I Have Yet to Become a Doll Today-Chapter 1288: Extra Story of Du Fu 14 (Additional Content for Drunk by Lamplight Viewing the Lowly)
She probably realized it was inappropriate herself, and after speaking, she awkwardly pressed her lips together, then straightened her back and said arrogantly:
"At worst, I’ll give you money. My family has plenty of money. Is twenty million enough?"
Du Lai looked at her without speaking.
Staring at someone silently like that, without a hint of a smile, he seemed a bit creepy.
The young lady bit her lip, finally toned down her attitude, "...My legs really hurt, and my feet hurt too, I can’t walk. Besides, what if there are snakes if you leave me here alone? If I die, you won’t get any money."
Du Lai looked at her for a while, then suddenly smiled, nodded, and said, "All right, twenty million."
The young lady: "..."
Du Lai squatted down in front of the young lady.
...
It’s nothing.
Carrying her for a while, earning an extra ten million, it’s quite a bargain.
People always say a man’s knees are worth gold, he hasn’t even knelt yet, and the gold is already in hand (of course, provided they make it out alive).
Du Lai picked her up onto his back, had her carry a cage, and walked into the jungle.
The vegetation along the coast was not very dense, mostly low shrubs, but going deeper, the trees crowded together, and the path became increasingly difficult to tread.
Du Lai didn’t push himself hard, he walked a bit and then rested for a while, taking the opportunity to mark their path.
The young lady nervously surveyed the surroundings, feeling that the forest was ghostly dark, stuffy, and damp, with hanging vines resembling slippery snakes. Sometimes the branches brushing against her skin would startle her.
She kept worrying that some animal or bugs would suddenly jump out...
When Du Lai was marking, she didn’t dare to stray too far, she followed closely behind him and softly asked, "Where are we heading now? I’m so thirsty..."
Du Lai gripped a flat stone he had just picked up from the beach, and scraped hard against the tree trunk, leaving behind a mark resembling an arrow.
This way, if a rescue team discovered the "SOS," they could follow these marks to find him and her.
"Moving higher gives a clear view of the terrain, while moving lower makes it easier to find a water source." He explained, "The area around water sources is usually the most dangerous because the jungle’s creatures also need water, and they might gather near the water source."
The young lady was scared after hearing this, "Let’s just go back to the coast, at worst we can tolerate drinking sea water."
Du Lai: "..."
He realized this young lady was not only willful, overbearing, and irrational, but also particularly lacking in common sense.
Is sea water something you can drink?
"The salt concentration in sea water is four times that of bodily fluids; drinking it would only make you thirstier, and the concentration of various substances in it is very high. Apart from potentially causing dehydration, severe cases could lead to poisoning." Du Lai said.
The young lady, with red eyes, asked, "Then how long will it take for us to find a water source?"
Du Lai: "Don’t know."
Really didn’t know. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
Maybe a few more steps and they’d stumble upon a spring, or maybe after walking for several more hours they’d still be wandering aimlessly in the forest, he couldn’t make any promises.
Du Lai bent down to carry her again, and added, "Even if we find a water source, it might not be safe to drink. The springs and streams in this jungle are full of bacteria and parasites."
The young lady became even more desperate, lying on Du Lai’s back and asked, "Does that mean we have no way out?! Think of something! I can raise the price! Thirty million, forty million, fifty million! I’ll give you a hundred million if need be!"
Du Lai just wanted to laugh upon hearing this.
He now understood, when talking to this young lady, you can’t take her seriously.
If you do, you’ll get angry, but if you just think of her as foolish and ignorant, then all that’s left in her words is the humor.
