Xia Yuanfang took a deep breath, pulled Xia Chujian close, and said to her with a serious expression, "Chujian, tell me now, how many people know you brought back the Blood Kirin and Kong Sang?"
"...Aunt, is this important?"
"Of course it's important, very important, so important that it can determine the life and death of us aunt and niece."
"That serious?" Xia Chujian thoughtfully nodded, counting on her fingers, "Only I, San Zong, and Si Xi know."
"Who are San Zong and Si Xi?"
"San Zong is a Pig-head Humanoid Slave, and Si Xi is a Small Dog," Xia Chujian said seriously.
Xia Yuanfang didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and lightly tapped her, "Stop joking, tell Aunt honestly."
Xia Chujian sighed, "Really, actually, the Blood Kirin and Kong Sang were both found with the help of this Pig-head Humanoid, San Zong, and the Small Dog, Si Xi."
"San Zong has a special ability, he can smell the scent of rare plants."
"He happened to smell the scent of the Blood Kirin when he was at the Mulan City Plantation, so he could find the Blood Kirin in the Exotic Beast Forest as well."
"With his help, we actually found a total of ten Blood Kirin. One of them was given to the team to turn in the mission. The other nine were secretly given to me by San Zong. Oh, right, we also found Blood Kirin with seeds."
"I have a secret base in the Exotic Beast Forest outside Mulan City... a Flying Vehicle that has been modified, and San Zong is there, trying to plant the Blood Kirin."
"As for this Kong Sang, it seems to be a pet raised by the Small Dog, Si Xi. I insisted on bringing it back."
"Of course, my teammates don't know. They only know that we got one Blood Kirin. I brought the other nine Blood Kirin and Kong Sang back in that assassin's Flying Vehicle..."
Xia Chujian could hide the matter of the other nine Blood Kirin and Kong Sang from her teammates, but she wouldn't hide it from her aunt.
When Xia Chujian was narrating just now, she also mentioned the assassin Feng Qianzhan, but she tried to downplay Feng Qianzhan's combat power, because she didn't want Xia Yuanfang to worry.
And Xia Yuanfang didn't know what kind of situations bounty hunters usually faced, so she couldn't hear the combat details that Xia Chujian had omitted.
Of course, Xia Yuanfang also had some doubts about Xia Chujian's narration, feeling that she wasn't telling the whole truth.
But at this time, none of that was important.
Her focus was only on the Blood Kirin and Kong Sang.
Because these two things were too precious, they couldn't be lost, and they couldn't let others discover that they possessed these two things...
The principle that a common man is responsible for his own wealth, and that possessing a treasure is a crime, is the same everywhere.
Xia Yuanfang said calmly, "If what you said is true, then we can't let San Zong and Si Xi stay outside the city, we have to find a way to get them into the city. I can only rest assured if I watch them myself."
Xia Chujian spread her hands, "Aunt, you're saying that too late."
Then, Xia Chujian told her about the riot of the Humanoid Slaves at the Plantation outside the city, and how they were all annihilated.
At the same time, the governor in charge of Guiyuan Star transferred more Humanoid Lowly People and Slaves from Da Fu Prefecture to replenish the losses of Mulan City.
And the matter of Fan Chengcai trying to take her life at the Mulan City checkpoint was completely ignored by her.
If her aunt knew, she would only be heartbroken, so why make her aunt suffer with her? Xia Chujian considerately didn't mention a word, only saying that the Punishment Department of Mulan City was now strictly managing the checkpoint from Mulan City to the Exotic Beast Forest, and temporarily no one was allowed to go to the Exotic Beast Forest.
Xia Yuanfang's brows furrowed even tighter.
She didn't expect that after three years of coma, waking up was really like a lifetime away.
Xia Yuanfang thought for a while, and said to Xia Chujian, "I'm hungry, go make something for Aunt to eat."
"Okay!" Xia Chujian became happy, feeling that her aunt could finally relax a little.
"Aunt, too many things have happened in the past three years, you can learn about them slowly, there's no rush..." Xia Chujian patted Xia Yuanfang's shoulder reassuringly.
Xia Yuanfang herself was only one meter sixty-five, ten centimeters shorter than Xia Chujian, so Xia Chujian could easily make this kind of gesture.
Xia Yuanfang just smiled and watched Xia Chujian leave.
Then she returned to her bedroom and rummaged through her luggage to find her Smart Bracelet.
Fortunately, Xia Chujian had kept it in good condition, and the battery was working.
Xia Yuanfang opened the Smart Bracelet and directly sent a message to Shen Junyi.
[Yuanfang]: Shen Junyi, I'm awake, your diagnosis was wrong, I don't have a genetic disease, but I'm poisoned.
