Chapter 53: Ruan Chanchan : Cannot Beat Him Up
On the other side, everyone was looking at the mouth of the cave with a hint of trepidation on their faces. After all, even if they agreed to let Ruan Chanchan treat Ah Man, neither of them believed that the fool of the tribe could treat the poison of the Mist Spider. In fact, deep down in their hearts, they knew that they were being foolish by letting a fool treat such a dangerous poison, but what else could they even do?
Priestess Yuan was willing to coddle Ruan Chanchan, so they could only let her do it.
"Just you wait," said Zhou Laosan as she looked at the mouth of the cave with a hint of smugness in her voice. "That woman will definitely come out and say that she failed." Ever since she was scolded by Priestess Yuan, Zhou Laosan started hating Ruan Chanchan even more.
She truly wished she could rush forward and scratch Ruan Chanchan’s smug face. That girl had looked at her as if she knew better than her; it was too much. A woman who was just a fool was now putting her down.
The woman who stood beside Zhou Laosan sighed. She said to her, "Control your expression a little; if anyone sees you acting so smug, they will think that you are looking forward to Ah Man’s death."
"Of course, I know that." Zhou Laosan immediately brought the curve of her lips down before putting on a worried expression.
While Zhou Laosan was putting on a front, the rest of the tribe members were truly worried about Ah Man.
"Will Ruan Chanchan be able to treat Zhou Laosan?"
"I don’t know, but one could always hope for a kind of miracle to happen, right?"
"I am not saying that she would not be able to treat Ah Man; I just find it a bit unbelievable. I mean, she has always been like a fool till now... hoping for her to save the life of a person... how can we even—" The woman who was speaking paused when she saw the expression on Nuan Nuan’s face and turned silent.
Minutes ticked by, and just as their hearts started to feel uneasy, someone started coughing inside the cave.
Nuan Nuan’s eyes widened. He didn’t even think twice before rushing right into the cave with his child in his arms. He looked at his wife, who was lying on the floor; she still looked a bit frail but she was conscious!
"Wife!" Nuan Nuan cried out as he handed his child to Ah Man’s sister and threw himself on Ah Man’s body.
"Uff?" Ah Man was still feeling a bit disoriented. She didn’t understand what was going on; didn’t they go hunting? Why was she lying in the cave? What happened all of a sudden?
"You should hold back," said Ruan Chanchan. Her eyes were dazed as she stared at Nuan Nuan and Ah Man. Because the poison had almost reached Ah Man’s heart, she had to use her spiritual energy to stop the poison. Her body now felt really weak. She couldn’t even open her eyes.
She never thought that saving a life would be this hard. Ruan Chanchan gritted her teeth and pursed her lips angrily; if she had known, she would have kicked Xie Daiyu out instead of sending him out with courtesy.
The anger that was simmering through her veins was not something that could be ignored.
[Darling, I need to tell you this again. You cannot beat that mer up.]
"Who said anything about beating him? I just wanted to kick him once; at least that way I would be able to get rid of this anger," snapped Ruan Chanchan. She got to her feet and staggered. Ruan Chanchan thought that she was just feeling a bit sick, but she never thought that she had underestimated the depletion of her spiritual energy.
Her vision turned dark, and she fell back. She hoped that these people would treat her a bit better now that she had saved someone’s life.
"Sister!"
Ruan Chanchan had a dream. In her dream, she had transmigrated to primordial times after her planet was destroyed. After that, she turned into a fool, and she had to live with a mer who was her brother. Though this brother of hers looked like any other pretty boy, he could actually get pregnant and give birth.
And that wasn’t all. She even got a system called Xiao Xi, who told her about the destruction of the world, and she was the only one who could save it.
She even saved someone who was poisoned by a deadly poison, and all of this was done with the help of aspirin.
Laughter bubbled in Ruan Chanchan’s throat, and she laughed so hard that she woke up, and the second she opened her eyes, she saw the roof of a cave over her head. Her smile froze right then and there...
No, it was not a dream.
She swiftly sat up. Her hands touched the soft animal skins under her body, and Ruan Chanchan stiffened. Because she knew that this was not her bed, and this cave was not her home. So where was she? And who brought her here?
The cave was clean and minimalistic, and yet there were a bunch of things hanging on the wall, which showed that the owner of this cave was someone with quite varied tastes.
However, Ruan Chanchan didn’t have the time to worry about such things. She looked around and called, "Xiao Xi?"
Where did that stupid system go when she needed him the most? Ruan Chanchan wondered, but even after calling Xiao Xi more than three times, the system never responded, which made Ruan Chanchan frown even harder. Where did he go all of a sudden?
She was about to call for Xiao Xi once again when her eyes fell on the silhouette that was standing at the mouth of the cave, and she immediately closed her mouth.