Dawn.
Chen Shouyi was fast asleep when he vaguely felt something crawling on his back. Without thinking, he reached out and grabbed a soft, fleshy thing.
His instincts told him something was wrong. He opened his eyes, and his sleepiness vanished. He hurriedly sat up.
"Good Giant, you're squashing Little Dot to death," Shell Girl complained.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Does anything hurt?" Chen Shouyi immediately asked, his face full of concern.
He was a heavy man now, probably weighing two hundred kilograms. Even just rolling over made the bed creak as though it might fall apart at any moment.
He wouldn't have slept so deeply before, but the night before, he'd tried to force his way through the Thirty-Six Forms of Hardening. It had left his head throbbing and spinning, and the moment he lay down, he'd fallen into a dead sleep.
Shell Girl pouted. She instinctively wanted to cry, but forced herself to hold it in and obediently shook her head.
"Little Dot doesn't hurt at all!"
"Let me check!"
Still worried, Chen Shouyi pinched her little arms, legs, and chest...
He carefully examined her from head to toe and found that she really was fine.
He'd just been too nervous.
Actually, with how tough Shell Girl was now, even if he weighed ten times as much as he did, he still couldn't have squashed her to death.
"Little Dot is really amazing. You don't even feel pain after that," Chen Shouyi praised her.
Shell Girl had still been feeling a little aggrieved, but at his words, her face immediately lit up. "Little Dot is really amazing. I can help Good Giant! Last time, I even beat a huge, fierce, nasty rat to death."
It was probably the greatest feat of her life.
"How did you do