Chapter 79: Changes
Want to go out?
Huli froze when she heard Yu Sheng, then hurriedly dried the remaining bowls with her tails. She casually grabbed another tail and wiped the sesame sauce from her mouth. "Okay, I'm ready..."
Yu Sheng's eye twitched as he looked at the girl. "It's not that urgent—you wiped your mouth with your tail?"
Huli lowered her head and looked at the sesame sauce on the tip of her tail. Only then did she belatedly realize what she had done. She put her tail back into the sink and scrubbed it clean, then gave it a vigorous shake in front of Yu Sheng.
"I'm used to it..." she muttered softly. "I forgot there were more useful things in the house."
"It's fine, no big deal." Yu Sheng wiped the water from his face. "Also, be careful of people standing nearby—and electrical appliances—next time you shake off water."
"Ah, sorry, benefactor!" Huli only then realized that she had splashed Yu Sheng's face. She immediately panicked and hurried over, rubbing his face messily with another dry tail. As she wiped, she asked, "So... where are we going? Do we need to fight?"
"Stop, stop, I can wipe it myself—" Yu Sheng frantically pushed away the tail rubbing his face, then spat out two silvery-white tufts of fur. "We're going back to that valley, but we probably won't need to fight this time."
Huli stopped moving at once, her entire body going rigid where she stood.
The tension and fear in her eyes naturally escaped no one's notice—in fact, Yu Sheng had known she would react this way even before he spoke.
But that was precisely why he felt Huli had to take a look at the valley and see its strange changes for herself.
"Don't be afraid.