nycdaug Chapter 444 Another World
Chapter 444 Another World
Somewhere on a certain planet, a woman with a terrifying scar on her right cheek is knitting a sweater. The sweater's pattern is very messy, and there are many seams, clearly made by joining different types of yarn together. The house is very dilapidated, surrounded by broken walls and ruins, but the interior is quite tidy.
"Sister, sister, come out quickly, come out quickly!" A boy's voice called from outside the door. The woman smiled and walked out unhurriedly. Before even opening the door, she asked, "Little brother, did you bring back some weird junk again? I told you a long time ago not to pick up those things. We can hardly fit any more of them here."
As soon as she opened the door, she saw her younger brother struggling to drag something backwards towards her. Judging from the size of the thing he was dragging, it was clearly a person. She rushed forward, looking at the blackened "person" that resembled a charred corpse, and asked suspiciously, "Little brother, where did you find this? Is this person still alive?"
Before the younger brother could speak, a boy with a pair of horns on his head flew out from the body of the pitch-black person. However, his body was weak and his figure was indistinct. He said to her urgently, "Please save him. If you can revive him, I will reward you handsomely." After saying this, the boy disappeared.
The older sister was so shocked by what she saw that she couldn't speak for a moment. It was only after her younger brother tugged at her a couple of times that she came to her senses and said, "Let's carry him inside first, and I'll check the situation. But you have to tell me how you found him."
The two women laboriously carried the man inside. The older sister then retrieved a stethoscope, blood pressure monitor, gauze, bandages, sterile cotton balls, iodine, alcohol, and scissors, and began skillfully examining the man. The younger brother, standing nearby, briefly explained the situation.
It turned out that when he went out to find food today, he found a human-shaped object lying on a pile of ruins. He was too scared to go over, but then a boy flew out of the human body. After the boy pleaded with him, he found some things and dragged the man back.
Seeing that his sister had finished her examination, the younger brother immediately ran over and asked, "Sis, how is he? When I dragged him back, he seemed so strong." The sister shook her head: "I'm not sure. I'm just a nurse, not a professional doctor. But from what I see, he doesn't seem to have any major problems, just that he's too weak. I've never seen anyone this weak except for patients on the verge of death in the hospital. If this were before the apocalypse, I would definitely have a solution, but given our current situation..."
After thinking for a long time, as if she had made up her mind, the older sister took out a gold watch from a hidden compartment in the kitchen cabinet and said to her younger brother, "Little brother, take this and go to Wang Bapi to exchange it for some things. I will write down the list of items for you. Go and come back quickly. Be careful not to be seen by others. Otherwise, it's a small matter if the items are stolen, but it would be bad if you were in any danger."
The younger brother looked at the gold watch and shook his head: "No, this is the only thing your brother-in-law left you. How can we sell it now? Let me figure out how to save people."
The older sister shoved the gold watch into her younger brother's hand: "What can a little brat like you do? Take it. If your brother-in-law knew his gold watch could save lives, he'd be happy too." As she spoke, the woman quickly wrote down a list and handed it to the boy: "With the current value of the gold watch, it's more than enough to exchange for these things. Use the rest to exchange for some rice and meat. With such a serious injury, medicine alone won't be enough."
The boy nodded seriously, picked up a tattered bag, walked out, and closed the door. The woman glanced at the man on the bed, lit the firewood, and started boiling water. After she washed the man, she couldn't help but be amazed. This man was incredibly handsome, with blond hair, a delicate face, well-defined features, and a strong physique—unlike the thin, malnourished people she encountered outside.
Because the man's clothes were tattered and barely better than rags, the woman took them off and threw them into the wood-burning stove. After washing him clean, she picked out some suitable clothes from her husband's old wardrobe and dressed him in them. Because the man was very strong, just changing his clothes left the woman breathless and exhausted.
After a while, the boy returned carrying a large bag. His sister took the bag and asked, "Did you encounter any danger on the way? Did that Wang the Skinflint give you any trouble?" The boy smiled and said, "No, Wang the Skinflint wasn't there today. His wife was minding the shop, and she even gave us extra rice because she saw that it was just the two of us. Nothing bad happened on the way, except that someone was caught stealing and was hung up and beaten."
