March 7th was delighted to see Jiang Yu's rosy cheeks, and happy to hear his clear, full voice.
All of this proved one thing: Little Fish was still the same lively, optimistic Little Fish.
But...
Hearing Jiang Yu's utterly confident words, March 7th sank into thought.
Everyone else nearby had also noticed that Jiang Yu was awake and was pleasantly surprised, but none of them rashly approached to disturb him.
Besides, March 7th could ask the very question puzzling them.
"But when Uncle Yang examined you just now, your body no longer had normal vital signs. Doesn't that mean you were dead?"
"Of course not." Jiang Yu shook his head.
The boy's gray eyes held a serious look. Gazing into March 7th's eyes, he said in an exceptionally earnest, solemn tone, "I wasn't dead just now. The explosion just accidentally knocked my soul out of my body."
After a brief moment of thought, Jiang Yu had failed to find a suitable description for his previous state, so he had settled on something relatively close.
His words made everyone else's minds buzz.
Leaving aside having his soul knocked out by an explosion... was leaving one's body even something a soul could do accidentally?
Noticing everyone's somewhat stunned expressions, Jiang Yu frowned slightly and spoke again:
"I need to correct your understanding. Being dead is being dead, and having your soul leave your body is having your soul leave your body. They're two different things. My soul leaving my body doesn't mean I died. I was actually alive the whole time."
Everyone: "..." Something felt off, but he did seem to have a point!
Having said that, Jiang Yu paid them no further attention and instead reached down to touch the floor beneath him.
Although this place was a Grotto-Heaven aboard the