Yu Sheng's Alchemy Experiment
He couldn't sleep anymore. Even without Eileen making a racket beside him, he still couldn't fall asleep.
His first proper Otherworld exploration had probably left him genuinely excited. Perhaps he had also taken in too much information lately, and it was all bubbling up in his mind now. Yu Sheng couldn't stop his wild thoughts, so after tossing and turning and barely sleeping for two or three hours, he finally got up. He casually draped a coat over his pajamas and quietly prepared to leave the bedroom.
The moment he pushed open the bedroom door, the little doll on the bed suddenly sat bolt upright again, her eyes still closed. "Going out? Where are you going?"
Yu Sheng froze and was just about to answer when Eileen flopped back down again. As she fell, she mumbled, "Don't forget to bring your helmet when you buy money. You and the silly fox ate yourselves full but still didn't take me gaming..."
What a jumble of sleep-talk. Wait, why did a doll not only need to sleep, but also actually fall asleep and talk in her sleep?!
A strange urge to complain rose in Yu Sheng's heart. After confirming that Eileen hadn't woken up, he quietly pushed the door open and stepped into the hallway.
The sun had not yet risen. Outside the house, endless night still reigned. It was the quietest time before dawn, and everything inside and outside the house was so silent that even the sound of his slippers against the floor seemed especially loud and jarring.
Yu Sheng looked left and right. He first saw the door at the end of the hallway. He walked over and cautiously opened it a crack to check inside. Seeing that everything in the room was as usual,