In the dark, spacious underground cavern, Long Hair looked somewhat dejected.
Yu Sheng was astonished to see this. It was the first time he had ever seen such a depressed, gloomy expression on the girl's face. Rapunzel was an out-and-out optimist on a normal day. Her mental state was, if not terminally necrotic, then at least permanently like someone who had eaten mushrooms. Seeing her sink into genuine despondency was no easy feat.
Even Huli, who usually paid little attention to other people, noticed and asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
"Big Brother, was I wrong to urge Zheng Zhi to guide us?" Long Hair looked helplessly at Yu Sheng. "If I hadn't, he might not have gotten into trouble..."
"So you've been moping around over this?" Yu Sheng couldn't help laughing and crying at her words. "You're simply overthinking it. Before you arrived, he had already spent most of the day touring the entire area around Spirit Nurturing Peak. Does someone with that kind of drive need anyone to egg him on? And honestly, with his 'constitution,' do you really think he wouldn't have gotten lost even if you hadn't gone looking for him?"
Long Hair blinked as she listened. At first, she thought he was merely comforting her, but then she recalled Zheng Zhi's many "achievements" and suddenly felt that Yu Sheng might actually be right...
At this point, the Mermaid had also shed her fish tail and returned to human form. Yu Sheng hadn't even seen how she transformed; one moment she was there, and the next the girl was standing up. She widened her eyes and surveyed the surroundings. After several hesitant attempts to speak, she finally said, "Um, did you hear a buzzing sound?"
"A buzzing sound?" Yu Sheng asked in confusion. "I didn't hear anything. What