Chapter 96: Healing the Wound

The blood flowing from Ninth Miss was no small amount; before long, the woman had gone deathly pale. After removing the thorned branch, Su Yi still had to help her stop the bleeding.

She opened the backpack and took out the medicine, bandages, and other supplies wrapped in plastic bags.

Stopping the bleeding and disinfecting the wound, Su Yi worked with practiced ease. Ninth Miss knew what sort of line this woman had once worked in, yet still asked, “With skills like yours, do you get hurt often?”

That should not have been likely...

Nanxun was nothing more than a tiny, miserable little place.

“One injury is enough,” Su Yi said lightly, while using a cotton ball soaked in medicinal alcohol to wipe the wound on Ninth Miss’s thigh.

“Hissss—” Ninth Miss clenched her teeth and endured it, though she still grabbed Su Yi’s arm...

“May I bite you?”

“If I could use scissors to poke at your wound...”

“...You’re not human.”

Ninth Miss silently cursed Su Yi for being so heartless, yet inwardly she was delighted by the woman’s careful attention to her.

Very quickly, Su Yi finished bandaging her, wiped the blood from her hands with a towel, and showed not the slightest hint of disgust. She was as cool and indifferent as a stone statue with no emotion.

But cold-faced and warmhearted, that was all. She clearly took good care of others, and she was broad-minded too—yes, broad-minded in spirit, not in figure.

Ninth Miss sighed inwardly, growing ever more curious about her. Then the broad-minded stone statue looked up and said to her, “I’ve stopped the bleeding here. The rest, you’ll have to handle yourself... Can you still control it?”

Ninth Miss nearly coughed up blood again.

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After all, Su Yi had once lived in the wilds and fields, so making a fire in the forest was no difficult matter. Before long, she was sitting on the ground by the fire, drying her damp clothes...

However, her outer coat was now draped over the proud Ninth Miss’s fair, bare thighs, while Ninth Miss’s trousers, which had a hole torn in them, were impaled on a branch and set by the fire to dry...

“Protective comfort, protective comfort, my little cotton-padded jacket, rainy days or clear skies, I still want you so~~ Your little wings are so cute, your skin is so white, you protect me~~~~ I love you so much~~”

Su Yi endured that singing for about half an hour, then could no longer bear it and lifted her gaze toward Ninth Miss, who was idly displaying two snow-white long legs.

Using two index fingers and two thumbs, Ninth Miss pinched a piece of that winged protective pad thing and waved it back and forth in front of the fire, humming a song to the tune of “Little Apple.” Her animated, gleeful expression made Su Yi feel that this woman had not just had her period...

but rather...

“I think... actually you’re this happy because it hasn’t come for a year, right?”

Are you pregnant?

“Get lost!” Ninth Miss hurled a... bloodstained pair of small panties at her!!

Su Yi tilted her head and dodged it, saying coolly, “I’m afraid even if the people from the Wind Kill Group were beaten to death, they’d never have imagined their young lady would keep a protective pad and underwear in her inner pocket...”

Ninth Miss, you are very bizarre, you know that?

By now, Ninth Miss had developed some immunity to the deadpan pretenses and sharp tongue of this woman, so she quickly recovered her fighting spirit. For instance, at this moment she hooked up a pair of enchanting phoenix eyes and said, “Heh... Su Yi, you keep provoking me like this because you want me to panic and rush over to hit you. Then you can take the chance to see your sister’s pretty thighs, right? ...Actually, you don’t need to go to all that trouble. If you want to look, sister will show you.”

Then Su Yi saw this minx seductively pinching her coat with two fingers and slowly lifting it up~~

Those pale thighs, higher and higher...

In the next instant, Su Yi flashed over and pounced toward Ninth Miss~~~

Ninth Miss smiled~~~

Then, whoosh~~

Su Yi yanked the clothing directly from her legs and gave it a shake. “It’s dirty...”

Dirty?

Dirty!

“Damn it! I’m going to fight you!”

But she was in the weakness of her monthly sickness, so defeat was certain.

All steamed up and disheveled, Ninth Miss could only slink off alone to dry her adorable protective pad, while the springtime view on her thighs had to be covered by her own coat...

—That was the price of offending Miss Su Yi.

Once Su Yi found that her clothes had dried, she changed back into them and lifted her eyes to study the surroundings.

This place truly seemed strange. Many of the plants were things one would not normally see outside, though she was not versed enough in this area to say for certain what such vegetation might signify. But...

that palace from before was still fresh in her memory.

As if it had been branded into the deepest part of her mind.

“I’ll bet this protective pad in my hand that the palace we saw earlier was definitely a treasure vault. Damn it, just what sort of person built this place? That palace was grander than the Palace of Versailles by who knows how many times...”

Thinking of the palace she had glimpsed for an instant, Ninth Miss’s heart surged with excitement...

“That also means that place is very dangerous,” Su Yi said, pouring cold water on her enthusiasm. Her voice was cool as she toyed with the Xie Ya dagger in her hand. “And don’t you think it’s strange? It’s been so long, yet the Wind Kill people still haven’t found us.”

