Chapter 99 Turmoil
The next day.
It was another day of alchemy.
The night was cool, the sky was starless, and the moon was nowhere to be seen, only dark clouds.
On such a quiet night, the air was filled with a cacophony of voices, the deafening crashes of collapsing buildings, the rising and falling gunshots, and a cacophony of shouts and curses.
Jiang Mian paused in his alchemy practice, his gaze instinctively turning towards the source of the loud noise, where flames and thick fog billowed into the sky.
She stopped concocting the medicine, turned off the equipment, and walked from the backyard to the front door.
Standing at the doorway, Jiang Mian seemed to have a clearer view of the raging fire and thick smoke outside the city.
what happened?
Lin Xuan, who was standing next to her, quickly opened the door and focused her gaze on the huge, towering flames outside the city. She took out her personal terminal and quickly snapped a few pictures.
Jiang Mian subconsciously looked at Lin Xuan beside her and asked, "Do you know what happened?"
Lin Xuan also noticed Jiang Mian beside her and saw the confusion on Jiang Mian's face, so she said, "There's probably another gunfight in the outer city. It's just another territorial gang fighting over territory. Fights often happen in the outer city, but I didn't expect it to escalate this much. The fire is so big it's reaching the sky."
"With such a commotion, doesn't the city lord care?" Jiang Mian asked疑惑地.
"Do you think this is a proper city?" Lin Xuan's lips twitched slightly as she glanced at Jiang Mian. "Cities on Exile Stars are generally not managed unless the city lord's interests are threatened. However, since buildings were blown up this time, the city lord should take action now, since all the buildings in the city are his property."
“I see.” Jiang Mian paused before speaking.
"We can't go to the outer city for fun lately, it's probably in a lot of chaos." Lin Xuan frowned slightly as she looked at the towering flames, then looked at Jiang Mian, "You'd better not go to the outer city either, it's probably going to be chaotic for a while."
"Hmm." Jiang Mian paused for a moment upon hearing this, then nodded.
The two were about to go back to their own rooms.
Across the alley, there was a loud knocking on the door of a small building on the other side.
A loud banging on the door and a plea for help rang out: "Please, please, please help my sister! I have money on me, I can give you lots and lots of money! Please save my sister!"
Jiang Mian and Lin Xuan's gazes both instinctively turned to the entrance of the small building on the other side of the alleyway.
Under a dim light at the entrance.
A boy with a white cat was kneeling at the door, holding a girl with a white cat in his arms.
In the dim light, one could vaguely see blood spreading down the girl's slender, lotus-root-like arm, flowing onto the ground and staining the white-haired boy's white shirt.
The cat's white ears were dirty and stained with blood. Its short silver hair was extremely messy and also had mottled bloodstains. Its white cat tail was also covered with dust and bloodstains.
"Pharmacist Su, please! Please save my sister!" The white cat boy's voice was hoarse and strained. "Please, Pharmacist Su! I'll do anything to save my sister!"
Seeing this, Lin Xuan stood beside Jiang Mian without her noticing and slowly said, "Isn't this a coincidence? You are a doctor, and that person is also a doctor, but she is a human doctor and you are a beastman doctor. The patients you treat are different. However, I heard that she can treat both humans and beastmen, but when she treats beastmen, it causes side effects."
"Do you know the people who live in that little building?" Jiang Mian glanced at her, her tone of questioning but her tone of certainty. "Why do you sound like you don't really like the people who live there?"
Lin Xuan seemed to choke for a moment, then spoke softly, "The only healer in Baicheng with 3C mental power is her, Su Xi."
She glanced at Jiang Mian silently: "After you get to know her, you'll see how easy I am to get along with." Lin Xuan continued, "But I advise you not to get to know her either. That woman is a madwoman. I heard that she refined forbidden medicine before being exiled, and then she was exiled here. Her husband and ten beast slaves were all the subjects of her whipping and drug testing."
On the exile planet, some people were born here, some came here by accident, some came here for some reason, and some were exiled here.
Everyone else can leave by boarding a starship from the exile starfield, but exiles cannot leave by boarding any starship belonging to the Imperial Starfield unless they have their own private starship.
Even if they leave on a private starship, the exiled person's identity will still be verified as a criminal. When they arrive on another planet, they will need to verify their identity for everything. If they are identified as an exiled criminal, they will become a fugitive and be hunted down for life.
Jiang Mian paused for a moment, then saw the door open.
A woman appeared in the doorway light, her dark shadow instantly enveloping the white cat boy kneeling on the ground.
The woman wore gold-rimmed glasses, and her brown eyes held a chilling, deathly quality.
The woman first looked the cat-eared boy up and down, then spoke in a hoarse, cold voice: "I can save her, but I need one of your cat ears."
On the other side, Jiang Mian walked quickly in that direction.
Lin Xuan quickly followed beside her, blinking gently: "Jiang Mian, are you going to play the hero and save the damsel in distress?"
"No, I'm going to steal some business," Jiang Mian replied casually.
Lin Xuan paused upon hearing this, and seeing that Jiang Mian had already walked forward, she quickly joined in the fun and followed.
Upon hearing the woman's words, the white cat boy's entire orc body stiffened slightly.
However, his expression quickly calmed down, after all, he had already guessed that he would have to pay other prices to get the woman to treat him.
He first went to other pharmacists and doctors, but none of them were willing to treat the orcs, so he had no choice but to come to this pharmacist.
I had long heard that this pharmacist's consultation fees were quite unusual.
Losing an ear to save his sister's life is definitely a worthwhile trade-off.
Almost immediately after a moment of stunned silence, he said, "Okay!"
"Wait." A voice rang out at the same time.
For a moment, both the woman and the white cat boy looked at Jiang Mian.
"I'm a new orc doctor. I don't need your ears, just a consultation fee. Shall we go to my clinic for treatment now?" Jiang Mian said calmly, his expression serene and convincing. "Your sister's chest wound, pierced by a laser gun, can't be delayed any longer."
The laser gun pierced through the little girl's chest; it's unknown how close or far the wound was from her heart.
The white-cat boy quickly picked up the little girl, turned to the woman who needed his ear as payment, and said in an extremely anxious voice, "Please, Pharmacist Su, hurry up!"
Su Xi glanced at Jiang Mian, then turned and went inside. The cat-eared boy quickly carried his sister inside as well.
Outside the door, only dim light, mottled bloodstains, and two slender figures remained.
(End of this chapter)
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