Zhou Dongdong was a clever little girl, so she was a tiny bit suspicious. Chang'an had stopped her from properly playing games first thing in the morning and was saying all sorts of strange things beside her—was he actually trying to get her to be helpful to others?
But Zhou Dongdong was also a brave little girl. Brave little girls had a powerful curiosity and desire to explore the unknown, so she raised a hand and felt the top of her head, trying to see if she could touch her health bar.
"You can't touch a health bar." Liu Chang'an pointed at her game screen. "Look at the little character in your game. It walks around, and its health bar is always above its head. When it jumps, the health bar rises too, but it still can't touch it."
So that was how it was! Zhou Dongdong suddenly understood.
"Then how much health do I have left on my health bar?" Zhou Dongdong was a little worried. She got beaten every day—had her health bar been reduced by a lot too? Characters in games lost health whenever they were hit. Just now, when hers fell off a cliff, its entire health bar vanished with a whoosh, just like how Zhou Dongdong sometimes felt after being beaten: as though her whole little self hurt so much she couldn't move.
"Every time you get beaten, you lose a little health. But because you eat a lot, you replenish it, so you're still at full health now." Liu Chang'an seized the chance to patiently instruct her. "You're already at full health. When we have breakfast later, you only need to lick the bones of the smoked duck. After all, you know that replenishing health while you're at full health is wasteful. Didn't your