Gu didn't avoid me, and I also forgot that Little Red was 'injected' with insect eggs. These eggs couldn't survive under its skin and definitely all died. The smell from the rotting eggs in the heat...
I could also smell it on Little Red, but right now, everyone doesn't smell too great. However, if Little Red doesn't clean off those rotting eggs, the smell will only get worse. No matter how dirty a person is, they can't produce the smell of rotting flesh.
So when we set up camp in the evening, Little Red called me, saying it needed to step out for a moment. In reality, it was finding a hidden place to shed its outer skin and clean the dead eggs under the skin with sand.
I had never seen it without its skin before. It's actually quite similar to robots in movies, except there are no gaps at the joints or neck. It's completely seamless from top to bottom, like a statue cast from a single piece of metal.
