Otherworldly Apprentice Lich and Foot Knight

Xia En's fever didn't go away, the side effects of the medicine, or the fatigue caused by the fever, just made him fall asleep quickly - Zhou Lingke hoped that it was sleep, not a coma or something worse.Watching over his sick and sleeping partner, Zhou Lingke tore off the fabric from his clothes, soaked it in water, wiped Xia En's forehead and neck, and put alcohol cotton balls under his armpit to help Xia En cool down.However, until dawn, Xia En's condition remained unchanged.

When the sunlight pouring down through the leaves became more and more, when Zhou Lingke could not block it at all, Xia En woke up, and Zhou Lingke fed him some water and meat.

Covering Xia En's forehead with his hand, just one night of high fever, Xia En looked a lot haggard: "Can you...can you stay here alone?" Xia En's current condition is that he can't continue walking, but You can't just wait on the tree.Fortunately, the weather has been very comfortable these two days, but no one can be sure that the good luck will last forever.It was hard to imagine what a rain would bring to Xia En who had a fever.

They need a place to change, at least better than a tree, a place that can shelter from wind and rain.Food is also needed, and more nutrition needs to be supplemented.

"..." Xia En looked at Zhou Lingke, he also understood this, and understood that if the positions were switched, he would do the same thing, so in the end, Xia En did not dissuade, but said hoarsely, "Be careful."

Zhou Lingke kissed his forehead, and before leaving, he went to the stream to fill the bottle with water, and when he left, he only had a hidden knife on him, and everything else remained with Xia En.

Zhou Lingke carved marks on the tree as he walked.From time to time, cloth strips will be tied to the branches.Although this made his clothes more tattered, it was better to have nothing to wear than to be unable to find the way back.

Half an hour after walking out, the buzzing of insects suddenly increased.Zhou Lingke found a long branch and used it as a crutch for exploring the way, lashing the grass he was about to walk into—thanks to those TV shows about survival in the wild.Zhou Lingke breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the first frightened insect fly out of the grass. It looked a bit like a grasshopper, but it was much bigger.Sure enough, there are insects here, I just hope there are not too many...

By the way, grasshoppers seem to be edible.When the thought of food came to mind slowly, Zhou Lingke tried to chase after it again, but the grasshopper was gone.However, Zhou Lingke finally caught one when this kind of bug flew past his eyes for the third time.However, seeing this kind of grasshopper from another world up close, Zhou Lingke felt that he and Xia En might not be able to eat it, because this thing can change color, not the kind of chameleon, but after being caught by him. It turned into an extremely gorgeous purple red, and its wings and hind feet are also rushing out blue spots that make people with trypophobia scream.

Zhou Lingke let go of the thing immediately, he was afraid it would be poisonous.

As the weather got hotter and the sun rose higher and higher, Zhou Lingke came to the edge of the stream.His idea is that since there are bugs here, will there be fish and shrimp in the river?Or will there be some small animals running to the water to drink?

But he was still disappointed, the water was still clear, so clear that there was no trace of life.

"Sorry." On this day, Zhou Lingke returned empty-handed, and when he returned to the tree, Xia En was still having a fever.

"Hey." Xia En smiled at Zhou Lingke, "Don't burden yourself too much, you don't need to apologize to me."

Zhou Lingke forced himself to smile, sat down, and put Xia En's head on his lap, so that he could lie down more comfortably: "We have to keep going, I will carry you on my back tomorrow."

"I'm not that weak, especially after lying down for such a long time...you just need to support me, I don't need to carry it on my back."

"...If you feel uncomfortable, you must tell me." Zhou Lingke hesitated for a while, but did not insist, so they could indeed go further.

Originally thought that this night would be a peaceful night as usual, until the sudden cold dripping on his left eye woke Zhou Lingke from his sleep.He opened his eyes while raising his hand to wipe away the unknown thing.More fluid dripped onto his forehead - for the first time in a day, his bad assumption came true, and it was raining, though not very much.

The raindrops like threads fell sparsely on the branches and leaves, and there was no sound at all, only water droplets flowing down the leaves one after another.Zhou Lingke hurriedly touched Xia En's forehead, but the fever still didn't subside, and he didn't know if it was because of his psychology. He always felt that the temperature today was also lower than the previous two days.

"It's raining?" Xia En also woke up and touched Zhou Lingke's hand on his forehead.

