Liu Shijie and the others wore expressions of fear and unease on their faces because Qi Xiaoshuai, who had been half-dead five minutes ago, was now sitting lively and vigorous before them on the car's trunk. If not for the bloodstains on his face that hadn't been cleaned off, he'd look as if he hadn't been beaten at all.
This change made Liu Shijie and the others feel chilled to the bone. In the apocalypse, direct death wasn't all that terrifying; what's frightening is being half-dead and hanging on, unable to recover from tormenting pain, powerless when faced with danger, leading to suffocating despair.
But these people have miraculous medicine, able to restore someone beaten half to death back to normal in just a few minutes!
We've encountered steel plates... actual steel plates.
