Yama Reborn-Chapter 639 - 636: Luck Is Turning Around

Chen Nuo felt himself drifting in and out of consciousness and wasn't sure how much time had passed.

During this period, he actually woke up a few times, but because his body was still weak, his vision remained blurry each time, and he could only vaguely see Sally's face.

It seemed as if she was sitting right beside him.

Chen Nuo felt something tightly binding his hand, but he couldn't move his neck to turn and look.

The light from the night campfire was dim, and Chen Nuo seemed to feel the warmth it brought.

He smelled the aroma of meat...

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The third time he woke up, Chen Nuo felt much clearer.

He noticed the blanket covering his body.

His mind was no longer as foggy, and when he opened his eyes, the sensation of the world spinning finally disappeared.

His ears no longer had that incessant ringing that troubled him during his high fever.

Even without testing, Chen Nuo sensed that he should have broken the fever.

His body felt much lighter, and as he moved slowly, Chen Nuo realized that his control over his body had seemingly returned.

He took a deep breath and then sat up.

Then, he saw Little Sally leaning beside him.

Sally's face looked dirtier, yet her lips appeared even paler — her lips were so dry that they cracked, and the blood seemed to have drained considerably.

Chen Nuo frowned.

He suddenly noticed something and raised his arm.

Chen Nuo was stunned!

A rope was tightly bound around his wrist, very tightly indeed!

Just as he realized something, Chen Nuo took a deep breath — the vexing pain from his rib injury seemed to have vanished?

The pain, as if being stabbed with a sharp knife every time he moved, was gone!

His body felt light.

Chen Nuo squinted, gingerly twisting his left ankle.

It rotated smoothly, and moreover...

It didn't hurt!

Truly pain-free!

Chen Nuo looked at Sally, still asleep.

He lifted the blanket off himself and then slowly stood up.

His mouth tasted a bit salty and metallic.

He licked his lips, realizing the taste was surely from the food fed to him by the little girl while he was unconscious.

Chen Nuo inspected his arm more closely and, upon seeing the two scabs on his arm...

His heart stirred, and he gently used his nail to pick at the edge of a scab, carefully peeling a small part away.

The expected pain or the feeling of the flesh sticking did not occur.

The scab peeled away easily, leaving no residue — as if it had dried, waiting to fall off naturally.

Chen Nuo confirmed a fact:

The skin beneath the scab had long since completely healed!

This was really strange.

No matter the cause, getting injured and forming a scab, but having the wound heal and fully recover should take several days.

He crouched beside Sally, carefully observing, and noticed her hand...

Beside her hand on the ground lay a small knife.

Chen Nuo picked up the knife, detecting a distinct smell of rusty blood on it.

Chen Nuo gazed intently at the sleeping Sally, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly.

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Sally's eyelids fluttered a few times before she woke up.

Upon seeing Chen Nuo sitting in front of her, Sally immediately cheered and grabbed Chen Nuo's hand, quickly feeling his face.

"I'm not feverish anymore." Chen Nuo smiled, gently swatting the little girl's hand away.

Then, Chen Nuo gazed at Sally's face: "You saved my life."

Sally looked at Chen Nuo with some trepidation.

Chen Nuo picked up the small knife and rolled up his sleeve, revealing the scabs on his arm.

"How did you do it?" Chen Nuo asked, "My injuries are healed, and my foot doesn't hurt anymore."

Sally's little face looked somewhat pale, and her body even trembled slightly.

Finally, Sally spoke in a low voice.

"I gave you a blood transfusion."

"Blood transfusion?" Chen Nuo was puzzled: "Blood transfusion? Your blood and my blood? Blood transfusion?"

"Yes."

Sally lowered her head: "Just like when doctors give blood transfusions... I've seen doctors do it, I learned some simple techniques, but... finding your vein, I tried several times, yet... it still worked. I..."

Chen Nuo instantly understood everything.

He looked at Sally: "You... you are..."

With her face contorted, Sally trembled even more violently: "I... I am... a monster."

Her head hung lower: "I... have been a monster since childhood... I heal on my own when injured, I... so... those bad people captured me... they want my blood, they want me to be a blood bag.

Dad, mom, and my brother, they all died...

Dad said, don't let others know that I'm a monster.

Others, will catch me."

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Chen Nuo understood, fully comprehended everything.

The little girl before him, Sally, was actually an Ability User!

Her ability should be a Transcendent self-healing ability!

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Self-healing Ability Users are a special group, whether in the world above or in the Underground World.

Purely from an ability standpoint, apart from swiftly healing injuries and enhancing survival rates...

They don't have much other practical use.

Most pure self-healing Ability Users do not possess combat power beyond the norm — in other words, they lack strong self-defense capabilities.

One can only imagine what fate a group with such abilities would face under these circumstances.

The blood of Healers can be transfused to others, aiding in others' injury recovery.

