HBWnovel Chapter 194 The Legacy of Calamity
Chapter 194 The Legacy of Calamity
Jiao Jiao huddled in the back seat of the pickup truck. Her usually vibrant face was now as pale as paper, and her breathing was so light that it was almost inaudible.
Su Su used the torn corner of her clothes to dab the last bit of clean drinking water and carefully wiped away the cold sweat on her forehead and the dried blood at the corner of her mouth.
Xu Si stood outside the car window, his starry eyes reflecting the fine bloodstains on her hands caused by the backlash, silent as a stone.
He could feel his original sequence slowly recovering under the light of the blood sun, but this recovery did nothing to help with the current situation.
Dinner was cooked by Xiao Luo.
Xiao Luo, Tang Jinxiu, and Shao Bing also took on the important task of taking care of the entire convoy.
Su Su and Jiang Li took on the basic defense of the convoy.
Xu Si never expected that a storm would cause them more harm than facing the strange high-ranking figures.
Xu Si also truly experienced what it means to be completely exhausted.
As night deepened, the temperature in the wasteland plummeted.
The convoy was forced to take a temporary rest on the spot.
Tashan drifted off to sleep while silently counting "one, two, three, four, five, six," his breathing heavy but steady.
Jiao Jiao huddled in the back seat of the pickup truck, and a trace of color finally returned to her pale face;
Fu Xiaojian leaned back in the driver's seat of the Warrior, closed his eyes to rest, seemingly lost in thought.
Xu Si did not reply to "Nirvana".
He lay not far from the tower, his starry eyes gazing at the brilliant starry sky, his consciousness sinking into the depths of the sequence.
The star anchor was moving faster than expected.
Chen Pei seems to have recovered quite a bit; he can not only move around freely but also help treat the injured members of the convoy.
Xu Si had actually recovered a lot, but he didn't want to move and just wanted to lie there.
Night spread across the wasteland like thick ink or a soft velvet blanket, quietly burying the violence and wounds of the black storm.
Many people were still unconscious and hadn't eaten anything, including Xu Si.
The brilliant Milky Way stretched across the sky, clearer and more vast than ever before.
Xu Si seemed to have only ever seen this kind of scene when he was a child in the countryside.
The starlight carried an ancient, unchanging coldness and mystery, yet it made Xu Si feel exceptionally warm.
Suddenly, a barely audible whimper came from the back seat of the pickup truck not far away.
Xu Si immediately regained his composure, and the star veins silently covered the area.
Jiao Jiao's long eyelashes trembled a few times before she slowly opened them.
Her big eyes, usually bright and lively, were now filled with confusion and weakness. Her lips twitched involuntarily, and tears seemed ready to fall at any moment.
She tried to move her fingers, and immediately winced in pain, gasping for breath.
"Don't move." Su Su's cold voice rang out. She had been guarding the side the whole time, barely closing her eyes.
What would you like to eat?
Jiao Jiao pouted, wanting to say something, but felt her throat was dry and sore.
Su Su carefully fed her the water that had been prepared beforehand and mixed with a little glucose.
After taking a few small sips, Jiao Jiao finally caught her breath, her voice hoarse and weak: "Brother Shan... how is Brother Shan? And everyone else..."
"They're all alive." Su Su naturally knew what she was most worried about.
"Tashan's condition has stabilized! Most of the others are injured, but none of their injuries are life-threatening. Sister Jinxiu is treating them."
Upon hearing this, Jiao Jiao visibly relaxed, then frowned, feeling the emptiness and weakness within her body and the stinging pain in her hands. She whispered, "That 'framing'...it hurts so much...I'll never use it recklessly again..."
Su Su looked at her pale face and the fine, slowly healing blood-red cracks on her hands, her eyes filled with complex emotions. In the end, she simply hummed softly and tucked the blanket around her.
"Let me feed you something! We'll talk about it when it's light," Su Su said.
The little girl nodded, her eyes brimming with tears.
"No, I want Red Hair to feed me!"
However, he immediately noticed Xu Si not far away and changed his tune.
She felt incredibly awesome this time; what was wrong with letting Red Hair feed her?
Xu Si had already sat up. Hearing Jiao Jiao's weak yet still somewhat arrogant voice, the corner of his mouth twitched almost imperceptibly.
He didn't move, but his starry eyes turned towards the pickup truck in the night.
Su Su glanced at her, said nothing, and put down the half-bowl of warm rice porridge in her hand.
"Redhead, are you pretending not to hear me?" Seeing that Xu Si didn't react, Jiao Jiao raised her voice a little, which aggravated her wound. She hissed and gasped for breath, her eyes becoming even redder.
Xu Si slowly got up, brushed the sand off his body, and walked over.
He didn't get on the car, but just stood outside the open window, glancing down at the little girl's pitiful yet stubbornly "saving face" appearance.
"Too much to do." He uttered two words, but then reached out and took the bowl that Su Su handed him.
The bowl was metal and still slightly warm.
Jiao Jiao glared at him, tears welling up but not falling.
Xu Si hesitated whether to wipe it or not.
He didn't look at her again, his gaze falling on the rice porridge in the bowl. Xiao Luo really was willing to add ingredients.
With a slight twitch of his finger, a faint wisp of starlight spilled from his fingertip and wrapped around the spoon.
He used the properties of Xingyin with exquisite skill, steadily scooping up a spoonful of rice porridge and bringing it to Jiao Jiao's lips.
"No, I want you to feed me by hand! Humph!" The little girl turned her head away, clearly not intending to eat.
"Eat it or not, it's up to you, I'll feed it to the dog!" If it weren't for the fact that the little girl was seriously injured today, he would definitely take out the video and review it again!
Jiao Jiao paused for a moment, looking at the spoon dangling from her lips, then glanced at Xu Si's expressionless profile. She moved her lips, thinking, "Fine, I'll give him a way out!"
In the end, she obediently opened her mouth and swallowed it.
The warm rice porridge slid down my dry throat, bringing a touch of warmth.
She didn't say anything more, but just slowly drank from the spoon that Xu Si controlled with starlight.
In the darkness of night, this scene was strangely quiet.
The flickering candlelight in the distance reflected Xu Si's profile as he focused intently on manipulating the starlight, and Jiao Jiao's pale face as she swallowed hard.
Su Su watched quietly, and Jiao Jiao and Xu Si both seemed to ignore her presence.
After finishing most of a bowl of rice porridge, Jiao Jiao's face finally regained some vitality.
She licked her lips, watched Xu Si withdraw the starlight, and suddenly whispered, "Redhead."
"Um?"
"If I were to die one day, would you be sad?"
Her voice was barely audible, but she waited earnestly for Xu Si's answer.
"Haven't you heard the old saying?" Xu Si asked back.
"What ancient saying?" the little girl asked expectantly.
"Good people don't live long, but evil people live for a thousand years!" After saying this, Xu Si left the little girl with a dashing back view.
It took Jiao Jiao several seconds to react before she burst into a tirade of curses.
"Redhead, I'll fight you to the death!"
Jiao Jiao's cursing sounded somewhat pretentious in the darkness of the wilderness, and the last syllable even carried a hint of crying.
She watched Xu Si walk away towards "Nirvana" without turning back, and coughed twice in anger, feeling a tight pain in her chest.
Su Su sat back down by the car and gently patted her shoulder, a little confused as to why the two of them were always bickering.
"Save your energy."
Jiao Jiao pouted, and tears finally rolled down her cheeks, mingling with the dust on her face and leaving two clear streaks.
"Auntie...it hurts so much..."
She stopped pretending to be strong, her voice filled with grievance and lingering fear.