168: Special treatment

After seeing Xu Yao and Wang Zi, Su Ze's urge to return home wasn't as strong as before.

After all, his only lover and his best friend were his greatest concerns now.

At this moment, Xu Yao said, "Brother Su Ze, let's not rush home yet. I'll take you to see Big Brother Sun Hao and the others first."

"Oh? They're here too?" Su Ze asked, somewhat surprised.

Although Sun Hao and the others were also Great Xia Spirit Guards, they belonged to the local defense forces. Logically, they shouldn't have been here.

Yet here they were on the front lines, fighting against the Fusang Dark Guards.

"After Big Brother Sun Hao and the others heard you were captured by the Fusang people, they brought their men to the front lines that very day. Wherever the Fusang Dark Guards appeared, they would immediately charge in to avenge you."

"They even tried to go to the Fusang mainland to find you several times, but they weren't successful."

Su Ze nodded. With their strength, it was indeed difficult to break through the sea area that America was helping to blockade.

"Also, when Wang Zi and I were ambushed by the fake Brother Su Ze, it was Big Brother Sun Hao and the others who saved us. However... the continuous battles have left everyone quite injured."

As Xu Yao spoke, a look of pity appeared on her face.

Su Ze was quite moved, and at the same time, he grew concerned about how severe their injuries were for Xu Yao to have such an expression.

Soon, they arrived at the medical tent and saw the members of the Beishan City Thirteenth Detachment lying all over the place.

Everyone's injuries varied in severity, but even those with the lightest wounds were wrapped in plenty of gauze.

The most severely injured was Tao Lin, who had been framed by the Jiang Family. His left arm and right leg were gone, and the rest of his body was covered in gauze.

If his face hadn't been exposed, it would have been impossible to recognize him.

"Sun Hao, I left you in charge of the Thirteenth Squad. How did the brothers end up like this?!" Su Ze asked, his heart aching as he looked at the tragic scene after entering the tent.

Sun Hao, whose head was wrapped in gauze with half his face covered, immediately stood up upon hearing the voice and looked at Su Ze at the entrance with his uncovered right eye.

Judging from the visible parts of his wounds, they appeared to be very serious burns.

"Captain Su Ze? Is it really you?" After all, they had been deceived once before, and that incident resulted in their most severe injuries, leaving them still traumatized.

Only after seeing Xu Yao leaning close to Su Ze and nodding to them did he let go of his doubts.

Sun Hao said excitedly, "Captain, you're finally back! When the brothers heard you were taken by those Fusang runts, everyone was worried sick!"

"Even Old Captain Guo reenlisted to save you, though he had some matters to attend to and couldn't come along this time."

Su Ze stepped forward and patted his shoulder, then looked at the other severely injured team members in silence.

Seeing this, Sun Hao consoled him from the side, "Captain, everyone did this willingly. You've been so good to us, no one wanted to forget their roots, especially Tao Lin..."

"When I went back last time, I told him what happened in Starfall City. He knows you even risked making an enemy of Lord Holy Sun just to kill the two Jiang brothers and silence them for him."

"So this time, he fought especially hard. He took on three Fusang Dark Guards whose strength exceeded his own and ended up like this. Fortunately, the brothers rescued him in time, saving his life."

Su Ze went to Tao Lin's bedside. Looking at him in a coma, his heart was filled with mixed emotions.

He asked, "Is there any way to heal him?"

He knew that while this world had ordinary medical technology, water and wood-type beasts often displayed incredible healing effects that might be able to reattach Tao Lin's limbs.

Sun Hao replied, "He's no longer in mortal danger now, and his other injuries are fine."

"But... his limbs were destroyed at the same time they were severed, and too much time has passed. I'm afraid even the most skilled healing Beast Tamer wouldn't have a way..."

Su Ze sighed helplessly upon hearing this.

Just then, accompanied by a sudden heat in the air and a lazy yawn...

...he knew that Hanba, like Feng Qingyi, was someone who wouldn't follow orders and would enter or leave the beast taming space at will.

"What a sweet and fresh scent of blood. Is it time to eat?" Hanba asked, stretching her arms.

It seemed she was drawn out by the blood of the injured, but Su Ze immediately stopped her.

"Don't you dare. They are all my brothers, and they're all injured. They can't handle any trouble!"

Hanba glanced at everyone. Those present were stunned by her peerless beauty; many of those with lighter injuries even forgot their pain.

Only Xu Yao felt a sense of threat. She leaned close to Su Ze and pulled his arm into her embrace.

She said somewhat jealously, "Is this the new beast you got in Fusang? Why is it another great beauty?"

Su Ze smiled bitterly. "This isn't something I can control. Besides, if it weren't for her, I'm afraid I wouldn't have made it back alive."

Hearing this, Xu Yao's hostility toward Hanba vanished instantly, though she remained as vigilant as someone guarding their food.

Hanba didn't seem to mind and smiled at Xu Yao. Then she said, "Since they are the master's friends, leave them to me. No matter how severe the injuries to their flesh and blood are, I can heal them."

Su Ze immediately recalled how Hanba had treated his finger before.

He looked at Hanba's cherry-like mouth, then at the locations of everyone's injuries, and said tentatively, "Will... this work?"

"Of course it's no problem."

Hanba drifted lightly to an injured man who had a seven or eight-centimeter knife wound on his chest.

Just as Su Ze thought he was about to witness a bizarre scene and was even prepared to cover Xu Yao's eyes...

...he saw Hanba simply wave her fair hand. Under the shroud of a blood-colored light, the injured area immediately began to grow and heal rapidly on its own.

Not just him; everyone enveloped by the blood-colored light had their minor injuries heal quickly, leaving only scars behind.

"This is different from how you healed me before," Su Ze said in confusion.

Hanba just turned back with a sweet smile and said, "That's naturally because you are a special person, master, so you get special treatment."

Seeing this, Xu Yao immediately pinched a tender piece of flesh on Su Ze's waist and said with a smile, "What kind of special treatment is it?"

"Ow, ow, ow! It's nothing, really nothing." Su Ze didn't dare tell the truth.