Scientific Travel

At first, Gou Dan didn't understand what she was up to; Deng Yin hadn't informed him before making the plan. But then, twenty cakes were devoured in half an hour, and Gou Dan realized.

It turns out that performing in the street really works!

No one in Shimu City had ever seen Deng Yin's true face. Considering that there might be many people here with superb disguise skills, she didn't waste time disguising herself but instead put on a mask.

The mask was entirely silver-white, with a layer of silver gauze on top. It was very large, and when worn, not a single inch of skin was visible on the face.

When Deng Yin returned after all the cakes had been sold, she looked at the empty shelves and exclaimed in shock, "It's true that no matter the era, fans are always the richest."

Dog Egg didn't understand what she was saying: "What did you say?"

"It's nothing," Deng Yin said. "Since all the cakes have been sold, let's close early."

The watermelon cake shop became an instant hit, and many people traveled long distances to try what the gods liked to eat.

Cui Wuji, who was in the palace, also heard about this matter. After the morning court session, he kept Zhao Shanglan behind alone.

"I heard you went to the watermelon cake shop yourself," Cui Wuji asked. "How was it? Was it delicious?"

Zhao Shanglan replied, "Not bad."

"Not just 'not bad,' right?" Cui Wuji said with a smile. "If it were only this level, it wouldn't have warranted such a grand banquet for you yesterday, with cake being the last dish served."

Zhao Shanglan raised an eyebrow, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

Cui Wuji cut to the chase: "Is it her?"

Zhao Shanglan didn't hide anything. "Yes."

......

Deng Yin was in a good mood because all the cakes had been sold out so early, and decided to have hot pot for dinner.

Although Gou Dan is a terrible cook, he can still manage to wash and chop vegetables. The pot he made for Bai Guo was still in the old house, but Deng Yin put it into his spatial dimension along with the house.

There was no dust in the space, so Gou Dan simply rinsed the pot twice with water and considered it clean. Deng Yin had a lot of seasonings in her space, and she asked Gou Dan, "Can you eat spicy food?"

"Yes," Gou Dan replied to Deng Yin while chopping vegetables.

The pot is a divided pot; Deng puts spicy broth in one half and milk in the other.

I don't know if food cooked in milk tastes good. Anyway, there are two bases. Dog Egg can eat spicy food. If this one doesn't taste good, I'll eat the other one.

Deng Yin's cooking always looks strange, but it always tastes good. As soon as the pot was boiling, Gou Dan dipped a piece of chicken into the milk-based broth.

I don't know how it tastes, but it looks pretty disgusting.

Dog Egg prepared two bowls of dipping sauce. The two bowls contained the same ingredients. He prepared two bowls because one was for dipping in the spicy broth and the other was for dipping in the milk broth.

The milk brings out the chicken's gamey smell, but the spiciness in the dipping sauce masks it, creating a balance that makes it feel like drinking spicy milk.

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't particularly delicious either.

However, Deng Yin really liked the flavor and basically only ate the milk hot pot.

Sales were great today; all twenty cakes were sold in just half an hour. After lunch, Deng Yin worked overtime and made fifty cakes this time.

She did it in the space, which meant that even though Gou Dan felt like he had slept for a long time, it was still dark when he opened his eyes.

This has been going on for several days in a row. Now Gou Dan can't sleep at night and is extremely sleepy during the day. He looks exhausted every day.

Deng Yin thought he was just trying to slack off, and criticized him several times for it.

Another night, Gou Dan couldn't sleep, so he knocked on Deng Yin's door, wanting to ask her if she had any things to help him sleep.

After knocking on the door for a long time without getting a response, Gou Dan shouted, "If you don't say anything, I'm coming in!"

Still no one responded.

Dog Egg gently pushed open the door. The bed was neatly made, and the blankets hadn't even been unfolded.

No one was inside.

He thought Deng Yin had gone out, and since he couldn't sleep anyway, he simply sat down and waited for her.

Two hours! Gou Dan sat there for a full two hours! Deng Yin still hadn't returned.

Dog Egg felt something was off. After finishing a pot of herbal tea, he finally realized what was wrong.

The weather looks off.

Although I don't know how long I slept, it must have been at least an hour. Add to that the two hours I spent waiting for Deng Yin, and it couldn't possibly still be this dark.

Dog Egg suddenly felt an absurd sense of being the only person left in the world, so he ran to knock on his neighbor's door.

No one answered.

Gou Dan climbed over the wall and went inside. There was a dog tied up in the yard. Gou Dan picked up a small stone and threw it at the dog.

The stone fell to the ground with a soft thud, but the sound was enough to wake the dog.

Gou Dan crept up to the dog, lightly poked its rear end, and before the dog could react, he ran away.

He only dared to look back when he had run to a safe distance. The dog remained motionless, still lying there.

Dog Egg suppressed his fear and placed his hand in front of the dog's nose.

No breathing...

Gou Dan suddenly remembered the last time Deng Yin disappeared out of thin air. Everyone said he was just imagining things. What about now?

It is said that sleeping people do not feel pain, so Gou Dan gently pinched his arm.

There is pain.

This isn't a dream...

The next second, a sudden change occurred. The dog that Gou Dan had unilaterally declared dead came back to life. After opening its eyes, it looked at the person in front of it and, without any hesitation, jumped up to bite him.

Dog Egg wasn't paying attention to it and didn't react for a moment, instinctively raising its hand to protect itself.

The dog bit Gou Dan's arm, and the pain made the veins on his forehead bulge.

Dog Egg remembered that he was at someone else's house. Ignoring the pain, he forcefully pried open the dog's mouth. The blood on his palm mingled with the blood on his arm, and the once ferocious dog's mouth was dislocated after Dog Egg's pry.

A dog that can't close its mouth can only attract attention by barking loudly to catch a thief.

Dog Egg was in so much pain that he saw stars. He climbed over the wall with one hand and, instead of going back to his own room, went into Deng Yin's room.

Sure enough, Deng Yin was in the room.

"Who!" Unable to see clearly in the darkness, Deng Yin pulled out his stun gun and stared intently at the dark figure in front of him.

"it's me."

Gou Dan's voice sounded extremely weak. Deng Yin lit a candle, and despite being mentally prepared, he was still shocked by the amount of blood he had lost.

"You went to kill someone?" Deng Yin said, but his hands didn't stop moving at all.

Deng Yin tore open Gou Dan's sleeve and, by the candlelight, could see how serious the injury to his arm was.

Blood was gushing from the two bloody holes, and the flesh next to the holes was turned inside out. The wounds were so deep that it looked like they had pierced through the arm.

Deng Yin frowned and asked, "What happened to you?" She took out a bowl of river water from her spatial storage and poured it on the wound. The bleeding from the two small, gushing holes immediately decreased.

"I was bitten by a dog." Gou Dan didn't want to say more; she hadn't forgotten that it all had to do with the woman in front of her.