Chapter 5 Desperate for Food What did you just stuff into my mouth? ...
On days when there was no food reserves, Lin Jinshui was afraid that Lin Jianyu would miss his dried fish, so he would take time every day to find food for her.
Before going, he would leave the whale fall behind to protect her.
Lin Jianyu thus became very familiar with Whale Fall, touching almost every corner of its body, but still hasn't found the mechanism to draw the sword.
Prey in the mountains and forests is hard to catch, and Lin Jinshui's hunting skills are really mediocre, so he doesn't always have a successful hunt.
His lack of success meant that Lin Jianyu would go hungry.
Unfortunately, at this time of year, there isn't a single wild vegetable in the vast forest, though there are plenty of wild fruits.
When Lin Jinshui went hunting, if he didn't catch any prey, he would bring her back some wild fruit so she could have something to eat.
Today, he went out hunting as usual, wandering through the mountains and forests for more than an hour, but he didn't catch anything except a few bunches of bright red berries.
Lin Jianyu was certainly disappointed that he hadn't brought back any prey, but not much. She had gotten used to the fact that he didn't always bring back prey these days. She took the bunches of bright red fruit he offered, intending to eat them to stave off hunger.
The fruits are not large, and each one is bright red, making them look very tempting.
Lin Jianyu picked one and asked Lin Jinshui, "What kind of fruit is this?"
"I don't know." Although Lin Jinshui knew many kinds of wild fruits, he didn't recognize them all. The one he brought back today happened to be one he didn't recognize.
Lin Jianyu asked casually, and when he said he didn't know, she didn't pay much attention. She put the fruit in her mouth and chewed it. The taste was completely different from what she had imagined. It was not only not sweet, but also a little bitter.
Fortunately, she is not a picky eater; she can eat both sweet and bitter foods.
The fruit was just too small. After eating most of the bunch, my hunger was not relieved at all, and I felt a tightness in my chest and a bit short of breath.
At first, she didn't take it seriously, thinking she was just too hungry, until her muscles suddenly started to spasm, her body convulsed involuntarily, accompanied by pain, difficulty breathing, and her vision going black.
"Master, save me..." She collapsed to the ground, looking in Lin Jinshui's direction, using her last bit of strength to beg him for help.
Seeing Lin Jinshui, who was meditating, open his eyes and look at her, she closed her eyes and fell into a coma.
Lin Jinshui opened his eyes and saw her lying on the ground, her body twitching. He was startled and quickly got up and ran towards her.
When he got to her, she was already unconscious and her life force was rapidly fading away. Without thinking, he immediately cut his finger and put it in her mouth.
As the blood entered her body, her previously weak breathing gradually returned to normal, and her muscles stopped spasming.
Lin Jinshui breathed a sigh of relief and called her name twice in an attempt to wake her up, but she didn't respond at all. A little worried, he reached out and pinched her philtrum.
Lin Jianyu was awakened by the pain. When Lin Jinshui pinched her philtrum, he didn't hold back at all. The soreness... made her cry out in pain.
"Ouch, that hurts!"
Hearing her voice, Lin Jinshui withdrew his hand and asked with concern, "How are you feeling?"
Lin Jianyu felt... a slight pain in his philtrum.
"What happened to me?" She hadn't forgotten the pain she had experienced before she fell into a coma, even though she couldn't feel anything anymore.
"It must be a lingering effect from when I treated your injuries last time," Lin Jinshui said.
"Is it serious?" Lin Jianyu asked, frowning.
"It's quite serious," Lin Jinshui said, frowning and looking more serious than ever before.
Seeing his expression, Lin Jianyu felt a sudden pang of unease and asked in a trembling voice, "Will...will you die?"
She used to have nothing, so she was afraid of nothing, including death, and sometimes she even had suicidal thoughts. But now she has a name and a master. She wants to live and wants to stay by her master's side forever.
"If I were here, no," Lin Jinshui said. "But I can't be by your side forever."
"Why is it impossible?" Lin Jianyu, who had just wanted to stay by his side forever, narrowed her eyes in dissatisfaction.
"Why do you need to ask why? Of course it's because you need to eat, and your teacher has to go find food for you," Lin Jinshui said. "In a situation like today, if your teacher happens to go find food for you, your body will be cold by the time I come back."
Lin Jianyu could not refute this reason.
"Then Master, when you go find food, take me with you."
"If we can find enough food to fill your stomach by taking you with us, I won't have to go looking for food myself." The food they found along the way was far from enough to fill her stomach.
Lin Jianyu thought about it and agreed.
"Then I won't go looking for food." It's better to go hungry than to die a violent death. Anyway, she's gotten used to being hungry over the years. As long as she doesn't starve to death, that's fine.
"We'll see." Lin Jinshui didn't want to go looking for food, but if she didn't have any, she would miss his dried fish. He didn't even have enough dried fish for himself, so she had to think of a way.
While he was trying to figure out a solution, Lin Jianyu picked up the fruit she hadn't finished eating and continued eating. As she ate, that familiar feeling of tightness in her chest started again.
