Chapter 19: The Knife
Lena stepped away and disappeared into the greenhouse, and the remaining three sisters were not surprised, but silently watched as the breeze blew open the wooden door from the inside out.
Katya walked to the door, closed the wooden door, and sat down in a chair, "Alas, I thought I would finally have a little more peace for a while, but I didn't expect it to be as short as usual. ”
"Nothing lasts long, even precious gold and precious stones, will decay one day. Shirley said.
Cole waved his hand at the strange plants with lanterns nestled between the vegetable shelves, and the "lanterns" seemed to be instructed by her to lift them slightly, and a soft light emanated from them, illuminating the entire greenhouse.
"For us, it is enough for us to have hope, and 'hope' is our gem and gold, even if it is not eternal, but it is worth pursuing. ”
Lena is the Witch of the Winds.
In the myths she read when she was a child, anyone who can incarnate as wind should be revered as a god, but she can also incarnate as wind, why is it considered a damned heresy?
People identify with the myth, but why don't they identify with her?
During her wandering days, she never stopped thinking about this question, but she never found the answer, until not long ago, when Shirley's own sister was burned to death by the vengeful priest, she seemed to finally understand something.
She got it.
In this empire, the church did not need the existence of a true god, because they feared that these transcendent forces would threaten their enslavement of the populace, so the gods were destined to exist only in mythology.
The church only needs to say that "witches are heretics" to make a subtle deflection in people's perceptions, and they will never associate dirty witches with noble gods, so as to praise God and spit on witches, forgetting how similar the magic of witches is to mythological gods.
But the church has the ability to turn black and white upside down, the gods in mythology are divine, but the power of witches comes from the filthy devil, and if you were to force them to distinguish the difference between the two, they would not explain, they would only send the Inquisitors to wipe out all those who questioned.
When she turned into the wind, it was when Lena was at her most comfortable, and she was finally able to stretch her limbs as much as she could, allowing herself to fly freely and blow away all her worries.
Although she flew happily, she did not forget the purpose of this trip, and soon, she flew from the greenhouse area to the City Lord's Mansion.
This was her first time here, and she knew that the "Greenhouse Lord" lived here, so the Flame Witch was probably here too.
There were many houses in the City Lord's Mansion, but she didn't have the heart to look for them slowly, silently stabilizing her mind and feeling the temperature and flow of the air around her.
"There's a room where it's hot, and it's supposed to be the Flame Witch. ”
If she had thought like this before, she would have guessed wrong, but today she happened to guess correctly.
"Squeak"
A breeze blew on the window, blowing open the window that was not tightly closed.
A cool breeze filled the room, and Audrey frowned and walked to the window, trying to close it.
Seeing that Audrey was about to close the window, Rafa, who was sitting on the ground observing the flame witch lying on the floor, hurriedly stopped her, "Audrey, don't you think it's hot enough here?"
"I'm sorry. ”
The cool breeze kept blowing in, and the four people present, except for Ai Lei, all felt a little refreshed.
"Rafa, how is she, can she be saved?" Elle didn't like the word "Your Highness", so she always called him by his first name.
"Hmm......" Rafa groaned and continued to rummage through the witch's body, and finally tore the clothes on her waist and abdomen, revealing the hideous wounds below, "She should have been injured by the barbarian beasts, and there were dozens of bites all over her body, but none of them were fatal, but this one, it was difficult to do." ”
Rafa took out a piece of cotton, reached into a bottle of good wine and soaked it, and then quickly rubbed it across the witch's belly, wiping the blood off it, clearly revealing the two bloody holes underneath that were stained with dirt and black blood.
By the time he took it away, it had become charred and smoking, and the alcohol that had rubbed against her had begun to burn rapidly, and because of the heat on her, Rafa had to place her on the heat-resistant floor, lest she put it on the bed and set the sheets on fire.
"These two were mortal wounds, and there was a hole in it with a broken tooth, the only place on her body that did not stop the bleeding, and judging from the healing of the other wounds on her body, she had been wounded for more than three days, and if the ordinary person was probably dead, I don't know how she managed to get here. ”
Hearing that she was so badly injured, Elle suddenly felt a little worried, "Rafa, you save her!"
Audair looked at everyone frowning, and couldn't help but propose, "Your Highness, or... Go and ask the doctor, I heard that the military doctors of the Knights are very skilled. ”
"No, the only way for those guys with beak masks is amputation, piercing their heads, and bloodletting, and those they have healed, except for screaming loudly when they are amputated, tend to die faster afterward. It wasn't Rafa who answered her, it was Felihill.
When Felihill said this, Rafa seemed to suddenly think of something, "Yes! How did I forget this! Audrey, this decree will help me write it down, and it will be issued immediately tomorrow!"
"Your Highness, please speak. ”
"It is forbidden for a doctor to do anything to the injured person that may cause disability, injury, death, or depression, nor is it allowed for a doctor to let the patient take anything that may cause a person to be disabled, injured, killed, or depressed, and the offender shall be directly sentenced to death by hanging!"
