When you are conscious again, it feels like you are in a dream, and your body loses all sensation.

Instinctively searching for any evidence that would prove that I was still alive, I soon heard someone slapping me in the face and shouting in my ear. As my consciousness became clearer, the pressure under me made me realize that I was lying on my stomach, and the hand touching my chest and the slightest warmth told me that I was still alive.

I habitually opened my eyes because someone was calling me, and found myself lying half-naked on the beach, half-soaked in the turbid river.

Hearing the man's cry of surprise again, I looked up with difficulty and saw a man crouching in front of me.

It was a young woman dressed simply, who was crouching next to me and staring at me from top to bottom, as if shouting a few words, presumably asking if I could hear her, and what sounded too confused to understand.

I buried my head in the sand weakly, heavy and limp, and I just wanted to continue lying on my stomach and didn't want to care about anything.

She shouted something again, and I seemed to lose consciousness for a moment, and then woke up again not long after. I found myself lifted, looked around with my eyes half-open in a daze, and vaguely saw myself lying on what appeared to be a wheelbarrow, someone was carrying me through a large field with a cart, and I was always half-dizzy and saw things intermittently along the way.

I tried to get my body moving, but I still couldn't.

Later, I seemed to be sent to a simple yellow mud room, and I vaguely saw the young woman pushing me to the bed, undressing and taking off my clothes, and my body seemed to be groped strangely, and then I fell into a deep sleep because I was too comfortable in bed.

It seems that I have been asleep for a long, long time, and I have been having nightmares in my sleep, and I often hallucinate the screams of those Cangtong soldiers who drowned in the Xiangjiang River.

Constantly destroying one military ship after another, killing one unknown person after another with his own hands.

Suddenly, I was pierced through my body by a sword, and I woke up in fright.

He opened his eyes and sat up, and found himself in a strange yellow muddy room, sleeping on an unfamiliar bed, and a puff of comfortable sunlight filtered through the papier-mâché window.

"Uh-"

I let out a long sigh, confused at what was going on, and found myself so heavy that I felt like I had been filled with lead.

I sat up slowly with my hands on the bed, causing me a tearing pain.

I finally sat up, and when the quilt slipped off my body, I was surprised to find that my upper body was naked/naked. Soon, I noticed that my lower body was cool and fluttering, and I nervously lifted the quilt slightly to look down, and suddenly felt a little complicated.

Think back to what I've been through—

After I brought Green Rose and Yu Qi out of the palace, I went alone to intercept Cangtong's army on the Xiang River north of the southern capital, and successfully inflicted heavy losses on them. After that, I fell into a coma with serious injuries and drifted along the river under the protection of Kiyohime. Thankfully, I'm still alive, which means that Kiyohime managed to heal me.

In a daze, I remember that I seemed to have drifted to the shore at some point, and was ...... Who was saved, and where was it taken?

The weakness and pain in my body make me feel bad at all now, as if I am weak in a high fever. The level of vital activity has dropped to a very low level, and the cells in the whole body seem to be hibernating, and even the frequency of the heart beating is surprisingly slow, and I feel like a zombie, and even the movements are stiff and slow, and the slightest movement becomes very painful. Look at the back of his hand, and many parts of his body are peeling, so pale that there is no blood.

"You're awake."

Kiyohime's voice suddenly appeared in my head.

I hurriedly looked around and soon found that she was placed in an inconspicuous corner of the room, and I was relieved to see Kiyohime there.

You can sense that she has become very weak now, as if she is about to fall asleep, but she is still barely in this state. Thinking about it, I understand that when I have exhausted my aura as a sword master, she still has to heal me with such a serious injury, so naturally she can only consume a lot of her vitality to save me.

"Thank you......"

However, Kiyohime just replied coldly, "No need. ”

"When I'm healed, I'll take you to eat all the delicious food in the world!"

She still said coldly: "You can't do it." ”

I mean, I want to take her on a journey and eat all the delicious food, and now I can only repay her with this agreement, and never give up on a scum like me. She's a foodie, and the promise of just saying "um" is established, which is really a dishonest sword.

Kiyohime: "I want to make one thing clear to you. ”

I was about to ask her what had happened to me after I was unconscious and why I was naked, but she said it in a serious tone.

