Chapter 51: Just a passer-by in life. I want what he said...
When Ji An carried the child in, Zhou Qin had just struggled to stand up with crutches. He saw the child's miserable state and his face suddenly darkened. "What happened?"
"I don't know. A skinny man brought the child here, saying that he felt sorry for the child. But I have a feeling that there must be something else going on. The child's current miserable situation is probably related to him." As Ji An spoke, he carried the child into a separate isolation room at the outermost corner.
This room is prepared for these new children, mainly to prevent them from contracting lice or other diseases and infecting the original children in the orphanage.
Ji An put the person down and immediately took out a normal children's nutritional supplement from the space and fed it to the child.
The child's eyes were tightly closed and his teeth were clenched, so he couldn't take the nutrition in. Ji An could only use his strength to pinch the child's mouth open and force the nutrition in.
Originally, Ji An wanted to give the child some spiritual spring water, but he couldn't do that in front of so many people.
The effect of Lingquan Water is so good that just a little bit can quickly heal the wounds and bruises on the child's body. By then, everyone will definitely notice the abnormality.
Anyway, Zhou Qin called the healing power person, and he would wait until he came to see the child. If the child's life was really in danger, he would then find a way to use the spiritual spring water to treat him, but he couldn't expose himself.
A few minutes after the nutrient was fed, the child's eyelashes trembled, his eyeballs rolled a few times under his eyelids, and he slowly opened his eyes and woke up.
Ji An breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that he's awake."
Yuan Mingan approached the child and asked softly, "How do you feel? Are you feeling unwell?"
The child did not answer, as if she could not hear any sound. Her eyes were just wide open, dull and lifeless. There were so many people surrounding her in the room, but she seemed to see no one. She did not look at anyone in the room. Her empty eyes fell on a certain point in the void, but they were not focused.
Yuan Ming'an looked at Ji An, Ji An looked at Zhou Qin, and Zhou Qin looked back at Yuan Ming'an. The three of them looked at each other. Ji An leaned over, approached the child, and waved his hand in front of the child's eyes. The child's eyeballs did not move, and he did not even blink, as if he had not seen it at all.
Ji An's face darkened, "Can you hear me?"
The child still didn't answer.
Several people's faces turned heavy. Xiao Shitou had already finished taking a bath. He knew that this room was used to isolate children to prevent them from getting sick, so he didn't go into the room but stood at the door.
"She should not be blind or deaf. I have heard her speak." said Little Stone.
"When did it happen and where did it happen?" Ji An asked.
"I've seen her in many places." Little Stone said, "We went everywhere to ask for food. It's hard to get food now. We can't get food if we stay in one place. We often change places. At the most frequent times, we change places several times a day."
Xiao Shitou is a very strong child. He doesn't cry when talking about the past, but only cherishes his present life more.
"We often see her, and she always changes places. I have heard her asking passers-by for food." Little Stone thought for a moment and said, "She is very pitiful, and it seems that she cannot walk, and her hands are also broken. The situations of the children who beg for food with her are similar to her, and they are all miserable."
Little Stone sympathized, "There was a very thin male superpower watching them, and he would beat them up if he couldn't get what they wanted."
In the end times, everyone is busy taking care of themselves and no one has extra sympathy to give alms. Those people cannot be unaware of this, but they still beat people.
"Sometimes passers-by would give them a bite to eat if they couldn't help watching. But that didn't make their situation any better. On the contrary, because of this, the male mutant would deliberately beat them up when there were many people around."
"Beast!" Upon hearing this, Yuan Ming'an had completely imagined what kind of miserable life the child in front of her had led. Perhaps thinking of her missing daughter, Yuan Ming'an burst into tears and ran over to hug the child.
Little Stone continued, "They once wanted to capture Little Rose and me, but luckily we were smart enough to run away. But it's also possible that they didn't really want to capture us, otherwise we two kids wouldn't have been able to escape from a superpower.
In fact, even the poor little kids couldn’t get anything back then, so I guess that person with special abilities just didn’t care whether he could be caught or not, so he let us escape.”
Ji An looked at the ruddy, lively and cute little Shitou in front of him, and then at the child opposite him who was missing limbs, looked haggard, and looked as if he was dead. He couldn't imagine what would have happened to him if little Shitou hadn't been smart and fallen into the hands of those human traffickers!
Thinking of certain methods, Ji An's heart ached and he shuddered.
"There is a very thin psychic guarding them. Is that psychic about this tall? He has small but bulging eyes?" Ji An described the appearance of the man he saw at the door.
"It's him." Little Stone nodded.
