Ch23 - The Injured Man

Hmm, Yanyan stared at the tree for so long, could the fruit on the tree be eaten? 

005 got excited immediately at the thought of finding the first fruit! 

Although it only ate rabbit, mushrooms and spinach, they were already very delicious food for 005. But 005 still wasn’t satisfied. 

It had been too long since it had eaten a proper meal. 005 had no food to eat since its last host left, and even if it found ingredients when wandering in the universe, it couldn’t cook at all.

Now that it had finally felt the long lost taste of delicacy, which wasn’t that bad despite the lack of seasoning, 005 was even more passionate than Mu Yan to find ingredients.

“Yanyan, Yanyan, is this fruit edible?” 005 circled around Mu Yan, asking excitedly, and then flew to the tree to pick a fruit. 

The fruit on the tree was twice bigger than 005, its short hands and feet couldn’t even hold it, so it was clearly an impossible task for it to take one down.

But, never underestimate the passion of a foodie! 

005 was tightly clinging to the fruit, trying to pull it down but it didn’t budge. It then swayed back and forth, trying to shake the fruit directly. 

The fruit that was too big for 005 successfully detached from the tree, but 005 was too weak to hold it, and fell together, rolling in Mu Yan’s direction!  

“Yanyan, Yanyan, help me!” 005 cried anxiously.

Only then did Mu Yan come back to his senses, and then he saw… a big corn was rolling on the ground and stopping next to him, and the squeezed furball below it.

Mu Yan quickly picked up the corn, patted the dirt on 005’s body, then carefully looking at the corn in his hand.

Familiar yellow corn husk wrapped layer by layer. The long ears of corn reveal the golden corn kernels inside. Yes, it was exactly the same as the corn in his previous world, but… 

The corn here wasn’t grown in stalks, but hanging on the branches of the tree like apples and peaches, which was also the reason why Mu Yan was dazed when he first saw it.

If he ignored its strange origin, Mu Yan would be happy because he had found a new ingredient, but now, he was not sure whether this corn was as edible as he knew, after all, this was the first time he had seen corn in this world.

Mu Yan was very entangled. He really liked corn, whether it was boiled corn, roasted corn, or corn porridge, corn was very delicious. Corn could be cooked into many dishes and very satiated. 

As for now, he couldn’t determine if this corn was edible and not poisonous.  

Alas… If only the system could be upgraded quickly, then it could be identified.

“Yanyan, is this edible? Is it also delicious?” The taste is the most important!

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“Lbk jybea… kf ags la j ilaaif yla?” 005 reuufrafv kfjxis. 

“I don’t know. I think it’s better to check it first after upgrading-” 

When he saw 005 withering at a speed visible to the naked eye, Mu Yan hurriedly reassured it, “It’s okay, when we find the corn isn’t poisonous we can boil or roast it, or make it into porridge.”

005: …

Is Yanyan trying to comfort me? 

Are you really comforting me?

Why does it feel that Yanyan is simply trying to attack me with temptation?

I am already imagining the delicious food but can’t eat it! It’s a torture!

Then, 005 became even more sluggish. 

Mu Yan was puzzled. He was clearly comforting 005. How could he feel that it had become more depressed instead? What was the problem?

“Um, shall we… bring this one back and try a little?” Mu Yan asked carefully, he didn’t like seeing 005 sad like this.

005 was immediately moved by Mu Yan’s good intention, but it also knew that Mu Yan was right. Although it really wanted to taste the corn, it was a good system that was gentle and considerate. How could it let the host take risk of something that might be poisonous?

So, 005 waved its short hands and said very thoughtfully, “No need, let’s go and find something better than this.” 

Seeing that 005 finally came back to its lively state as usual, Mu Yan also felt relieved and a small smile hung on his face again. One person and one system continued to embark on a journey to find food ingredients.

“Boom!”

There was a sudden loud noise like explosion that even the ground under Mu Yan’s feet shook a few times, and Mu Yan’s face immediately turned white.

“God is angry, God is angry.” Mu Yan murmured in fear, while holding his head and squatting down. 

In the previous world, the old people in the village told him about God’s anger. Every time God was angry, the village would suffer. Either the land was flooded or it was in drought, or the mountain collapsed and the earth trembled. 

It was very similar to the current situation. Every time God was angry, a lot of people would die.

So was he going to die again now…

In ancient times, people worshiped and feared God. In their view, many natural disasters were punishments from God because God was angry at them. 

Unlike Mu Yan from the feudal era, 005 was from the high-tech era, and naturally would not be superstitious about natural disasters. Its first reaction was, “Is there an earthquake?”