[Yuanfang]: The symptoms caused by this poison are very similar to genetic diseases, but it's not a real genetic chain collapse, but because this special toxin erodes the genetic chain, making the genetic chain seem to be collapsing and unable to function normally.
[Faraway]: I need your help.
After sending these three messages, she felt relieved and collapsed on the sofa.
She wasn't sick, but poisoned.
The reason she woke up by chance wasn't because she healed herself, but because Xia Chujian accidentally smeared fresh Blood Kirin juice on her lips!
The other party's move was truly cunning and ruthless! Because almost no one would directly administer fresh Blood Kirin to someone.
Then again, Xia Chujian's action of smearing fresh Blood Kirin juice on her lips was indeed wasteful.
Because if she had given it to her directly, only two or three Blood Kirin would have been enough.
But Xia Chujian used the juice for smearing, and at least two-thirds of the Blood Kirin's active ingredients evaporated into the air.
Fortunately, Xia Chujian had a lot of Blood Kirin, so the quantitative change led to a qualitative change, and she was finally completely detoxified.
Xia Yuanfang hugged her arms, thinking about the road ahead, but she was already very sleepy and fell asleep directly.
She had no idea of the shock and anger Shen Junyi felt when he saw her three messages.
He couldn't even stay for a moment longer, and really wanted to return to Mulan City immediately to ask Xia Yuanfang what was going on.
Unfortunately, things were even more serious on his side, and he couldn't leave for the time being.
Doctor Cen also sent him many messages, but Shen Junyi hadn't replied yet, because he needed to see Xia Yuanfang's real condition before he could judge what was going on.
But Xia Yuanfang had already told him about her situation, and Shen Junyi unconditionally believed Xia Yuanfang.
He and Xia Yuanfang were actually very familiar with each other before Xia Yuanfang got sick.
He knew Xia Yuanfang's strength in medicine and biological sciences.
It was just that Xia Yuanfang was unlucky and was not born into a good family like him.
So her talent and ability were buried.
...
Xia Chujian quickly made dinner.
Because Xia Yuanfang hadn't eaten normal food for three years, Xia Chujian didn't make those hard-to-digest dishes.
She only made a pork congee with scrambled eggs, and also took out two tubes of Advanced Nutrient Solution.
From a nutritional point of view, Advanced Nutrient Solution is much better for the recovery of seriously ill patients than ordinary food.
But Advanced Nutrient Solution has the common problem of Nutrient Solutions, which is that the taste is not very good, even Advanced Nutrient Solution is the same.
Of course, it depends on who you compare it with.
Compared with Low-Level Nutrient Solution, Advanced Nutrient Solution is a delicacy.
But compared with normal food, Advanced Nutrient Solution is tasteless.
So the congee Xia Chujian made was to whet Xia Yuanfang's appetite.
The real thing to nourish Xia Yuanfang's body still had to rely on Advanced Nutrient Solution.
"Aunt, dinner is ready." Xia Chujian didn't see Xia Yuanfang in the living room, so she went to knock on Xia Yuanfang's bedroom door.
Pushing the door open, she saw that Xia Yuanfang was actually asleep on the sofa.
Xia Chujian gently picked her up, put her on the bed, and covered her with a blanket.
She planned to wait for Xia Yuanfang to wake up before eating.
It didn't matter, she could wait.
It was only noon at this time, just the time for a nap.
Xia Chujian didn't have the habit of taking a nap, so she took out her textbook for the first time, planning to review it.
Tomorrow, she had to go to school.
Unfortunately, Xia Chujian was full of energy when she held a gun, but when she picked up a book, she immediately felt sleepy.
She only read two pages of the physics textbook before falling asleep on the dining table.
...
Xia Yuanfang slept for two hours.
When she woke up, she felt much better.
Even the numbness in her legs and feet had lessened considerably.
After being bedridden for three years, it really takes time and rehabilitation to be able to walk freely.
Xia Yuanfang knew this very well, and she even knew some rehabilitation steps herself.
Therefore, after waking up, she did fifteen minutes of rehabilitation exercises, working up a sweat.
She found her clothes from three years ago and planned to take another shower in the bathroom.
Coming out of her bedroom, she saw Xia Chujian sprawled on the dining table, sleeping even more soundly than she had.
Xia Yuanfang couldn't help but smile.
She slowly walked over, wanting to put a blanket over her.
At this moment, she saw the physics book that Xia Chujian was lying on.
Xia Yuanfang: "..."
She could only sigh.
This child really isn't cut out for studying.
She shook her head, put the blanket on Xia Chujian's back, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
The renovated bathroom had a water heater, so they didn't need to use a stove to heat water separately.
