Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Several messages kept popping up on the interface –
“Hello, player. Congratulations on unlocking the protagonist’s first serious illness state!”
“Your protagonist is in a very bad condition right now! His health bar is at 30% and his stamina bar is at 0%! He can’t even get out of bed! He’s in a coma and weak because he didn’t get any rest in the past three days after catching a cold!”
“Attention – several servants in Ning Wang mansion have just been infected with the plague and have been dismissed and sent back to the countryside! If you don’t handle it properly, it is very likely that your protagonist will also be infected with the plague in his weak state!”
“Your protagonist is currently safe! But once the health bar drops to 5%, he will automatically become terminally ill! At that time, there will be no way to save him!”
“By the way, do you want to know the mortality rate of colds and plagues in ancient times?”
“Whether….”
The four big words “Nothing can be done to save the situation” popped up in the crappy game, blinding Su Xi’s eyes. She was already worried, and after being messed with by the crappy game, she became even more nervous. Her heart was pounding, fearing that the cub she had raised for so many days would die in the next second!
Everyone knew that medical care was underdeveloped in ancient times and people could easily die from colds!
She quickly ticked the “yes” option and rummaged around the house like a headless fly, but it was obvious that there wouldn’t be any medicine in the house.
She zoomed in on the room, then reached out and poked the small ball on the bed.
The unconscious cub was pale, unconscious, limp, and motionless.
Su Xi’s fingers poked at his quilt, not knowing where on him, probably his waist. He groaned in discomfort, his eyes tightly closed, and his brows furrowed.
When she zoomed in, she saw a pitiful glow of water on his dark eyelashes, and she became even more confused.
The life bar in the upper left corner was like an hourglass, decreasing evenly and continuously. In just a short while, it had dropped to 28% -!
Su Xi looked up and was startled. She then quickly forced herself to calm down and think about what to do.
She first picked up the quilt on the ground, moved it along the screen, and covered the baby on the bed.
But Lu Huan felt feverish all over, as if he was in a furnace. He suddenly felt the burning sensation when a quilt was thrown over him. So he closed his eyes tightly, frowned uncomfortably, and turned over.
A white bubble appeared on the top of his head: “Hot.”
Just as Su Xi was about to turn the screen to the kitchen, she saw the quilt was kicked off by the kid on the bed again.
She had no choice but to turn the screen back, pinch the small quilt with two fingers, and cover the baby again, this time tucking the four corners with her fingers.
Lu Huan was in a deep sleep, when he felt something pressing on him. His breathing then became hotter and faster. He frowned and wanted to kick the quilt off.
But what Su Xi saw was the small cub kicking the quilt desperately.
A vague bubble slowly emerged above his head: “No.”
“…” Why would the delicate little prince do this?!
Su Xi looked up and saw that his life bar had dropped to 25%. Her heart was beating in her throat. She no longer cared about fighting the baby in the game. She simply picked up two chairs and two bricks in the room and pressed them on the four corners of the quilt, pressing them down heavily.
As a result, the weak child raised his hands and legs, but he couldn’t get rid of the quilt no matter what.
Su Xi had never taken care of a sick person, so she quickly opened Baidu and searched “What to do if a child has a fever of 39.9 degrees Celsius?” After Baidu gave an answer, she immediately picked up two towels and went to the yard.
She took two pieces of snow from the yard, wrapped them in a cloth, cut back into the house, and put the homemade fever-reducing patch on the baby’s forehead.
The freezing cold snow came in handy. The eyelashes of the little man in the game trembled slightly, as if the burning sensation of fever seemed to be relieved, and his brows slowly relaxed a little.
Su Xi pinched a few softer snowballs from outside and stuffed them into the palm of the game man’s hand.
Her actions were indeed effective, and the health bar in the upper left corner increased by 1%.
It was far from enough.
If you are this sick, you must see a doctor.
Su Xi subconsciously opened the map and tried to switch the interface to the market outside Ning Wang’s Mansion, but it was impossible to switch. Then she remembered that her current points were only 11 and she couldn’t unlock the market. How could she hire a doctor then?!
The system said: “Currently, the market and the doctor cannot be unlocked. If you want to unlock the next section, you need to accumulate 15 points.”
Damn, that’s too strict!
Su Xi took a breath, opened the mall interface, and quickly selected the “Medicine” column –
Luckily the mall had everything.
In ancient times, medicines for treating colds were all packets of herbs, with clay pots for boiling the herbs attached, but –
Su Xi couldn’t bear to look at it and said, “It will take at least half an hour to boil this packet of medicine. Can he hold on? Don’t you have Baijiahei[1] or Vitamin C Yinqiao tablets?”
System: “How could these things exist in ancient times?!”
Su Xi didn’t have time to complain. She quickly bought the medicine and paid the bill, rushed to the kitchen, quickly spent money to burn firewood, and then quickly poured the herbs into the clay pot, her fingers moving swiftly and doing it all in one go!
During this period, she kept cutting back and changing the cloth strips to continue helping the baby reduce his fever.
However, the medicine was cooked faster than she had imagined. She rummaged through the kitchen drawers and found a bowl and spoon and filled a large bowl with the sticky black medicine.
The bitter taste of the medicine could be smelled even through the screen.
Su Xi was most afraid of taking medicine, so she couldn’t help frowning.
But the most difficult thing next was how to get the medicine into the mouth of the unconscious baby.
