Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 122: Chapter 122: Healing (Four Updates)

Yang Xiao finally found the broken-off feathered arrow and gripped it tightly between two fingers, yanking it out abruptly.

He heard Qin Yu utter a sound in her coma, which startled Yang Xiao. He quickly pulled down her clothes and zipped them up swiftly.

A feeling of being like a thief.

”Damn it, I’m trying to save someone, why does it feel like I’m committing a crime?”

Qin Yu did not wake up and continued to remain unconscious.

Yang Xiao quickly pulled out a porcelain bottle, poured out a Small Blood Pill, gently pinched her lips with his hand, made her slightly open her mouth, and placed the Small Blood Pill inside.

Yang Xiao held Qin Yu in a semi-reclining position in his arms. After several minutes, the Small Blood Pill took effect and Qin Yu’s fingers moved slightly.

At that moment, Long Yongjun ran over.

”Boss, I found a relatively open and flat spot in the woods, prepared a campfire there. It’s getting darker now, should we go back or stay here for the night?”

”Qin Yu’s injuries are too severe, even with the Small Blood Pill, it’ll probably take about half an hour to improve. We can’t carry her around now. It’ll take us at least an hour to get out of the valley, and more than two hours to return to Kongming Academy if we go back up the mountain path. It’s getting dark and we might get lost too, so let’s rest here overnight. But I don’t know how Chen Fei and Deng Xiao are doing?”

Yang Xiao, holding Qin Yu, reached the spot Long Yongjun had found. Long Yongjun had also laid a layer of autumn leaves on the ground.

Yang Xiao gently placed Qin Yu on the leaves, and together with Long Yongjun, they lit the campfire.

Soon after, the forest was enveloped by the night.

Half an hour later, Qin Yu opened her eyes and woke up, looked at the campfire and Yang Xiao in front of her, and was momentarily dazed.

”What happened to me? I remember falling from mid-air and then losing consciousness.”

Both Yang Xiao and Long Yongjun smiled.

”You almost didn’t make it. Have some water.”

Yang Xiao handed a water bottle to Qin Yu.

Qin Yu slowly sat up from the ground, took a few sips of water, stretched her limbs—all seemed okay, though she still felt a bit weak.

”I gave you a Small Blood Pill, but your injuries are too severe. You might need to rest for another hour or two to fully recover.”

Yang Xiao took a piece of roasted meat from the campfire and handed it to Qin Yu. Qin Yu thanked him, took it, tore it into small pieces, and chewed slowly.

After eating one piece of roasted meat, Qin Yu felt much better.

Long Yongjun yawned and said:

”Boss, I’ll sleep first. You watch until midnight and I’ll take over after that, okay?”

”Alright.”

Long Yongjun sat by the campfire, leaned against a pile of branches, closed his eyes, and slowly fell asleep.

Yang Xiao and Qin Yu chatted casually, and Qin Yu suddenly said:

”That giant eagle’s feathered arrow was really powerful. I couldn’t avoid it at all. How many arrows hit me?”

”Three.”

”Oh, where are they? I want to check if the wounds have healed, I really hope they don’t leave any scars, otherwise it would be terrible.”

Yang Xiao was stunned—a concern for beauty even in face of death.

”Right thigh, left shoulder,”

As Yang Xiao spoke, Qin Yu bent down to look at the holes in her clothes, then touched them and said:

”This Small Blood Pill is really miraculous; there’s only a tiny scar. Where’s the third arrow?”

Yang Xiao looked at Qin Yu with an awkward expression, and pointed:

”Chest.”

Upon hearing this, Qin Yu’s face flushed, she lowered her head to look, indeed there was a small hole and some blood on her shirt. She touched it lightly, sensing no real scar.

”You’re lucky, a bit more to the side and it would have hit your heart. You wouldn’t have survived. We took one to two hours from the mountain top to the valley to find you.”

”Thank you!”

Qin Yu gave a slight smile, stood up, stretched lazily, and suddenly felt something was off. She lifted her outer jacket and saw her white undergarment peeking out over her pants.

That’s odd, she remembered she usually tucked her undergarment inside her pants, how could it have come out?

Qin Yu’s face turned red, looking at Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao was instantly bewildered.

Interactions between men and women, he was really clueless. He had only kissed his high school girlfriend once before college.

Yang Xiao scratched his head and awkwardly said:

”You fell from above, the arrow in your chest broke, and I couldn’t pull it out from the outside, so I had to unbutton your shirt to grasp the broken end of the feathered arrow and pull it out. I swear to heaven, I absolutely did not take advantage of you.”

As he spoke, he even raised his right hand.

Qin Yu’s cheeks blushed, she bit her lip and then said softly:

”I didn’t say you did anything, why are you nervous?”

Yang Xiao: ”...”

Perhaps seeing Yang Xiao’s embarrassed face, Qin Yu suddenly chuckled and looked at Yang Xiao, throwing him off with a question.

”Do I have a good figure?”

Yang Xiao: ”...”

”Don’t say you didn’t see anything.”

Yang Xiao was stunned for a moment, then blurted out:

”I was too nervous at that time, only thinking about saving you, didn’t really notice.”

Qin Yu laughed lightly, turned her head and asked:

”Do you have a girlfriend? I mean, in high school.”

Yang Xiao nodded.

”She’s very smart, performed better than me, got admitted to Yunhai Academy. I don’t know how she is now, we haven’t had contact since the apocalypse.”

”Don’t worry, she might be struggling for survival just like us. The end will eventually pass. Just keep living well, and maybe someday you both will meet again.”

Yang Xiao smiled faintly, suddenly realizing how warm and considerate Qin Yu was, and his fondness of her grew immensely.

The two chatted freely about anything and everything, becoming more excited as they talked, occasionally bursting out in laughter, forgetting their fatigue.

Although everyone felt helpless about the apocalypse, they still harbored hope for the future.

This hope was not derived from the confidence in genetic evolution, but from the care and love of friends around them.

This night was strange, possibly due to the colder weather, not many mutated creatures bothered them, only two mutated rats came by, looking around five or six meters away from the campfire.

The mutated rats were about one meter tall and three meters long, scaring Yang Xiao when they first appeared. Once he saw they were mutated rats, Yang Xiao shot one with an arrow.

”Perfect, I’m hungry, and our midnight snack just arrived.”

Yang Xiao skinned one of the rats, put the meat on the campfire to roast.

”This rat’s fur is also good, we can make a coat out of it.”