Yumi was also a little worried. Jing Minghe wasn't someone who would sleep in, especially in such a peculiar place.
Just as Yumi was hesitating whether to go in and check, Chi Hao came out from inside. Yumi immediately stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong with Minghe?"
Chi Hao frowned. Before he could answer Yumi, Jing Minghe walked out from behind Chi Hao, yawning. He said to Yumi, "I'm fine, Yumi-jie. Don't worry. Chi Hao and I found something last night and ended up studying it quite late."
"Found what? Did you find a clue? Where..." Ke Wuwen ran up to Jing Minghe, but before he could finish his question, he suddenly cried out, "Idol! What's wrong with your eyes? Why are they so red!"
Tong Zheng heard Ke Wuwen's words and also walked over. Jing Minghe's eyes were indeed bright red, and at first glance, it was a little frightening.
"You, what happened?" Tong Zheng asked suspiciously. "Even if you didn't sleep well last night, you wouldn't make your eyes like this, would you? Weren't you and Mr. Chi studying together?"
As he spoke, Tong Zheng secretly glanced at Chi Hao's eyes. There was no abnormality.
Jing Minghe waved his hand and explained, "It's nothing. I just rubbed them myself."
"Rubbed them yourself?" Tong Zheng twitched the corner of his mouth and couldn't help but sigh, "Then you were pretty rough on yourself."
Jing Minghe ignored Tong Zheng's teasing and turned to ask Chi Hao, "Do you have that little notebook with you? Take it out so they can see it too."
"It's on the desk in my room."
Chi Hao answered Jing Minghe's question but had no intention of fetching it himself. Jing Minghe understood Chi Hao's personality and then said to the others, "Wait a moment, I'll go get it."
"I'll go, I'll go," Ke Wuwen quickly scurried over and said to Jing Minghe, "Brother Chi Hao's room is next to yours, right? I'll go get it."
After saying that, he didn't wait for Jing Minghe's agreement and darted into Chi Hao's room.
It took less than ten seconds to run in and out.
Ke Wuwen waved the small notebook in his hand and asked Jing Minghe, "Idol, is this it? It's the only notebook on Brother Chi Hao's desk."
Jing Minghe nodded, and the others immediately crowded around to flip through the notebook with Ke Wuwen.
Yumi looked at Jing Minghe's red eyes with concern, but she had no medicine to treat eyes on her. She could only wait until they returned to the resting area.
"I'll go and look with everyone too."
As Yumi spoke and was about to walk over to where Ke Wuwen and the others were, she heard Ke Wuwen exclaim, "Huh?" He turned to Jing Minghe and said, "Idol, there isn't a single word in this notebook! They're all blank pages. Did I get the wrong one?"
Jing Minghe looked at Chi Hao doubtfully. Chi Hao only answered him with two words, "That's right."
Jing Minghe did not miss the flicker of displeasure in Chi Hao's eyes. He didn't know what Chi Hao was unhappy about now, but this was not the time to dwell on the issue. He walked directly to where Ke Wuwen and the others were, took the notebook from Ke Wuwen's hand, opened it, and saw the words "I regret it" clearly written on the first page. The content on the second, third, and fourth pages was exactly the same as what he had seen last night.
Jing Minghe unfolded the fourth page and turned it to face everyone, "Isn't it here? The writing is ugly and messy, but you can't just ignore it, can you?"
"Idol," Ke Wuwen said with a look of surprise. He looked at the notebook in front of him, then at Jing Minghe, scratched his head, hesitated for a moment, and then said to Jing Minghe with a very serious expression, "I say, Idol, Minghe-ge, are you joking with us? There's really no writing on here."
"There really isn't," Tong Zheng also looked at Jing Minghe with confusion, but he didn't think Jing Minghe would joke with them at this time. He asked, "Is there really writing on here? Why can you see it, but we can't?"
As he spoke, he turned to ask the others, "What about you? Can you see the writing on it?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Jing Minghe suddenly remembered something and abruptly turned to look at Chi Hao, who was standing not far away.
Chi Hao walked closer to Jing Minghe, took the little notebook from his hand, and said in a deep voice, "That's right, I can't see it either."
Jing Minghe smiled helplessly and said, "So, when you brought it to me last night, it wasn't because you were too lazy to read it and wanted me to read it aloud to you, but because you couldn't see the words on it, yet you suspected there was something there."
Chi Hao's brow furrowed slightly. "Sorry."
Jing Minghe waved his hand. "It's fine. What's there to be sorry about? It's not like I just got to know what kind of person you are."
Ke Wuwen poked his head out and asked curiously, "Why can only Idol see the writing on it? What does it say? Is it related to the conditions for passing this instance?"
Why?
Jing Minghe also wanted to know why only he could see the content of the notebook.
However, it wasn't entirely a bad thing. At least he had obtained an important clue.
He just didn't know if it was related to his ability to see the words in the notebook. His eyes felt itchy and dry, and he couldn't help but want to rub them again.
Chi Hao noticed Jing Minghe's action, grabbed his wrist, and asked, "Where's the handkerchief I gave you? Don't rub them directly with your hands."
"The handkerchief," Jing Minghe tried to pull his hand away with some force but couldn't, so he could only obediently reply, "I think I left it by the bed."
Chi Hao hummed and said to Yumi, "Watch him."
Then he turned and went to the thatched hut where Jing Minghe was staying.
As Chi Hao took two steps, Jing Minghe raised his hand to rub his eyes, but Yumi stopped him, "No rubbing!"
Jing Minghe heard this, changed the direction of his hand, and pressed it to his temples, sighing. "Alright, I won't rub. Since you can't see the writing, I'll roughly tell you what it says."
"How do we know you're not lying to us?"
Suddenly, a voice questioned.
Everyone turned to look. The one who questioned them was the newly joined teammate, the muscular man Zhang Yu.
He looked at Jing Minghe with distrust and continued under everyone's gaze, "Everyone here isn't new to this. You should all know that there are death traps in this game instance, right? Who knows if you'll deliberately lead us into a death trap. Never mind whether you can really see the writing, even if you can, who can guarantee that you won't hide things from us and use us to complete the conditions for passing?"
Jing Minghe yawned upon hearing this, sneered, and with a thought, said to Zhang Yu and the others, "If you don't believe me, then don't listen. I'm too lazy to say it anyway. Only a fool would do thankless work. Telling you out of goodwill, since you suspect, fine, it saves me the effort."
Saying that, he could no longer resist the urge to rub his eyes, and his tone carried a hint of impatience. "Where's Chi Hao? Wasn't he going to get me a handkerchief? Where did he go?"