However the possibility was soon thrown out of its data, because an earthquake wouldn’t stop after just a few shocks, and it also heard the sound of explosion.

“Yanyan, wait here for a while. I will check what happened. Don’t go anywhere, okay?” 005 said to Mu Yan, not noticing the pale face of the other party.

005 flew very fast and came back in a minute. 

 “Yanyan, Yanyan, a mecha fell down not far from here. Someone should be inside, and maybe heavily injured.” 005 told Mu Yan what he saw.

“What?” Mu Yan was still in fear of God’s anger.

“The earthquake just now was not from God’s anger, but a person with a mecha fell from the sky, but I don’t know if the person is still alive or not,” said 005.

“Person? Injured person?” Mu Yan finally heard what 005 was talking about. Although he couldn’t understand ‘mecha’, he was relieved when he knew that it was not the shock caused by God’s anger. However, the next moment he heard that someone was injured, his heart was thumping again. 

“It should be. It fell from high altitude and the mecha was smashed to pieces. I’m afraid the person inside won’t be much better.” 005 shrugged, as if it had shoulders.

“Then let’s go and have a look.” Mu Yan was a little worried, if someone was really injured and not saved in time, they might die.

For Mu Yan, who grew up in a relatively simple village since childhood, human life was very important.

005 rushed to the accident site with Mu Yan and saw a mess in the distance. A huge mecha fell into pieces creating a big pit, and many parts collapsed everywhere. The first time he saw the mecha, Mu Yan was shocked, and even the world view was refreshed again. 

However, Mu Yan didn’t have much thought on the huge machine that he had never seen before, because there was a man covered in blood lying not far from the big pit.

Mu Yan looked timidly at the bloody man and worried about his life and death. He wanted to move forward, but he was afraid! This kind of terrifying scene never happened in his life. 

The injury he ever had was when he was cooking or going to the mountain, and it was just a scratch or slight burn at most. This bloody man, how painful he was to be injured all over his body.

“Yanyan, he is still alive.” 005 flew above the man to check, and found that the man was still alive although he was seriously injured. 

Mu Yan took a deep breath, tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart. He walked to the man lying on the ground step by step with fear in his eyes, but more of a firmness.

That was a human life. In any case, he didn’t want a human life to pass away quietly in front of his eyes.

Mu Yan squatted beside the man, stretched out his hand tremblingly to reach under the man’s nose. The man was breathing, but very weak.

The clothes on this man’s body were cut in here and there. The scars were clearly visible, and some of the wounds were so deep that Mu Yan could see the bone.  

The first thing he needed to do now was to clean the wounds, otherwise it might get infected before they got to the village.

“005, can you look at him here? I need to get some water from the river.” Mu Yan explained to 005, and then ran towards the river.

He soaked his handkerchief he always brought, washed it clean, squeezed it dry, and then filled his water bottle with water, before running back as fast as possible.

Mu Yan, who rarely exercised, was out of breath and had chest tightness, but he couldn’t care about it for now. 

To clean the man’s wounds, Mu Yan needed to remove all his clothes first, after all, the man was bloody from head to toe and he didn’t want to overlook any injury and caused infection. Mu Yan couldn’t stop his face to redden at this thought.

In any case, men in this world were all men, but Mu Yan still a ger, an unmarried ger especially. In his previous world, if a ger saw a man’s body, even if it wasn’t intentional, the man and the ger must get married, otherwise the reputation of the ger would be ruined.

Mu Yan took a deep breath, and said to himself again and again that this was another world, and saving this person was a matter of life! He had no choice!

Clenching his fist with determination, Mu Yan removed the clothes that were attached to the skin carefully, and used the handkerchief to clean up the dirt and dry blood at the wound. 

“Ugh…” The man groaned from time to time, but there was no sign of waking up.

After all the wounds had been cleaned, the man’s handsome but pale face and his toned muscles and good figure could be seen clearly below the afternoon sun. Mu Yan, with a face red like a ripe tomato, tremblingly dipping some water on the man’s chapped lips. 

This is so embarrassing, ah! 

The next step was to bring the man back to the village and find a doctor for treatment. 

Since the man’s body looked tall and sturdy even with the injuries, Mu Yan with thin arms and legs was worried he couldn’t carry him. 

He held the man’s hands over his shoulders and carried him on his back… Ugh, taking a step forward was laborious.

“What should I do?” Mu Yan’s eyes were red with anxiety.

Frozenmirage: This chapter is the longest chapter so far and that’s it, our Gong is saved by the beauty!!!