Surviving in a Collapsed World, Is Something Wrong?

Chapter 348: Nightless City, Xia Ji

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Night time.

A purple-haired beauty was sleeping soundly on a soft mattress on the tatami, but her pretty face suddenly revealed an expression of pain and unbearable pain.

Perhaps she was having a nightmare. The girl began to toss and turn on the mattress, breathing heavily, her brows tightly furrowed. Her already fair face became even paler, and sweat poured out of her body.

"Father!"

Finally escaping from the nightmare, the moment she opened her eyes, the girl screamed, sat up abruptly from the mattress, and looked around subconsciously.

The pale light of the sky leaked in through the gaps in the window, and she subconsciously turned her head and squinted.

"Ugh... it hurts, it hurts, it hurts--"

A tearing dull pain suddenly spread from her right shoulder and flank throughout her body. Although she had undergone a considerable degree of pain tolerance training during her time as a shadow guard, the girl still gritted her teeth silently.

Looking around again, it was a completely unfamiliar room. Thanks to the pain, the girl's slightly confused consciousness when she first woke up had gradually become clear, and she was thinking in her heart.

"The decoration is so simple and shabby, it's just a relatively large thatched house... It seems that this is not the city lord's mansion."

Although it was just a dilapidated thatched house, it was very clean inside. There was not a single peculiar smell and there was even a faint fragrance of flowers and plants. The quiet environment calmed the girl's panicked mood a little.

"Anyway...at least I wasn't caught by that woman."

Perhaps it was because she had been too nervous in recent days, but after confirming that she had at least avoided the worst situation, the girl breathed a sigh of relief.

"So, next..."

"Ah, you're awake, how do you feel?"

Suddenly, a female greeting voice came to her ears. It was very gentle, but it made Raiden Mei turn her head suddenly.

A pink-haired girl wearing a gorgeous blue-based kimono, a blue forget-me-not headdress on her head, and even a pair of slender fox ears opened the pull-out paper-pasted wooden window and blinked at her.

"Who are you!?"

Xia frowned upon hearing this, revealing a slightly angry look: "Although I can understand your vigilance, but don't you think it's a bit rude to me, your lifesaver, not to introduce yourself before asking for someone's name?"

The girl exhaled and relaxed a little: "My name is Xia Ji, you can just call me Xia."

"Ah, I'm sorry, I..."

Mei Raiden's mind was racing as she kept thinking of the next reasons and excuses, but she was interrupted by Kasumi the next second.

"There's no need to make up a fake identity, Mr. Raiden Mei. Your wanted posters are posted all over the city. I'm afraid there are very few people in Yae-machi who don't know you."

"What? But if that's the case, why..."

Mei Raiden couldn't help but widen her eyes, not understanding why the other party, knowing clearly that she was a person with a huge reward on her head, was still helping her instead of sending her directly to the city lord in exchange for the reward.

"Why should I save you? A man covered in wounds and unconscious is lying in the grass by the roadside. I am not so shameless as to think of going to the City Lord's Mansion to ask for a reward first."

"Ah... I'm sorry... but I was... attacked late at night. Why would you pass by the mountain path at that time?" Raiden Mei looked at Kasumi in confusion.

Xia smiled and said, "Haha... You said sorry but your suspicion didn't decrease at all. You probably don't have many friends, do you?"

Then he explained: "Is there anything wrong with a woman who works in the Never-Sleeping City taking a shortcut back to her shabby little home in the old city at this time?"

"No, Nevernight...? I see, [Nevernight]...?" Raiden Mei obviously knew what that place was.

"Did you treat the injuries on my body? This method..." Raiden Mei frowned slightly. This method was too skillful, and the effect was very good. It was totally unlike something someone from such a remote area would do.

"There are customers like you everywhere in Nevernight. People who make a living in such a place may be more skilled in treating wounds than ordinary doctors."

Xia paused and continued.

"Besides, it wasn't me who brought you back, but my husband. If you really want to thank us, and if you are okay, go thank my husband. It's a good time to eat something. Of course, you can also run out of the window next to you now."

After saying that, Kasumi gave Raiden Mei enough space and time and left the room she was in.

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Even though the other party acted indifferent, Raiden Mei's inner vigilance did not decrease in the slightest.

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