They had fallen together, and the distance between them had not been great. Unless they were badly impeded in movement, finding one another should not have been difficult.

If they had not come over, there could only be two outcomes.

Dead, or alive.

And if alive, only two more possibilities existed: severely injured, or unable to move...

For example, unconscious.

Death was probably not very likely, because this rainforest was lush beyond measure, with countless vines and broad leaves everywhere. The Wind Kill people were highly skilled; at the very least, they should have been able to catch hold of something and save themselves. So...

Su Yi and Ninth Miss exchanged a look. The latter narrowed her eyes. “My trousers are dry now...”

Meaning she could change and go look for people.

Su Yi glanced at her. “And the wound on your leg?”

The place that had just been bandaged was now bleeding very little. The medicine she had brought was excellent, and it had worked well, but it was impossible for someone to move about freely like this, let alone in a place that was sure to be fraught with peril.

“I used my inner force to heal it for a while. It’s recovered a bit now... just not as nimble as before.”

Ninth Miss moved her leg...

Under Su Yi’s cool gaze, she looked a little embarrassed. “All right, fine, it still hurts a little.”

Mainly because the healing time had been too short. If she were given half a day, the wound could recover seventy to eighty percent.

It was just that the expenditure of inner force would be enormous.

This wound on her leg really was troublesome... Su Yi’s brows drew together slightly. Then she suddenly walked over to Ninth Miss and, under her surprised gaze, knelt on one knee before her. “I’ll try.”

“Forget it, your inner force isn’t even as good as mine!” Though touched, Ninth Miss rolled her eyes. “Don’t worry, I can still move around... Hey, can you listen to me?”

Su Yi once again placed her hand on the wound of her own accord. What she sent in was not entirely inner force, but inner force laced with several threads of magnetic energy.

Magnetic energy was special in itself. Su Yi had been injured several times, and her recovery power had always been terrifying. For instance, when the two of them had fallen earlier, Su Yi had once broken her arm, and Ninth Miss had not noticed at all, because Su Yi had quietly set the bone herself, and then...

carried on as if nothing had happened.

Willpower was secondary; the real terror lay in the magnetic energy’s restorative power.

It was just that no one knew whether it would work on someone else.

“So itchy... no, this feeling...” Ninth Miss’s expression grew increasingly strange, her eyes growing brighter and brighter as she looked at Su Yi in disbelief.

That look was like a Samoyed staring at you with huge eyes when it’s hungry...

After a while, Ninth Miss noticed Su Yi’s face had turned slightly pale, and she immediately pried her hand away. “All right, all right... I’m fine now!”

Having said that, she really did stand up.

She took a few steps, then turned back and looked at Su Yi for a long moment...

Su Yi did not mind this woman’s suspicion, nor did she regret saving her. Perhaps it was because this imp had once, upon entering the cave for the first time, disregarded her own safety and used her own bullets to relieve Su Yi’s predicament...

You gave me peaches and plums; I repay you with mulberries and pears.

Su Yi had no regrets, and she believed this woman would not...

Yet she had never expected that the first thing Ninth Miss would say was:

“Holy crap! Your inner force has the life attribute of a priest! That effect is insanely overpowered! It’s practically like cheating—you could solo a dungeon boss!”

“...You’ve played too many games.”

“But you absolutely can’t use this stuff on just anyone... otherwise those old monsters would drag you away and dissect you who knows how many times over...”

Ninth Miss warned Su Yi solemnly about this, because in this area her experience was still richer than Su Yi’s.

As Ninth Miss saw it, Su Yi had helped her at such cost, and the inner force she had spent must have been considerable. If those old monsters ever truly discovered anything in the future, she would protect this person no matter what...

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Soon, Ninth Miss slipped behind a tree to change her trousers and protective pad.

Su Yi was sternly ordered not to peek.

“You’re not allowed to look哦~~ otherwise I...”

“Su Yi, don’t go too far... what if snakes, bugs, rats, lions, or whatever come out...”

“Fine, if you look, it’s no big deal anyway. You’ve already touched it...”

“Damn it, why aren’t you answering?”

When Ninth Miss had finally changed and come out from behind the tree, rolling her eyes, she saw a scene before her that made her expression change drastically.

A group of people with guns had their muzzles pointed straight at her...

And Su Yi had already been held at gunpoint by one of them. When she looked over, her expression was still calm and indifferent.

Though perhaps she had rolled her eyes.

—Miss Ninth, do you not feel ashamed, muttering to yourself for so long?

Looking further back, in the dense forest stood thirty or forty men and women with guns, while the Wind Kill people were all wearing bitter smiles as captives...

Among them, at the front, stood a woman dressed casually yet still extremely seductive, because she herself was inherently alluring.

A Bohemian scarf perfectly displayed the exotic beauty of her features, and she swayed her captivating waist, with cinnabar lips, elegant fingers, and cold, glamorous eyes.

She smiled at Ninth Miss with curved lips.

“Long time no see, Ninth Miss Guan.”