Chapter 5: I Have a Special Treatment Method
The medic quickly arrived at the room where Lu Cheng was. As soon as she entered the room, she placed the medical kit she was carrying on the ground and knelt beside the girl named Noyes.
“Captain, please move aside.”
The medic, Poster, scanned Noyes’ entire condition with her eyes. Upon seeing the blood dripping from her wrist, she spoke to Lu Cheng with a serious tone.
Lu Cheng silently gave way to the medic. Poster gently reached out and grasped Noyes’ arm.
Noyes’ arm was wrapped in a layer of tattered cloth, and the blood had caused the cloth to stick to her skin. Poster took out a pair of medical scissors and cut open the cloth on Noyes’ arm.
“Don’t be afraid. It will be fine once the medicine is applied.”
During this, Poster also comforted Noyes with a soft voice, which was completely different from her tone when speaking to Lu Cheng.
The shallow cut on Noyes’ wrist made Poster frown deeply. She began to work on stopping the bleeding and disinfecting the wound.
The disinfectant on the wound inevitably caused some stinging, and Noyes’ small hand kept trembling.
Lu Cheng noticed that Noyes’ eyes were fixed on him, as if pleading, ‘Don’t let Poster continue to “torture” me with this painful medicine.’
“She doesn’t mean to hurt you. Don’t worry.”
Lu Cheng could only offer this form of psychological comfort to Noyes. Just as his words fell, Poster had already completed the bandaging.
Once Noyes’ other hand was free again, she immediately picked up the water-based pen Lu Cheng had given her and wrote a new line of characters in her notebook.
It meant ‘Thank you.’
“Symptoms of a cold and fever… Was it due to catching a cold? Or a viral infection? By the way… Captain, what is she writing in her notebook?”
Poster began diagnosing the cause of Noyes’ low fever. Curiously, she asked what the text in Noyes’ notebook meant.
“She is thanking you…”
Lu Cheng’s statement was half true. Noyes was actually thanking Lu Cheng.
She might think that Lu Cheng’s earlier words made Poster stop the “torture” she felt.
“To treat a cold and fever, should we try using Sanjiu Cold Medicine?” Lu Cheng asked.
“Sanjiu Cold Medicine? Its side effects are indeed quite minimal, but I don’t have this kind of powder medicine in my medical kit.”
Poster began searching her medical kit for medication to handle a low fever.
“Just wait a moment…”
Lu Cheng clenched his left hand tightly against the ground, and a new portal opened up on the floor beneath him. Under the watchful eyes of Poster and Kite, Lu Cheng reached his hand into the portal.
“Captain, what are you doing again?” Kite asked curiously.
“Before Poster arrived, I boiled a pot of hot water at home. I’m now looking for a cup and some medicine.”
Lu Cheng’s hands were searching inside the portal.
“Won’t this waste the portal’s energy?” Poster asked.
“Passing through the portal doesn’t consume energy for me. The energy needed for a cup of water and medicine is negligible.”
Lu Cheng said as he pulled out a plastic cup from the portal, which contained a fragrant Sanjiu Cold Medicine.
Lu Cheng prepared to hand the cup to Noyes, but her silver-gray eyes were fixed on the crystal on the back of Lu Cheng’s hand.
‘Are you the holder of the Sacred Crystal?’
Noyes’ latest line of writing in her notebook had turned into a term of respect for Lu Cheng, including a new keyword Lu Cheng had never seen before.
“Sacred Crystal? Do you mean this thing on the back of my hand? We’ll discuss that later. For now, drink this medicine that can extinguish the Flame of the Soul Goddess…”
Noyes received the Sanjiu Cold Medicine from Lu Cheng with an air of reverence as if receiving a religious relic.
The medicine capable of extinguishing divine flames was, in any case, something equivalent to a deity.
Noyes gently sniffed the plastic cup containing the medicine.
Sanjiu Cold Medicine actually smelled quite good, but after some hesitation, she placed the cup back on the ground.
She quickly wrote another long passage in her notebook.
‘Sorry, holder of the Sacred Crystal… I cannot defy the will of the Soul Goddess. If you are here to draw power from the Soul Goddess, please leave.’
“What power from the Soul Goddess… We are visitors from another world.” Lu Cheng straightforwardly told Noyes the truth, pointing to the emblem on his chest. “Besides, that deity might take your life. Are you sure it’s okay?”
Lu Cheng was correct in guessing; the wound on Noyes’ wrist was likely self-inflicted, as she seemed to have planned to die as a martyr when she exhibited symptoms of a light fever.
‘I cannot defy the will of the Soul Goddess.’
She quickly wrote another note in her notebook.
Religion can indeed be frightening, but Lu Cheng did not rule out the possibility that deities might exist in this world. However, Lu Cheng was also adept at convincing people.
“You see, I am also a messenger sent by a deity. The deity I believe in is called Technology, or more precisely, Science and Technology.”
Lu Cheng pronounced “Technology” in Chinese.
‘I have never heard of such a deity.’ Noyes wrote this in her notebook.
“In short, it is a very powerful deity who can do anything under the sun and in the heavens! As long as you drink that cup of Sanjiu Cold Medicine, my deity will protect you.”
What Lu Cheng said was not entirely false; he just added some artistic embellishments.
Noyes was faced with Lu Cheng’s invitation. She bit her lip, looked down at her knees, and finally picked up her pen to write another note.
‘The price for betraying a deity is very severe…’ She wrote this halfway and suddenly remembered something, erasing the text she had written and replacing it with a very small line of text, barely visible to the eyes, expressing her true thoughts.
‘I don’t want to die.’
“Very good.”
Lu Cheng took out a small candy from his tactical vest.
“White Rabbit Milk Candy… Captain, do you like this?” Kite recognized the candy in Lu Cheng’s hand.
“I don’t like it, but it’s always good to carry some.”
Lu Cheng’s next sentence almost made Kite add, ‘Who carries White Rabbit Milk Candy to the battlefield?’
But Poster gave Kite a sideways glance, making him shut up immediately.
‘What is this?’ Noyes asked.
“It’s a reward from the God of Technology and an apology gift to the Soul Goddess. The Soul Goddess won’t mind if her followers believe in another deity.” Lu Cheng continued to convince the naive believer. “And this is the best candy in the world, a sweet treat.”
Lu Cheng searched his mind for similar terms describing sweets.
Every girl has no resistance to sweets, and this girl who seemed to be under fourteen was no exception.
Noyes tentatively took the White Rabbit Milk Candy from Lu Cheng’s hand, and after pondering for a long time with her mouth tightly pursed, she closed her eyes and ate the candy in one go.
“Hey! You haven’t peeled off the candy wrapper yet.” Lu Cheng tried to stop Noyes, but it was too late. She had already swallowed and began to chew.
The candy wrapper had no taste, and she wondered if the God of Technology was rejecting her… but then a rich milk flavor and sweetness began to melt on her tongue.
This might be the sweetest taste Noyes had ever experienced in her life, and as she ate, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
“Captain, what exactly are you talking to her about?” Poster’s gaze returned to Lu Cheng.
Poster and Kite could not understand the communication between Lu Cheng and Noyes; they only saw Lu Cheng giving the girl a candy, and she started crying.
“A discussion about religion and philosophy?”
Lu Cheng swore he was telling the truth, but even Kite looked at Lu Cheng with a doubtful expression.
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