While checking the contents of her backpack, the older sister said, "They gave us three extra pounds of rice. I'll go and thank Aunt Wang properly another day. Okay, take his hand, I'll give him an IV." The boy had just taken the man's hand when he exclaimed in surprise, "Look, sister, he's wearing such a ring on his right hand. I didn't even notice it before."
Upon closer inspection, the older sister saw that it was a very ornate dragon-shaped ring. The boy wanted to examine the ring, but his sister stopped him in time: "Don't touch it. This should be a wedding ring, something we can't touch." The boy nodded: "Okay, I know. I was just a little curious. Who would wear such an ornate dragon-shaped ring? And the dragon is carved very beautifully."
After helping the man get an IV drip, the older sister and younger brother started cooking. It was already evening, and there was no electricity at night, so they had to finish cooking dinner as soon as possible before it got completely dark.
Dinner was very simple: porridge made with rice, wild vegetables, and a little salt, mostly wild vegetables. The older sister specially picked out two bowls with a little more rice, and then scooped out a large spoonful of lard, dividing each bowl in half. One bowl was given to her younger brother, and she fed the other to the man.
After washing the dishes, it was completely dark, with only the firewood in the wood-burning stove providing a little light. The younger brother sat beside the stove and asked, "Sister, when do you think he will wake up?" The woman thought for a moment before saying, "I can't say for sure. He's not actually injured, he's just too weak. I feel he should wake up in a day or two."
The siblings were chatting idly when suddenly the house was illuminated. The sudden brightness initially blinded them. After their eyes adjusted, they looked towards the light and saw the man's body levitating, emitting a white glow, and his remaining injuries gradually disappearing.
This process lasted for five or six minutes. The light on the man gradually dimmed, and his body slowly fell onto the bed. At this moment, his eyes opened.
Seeing that the man had woken up and was trying to sit up, the woman immediately went over and gently pressed him down: "You still need to rest. Don't rush to get up. You are safe now, so don't worry. Let me introduce myself. My name is Han Li, and that is my younger brother, Han Xing."
"My name is Li Chenglong. Thank you very much for your help. May I ask where this is?" the man asked solemnly. Han Li replied, "No need for thanks. We are all Chinese, and we are in the apocalypse. We can't just stand by and watch someone die. This is Zhongzhou Province in China. I am a nurse in Zhongzhou City, Zhongzhou Province. My younger brother is a second-year junior high school student."
"Huh? Zhongzhou Province? Does China have such a province? I'm Li Chenglong from Shuguang City, Donghai Province, China." Li Chenglong said with some confusion, while the siblings looked on in astonishment: "Donghai Province? Does China have such a province?"
Suddenly, Li Chenglong remembered that after he unleashed all his energy to lure most of the void creatures into the dimensional rift, the rift couldn't withstand such a large number, causing a violent explosion. Although he tried his best to resist, he was blasted into the depths of the dimension by the explosion. Could it be that he had unknowingly arrived in the parallel world Mr. Guedes had mentioned? Could this be another Earth in a parallel world, or even another China?
Li Chenglong carefully examined himself and found that all his abilities were still intact. Apart from the fact that the G Gem's energy was depleted and needed to be replenished, nothing else had happened. He first communicated with the Dragon Spirit to confirm that he was fine and just needed to rest, which put his mind at ease. However, a problem arose that was neither too big nor too small: he was hungry, really hungry.
It's well known that those with superpowers and awakened individuals need to consume a large amount of energy every day, and Li Chenglong, being a level 13 powerhouse, was no exception. He sat up, took out two rechargeable lamps from his spiritual energy space, turned them on, and placed them on the bedside table. This magical act immediately startled the siblings. Before they could even react, Li Chenglong took out a large amount of food and placed it on the table. As he did so, he said, "Come on, I didn't eat much earlier, I'm starving. You two should join me for some."
The siblings swallowed hard as they looked at the steaming food on the table. At Li Chenglong's enthusiastic invitation, they joined the meal.