The Underground World is often filled with threats and adventures...

Those Ability Users undergo numerous risky ventures to earn profits... who wouldn't want to improve their chances of survival?

Thus, a product was born.

[Self-Healing Serum].

Chen Nuo had also used such things, and even Little Candy at home developed a new technique to enhance the efficacy of Self-Healing Serum.

But no matter what, Self-Healing Serum requires the fresh blood of a self-healing Ability User for synthesis.

So...

Once something holds enormous value,

And the holder of this thing lacks strong self-defense capabilities...

Then, to the world's malice... such a group becomes...

Natural Tang Seng's Meat!

Natural blood bags!!

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For self-healing Ability Users, their blood is equivalent to...

An elephant's ivory...

A rhino's horn...

A bear's gallbladder...

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Chen Nuo suddenly understood what the little girl had said to him the other night.

At the time, Sally said she was captured by those bad people driving the pickup trucks.

She said:

[I am useful to them.]

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It's evident that due to this [value], Sally endured a tragic fate.

Her entire family died — possibly all related to this.

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So, Chen Nuo did not feel that Sally hiding the truth from him for two days was wrong — even when he was injured, she didn't disclose this truth — her blood was the source of her tragic fate!

To the extent that her entire family perished for it, she was taken by bad people...

Becoming a living blood bag!

So...

Facing a chance encounter like himself, it was only natural she didn't dare divulge the truth.

Even within just two days, she developed dependence on him, eventually using her biggest secret to save his life.

This girl was perhaps excessively kind-hearted.

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Seeing Sally's fearful demeanor, Chen Nuo instantly grasped the child's thoughts.

He gently patted her head.

Yes, still her dirty hand and hair.

"I am not a bad person," Chen Nuo softly said, "and I don't think you are a monster either."

Upon hearing this, Sally's eyes appeared slightly less anxious and fearful, though Chen Nuo noticed that the child's hands were still clenched in fists, clearly remaining in a defensive stance.

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Then, under Chen Nuo's patient inquiry, Sally roughly recounted some of her past experiences — indeed, not exceeding Chen Nuo's speculations too much.

Sally was discovered by her family from birth to possess self-healing ability. When she was young, she would heal quickly after being injured—this ability left her parents utterly shocked.

They then fell into a certain level of panic.

Monster—this might have been their first thought.

After all, apart from its barrenness and desolation, this land was also filled with religious fanaticism, while low education levels bred ignorance.

So, the family was very afraid that Sally might be some kind of monster.

However, the love of parents for their children in this world still triumphed over the fear brought by ignorance.

Although her parents were also very ordinary herdsmen, they grew up in such a perilous environment and quickly realized the danger.

This child's blood might be something incredibly precious!

Her blood could bring the severely injured back from the brink of death, even regenerate severed limbs…

How valuable do you think this kind of blood is?

In a war-torn land, human life is cheap!

And the blood within an ordinary little girl has such immense value, so…

The parents soon realized the danger, and the whole family began to keep this secret closely.

They even moved many times because of it.

However, there is no wall in the world without cracks. Especially when it involves a child.

The secret was eventually leaked after an accident, and then it was spoken of as magical gossip, finally reaching the ears of those with intentions.

The Underground World does not exist independently, nor does the Special Ability World, both cannot be entirely separated from the real world.

Moreover, Self-Healing Ability Users have always been in a very delicate situation.

Formal organizations would purchase healers' blood at high prices.

While some informal organizations have this attitude:

I have no money, but I want the goods.

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Sally, a little girl born in a war-torn land where human life is as cheap as grass.

Bearing expensive blood meant that her tragic fate had come.

When Chen Nuo met her, just a few days earlier, her entire family was attacked by a group of armed men, and then her parents and brother were killed.

Sally herself was kidnapped.

According to her, it seemed like those people were going to sell her to someone, and the price ought to be quite high.

So those people fed her well and took care of her.

But they also got into a conflict with the M army, then hurriedly fled with Sally, finally…

This was when Chen Nuo encountered Sally.

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Sally could transfuse blood.

She had learned how to use this ability two years ago.

Her blood could spare people from harm and illness, self-healing… 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Well, at least her family benefited from it.

Her parents and brother, in life, especially her father, engaged in heavy labor, inevitably encountering some injuries.

Two years ago, her father was gored by a mad bull and had his ribs injured and leg trampled.

This family, already at the bottom, naturally faced collapse.

From that time, Sally learned how to use her blood to save her father.

She secretly watched how nurses performed blood transfusions at the town's clinic, learned some techniques, then ran home to transfuse blood to her father.

That time, luck was on their side, and she saved her father.

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Sally spoke a lot, in a fragmented manner, crying in between.

Chen Nuo was incredibly patient and displayed a very compassionate and gentle attitude…

How to say this, Chen Nuo was very experienced in such situations.

