Chapter 13: Scars (Revised)

  Chapter Thirteen: Scars

  Although it has been uninhabited for many days, a lot of dust has accumulated, but after Bai slightly tidied up and lit the stove, it can still be used for rest.

  Bai gently laid Ruo Chen on the bed in his own room and let him lie down.

  Seeing the red bloodstain spreading on the white bed sheet, Bai wanted to help Ruo Can bandage his left arm that made him aghast.

  Bai found the bandage in the luggage and was about to wrap it when he discovered that, apart from the last piercing wound on Ruo Cans left hand, all the other wounds had already stopped bleeding. The bloodstain that had just spread out was actually caused by the melting of the frozen blood on his arm due to the indoor temperature.

  But even if Bai was extremely ignorant, he knew that within such a short period of time, it was impossible for the bleeding from such severe wounds to stop at a normal person's recovery speed.

  After a slight astonishment, Bai thought for a moment and decided to bandage his slightly injured left arm first. As for the others, they were unimportant to him.

  Looking at Yuru's unexpectedly peaceful sleeping face after she had fainted, it felt like only at times like these did she truly look like a three-year-old child.

  What on earth has he been through? Why can he behave like that?

  To be honest, when I saw the fierce battle between Bai and Zai, it was impossible not to feel any fear at all. After all, Bai is just a six-year-old child.

  However, Bai noticed the fierce and stubborn eyes in the midst of the gamble, despite his unchanged smile on his face. The sadness and determination that appeared in his eyes, as well as the deep-seated regret hidden within, shocked Bai.

  Although Bai was unclear about Zai Wu Jian's reputation, the killing intent of Zai Wu Jian was very obvious. Bai knew that in such a situation, if he wanted to take himself away, the probability of death would be extremely high.

  But if he persists in being completely unafraid of death, Bai feels that he belongs to the adults, and that he is really needed by the adults.

  There is still such deep pain in an adult's eyes, but an adult's heart remains just as...

  Bai took out the steamed bun that Ruo Zan had given him when they first met and slowly started eating it. Although the bun was already cold, the warmth remained in Bai's heart.

  Bai thought this was the most delicious food he had ever eaten.

  Suddenly, Bai discovered something unusual on the bed.

  If the body of a withered person shows abnormal twisting, limbs struggle like cramps, but as if they are all restricted, only within a certain range, and the breathing of the withered person is almost about to disappear, stopped.

  "What's going on? Am I having a nightmare?" Bai Xing couldn't help but ask herself, but when she saw that the bandage on Ruo Cang's left hand had started to seep out fresh blood after his sudden movement earlier, she quickly went over to try and restrain his hands from moving again.

  Was it because of the commotion just now that the wound reopened?

  After a while, Ruo Can's body gradually calmed down. Bai Xiang thought that it should be fine now and saw the blood-stained bandage, thinking to help Ruo Can re-bandage again.

  Bai stretched out his left hand, which was still a bit numb, and took out a towel to wipe away the bloodstains. However, he didn't expect that after wiping away the blood from his left hand, the huge wound from just now had already started to heal.

  It was just a brief moment! Not long ago, the ugly wound that made me clench my teeth had now turned into pinkish new skin.

  But this is not the main reason for the surprise.

  The back of Luo's left hand was covered with countless small scars, including abrasions, lacerations, puncture wounds, cuts, and burns, so many that it was almost impossible to see any normal skin, such a shocking number of scars that Bai hadn't noticed at first.

  "What about your right hand?!" Bai Zi carefully examined his severely injured right hand.

  As expected, exactly the same. Just like Bai's conjecture, but how much he hoped he was wrong.

  What's going on? What has he been through?

  White gazing at me as if in a peaceful slumber with deep and quiet breathing.

  When people usually have nightmares, their faces will show various expressions, but adults' facial expressions are... calm, as if they were in a peaceful sleep like death.

  Why? Who is it after all? Why treat adults like this? ... But, shouldn't an adult's regenerative power be that strong? White thought to myself about the speed of recovery from my huge wound just now. With such regenerative power, there shouldn't be any scars left, right?

  Bai looked at my hands again, trying to find out where the problem was.

  It seems like it's an old wound from over a year ago... That means it happened when the child was around two years old! How could you do such a thing to a child so young?!

  Before he could even respond to these thoughts, he noticed that the scars seemed to have changed slightly.

  "Huh? Wounds! How is this possible?! White saw the original old scars, and they actually started bleeding. No, or rather, both arms were reliving the state of being injured for the first time, as if an invisible person was harming him just like before."

  Bai suddenly had a feeling that the person who was hurt and left behind was actually himself!

  Because the wounds were not big, they recovered quickly at an astonishing speed, and even the bleeding seemed to be absorbed by the skin, without any blood flowing out... The two arms quickly returned to their original state, if it weren't for the deep red color on the sleeves again, I almost thought what I just saw was an illusion.

  No wonder the scars on the adults' hands haven't disappeared, but they don't show any unusual symptoms when they're sober! The adults didn't have anything wrong with them when they first fainted either. Bai felt a bit confused and wanted to leave to prepare some hot congee for Ruo to eat when she woke up, but was also worried that if she left, the adults would get into trouble again.

  Finally, Bai moved the small stove into the room to cook food.

  Fortunately, this time until it was cooked, Bai did not discover any abnormal conditions in the body again, except for that eerie silence.

  Bai used warm fire to slowly cook the white porridge, and saw that Yu Can's forehead was slightly sweating. While helping Yu Can wipe away the sweat, he accidentally touched Yu Can's face, and the scorching temperature suddenly reminded Bai that Yu Can was still running a fever. He hastily went to prepare water and towels to help Yu Can cool down and reduce his fever.

  No choice, just now too many things happened all at once, too many shocking things for Bai, can't help but forget one or two things that aren't as surprising.

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