SDIWD - Chapter 84
Chapter 84
Hua Mu disliked this heavy atmosphere. Seeing Bai Zhen's furrowed brow, she tried to console her instead. "Sigh, don't think about it. Setting aside that it all happened over thirty years ago, the fact is we can't leave the island right now. Overthinking it is just needless worry. Why don't we see what else we can use?"
"Mm…"
Just as Hua Mu said, there was no point in thinking about it now. Bai Zhen put the documents back in the iron box and proceeded to examine the other items.
The items in the second iron box were also wrapped in oiled linen paper, and even more meticulously. After opening the outermost layer of oiled paper, she found a box of neatly stacked, square cubes. Each was about the size of a bar of handmade soap and was also wrapped tightly in oiled paper.
"What's this?" Hua Mu's spirits immediately lifted.
Wrapped so carefully, it must be something good.
Bai Zhen unwrapped one to take a look and found a grayish-yellow, waxy solid inside. She held it under her nose, sniffed, and judged, "It should be wax… probably something like palm wax."
"Quick, let me see!" Palm wax had a wide range of uses. Besides its applications in the chemical industry, it could also be used as a food glaze, a moisture-proofing agent, and a waterproofing agent. Of course, as a natural plant wax, there was no problem using it just to make candles—Hua Mu had used it before when making handmade candles.
Hua Mu had long felt that using only torches for light at night was very inconvenient. Candles were a big step toward civilization.
Bai Zhen handed a block to her and unwrapped a few more herself, confirming that the entire box was likely palm wax, totaling at least twenty kilograms.
Hua Mu held it in her hands, examining it for a long time, unable to put it down. Bai Zhen had already moved on to open the other two boxes.
The contents of these two boxes were a bit miscellaneous, and many were no longer usable, but quite a few items inside piqued Hua Mu's interest. For example, some seeds that looked like coffee beans, a bottle of oily liquid, and some plant leaves that had turned to powder.
"They're coffee beans, hemp seed oil, and tobacco."
Bai Zhen concluded after a careful examination.
The items were naturally unusable now, but if they hadn't been brought from the outside, then there was a high probability that the native plants still existed on the island—unless they had been submerged by the tsunami.
"Scientists are really something else, to be able to make such good things under these conditions." Judging by the packaging and crude quality, they didn't look like mass-produced goods, but rather things produced on the island.
"There are also a lot of seeds here."
Compared to the other items, dozens of packets of seeds sealed in bags were very well preserved. The appearance of the sealed bags suggested they were more for scientific research than commercial products, and the numbers and descriptions on them confirmed this.
Hua Mu glanced over them briefly and said with some concern, "It would be useful if we could plant them, but invasive alien species usually cause great damage to the local ecosystem. I think we'd better not mess with it."
Having grown up in the jungle, Bai Zhen naturally agreed with this view.
After the two finished inspecting the iron boxes and Hua Mu drank her medicine, it was already getting late. She had taken a nap in the afternoon to last until now and was starting to feel drowsy. But just as she was preparing to go to sleep, a biological urge gradually made itself known.
Only then did she remember that she hadn't been to the toilet for almost a whole day.
No, how could she have forgotten? Although it wasn't a big deal compared to life and love, forgetting it so completely was just unbelievable!
She needed to "pick a flower"… no, how was she supposed to go to the toilet now, ahhhhhh?
Her leg hurt a lot. Even if she tried her best to ignore it and did everything she could to distract herself, it still hurt—Hua Mu didn't think she could manage to squat.
But if not like that, then how? Their toilet was surely destroyed!
Bai Zhen's mood hadn't relaxed. Hua Mu's injuries, her own condition, their predicament, and the documents they had found all weighed on her mind. Of course, what concerned her most was Hua Mu's injury. Although she seemed to be in good spirits now, the hardest part was yet to come.
She hastily tidied up, wanting to rest early with Hua Mu, but when she turned her head, she saw the other woman looking anxious, with no trace of sleepiness on her face.
"Miss, are you in a lot of pain?" Although she had added some calming and pain-relieving herbs to the medicine, the effect was far from as good as a painkiller.
Of course it hurt a lot, but that wasn't why she was making all these faces right now!
Hua Mu pressed her lips together tightly, hesitating for a long time, still not knowing how to bring it up.
"Um…"
Maybe she could hold it until tomorrow? Perhaps her leg wouldn't hurt as much tomorrow.
Bai Zhen, suspecting nothing, sat down beside Hua Mu and said softly, "Then… shall I sing 'Rusty-Spotted Cat' for you?"
She remembered that the Young Lady liked to listen to songs when she was sick.
Hua Mu did want to listen, yes. She wanted the Sentinel to hold her and hum "Rusty-Spotted Cat" softly. It was just that right now was really… inconvenient. She felt she might not be able to bear it if Bai Zhen even touched her.
"W-Wait!"
The Young Lady was having an intense internal struggle.
Although the embarrassing incidents she had experienced could probably circle the equator, this time was really a new low.
