Chapter 8: Chapter 8: I Won’t Peek
Si Muye took a deep breath and obediently lay back on the ground.
He watched Shen Yue, feeling a little anxious. He didn’t know how she was going to treat him.
He only knew that S-class Healing System Doctors used a combination of Healing Spiritual Power and medicine. But Shen Yue was a female and had no so-called spiritual power. ’Does she plan to rely on medicine alone?’
Just as he was wondering—
"Take off your pants."
Four words, completely out of the blue.
Si Muye: "???"
Shen Yue looked at him.
"Are you going to take them off, or should I do it for you?"
Si Muye froze.
"..."
’What does she mean, am I going to take them off or is she going to do it for me?’
Shen Yue turned her gaze, took out a few silver needles, and earnestly gestured over his leg.
"I need to perform acupuncture, all the way up to the base of your thigh and your buttocks."
He understood.
Si Muye’s wheat-colored skin turned visibly red, and his breath grew hot.
’Buttocks??’
’Doesn’t that mean I’ll have to be bare-assed?’
His voice was low and strained.
"Isn’t there any other way?"
’How could I do something so embarrassing?’
Shen Yue listened, then looked up at him, noticing his evasive gaze and heated breath.
’It’s a classic case of shy-awkward-embarrassed syndrome.’
"Relax. It’s like this for everyone the first time they have to take their pants off in front of a doctor. You’ll get used to it after a few times!"
’A few times??’
Si Muye was blushing to the roots of his ears. ’How can this woman say such shameless things with a straight face!’
’What decent Beastman spends all day taking his pants off in front of a female?’
Besides, he’d never seen any doctor who made people take off their pants for treatment.
As a Medical Saint herself, Shen Yue had seen it all. She had previously performed acupuncture on a patient for azoospermia...
After seeing her, that patient, lying on the bed, had nearly died of social embarrassment, yelling for general anesthesia to knock himself out.
And the expression on Si Muye’s face right now was more or less the same as that patient’s.
Shen Yue said, "If you’re really that embarrassed, just close your eyes and pretend you can’t see anything. If you can’t see it, you won’t feel ashamed."
This trick was all about the principle: ’as long as I’m not embarrassed, the one who’s embarrassed is someone else.’
"Besides, I’m a doctor. In my eyes, patients are genderless. I won’t go looking where I shouldn’t."
’Unless I can’t help it.’
Si Muye’s throat felt tight. Listening to Shen Yue’s words, he kept a straight face and tried his best to mentally prepare himself.
’To heal this leg and return to the peak of my Combat Power,’ he thought, clenching his fists. ’I’ll do it!’
He took a deep breath and yanked his pants down.
"Go ahead and treat me!"
WHOOSH. Shen Yue’s eyes went wide.
HISSS!!
’This... he really is a bear. Extraordinary. Truly extraordinary!!’
’More extraordinary than any she had ever seen!’
Si Muye: "..."
Her stare made him burn.
’Lying to a bear!’
’Didn’t she say she wouldn’t look where she shouldn’t?’
He wished he could dig a hole and crawl into it. To think he’d believed her nonsense! ’Might as well just die!!’
’This ugly female deliberately tricked him!’
He was about to pull his pants up when Shen Yue snapped out of it and grabbed his hand.
"Okay, okay, I’ll stop looking. I’m not looking for free, I’m going to treat your leg right now."
Si Muye: "..."
Feeling the warmth of her hand on his, his throat tightened even more. He gritted his teeth, his face beet red.
"You’d better do what you say."
Seeing his ’ready to face death’ expression, Shen Yue felt like she’d discovered a new continent.
’A magnificent Bear Beast, so tall and all, but who knew he could be so cute when he gets shy.’
But back to business.
She pulled her hand back, placed her warm, soft fingers gently on his aching knee, and said seriously,
"Don’t worry. I absolutely won’t look."
’As if.’
She pressed on his acupoints, her eyes darting for a glance without leaving a trace.
"This might hurt a little. Endure it."
Si Muye felt the temperature of her fingertips. His Adam’s apple bobbed uncontrollably, and he averted his gaze.
’He would trust her just one more time.’
Shen Yue selected a silver needle and, without hesitation, aimed it at an acupoint and plunged it into his joint.
