Chapter 66: You Don’t Want To Be Treated?
Star Lake Medicine was the most famous pharmaceutical group in the Starsea Empire.
Its successive heirs held the secret formulas for medicines that could rapidly heal wounds, providing rare and limited healing drugs for the royal family, nobles, and Guides.
“My goodness! They actually sent a full sixty boxes of high-efficiency healing medicine!”
In the base warehouse, Shu Fenghua held the inventory list, looking excited. “In the past when the war was tight, they would give a few boxes at most, and the rest were just ordinary healing drugs. Why are they suddenly so generous this time?”
“Whatever, the Guides will surely be very happy when they find out. Her Royal Highness, in a bit… eh? Where is she?”
Shu Fenghua turned around, only to find that the Princess who had been standing beside her had disappeared. She was so startled that she hurriedly began searching the warehouse, finally finding Xie Qiang at the place where the boxes of high-efficiency healing medicine were stored.
Xie Qiang was holding a box of the high-efficiency medicine, looking thoughtful.
In the novel, after the villainess escaped from the wormhole and successfully returned to the palace, she immediately summoned the medical team from Star Lake Medicine, wanting to reattach her arm that had been severed by an assassin.
The medical team discussed it for a while and finally chose to cut the surface layer of the villainess’s severed arm and use the royal secret medicine to join the two bloody arms back together.
It was successful at first, but after a few days, the connection point of the wound broke again. The pain of the severed arm once more made the villainess wish she were dead, becoming one of the major “satisfaction points” in the book.
Xie Qiang put the high-efficiency medicine back with a face full of lingering fear. She then patted her own forearm and comforted herself, “Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid. Your plotline has passed. As long as I’m careful, you won’t leave me.”
“Your Highness! So you found it yourself!” Shu Fenghua walked over quickly. Seeing Xie Qiang put the medicine back, she directly took three boxes and stuffed them into her hands. “Although this isn’t as good as the royal secret medicine supplied exclusively to Star Lake, and you have Sentinel Mo protecting you closely, it’s always more reassuring to carry some medicine.”
She scratched her hair with some annoyance. “When Jiang Qingwan brought the medicine box over, I thought it was hers. It wasn’t until Xiao Yu’s deep wound from an insect blade healed rapidly that I realized it was the secret medicine exclusively for the royal family.”
“And then…” Shu Fenghua confessed with some guilt, “Although the royal secret medicine can temporarily repair nerves and heal wounds, it’s only temporary. Every so often, Xiao Yu’s wound will break open again and spray blood. I really couldn’t bear to see her lose an arm at such a young age, so I didn’t return the secret medicine to you.”
“When we return to the palace, I will find a way through my connections to buy a whole box of royal secret medicine to pay you back…”
Her arm was suddenly grabbed. Shu Fenghua looked up in surprise, only to see Xie Qiang staring at her with a serious expression. “How much longer can the secret medicine last?”
“Hmm?” Shu Fenghua was stunned; she didn’t expect her to ask this. “If used sparingly, it should last for two months.”
Xie Qiang pursed her lips, a trace of worry flickering in her eyes. “Where is Xiao Yu?”
“She’s in the innermost room of the rest area.”
“Stay here and continue taking inventory of the medicines!” Xie Qiang immediately let go and turned to run toward the warehouse door. “Let’s go see her injury first!”
…
“It hurts, it hurts so much—!”
From the end of the rest area came the suppressed, painful crying of a young girl. Another older Guide was softly comforting her, her tone full of heartache.
“Xiao Yu, bear with it, it’ll be over soon.”
“Sister, is my arm beyond saving?” Cen Yu had a pen in her mouth, her face covered in sweat. It mingled with the tears sliding from the corners of her eyes, dripping onto her white lab coat.
The wound that had originally been joined had torn open again, blood constantly gushing out, as if she had been carved by an insect blade once more.
“Don’t talk nonsense. Apply the medicine first.” Gu Yuan used a glass rod to scoop out some wound medicine and applied it to the arm wound. Every time it touched the flesh, Cen Yu gasped in pain, and her tears fell like pearls.
“Sister, it really hurts! I don’t want to apply medicine anymore; just let it be useless!”
She constantly tried to pull her arm away, but was held firmly by Gu Yuan. The older woman’s eyes were rimmed with red, her gaze filled with unstoppable heartache. “Xiao Yu, don’t talk nonsense. Let’s get through this time first, then we’ll think of a way!”
“There won’t be a way! If there were truly a way, your leg wouldn’t have been amputated!”
Cen Yu suddenly became emotional. “Why waste such expensive medicine now? Don’t think I don’t know that you and Guide Shu secretly hid the royal secret medicine from Her Royal Highness. When she finds out, what if she wants your heads in exchange?”
“If it’s an amputation, so be it. It’s not like I wasn’t mentally prepared before going to the battlefield—”
Slap—
Gu Yuan slapped Cen Yu’s face. Her eyes were full of tears, and her hand tightly gripped her own throbbing knee—below which was a cold prosthetic limb.
“Don’t say another word.”
Gu Yuan’s eyes were pained, her voice choked. “It’s precisely because I chose amputation that I know I absolutely cannot let you be headstrong!”
Hardening her heart, she ignored the girl’s bitter pleading, applied the wound medicine to the wound layer, and then used both hands to press the two carved pieces of flesh, forcing them together.
When Xie Qiang opened the door, she heard Cen Yu’s heart-wrenching scream.
Behind her, Mo Yin’s eyelids flickered at the sharp sound. He stopped at the door, watching Xie Qiang walk in without hesitation. He hesitated for a moment before finally covering his ears and following her in.
As soon as Xie Qiang entered the room, she saw the startling pool of blood on the table. She steadied herself before looking at the girl with the injured arm.
“Cen Yu?”
The painful crying in the room stopped abruptly. Cen Yu stiffened her neck and turned her head. The moment she saw Xie Qiang, her face—already pale from blood loss—suddenly turned even whiter.
“Her… Her Royal Highness?”
Ignoring the pain, she stood up in a panic and blocked Gu Yuan. Her lips trembled as she asked, “Wh… why are you here?”
“I heard your wound keeps recurring and came to see the situation.” Xie Qiang walked over quickly. Her gaze swept over the wrinkled wound on Cen Yu’s arm, and she couldn’t help but feel faint. “Who did this to you? Why are they so unprofessional?”
Behind Cen Yu, Gu Yuan quickly wiped away her tears and hurriedly stepped forward. “Your Highness, it was me.”
Xie Qiang: “…” You have the nerve to step forward and admit it?!
Xie Qiang rubbed her brow helplessly. “Forget it. Go to the base warehouse, find Guide Shu, and bring back two vials of anesthetic. I’ll look after Cen Yu here.”
Sending Gu Yuan away, Xie Qiang glanced at the wound medicine on the table before looking at Cen Yu’s tear-streaked face. “You don’t want to be treated? You want an amputation?”
Cen Yu pursed her lips and nodded stubbornly. “Mm…”
The seniors who had been seriously injured all went through this; how could she be an exception?
“I see. Alright then.” Xie Qiang nodded, then turned around and pulled out the longsword from Mo Yin’s waist.
She gave Cen Yu a soft, gentle smile. “Then what are you waiting for? Stretch out your arm; I’ll help you amputate it right now~”
Cen Yu’s eyes shook: “Huh?”
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