When Zheng Bingbing was encountered, she woke up, squinted at me, turned her head, and showed no reaction. She just glanced at her watch, smacked her lips, and went back to sleep.
Lying flat between the two of them, both were warm. In less than two minutes, their heat was transferred to me, which felt so comfortable.
The more comfortable I felt, the easier it was to fall asleep. I don't know when I lost consciousness and drifted into dreamland.
So close, yet this time I didn't dream of Yaoyao. I only dreamed that Zheng Bingbing and I went to a hot spring. She wore a bikini, and her figure was much more voluptuous than in reality. We chatted in a large circular pool, our feet splashing each other underwater.
I don't know where the ambiguous feelings started. After the scene changed, she and I went to the next room, which turned out to be a luxurious hotel. A large bed was suspended from the ceiling, and there were some unknown instruments nearby. Zheng Bingbing climbed onto the bed, half-lying on the edge, her feet gently pushing off the floor, swinging back and forth on the bed.
I stood directly behind her, watching her move closer and farther away. When she was close, she almost hit me. And the height of the bed seemed to be designed according to my leg length, neither too high nor too low, just right. As I was about to bump into her, Zheng Bingbing turned her head from the bed, and it turned out to be Yaoyao. Not the Yaoyao from the previous dream, but Mu Jige wearing a golden mask!
However, driven by arousal, I couldn't care less and pressed down, ready to act.
Unexpectedly, Mu Jige broke free, and with a swift backhand, she slapped me awake!
That's right, I was slapped awake!
Opening my eyes, I saw the owner of the golden mask pinned beneath me, glaring at me furiously!
Beside us, a spectator, Zheng Bingbing, had also woken up. She was kneeling there, watching the live drama between me and Mu Jige with great interest. But when Zheng Bingbing saw Mu Jige slap me, she was startled and quickly checked her watch: "Oh my, why is it an hour early?"
"What?" I asked groggily.
A force surged from beneath me, and Mu Jige pushed me over to my side. She sat up, wiped her mouth disdainfully, and spat into the cornfield.
Only then did I start to sober up. I grabbed Zheng Bingbing's wrist and looked. Indeed, it was only 22:59. Her watch had many functions, displaying the 24-hour time and ancient timekeeping methods. It even jumped instantaneously, with the character 'Hai' changing to 'Zi' with a click.
Shen Xingyue must have made a mistake. Perhaps her master or someone else had told her that Mu Jige would wake up at Zi Shi. Shen Xingyue mistakenly thought Zi Shi was twelve o'clock, when in fact Zi Shi is from eleven p.m. to one a.m. It was now exactly twenty-three o'clock, precisely the beginning of Zi Shi.
"Your biological clock is quite accurate!" I said to Mu Jige with a smile. For some reason, I didn't feel any fear towards her. Perhaps it was because I had simulated her waking up many times in my mind. At worst, she would just kill both me and Zheng Bingbing once she woke up. But she only slapped me, and it was because I had provoked her, which was reasonable and seemed rather gentle.
"What is 'biological clock'?" Mu Jige asked curiously. Her accent was completely different from that in the dream, somewhat strange, making it impossible to tell her regional dialect, but her pronunciation was clear, undoubtedly Chinese.
"Biological clock is... wait, do you recognize me?" I needed to confirm this first.
Mu Jige narrowed her eyes and said calmly, "Wu Chengfeng."
"And her?" I pointed at Zheng Bingbing.
Mu Jige examined Zheng Bingbing for two eyes and shook her head.
It seemed she recognized me because of the dream communication, not from our interactions in the past half-day.
"My name is Zheng Bingbing, hello." Seeing that Mu Jige had no intention of attacking, Bingbing crawled over and extended her small hand.
She actually understood the etiquette of a handshake. I shook hands with her: "Hello, Mu Jige."
I felt like all my previous dreams were in vain. Mu Jige's reaction after waking up was completely different from what I had imagined, just like an ordinary modern girl!
After the handshake, Mu Jige withdrew her hand, looked around, and then at the ceiling: "Where is this?"
"Hualou Town," I said, "not far from Jiuxian Cave."
"Where is Shen Xingyue?" Mu Jige asked again. Knowing Xingyue, they must have met in a dream.
"She's hunting us down," I said with a smile. "They want to seal you again."
"I know," Mu Jige nodded, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled. "I need to recover my strength."
Zheng Bingbing brought over a food basin: "Eat, eat. You've been hungry for four hundred years, poor thing!"
Mu Jige frowned, looked at the food inside, and said softly, "I don't eat this. I need human blood."