"Bastard! Of course I know you look with your eyes. Humans only have two of them, after all."
"What else would you look with? Your butt? Your toes?"
Huo Wujìu had no idea why he was discussing such a pointless subject, but he answered anyway. "Some people do look with other parts of their bodies. Take Xing Tian from the myths. After his head was cut off, his—"
"Stop, stop. Keep going and we'll get censored."
Wen Zhishu held up a hand to stop him. "My point is, I have eyes too. So why can't I see any of this? You were just brushing me off, weren't you?"
"I was calling you out!"
Shen Yu offered a sincere apology. "Sorry. I didn't understand what you meant."
"Enough!" Wen Zhishu grabbed at his hair in frustration. "You clever people need to stop assuming I'm like you. I can't take one look and see the truth, or exchange a glance with someone and understand everything. I'm an ordinary guy!"
"In other words, I'm the kind of idiot who won't know what's going on unless you lay out every clue and the whole truth in plain language."
"So would you two geniuses please stop speaking in riddles and making me guess? Just tell me what to do, and I'll do it. And don't expect me to understand your unspoken plans. If I don't know what you're planning, I'll only mess things up. Got it?"
Wen Zhishu practically roared the last words.
"Got it." Shen Yu quickly raised a hand. "Don't be so angry."
Huo Wujìu laughed. "All right. I understand."
"Actually... you don't need to worry about that. Whenever I make a plan that involves you, I account for that variable too."
Shen Yu said what he had kept to himself, hoping to