Beep!!!
Beep...
"Mmm... where is this?"
Fei Xiao gradually regained consciousness amidst her confusion.
"Mm! She seems to have woken up!"
"Quick! Go and inform..."
"This... hiss~"
Fei Xiao tried to sit up, but waves of sharp pain immediately washed over her.
However, the intense pain also cleared her mind a bit.
Right, her body had nearly collapsed before, so she had forgotten the sensation of pain.
Finally, after being touched by Jiao Xiaoyan, her internal injuries flared up, and she completely blacked out.
"I'm quite an embarrassment, aren't I?"
Fei Xiao mocked herself.
Now Jiao Xiaoyan could be considered the number one person in the world!
Taking down the Tian Ji General with just an elbow strike.
"Wait a moment, you're heavily injured, please don't move!"
The nurse beside her was startled by her movement and hurried forward to soothe her back down.
She only breathed a sigh of relief once she saw the other party lie back on the hospital bed expressionlessly.
Yet, looking at her calm and rippleless demeanor, cold sweat poured down the nurse's forehead.
To be alive after such severe injuries and yet remain so calm—she was simply not human... No, wait! She wasn't human to begin with.
The nurse discreetly glanced at the fox ears on top of her head.
"Cough cough."
She awkwardly looked away, as she actually felt a slight urge to reach out and touch them.
But this person was a patient; even if she were unconscious, the nurse wouldn't dare touch her easily.
Lying down, Fei Xiao finally noticed that she seemed to be in a hospital room.
She didn't need to think to know why.
A few minutes later, the door opened.
The newcomers were Jiao Xiaoyan, Zhou Long, and Yang Lingfeng.
"The patient needs quiet, so please be mindful!"
"Alright." x3
After a few brief instructions, the nurse left the room to them.
"It's you guys!"
Fei Xiao naturally noticed the three of them.
"I'm sorry, Sister Fei Xiao! If it weren't for me..."
Jiao Xiaoyan felt extremely guilty; if she hadn't pounced on her back then...
"It's fine. Even without you, I wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway."
Fei Xiao was quite indifferent.
After all, this was her second time nearing death; her psychological fortitude already far exceeded that of ordinary people.
"It's just good that you've woken up!"
"Yeah! But Xiao Yan, you actually one-shotted Sister Fei Xiao this time! You're the number one person in the mortal world!"
Zhou Long said, giving a thumbs up.
"Oh, stop it!"
"Hahaha."
...
The atmosphere in the hospital room suddenly lightened up a lot.
"Alright, weren't you told to keep it quiet?"
"She just woke up, and you're already being so rowdy?"
Just then, a sound came from the doorway again.
The two elders who arrived were Jiao Wuyan and Ye Jinnian.
"Sorry!" x3
The three immediately wiped the smiles off their faces and stood straight to the side.
"Why are you two here as well?"
"What kind of talk is that? If we aren't here, where would we be?"
"Huh? Isn't this a hospital?"
"It is! But this isn't a civilian hospital."
Hearing this, Fei Xiao understood immediately.
She had been wondering—it was normal for Jiao Xiaoyan and the others to be watching over her, but how did these two old men arrive so quickly?
It turned out she was lying in their base.
Seeing Fei Xiao's slightly reluctant look, Jiao Wuyan almost lost his composure. "What's with that reluctant expression on your face?"
"Nothing, I just feel like, was it necessary to come all this way?"
"Of course!" x3
As soon as Fei Xiao spoke, the three nervous people on the side were the first to speak up.
Their excited reaction actually startled Fei Xiao.
"What's wrong now?"
Black lines appeared on Jiao Wuyan's face; he really wondered if she was pretending on purpose.
But considering everything, he eventually explained patiently.
"At first, we did indeed think like you, to find a place nearby for treatment.
But the problem is, don't you know how badly you were injured?"
At this point, everyone in the room fixed their gaze on Fei Xiao on the bed.
But Fei Xiao only tilted her head in confusion and replied with total sincerity.
"Yeah, so..."
Slap!
Jiao Wuyan slapped his forehead, completely at a loss for how to continue.
Ye Jinnian stepped forward to add.
"At that time, blood was constantly oozing from your facial features; it scared us to death!
After an examination, if it weren't for the fact that you still had a breath and a heartbeat, probably no one would have believed you were still alive."
"For some reason, you had almost no external injuries then, but inside your body, almost nothing was intact."
No matter how exaggerated their expressions were, Fei Xiao just nodded calmly.
"Mm."
"Mm? At least give some kind of reaction! Just how little do you cherish your own body!"
"Sigh, your internal organs were nearly destroyed, your blood vessels were ruptured in many places, and I don't even need to mention your ribs and such.
Most crucially, your seemingly slender muscles were somehow as if they had been forcibly pulled and shredded.
In short, the inside of your body was a complete mess, like mush in a blender.
The doctors had no idea where to even start, so in the end, they could only rely on your own recovery.
After all, you're not human, so..."
As they finished describing this series of issues.
Even Jiao Xiaoyan and the others listening on the side couldn't help but tremble.
It was simply unbelievable how she had survived in such a state, let alone the kind of pain a woman would have to endure.
Even in the military, no one would dare claim that even if they could survive afterward, there would be anyone who could endure such pain.
"That's why we sent you here for hospitalization and observation, but seeing you wake up is truly a blessing."
As silence fell over the room once more, everyone noticed that Fei Xiao remained expressionless.
It was as if this matter were of no importance.
And the cold words Fei Xiao spoke matched the expression on her face perfectly.
"Mm, such a situation is actually quite normal."
Her flat, emotionless words fell upon the ears of everyone present.
They all fell silent for a moment.
Even such severe injuries were of significant weight in her eyes.
Besides, she seemed to have known it would be like this from the start.
Jiao Wuyan and Ye Jinnian had originally wanted to ask about her losing control, but now the words were stuck in their throats.
One didn't need to guess to know that losing control was by no means what she wanted.
Yet she had gone into battle knowing full well the consequences.
As the ones who had requested the Helping Hand in the first place, they had no idea how to speak at this moment.
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