Hearing this decree, Audair was a little surprised, "Your Highness, this... Wouldn't this be too much? In that case, the doctor would have little remedy. ”
"It's good if you don't! These guys bleed and fed people mercury at every turn, and everyone who survived was killed! But don't worry, I'll write some basic treatments that are simple and effective. ”
Whining about the long, bird-beak-masked doctors of this era, Rafa began to lift her skirt under her calves
swing, and then took off her blood-stained calfskin boots.
"Hey, it doesn't stink, it's strange. ”
All but Rafa were women, and when they heard him talking about the smell of other people's feet, their faces suddenly became strange, and even Felihill, who had always been indifferent, couldn't help frowning.
One of the witch's calves didn't hurt her belly lightly, and a large piece of flesh was torn off, revealing the bloody and white flesh underneath, and the most terrifying thing was her calf bone twisted to a strange angle, which was probably only a wooden puppet that could be twisted to the extent that everyone could see.
"Hmm... Fractured. ”
"I guess the cure isn't the amputation like those quacks, right?" said Felihill, standing behind him.
"Of course, but we'll have to deal with her fatal wound to the lower back and abdomen first, and we'll talk about that later. ”
He looked at the hole in her abdomen for a long time, and after repeatedly confirming the location of the beast tooth embedded in her flesh, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"It was the liver that was pierced, and she should be alive when she was pulled out. ”
"What's that?" Philisier wondered.
"It's just for... Belch... You don't understand, you just need to know that this thing can be regenerated. He suddenly felt that it was a bit far-fetched to say this to a group of people who didn't even understand the anatomy of human bodies.
But when he felt the burning gaze behind him, he immediately compromised, "Ahem, I'll tell you slowly later......"
"Well, I don't know how she survived. ”
With that, Rafa stood up and began to search for the right tool in Felihill's toolroom.
"Didn't you see that her hair was white?" asked Felihill.
Rafa was a little puzzled, "White hair?
Audair stepped forward, "There is a special type of people among witches, they do not need to awaken their magical talents, but have magical power from birth, the only sign of this kind of people is that they were born with this white hair, and their bodies are much stronger than ordinary people, even stronger than strong knights." ”
"Ao Dai, how come even you know?"
"I was ordered to hunt down witches. "Audair is neither humble nor arrogant, and she doesn't seem to care about Elle's existence.
"There are actually many such witches, but few of them will survive to grow up. Felihill continued.
"Why?" asked Rafa.
"Because their white hair is proof of witches, they were either betrayed to the church by their parents when they were born, or they were abandoned and had the opportunity to grow up at all, so this witch can be said to be very rare. ”
Elle continued, "Yes, if such a natural witch can grow up, she will all be extremely powerful magicians!"
"Is this witch strong too?" Rafa found the right tool and began to sit on the ground again.
"Of course! I can feel the magic in her just by being around her!"
"It's a pity that no matter how strong she is, she will be operated on by me. ”
Under the horrified gaze of everyone, he put his sharp iron tongs into the bloody holes covered with blood, and stirred around in it as if he was looking for something, causing the women to lose their faces and even the cold wind that blew into the room trembled.
"Whew"
The blood stirred up by him actually burned, so hot that Rafa quickly withdrew his hand, and the tips of the iron tongs were already charred black.
"I finally understood the reason why this wound had been around for so long and had not festered and infected. Rafa wiped his hands and smiled helplessly, "With such a high temperature, bacteria can't survive." ”
"Bacteria?" Philicille heard a new term, silently remembering it in her mind, ready to ask later.
"Do you feel hot?" said Elle, puzzled, seeing Rafa retract her hand.
"Isn't that nonsense? I can't hold a red-hot iron rod like you. "If he waits for Xingyin to practice to the next level, maybe he can try it, but now he definitely can't.
"I can try to control her flames. "It seems that Elle cares a lot about this companion.
"So good, I started. ”
When Elle stretched out her hand, Rafa began to act again, but the blood that flowed out after that did not burn again, just flowed to the ground like normal blood, the only difference was that it was still steaming.
After picking out a few pieces of gravel and sand from it, he caught the broken tooth with his pliers.
Everyone was holding their breath at this point, and even the breeze blowing in became much smaller.
As he slowly strengthened it, a steaming and bloody fangs were slowly pulled out by him, and the women silently breathed a sigh of relief, and the witch lying on the ground in a coma also let out a sigh of relief, and her frowning brows suddenly loosened a lot.
After that, Rafa turned in the wound for a while, and after confirming that there were no fragments left, he wiped the blood stain on the outside of her wound with alcohol cotton, but because the bandage would burn up if it was wrapped in a bandage, it could only be left alone, according to his thoughts, the witch's strong vitality and the high temperature on her body should not be a big problem.
After tending to the wound above, he moved his ass to the witch's calf, and then picked up the sharp knife he had just chosen.
"Or do you want to have your leg amputated?" asked Felihill.
"Have you ever seen a limb amputated with such a small knife?" Rafa shook the knife in his hand.
Next, everyone present, including the gust of wind, once again saw what tragedy is.
