If you bring soap, can you not take a bath?

When did "gentle" become a simple metaphor for explanation? It was clearly because explaining normally was too troublesome...

However, Zheng Yichen didn't refuse the Gentle Card sent by Katrina. In modern society, things like the Good Person Card and Gentle Card aren't very useful, but in this era without the internet and still relatively backward, they are incredibly effective for boosting favorability.

Zheng Yichen's mobile phone stored quite a few movies, but most of them were action and sci-fi films. There were also thrillers, horror, and comedies, but related to romance... none.

Even though there weren't any, Katrina was still deeply captivated. After watching a horror movie about zombies, the sky had completely darkened. The girl, sitting closer and closer to Zheng Yichen, looked at the sky with a nervous expression: "If you get bitten by those moving corpses, will you really turn into the same kind of corpse? This is different from what I know."

"It's just a dramatic effect. In reality... you might get infected too." Zheng Yichen glanced at the time on his phone. Why was he idly watching several movies? Didn't he say he was going to hunt monsters and get equipment... Right, he needed to find the exact location of the Headless Knight before taking action.

No rush.

What would happen if the corpses in this world bit someone? Zheng Yichen pondered. Most likely, the bitten person wouldn't immediately turn into a zombie. At most, they wouldn't die from the bite but would succumb to a severe wound infection. After death, perhaps after festering for a while, they would become new corpses or zombies.

Whether other worlds had zombies, he couldn't be sure.

"Changqing, can you walk me home... I'm a little scared."

Scared of a walk that was less than a kilometer? The sun hadn't even fully set yet.

"Let's go." Zheng Yichen grabbed his backpack. He also needed to find a place to stay. The Town Chief's house? Thinking about the Town Chief's Wife's previous enthusiasm, forget it, he'd find somewhere else.

Katrina's house was closer than Zheng Yichen expected, less than a kilometer away.

"If you don't have a place to stay, you can stay at my house. We have many empty rooms."

"Thank you very much." Zheng Yichen had no reason to refuse. Mainly, finding another place would be troublesome, and he didn't have money.

He had some coins, but the locals might not accept them. He also had some spices, which might have some value, but perhaps not as much as he thought. He had some sugar.

He gave Katrina a piece of chocolate.

"That Demon Hunter? Of course, our family welcomes a Demon Hunter. Having a Demon Hunter at the upcoming banquet will make it more interesting," Katrina's father, a well-dressed middle-aged man, agreed to his daughter's request. "But you shouldn't get too close to outsiders."

As for Zheng Yichen's identity as a Demon Hunter, Fantaso didn't have many doubts. Mainly because Zheng Yichen had a weapon that looked like a firearm, and he was strong enough. If a thin and weak person claimed to be a Demon Hunter, unless they demonstrated their strength, no one would easily believe them.

There had already been several murder cases in the small town. It was a good thing to have a strong Demon Hunter staying at their house at this time. If this Demon Hunter could completely solve the town's murder problem, he wouldn't mind paying a sum of money as the Town Chief requested later.

"This is your room." After getting her father's approval, Katrina immediately led Zheng Yichen to the arranged room. The room wasn't luxurious, far from the home Zheng Yichen had in Longcheng.

But when comparing, one had to consider the era. Compared to the homes of other residents in the town, this room was already very good. At least the bedding was clean enough, and the window was intact and didn't let in drafts.

"Then I won't be polite." Zheng Yichen directly placed his backpack on the bed. Under Katrina's curious gaze, he took out quite a few things. The first thing he did was plug his mobile phone into the power bank to charge it.

He didn't open the box containing the laptop, mainly because there was no internet here, so there was no use for a laptop. It was only twelve inches, shrunk as much as possible for portability, and the keyboard was inconvenient to use, making it difficult even for gaming.

"I'll be leaving for a bit," Katrina said to Zheng Yichen, as if remembering something, and left in a hurry. When she turned back, she encountered a middle-aged beautiful woman and quickly stopped. "Mother..."

"Katrina, your father told you, didn't he? Don't get too close to outsiders."

"I, I just wanted to help." Facing the gaze of the middle-aged beautiful woman, Katrina lowered her head. The middle-aged woman in front of her was not her birth mother, but her stepmother.

"I will tell your father about this. You can explain it to him yourself later." The middle-aged woman left after saying this, and Katrina hesitated for a moment before continuing towards Zheng Yichen's room.

She knocked on the door.

"The door isn't locked."

"I brought needle and thread." Katrina looked at Zheng Yichen, who was wearing a vest, and shyly averted her gaze, but couldn't help but glance back a couple of times.

"Thank you then." Zheng Yichen really wanted to say that needle and thread wouldn't be of much use for repairing his protective suit after it was damaged. To fix it better, even with makeshift methods, he'd need tough beast hides or something similar to sew onto the damaged areas.

Simply sewing it up would only make the surface look intact. But he had no reason to refuse now, did he?

"Is there a place to bathe here? I've been walking for a long time and want to take a bath." If not, he was prepared to go out in the middle of the night to the nearby river to wash up, otherwise he wouldn't be doing justice to the soap he carried with him when traveling.

"Yes, I'll take you. Do you need any clothes to change into? I..." Seeing Zheng Yichen take out his spare clothes from his backpack, she swallowed the rest of her words. She had wanted to see what Zheng Yichen would look like wearing their local clothing.

Zheng Yichen's modern clothes were vastly different from the British-style attire here. Although he didn't look uncomfortable wearing them, they always seemed a bit out of place.

But since Zheng Yichen had already taken out spare clothes, she couldn't say much. Her family had a bathroom. As a modern person, he couldn't comment on its use, but after a bath, Zheng Yichen felt refreshed.

Returning to his room, Katrina was still there. For a guy, showering meant washing his hair, scrubbing off dirt, lathering up with soap, and rinsing clean. It wouldn't take even half an hour, unless he was watching videos while bathing.

Seeing Zheng Yichen with wet hair, and with the 'just showered' buff, Katrina quickly stood up and hurried away: "I've already sewn the clothes. See you tomorrow."