Chapter 172
Chapter 172
As the Little Girl stretched lazily…
A yellowed scroll, its edges spitting sparks, unfurled before the three of them.
[Character Unlocked: Amusement Park Mascot-Huohuo]
[Mascot Huohuo Interaction Rules]
[1. Huohuo has a bit of a fiery temper. If she asks you for water, do everything in your power to satisfy her.]
[2. Huohuo will not harm visitors of her own accord. Unless the visitors fail to satisfy her demands, or make her angry.]
[3. Huohuo’s body is corrosive to Thermal Protective Suits. Please avoid direct contact whenever possible.]
[4. Bullying Huohuo, driving Huohuo away, or ignoring Huohuo will all be met with severe punishment.]
Once the information finished displaying, the yellowed scroll immediately caught fire in midair and vanished before their eyes.
But at that moment, Jiang Li noticed another serious problem.
The temperature inside the iron compartment was clearly starting to rise.
The mascot before them, Huohuo, came with a fire attribute of her own.
Her appearance was heating up the room.
As a result, Jiang Li and the other two, whose Health Points had originally been relatively stable, were now seeing their values drop at an accelerated rate.
“Wh-what are you trying to do?” Liang Chen stared warily at the Little Girl.
The Little Girl was sitting on the floor, picking up the three daggers lying there.
She had melted the three daggers into little metal balls and was now holding them in both hands, tossing them back and forth as if showing off a juggling trick.
The Little Girl was having the time of her life when she suddenly heard Liang Chen call out to her. Her hands paused.
All the metal balls rolled to the floor and scattered in every direction.
The Little Girl turned her head and looked at Liang Chen pitifully. “Big sister, do you have any water? I’m thirsty now. I want water.”
The Little Girl immediately put the three of them in a difficult position.
Unable to tell whether the Little Girl was good or bad, Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao exchanged a glance.
Then the two of them opened their backpacks and pulled out one bottle of drink and two bottles of mineral water.
One of the bottles of mineral water was even one Jiang Li had drunk from before, which Zhao Siyao had been carrying for her in her backpack.
There wasn’t much left in the three bottles.
In such a dry, high-temperature environment, water was extremely important to the human body.
“Jiang Li, this is all the water we have left.” Liang Chen sounded uncertain.
The unspoken question in her words was directed at Jiang Li: should they give all the water to this Huohuo?
Inside this giant oven, the human body lost water at a terrifying rate.
They had Thermal Protective Suits on, so the “thermal protection” part was taken care of, but the dryness remained a problem.
In truth, the three of them had wanted to finish the water long ago.
But considering the Ferris wheel ride would last fifteen minutes, they had decided to conserve it a little and at least save one mouthful for when they were unbearably thirsty.
Yet now that they had run into Huohuo, didn’t that mean all their water was going to be looted clean?
Jiang Li thought of the first rule for interacting with Huohuo.
[Huohuo has a bit of a fiery temper. If she asks you for water, do everything in your power to satisfy her.]
“Give it to her. If we really get thirsty, we can endure it for a while. The game will be over soon.”
Jiang Li nodded at Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao.
Jiang Li was not especially worried about the water issue.
Huohuo probably would not stay here for long.
Once Huohuo left, Jiang Li could take out the Honey Water she had stored in the Space and temporarily solve their thirst problem.
The Ferris wheel’s operating time was not that long.
The Honey Water Jiang Li had stored up was more than enough to handle this urgent need for the next few minutes.
Although… using Honey Water as drinking water really was a bit of a waste.
Jiang Li recalled the few days after she returned to Huaguo.
She had tried many times to access the Space and stockpile some useful supplies.
But the storage ability of the Paper House seemed to only function in the Aberration World.
So she had no choice but to give up on the idea of hoarding supplies.
As she was thinking, Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao had already placed the three bottles of water on the floor.
Huohuo crawled over and hugged the three bottles to her chest.
She opened the caps one by one, then bottle after bottle, poured all the liquid inside straight into her mouth.
The instant the mineral water and the drink touched Huohuo’s mouth, they all evaporated with a hiss.
“Not enough! There’s not enough water!” Huohuo lifted the bottles and shook the last two drops into her mouth.
“Is there any more water, sisters?”
Huohuo widened her large red-pupiled Eyes and, kneeling on the floor, crawled on all fours to Jiang Li.
Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao had no extra water left, so they could only shake their heads at Jiang Li.
Jiang Li noticed that after Huohuo drank water, the three of their Health Points had clearly stabilized for a while.
But when Huohuo had no water, the temperature inside must have continued to rise, because their Health Points started dropping again.
It seemed that as long as they satisfied Huohuo’s desire to drink water, they could prevent the temperature inside the iron compartment from continuing to climb and slow the decline of the players’ Health Points.
Jiang Li guessed that Huohuo’s presence might cause the temperature in the iron compartment to rise from the second level to the third.
Seeing that Jiang Li still had not responded to her after all this time, Huohuo threw herself onto the floor and began rolling around in a tantrum.
“Water, water!! I want water, I want water, I want water!!”
Huohuo lay on the iron floor, kicking both legs and rolling all over the place.
They could not ignore Huohuo. They could not drive Huohuo away.
And they had to satisfy Huohuo’s request for water…
But right now, their water supply was completely exhausted. What were they supposed to do?