After the call.
Poor Chen Shouyi had to fetch some water and bathe the two Little Dots.
"Good Giant, did you go looking for that bad female giant again? Did you kiss her too?" Shell Girl scrubbed herself with exaggerated precision, imitating Chen Shouyi. She gave him a resentful look.
"Yeah, yeah. I smelled it too," Little Red Dot said, lifting her head with an innocent look.
What kind of nose did they have? He'd already taken a bath.
"We didn't kiss!" he said with his eyes wide open, lying through his teeth.
Shell Girl immediately relaxed. After thinking for a moment, she added, "Bad female giants all stink. Only Little Dot smells the best."
"I smell good too," Little Red Dot chimed in, not wanting to be left out.
"Mm, both of us smell good," Shell Girl said, uncharacteristically generous.
They were both so shameless. Was it something they were born with? Chen Shouyi grumbled to himself.
The people upstairs were very efficient.
The next morning, a special train to receive the God Corpse arrived in Zhonghai. The entire freight station and the surrounding area were sealed off under martial law.
A group of officers escorted Chen Shouyi into a large warehouse that had been cleared for the occasion. A full regiment of soldiers had come from the capital alone; with the local garrison helping out, there were probably more than a division in total.
"Isn't this a bit excessive? It's just a God Corpse. Is anyone going to try to steal it?" Chen Shouyi asked.
The officers accompanying him twitched at the corners of their mouths.
But...
Wasn't that a case of letting them eat cake while he himself starved?
This was a God Corpse—and one with Medium Divine Power, at that. It was thousands of times more