Vaguely already feeling the seriousness of the problem, I smiled indifferently and asked, "What are you going to say?" Weird. Don't look at the way I look like a child, my heart is big. Try to rest assured that I can bear anything! ”

After a moment of silence, Qing Ji continued: "You have already burned your life to fight twice with serious injuries, and I already said last time that your life expectancy has been greatly reduced, but if you take care of yourself, you can live up to sixty years old with your cultivation. But this time the loss of your body is several times worse than the last time, and almost all the organs are going to stop functioning, and I can only barely slow down your life activities and delay your life for a while. ”

She grimly stated my situation.

...... Of course I knew there would be serious sequelae, but I didn't expect it to be so serious.

Thinking back to when I intercepted Cangtong's fleet, I used such a dangerous method to improve my strength in a short period of time, defeating Xiang Xiong and sinking Cangtong's commander's ship, even if I died at that time. But it was all impulsive, or hot-blooded, and if I had to make a choice in a calm and rational manner, I would probably choose to run away and save my life.

It's just that now that the choice has been made, there is nothing to regret.

I reluctantly raised a smile and asked, "Then how long can I live?" ”

"It's as short as half a year, as long as a year."

“...... That's a bit short. ”

I'm still laughing, but I'm not happy at all.

Kiyohime added: "In addition, your body must also maintain a minimum of activity, rest, less movement, and more sleep every day. Something like Edgeworth's flight could kill you at any time, and if you fight someone again, you'll fall before you can make a move. ”

This way of life seems familiar.

"W-isn't this just like my lazy cat?"

"No kidding!"

"Yes!"

I just wanted to relieve the feeling of being a little heavy, but Kiyohime was more excited than me, and she got angry, which made me feel sorry for her and I didn't know how to deal with it.

She said with annoyance, "I shouldn't have promised you such a stupid act back then." ”

"Don't be angry, it's not that serious...... In fact, you just have to think about it, I can still live for a year after being so badly injured! Looking at it from a different angle, it feels a lot better. ”

"Shut up!"

"Yes!"

She was really angry.

I didn't even dare to take a breath of air, even though my breathing had become very weak.

To be honest, even if I was told that I only had that little time, I was a little surprised at first, but I didn't seem to feel anything. After all, I don't have any dreams, and I don't have the fame and fortune that I can't reluctantly forge, and if I die, I will die. If you want to say that you are reluctant, it is those few people, and those who can't rest assured are those people. I don't have the courage to tell them when I'm dying, and it would be best if I could die without anyone knowing.

But thinking about how my sisters would react when they learned about my death, I was a little afraid to die, and I felt a little afraid of death.

Kiyohime is still angry, she doesn't want to pay attention to me.

After examining my body and realizing the fact that I had become a waste, I took a closer look at the strange room.

I still have a rough impression of how I came here, and I was about to timidly ask Kiyohime what happened to me, especially how it was now. Just then the wooden door of the room opened, and a woman walked in with a basin of water, and she was a little surprised to see me sitting on the bed.

When she saw me sitting on the bed, she asked softly, "Little brother, are you awake?" ”

I nodded in amazement.

"Hmm."

Take a closer look, although she is dressed as a village girl, her appearance is not bad, and her figure is also very good. Young, and a little feminine, like a young woman.

I remembered, although my memory was a little vague, but I remembered that the woman I saw when I fell on the shore and was woken up was her.

It's not hard to guess that she probably saved me and brought me here, probably her home.

She put the basin on the table, slowly walked over and sat on the edge of my bed, stretched out her hands to hold my pale right hand, and asked me tenderly, "Little brother, are you okay now?" ”

Seeing her strange expression, and the subtle movements of holding my hand, made me feel a little uncomfortable, and stammered back, "Feeling, feeling like my body is hollowed out." ”

"That's ......"

She reached over and stroked my face, and said with a confused look in her eyes: "That's right, when I undressed you, I saw that you were so badly injured, and although it seems to be okay now, you must still be very weak." ”

Did she strip me naked?!

Oh no, what is she doing touching my face? Why are you looking at me with such lustful/squinting eyes?

What did she do to me when I was unconscious? Although I didn't want to, but I'm so weak now, I don't have the slightest ability to resist if she insists on doing something to me. Besides, she saved me and brought me to her house, and it stands to reason that I should repay them, such as making a personal promise or something.