Bai Zhen paused her hand in confusion, a hint of unease on her face. Although she and Hua Mu were now lovers and her mindset had adjusted slightly, in terms of their interactions, she hadn't completely shed her identity as a guard.
And Hua Mu's rejection of intimacy was enough to make her heart pound with fear.
"Miss…"
The Sentinel's pitiful expression made Hua Mu's heart soften—no, what right did she have to feel soft-hearted right now? She was about to break!
"There's something…"
"What is it? I can help you."
No, asking for help with this was too…
Just thinking about it made Hua Mu want to die on the spot.
But if she didn't say something soon, it would be too late. If she really dragged it out, she might as well pray that Bai Zhen could help her think of a solution.
"Um, I want to, I kind of want to go to the, cough cough cough, toilet…"
Bai Zhen's hearing was excellent, so even though Hua Mu tried to mumble through it, she heard everything clearly.
"You need to go to the toilet? Then I'll help you…"
Help, help, help my ass!
Hua Mu felt that sooner or later, she would completely lose her noble lady's demeanor and become a village… no, an island woman with a mouth full of vulgarities!
The Young Lady fiercely slapped away the Sentinel's outstretched hand.
"Miss?"
Hua Mu finally couldn't help but retort.
"How exactly do you plan on helping me?!!!"
Bai Zhen froze for a moment, then said as if it were the most natural thing in the world, "I'll hold you. Your leg makes it inconvenient to walk or stand, let alone go to the toilet by yourself?"
No, no, no, this wasn't the first time she'd thought this. This person might be stupid and slow, but in some respects, her way of thinking was truly, truly illogical!
For example, not minding being kicked or sat on by her. For example, picking up that handkerchief time and time again. For example, now… This person was a total pervert!
Why did she fall in love with this person?
"Y-Y-You pervert!"
Bai Zhen looked shocked, as if she completely failed to understand why Hua Mu would say that about her.
"Then what did you want to do?"
In her view, it was perfectly normal for her to become Hua Mu's hands and feet when she couldn't move. They weren't just master and servant; they were now… lovers. What was so unreasonable about doing this?
Hua Mu didn't know what to do either and said fantastically, "Make me a toilet right now."
If it was just a commode, it wasn't impossible to make with their current resources.
"But that will take at least two hours. Can you… hold it?"
Bai Zhen really felt it was an unnecessary hassle. What if she hurt herself by holding it in?
"You can make one?"
"I can, but…"
"No buts! Go make it for me now, right this instant!"
She would hold it in even if she died!
In life, one couldn't escape eating, drinking, relieving oneself, and sleeping. Only after coming to the island did Hua Mu truly feel how exhausting it was to be alive.
Bai Zhen dawdled, but finally went to make a simple toileting device for her Young Lady. However, her confused and reluctant expression was enough to make Hua Mu break down.
The construction of a Sentinel's brain was truly a curiosity. Hua Mu wished she could crack open her skull to see what was stuffed inside. It wasn't easy to be such a pervert in such a fresh, refined, harmless, and self-righteous way.
"Meow meow meow?"
The rusty-spotted cat was a nocturnal animal and naturally more active at night. After being ignored for a while, it started rubbing against Hua Mu, acting cute.
Hua Mu really didn't have the energy to play with it right now. With a long face, she said, "You've got it good. You don't know the meaning of shame."
She didn't understand why she was always the miserable one.
Bai Zhen hammered and banged away. Her movements weren't slow as she methodically used the leftover materials from the support frame to build the commode.
Hua Mu was exhausted in body and mind. Her wound throbbed, her whole body ached, and though she was extremely tired and sleepy, she couldn't sleep.
"Bai Zhen, how much longer?"
"A little while longer. Miss, can't you hold it anymore?"
"W-Who said that? Just hurry up! I can still hold on for a long time!"
That wasn't true. She was at her limit. She didn't know if she had leaked a little.
Why did this person look so expectant?
"Meow~"
The Young Lady had always been popular with animals, and Emergency Rations seemed to be no exception. Because Hua Mu wasn't paying attention to it, it kept meowing and rubbing against her to get her attention.
"Emergency Rations, stop touching me!"
Unfortunately, the Young Lady's affection had its limits, and her resistance to cute creatures had been strengthened by her own predicament.
Hua Mu pushed at Emergency Rations' little head, trying to stop it from harassing her. But Emergency Rations thought she was finally willing to play and happily circled around her hand.
"If you keep this up, I'm going to eat you!"
The Young Lady put on a serious face, hoping to give herself an air of authority.
"Meow~"
Emergency Rations tilted its head, and then its eyes lit up. In that split second, a grayish-brown figure flashed through the air.
The rusty-spotted cat leaped high, landing on her stomach with a speed Hua Mu couldn't react to.
"…"
Hua Mu nearly broke down, taking a long moment before she could make a sound.
"B-Bai Zhen…"
She was going to kill this cat and make soup out of it!
"Miss, what's wrong?"
Bai Zhen's back was to the cat and the person, so she didn't know what had just happened.
"Help… help me up… no, carry me…"
She really couldn't hold it anymore!!!
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