บท 32: You Die.
Zhang Hien carefully opened the box he had secured under the bed and pulled out a bundle of money.
Nora raised a brow.
"Where did you get all these money from?" She inquired, adjusting her gloves over her hand while rubbing the oil she had gotten in the pharmacy over them.
"My... Mai Quing had given you this money to buy the required foodstuffs and ingredients needed for the cuisine preparation."
"Mm. How much is it?"
"1500$."
Jiang Meiying was pleased that Mai Quing had immensely contributed to this because she was wondering just how she was going to buy so many foodstuffs and Ingredients. She knew this wouldn't add to her EXP because Mai Quing fulfilled her a duty as a caterer hirer.
She took the money from him and placed it in her school bag, all the while debating the day she would go to get the ingredients herself. She had a lesson to conduct tomorrow so she could go the next day after the lesson?
"Jiang Meiying." Parker called out, his face looking thoughtful as Jiang Meiying approached him. "Where do we prepare the food for the party?"
She shook her head at him, wondering why he was asking such a question.
"Here in the house. Why do you ask?"
"I don't think I would feel comfortable letting you use your family's kitchen when they have a beef with you. We would be cooking so many things that day. Don't you think they might try to sabotage it?"
"Heh." A cold chuckle escaped her lips. "I don't think you should worry yourself about that Zhang Hien. I know what to do. Now," She stretched her hand towards him, a blindfold in her grasp. "put this on."
With a confused look, he takes it but doesn't put it on immediately.
"Why? You haven't really told me what you want to do." He was a bit nervous seeing her in those gloves and the bottle of the strange pink liquid on the table close to him and didn't want to ask questions earlier, but now he had to put on a blindfold, he was a bit cautious as to why.
"Do you trust me?"
He nodded.
"Y-Yes I do."
"Then please put this on and do trust me. I won't hurt you, you should know."
With shaky hands, he wound the blindfold around his eyes, seeing nothing but darkness as he tied the ends of the blindfold behind his head.
When she was sure he was done, she sat on a lotus potion before him and without warning, grabbed the sheets he regularly used to shield his legs and threw them aside.
The man flinched in shock and his arms moved from his sides reflexively to grab her arm but remembering her words about trusting her, he pulled his hand back and forced himself to rest against the back of his chair, feeling uneasy yet a bit curious as to what she planned on doing.
Jiang Meiying placed her palms on his knees, glad that he was wearing shorts and his entire legs were in view for her.
He released a small shaky breath when her hands touched his knees and her palms felt very cold like it had been submerged in a bowl of ice before now.
His grip tightened so hard on the arm of his wheelchair that his knuckles turned white, but he just cleared his throat and leaned further into his chair.
"I need complete silence." Jiang Meiying whispered, and he pursed his lips immediately- on noting how serious she sounded.
Jiang Meiying shut her eyes and concentrated on the manna quantity stored in her body and focused on extracting the manna, using her arm as a mode of transportation up to his legs.
It took her several minutes since it was a while since she last did something like this and this wasn't in her former world where there was infinite manna In her surroundings where she could just extract manna. The manna was inside of her, being unable to stay in an environment with such a tensed atmosphere like earth and she had to extract it out of her along with her physical internal energy.
Something popped up before her and she read it internally, eyes widening when she realized the system was calculating her manna percentage decrease as she used it.
{Manna percentage: 56%}
{Manna percentage:55%}
"Host, whatever you do, don't let your manna percentage drop to 10%." The system suddenly said, a tone of urgency in his voice.
"What happens if it reaches 10%."
"You die." The voice came again and she groaned internally, already feeling her energy leave her like waves leaving the ocean/sea to the shore/bank.
This might probably be much more easier If she didn't have all these fat forcing her to use so much energy to extract the manna from her body.
She sighed and watched in irritation as her manna percentage depleted quickly while manna flowed from her arms down to her palms placed on his legs.
Her husband tried to stay as still as possible which became a challenge by the second when he felt Jiang Meiying's hand get warmer and warmer, almost hot.
Jiang Meiying's eyes twitched as they were closed. She could see his legs internally, her closed eyes; doing the work of an advanced X-ray.
Turns out that his legs would have been working, but due to no one being able to note the immediate problem, he developed a natural chronic vascular tissue problem whereby all the tissues in his legs, feet and toes were dead along with his arteries and veins.
Because of this, blood was unable to pump in and out of the heart from there. The leg wasn't of any use to any of the organs, especially the heart, so the body system naturally stopped giving any attention to his legs and they had dried up like the twigs of a plant. His legs looked visibly dried up and very frail and thin and that explained why he covered it up with a blanket or sheets all the time.
If she could just use more of her manna which would take several hours and internal energy, she would be able to repair his tissues and arteries and veins.
She suddenly noticed her manna percentage after all these while because the green interface screen had begun to shine a warning red color.
{Manna percentage: 15%}
She abruptly pulled her arms away and tried to move back, but she was suddenly overcome with so much loss of energy that she fell back on the floor and was put into a deep sleep by exhaustion.
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