After listening to this, Pipi suddenly went rigid and held the hand of He Lanjing: "Please don't make a joke, hurry up and fix it. Maybe a gear is broken. You can just fix it."
Her voice was already choked.
However, He Lanjing still lay happily and did not move: "It is broken, it'll not be repaired."
"Helan, you're quiet! Don't scare me... if you scare me, you are not human!"
In the dark, the person in front of her snorted and laughed.
Hearing this laughter, Pipi almost fainted: "You...who are you?"
The voice was very gentle: "You are right, I am not a human."
Pipi jumped up and retreated to the well wall, posing in the darkness of the defense: "Nonsense! You are obviously human, you! Everything about your body is like a human's!"
"I'm really not human."
"You... you have to prove it to me."
"I ask you, how many times does a person's heart beat per minute?"
"About seventy."
In the darkness, He Lanjing stretched out and pulled her hand to him and pressed it on his chest.
Like an animal in hibernation, his body temperature was very low, and even then there was a faint chill that can't be described.
"I'll count from one to sixty… just one minute." He Lanjing said slowly, "One, two, three, four, five, six..."
Pipi was stunned.
She didn't know if it was due to body temperature or fear, but Pipi felt that her hand had suddenly lost feeling. Not only feeling, but also her intelligence was lost.
Three times.
He Lanjing's heart was beating only three times a minute.
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At that moment, Pipi wished that she were a gecko, which could quickly climb up out of the well and escape.
But in the dark, apart from her own breathing, the surroundings were as quiet as the grave. She used her nails to scrape a few hard granite stones on the well wall without leaving a trace.
Then, Helan smirked, his expression unclear and meaningless. His smile was like a needle piercing the air, filled with tension. Pipi was so nervous that she couldn't breathe.
"Are you scared?"
"Sorry, I don't know if you have had a serious heart attack!" Pipi said.
Silent for a few seconds, He Lanjing did not respond: "What did you say?"