Chapter 482: Hong'er (1)
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This little girl… wasn't dead?
Yun Che had always been exceptionally confident in his medical skills, believing there was no way he could misjudge whether someone was alive or dead. But this girl, who clearly had no signs of life, had actually… woken up alive!
"You… aren't dead?" Yun Che stared at the girl, dumbfounded, and blurted out a question that sounded particularly brainless.
"Eh?" The girl blinked her eyes, which were a bit hazy from her long slumber, and said in a small voice: "Could it be that… I've already died?"
"That's not what I meant… Uh, what's your name?" Yun Che asked. The girl's breath was very weak… no different from an ordinary girl.
"Name? Hmm…" The girl thought very seriously for a moment, then answered with a giggle: "I don't know! Big brother, do you know?"
Under normal circumstances, when someone realizes they can't even remember their own name, they would instinctively panic or become confused. But this red-haired girl was smiling cheerfully, and her smile was innocent and carefree. Given Yun Che's ability to read people, he couldn't detect any pretense or falsehood. It was as if forgetting her name was just a very small, unimportant matter to her.
"You don't remember your own name? Then… do you know where your home is? Who are your father and mother?" Yun Che asked seriously.
"Uwaaah…" The girl stretched her limbs with great effort, then shook her head bluntly: "Of course I don't know! I can't remember anything at all."
"Then… do you remember your age? How old are you this year?"
"This…" The girl thought for a moment, then raised her hand to cover her cheeks and shook her head: "I don't know… But big brother is so annoying! I'm still just a little beautiful girl, how can you just casually ask a girl's age?"
Yun Che: "~!#@$%…"
"Judging by her appearance, she might have had her soul affected by demonic poison, or it could be due to her long slumber in the Eternal Pivot. She has probably lost her memories of the past," Mo Li said calmly. As soon as she finished speaking, the girl's bright eyes turned to her. Then, her eyes sparkled, shining as brilliantly as two stars: "Waaah! Little sister, your clothes are so beautiful! Red! Red… I love red the most!!"
Although Yun Che had bought many clothes for Mo Li, what she wore most often was still the first outfit he bought for her—the crimson smoke flowing fairy dress adorned with many red gemstones. This mysterious girl had red hair, red eyes, and also wore a red dress. Clearly, she, like Mo Li, loved the color red. So when she saw Mo Li's particularly magnificent crimson smoke flowing fairy dress, her fondness overflowed… But that wasn't the point! The girl's reaction made Mo Li's brow twitch sharply as she asked in surprise: "You can see me?"
Mo Li had no body, only a soul. Unless she actively manifested her soul shadow, or unless one was powerful enough, only Yun Che could see her. But at this moment, Mo Li was clearly in a state of being formless and invisible… Yet this little girl could actually see her existence!
"Of course I can see! My eyes aren't broken." The girl tilted her head at Mo Li's reaction. Then she noticed the Eternal Pivot she was in and exclaimed softly again: "Waaah! Such a pretty crystal bed! Is this where I sleep? It looks so nice… But it's hard and doesn't seem comfortable. Big brother, can you carry me out? This crystal bed is so high. If I have to climb out, it would really ruin my image as a beautiful girl."
Beautiful… beautiful girl…
Image!!?
The muscles around Yun Che's mouth and eyes twitched noticeably. He reached his hand toward the girl. Seeing her completely defenseless look, he asked very seriously: "Little sister, aren't you afraid… that I'm a bad guy?"
"Bad guy?" The girl lifted her little face, thought hard for a moment, then suddenly "Ah ya" and shrank back, her creamy white little face showing a fearful expression: "Could it be… that big brother is a legendary big bad guy? Waaah… Bad guy, don't eat me! I'm just a little beautiful girl, I'm not tasty at all. How about you eat me after I grow up, okay?"
"~!#@$%… Of course I'm not a bad guy!" This little girl's reaction made even Yun Che's heart twitch uncontrollably.
"Hmm…" The girl nodded her head vigorously, her watery eyes shimmering with a pitiful look: "I knew big brother couldn't be a bad guy. So, big brother, carry me out, okay? Please? Please?"
Yun Che extended his arms, one hand supporting her slender little waist and the other lifting her little bottom, effortlessly carrying her out of the crystal coffin. When he set her down, a look of surprise crossed his face.
Before the girl woke up, he had sensed no trace of life in her, which might have been a misjudgment.
But just now, when he touched her body, he deliberately probed her physical condition… yet still felt no signs of life at all! Not even a faint pulse of life energy, nor any sound of blood flowing!
What was going on?
