Exploring Technology in a Wizard World-Chapter 599 - 597: Nighttime Health Care

Night.

"Splash!"

Someone poured clear water into a wooden basin.

"Plunk!"

After casting, a ball of red light fell into the water in the basin.

"Gurgle, gurgle!"

Visible to the naked eye, as the red light entered, the water in the basin rapidly heated up, bubbling up in large amounts, beginning to boil.

"Splash!"

Then, more clear water was poured into the basin to lower the temperature.

A hand reached beneath the surface of the water, felt around, and verified the temperature.

Having completed these tedious steps, Gro, sitting on the edge of the wooden bed, nodded in satisfaction. He shook off the water drops from his hand and, without much care, wiped it on his clothes. He then took off his sheepskin boots, woolen socks, rolled up his trouser legs, and stretched his feet into the perfectly tempered water.

The moment his feet dipped into the water, Gro’s eyes widened slightly, and his mouth opened uncontrollably, uttering an exceedingly comfortable sound.

"Mmm—"

Accompanying the sound was the utterly relaxed and pleasurable expression that appeared on Gro’s face. His body gradually leaned back, lying on the soft bed, with his head on the pillow. In an instant, it was as if he’d lost all the bones in his body, motionless, as though he had reached a great harmony in life.

"Comfortable ah—"

It took a good while before Gro uttered this second sentence from his mouth, feeling that the fatigue from days of digging had been swept away by the warm water. He slowly opened his eyes.

Then Gro saw a pair of cold eyes right in front of him, as if they had been staring at him for a long time.

For a moment, Gro’s brain went blank, and after a full second passed, his neural network caught up.

"Aah!"

After catching up, Gro let out a scream without much courage, his entire body jerked as if electrocuted, and with a "bang," he knocked over the wooden basin, spilling water everywhere.

Gro didn’t care about that; he just kept screaming.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

At this moment, he was like a slender girl being bullied by a burly man.

The pair of eyes in front of him seemed to be getting restless, a hand reached out, and directly grabbed his mouth. Gro, like a duck whose neck had been pinched, was silenced.

Nancy looked at Gro and said with utter disdain, "If I didn’t stop you, could you scream all night?"

"Gulp!"

Gro, whose strength had returned, swallowed his saliva and pressed his hand against his heart, feeling it was about to explode. He glared at Nancy and said irritably, "Why do you always come in without knocking? Scaring people at night like a ghost, do you want to scare someone to death?"

"Your door wasn’t even closed, so what was there to knock on?"

"But you should make some noise when you walk, shouldn’t you?"

"How can there be no noise? It’s that you’re deaf and can’t hear, now you’re blaming me."

"I..." Gro trailed off, completely outmatched in both brawling and verbal sparring by Nancy, and said helplessly, "Then what... exactly did you come to do?"

"Nothing much, just to give you this." Nancy said, pulling out two high-grade crystal coins from her pocket and tossing them to Gro.

Gro caught them, slightly perplexed, and started to guess wildly, "What does this mean? Is she trying to buy me off? But since when am I worth two high-grade crystal coins?"

"This is what Richard is paying you for all the days you’ve worked." Nancy explained.

"Payment?" Gro still didn’t understand, "Did Lord Richard ever mention there would be payment?"

"I was the one who agreed to help on your behalf, so naturally you wouldn’t know." Nancy rolled her eyes.

"I see..." Gro muttered to himself, then suddenly realized, "Wait a minute, you received the payment and then gave me a share, right? I know that Lord Richard is always very generous. So, was it really just two high-grade crystal coins, or did you skim some off the top..."

He stopped mid-sentence.

Nancy squinted at Gro, a smile in her voice, "What was that? Give you a chance, say it again."

"Ah, haha, well..." Gro instantly lost his nerve, scratching his head, "What I meant was, helping Lord Richard is voluntary, out of friendship. Talking about money is so crass. Even without pay, I would still help out in the same situation."

"Are you sure?" Nancy looked over with a tilted head, "If that’s truly the case, then after the exchange meeting is over, why don’t you stay and continue to help Richard? I’m sure he’d be delighted."

Remembering the hardships of the past few days, Gro shivered and his expression soured like a bitter melon, "Ah, that, well..."

"Hmph, I knew you would never give a straight answer, you dummy." Nancy pursed her lips, "Forget it, I can’t bother talking to you any longer. Make sure to keep the crystal coins safe, and get some sleep early. Prepare well for tomorrow; even though we’re just there in a supporting role, we can’t embarrass ourselves. After all, if we do, it’s not just you who would lose face but the entire White Stone Tower!"

"Uh, got it."

"Good to hear." Nancy turned and walked away.

Gro quickly stuck his tongue out at Nancy’s receding figure, then turned his gaze to the wooden tub on the floor with a sad and regretful look as he noticed the water spilling everywhere.

"My footbath water, sigh—"

...

Not far off, in the Stone Building given to Jungle Hut at the Green Forest Gathering Place by Deep Blue Castle, a room.

Soft and moist palms caressed the alabaster skin of a young girl. They glided over slender shoulders, over paper-thin arms, over tight wrists, and along white-tipped fingers, evenly spreading a milky liquid on the entire arm of the girl.

After finishing the application, Wizard Cessi looked at Heidi, her student in front of her, and frowned slightly, "That friend of yours really didn’t hold back, letting you and Narlyd work so many days for nothing, you even got injuries on your arms."

"Teacher, don’t make it sound so serious," Heidi pouted, "They are just minor injuries, okay? And I got them because I was careless; it has nothing to do with Mr. Richard. Moreover, we weren’t working for no reason, Mr. Richard has already agreed to take me with him to enter the exchange meeting tomorrow. This way, you won’t have to worry about whom to take, me or my senior sister."

"It’s not just that," Narlyd, sitting in the corner on a chair, added, "That Richard did actually intend to pay us, but we refused. By the way, Teacher, why are you only applying the ointment on my junior sister and not on me? I’m injured too, look here, here, and here. You can’t play favorites!"

Wizard Cessi looked over and glanced at Narlyd, "Now it’s me playing favorites? Have you forgotten when Heidi wasn’t here and you were injured, I offered to apply this ointment, and you flatly refused? You said your skin turning whiter would make you look weak and cause people to look down on you."

"Ah, did I?" Narlyd widened her eyes, feigning innocence.

Not amused, Wizard Cessi said, "Fine, come here, and I’ll apply it properly now, all over your body!"

"Ah, well, Teacher, let me think about it some more..." Narlyd stiffened, her face tense.

"You and your..." Wizard Cessi couldn’t help shaking her head.

The cat slave girl covered her mouth and giggled secretly.

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