Chapter 484: Red Child (Part 1)

Is this little girl not dead?

Yun Che had always been exceptionally confident in his medical skills, believing there was no way he could fail to determine if someone was alive or dead. Yet, the young girl before him, who clearly showed no vital signs, had actually... woken up alive!

"You... you're not dead?" Yun Che stared at the girl, dumbfounded, and instinctively blurted out a question that sounded incredibly idiotic.

"Huh?" The girl blinked her eyes, which were a little hazy from prolonged sleep, and whispered, "Am I... dead already?"

"That's not what I meant... Uh, what's your name?" Yun Che asked. The girl's breath was very faint, no different from a completely ordinary girl.

"Name? Hmm..." The girl thought seriously for a moment, then replied with a giggle, "I don't know! Do you know, Big Brother?"

Normally, when someone discovers they can't even remember their own name, they would instinctively feel lost or confused. But this red-haired girl was smiling brightly and innocently; with Yun Che's ability to read people, he couldn't detect a hint of pretense or falsehood. It was as if not remembering her name was just a very, very minor detail that didn't need to be bothered with.

"You don't remember your name? Then... do you know where your home is? Who are your father and mother?" Yun Che asked earnestly.

"Oooh..." The girl stretched lazily with great effort, then shook her head directly, "Of course not! I can't remember anything at all."

"Then... do you remember your age? How old are you this year?"

"Hmm..." The girl thought for a moment, then raised her hand to cover her cheeks, shaking her head, "I don't know... But Big Brother is so annoying, I'm just a little pretty girl, how can you casually ask a girl's age?"

Yun Che: "..."

"Judging by her appearance, her soul might have been affected by devil poison, or perhaps it's due to her prolonged slumber in the Eternal Heaven Pearl; she seems to have lost her past memories," Jasmine said flatly. The moment she finished speaking, the girl's bright eyes turned to her, and then, her eyes sparkled like two brilliant stars: "Wow! Big Sister, your clothes are so beautiful! Red! Red... I love red the most!!"

Although Yun Che had bought Jasmine many clothes, she most frequently wore the first one he bought her: the crimson embroidered immortal skirt adorned with red jewels. This mysterious girl had red hair, red eyes, and also wore a red dress, evidently loving red just like Jasmine. So, upon seeing the exceptionally magnificent crimson embroidered immortal skirt on Jasmine, her affection immediately overflowed... But that wasn't the point! The girl's reaction made Jasmine's eyebrows twitch abruptly, and she exclaimed in surprise, "You can see me?"

Jasmine had no physical body, only a soul. Unless she actively manifested her soul projection or her power was sufficiently strong, only Yun Che could see her. Yet, at this moment, Jasmine was clearly in an invisible, intangible state... This little girl could actually see her!

"Of course I can see you, my eyes aren't broken." Jasmine's reaction made the girl tilt her head. She then noticed the Eternal Heaven Pearl where she was, and gasped again, "Wow! What a beautiful crystal bed! Is this where I sleep? It looks so nice... but it's hard, it doesn't seem comfortable. Big Brother, can you please pick me up? This crystal bed is so high; if I climb out, it'll really affect my pretty girl image."

Pretty... pretty girl...Image!?

The muscles around Yun Che's mouth and eyes twitched visibly. He reached out to the girl, and seeing her completely unguarded, he asked very seriously, "Little sister, aren't you afraid... that I might be a bad person?"

"Bad person?" The girl's small face lifted. After thinking hard for a moment, she suddenly exclaimed, "Oh!" and recoiled, her milky-white face showing fear, "Are you, Big Brother, the legendary big bad person? Wahhh... Bad person, don't eat me! I'm just a tiny pretty girl, not tasty at all. Can you eat me when I'm bigger, please?"

"Nonsense!... Of course, I'm not a bad person!" The little girl's reaction made Yun Che's heart twitch uncontrollably.

"Mmm..." The girl nodded her head vigorously, her watery eyes sparkling as she said pitifully, "I knew Big Brother wouldn't be a bad person. So, Big Brother, please pick me up, okay? Okay?"

Yun Che stretched out his arms, one hand supporting her slender waist, the other lifting her bottom, and effortlessly carried her out of the crystal coffin. As he set her down, a look of astonishment appeared on Yun Che's face.

Before the girl woke up, he hadn't felt any signs of life on her, and it could have been a misjudgment. But just now, when he touched her body, he had very deliberately probed her physical condition... yet he still didn't sense the slightest sign of life! Not to mention the pulsation of life aura, there wasn't even the slightest movement of blood flow!

What was going on?

