Lin Wu pointed at Maya and praised, "That makes sense."
A person used to luxury and fine food finds it hard to revert to a life of meager sustenance. It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult the other way around. This might be what Stone meant by "spilled water can't be recovered."
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Perhaps because of the expedition to Waste City, the weather had warmed up a bit in the past two days, with the lowest temperature rising to around 5 degrees Celsius. After two days of testing their guns, the Shadow Squad was still full of confidence in the Waste City expedition. The night before they set out for Waste City, everyone gathered at the Shadow Headquarters, where Stone had Maya give a tactical lesson to the group.