Rafa straightened the twisted calf and cut open the skin at the fracture without hesitation, but to her surprise, there was no blood splattered as the women had imagined, but only some fine beads of blood oozing slightly.
But the aftermath was a bit more terrifying, as they saw for the first time how bones, or broken bones, were connected to the scarlet muscles.
"Hmm... There are no broken bones, and it seems that the situation is not bad. ”
In order to ease the tension of the girls who couldn't bear to look at him, he hummed a little song that his senior sister had taught him when he was still chasing clouds, and then moved the bones, trying to find a place where the two bones could meet.
In the strange bending, the unconscious witch convulsed in pain, and Elle quickly held her down, and Rafa was also sweating profusely, not knowing whether it was hot or nervous.
"Found it. ”
Finally, after a long day of fumbling, the two broken bones were finally spliced together.
However, there was no such thing as a steel needle to penetrate the bones and fix it, so he could only fix it on the outside with a few steel plates, praying that the witch's strong body would turn her around.
"Whew"
With a sigh of relief, Rafa stood up and wiped the pliers and knife with the remaining cotton, "That's pretty much it, just wait for her to heal." ”
"Thank you, Rafa!" Seeing the witch's brow loosen, Elle thanked her happily.
"As long as you work hard, that's the biggest thank you to me. Wiping his sweat, he leaned back in a chair beside him.
"Yes, I will!"
"After that, it's up to you to take care of her, and if she wakes up, remember to tell me. ”
"Hmm!" Elle nodded heavily, then picked up the witch on the floor and prepared to put her in the other room.
"Looks like you know a lot more than I thought. Watching Elle leave with the witch in her arms, Feliscil handed Rafa a crisp white scarf.
"Didn't you already agree that this is the basis for us to change the world?" he didn't wipe his sweat with the square towel, but folded it neatly and put it in his pocket, "Would you like to have a drink?"
"I heard that when the caravan came back, I bought black tea from the Eastern Continent?" Phililiscille didn't refuse.
"It's for you. ”
When the two of them sat down on the balcony of the city lord's mansion, it was already approaching evening, and from a distance, it could be seen that the workers with different divisions of labor were returning to the city one after another, and the clanging sound gradually stopped, and the streets were more lively in the evening than during the day.
"It's a gentle wind. Rafa clearly appreciated the breeze on his cheeks more than the maids' new black tea.
Felihill gently picked up the teacup embroidered with delicate patterns and took a sip, "Do you really plan to build this place into a place where even witches can live normally?"
"If we have a way of overturning the ridiculous, why not give it a try?"
"Overthrow... Fortunately, you told me that if you dare to say it in front of others, you will be guaranteed that the Inquisition will arrive the next day. ”
"Fili, you may be far more than the only one who agrees with my thoughts, they are just used to putting up with it, and when the time comes, Icefield City may become a holy place for the oppressed. ”
"Holy land...... Philisille's eyes were in a trance for a moment, as if she had seen the distant future, and then her expression suddenly tightened, "So those drawings you drew have to start work quickly." ”
Rafa knew that she was not talking about steel rails or steam engines, but drawings of guns and cannons, "Ahem, Fili, don't always cling to whether this thing is good or not, only if we do enough accumulation in basic industry, everything will fall into place." ”
"I knew you'd come up with a weird excuse to excuse yourself. ”
"There's no way around it......"
"Alright, let's not talk about that," Felihill put down her teacup and stared at Rafa opposite, "How's your dancing doing?"
"Why should I practice?" he was a little confused.
"Are you going to step on my shoes again at the ball the day after tomorrow?"
"Ah, how did I forget about the monthly dinner......"
It was the second month of the dinner in Icefield, and when the caravan returned, he had promised to invite more civilians to attend, but Felihill knew it better than he remembered.
"Fili, I didn't expect you to refuse such a ball. ”
Felihill said indifferently, "Don't be cranky, I just believe in your promise that this will become a holy place in the future, and I am also the mistress of this place, I will always plant a seed in the hearts of the people, and everyone in the province thinks that everything is up to you." ”
Her words are always straightforward and never turn around, and Rafa appreciates her straightforwardness and unpretentious wisdom.
"I understand that the future of Icefield City was created by Rafa Hevian and Felisil Heberion. ”
"Wrong, it's Felihill. Felihill frowned slightly.
He was stunned for a moment, then put down the teacup in his hand, and then said slowly, "I'm sorry, I said it wrong, the future of Icefield belongs to Felihill and... Rafa's. ”
Felihill immediately understood what he meant, "I don't think you need to dissociate yourself from the royal family for the time being. ”
"Of course, I won't say it explicitly, but in fact, apart from my sister, I really don't have anything to do with the royal family. ”
After one last deep look at Rafa, Felicille got up and left, "Practice more dances, if you step on my shoes again like when you got engaged, then you will never think of gunpowder again." ”
"Yes, ma'am. ”
After Felihill left, Audrey handed him the list of balls.
While the breeze had not yet dissipated, he began to check the list.
"The representative of the vegetable greenhouse is...... The four sisters that day?"
When he pronounced the familiar names.
The breeze dissipated abruptly. 2k reading web