"Mmm... so comfortable!" The girl, now out of the crystal coffin, stretched vigorously again, then looked up at Yun Che, blinking her ruby-like eyes: "Big Brother, where should we go play? This place looks like fun."

"...You don't want to know who I am? Don't want to ask where this place is? Or why you're here?" Yun Che asked, perplexed.

"This, this... is this important?" The girl looked bewildered, then raised her small hand and excitedly shouted, "Playing is more important! Big Brother, Big Sister, quickly take me to a fun place! I want to see the blue sky, green grass, and lots of colorful flowers!"

"..." This little girl's anti-human way of thinking constantly crashed Yun Che's brain. She had woken up after countless years of slumber, seemingly having lost all her memories, yet she was utterly unconcerned about any of it... not even caring who she was! In his two lifetimes, Yun Che had met many simple-minded people, but someone as incredibly, unbelievably simple as this, Yun Che was convinced he wouldn't encounter a second even if he lived ten more lifetimes!

He looked at Jasmine with a pleading gaze, only to find Jasmine staring intently at the little girl, her expression grave.

"Grumble..."

A strange rumbling sound came from the little girl. She raised her small hand and rubbed her tummy, her previously excited face suddenly falling, "Ugh... I'm suddenly so hungry..." After saying that, she turned her gaze and looked eagerly at Yun Che, "Big Brother, I'm suddenly very hungry, do you have anything delicious?"

Waking up after so many years of sleep and suddenly feeling hungry was perfectly normal. Yun Che rummaged through the Sky Poison Pearl, then took out a dry flatbread: "Here."

Having almost starved to death under the Sword Discourse Arena in the past, Yun Che always carried a large supply of food and water, with dry rations being the most convenient. The little girl took the flatbread, sniffed it with her small nose, blinked her misty eyes, and mumbled softly, "What a strange smell, it doesn't look tasty at all... Can this really be eaten?"

"Of course, you can eat it. Although it doesn't look very appetizing, it tastes quite fragrant when you bite into it," Yun Che said casually, while secretly thinking... when you're hungry, anything edible is good. Back then, I almost starved to death under the Sword Discourse Arena and had to risk my life to eat dragon blood; you're much luckier than me, at least you have flatbread!

The girl sniffed the flatbread again, and after hesitating for a while, finally opened her teeth and bit into it, clearly using a lot of force to break off a small piece.

"So hard, my teeth almost broke," the girl complained softly. Then she carefully chewed a small bite, and her entire face completely fell...

"Pffft pffft pffft... Bah bah..." The girl immediately spat out the flatbread, which hadn't been fully chewed, even expelling the crumbs from her mouth with great effort. From her expression, she seemed to want to expel every trace of the flatbread's taste from her mouth: "It's so bad, so disgusting... I don't want to eat this... So bad! So bad! So bad!!"

Logically, even if someone was used to luxurious food daily, if they were very hungry, anything would taste good. But looking at this little girl, it was as if she had eaten poison; her face was full of grievance, and her eyes became watery, as if tears were about to fall.

Yun Che twisted his mouth helplessly, rummaged through the Sky Poison Pearl again, and found a piece of palace rose pastry personally made by Cang Yue... Looking at the rose pastry made by Cang Yue, Yun Che was momentarily distracted and almost put it back, but seeing the girl's aggrieved expression, he still placed it in her hand: "Alright, the flatbread just now might not have been to your liking. This is called rose pastry; it's very sweet and fragrant, you'll definitely like it."

"Sweet? Fragrant? Really? But it doesn't smell fragrant at all," the girl said, holding the rose pastry, which was the size of her palm, her face full of suspicion. With the "precedent" of the flatbread, she was very hungry but ate very carefully, still only taking a tiny bite.

"Pffft... Wow! It's so bad!!"

The girl spat it out again, and even the rose pastry fell to the ground. Yun Che rushed over to pick it up, blowing away non-existent dust with a pained expression, then quickly put it away. But judging by the little girl's appearance, she clearly found it genuinely unpalatable; the exceptionally delicious rose pastry had made her beautiful little face contort in pain. He said helplessly, "Don't tell me... you only eat meat?"

If she didn't eat flatbread... then she must only like meat.

"Meat... What's that? Can I eat it? Is it tasty?"

Yun Che took out a piece of smoked jerky from the Sky Poison Pearl and handed it to the girl: "Then try this..."

The girl took the smoked jerky with full expectation, and sniffed it with her small nose... This time, she didn't even bite it, directly throwing it far away with a "whoosh": "Ughhh! It smells so bad! It smells awful! I don't want to eat this kind of thing!"

"...Then what... what do you want to eat?"

"I want to eat something delicious!!"

"Delicious things... what are they?"

"Delicious things... in short, they're just delicious things!"