"Yes..." Zhou Lingke had just answered when he heard a rumbling thunder, "Get off the tree, I can't stay here any longer."

Although the decision to get down from the tree was made by the two of them yesterday, they didn't expect that they were driven down from the tree by the bad weather.Fortunately, Xia En's movements were a little stiff, but his physical strength was not completely lost in the high fever for more than a day. When he descended from the tree, his movements were even more stable than the worried Zhou Lingke.

When the two of them were on the ground at the same time, the silent rain was instantly replaced by crackling raindrops, and the rain falling from among the leaves also changed from sparse silk threads to an almost continuous rain curtain, and in some places it was almost like a Small waterfall.In just 5 minutes, both of them were drenched.

They lost their way in the heavy rain and stumbled for half an hour, but luck did not completely leave them.

"Cave! Xia En, hold on for a while! Hold on for a while longer!" Zhou Lingke wiped the rainwater from his face, covered his forehead with his hand, and finally confirmed that there was indeed a cave in front of him.

"..."

But he couldn't hear Sean's answer, he hoped it was just because the rain was too loud and Sean's was too soft.

They finally entered the cave, which was not a huge natural cave, it was not big, but it was very dry, and there was no strange smell in the cave, and there were no other beasts that lived there beforehand.It should be said that for a moment, Zhou Lingke was a little strange. When he went out to look for food before, he didn't find this cave at all, but now he found it all at once.But this is a good thing, so this little question just flashed in his mind, and was immediately thrown aside by Zhou Lingke.

Zhou Lingke put Xia En in the farthest corner, took off his wet clothes, cleaned his T-shirt as much as possible in the heavy rain, and then used it to dry Xia En's body.

There was no time to find any dry firewood to start a fire, so Zhou Lingke could only strip himself naked, and warm Xia En with the bloodiest body temperature he once felt.He even thought how nice it would be if he were a person with thick hair?Would that at least make Sean feel like he was lying on a fur coat, or that he was hugging a big warm dog?

It was still stormy outside, and even because of the almost constant lightning, the cave didn't look so dark anymore.Zhou Lingke took off the wet bandage on Xia En's arm, trying to wrap it up again.But when the bandage was removed, he found black traces on Xia En's wound that were definitely not blood scabs.

Inflamed wound?Or touched something dirty.

He used an alcohol cotton ball to scrub those marks, but the result was only to make the thing look brighter—then... No, it's actually easy to recognize what it is, but Zhou Lingke subconsciously doesn't want to believe it.Because those are things that should not grow on a normal person's body, they are scales, black fingernail-sized scales, three on the left arm and four on the right arm.

Zhou Lingke's hands trembled a little, he stroked the scales, and grabbed the edge of the scales to try to see if he could peel them off.But when he exerted too much force, Shane, who fell into unconsciousness, immediately groaned in pain.

Zhou Lingke immediately rewrapped Xia En's arm with a bandage, and then hugged him even tighter, but he didn't know whether he wanted to warm Xia En at this time, or was he trying to draw body temperature from him?

Those scales are diseases?Wound infection in this world?Or mutation?Even parasitic or something?

Sean will die?Will you lose yourself?Will it become alien or something?

His mind was in a mess, and he wanted to reprimand himself for thinking too much, but he had encountered such things as time travel, so there was nothing more outrageous than time travel.

Zhou Lingke felt that his brain was about to boil due to the high-speed operation, so that even if the rain became lighter, Xia En woke up and struggled to sit up in his arms, but he didn't react.

It was only when Xia En called his name for the third time (or was it the fourth time?) that Zhou Lingke finally got a thrill all over his body, allowing his reason to regain control.

"I scared you?"

"Scared." Zhou Lingke didn't refute, he hugged the man in his arms tightly.

Xia En moved: "It's okay, am I awake now? And I think, I feel much better now."

"I don't feel it. I still feel that you are very hot. In addition..." Zhou Lingke hesitated for a while. He just wrapped up Xia En's arm to cover up those scales, but when facing the sober Xia En, But he made another choice, "Look at your...arm."

"?" Xia En was confused, or Zhou Lingke took the initiative to lift his arm and undo the bandage little by little, "!" Xia En's muscles tensed instantly, telling Zhou Lingke that he also saw clearly.Those scales are not Zhou Lingke's illusion.