Si Muye let out a muffled grunt.
Seeing the long, thin silver needle pass straight through his knee without drawing a single drop of blood, Si Muye was utterly shocked. ’How did she do that?’
He had never seen anything pass through a Beastman’s body without causing bleeding!
His breathing hitched. At this moment, he couldn’t even be bothered with his shame. He stared in amazement at Shen Yue. This ugly female was just too shocking.
He watched the needle in her hand with fascination, not daring to move, ask questions, or even breathe too loudly.
At the same time, a sliver of hope grew in his heart. ’Could she really heal his leg?’
Unfortunately, just as Si Muye was lost in his shock, Shen Yue used a needle to knock him unconscious.
’After all, she had to perform acupuncture for two hours. That was tiring, okay? So, taking a few extra peeks as a little bonus wasn’t too much to ask, was it?’
’Besides, this was gouty arthritis. The pain from expelling uric acid was not something an ordinary person could endure.’
’Maybe he just couldn’t take the pain and fainted on his own, right? Who could say for sure!’
’In any case, it wasn’t her who knocked him out with a needle.’
「Two hours later.」
Si Muye finally woke up as Shen Yue was removing the needles. Looking at the dense array of silver needles piercing through his leg, he sucked in a sharp breath.
Not a single drop of blood had emerged from any of the needles. Most miraculously, he realized that the heart-piercing, bone-chilling pain in his right leg had vanished, replaced by a sore, numb sensation where the silver needles had been.
Shen Yue, having had her fill of looking, cleared her throat.
"You’re awake? Feeling a bit lighter?"
Si Muye snapped back to his senses. It was more than just lighter; it felt absolutely wonderful, as if every blockage in his body had been cleared.
Shen Yue could see the answer in his expression. After pulling out the last needle, she stood up.
"Alright, you can put your pants on now!"
Only then did Si Muye realize he was still bare-assed. Mortified, he immediately spun around and snatched up his pants.
’Wait, why did I suddenly fall asleep just now?’
’And it felt like I was asleep for quite a while. When this ugly female was needling my buttocks, she didn’t get a good look at everything, did she?’
Just as he was fretting...
"Um, why do you have a red, butterfly-shaped scar on your left butt cheek?"
BOOM!
Si Muye’s face turned crimson.
’This ugly female really did see it.’
’If she was needling my right buttock, why was she looking at my left one??’
’I was lying on my side. Don’t tell me she flipped me over?’
At this thought, blood rushed to Si Muye’s head, and his breathing became rapid.
"Who told you to look?"
Shen Yue coughed.
"Sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose. I mainly had to needle the front, so I had to flip you over."
Si Muye: "...."
His face was so red it looked like it might start bleeding.
He shot to his feet and fled the cave at top speed.
’So shameful.’
’So suffocating.’
Watching his rapidly retreating back, Shen Yue thought, ’Not bad. Those flying legs prove it doesn’t hurt anymore.’
.....
Shen Yue returned to her own cave, carrying the eggs.
She took the straw mat Si Muye had made, spread it on the ground, and then tidied up the original contents of the cave. After the original owner was driven out of Barbaric City, she had still managed to bring some daily necessities with her.
But they had all been stolen by the Grizzly Bear Tribe and other Beastmen she encountered on the road.
Looking at the few remaining household items and the cramped space in the cave, she knew she had to find a more suitable place for her and her children to live after the cubs hatched.
After all, winter was coming soon. The winters in the Beast World were long, with temperatures dropping as low as forty or fifty degrees below zero. For the Beast Clans living outside the cities, it was easy to freeze to death without a cave that could withstand the severe cold.
She looked at the seven eggs beside her. ’I, Shen Yue, am definitely not an irresponsible person.’
’Since I’ve suddenly become a mother, I’ll accept this sky-high fortune.’
She reached out and touched each of the seven eggs in turn.
"Little ones, I wonder what kind of beasts you all are!"
’I really hope you aren’t anything weirdly shaped. I don’t think I could handle that.’
Just as she was speaking, one of the eggs under her hand suddenly moved, and the sound of a shell cracking could be heard.
The next second, a crack spread from within...
’Is it... about to hatch?’
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