It's like when you go out for a date, and your girlfriend only lets you touch her with your hands, like scratching an itch through a boot, with little effect, persisting for hours is no problem.
Several hours later:
[You left the Demon Tomb Reef Island and headed west all the way back to Yinli Town.]
[Surprisingly, Shi Haitao did not return to the town, nor did he go to the previous mine, but instead took a remote mountain path to a hillside on the northwest corner of the town.]
[This is a village with a very uniform architectural style, like a stockade, with black tiles and white walls, ancient and quaint, stretching out with several hundred households, and a winding path as the only access to the village.]
[At the village entrance, there is an artificial mountain with three large characters painted in red vertically: Yangshe Village.]
[It is currently two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun is gentle, this is the time of day when people are most likely to feel drowsy.]
