Chapter 403 - Being Soft (1/2)

Going north from Xinlin City, people will see endless saline-alkali soil land. Harvests here were bad and now the plague is sweeping here. Lin Luoran and Sang Ye have traveled along the street and seen that many villagers are gone and only empty buildings remain. It’s summer. Black smoke comes from a big pit and disgusting scorching smell goes straight into people’s nose.

Nine out of ten rooms are empty. No one will be so patient to harvest the listless wheat ears here. Most saline soil land is deserted and corpses are cremated in the big pit.

The ragged poor people have no straw mats to cover their dead bodies. There is a grievance and everlasting regret in their black and puffy faces, as if they want to take another look at the blue sky… Of course, they don’t have such an opportunity anymore. With a torch throwing down, the smell of burnt human flesh is pungent.

Lin Luoran gradually forgets about travelling on the sword. This white saline-alkali land seems to have some kind of power, making her stop smiling and walk more slowly.

Lin Luoran has been tracing Mount Penglai for more than ten years. Being closer to it, she gradually loses her balance.

It is another uninhabited village. She finds a skinny girl under the tree. Her lips are black and there are reddish spots on her wrists which are the symptom of plague. She is very skinny but her cheeks are badly bloated.

When Lin Luoran finds the little girl, she is messy because of the fever. She tries her best to open her eyes and there is a hint of hope in her turbid eyes. She is murmuring “mother”. When Lin Luoran squats down, the little girl sees her clearly. She feels disappointed and closes her eyes without strength.

Lin Luoran feels so heavy. The Mount Penglai is just in front of them. Why is there so much misery? Isn’t it the overseas Spirit Mountain?

All empty rooms she has seen all the way are like acc.u.mulating sorrow. Her heart is sour and a tear falls on the neck of the little girl who is infected with the plague.

Sang Ye says nothing but he is very surprised. Probably he never thinks that this mysterious, powerful, and cold “immortal” will cry.

Lin Luoran picks up the little girl and makes a decision in her mind.

Sang Ye takes two steps back quietly. The immortal is powerful. However, He will be terrible if he catches the plague.

Lin Luoran chooses an earth wall as sunshade with a lot of light. She puts some clean straws on the ground and places the little girl on them. Lin Luoran examines the little girl’s body with Reiki and finds that she is losing her vitality. There is a strand of black power drifting inside her body to collapse fresh cells… is that the cause?

Just like the omnipresent gray mist on the Earth, the principle of treatment is very simple. Infected with viral bacteria, her body’s immune system cannot defeat the invading virus. With Lin Luoran’s Wakan, her cells will be full of vitality and then they may win.

However, there are countless civilians infected with the plague in Ying. She wants to treat them one by one, but it is impossible in terms of Wakan or time.

Lin Luoran can only use medicine. She feels how wonderful s.p.a.ce is for the first time.

On this occasion, it is really a life-saving treasure. Lin Luoran can make elixirs and her knowledge about medical records is much more than that of ordinary doctors. After checking the girl’s body, she has a primary prescription in mind. It is easy to save one person. However, if she wants to save others, she still needs a large amount of main drug.

Of course, the medicinal material is not the most important thing now. The little girl is dying and she can’t wait for her to make the medicine. Lin Luoran decides to save her with Wakan.

Sang Ye only sees Lin Luoran’s hand resting on the girl’s wrist. A green light flashes and she pulls her hand back.

“Hopeless?”

Lin Luoran glances at him and the indifference in her eyes stiffens Sang Ye.

The Wakan she infuses is fighting against the virus, which stimulates the vitality of the little girl’s own cells. After a quarter of an hour, the girl’s skin overflows with a layer of black smelly sweat. This is not bone marrow cleansing but just detoxing.

Lin Luoran touches her forehead and finds the fever is gone. There are still some poisons in her body but now she can survive.

“I am going to change her clothes. You don’t want to see it, do you?”

Sang Ye leaves the earth wall and wanders around the entrance of the village. Lin Luoran casts an Earth spell and a deep pit appears on the ground. She changes her gesture and clean water appears in this pit in the arid saline land. Another fireball falls into the pit and a pool with bath water of a suitable temperature is made.

Lin Luoran takes off the girl’s dirty clothes and burns them. She puts her in the pool.

Lin Luoran finds some Chinese medicine in s.p.a.ce and squeezes it in her hands. When she spreads her hand, it has already been parched into powder. Spreading the powder in the pool, Lin Luoran is satisfied when feeling a little power of the medicine.

The skinny little girl must have not eaten anything since she was left in this village. Lin Luoran sighs and takes out a pot to cook porridge with mushroom and lean meat for her. The rice is from s.p.a.ce, the mushrooms are freshly picked, and the lean meat is a small piece of monster meat. With plentiful Wakan, it is suitable for a thin body with weak vital energy and blood. It is just perfect for this little girl.

Rice fragrance slowly flows out of the earthen stove. The porridge is not made yet and Lin Luoran finds a dress Li Xi’er prepared for her in s.p.a.ce. After removing threads and cutting it down, she does needlework skillfully and soon changes it into two sets of dress suitable for a girl at the age of six or seven.