Chapter 94: Go, Little Yueyue (Thanks to Daoist Juze of Jiushan Xuanqing Xiangyou and the Quantum Information Entity)

The three of them flushed at the rebuke, while Xiao Hongyu’s mouth twitched. This girl was getting more and more convincing.

“I went to the medical camp just now. There are more than five hundred gravely wounded men there, and I’m afraid most of them won’t last two more days. How much medicine do you still have on hand?” Xiao Hongyu asked directly.

“None. Between the three of us, the public stores are empty, and our personal reserves ran out long ago,” Little Fang said from the side.

“Then it looks like those five hundred-plus people can only wait for death...” Little White muttered. In times like these, with no good medicinal herbs for serious injuries, all they could do was wait to die.

To abandon five hundred lives like that was still hard to bear.

“Let’s leave it at that for today. Tomorrow, have all the soldiers gather at the drill grounds,” Xiao Hongyu said. He did not want to say any more. There had already been enough happening today, and he needed to discuss matters properly with his bargain master.

Once she had eaten her fill, sleepiness began to creep in. After everyone had left, Wang Keyue no longer bothered to keep up appearances; she simply flopped down onto the wolfskin mat.

“Master, mind your image!” Xiao Hongyu teased from the side on purpose.

Wang Keyue gave him a half-smile and a sidelong glance. “Your master is tired. Hurry up and arrange things for me.”

Xiao Hongyu chuckled and led Wang Keyue into the inner chamber of the tent. Unexpectedly, the inner room was warm, and it even had proper furnishings and a bed.

“Master, suffer a little tonight and sleep here. My tent is right next to yours,” Xiao Hongyu said. “If anything happens, just call out loudly and I’ll hear you. Don’t worry.”

Seeing Wang Keyue yawn nonstop, he let go of the other matters he had meant to discuss.

Though drowsy, Wang Keyue was not so careless as to notice nothing at all. Long before they had begun discussing the fate of those five hundred severely ill and wounded men, she had noticed Xiao Hongyu looking at her from time to time.

She understood what he was thinking. Nothing more than that she must have some kind of life-saving means. And in truth, she did... but saving those people would come with conditions.

After thinking it over, Wang Keyue simply took out the advanced traditional medicine skill card from her storage space. She had never used it because she had never found a place that felt sufficiently safe. The first time she had used a skill card like this, she had suddenly fainted, and that experience had left her with a faint psychological shadow.

But tonight, she decided to throw caution to the wind and use it directly.

A flash of golden light appeared before her eyes, like a golden blade driving into her mind. The overwhelming flood of information instantly submerged her, leaving her unable to breathe. In her head, it was as if one thick book after another were being opened and displayed one by one.

The contents of those books turned into countless golden characters, pouring ceaselessly into her mind. Her skull throbbed so violently it felt ready to burst.

If the last time she had accepted a beginner skill had felt like being pricked with needles, then this time it was pain like a knife to the heart.

Wang Keyue gritted her teeth and held on. Only slowly did the agony begin to ease, and then her mind was flooded with countless prescriptions for medicinal herbs, the diagnostic methods of observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking, charts of the body’s meridians, skeletal diagrams... damn it, even anatomical charts...

Wang Keyue suffered through the entire night. By the end, she felt sure she was developing a psychological scar from it; from now on, she probably would never dare use a high-level skill card so casually again.

“Come on, Yueyue, keep going! Keep going!” In the storage space, the system sprite Little Treasure anxiously comforted Wang Keyue. If only there were a high-level sleep chamber, then its master would not have had to endure such pain. Alas, it was all because they were poor.

Early the next morning, Xiao Hongyu called to Wang Keyue from outside the tent. No one answered. He called again, and when there was still no response, worry pricked him. With no other choice, he went straight into the inner chamber of the tent, only to find that something was wrong with Wang Keyue on the bed.

“Xiao Yue, wake up! What’s wrong with you?”

She was still wearing Doctor Wang’s mask, but it was obvious at a glance that she was drenched in sweat from head to toe, even her hair slick with cold dampness.

After much effort, Wang Keyue finally opened her eyes. She had spent the whole night digesting the advanced skill card, her mental and physical strength utterly drained. At that moment she was exhausted and drowsy, so weak she did not even have the strength to lift a hand.

“Brother Xiao, I’m fine. I’m just very sleepy. Let me sleep a little longer,” she said faintly. As soon as she finished speaking, she fell back into a deep sleep.

Xiao Hongyu looked at her helplessly. After stepping out of the tent, he soon returned with a basin of clean water. Sitting quietly by the bed, he gently wiped Wang Keyue’s forehead with a handkerchief. Then, looking at the clothes already soaked through with sweat, he reached out, only to draw his hand back again.

Ah... this... this was a girl, not some old man.

By the time the sun was well up, Wang Keyue’s exhausted body had finally recovered a little. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Xiao Hongyu beside her, wringing out a handkerchief and pressing it to her forehead again. Then the person on the bed opened her eyes.

“Brother Xiao...”

Wang Keyue looked at everything before her, a little at a loss.

“You were ill, but the fever has gone down now,” Xiao Hongyu said with a faint smile. He removed the handkerchief from her forehead and tested it gently with the back of his hand, only then letting out a small breath of relief.