Chapter 19: Returning to Peace
Meanwhile, Lu Cheng and Iron Ring helped carry the pot of congee and eggs over.
“Avorz… wake up! We have food now.”
Elena approached the first soldier, who had already had his wounds treated by Poster.
The soldier named Avorz had severe injuries on both arms. After examining and cleaning the wounds, Poster had bandaged them.
However, Poster was still worried whether Earth’s medicines would have adverse effects on people from this world.
But judging by Noyes’s condition… so far, the results were very satisfactory.
The poor soldier could only stare longingly at the steaming buns in Elena’s hands, raising his bandaged arms like bear paws—though without the claws.
“What are these?” Elena asked Lu Cheng, who was standing beside her.
“Bandages. They prevent ‘toxins’ from entering your soldiers’ bodies and help speed up wound healing.”
Lu Cheng knew that the people of this world didn’t have the concept of bacteria and viruses, so he used the term ‘toxins’ to make it easier to understand.
“Can you neutralize the Blood Crystal Beast’s venom?” General Hubert asked urgently when he heard this keyword.
“The Blood Crystal Beast has venom?” Lu Cheng was slightly surprised.
“Lord Lu Cheng, many of our soldiers, even if they survive a bite from a Blood Crystal Beast, will die later from symptoms like wound infections, physical weakness, and high fever. We call this phenomenon ‘Blood Poison.’” General Hubert explained.
It sounded a lot like wound infection. Given the rampage of the Blood Crystal Beasts, it was miraculous that no terrifying epidemic had broken out in this world. It must have been the blessing of the gods.
“How are you feeling now?” Lu Cheng asked the soldier named Avorz.
“The wound doesn’t hurt as much anymore, but I’m quite hungry.”
The soldier honestly described his condition, occasionally glancing at the bun in Elena’s hand, almost as if hoping the princess would personally feed him.
“Princess Elena, please distribute the food to the others. I’ll take care of Aztec.”
General Hubert stepped forward to care for his subordinate, taking a bun and crouching down beside him.
“Open your mouth.” General Hubert offered the bun to him.
“I… I… delicious…” The soldier could only utter these two words as he chewed the bun, glancing at the serious expression on General Hubert’s face.
Lu Cheng looked outside at the pouring rain. The rain was beginning to lessen, but the chill inside the building still lingered.
However, the warm meat buns Lu Cheng summoned managed to dispel the cold within the building.
In the eyes of the soldiers, Elena, holding the meat buns, was like an angel descending from the heavens. Lu Cheng didn’t know if their religion had such a figure, but in the Celestial Kingdom… it would probably be equivalent to a ‘Wealth-Dispersing Boy.’
In short, the meat buns brought joy and hope. The dampness and chill in the building were quickly dispelled by the aroma of the buns and the sight of the soldiers eating them with great appetite.
Lu Cheng glanced back at his squad’s resting area. Noyes was obediently settling down to sleep. Even before falling asleep, her eyes were still fixed on Lu Cheng.
“What? Want me to tell you a bedtime story?”
Seeing that there was nothing else he could help with, Lu Cheng walked over and sat down beside his squad’s resting area.
Noyes didn’t answer with words on her notebook. Instead, she tilted her head slightly, indicating confusion.
“It’s a story you hear before sleeping. It helps you fall asleep,” Lu Cheng explained.
Noyes nodded in response, looking troubled as if something was weighing on her mind.
“Then I’ll tell you a story about… a monkey. He’s one of our great heroes.” Lu Cheng searched for the term related to monkeys in their language.
It was strange—Lu Cheng didn’t even know what monkeys looked like in this world, yet he knew there was a term for them.
“A long, long time ago, in our world…” Lu Cheng began narrating a story that every person in the Celestial Kingdom was familiar with.
Noyes listened quietly to Lu Cheng’s story. She tried hard to fight off her sleepiness, but soon, the overly exhausted Noyes slowly drifted into sleep.
In the end, Noyes’s face carried a faint smile as she slept. It seemed that today’s experiences had made her forget the terrifying memories of her past.
“Poster, Iron Ring, you two get some sleep. Kite and I will take the first watch.”
After confirming that Noyes had fallen asleep, Lu Cheng gave the order.
“Understood.” Poster and Iron Ring didn’t argue and immediately found a place to lean on, holding their guns as they closed their eyes.
They were still in a dangerous environment, and lying down to sleep was a luxury they couldn’t afford.
The building suddenly fell silent, as everyone felt a wave of drowsiness, including the princess, who found a temporary resting spot after distributing the food.
There were three campfires inside the building: one for the kingdom’s soldiers, one for Lu Cheng’s squad, and one that Lu Cheng had set up for the refugees.
“Kite, are you tired?” Lu Cheng whispered to Kite.
“Captain, even if I were, I wouldn’t say it while everyone else is asleep,” Kite whispered back.
“Stay alert. I’m going outside to collect samples from the Blood Crystal Beasts.”
Lu Cheng removed his backpack and placed it on the ground, handing it over to Kite for safekeeping.
“Captain, you’re going alone?” Kite hesitated, worried about potential dangers lurking in the forest.
“I’ll stay right outside the chapel’s entrance. I won’t go far, and I have this guy for protection.”
Lu Cheng patted the rifle in his hand. Kite didn’t say anything further and watched as Lu Cheng left the chapel ruins.
When Lu Cheng reached the entrance of the ruins, the rain outside had already begun to taper off.
The corpse of the Blood Crystal Beast outside the chapel had turned into a giant skeleton.
Lu Cheng walked up to the skeleton and gently squeezed it. The rib part of the skeleton crumbled like a wafer biscuit under his fingers.
After death, the bones of these creatures became extremely fragile, with a large amount of sand-like sediment attached to them, unlike the bones of normal creatures.
It was as if these were fossils freshly dug up from an archaeological site.
Could it be that these Blood Crystal Beasts were originally fossils buried deep in the mud?
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