"Hmm… so comfortable!" The girl, now out of the crystal coffin, stretched her limbs vigorously again. Then she tilted her face up, blinking her ruby-like eyes at Yun Che: "Big brother, where are we going to play? This place looks like a lot of fun."
"…Don't you want to know who I am? Don't you want to ask where this place is? Or why you're here?" Yun Che asked, perplexed.
"This, this… Is this important?" The girl looked puzzled, then raised her little hand and shouted excitedly: "Playing is more important! Big brother, little sister, take me somewhere fun! I want to see the blue sky, the green grass, and flowers of all colors!"
"…" This little girl's anti-human way of thinking kept causing Yun Che's brain to short-circuit. After waking up from who knows how many years of slumber, and seemingly having lost all her memories, she showed no concern for any of this… not even caring who she was! In his two lifetimes, Yun Che had met many simple-minded people, but he firmly believed that even if he lived ten more lifetimes, he would never encounter another person as mind-bogglingly simple as this!
He looked at Mo Li with a pleading expression, only to find her staring intently at the little girl, her expression grave.
"Gurgle…"
A strange rumbling sound came from the little girl's body. She raised her little hand to pat her tummy, and her previously excited face suddenly drooped: "Boo… I suddenly feel really hungry…" With that, she turned her gaze and looked at Yun Che with pitiful eyes: "Big brother, I suddenly got very hungry. Do you have anything delicious to eat?"
Waking up after sleeping for so many years, it was perfectly normal to feel hungry. Yun Che searched through the Heavenly Poison Pearl and took out a dry, hard flatbread: "Here you go."
Having once nearly starved to death under the Sword Control Platform, Yun Che always carried a large supply of food and water on him, with dry rations being the most convenient. The little girl took the flatbread, sniffed it with her little nose, blinked her watery eyes, and muttered softly: "Such a strange smell. It doesn't look tasty at all… Can this really be eaten?"
"Of course you can eat it. It might not look very appetizing, but it's quite fragrant when you bite into it," Yun Che said casually, while thinking to himself… When you're hungry, beggars can't be choosers. Back then, under the Sword Control Platform, I almost starved to death and had to risk my life eating dragon blood and dragon marrow. You're much luckier than me—at least you have a flatbread to eat!
The girl sniffed the flatbread again, hesitated for a long time, then finally opened her teeth and bit into it. She clearly had to use a lot of effort to bite off a small piece.
"So hard! My teeth almost broke," the girl complained softly. Then she chewed cautiously. After just one small bite, her entire face fell…
"Ptoo, ptoo, ptoo… Bleh, bleh…" The girl spat out the still-uncrushed flatbread completely, even vigorously spitting out the remaining crumbs. From the look of it, she wanted to drive all traces of the flatbread's taste out of her mouth: "So nasty! Too nasty! I'm not eating this! So nasty! So nasty! So nasty!!"
Logically, even if one was used to fine food every day, if they were hungry for a long time, everything would taste good. But this little girl acted as if she had just eaten poison, her face full of grievance, her eyes even turning watery as if she might cry.
Yun Che helplessly twisted his mouth, searched the Heavenly Poison Pearl again, and found a piece of palace rose cake made by Cang Yue herself… Looking at this rose cake made by Cang Yue, Yun Che was briefly stunned and almost put it back. But seeing the girl's aggrieved expression, he still placed it in her hands: "Alright, that flatbread might not have suited your taste. This is called rose cake—it's very sweet and fragrant. You'll definitely like it."
"Sweet? Fragrant? Really? But it doesn't smell fragrant at all." The girl held the rose cake, which was as big as her palm, and looked at it with suspicion. Having just had the "bitter experience" with the flatbread, she was very hungry but ate cautiously, taking only a tiny bite.
"Ptoo… Wah! So nasty!!"
The girl spat it out again, and even the rose cake fell to the ground. Yun Che hurriedly rushed over to pick it up, blowing on the nonexistent dust with a pained expression, then quickly put it away. But looking at the girl's expression, she genuinely found it terrible. Even the exceptionally delicious rose cake made her beautiful little face twist in pain. He said helplessly: "You don't… only eat meat, do you?"
Not eating flatbread… then she probably only likes meat.
"Meat… What's that? Can you eat it? Is it tasty?"
Yun Che pulled out a piece of smoked meat jerky from the Heavenly Poison Pearl and handed it to the girl: "Try this…"
The girl took the smoked meat jerky with anticipation, sniffed it lightly with her little nose… This time, she didn't even bite it. She directly "whoosh" threw the jerky far away: "Wuaaaah! So stinky! Awfully stinky! I don't want to eat something like this!"
"…Then… what do you want to eat?"
"I want to eat something delicious!!"
"Something delicious… what is that?"
"Something delicious… In short, it's something delicious!"
"…"