Capítulo 10: Section 11: Obsessed with Life and Death
Editor: Henyee Translations
Darkness.
In the depths of darkness, the boy's consciousness gradually revived.
"Where?"
"What is this place?"
"Where am I?"
No one answered him. Silence filled the darkness.
"Who am I?"
"Why... am I trapped here?"
"What am I supposed to do?"
The boy grew anxious. He felt as if he had forgotten something extremely important.
He tried hard to recall, but to no avail.
He began to struggle, wanting to break free from this cage of darkness.
Then, a sliver of ethereal light appeared before his eyes.
The tiny light was especially noticeable in the dark.
As the light flickered, the boy's memory suddenly partially returned.
It seemed like he was back in a tavern, where, as a member of the Holy Temple Knights, he celebrated after a victory. Listening to the teachings of the old squad leader.
The light in the darkness was like the dim candlelight of the tavern.
The boy felt warmth and was about to fall into a deep sleep.
Just then, he suddenly heard a beast's roar.
In the roar, the light became vivid. The boy was disappointed to discover that he was not in a tavern but in a scorching mining cave.
Continuous waves of pain, like the tide, assaulted him.
Zhenjin felt like a small boat at sea, ready to be smashed by the furious waves and wind any moment.
Besides the pain, the unbearable heat and strong dizziness tormented him.
These sensations were not unfamiliar to Zhenjin.
"The Fire Poison flared up again!" he thought.
Claws of a Brown Bear were still embedded in his waist and abdomen, making it hard to rise. The boy exerted all his strength to barely lift his head.
Then, he saw the bear's corpse and a familiar figure busy beside it.
It was Zi Di, collecting bear blood from the corpse.
She occasionally wiped the corners of her eyes, showing a face of anxiety.
Zhenjin's heart relaxed. When he heard the beast's roar in the darkness, he thought a new wild beast was attacking. Seeing Zi Di unharmed, his strength dissipated, and his head fell back, hitting the ground with a thump.
Zi Di was startled by the sound. Seeing Zhenjin awaken, she exclaimed in delight, "My Lord?! Lord Zhenjin, you are awake!"
She immediately rushed to Zhenjin's side.
Up close, Zhenjin noticed the girl's swollen eyes and the obvious tear stains on her cheeks.
Zhenjin wanted to speak but couldn't.
His throat and tongue were also swollen, making it difficult to make a sound, so he could only force a bitter smile.
At that moment, the boy realized that if another beast attacked, he had no strength to protect his fiancée.
Zi Di said, "My Lord, the Fire Poison has flared up again, and the previous potions are no longer effective. I am preparing new potions. I will definitely succeed! Trust me, my Lord, you mustn't give up!"
"I will surely save you!"
Zi Di comforted Zhenjin, more as a way to deceive herself, to boost her own confidence.
Zhenjin nodded, but even this tiny movement plunged him back into unconsciousness.
In the darkness, an unknown amount of time passed before he heard another beast's roar and regained consciousness.
Finding no signs of beast attack, Zhenjin realized, "Was it just an auditory hallucination? How long was I unconscious this time?"
He looked around, seeing Zi Di by his side.
But this time, the girl wasn't collecting bear blood but had cut open Zhenjin's arm, drawing his blood.
The glass bottle was already more than half full of blood.
At this moment, the boy's blood appeared dark red and extremely hot.
Seeing the boy awake again, Zi Di immediately said, "My Lord, I am treating you! I am drawing out your poison blood to dilute the Fire Poison in your body."
The boy remained silent.
Strangely, this time, he felt no pain.
This was definitely not a good sign.
Feeling pain was a normal human perception, an essential warning system to help the body protect itself promptly.
Zhenjin knew his current condition was extremely dire. Not only had the Fire Poison flared up, but the battle with the Brown Bear had severely injured him. The lack of pain meant his nerves were completely destroyed!
Only a strong feeling of dizziness remained in his head.
The boy didn't dare to move.
