Chapter 003 Me and My Enemy Father and Brother
"The auditor is the protagonist of this report, Chen Wenjian."
The system's reminder came at just the right time, allowing Chen Yunli to come back to his senses and suddenly tighten his arms around the person in his arms.
Chen Wenjian groaned as he was restrained, his eyelashes moved, and he seemed to be waking up, but he did not open his eyes.
Chen Yunli's nostrils twitched as he smelled the overly strong smell of blood on him. He pulled his hand out from under him, and a pool of warm blood dripped from between his fingers.
"Injured?"
Chen Yunli was shocked and no longer cared about being afraid. He hurried to check his condition.
Chen Wenjian wore a white, coarse cloth, most of it stained red with blood, clinging to his skin wetly. The fabric was chipped at his shoulder blades, back, sides, and calves, revealing deep wounds deep enough to reveal the bone. The flesh was turned inside out, revealing the swift slashing of a sharp weapon. Although the bleeding had stopped, that was likely due to the blood having almost dried up.
Chen Yunli, a rookie who was born in a peaceful era, had never seen such an exciting scene. He frowned in pain and didn't dare to look closely. He could only pick up the uninjured part of Chen Wenjian with his hands and carefully picked him up.
"System, where is Chen Wenjian's room?"
"Guidance mode has been activated. Please follow the voice prompts."
Chen Yunli said "hmm", put his arm around Chen Wenjian with one hand, used a broom as a crutch with the other, and walked with difficulty towards the west side of the Sword Sealing Tower.
There were a few crude wooden houses there, with no lights on and it was eerily dark.
Chen Yunli used his toes to kick open one of the half-open doors, and following the system's voice prompts, he groped his way to the bed. He first put Chen Wenjian on it, then found a tinderbox and an oil lamp, lit the lamp in the moonlight, and dispelled the darkness in the room.
"There are medicine and bandages in the cabinet." The system reminded in time.
Chen Yunli stood there, hands on his hips, catching his breath for a moment before pulling open the wooden cabinet against the wall. The cabinet had two wooden partitions. A quilt and a few changes of clothes lay stacked on the bottom. On top lay a broken bowl and several porcelain bottles. One of the bottles was open, containing medicinal powder poured into the bowl and mixed with water into a paste, which emitted a faint herbal fragrance.
As for the bandage, it is actually a two-finger-wide strip of cloth cut from old clothes.
Did Chen Wenjian already expect that he would get injured, or was he injured every day, so he got used to preparing these things in advance?
Chen Yunli frowned, vaguely understanding why Chen Wenjian later turned evil.
After taking out the medicine and bandages, Chen Yunli sat down beside the bed and laid Chen Wenjian on his side, trying not to let him press on his wounds while exposing all the wounds. He picked up the ointment with a bamboo stick in the bowl and gently applied it on his wounds.
He had never given medicine to anyone before, so his technique was inevitably clumsy. Occasionally, he used too much force. Before Chen Wenjian was hurt, he was startled and apologized in a low voice.
After finally applying medicine and bandaging his wounds all over, Chen Yunli wiped the sweat from his forehead and leaned against the head of the bed exhausted. He felt as tired as if he had gotten up at four in the morning and kicked the oxen away to plow thirty acres of land.
“…Thank you.”
The sudden thank you made Chen Yunli, who had just leaned down, jump up as if he had been electrocuted. The voice was so weak, hoarse and erratic that if it had not been so quiet at night, he would not have been able to hear it clearly.
"You, you're awake?"
Chen Yunli turned his head and met Chen Wenjian's cold gaze, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Chen Wenjian sat up. The wounds all over his body seemed to have overloaded and paralyzed his pain nerves, so he had no expression on his face. He even had the strength to unwrap the wound that Chen Yunli had bandaged the most messily and re-bandage it.
He held one end of the bandage in his mouth and wrapped the other end around his fingertips, twisting them together to form a knot. His long eyelashes blinked, and his eyes were clear and cold, like the clear shadow of a rugged rocky bank in a deep pool falling into the water.
Watching his slow and unhurried movements, Chen Yunli's restless heart actually calmed down a bit, and he finally stopped stuttering when speaking.
"Are you okay? How... did you get so hurt?"
Chen Wenjian paused, then looked over with a hint of doubt: "Are you the new servant?"
"ah?"
Chen Yunli was startled, and the system immediately said, "The auditor is currently a new handyman at Sealing Sword Tower, having arrived just one day. The previous handyman has been 'cleared' by the Tower Master."
Chen Yunli changed the tone of his voice at the end: "Ah, I'm new here and not familiar with this place. May I ask if you are the owner of the Sealed Sword Tower? Or..."
"I'm not." Chen Wenjian shook his head, not noticing his deliberate play of ignorance. "My name is Chen Wenjian, and the Tower Master of the Sealing Sword Tower is my master."
"Oh, then..."
Chen Yunli wanted to strike while the iron was hot and ask about the Sword Sealing Pagoda, but Chen Wenjian lowered his eyes and ordered him to leave: "It's late, go back and get some rest. If you don't fall asleep quickly after nightfall, you will see something you absolutely don't want to see."
He had a face that would never lie, and his tone was so firm that Chen Yunli immediately shrank his neck and became timid.
"Well then... I'll go back to sleep now. You're injured, so get some rest!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already walked to the door and put his hand on it.
Chen Wenjian lowered his head to adjust the bandages, but did not hear the sound of the door opening or closing for a long time. He looked up again in confusion and found Chen Yunli standing there straight, like a nail.
His eyebrows raised slightly: "What?"
Chen Yunli slowly retreated to the bedside, turned around and gave Chen Wenjian a stiff smile: "When you say that thing I absolutely don't want to see, are you referring to... that?"
