Chapter 547 - 271: Product_3
Under the blazing sun, the top floor was definitely not habitable. The second floor wasn’t much better, and so the cool, shaded cement floor of the first-floor corridor became the best place to cool down.
After seeing the merchant, having stretched lunch, and returning from the sawmill base with Starlight, Lin Wu sprawled out on the first floor and didn’t want to go up any further. Maya built a medical room for Starlight and then upgraded the girls’ dormitory to four beds with another upgrade.
Despite its gloomy interior, there was hardly any conversation among the girls at the Doomsday Fortress, and not much gossip. Maya settled Starlight and went to her dormitory, grabbed half a novel, and started to read. Soon dripping with sweat, she took her pillow down to the first floor, leaning in front of Lin Wu to read.
Dashuang went to the sentry post, which provided shade and a brisk sea breeze, making it another good spot to cool off. Dashuang hadn’t experienced intense sieges, and seeing that the base was nearing a four-star threat level, she felt somewhat apprehensive. But since everyone else seemed indifferent, she didn’t ask and, when she had time, stood guard at the sentry post, helping reduce the base’s threat value a bit.
Cotton had nowhere else to go, sitting in the sentry post and staring off into the distance, lost in thought.
Starlight found this situation a bit hard to adjust to. At the sawmill, she would bump into chattering girls as soon as she stepped out the door, and they would gather in the dorms to chat whenever they were free. This might relate to the leadership’s personality; the Doomsday Fortress didn’t bother each other, while the sawmill preferred the hustle and bustle, complaining about the weather, discussing magazines, and playing with elastic bands together.
"Hey!"
Lin Wu opened his eyes and asked, "What?"
Maya: "Don’t you think Wai is pitiful?" Wai, serving as a pillow, hadn’t moved at all, maintaining a spread-eagled position because its owner felt its belly was softer.
Lin Wu closed his eyes: "It’s not my fault it has no parents."
Maya said, "Rest for another hour; in the afternoon, let’s visit the sewers. They left some fish caught in the weir for us."