….
As soon as Su Xi entered the house holding the medicine bowl, the system beeped and reminded her that the health bar had only 15% left!
She was so nervous holding the phone that she was sweating all over. She quickly pinched the upper body of the game man on the bed with one hand and lifted the baby up in one go.
Lu Huan who had lost consciousness: “…”
The cub looked weak, had pale lips, and was staggering. He almost even fell off the bed because of Su Xi’s rough treatment.
Su Xi quickly made an arc with her left hand and placed it on the screen, allowing the game character on the screen to lean against her palm. In this way, the game character was finally helped to sit up.
His long black hair cascaded down, and his head rested weakly on Su Xi’s fingertips. He was pitifully small, and his waist was slender enough to be held in one hand.
Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief and put the bowl on the table beside him.
Holding the spoon with her other hand, she scooped up the medicine and carefully put it towards the baby’s mouth.
Although it was a bit difficult to pry open the baby’s mouth, Su Xi still struggled and poured the liquid into him mouthful by mouthful.
….
After drinking a bowl of extremely bitter medicine, the pale-faced kid looked even paler.
And Su Xi outside the screen was also exhausted.
Her shoulders and neck were sore, and so her hands loosened, and the baby fell heavily back onto the bed.
His head then hit the hard pillow with a slight sound.
Su Xi suddenly felt distressed: …Ahhh I didn’t mean it!
However, after all this trouble, it seemed that the medicine took effect, and the life bar in the upper left corner, which was almost down to 8%, gradually started showing signs of recovering…
Su Xi picked up the cloth strip again and changed it, continuing to stick it on the baby’s forehead and palms.
The interface then popped up: “Congratulations, your protagonist has returned to a safe state!”
Su Xi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the life bar’s increase had finally returned to 35%, and a huge stone in her heart fell to the ground.
She had to say that playing this game was really tiring, but seeing the little cub on the small bed finally breathe a little more evenly, his brows finally relax a little, such that he didn’t seem to be so uncomfortable, and his complexion was a little better, it brought Su Xi a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction –
No matter who raised a cute little creature with their own hands, accompanied it day by day, and watched it grow, they would all develop some feelings, she felt the same for this cub in the game.
Although the baby was not a living person, she still hoped that he would be better, that he would be healthy and free from disasters, and that he would no longer be bullied.
Su Xi bought a few more packets of medicine from the mall and placed them beside the bed, waiting for the baby to wake up by himself so that he could boil the medicine and drink it by himself.
At this moment, Su Xi suddenly caught a glimpse of the cub’s arms under his long sleeves…
When she opened the game on the first day, she noticed that the character in the game seemed to have signs of injury on his arm, but she couldn’t get closer and take a closer look.
At this moment, she zoomed in, carefully lifted the quilt, and pulled the baby’s arm out.
When she rolled up his sleeves, she discovered…there were countless whip marks on his arms!
It was an old wound, leaving only a shallow mark on the fair skin, but one could still imagine the scene of flesh being torn apart and the pain as if salt was sprinkled on it!
Su Xi took a deep breath, hesitating whether to look at the baby again –
Anyway, the cub’s clothes should be soaked with sweat, so he had to change into something.
After thinking for a moment, she quietly lifted the quilt and carefully unbuttoned the baby’s robe.
As she moved, the game character frowned uncomfortably, and his long hair fell on his shoulders like a waterfall.
And just as she expected, the cub’s back was covered with whip marks!
It was confusing and shocking.
How could this happen…Su Xi felt a little angry and a little sad in her heart.
Even though she knew this was a game, and that he was just a bast**d who was bullied and looked down upon all the time, she still couldn’t help but feel the pain in her heart.
Practice made perfect. This time she was no longer clumsy and directly helped the baby up. Then she bought some scar removal cream from the mall and applied it on the whip marks on the game character’s body one by one.
Fortunately, these scars were all left from when he was a child. As he grew up over the years, he should no longer have had the opportunity to be bullied by those people in Ning Wang’s Mansion.
After applying the medicine, Su Xi changed his outer robe, but did not change his trousers because she felt it was too troublesome.
Moreover, she always felt that the reactions of the little man in the game was too real. She didn’t know how he would react when she took off his pants. But she had to change his outer robe because it was soaked. If she didn’t change it into a clean one, it would be bad if his cold got worse.
After doing all this, Su Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief. She then rubbed her eyes, was so sleepy that her phone fell on her face, and she fell asleep.
….
This night was particularly long for Lu Huan. He felt heavy and exhausted all over. He was immersed in boiling water, floating up and down, until something cold seemed to be stuck on his forehead and palms, and the pain was slightly relieved.
He tried desperately to wake up, but his eyelids were unable to open because of the severe cold.
So it was not until the next day, when the rooster in the yard crowed that he suddenly woke up from his dream.
After opening his eyes, Lu Huan still felt heavy all over.
He stared at the curtain with his eyes open for a moment and subconsciously wanted to reach out and touch his forehead to see if it was still hot.
But at this moment, he raised his hand and found that the quilt on his body was extremely heavy, as if it was pressed down by something…
As he moved, the chair that was pressed on the quilt rolled to the ground with a bang.
Lu Huan raised his head slightly, his heart skipped a beat, and his expression suddenly changed –
The clothes he was wearing had been changed!
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[1] A brand of cold medicine.