Xia Yuanfang filled the bathtub with hot water, then lay down in it, continuing to do rehabilitation massage for herself with the help of the hot water.
She continued to do thirty minutes of rehabilitation massage exercises in the bathtub, then got up to take a shower.
Xia Yuanfang came out after changing her clothes and looked at the food Xia Chujian had prepared for her.
The porridge was already cold, but it didn't matter, she could heat it up again.
The key was the two tubes of Advanced Nutrient Solution on the dining table.
Xia Yuanfang knew that the Beichen Empire's Advanced Nutrient Solution was not only particularly expensive, but also required a quota to purchase.
And only Gene Evolvers had a quota. Other than that, even normal humans who hadn't evolved didn't have a quota.
Not to mention the Lowly People.
Xia Yuanfang had never eaten this kind of Advanced Nutrient Solution, but she knew that Advanced Nutrient Solution was an exponential leap in quality compared to Low-Level Nutrient Solution.
She was poisoned, and her vitality was damaged, which meant that her gene chain had suffered significant damage.
Although with the help of the Blood Kirin, the poison was neutralized, and the gene chain returned to normal, the damage was still there, and it would take some time for her body to recover.
At this time, if she had Advanced Nutrient Solution, she would recover very quickly.
Advanced Nutrient Solution itself was designed to provide nutritional needs for Gene Evolvers, so it was conceivable that it would also have a certain recovery function for genes.
Xia Yuanfang took a tube of Advanced Nutrient Solution, opened it, and slowly sucked it down.
After finishing one tube, she ate another.
After consuming two tubes of Advanced Nutrient Solution, she felt that her physical strength had recovered by seventy to eighty percent.
She stood up and took two steps, and her legs no longer had that sore and numb feeling.
This is really great...
Xia Yuanfang speculated that Xia Chujian probably got the Advanced Nutrient Solution from that Dark Night Hunter Association.
She gently touched Xia Chujian's head.
Before she could even touch her, Xia Chujian suddenly raised her hand, one hand tightly gripping Xia Yuanfang's arm, and the other hand drawing a pistol from her waist, aiming it at Xia Yuanfang without hesitation.
Xia Yuanfang: ….
Xia Chujian blinked, her whole person waking up: "... Aunt, I thought... I thought..."
She was still half-asleep and had forgotten that her aunt had returned.
For the past three years, in that storage room on the first floor, she had slept with one eye open, afraid that bad people would harm her.
Xia Yuanfang completely understood Xia Chujian's conditioned reflex.
She was just even more saddened, and said in a hoarse voice, "Chujian, Auntie understands, you've suffered these past three years..."
If she hadn't been burned before, how could she be prepared to draw her gun at any moment while sleeping? Xia Yuanfang looked at Xia Chujian, and her determination grew stronger.
Xia Chujian was already seventeen years old, and possessed a stronger self-defense ability than she had expected.
And it was time for her to show her true self.
Only by standing in a higher position, with more resources and power, could she better protect Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian didn't think so much, she casually put the gun back in its place at her waist, and then pulled her loose sweater down to cover it.
"Auntie, it's just a bounty hunter's habit. When you're out on a mission, it's either you die or I live, it's nothing."
Xia Yuanfang nodded, "Now that you're awake, I'll go make you something to eat. What do you want to eat?"
Auntie is back.
Auntie has recovered.
This meant that she could eat a lot of delicious food again! Various equations ran through Xia Chujian's mind, and her eyes lit up: "Auntie, I want to eat that fried dough! That long dough that's fried in a pot of oil, and when you pick it up and take a bite, it's crunchy and full of the aroma of carbohydrates!"
Xia Yuanfang: "..."
What the heck was that? "...Are you talking about fried dough sticks?" Xia Yuanfang thought for a moment, and pulled something out of her memory, trying to ask.
"Yes, yes, yes! It's fried dough sticks! Auntie made them once before, and they were so delicious!" Xia Chujian secretly gave herself a victory sign in her heart, she also wanted to eat the Si Xi Meatballs that her aunt made by hand! But not now.
She just wanted to eat delicious carbohydrates now.
Xia Yuanfang glared at her, "Is there flour at home? What about cooking oil? What about leavening agent?"
"We have everything, we have everything. Auntie, we have money now, we can eat one and throw one away, we can afford it!" Xia Chujian took Xia Yuanfang's arm and walked towards the kitchen.
Xia Yuanfang pushed her away, "You don't need to support me, I can walk on my own."
Xia Chujian looked at Xia Yuanfang's free and easy walking movements, which were almost like two different people compared to a few hours ago.
"Auntie, how did you recover so quickly? - Did the Holy Church Bodhisattva really hear my prayers and use divine power to restore you?" Xia Chujian put her hands together, making a pious expression.
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