Chen Jue followed Zou Ying out of the equipment testing grounds. As they passed the restrooms at the end of the adjoining corridor, Chen Jue said, "I'm going to use the restroom."
Zou Ying's cheeks flushed slightly. "Okay!"
After watching Chen Jue enter the men's room, she hurried into the women's room next door.
Chen Jue's cannonball-like javelin throw had been somewhat sudden and had exceeded expectations, frightening Engineer Zou so badly that she had felt an urgent need to pee.
Now that Chen Jue had awakened [Wind-Listening Ears], he had naturally heard the unusual activity in her lower abdomen, but he hadn't pointed it out. Instead, he had used his own restroom break to ease the awkwardness.
When people were frightened, their sympathetic nervous systems became excited, their blood circulation accelerated, and urine production increased, stimulating the bladder and creating the urge to urinate.
When the weather turned cold, the body's metabolism accelerated and produced more endogenous water. Cold also stimulated the urinary organs and created the urge to urinate. These were all normal physiological phenomena.
In plain terms, Engineer Zou had almost wet herself from the fright Chen Jue had given her!
After finishing in the restroom, Chen Jue deliberately took his time coming out. At the end of the corridor, he saw Zou Ying, who had already tidied herself up and regained her composure. The two chatted as they left the equipment testing grounds, then boarded a base shuttle outside and headed to the Equipment Research Building several kilometers away.
After entering the building and passing through layer after layer of security checks, Chen Jue listened to Zou Ying's introduction while taking a cursory look at the researchers testing all sorts of bizarre equipment in the glass-partitioned laboratories.
"This feels so advanced!"
"So this is where