The implication was that he had become extremely familiar with facing [children with tragic histories, twists of fate, and wounded souls] in such scenes.

After all… in a past life, there was a bunch of such distressed children at home.

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Chen Nuo understood why Sally's lips were colorless—she wasn't dehydrated; it was due to blood loss.

Who knows how much blood this little girl had transfused and how much she herself had lost.

As for the blood transfusion materials… it was from a medical kit Chen Nuo found in the car earlier, having transfusion tubes and needles.

It must not have been sterilized and certainly wasn't hygienic.

But… it managed to work somehow.

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Chen Nuo gave the child some water to drink and prepared some food.

According to Sally, he had been unconscious for a whole day and night.

The remaining water was scarce. But there was still plenty of lamb.

The night's cold slowed down the spoilage of meat.

Grilling some lamb, Chen Nuo and Sally ate a little.

Chen Nuo forced Sally to drink the remaining half pot of water. Although Sally didn't want to, she drank it.

"Don't worry, we'll find water tomorrow." Chen Nuo patted Sally's head.

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After Chen Nuo recovered, his legs and feet became agile, and his back didn't hurt anymore. He could jump and leap.

Then, it seemed like his luck really returned all at once.

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After resuming their journey, they walked half a day and found a river in a valley.

The river looked a bit murky, but Chen Nuo led Sally upstream for a while and found a mountain spring.

Then Chen Nuo got to work.

He dug some sand and pebbles and used some charcoal he found from the ashes left from the fire they made yesterday.

He made a simple filtration system.

After filtering out the clean water, he boiled it, and it was ready to drink.

They drank enough water and refilled their water bottles.

After setting off again, they soon encountered a stroke of good fortune that evening.

Behind a hillside, they came across a herdsman driving a few sheep.

The land here was barren, and the few sheep the herdsman drove were quite scrawny.

Moreover, upon seeing Chen Nuo and Sally, the herdsman clearly wore a cautious look, his eyes tinged with hostility.

However, Chen Nuo's approach was straightforward.

He raised his hand high, waving several green bills of M currency. Instantly, the herdsman's gaze softened.

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In truth, it's quite ironic.

This war-torn area, nicknamed [Empire Graveyard], has a history of conflicts primarily due to the power struggles between M Country and the former Bear Country.

After Bear Country's decline, M Country became the strongest power in this land and kept supporting its proxy forces, but at the same time, it faced much opposition from local religious forces.

Hence, gunfire never ceased on this land.

There are also many tribes here that resent the M Country people.

But interestingly, no matter whether they are pro-M Country forces or anti-M Country forces, they unanimously consider M currency as the most solid form of currency on this land.

Some people from M Country might be liked or disliked.

But M currency is welcomed by everyone.

The M currency Chen Nuo raised was found in the pockets of dead people a few days ago, and it came in handy this time.

Using Sally as a translator, Chen Nuo quickly struck a deal with the herdsman.

He used 100 M dollars to exchange for two old sheepskin coats from the herdsman.

This price was certainly not fair. But in such a special situation, both parties were quite satisfied with the deal.

Chen Nuo also inquired from the now relaxed herdsman and obtained some news.

Just yesterday, the village they originally intended to go to as their destination was attacked.

That village was originally within the sphere of influence of a pro-M Country tribal force, so it had a telephone line.

However, yesterday, an anti-M armed force attacked the village, and the previously pro-M tribal armed force in the village was defeated and killed.

It was said that the village was chaotic afterward. Although these people usually don't harm civilians during their fights,

wherever there is conflict, there is destruction. Whether the telephone line could still be kept intact is hard to say.

After all, in a typical military operation, plans are made to cut off the enemy's external communication before engaging.

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Armed with this information, Chen Nuo inquired further from the herdsman about where else he could find a phone...

The herdsman mentioned two places: a city closest to here and a town.

However, Chen Nuo dismissed both — they were simply too far.

After a moment of internal debate, Chen Nuo decided to stick to the original plan and head to the village to try their luck.

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Sally showed absolute trust in Chen Nuo; when he decided to continue to the village, she had no objections.

Chen Nuo understood that this was probably some kind of suspension bridge effect — similar to when trauma-burdened kids see their rescuer as their sole reliance.

Sally clearly exhibited this tendency now.

After bidding farewell to the herdsman, Sally, wearing that dirty sheepskin coat, looked noticeably more energetic — the child had suffered from the cold for days.

"Chen Nuo."

On the road, Sally called out to Chen Nuo.

Then, with pleading eyes, Sally looked at Chen Nuo and asked a question.

"When we get there, can I continue following you?"

Chen Nuo looked into the little girl's eyes and nodded.

After all, she did save his life.

Taking her back to his own time was impossible. But at least in this era, Chen Nuo felt he could arrange a good situation for her.

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