Yumi finished bandaging Jing Minghe's wound, smiled sheepishly, and said, "Sorry, I misunderstood."
Jing Minghe withdrew his hand, trying to maintain a smile. He didn't understand why Yumi thought he would care about Chi Hao's past personal relationships, but he felt something quietly taking root in his heart.
"It's okay, let's go meet up with everyone."
"Okay." Yumi nodded and walked alongside Jing Minghe.
Jing Minghe casually found topics to chat with Yumi, trying to mask his inexplicably restless emotions.
Yumi listened absentmindedly, only half-heartedly responding to Jing Minghe. Although Jing Minghe said she had misunderstood, she considered another possibility.
Chi Hao liked Jing Minghe, but Jing Minghe himself hadn't realized it. After all, compared to interacting with people, Jing Minghe was more focused on the dungeon games in the City of Death, and they hadn't known each other for very long.
Moreover, Chi Hao's liking for Jing Minghe was rather sudden.
Of course, it could also be love at first sight.
In any case, the current situation was most likely Chi Hao being in unrequited love. Since it was unrequited love, past relationships wouldn't be inexplicably confessed to the other person.
Yumi was full of regret. If this were the case, hadn't she done something terribly wrong?
She had ruined Big Brother Chi's good deed. If Chi Hao found out, would she even survive?
Jing Minghe and Yumi returned to the restaurant with their own thoughts. The first thing they saw was Chi Hao and Shen Rong, who had already returned. They were talking about something, Shen Rong looked somewhat displeased, while Chi Hao's expression remained as indifferent as ever.
Upon seeing Jing Minghe and Yumi, Chi Hao immediately widened the already small distance between himself and Shen Rong.
Seeing Chi Hao and Shen Rong, Yumi felt a pang of awkwardness. She forced a smile and said, "You guys are back so quickly? I thought we were the fastest."
Chi Hao's gaze swept over Jing Minghe's hand, his brow furrowing. With a questioning tone, he asked, "What happened?"
"Huh?" Jing Minghe was confused. "What happened?"
"Your hand, what's going on?"
Jing Minghe shook his bandaged hand. He didn't know what Yumi was thinking; the wound wasn't large, but she had wrapped his hand like a zongzi. "You mean this? I accidentally cut it. It's not serious, and Yumi-jie handled it very well, so don't worry."
Chi Hao strode up to Jing Minghe in two or three steps and looked down at his zongzi-like hand. "You can be careless too?"
"Big Brother," Jing Minghe took a small step back, looking speechless. "I'm human too. Isn't it normal to occasionally make mistakes?"
Chi Hao ignored Jing Minghe's explanation and turned his gaze to Yumi.
Yumi understood and quickly said, "Minghe stumbled on the stairs just now and his palm was scraped by a nail on the handrail. The wound isn't very big, it's fine."
A flicker of heartache crossed Chi Hao's eyes. Jing Minghe had only been separated from him for less than an hour, and he was already injured. It seemed he absolutely couldn't let this person out of his sight from now on.
Jing Minghe once again sensed the unfriendly gaze he had felt on the train and felt very annoyed. He unceremoniously met the gaze and returned a provocative cold smile.
Jing Minghe didn't know why he felt angry, perhaps because of his usual principle.
Whoever makes me unhappy, regardless of gender, I'll take it all and return it tenfold.
"Idol!" Ke Wuwen jogged into the restaurant and stopped abruptly three steps away from Jing Minghe, saying excitedly, "Idol, this cruise ship is really big! It even has an arcade and a card room!"
Tong Zheng followed Ke Wuwen in and added, "The arcade and the card room are next door. Wuwen and I searched both places separately, and there were no important findings."
As Tong Zheng finished speaking, the others gradually entered.
Then, everyone took turns describing the places they had searched.
As Ke Wuwen had marveled, the cruise ship was indeed not small. The basement level housed the boiler room and warehouses, the ground floor was the restaurant and bar, the second floor had the banquet hall and guest rooms, the third and fourth floors were all guest rooms, the fifth floor had a cinema and a grand theater, and the sixth floor had the arcade and card room.
On the uppermost deck, there were three swimming pools. However, according to Jia Dong, the pool water was murky and filled with many unknown organisms, making it the most dangerous place currently.
After everyone had spoken, Jing Minghe glanced at his pocket watch. The time was ticking normally, but he wasn't sure if it was day or night in the current instance of the dungeon.
Since it was daytime when they arrived, Jing Minghe assumed the time here was the same as in the resting area.
"It's 12:35 PM," Jing Minghe said, putting away his pocket watch. "The dungeon rules probably won't come out that quickly. We'll definitely be here for a few days. Let's go assign sleeping quarters first. There are many guest rooms, and I suggest we stay close to each other."
"That's a given," Wan Zuo agreed. "I was thinking the same thing. The second, third, and fourth floors of the cruise ship have guest rooms, not including the boiler room below. The cruise ship has a total of seven floors. I suggest we stay on the third floor, as it's convenient for both going up and down. Also, I checked, and only the rooms on the third floor can be made habitable with a little tidying up."
"Okay."
Everyone unanimously agreed and went to the third floor to assign rooms.
After assigning their living spaces, Jing Minghe cited tiredness as an excuse and locked himself in his room.
The others also retreated to their rooms, as it was best not to act rashly before the rules appeared, to avoid accidentally triggering a death trap.
Having gone through several dungeons, none of them were willing to be the first to step forward.
Jing Minghe lay on the slightly damp and musty bed, holding the transformation ball Chi Hao had given him. He recalled his reaction when he heard from Yumi that Shen Rong was Chi Hao's ex-girlfriend.
He wasn't a fool. How could he not understand that feeling of something important being snatched away in an instant?
Although Chi Hao's personality was aloof, he was outstanding, powerful, and occasionally very considerate. He was the type Jing Minghe liked.
Jing Minghe gave a wry smile.
If they weren't in the City of Death, with his personality, the moment he realized this, he would have rushed forward to confess to Chi Hao and even asked him to be his boyfriend.
Jing Minghe believed he would definitely do such a foolish thing if they were outside.
It was a pity that this was the City of Death.
It wasn't that he didn't believe they could survive, but he worried that if he impulsively confessed and Chi Hao disliked him, wouldn't it be a loss outweighing the gain? Being rejected wasn't the issue, but losing a trustworthy partner would be terrible.
Jing Minghe placed the transformation ball against his chest.
"Forget it. At least, whether he wants to or not, he'll have to be my partner forever, unless he dies or I die, or we both make it out alive."
Jing Minghe couldn't help but chuckle. "If we both make it out alive, Brother Hao, I absolutely won't let you go."