As he spoke, he pointed to the window beside him with his neck stiff. He saw that thick fog had risen outside at some point. Faint black human figures emerged from the fog. They gathered in groups and floated into the depths of the fog, making a crackling sound like bones colliding when they moved.
Chen Yunli didn't dare to look closely, so he didn't notice that some black shadows were slowly turning towards the wooden house.
But Chen Wenjian noticed it in advance. Before they turned around completely, his eyes became fierce. He raised his palm and blew out the candle with a strong wind. Then he grabbed Chen Yunli's wrist and brought him to the bed. He turned over and rolled over him to the inside.
Chen Yunli fell onto the bed unexpectedly, his chin hitting the cold, hard pillow and he almost bit his tongue.
Before he could react, Chen Wenjian turned around and put his hands on the wall behind him, forcing him to change his position and lie on his side, which was equivalent to trapping him in his arms.
“…”
The sound of light and steady breathing brushed past Chen Yunli's ears. Chen Wenjian's face was hidden in the night, and only the flickering light in his eyes was clearly visible.
Chen Yunli leaned awkwardly against the wall, his arms curled up in front of him, his legs bent, neither knowing whether to move nor to stay still.
"I……"
"Don't talk, they're coming."
Chen Wenjian suddenly moved closer, almost face to face with him. He could even feel the temperature of Chen Wenjian's body. It was lower than that of a normal person, but it made his body temperature rise involuntarily.
He subconsciously held his breath, his heartbeat vibrating his eardrums, almost drowning out the strange noises outside the house.
That was the rustling sound of wind blowing through dry branches, cold and dull, revealing a strange sense of desolation.
There was also some other movement mixed in with the sound of the wind, as if countless reptiles were running across the sand, their limbs shaking, and the rustling sound was dense and harsh.
The doors and windows were not closed tightly, and the windows were even wide open. The cold wind mixed with ice and frost blew through the whole room, freezing Chen Yunli so much that he shivered.
Chen Wenjian's breathing became heavier as he moved closer again, burying his face in the crook of Chen Yunli's neck. The scent of blood and herbs instantly enveloped him, miraculously blocking out the coldness outside.
Is he... protecting me?
Chen Yunli turned his head away uncomfortably, looking out over his smooth shoulder line, and could see that the window was blocked by dense black shadows, like layers of window stickers, wriggling like mud, which was extremely terrifying.
He was so scared that he closed his eyes, slowly lowered his head, and buried his eyes in Chen Wenjian's long hair.
The two of them cuddled together like this, and it wasn't known how long it took before the noise outside completely died down. Moonlight streamed down from the windowsill, illuminating the entire room. After the mist cleared, the moonlight seemed to become even brighter.
Chen Yunli still didn't dare to open his eyes, but Chen Wenjian moved, moved his head away from his shoulder, and withdrew his hand.
“You didn’t…”
Chen Yunli breathed a sigh of relief as if waking from a dream. Just as he was about to ask Chen Wenjian how he was, he heard him groan and fall down as if exhausted, half landing on Chen Yunli.
Practice makes perfect. Chen Yunli embraced him skillfully and touched the direction where the blood suddenly became thicker. Sure enough, he felt a hand full of warm and sticky liquid.
Well, the wound has split open. All my hard work just now was in vain.
…
When Chen Wenjian regained consciousness from his half-sleep state, the dull and numb pain in his body seemed to intensify. Unlike the complete numbness just now, it gave him a sense of being alive.
He slowly opened his eyes, his vision was blurry and shaky for a moment before it gradually focused on Chen Yunli, who was scrubbing his blood-stained hands in a basin at the table under the lamp.
Ah, it's the new servant of the Sealing Sword Tower...
I wonder if he can survive three days here...
Chen Yunli rubbed the last bit of blood off his fingertips, and suddenly felt a powerful gaze falling on his shoulder. He turned around to look at the bed, and sure enough, he met Chen Wenjian's indifferent eyes.
"Awake?" He rubbed his hands on his clothes. "I just saw those things disappear, so I went out to get some water, cleaned your wound, and re-bandaged it. How do you feel now? Is it in a lot of pain?"
Chen Yunli brushed aside the psychological preparation and timid hesitation before going out, and spoke in a calm tone, as if he had just done something insignificant.
Chen Wenjian was unaware of this and shook his head subconsciously - it wasn't that it didn't hurt, but he was used to the pain and used to hiding the pain, so when someone cared for him, his first reaction was to deny it.
Chen Yunli didn't understand his complicated thoughts, but he understood the pain classification, so he naturally didn't believe his shaking head. He sat down beside his bed and stuffed the ointment provided by the system into his hand.
"This is the medicine I brought from home. It may not be as effective as yours, but it's an excellent pain reliever and can be mixed with other medicines. Take it. If the pain is unbearable, just apply some to the wound."
Chen Wenjian looked at the medicine bottle in his hand. It was the size of a palm, made of white porcelain, and the bottle mouth was not tightened. He could faintly smell the fragrance of medicine.
He looked at Chen Yunli carefully again, curled up his fingers, and let the medicine bottle slide into his sleeve and put it into his sleeve pocket.
"You rest now. I'm going back to my room." Chen Yunli felt relieved when he saw that he was fine. He picked up the broom that had fallen beside the bed and pretended to leave. "By the way, those things... won't appear again tonight, right?"
"Won't."
"That's good, that's good."
Chen Yunli breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand, and strode out the door.
Chen Wenjian looked at him until the door completely obscured his figure, then he lowered his head and his gaze fell on the newly bandaged bandages on his body.
A lot better than before, at least it's not a mess. But this stupid bow...
Chen Wenjian's white fingertips fiddled with the tip of the bandage that was raised, thought for a moment, and decided not to untie it and re-tie it.
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