Li Chenglong blinked, at a loss for words.
"Talk! What exactly were you thinking? What kind of mindset was that?" Wen Xingtian tugged Li Chenglong's ear.
"I wasn't thinking anything special..."
Zhongzhong hung his head dejectedly and confessed, "I just figured, since I'd already drunk it despite how disgusting it was... if I didn't drink more, wouldn't I have suffered that disgust for nothing? When you're already covered in a hundred kinds of filth, why fear one more stain...?"
"..."
Wen Xingtian nearly let a curse slip out.
What a truly miraculous train of thought!
That was an argument now? Since it was already disgusting, might as well drink more?
And what the hell was this hundred kinds of filth and one more stain?
"Get back out there! Right this instant!"
Wen Xingtian snapped, "This incident was utterly outrageous. While it won't cost you two your first- and second-place titles, you certainly won't be getting many school credits! If there's a next time, you'll both get straight zeroes!"
"Scram!"
Zuo Xiaoduo and Li Chenglong emerged from Wen Xingtian's office looking thoroughly bedraggled. They exchanged a glance, both wearing rueful expressions.
"Walk enough roads at night, and sooner or later you'll run into a ghost..."
Only after walking a little farther away did Zuo Xiaoduo mutter, "We really ran into a ghost this time. But how exactly were we exposed? Who tipped him off?"
Li Chenglong looked utterly baffled. "I can't figure it out either... we hid everything pretty well whenever Teacher Wen came by..."
"With so many people using it together, there's no way they were watching only us..."
"True. Someone definitely sold us out, but who?"
"There's a traitor among us!"
"Yeah."
"Wait, Teacher Wen said earlier that we'd actually stopped drinking water at home..."
Zuo Xiaoduo snorted. "That