Chapter 51: Emergency Treatment

Chapter 51: Emergency Treatment

All Gao Yang felt when he woke up was thirst. To his wonderment, he didn’t feel any pain.

Didn’t I get stabbed in the sides from my back? Why doesn’t it hurt at all? All he felt was an itchiness that was so faint it was more like mosquito bites.

“Don’t move. Won’t take long,” a young voice said.

Blinking his vision clear, Gao Yang sat up with some difficulty and saw a girl who appeared to be seven or eight years old. Her hair was tied into cute buns, and she wore a modernized ruqun[1] with the collars tucked in the middle of her waist, under which was a white inner wear. On her light pink dress, peach blossoms bloomed.

She knelt down next to Gao Yang, holding his bigger hand with her chubby and petite ones. Her face was slightly flushed and round with baby fat, and her big eyes were clear and pure. This composition is securely entrenched in n0v*lbin★

“And you’re...”

“Lovely Lamb of the Twelve Zodiac Signs. Everyone calls me Cute Little Lamb.”

“Did you heal me?” Gao Yang said gratefully.

“I didn’t. I only made Big Brother’s injury mine.”

“What?” Gao Yang was surprised.

“Talent: Injury Transfer, serial number 24, Life-type.” White Rabbit showed up and crouched down before Gao Yang, reaching out to ruffle Lovely Lamb’s hair. “It’s good enough. Go find Uncle Dead Pig.”

“Nah, gonna transfer all the injury from Big Brother,” Lovely Lamb said proudly.

“Didn’t see you being so thorough with anyone else. Why, do you have a crush on him?” White Rabbit smirked. “My oh my, are you starting to pine after boys at this age already? You like them good-looking, don’t you?”

“No! That’s not it!” Lovely Lamb let go of Gao Yang’s hand and ran away blushing.

Gao Yang’s attention was caught by White Rabbit’s feet. The earlier leap left holes on the heads of her white sneakers, revealing her toes. He noticed that the big toe of her right foot was painted with black nail polish, but only halfway.

“What are you looking at? Rude!” White Rabbit said, but her tone was relaxed with no heat.

Gao Yang hurriedly averted his gaze.

White Rabbit sat down cross-legged and took off her damaged sneakers. She then took out a bottle of black nail polish and finished the job right before Gao Yang. “I wasn’t able to do the whole nail because I left home in a hurry. You don’t mind, do you?”

“I don’t.”

“Ah!” Gao Yang almost forgot to ask. “Where’s Wang Zikai? Is he still alive?”

“Oh, the wanderer?” White Rabbit said. “We didn’t save him.”

“Why?!” Gao Yang felt dizzy again when his heightened emotions pushed blood into his head.

“Say, ‘Ah.’”

“Don’t you...”

White Rabbit quickly threw something into Gao Yang’s mouth. It was an orange-flavored gummy.

Gao Yang didn’t chew on it.

“Eat something to get your blood sugar up. Don’t worry, I didn’t touch my foot with this hand.”

Gao Yang finally chewed and swallowed the gummy, his chest tightening again. “You said you don’t kill wanderers.”

“We don’t kill them, but that doesn’t mean we save them.”

“...”

“Alright, I’m just teasing you.” White Rabbit put another gummy in Gao Yang’s mouth. It was an apple-flavored one.

“He’s not dead?!” Gao Yang was overjoyed.

White Rabbit blinked her brown, almond-shaped eyes and said through the mask, “We didn’t save him because he didn’t need saving.”

“Your wanderer friend is quite a special one. It seems he’ll only die if his head is cut off or his heart is carved out. Blood loss isn’t a threat to him, and there’s nothing to worry about when his heart stops. That’s merely his body activating his self-recovery.”

“Isn’t that Dead Pig’s Talent?” Gao Yang was surprised. He really is born with great ‘talents’.

“Far from Uncle Dead Pig’s level, but enough to save himself.”

While they talked, Wang Zikai showed up from inside the ruined house with Fat Jun’s support, pressing a hand to his mostly recovered injury. He spotted Gao Yang in the front yard immediately, and he burst into laughter. “Ha, haha, hahahahaha...”

He laughed so hard that he started trembling, and the exertion made his mended wound split again. He grimaced in pain. Even so, he didn’t stop laughing.

Gao Yang was confused. Why is he laughing? Shit, he didn’t lose his mind, did he?

1. A type of Hanfu, namely traditional Chinese clothing, consisting of an upper garment and a wrap-around lower skirt. It was more often worn by women but could be men’s attire as well. ?

2. An idiom that describes someone who no longer fears insults and attacks because they have nothing to lose. It’s often used in the negative sense to say that someone’s shameless, but it can be used in the neutral sense. ?