Chapter 173
Chapter 173
“So anything that quenches your thirst will do?” Jiang Li asked the crying Huohuo.
When the Little Girl heard Jiang Li responding to her, she sat up and stared at Jiang Li, then nodded hard. “Mm!”
After receiving the Little Girl’s confirmation, Jiang Li immediately rolled up her sleeve and held out her arm.
“I don’t have any water, only human blood. I’ll die because of this, but… as long as it can help Huohuo quench her thirst, what does it matter whether I live or die?”
Jiang Li delivered those two lines through tears.
She even sniffled for good measure, looking as if she would have no regrets dying to fulfill Huohuo’s wish.
Mascot Huohuo Interaction Rules, Rule Two:
[Huohuo will not harm visitors of her own subjective will. Unless the visitor is unable to satisfy her request, or makes her angry.]
What Jiang Li was doing was satisfying Huohuo’s request to “quench her thirst,” so she would avoid violating the rule.
At the same time, however, she was forcing Huohuo to harm a visitor.
Jiang Li had emphasized that she would die.
Even if Huohuo didn’t understand much, she should at least understand the severity of that consequence now.
Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao had clearly seen through Jiang Li’s intention.
The two of them got into character in a second.
Zhao Siyao softly tried to dissuade Jiang Li. “Jiang Li, but you’ll die if you do this…”
Liang Chen also rolled up her sleeve, looking as if she were marching to her death.
“Huohuo, don’t drink her blood! Come here, drink mine!!”
The three of them went back and forth, and in the end, every one of them had rolled up her sleeve, offering Huohuo blood to quench her thirst.
“Huh?” Huohuo propped her hands on the floor and sat there half-sprawled.
She stared blankly at the three pale arms in front of her, all her earlier tantrum gone.
“Then… then never mind. I’ll go ask next door, okay, big sisters~”
The moment Huohuo finished speaking, the three people in the room withdrew their arms at lightning speed.
The big sisters’ expressions were cold and indifferent, without the slightest hesitation as they pulled their hands back.
Huohuo’s body once again turned into a little ball of flame. She slipped out through the iron wall and went straight to Cabin 02 next door.
There had been a fight in Cabin 02, and now only one burly man remained.
The burly man had taken all the oxygen and was barely managing to stay alive by himself.
Jiang Li heard the conversation from over there.
“Uncle, do you have any water? I’m thirsty. I want water!”
Huohuo’s shrill Little Girl voice carried over from the other side.
Faced with this question, the burly man next door fell silent for a long while.
Finally, he spoke with some hesitation.
“Uh, water-I don’t have water… but I do have urine!
If you’re really that thirsty, I can find you a bottle…”
Before the burly man could finish speaking, it sounded as if a flashover had erupted in the cabin next door.
Even Jiang Li’s side was almost caught in the blast.
“Cough, cough, cough!!”
Just then, something went wrong with Liang Chen’s oxygen mask.
Liang Chen took several desperate breaths.
But it seemed her oxygen line had already been shut off. There wasn’t a trace of oxygen inside.
Zhao Siyao, beside her, noticed that something was wrong with Liang Chen. She quickly took off her own oxygen mask and lent it to Liang Chen for the moment.
Jiang Li continued to search near the door of the iron cabin for a way to open it.
There was a narrow gap at the cabin door.
Other than that, there was nothing at all on the smooth iron walls.
There had to be some detail Jiang Li had overlooked all along!
The iron cabin was only so big, and there weren’t many things inside.
But where exactly was the missed clue?
Jiang Li closed her eyes and replayed everything in her mind, down to the smallest detail.
From entering the cabin, to searching for the protective suits, to the room losing oxygen, to Huohuo’s appearance…
Wait.
A flash of inspiration suddenly burst through her mind.
Jiang Li abruptly opened her eyes, a glimmer lighting in them.
That place.
Following Jiang Li’s gaze, it landed on the one thing in the iron cabin that had never been used… the fourth seat!
Of the four seats, the other three were all storage boxes.
Only the fourth seat had nothing inside!
But in an iron cabin with so few objects, it shouldn’t have been useless!
Jiang Li immediately went to the fourth seat.
The other three seats had all been fixed in place.
But the fourth seat showed faint traces of having been moved.
Jiang Li moved the fourth seat out of the way.
Sure enough, on the wall behind the seat, she found three round, hole-like recesses.
Were these three reserved circular holes meant to have something placed inside them?
And… it should be something spherical.
At that moment, an object flashed through Jiang Li’s mind.
The little metal balls!
The first thing Huohuo had done after coming into the cabin was pick up the dagger on the floor and melt it into a little metal ball!
So those seemingly useless daggers were actually important items!?
If those daggers did not become “weapons for killing,” then they would become “keys to survival.”
Jiang Li’s heart surged with excitement.
Right now, Liang Chen and Zhao Siyao were sharing one oxygen mask, and both of them were already showing symptoms of hypoxia and physical exhaustion.
Jiang Li didn’t dare waste any more time.
Opening the cabin door would still require the two of them to help!
“You two, hold on a little longer. It’ll be ready soon.”
Jiang Li quickly picked up the three little metal balls on the floor and pressed them one by one into the reserved round holes.
After five seconds of waiting…
A narrow slit opened in the exact center of the iron cabin’s ceiling.
Then, with a rumbling boom, a square ventilation shaft appeared before them.
And at the same time…
Two small, chubby hands gripped the edge of the vent, and Huohuo’s head poked in upside down.
“Huh?… Big sister, why did you call me back?!”