Chapter 443 - 422: Second Update
"No discoveries were made," Ju Nanyi said calmly, glancing at the woman in front of him, "The light inside the cave isn’t as good as outside. If the entrance were a bit larger, perhaps we would find something else."
Zheng Nianru didn’t doubt his words, turned around, and didn’t mind the narrow, dusty, and muddy entrance as Ju Nanyi still took off his outer jacket and wrapped it around Zheng Nianru.
"It really is quite spacious." Just as Zheng Nianru stood up straight, the light coming from the entrance revealed a very large cave; the walls were smooth and naturally formed, the ground was uneven with stones shaped into ripple-like patterns by flowing water, but there were also large flat stone surfaces, indeed large enough for a person to lie down on, just as Ju Nanyi had said.
"Commandery Princess, be careful—" Just two steps in, Zheng Nianru nearly lost her footing on the smooth rocks, but Ju Nanyi caught her in time, frowning slightly as he glanced at her in the dim light.
Her body temperature was so high, yet she didn’t seem to be in any discomfort.
"The dampness here indicates there must be water." Zheng Nianru’s attention was inside the cave, and because the temperature inside was even higher than outside, she actually felt a bit more comfortable at that moment.
"I’ll go find some water." Ju Nanyi didn’t ask any further questions; he just turned around, but before he did, he took another look at Zheng Nianru. He knew she wasn’t one to tolerate pain and discomfort quietly—if something was wrong, she would definitely complain. Therefore, Ju Nanyi could be certain she was not feeling unwell. But why was her body temperature so high, though not alarmingly so?
Could it be that poison? Ju Nanyi also smelled an unusual fragrance at the entrance, one he didn’t recognize.
Ju Nanyi quickly traversed the biggest flat area of the entire cave, following the gradually sloping stone surface step by step, but it didn’t take long before he found water inside the stone cave.