But... I could understand that my body, driven by its instinctive desire to reproduce, kept my eggs healthy, so
I still had periods, and be
cause of my heightened pain sensitivity and physical condition, they made me noticeably more irritable.
"Almost done... You two girls, how about giving me a hand?"
Long Bixian was bare-chested and drenched in sweat. Beads of perspiration glistened across his muscular body, and even his pants were covered in crystalline sweat stains.
Watching him pant heavily, I waved a hand.
"No way. I really don't feel like moving."
I glanced at the thermometer. Damn... it was already over forty-seven degrees.
This kind of heat could kill you!
I leaned miserably against a tree.
"Ugh... If only it would rain."
With my eyes closed, I fanned myself with a round fan and muttered. But the moment the words left my mouth, a sudden, earth-shaking crack rang out from the sky.
"Crack! Rumble, rumble, boom!"
The tremendous sound startled me. I opened my eyes instinctively and looked up.
A vast bank of dark clouds was rolling in from the distant southeast, sweeping toward us. I was overjoyed.
"Thank goodness!"
"Damn it!"
While I was delighted, Old Man Dragon looked utterly aggrieved as he stared at the clouds in the distance.
"Why couldn't you come earlier?! I've already set up the solar panels! Damn you!"
I had no idea how the old man had picked up that phrase from me. Why did the people around me always learn the wrong things?
Why didn't they learn about my open-mindedness? Or my lofty ambitions? Why did they only ever learn to swear?
Tsk! Ugh... It was hard to learn good habits, but picking up bad ones took no effort at all.
But... I wasn't in the mood to dwell on