"Well……"
The next morning, Chen Xing woke up from pain. Despite disinfection, the wound caused by the acid still became inflamed. It was burning and painful.
It seems that the only option is to see a doctor, otherwise the situation may continue to worsen until large areas of skin rot and fall off. But this also means the expenditure of several gold coins and three to four days of rest time.
He has just found clues to the underground survival shelter No. 65 and must make a small fortune before others do. Otherwise, when everyone knows, he may not even be able to get the scraps. After all, he is just a little ant that anyone can easily crush to death.
He couldn't deduce a specific time, so the sooner the better.
It would be nice if there was a teammate who knew how to "recover"...
Chen Xing couldn't help but think. In this world, in addition to doctors, there is a profession called "quick healer" that can treat trauma. The biggest difference between them and doctors is the word "quick", which can provide timely and effective treatment to injured patients.
With the support of special talents, fast healers can convert spiritual energy in the body into life energy and output it to the injured body to quickly restore injured body tissues. They are the best first aiders in the world. Usually when doctors are helpless with internal bleeding, they can use a simple recovery technique to stop the bleeding and return to normal in an instant.
However, fast healers are extremely rare. Only those who have awakened the "talent of transforming their own life energy" can cast the recovery technique. Among all those with awakened talents, there is only a three-thousandth chance of having this ability. Because of its scarcity, it is also called "God-given magic", while the lower class of society calls it "green talent".
The number of people with awakened talents is already small. Multiplying the two, the probability is as low as one in tens of thousands. Therefore, there are not many fast healers in the entire Red Earth Continent, or even in the world.
They have a transcendent status. Normally, only those large mercenary groups with over 10,000 people, or noble troops above count, would have one or two, and ordinary people would have no chance of contacting them.
But God is fair. When a door is opened, a window will be closed. As a talent awakener, the fast healer cannot cast any spells except recovery.
While thinking, he thought of someone. To be precise, it was a woman named "Ye Yang Bailiu".
Chen Xing had a chance encounter with her in his previous life. She is a woman who, at first glance, will think of her as "so big and so white."
Over 1.8 meters tall, plump and slim, with fair skin, beautiful appearance and calm temperament. And the reason why he thought of this woman was not because of her figure and appearance. But ten years later, Ye Yang Bailiu will become the most powerful rapid healer in Longshi Town, possessing the second advanced "Great Recovery Technique". As long as there is breath left, she can save him.
But these are not the most critical. The most critical thing is that the rumored starting point of Ye Yang Bailiu is very low. Compared with her glorious status in the future, she is living a very miserable life now.
Ye Yang is an ancient surname and one of the seven major families in Gray Horn City in the northern wilderness.
It is said that when Yeyang Bailiu was born, her mother died in childbirth because she was so big. Her father loved her mother very much, so he hated her and ignored her since she was a child. When she was ten years old, she was sent to the royal capital of her country, the Lizard City, to attend a boarding school for aristocratic girls.
Later, her father remarried a young lady from a big family and gave birth to a daughter.
When Yeyang Bailiu was a graduate student, her father suddenly died of illness. Her stepmother immediately cut off her tuition fees, and Ye Yang's family also regarded her as a "broom star" and didn't like to talk to her.
In desperation, Ye Yang Bailiu had to interrupt his studies and work as a mercenary to earn money. At that time, her talent as a healer had not yet awakened, and she had no combat experience. The only martial art she knew was the ancestral martial arts of the Ye Yang family, an ancient fighting technique called "Bagua Zhang".
To the mercenary group, Ye Yang Bailiu's abilities were useless, and those who admired her beauty were afraid of the Ye Yang family's power, so no one cared about her in the mercenary association. Probably because he could no longer survive in Gray Corner City, Ye Yang Bailiu wandered to Longshi Town with the caravan, and met Hua Beidou, an old witch who was called the "Dragon Herder" by later generations.
Under Hua Beidou's command, Ye Yang Bailiu was originally just a logistics officer, responsible for the daily supplies of the mercenary group, but with the awakening of his talent, he gradually rose to become one of the most dazzling new stars in Longshi Town.
Chen Xing looked at the table below. Today's date is Dr2612-5-16, which is still two and a half months before the legendary time when Ye Yang Bailiu fled to Longshi Town. It seems that it is not impossible to intercept Hu Beidou...
But he quickly gave up this unrealistic idea, because with his current strength, even the down-and-out Ye Yang Bailiu was not something he could conquer. No matter how bad the other party is, she is still the eldest lady of the Ye Yang family. He has been well fed and clothed since he was a child, and has been well trained. He drinks evolution potions like sugar water, and his attributes must be more than a star and a half higher than his.
Chen Xing took out the gold necklace, took off the stainless steel pendant and put it into his inner pocket. This thing is worthless, but it contains important information and cannot be seen by others. Then he scanned the gold necklace with his black watch.
"Dudu..."
With a light beep, a set of data appears on the screen.
[Gold necklace, made by craftsmanship before the Cataclysm, about 83 grams, purity unknown]
[Market price estimate: 20~26 gold coins (Orchid Town), 21~27 gold coins (Dragonstone Town)]
Seeing the valuation of the black watch, Chen Xing couldn't help but frown and clenched his fist vigorously. This price has exceeded his expectation. He thought it would only be a dozen.
