
Bai Youwei silently curled her lips.
Was she really not attending the feast because she felt embarrassed?
Shen Mo held her shoulders from behind, whispering, “Let’s go, it’s a narrow opportunity for everyone to gather together like this before it invariably becomes rarer and rarer.”
This was still just the preliminary round of the war, no one could predict the number of casualties that would occur as the campaign progressed.
Bai Youwei hesitated, her brow furrowed, before finally acquiescing.
…
The feast had already begun.
In the style of a buffet, the room was filled with guests clinking drinks, a record player was set up on one side of the dining area casting melodious music throughout the room in a continuous loop.
Bai Youwei had arrived with a wheelchair.
Fu Miaoxue, spotting her the moment she arrived, couldn’t resist an antagonizing remark, “I heard you made it out of the maze~ But, it couldn’t heal your legs? You’re quite the cripple~”
However, her opponent was even more brutal.
“Why did you bother coming to the feast with your fake limb? You can’t eat or drink,” Bai Youwei questioned, “Did you come to display your indigestion?”
Fu Miaoxue left, humiliated and fuming.
A soft chuckle came from Shen Mo.
Bai Youwei glared at him, annoyed, “You’re laughing while I’m being insulted!”
“No…” Shen Mo replied with a lopsided smile, “I just thought she seemed quite concerned about you. Among the crowd, she noticed you immediately, which means she must have been watching the entrance, waiting for you to arrive at the feast.”
“It’s only natural for her to care about me,” Bai Youwei muttered, “Du Lai has always been trying to transform Fu Miaoxue back into a human through leveling up in the maze. Now that neither of them went to the maze, they surely are curious as to whether my leg got healed or not. She came over here just now to poke and prod at me, trying to figure things out.”
Shen Mo glanced in the direction of Fu Miaoxue and Du Lai, “Fu Miaoxue doesn’t have many puzzle pieces, so she can’t recruit many vassals. Du Lai is a cautious person, given the lack of manpower, he certainly wouldn’t risk entering the maze casually.”
“Didn’t they charge into the maze when it was just the two of them?” Bai Youwei pointed out.
At her words, Shen Mo smiled slightly, “They were in a do-or-die situation. Now, they have puzzle pieces and props so they should strategize.”
If they managed to win more puzzle pieces and recruit more vassals, their odds of winning when they enter the maze again would be much higher.
“Ah! So, you guys are here!”
From a distance, Tan Xiao beamed as he approached them with a tall, muscular man following behind.
“Mo! Sister Weiwei! You wouldn’t believe how small the world is!” Tan Xiao excitedly held up his hand, revealing two grey clumps of mud sitting on his palm, “Do you guys remember the monkey?! He stole my and Old Cheng’s clay, but look! Now the clay is back with us!”