noffsinger Chapter 34 Natural Pain Relief
Chapter 34 Natural Pain Relief
The east building has three floors, with customer service located on the second and third floors, and the restaurant and kitchen on the ground floor. Although the castle is three hundred years old, signs of renovation are quite obvious.
Jiang Lin and Ji Xingyi's room was 206. Before going back, Jiang Lin asked Yang Hua for some external injury medicine. As soon as she entered the room, she saw Ji Xingyi quickly put on her clothes.
Jiang Lin locked the door from the inside: "Take off your clothes."
Ji Xingyi didn't expect Jiang Lin to find out, so she turned her head away and replied, "I've already taken care of it."
"Take it off." Jiang Lin's voice was gentle, but there was no hint of a smile in his eyes.
Ji Xingyi remained silent, but eventually gave in and obediently took off her coat and undershirt.
Jiang Lin sat down behind Ji Xingyi, placed the medicine on the bed, and looked up to see a 10-centimeter-long wound on the man's left shoulder.
He was cut by a rock when he was rolling on the ground with Jiang Lin in his arms. Just as Ji Xingyi said, he did treat it, but he just rinsed the wound with water.
"Does it hurt?" Jiang Lin's gaze wandered over the wound. The edges of the wound were visibly white, and blood beads were still seeping out because no hemostatic medicine had been used.
Ji Xing shook his head, but after meeting Jiang Lin's gaze, he paused and said, "It doesn't hurt much."
"Is that so?" Jiang Lin's eyes flickered as she slowly approached.
Ji Xingyi didn't know what Jiang Lin was going to do, but he knew Jiang Lin wouldn't hurt him, so he remained motionless.
It wasn't until the other person's lips touched his wound, the warm breath sending a jolt through him, that Ji Xingyi's expression changed.
Surprise, confusion, and a series of questions popped into Ji Xing's mind, but when their eyes met, Ji Xing felt his throat go dry and couldn't utter a single word.
The moist sensation mixed with a fine stinging pain brought Ji Xingyi a strange excitement. The tingling sensation spread from his spine throughout his body, and the few seconds seemed to be stretched infinitely.
With her scarlet tongue tip wiping away the last drop of blood, Jiang Lin looked up, her expression as calm as ever: "Human saliva contains a substance called opiorphin, a natural painkiller that is said to be six times more effective than morphine."
Ji Xingyi couldn't hear any explanation. His gaze was fixed on the young man's lips. He had never observed his childhood friend's lips so closely before.
Jiang Lin's lips were thin, and some of her own blood still clung to them.
After more than a decade of observation, Ji Xingyi had this strange idea for the first time.
Legend has it that sailors on long voyages would hear mermaid songs in the dead of night, and those with weak wills would be tempted to jump into the sea, ultimately becoming food for the mermaids.
At that moment, Ji Xingyi realized that he had probably been bewitched by Jiang Lin.
He couldn't help but raise his hand, his palm pressed against Jiang Lin's cheek, his thumb gently wiping away the bloodstains on Jiang Lin's lips. But after touching that softness, selfishness got the better of him, and he couldn't help but touch her again and again.
A hint of mockery flashed in Jiang Lin's eyes. He deliberately opened his mouth slightly and pretended to casually lick the other person's fingertip.
Ji Xingyi was struck dumb, instantly stopping his movements and standing up with a panicked look in his eyes.
Jiang Lin looked at the man's bright red ear tips and deliberately put on an innocent smile: "What's wrong?"
"Thump thump thump!" The rapid heartbeat roared in Ji Xingyi's brain, his thoughts as chaotic as a mess.
He felt something was wrong; it seemed to be a feeling beyond joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.
"Ah—" A woman's scream suddenly broke the strange atmosphere.
"I'll go check." The man, as if he had found a savior, quickly put on his clothes and rushed out the door. Jiang Lin watched his flustered figure, his smile deepening.
All rooms on the second floor are even-numbered. The screaming came from room 202 on the same floor, which is the room closest to the stairs.
The door was ajar. Ji Xingyi pushed it open and entered. She saw a short-haired woman standing on the table in a panic, pointing fearfully under the bed. There was another woman with bangs in the room, but her face was very calm.
Ji Xingyi exchanged a glance with the woman with bangs, and her information immediately came to mind: Zheng Lu, the editor of the film crew, and the short-haired woman who screamed loudly was Qiao Xiaomai, the makeup artist of the film crew.
Before long, Director Wu and Producer Song, who lived in room 204, also came over.
Song He asked, "What happened?"
"Under the bed!" Qiao Xiaomai trembled with fear. "There are...there are mice!"
Everyone was speechless. Zheng Lu resisted the urge to facepalm and pulled the short-haired woman down.
Director Wu: "Maizi, the environment is better abroad, the air is fresher, so it's not normal to have rats!"
With tears in her eyes, Qiao Xiaomai said aggrievedly, "Director, I want to change rooms!"
"Why change rooms? We're abroad now, everything's complicated. If there really are rats, do you think it's just one? Let me tell you, rats come in nests!" Director Wu couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Jiang Lin stared at the short-haired girl. Normally, this would be a trivial matter, but in a death-defying dungeon, even an NPC's casual conversation could become a clue to save the player's fate. So he asked, "Maizi, why are you so afraid of mice?"
Qiao Xiaomai looked up at the young man, her eyes bloodshot and her lips trembling slightly: "Don't you know? Rats eat people!"
Zheng Lu's expression changed slightly: "How could a rat eat a person? Mai Zi, don't think such nonsense!"
Qiao Xiaomai showed a struggling expression, biting her lip and raising her hand to brush away the stray hairs covering her left ear. She wore an exquisite silver butterfly earring on her left ear.
Under everyone's gaze, Qiao Xiaomai removed her earrings, revealing her real left ear.
This is a deformed ear, about one-third smaller than a normal person's ear, with obvious defects in the auricle, uneven and rugged, as if it had been gnawed by something.
Zheng Lu, who was closest to Qiao Xiaomai, gasped and a bad feeling popped into her mind. The next second, Qiao Xiaomai confirmed her thoughts.
“When I was three years old, I went back to my hometown in Shaanxi with my parents to visit my grandparents. We were very poor at that time. My grandparents lived in the mountains. Their houses were all made of brick and mud. By 6 or 7 o'clock, it was so dark that we couldn’t see anything.”
Qiao Xiaomai lowered her head and clenched her hands tightly around the hem of her clothes: "I remember I slept at the very end of the bed, and my parents slept on the outside."
Children get sleepy easily and fall asleep soon after lying in bed. In the middle of the night, Qiao Xiaomai suddenly heard a hissing sound, as if something was moving.
The 3-year-old girl opened her eyes, but it was too dark, there was no light, and she couldn't see anything, just like a blind person.
Qiao Xiaomai reached out her little hand and nudged the woman beside her: "Mommy? Mommy..."
The woman, awakened by the noise, rolled over and yelled at Qiao Xiaomai with her back to her, "Go back to sleep! If you make another sound, I'll throw you into the mountains to be eaten by wolves!"
Hearing this, Qiao Xiaomai immediately shut her mouth, but she was too scared. She moved behind her mother, clutching the hem of her mother's clothes with one small hand, and pressed her face against her mother's back before finally closing her eyes in peace. However, not long after, the rustling sound started again!