Looking at the fruit in her hand, a bold idea suddenly came to her mind.
"Master, do you think it's possible that this fruit is poisonous?"
Lin Jinshui's thoughts were interrupted by her words, and his gaze subconsciously fell on the fruit in her hand. From the appearance of the fruit, he could not tell at all whether it was poisonous or not.
Why do you say that?
"Because of me, I feel short of breath again." Lin Jianyu said, his muscles twitching slightly. Good, it wasn't that it was completely unrelated to the feeling he had just experienced; it was exactly the same.
Seeing that she was convulsing again, Lin Jinshui quickly cut his finger and fed her some blood to drink.
This was the first time Lin Jianyu had drunk his blood while sober, and to her surprise, it tasted quite good.
Wait, what did he give her to drink?
Lin Jianyu, belatedly realizing that he had been fed a mouthful of blood, was utterly shocked.
"Master, what did you just put in my mouth?"
"Fingers," Lin Jinshui said.
Lin Jianyu knew he had put a finger in her mouth: "What's on your finger?"
"Blood."
"Give me your blood!" Lin Jianyu's expression changed from shock to terror.
Compared to her overreaction, Lin Jinshui seemed much calmer, simply pursing her lips and giving a soft "hmm".
Why are you giving me your blood to drink?
"To save you," Lin Jinshui said.
Before he said that, Lin Jianyu hadn't even realized that she was alright.
"Can Master's blood cure poison?"
"cannot."
"Then why am I fine after drinking your blood? I must have been poisoned just now, right?" Lin Jianyu wasn't sure. Looking at the fruit in her hand, she hesitated whether to eat a few more to try.
"I don't know." Lin Jinshui didn't know any medicine, so he could only judge her health by sensing her vitality.
"Shall I try a few more?" Lin Jianyu couldn't make up her mind, so she simply gave him the decision.
“Okay.” After saying this, Lin Jinshui’s gaze remained fixed on her, as if he wanted to carefully observe her reaction after she ate the fruit.
Lin Jianyu ate them cooperatively, one, two, three... When he ate the thirteenth one, that familiar feeling of chest tightness started again.
Before she could say anything, Lin Jinshui had already pricked his finger again and put it in her mouth.
Lin Jianyu thought that knowing he was feeding her his blood would make her feel guilty, but she didn't. She not only drank it without any guilt, but even subconsciously sucked on it.
Her master's blood tastes really good.
She categorized this almost perverse belief as being indiscriminate in her hunger.
When you're starving, even blood tastes good.
After drinking the blood, her discomfort quickly subsided.
"This fruit is indeed poisonous. Where did you pick it, Master?"
“On the way back, on a bush,” Lin Jinshui said.
"Don't pick them next time."
"I'm not stupid." Knowing it's poisonous, why would I pick it? Do I think she has too long a life, or do I think I have too much blood?
"A man should have some self-awareness about his penis," Lin Jianyu said.
“It’s self-awareness,” Lin Jinshui corrected.
"As long as the meaning is the same, it's fine." Lin Jianyu said nonchalantly, "Didn't Master say that your blood can't cure poison?" She had clearly been poisoned several times just now.
"It can't cure the poison, but it can save you. In a sense, my blood is your life-saving medicine, but it's only your life-saving medicine. It can't cure the poison, nor can it save anyone else," Lin Jinshui explained.
Lin Jianyu was confused, but she understood the general idea: his blood could save her.
"Did Master save me with your blood in the first place?" That's why her injuries healed so quickly.
“Yes.” Lin Jinshui nodded. “At that time, your condition was beyond saving, and I had no choice but to use my own blood to save you.”
"Why does Master's blood have such effects?" In her understanding, blood does not have such effects. Of course, it is possible that she is ignorant, and that possibility is quite high.
"It's not my blood that's effective; my blood is just a medium. You don't need to know the specifics. You just need to know that my blood can save you. As long as you have a breath left, I can save you."
"But there are also drawbacks to saving you in this way. The drawback is the aftereffect I told you about. You may not be able to live without my blood for the rest of your life, and your life may be in danger at any time, just like when you were poisoned. You have to drink my blood."
“So, when you first asked me if I had saved you, that’s why I said I didn’t know if I had saved you,” Lin Jinshui said.
“How can it not count? If it weren’t for Master, I would have died long ago.” Even if she could never live without his blood afterward, she accepted it. “Besides, the aftereffects Master mentioned aren’t all bad. Just like now, if it weren’t for these aftereffects, I would have been poisoned to death by Master.”
“They were poisoned by the fruit,” Lin Jinshui corrected.
"As long as the meaning is the same, there's no need to worry about the details," Lin Jianyu said. "Just imagine, if I get sick or injured in the future, I can just drink some of my master's blood and it will be fine. It would be so great."
"Can't you think of something positive?" Think about getting sick or injured.
"Good things don't need Master's blood."
"It's best if we don't need it."
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