The women had taken over the large hot spring pool.
Fortunately, David found a few smaller pools nearby. It was better than nothing. The men, who had been driven out by the women, all squeezed into one of them.
They listened to the girls next door giggling and splashing in the water.
'I'm so pathetic,' Feng Jun thought. 'I should be over there, playing in the water with them, but instead I'm stuck here just soaking with a bunch of stinky guys.'
"David, how can there be hot springs here?" Yves asked curiously.
"I'm not sure. Perhaps a geological change. You guys said the camp's temperature suddenly rose by five degrees, right? Maybe around that time, a deflagration of underground shale gas caused ground subsidence, which in turn forced subterranean hot springs to the surface, creating these pools."
David offered his theory with a deadpan expression.
Whether it was true or not didn't matter. What mattered was cementing his status as the most educated person in the camp.
