Noticing the slightly adorable behavior of Ai, C-760 laughed out a bit before picking up a piece of the cookies with a small food tong and serving it to Ai's dessert plate.
"This is chia seed lemon zest cookies, freshly out from the oven, sounds healthy but taste good, and matched well with chocolate milk as well." said C-760 with a smile.
Hearing this, Ai felt that she had heard some similar phrase, which makes her can't help but wondered...
"Uhm... Are you the one that makes these cookies? You gave a vibe of Mr. Jason when he introduced some new recipes." said Ai before taking that piece of cookies from her plate and having a bite of it, and it was a satisfying bite to Ai.
C-760 is rather surprised by that question from Ai. She was right on the point, the cookies are indeed made by C-760.
"Well, I am impressed by your insight level. Yes, you are right, I am the one that made those cookies, and the black forest cake if you wondered about that as well." said C-760 with an awkward smile.
Ai nodded, she looks rather impressed...
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Mine cave town.
In the cave. Sky, Maria, and Junior are carefully treading through a pool of stagnant water with the protection of a waterproof barrier.
"Tsk... Seriously, this stagnant water certainly got much deeper than the last time." said Maria as he frowned.
"Mmm... And even nastier than before." said Sky, rather disgusted.
While hearing the rants from Sky and Maria, Junior had his eyes locked on a skull that floated on the water, however, it's not out of fear or shock, it's more like...
"Hmm... Did skull normally floats on the water?" He asked, out of the blues.
"Normally it would not, but it's not entirely impossible. Furthermore, the stagnant water is much denser than seawater." said Sky, calmly answering Junior's question.
"I see. That sounds reasonable." said Junior as he nodded while still staring at that skull.
"Ah! Darling! Jun-chan! Stop behaving like some sort of psychopath!" Maria exclaimed, slightly freaked out by that conversation between Sky and Junior.
Ignoring Maria's exclamation, Junior continue to stare at the skull before raising his right hand and did a pulling motion. As he did the pulling motion, the floating skull swiftly moved towards him before 'jumped' onto his hand.
"Oh gosh! Jun-chan! What you are doing? Throw it away!" Maria exclaimed again, rather shocked and disgusted by that sudden deed of Junior.
"Ah... I see... The bone structure of this skull is filled with tiny holes, thus trapping lots of air inside. But I wondered what caused all these tiny holes, the arrangement and size of the tiny holes are surprisingly uniformed, it definitely doesn't look like a deed of natural corrosion." said Junior, rather intrigued by that skull.
"Hmm... I never know that you are interested in this stuff." said Sky.
"Well, this is one of my hidden interests, usually I would not show it to people easily, but this skull is just too special. And don't worry, I didn't touch it directly with bare hands, I had covered my hands with isolation magic." said Junior, trying hard to explain himself.
"Don't worry, we wouldn't judge, after all, we all know someone who has an even more psychopathic interest." said Sky as he took out his storage crystal.
He activated his crystal and helped Junior to keep that skull into the crystal.
"Anyway, it seems like we have reached an exit of this stagnant water pool, however... Tsk... Have a look at there." said Sky as he pointed at another direction.
Both Maria and Junior looked at the direction pointed by Sky and are astonished by the sight. It's a gigantic spider web, with three rotten dead bodies stuck on it, two adults and an infant.
"Oh dear... Is that a family? Why would someone even bring an infant to this kind of place? And what the hell with that gigantic spider web? Just how huge that spider is to be able to build such a deadly web..." Maria exclaimed in shock.
"Well, I remembered Mr. Shiya once told us about something like this. Apparently, this is built by a kind of genetically evolved spider, according to Mr. Shiya, these spiders are highly aggressive and venomous, and like to eat human flesh." said Sky.
"Ah... I do remember about that as well. But last time, we didn't see any giant spiders in here, right?" said Maria.
"Mhmm... And unfortunately, they are present now and their web is blocking our only path." said Sky with a shrug...
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Secret base, lounge.
Chris is watching some sort of talent show with his tablet while some snack and milk tea. Ben walked out from the infirmary with a stack of old record books and headed to the lounge, he looks a bit troubled.
Chris looked at Ben with a subtle expression without saying anything, but Ben knows Chris well enough to know that the subtle expression of Chris means: "Anything wrong?"
Ben sat at Chris and flipped open one of the old record books, and show Chris a few pages of the book that are sticking together.
"Ah... This definitely looks bad, what happened to it?" Chris casually asked.
"Hah... I already told her not to touch these record books but she moved them out from the shelf to a slightly warm and humid area just to clean the shelf, while these few pages happened to be some special material that will melt in high heat and moisture, this happened." said Ben as he sighed.
"Hmm? Is this happened to be the record about a species of giant spider?" Chris asked as he remembered about something.
"Yes, you are right. How did you know that?" Ben asked, rather curious.
"Well, I was with him when he recorded that. But that time, he was in rush and can't find any proper paper, thus he wrote everything down on some rice wraps he got from some villagers. I seriously thought he had changed it to normal paper but... Yeah... That's the Shiya I know." said Chris with a bitter smile...
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might caused the writer to stop writing."
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