Ji An said to Zhou Qin, "He was the one who sent this child here just now. According to Xiao Shitou, they should have many children like this little girl. They are probably a group of human traffickers who specially make children look like half-human and half-ghost to gain sympathy from others and keep them alive for money."
Zhou Qin's hands tightly grasped the top of the crutch, and he lost control and used too much force, breaking the crutch in half. Zhou Qin lost his balance, stumbled, and fell to the ground. Fortunately, Ji An reacted quickly and supported Zhou Qin.
Zhou Qin's face became even uglier. He was angry at those inhumane human traffickers and at his own powerless state.
Little Stone noticed that the atmosphere in the room was not right, so he quietly pulled away Little Rose, who had just finished taking a bath.
"I remember the appearance of the human trafficker. I will draw him now. The rest will be handed over to Commander Zhou." Originally, Ji An wanted to ask Gu Jinsheng for help, but now he wanted to hand this matter over to Zhou Qin. Ji An believed that Zhou Qin would do his best and it could also distract his attention so that he wouldn't always focus on his legs.
"Okay." Zhou Qin agreed immediately.
There were paper and pens in the orphanage, which were bought by Ji An. He did not choose fancy crayons or anything like that, but just drew with pencils.
When the children, Little Stone and Little Rose, saw him drawing, they all came over. Ji An simply drew a few strokes on the paper and a human figure appeared.
With a few more simple strokes, the person's facial features took shape, and the human form was now in place.
Little Stone and Little Rose had never seen anyone draw before, so they thought it was magical. They opened their mouths wide, but covered them with their hands and did not scream out to disturb Ji An.
Ji An was painting seriously, and proofreading carefully with the person in his brain. His brain had become extremely powerful due to the awakening of his mental power. It was like a scanner that could accurately remember everything his eyes saw.
Half an hour later, the person drawn by Ji An on the white paper came to life. Whether you knew him or not, as long as you had seen the picture, you would be able to recognize the person in the picture at a glance.
Little Stone and Little Rose both covered their mouths, staring at Ji An with wide eyes, shocked, "Brother Ji An, the person you drew looks exactly like that person!"
Little Rose said admiringly: "Brother Ji An, can you teach me? I also want to learn it, it's so magical!"
"Okay, I'm busy with work at the moment and may not have time to teach you. I'll hire a painting teacher for you." Ji An is currently doing an experiment, which is very important. It's about cell tissue regeneration.
Little Rose asked sensibly, "Then I won't learn anymore, Brother Ji An, please don't spend any more money."
Ji An's depressed mood was relieved a lot when he heard Little Rose's sensible words. "It doesn't matter. Brother Ji An has plenty of money, so he doesn't care about this little money. Little Rose likes to learn, so she should study hard. Brother Ji An is waiting for the day when Little Rose finishes her studies and draws a portrait for her brother."
"Okay, I will study hard." Little Rose clenched her little fists to encourage herself.
Little Stone came over quickly and said, "I want one too. I want one too."
"Okay, then I'll draw a family portrait for all the children in our Salesian Home and Director Yuan."
"Okay." Ji An held out his finger to Little Rose, "Then let's make a promise. It's a deal."
"Yes!" Little Rose and Ji An made a pinky promise.
Zhou Qin took the painting and was also quite shocked. He said in amazement: "I remember you seemed to be... How come you have so many specialties? Not only a minor language, but you can also draw?"
Zhou Qin deliberately left the word "orphan" vague.
Ji An smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, it's all in the past, and it's also a part of me."
Ji An said to Little Stone and Little Rose, "Actually, I am also an orphan, just like you. I was not separated from my family because of an accident. Instead, I was thrown in front of the orphanage when I was born. I grew up in an orphanage."
"What, Brother Ji An, you are also an orphan?" Little Stone couldn't believe it. "Brother Ji An, you are so great, how can you be an orphan? You are so outstanding, why don't your parents want you? I thought your parents would brag everywhere that they have such an outstanding son like you!"
Ji An rubbed Little Stone and Little Rose’s heads. “But no one is born so good. When I was born, I was just a crying baby. Of course, if my parents knew how good I have become now, they would never give me up.”
Space storage items and nutrients, just these two things are enough to revitalize a base or destroy a base. If the parents who abandoned Ji An had the ability to foresee, it is estimated that nothing except death would prevent them from abandoning Ji An in this life.
Little Stone immediately said: "Brother Ji An, I must study hard in the future and become as good as you."
"Okay, I'll wait."
