Vol 4 Chapter 16 (1/2)

Volume 4 Chapter 16: Don’t tell me this is a reunion (1)

Liu Bei POV

It was now the early hours of morning and the moon began peeking out of the clouds, and shone moonlight upon the snowy landscape.

I was still on the same horse which was headed in a direction I knew not where. Its gallop was too quick for my blockheaded self to grasp what the surroundings were.

Every step forward brought great pangs of pain, and the intense gyrations threatened to throw me off. All my limbs were numb by now and I wasn’t sure how long more I could last.

And I could feel that there was something very wrong with my back and tried to turn and have a look.

Ouch…

As expected, my back was wounded by Li Dian’s spear before. But what was scary was that the burning pain had disappeared and cold dread filled my heart as I realised this.

No good, I’m starting to feel faint.

I used my bloodied hand to rub my eyes and shook my head while I forced my eyes wide open, hoping that would keep me awake.

Yun Chang… Yi De… I couldn’t find you all.

And I don’t even know if Feng Xian and Zhang Liao made it to Yuan Shao.

Speaking of which how are Hua Tuo, Gan Qing and Mi Zhen doing in Xuchang? Would they be treated poorly? I hope nothing untoward happens to them.

The Xu state 3 were in distant parts of the country now as well. I wonder how they’re doing.

As I thought of such things, I buried my head into the horse’s mane…

“Ah!”

All of a sudden, a jolt by the horse made me loosen my grip on the reins.

No!!

In an instant, I lost all balance and my legs which were clinging on to the horse finally gave way and I fell off the horse onto my back.

“Kuh!”

It hurts!

I fell heavily onto the dirt road but luckily snowfall had created a decently thick layer of snow that cus.h.i.+oned my fall and I didn’t break any bones.

I gingerly felt my back and an intense wave of pain a.s.saulted me. I looked at my palm and saw that it was covered in fresh blood.

“Haa… Haa…” My breathing grew increasingly ragged and I was starting to suffer from oxygen deprivation.

If I keep on losing blood like this, I’ll probably die.

I lay on the dirt road spread-eagled in a ‘大’ shape, completely drained. There was no living thing all around, only a man about to die from excessive blood loss.

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