Chapter 135 - 114: Severe Blood Loss [Two in One]

Chapter 135: Chapter 114: Severe Blood Loss [Two in One]

The car drove as smoothly and quickly as possible over the bumpy road. The driver was covered in sweat, constantly glancing up at the rearview mirror as he steered, terrified that something else might go wrong with Zhou Qian in the back seat.

After all, he looked truly wretched.

The Defense Army soldier beside Zhou Qian kept turning his head as well, one moment checking if the stretcher was securely fastened, and the next wanting to check on his condition—after all, the soldier was holding the man’s supposed belongings!

A Defense Army uniform, a small box of personal items, military medals, and...

In short, anyone who saw this scene would panic!

Fortunately, there were no other cars on the road today. Because of the Labor Day holiday, all the otherwise idle personnel had been mandated to participate in manual labor, leaving the streets entirely free of obstacles.

It took them exactly one hour to drive all the way to Flower City Hospital.

Once they arrived, their immense disbelief was successfully transferred to the medical staff.

And when the superiors were notified...

Well.

The two Defense Army soldiers stood by the door, watching everyone’s identically bewildered expressions, and for some reason, a faint sense of smugness welled up inside them.

See? They were the ones who had first discovered such a bizarre incident!

Inside the ward, a circle of people surrounded Zhou Qian’s bed.

The doctors stared at him intently, completely unable to figure out how that potent neurotoxin had been cleared from his system. They were so eager for the results of the drawn blood vials that they wished they could materialize them instantly.

The superiors stood nearby. In truth, they had already been preparing a farewell ceremony at the base. Now that he had returned alive, they were naturally overjoyed, but the sheer bizarreness of the situation was undeniable.

"You..."

One of them opened his mouth, taking a long time just to squeeze out that single syllable.

Zhou Qian lay limply on the bed, his battered body looking as if he had suffered a death by a thousand cuts. His face and lips were deathly pale.

However, his mind was perfectly clear.

"I’m not sure either... When I hazily regained consciousness, it felt like I had already been buried. There was dirt on top of me...

"But for some reason, the Rose Corridor seemed to suddenly get angry, and it whipped me right out of the soil...

"It gave Little Yu quite a fright at the time. The Rose Corridor just didn’t attack her, but she was still terrified while digging the dirt. I really put her in a difficult spot," Zhou Qian explained.

Everyone sighed upon hearing this.

The Rose Corridor’s foul temper was known to all Flower City people.

Even General Wu Yue, who had accelerated its growth, got nothing good out of trying to approach it again. The last time he attended a banquet, the general still had scars on his face and body.

Now, it was probably completely normal that it didn’t want Zhou Qian buried next to it. After all, if a human corpse was used as fertilizer without being properly composted, it would actually hinder plant growth.

It was a reasonable yet unverifiable guess. After all, they couldn’t exactly find someone else to bury next to the Rose Corridor and have someone watch from afar, could they?

"Then what about the injuries on your body..."

"The toxin! How was the toxin cleared?"

A doctor standing nearby could finally hold back no longer!

This group had been dawdling for ages, yet not a single one had hit the main point. Leaning in, he asked anxiously, "Does the Rose Corridor actually have the ability to clear toxins?

"That’s way too powerful! Before its mutation, the Kou Spider was a Black Widow! Our hospital administered the specific spider antivenom, snake antivenom, and a series of newly developed fusion serums, yet we could only barely suppress it..."

As he spoke, his expression gradually turned fanatical. He wished he could be there in person, shaking the branches and leaves of the Rose Corridor and kneeling down to beg it...

"I don’t know," Zhou Qian replied, his voice extremely weak. "I was tossed from the dirt onto the ground. Then, its leaves and petals slashed at me fiercely like blades, coming from all directions. To protect Little Yu..."

Everyone recalled how, a while ago, Zhou Qian had accompanied Major General Wu Yue, and both of them had ended up with a sharp, bloody slash on their faces. Thinking of this, they didn’t find his explanation entirely surprising.

Even the doctor wasn’t too surprised.

He had observed those wounds—the cuts were incredibly sharp, something their scalpels couldn’t even achieve. Moreover, they were truly deep, with the flesh rolling outward in a particularly gruesome manner. The directions were completely haphazard: horizontal, vertical, downward, upward...

An ordinary person couldn’t inflict such uncontrolled wounds of varying depths, nor did such a sharp blade even exist.

Perhaps only an angry Rose could carve out marks that left no room for escape.

"And after that?" a superior pressed.

"After that, I don’t know... I lost consciousness then... Later, I heard Little Yu say that a lot of black blood oozed out of my body. She couldn’t carry me on her back, so she dragged me into the house little by little... My clothes were completely ruined..."