Ji An continued the previous topic and said, "Though life was hard back then, there were also many sweet moments. I wanted to record those hard-earned beautiful moments, but I couldn't get a camera at that time. For me at that time, a camera was a luxury that I could never afford. The only things I had access to were paper and pen. I started to try to draw with paper and pen. Maybe I had some talent. I could draw very well just by reading those simple books on how to draw in the orphanage.
But later, when I was able to earn my own money, I took further studies in painting.”
Ji An is far better than Zhou Qin thought. Perhaps the growth of every genius is accompanied by pain, but pain cannot defeat them, it will only polish them to become more brilliant!
Zhou Qin did not ask any further questions. He did not want to bring up Ji An's forgotten past.
Just at this moment Yuan Mingan came out with a handkerchief, her eyes and nose were red.
"She's a girl. I just wiped her body and wanted to give her some more water, but she didn't cooperate with me at all."
"It's okay, she's already taken the nutritional supplements, she'll be fine." Ji An comforted.
"I'll teach you how to feed her the nutrient solution later. There's a trick to it. When I'm not around, just feed her the solution I taught you." Ji An said, "This child must have serious psychological problems. It can't be cured in a day or two. Just feed her this way for now and we'll talk about it later."
"Okay." Yuan Mingan said.
Ji An taught Yuan Ming'an how to fill the child's stomach with water. During the process, Yuan Ming'an didn't master the technique well and tried many times but failed, and the water got all over the child. The child neither struggled nor moved, as if the person they were fiddling with was not her.
Fortunately, after failing several times, Yuan Mingan finally learned it, and Fang Rurong also arrived at this time.
Ji An asked, "How is Miss Fang's recovery?"
Zhou Qin often asked about Fang Rurong during this period, so he knew her recovery situation and did not ask any more questions.
Zhou Qin called Fang Rurong, not to ask her to come over to treat the patient, but because Fang Rurong was the head of the healing psychics in the base, and the deployment of all healing psychics was under her control. It would not be good to directly bypass her and look for someone else.
"Not bad." Fang Rurong replied.
But in fact, there is still room for recovery. The excessive consumption of supernatural powers caused by cross-level healing is not easy to recover from.
After a brief greeting, Fang Rurong checked the little girl's injuries.
Even though Zhou Qin had told her this before, Fang Rurong was still shocked and felt sorry when she saw it.
Fang Rurong said: "I can help heal the external injuries on her body, as well as the deformities of her wrists and ankles, but I can't heal the broken leg."
The healing ability of a healing psychic is not unlimited. They cannot heal anyone whose ability level is lower than theirs.
Fang Rurong explained: "This child's leg looks like it was cut off by an external object. It must have been cut by supernatural powers, otherwise the cut would not be so neat. If the lower half of the leg bone is preserved, even if it is a leg bone without flesh, I can use my supernatural powers to connect it for her, and even let her regenerate new flesh and skin.
But in this case, where the lower half of the leg bone is completely gone, the lower half of the leg bone needs to grow back in its entirety, and I have no way of making the broken bone continue to grow.”
Even if the little girl's bones were shattered and crushed into powder, Fang Rurong could heal them instantly.
In other words, even if the little girl's flesh was cut into pieces, Fang Rurong could restore it to its original state in just minutes.
For example, if a little girl's internal organs were pierced into a hole or cut off to the size of a fingernail, Fang Rurong could restore them to their original state in the blink of an eye.
Even if the heart is pierced, as long as the person is still breathing, it's fine. The kidneys, kidneys, liver and all other internal organs are fine.
But if one kidney was removed and only one was left, and Fang Rurong was asked to find a way to grow another one, she would not be able to do it.
Even for an organ like the gallbladder, which would not have much impact if removed, once it is removed, it is impossible to regenerate a new one.
In other words, what Fang Rurong can do is promote the healing or growth of existing cell tissues, but regeneration is not possible.
Some people may think that since there is only half of the leg bone left, it cannot be considered as regeneration, but at most it can be considered as promoting growth.
Actually, no, let's not talk about the bones in other parts of the body. The leg bones are divided into the thigh bone and the shin bone. These are two leg bones. They are not a complete bone, but are connected by skin, flesh and fascia.
Strictly speaking, these are actually two separate leg bones. So if you only have the thigh bone and want the tibia, then it is considered regeneration.
But if half of the calf bone is preserved, someone with a stronger healing ability than Zhou Qin can help his calf bone grow back to its complete state.
But Fang Rurong couldn't do all this because her ability level was much lower than Zhou Qin's.
