Chapter 1384 - 413: Borrowing Your Body

Chapter 1384: Chapter 413: Borrowing Your Body

Chapter 413 [Borrowing Your Body]

When Wu said this, Chen Yan noticed that the fingers holding his cigarette trembled slightly twice.

Immortal?

Chen Yan sighed inwardly.

There’s no such thing as an immortal; this Wu has probably run into some cultivator.

·

According to Wu’s account, at that time he had exhausted his ammunition, his supplies were depleted, and he had wandered in the mountains for three or four days with enemies in pursuit and an uncertain future.

The mountainous environment was harsh, but local warlords familiar with the geography severely undermined his survival skills, which should have been superior to a soldier king’s.

By then, Wu had already used all his skills, setting traps, creating distraction arrays to confuse the pursuers’ direction, utilizing every weapon he had, and exhausted things like booby traps...

Finally, he was left with only a military saber and a dagger.

The bullets were all gone.

Even his food reserves were depleted; he had been eating bugs for two days.

And eating them raw, because he didn’t dare to start a fire, fearing that the smoke might reveal his location to the pursuers and guide them.

Moreover, he was severely injured, with two gunshot wounds and two knife wounds.

His physical strength and spirit were nearly at their limits.

By this time, Wu was already regretting, regretting that he shouldn’t have been greedy for the bounty, accepting such a task.

His despair was compounded when he realized he was lost in the mountains—this realization plunged Wu into extreme despair.

Because, as someone with outstanding military qualities akin to a soldier king, his wilderness survival skills were almost maxed out, theoretically he shouldn’t lose his sense of direction.

However, the reality was right in front of him, it happened just like that.

(Hearing this, Chen Yan roughly speculated that Wu probably strayed into an array set up by some cultivator, and it was the kind with illusion effects, causing this soldier king to lose direction.)

In any case, according to Wu’s description, he seemed to encounter the legendary "Ghost Wall," where he circled the same hill for two days without escaping.

Finally, he helplessly left traces of his movements, tried several more times, and found that after walking for a while, he would wind up back where he started, seeing the marks he left.

In the end, Wu fainted in despair.

Later, when Wu woke up, he discovered he had been saved.

To his shock, when he awoke, he found himself completely immobile—though his mind was clear, he seemed to have lost all control over his body.

He could only open his eyes, breathe, but no sound could come out, and he couldn’t even move his little finger!

He lay in a dim cave, with lamps nearby, lying on a slab of stone.

And beside him was another person.

What terrified Wu was the scene he faced.

Wu rasped, "When I woke up, I saw him beside me, he was... cutting open my body."

Chen Yan: "..."

"Do you know that feeling? Opening your eyes, finding yourself unable to move, but seeing someone beside you, that person with a cold and indifferent expression, not even acknowledging my waking state, just looking down at my body, his fingers at my chest and abdomen.

I could clearly see my chest and abdomen being cut open—I could even see my organs subtly wriggling. His fingers touched my organs, yet I felt nothing, not a single sensation.

It was a hopeless, numbingly terrifying scene."

Chen Yan nodded, "And then?"

·

Wu could no longer speak and could only watch helplessly as he was butchered like livestock by the stranger.

The stranger cut open his body, even pinching and moving his organs with his fingers, doing something unknown.

After who knows how long, the stranger finally looked up and glanced into Wu’s eyes.

Then he spoke.

"Your organs are shaped nicely and quite healthy."

What kind of "compliment" is this?

But immediately afterward, the stranger lightly brushed Wu’s forehead, and Wu immediately felt his spirit disperse, once again falling into slumber.

·

When Wu awoke for the second time, he found that the place where his chest and abdomen had been cut open had already healed.

Rather than "stitched," it seemed "healed."

Having experienced combat, Wu naturally knew some basic surgical stitching techniques. He looked at it for a long time and couldn’t identify the technique used.

The wound showed almost no protrusion or scar, smooth and even.

Only the skin’s surface retained a faint trace like a thread.

·

Saying this, Wu struggled to move his body, then indicated his shirt, pointing to his left rib, and said to Chen Yan, "Right at this spot, you can take a look."

Chen Yan frowned, leaned in closely, and observed carefully.

Honestly, while treating Wu’s injuries to his shoulder and abdomen, Chen Yan had already looked at his upper body.

But to his recollection, he didn’t remember any scars at the spot Wu now indicated.

At this moment, he leaned in closely to take a good look, and with his keen extraordinary vision, he barely distinguished Wu’s so-called "scar" after scrutinizing for a while.