Apocalypse: I Can See Health Bars

Chapter 95: Chapter 94: Blood as the Medium

But in the next instant, Su Qing realized her slip of the tongue. She clapped a hand over her mouth, a complex mix of emotions flashing in her eyes.

THUMP THUMP THUMP—the sound of frantic footsteps came from outside the door. As if he had heard a keyword, Chu Zhaotian, who was just outside, burst in with wide eyes. With a loud THUD, he fell heavily to his knees before Lin Fan!

"Brother Lin!"

His voice was hoarse with fear and agitation, cracking completely as he spoke with a thick, sobbing tone, "I... I heard! Please! I’m begging you, save Zhaozhao!"

"We came here for school, and our parents told me to take care of her... I... Our parents are definitely gone now. Zhaozhao... she’s the only family I have left!"

He looked up, his face streaked with tears, and grabbed Lin Fan’s pant leg, pleading incoherently:

"As long as she can live... I’ll do anything! I’m willing! Zhaozhao... she’d be willing too! Really! I’m begging you..."

Lin Fan didn’t speak, just frowned and listened quietly to Chu Zhaotian’s tearful pleas.

Su Qing composed herself, seemingly having made up her mind. Her gaze was firm as she looked at Lin Fan and said, word by word:

"Lin Fan... if it’s really possible... please save Zhaozhao. She ended up like this protecting us..."

Just then, Xu Qian shuffled into the room and stood by the door, his lips pressed together. He said nothing, but the plea in his eyes was unmistakable...

Lin Fan finally sighed and yanked Chu Zhaotian up from the floor. With a hint of sternness in his voice, he said:

"Alright, that’s enough... What time do you think this is, to be putting on a melodrama for me? It’s like you’re all planning to sacrifice me to the gods..."

As he spoke, he gently turned Chu Zhaozhao’s head to the side. With his other hand, he pulled a silver-white auto-injector from his pocket, pressed it against the side of her neck, and pushed the button on top...

"HISS—"

With a soft sound, Chu Zhaozhao’s slightly furrowed brow suddenly knitted tightly together.

"Ngh..."

A low groan escaped her lips. Her hands clenched, as if she were enduring some immense pain.

Fine beads of cold sweat began to break out on her forehead...

"Brother Lin, this... Is that the potion?"

Seeing Lin Fan take action, Chu Zhaotian suddenly saw a glimmer of hope. He quickly pulled the potion Lin Fan had given him earlier from his own pocket and offered it over.

"I still have mine, give it to her! I’ll be fine!"

"Get back, get back, don’t cause trouble. Hey, you, drag him away..."

Seeing Chu Zhaotian was in a complete panic, Lin Fan shot a look at Xu Qian. The man standing by the door immediately hurried over and pulled Chu Zhaotian to the side of the room, afraid he might disturb Lin Fan.

"That was a deduction, understand? A deduction!"

Lin Fan glanced at Su Qing standing nearby and Chu Zhaotian in the distance. He frowned, his eyes glued to Chu Zhaozhao’s Life Value bar.

"There are countless steps to verify the logic between ’my body has antibodies’ and ’antibodies can be exchanged through bodily fluids,’ but you all just had to jump straight to the final step, didn’t you..."

Saying this, he sat down in a chair and took hold of Chu Zhaozhao’s wrists, feeling for her pulse.

Although she was still unconscious, her heartbeat was clearly stronger than before. Even her wrists were no longer limp; she was beginning to struggle.

’So you’re willing, huh? Well, even if you are, I’m not...’

As Lin Fan felt the potion taking effect, his tone relaxed, no longer so serious.

With one shot of [Wild Potion (Small)], Chu Zhaozhao’s overall condition improved significantly. The Life Value bar above her head stopped at [11] and was no longer decreasing. However, after a minute of observation, it hadn’t increased at all either.

The red threads that had been continuously wrapping around her Life Value bar now seemed as if they were suddenly steeped in thick glue. Although their twining speed had slowed, they were still gradually accumulating...

But this was only the first step of the treatment plan Lin Fan had just decided on.

Observing the potion’s effect, Lin Fan breathed a sigh of relief. At least this bought her another ten minutes...

He got up from the chair and said to Su Qing, who was beside him:

"Cut away all the clothing around her wounds. I’ll be right back..."

With that, he got up, went back to Room 301, and rummaged around for a moment. When he returned, he was holding a box of surgical blades, alcohol, and other tools.

He saw that Su Qing had already cut away the clothes around Chu Zhaozhao’s thigh, arm, and shoulder, revealing the mangled, gaping wounds beneath...

’Since she survived this long, it means nothing vital was hit.’

Lin Fan stood by the bed, cleaning his own arm with alcohol while looking at Chu Zhaozhao’s tightly furrowed brow in profile. He couldn’t help but feel a little admiration for her.

’A nineteen-year-old girl going hand-to-hand with a Mutant Dog, not only buying her teammates an opportunity but also managing to protect her own vitals... I’m not sure who the real monster is here...’

Even Lin Fan had to admit her combat instincts were better than his. He recalled how, despite his own superhuman physique, he’d still gotten bitten by a zombie while rappelling down five stories.

Looking at Chu Zhaozhao lying so quietly on the bed, Lin Fan felt a little dazed.

’Since you’re so damn tough, you have to hold on. Don’t you dare die...’

As Lin Fan began to move, the room fell silent, leaving only the sound of Chu Zhaozhao’s faint breathing.

Lin Fan picked up a newly unwrapped scalpel, its cold blade glinting with a blue light.

Su Qing and the others held their breath, watching him with confusion, not knowing what he was about to do.

Lin Fan stared at the blade in his hand, his gaze calm. With a flick of his wrist, he unhesitatingly drove the scalpel into his own wrist!

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"Ah... Lin Fan!"

Su Qing’s eyes flew open. She instinctively started forward to stop him, but then immediately realized his intention. She clamped a hand over her mouth and froze.

Behind them, Chu Zhaotian’s eyes also went wide. Watching the blood welling up from Lin Fan’s wrist, he looked as if he was seeing hope itself.

"Hiss... That hurts..."

Just because Lin Fan could jump from the sixth floor without getting seriously injured didn’t mean a scalpel to the wrist wouldn’t hurt.

Blood dripped continuously down his fingers. Lin Fan moved his hand along Chu Zhaozhao’s body, from bottom to top, letting the blood drip into each of her wounds...

When the blood dripped onto her lips and slowly trickled into her mouth, she seemed to sense something. Chu Zhaozhao voluntarily parted her lips, continuously swallowing this heaven-sent nectar...

Lin Fan had been stabbed by a scalpel before. It was sharp, and it hurt, but what he’d felt more was fear—fear of infection, of disability, of death...

The medical cases he had seen haunted his mind like ghosts.

But now, as the cold blade pierced his flesh, though it hurt, there was no longer any fear. And without the fear, the pain wasn’t so bad...

To prevent his current physique from healing the wound too quickly, Lin Fan had specifically unequipped the Living Crystal.

Since Chu Zhaozhao was reacting, Lin Fan held his hand suspended above her lips, letting the blood drip freely into her mouth...

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The wound was small, so his Life Value wasn’t dropping very fast. Lin Fan’s attention, however, was entirely focused on Chu Zhaozhao’s Life Value bar.

As she swallowed his blood, translucent, pale-gold threads began to emerge from the start of her Life Value bar...

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