"It is said that a Level 7 healing power person can revive the dead and regenerate organs and bones." Fang Rurong said, "I have never seen a Level 7 healing power person, I have only heard of such legends."
"I see." Ji An said, "Miss Fang, can you please ask if there is any psychic in the team who has time? I would like to ask him to help treat the child's injury privately. The price is negotiable."
Ji An did not ask Fang Rurong to treat him. Firstly, Fang Rurong himself was injured, and Ji An was afraid that continuing to use the healing ability would aggravate his injuries.
Second, although the healing psychics are deployed by the base to treat the wounds of psychics, only those who are injured in the base can enjoy the free treatment.
In a situation like that of the little girl, even if she is about to die, the healing psychic has no obligation to save her.
Everyone needs to pay a high fee to seek treatment from a psychic in private. Even so, not everyone can get treatment from a psychic even if they pay a large sum of money.
Fang Rurong was able to come this time entirely because of Zhou Qin's face and because of their personal relationship.
Fang Rurong said: "This injury is a small matter, I can help solve it."
"But you over-consumed your superpowers last time?" Ji An asked worriedly.
"It doesn't matter. This child is just an ordinary person. The injuries we treat are just superficial ones, which won't consume much of her superpowers. If the person who needed treatment today was a superpower user, even if he was just a level one superpower user, I wouldn't be able to do it." Fang Rurong said as she started treating the little girl.
In just a few minutes, all the little girl's injuries disappeared, and her wrists and ankles became normal again.
"Thank you." Ji An took out a blue jade necklace from the space, "This is a space storage item with 100 cubic meters of storage space. Give it to Miss Fang as a thank you gift."
Fang Rurong waved her hands quickly, "That's impossible. I just helped a little. Even if I ask other healing powers to treat such a minor injury, it will only cost a few hundred credits. How can I take your space storage item, Mr. Ji?"
"But the problem is, even if it's like what you said, it only takes a few hundred credit points to heal these injuries, but we can't find a healing psychic at all." Ji An said.
It is true that a person with healing abilities is not someone you can hire just by paying a high price, but if Ji An or Zhou Qin asks for it, it will be completely different.
Fang Rurong knew all this of course, and she understood that Ji An's words were purely polite.
"But it's still not possible. I can't take it. The space storage props are too valuable." It is difficult to invite them, but the space storage props are equally rare.
Nowadays, a space storage item of more than 100 square meters costs at least 10 million, and it is even more expensive on the black market. In terms of value, she only helped with a few hundred credit points, so the value is not equal.
Ji An advised: "I may trouble Miss Fang with personal matters in the future, so please help me when the time comes."
Zhou Qin also advised: "Boss Ji has nothing else, but he has plenty of space storage props. It's okay to throw one or smash one. Just keep it if he gives it to you. If you feel bad about it, just do your best next time he asks you for help."
Fang Rurong secretly wanted it. Who wouldn't want a space storage item? Another reason was that she thought Ji An was a capable person, and he was very close to Gu Jinsheng and the others. With Zhou Qin persuading him, she accepted it.
"Then I will accept it shamelessly. If Boss Ji needs any help in the future, I will do my best." Fang Rurong promised.
"Okay." Ji An did not refuse. He gave such a big gift, of course, not because of the injuries on the little girl, but mainly because he wanted to make friends with Fang Rurong.
When Fang Rurong left with the space storage props, her steps were so light that she seemed to be flying. She had never dreamed that she would have such an unexpected surprise on this trip, and she was extremely happy.
After curing the little girl, Zhou Qin and Ji An left.
On the way, Zhou Qin said to Ji An, "After coming to the Salesian Home, I was actually deeply touched. I always felt that I was very miserable, as if I was abandoned by the whole world. Now I realize that God still favors me."
Ji An sighed, "After being in the Salesian Home for a long time, you either feel that the world is too unfair, too dark, and life is just so-so. Or you will feel that the world is still full of hope, and many people who are not as good as you are still trying to live. What reason do you have to continue to be depressed? Congratulations, you are the latter."
Zhou Qin asked: "What about you? You are neither."
Ji An smiled and said, "No, when I was very young, I was the former. I didn't want to live anymore. I felt that life was just like that and had no meaning.
But later on, I became neither of them, because someone once described his prosperous future to me, and I wanted the prosperous future he described!"
Zhou Qin became interested, "Who is that person? The one who told you about the prosperous tomorrow? I really want to know who changed you and made you become the unreal person you are now!"
Ji An didn't speak for a long time. Just when Zhou Qin thought he wouldn't answer him, Ji An suddenly said, "Just a passer-by in my life."
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