Then, he simply packed his things and went out. When he passed by the front desk, a look of disdain glanced at him again, but he was in a happy mood and ignored it automatically.
After leaving the inn, he went to the bank in the town. This is the only fortress-like building in Orchid Town that is made entirely of reinforced concrete and several layers of steel plates. And deep underground, a high-frequency particle jump communication device is installed, which can directly connect to the World Bank's central server.
An old gentleman wearing a black tuxedo, a tall figure, a bow tie, and gold-rimmed glasses received Chen Xing. After looking at it with a single-lens magnifying glass for a while, the old gentleman quoted the price, 17 gold coins, which was so black that it was appallingly dark.
In response, Chen Xing politely expressed his thanks, then turned around and went out. When you sell something to a bank, you have to peel off at least two layers of skin.
Then he checked the pistol and knife and turned into the alley around the corner.
The alley was dimly lit, with walls made of bricks and iron sheets on both sides. The old wooden door opened inward, and the room was dark and deep.
"Handsome man, do you want a woman?"
A fat Liuying was wearing a red dress and colorful beads. She had heavy makeup on her face and a layer of purple eye shadow. She was smoking a cigarette and ogling Chen Xing.
The latter raised his hand to indicate "I'm not free now."
Walking further inside, stalls appeared one after another on one side of the alley, covered with black oilcloth and displaying a mess of things, including firearms and bullets, dried meat rice cakes, mechanical parts, and various small objects and handicrafts, such as Iron kettles, lighters with copper boxes, necklaces made of animal bones, and bracelets strung with beautiful stones. There are all kinds of things.
"Well..." A little old man muttered, with a solemn face. He looked at the gold necklace in Chen Xing's hand repeatedly, frowned, and said with some regret, "It's gold-plated..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Xing turned around and left.
"Wait... Hey... young man... wait..." the little old man opened his mouth full of yellow teeth and shouted anxiously, "I was dazzled and saw something wrong!"
"How much?" Chen Xing stopped, turned his head, and asked expressionlessly.
The little old man slowly stretched out five fingers.
"Wait...eight...no...nine..."
Chen Xing walked forward without looking back, no matter what the little old man shouted from behind.
"The quality is okay, twenty."
After a while, someone finally quoted a reliable price, but Chen Xing was still not satisfied. The valuation of the black watch is relatively accurate, it must be sold for at least twenty-three.
The black watch could not scan the purity of the metal, so he went to the bank first to confirm the material before going to the back alley to find a buyer. But after going around for a while, the highest asking price was only twenty.
After walking for a while, my clothes rubbed against my skin, I was sweating a little, and the small wounds all over my body ached.
Forget it, let’s go see a doctor first.
Thinking like this, Chen Xing left the back alley and came to the street.
There were few pedestrians on the street. A gust of wind blew by, blowing up dead leaves and dust. The rusty iron signboard was swaying, looking desolate.
According to the impression in his memory, he found a small clinic with a red cross sign on the glass of the storefront.
Walking in, the floor inside was fairly bright, and the walls were filled with various instruments with fallen patent leather, as well as several iron beds with patients lying on them. In the middle is an operating table, with a middle-aged male doctor in a white coat and mask standing next to it.
"One gold and seven silver." After checking Chen Xing's injuries, the doctor quoted the price.
Chen Xing paid the bill readily. The doctor took out a box of medical instruments from the cupboard, treated the wound, and applied ointment. Then, I took two bottles of anti-inflammatory drugs.
"Aren't you going to treat your corpse poison?" Before leaving, the doctor asked.
"Wait a little longer." Chen Xing said, and then left. It's not that he doesn't want to deal with it, but he doesn't have enough money. After selling the gold necklace, I still need to buy a motorcycle and ammunition. Let's see how much is left.
As long as the corpse poison level is below 15%, it will slowly decrease over time.
After leaving the small clinic, Chen Xing soon discovered that he was being followed!
It seems that he was targeted when he was asking for prices in the back alley just now. Although no one dared to do anything on the town street, the feeling of being spied on made him very uncomfortable, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace, trying to get rid of the other party.
He twisted around in the streets and alleys, and after a few minutes, he finally got rid of his pursuer. But just as he breathed a sigh of relief, a clear voice came from the store on the side, making his heart skip a beat.
"Handsome guy, here we go again~"
The sound was as sweet as a silver bell, but it made Chen Xing extremely depressed. Unknowingly, I passed by Aaliyah's gun shop. It's like stepping out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's den again.
He couldn't avoid this evil demon girl, but he didn't want to offend her, so he pretended not to hear her. He had no choice but to stop, smile and say hello: "Hello, we meet again."
"I heard that someone just sold a gold necklace in the back alley. Could it be you?" Aaliyah walked out with a small waist and asked with a smile.
"This..." Chen Xing hesitated for a moment and replied, "Yes." Since the other party asked this, he must have received accurate information. There is no point in lying. And Orchid Town is so big, you can’t see it when you look up. Forcibly denying it would only worsen the relationship between them. He didn't want to be missed by the future "king".
"Why don't you take care of me when you have business?" Aaliyah pouted, akimbo, looking angry, "I thought we were acquaintances."
"I was just coming to find you..." Chen Xing said against his will.
"Okay, okay, take it out and have a look~" Aaliyah suddenly showed surprise, stretched out her white little hand, and shouted excitedly.
Some things are better left tacitly understood...