From past experience, he knew that even a slight movement would overwhelm him with dizziness, plunging him back into unconsciousness.
Zhenjin had no choice but to stare at the cave's ceiling.
He felt nothing from the wounds or the blood being drawn, and his hearing was gone too.
At that moment, the boy felt a strange sense of peace and tranquility.
But soon, this tranquility faded, replaced by a fog-like fear spreading within him.
Yes, fear.
He was terrified!
He knew death was approaching, and the fear he felt was the fear of death.
Facing the Brown Bear, he was also confronting death. But at that moment, he had no time to savor the feeling.
The slow approach of death felt utterly unbearable!
The boy sensed his life slipping away, quietly and without a sound.
From the depths of his heart, he desperately wanted to hold onto his life. But life was like water held in cupped hands, no matter how hard he tried, it would seep through his fingers until not a drop remained.
He realized he was utterly helpless, merely waiting for Death God's scythe to claim his life.
Zhenjin had believed himself to be brave, but at this moment, he felt his fear, his weakness.
This fear was so real, so intense, making Zhenjin fully understand—even with all his hardships and training, he couldn't calmly face it.
Because he realized this fear was the fundamental fear of any life form, the core of any creature's survival instinct.
Fear, like a fog, had enveloped his entire heart.
Simultaneously, other emotions like helplessness, despair, panic, and anger also stemmed from this fear.
Zhenjin began to pray.
"Great God, Supreme Great Emperor..."
He was a Holy Temple Knight, and the god he worshipped was the Human Race's contemporary Holy Emperor.
The Human Race had a unity of church and state. The Holy Emperor was the leader of the Human Race with a cultivation surpassing the Legendary level, a god walking amongst mortals!
Zhenjin continued to confess to the Holy Emperor.
He attempted to confess his past mistakes but embarrassingly found he couldn't remember any due to his amnesia.
So, he could only plead to the Holy Emperor, begging for mercy, asking him to protect Zi Di to escape this deadly island safely after his death.
However, the boy's prayers to his lifelong god received no slightest response.
Not even the tiniest response.
"Every Holy Temple Knight is under the Holy Emperor's gaze. Could it be that this island isolates the connection between the believer and the god?"
With such doubts, Zhenjin fell back into darkness.
As before, with a beast's roar echoing through the heavens and earth, Zhenjin awoke again.
As soon as he awoke this time, Zhenjin frowned.
He felt a strong sense of pain again!
Unlike before this time it felt like his entire body was being pierced by needles. Every inch of skin, every inch of muscle, every inch of bone, inside and out, felt as though they had undergone countless tortures, leaving him utterly scarred.
Moreover, the burning sensation from the Fire Poison was even stronger than before.
The boy felt like he was placed in a bonfire, burning fiercely!
"It worked! It worked!" came Zi Di's excited shout, the girl was extremely thrilled at the moment.
Zhenjin shifted his gaze to her actions, and his heart trembled.
The girl was not collecting bear blood, nor was she drawing his blood. Instead, she poured blood onto Zhenjin's wound.
It must be bear blood!
Zhenjin was covered in injuries, especially the terrifying wounds on his waist and abdomen.
But now, the Brown Bear's claws that had pierced through Zhenjin's abdomen had disappeared, vanished.
Zi Di seemed to have poured many potions onto the wound, mixing into a mush that looked like a poor painter's colorful palette.
The continuous inflow of bear blood was quickly absorbed by this mixture.
At this moment, Zhenjin's body was like parched soil, no matter how much bear blood Zi Di poured, it was all absorbed rapidly.
"What kind of treatment method is this? Can it really work?" Seeing himself like this, Zhenjin couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
The more bear blood he absorbed, the more intense the pain became.
Meanwhile, his heartbeat grew stronger.
Thumping rapidly, his heart beat faster and faster.
The boy even had an illusion: if it beat any faster, his heart might jump out from his broken body!
This worry didn't last long, and Zhenjin fell unconscious again.
Because the pain intensified several times, becoming unbearable, well beyond the normal human limits.
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