Chapter 8: A Promise
If this is sleep, Liu Ende would rather think that he was kidnapped by coma. He didn't know whether he was alive or dead now, or was struggling in pain in the package of raging flames. He wanted to open his eyes but couldn't open it. His head was blank and he lost consciousness, leaving only the instinct of struggle and resistance. The torn and severe pain in his abdomen tortured his whole body every moment. In the hazy thought of the pain of Prometheus tied to the mountain being torn off his liver by an eagle every day, so it was so desperate.
Perhaps this is what hell looks like, which brings torture to sinful people from the torture of the spirit to the soul all the time. After experiencing these so-called pains of atonement, even those who think they are innocent no longer understand and clearly understand the meaning of atonement itself. In the end, the last trace of human nature was destroyed in the torture of hell and completely turned into a ghost.
Maybe, Liu Ende gradually became insane in this torture, and he wanted to die immediately. He was always looking forward to dying in the next second to end the pain that made people's life worse than death. It's just a nonsense to die!
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Liu Ende heard the burning sound in the dark, and then a violent pain suddenly appeared in his abdomen. This feeling was like a row of charcoal on his stomach burning the crack on his abdomen. A burnt smell hit his forehead, which was really an irresistible force that woke Liu Ende from his coma. Opening his eyes, he saw a man who looked like a Western native, with brown hair and a somewhat old face. He was skillfully taking the red-red charcoal off Liu Ende's stomach with a special metal clip and putting it in the burning brazier aside.
"Luga, how do you feel?"
Seeing Liu Ende awakening, the doctor looked at him with a loving smile, and actually called out his name like an old acquaintance, and asked with concern.
"I? Luka?"
This made Liu Ende feel strange. He didn’t change his name or his surname. His surname was Liu Ende. Why did he have such a fashionable name here?
"Sir, you must have recognized the wrong person." Liu Ende hurriedly explained: "I admit that there are people with the same appearance in this world, including the underworld. This will make people unable to tell it out for a while, but I really don't call me Lujia."
"Hey! Don't fool me!" Liu Ende didn't know where the joke was about this sentence, but as soon as he finished speaking, the old man was amused and laughed. What do you mean? Liu Ende was fooled by his laughter. By the way, this old guy Liu Ende had no social relationship with him. He might be the first foreign old man he had ever seen in ancient costumes. But why could he tell who Liu Ende was at once?
He pointed at Liu Ende, smiling so hard that he had two more wrinkles on his face. The old man continued, "Little Lujia, don't pretend to be stupid with me. You have only left for two years and you don't recognize me?"
He must have recognized the wrong person! Liu Ende still shook his head firmly. This is really the truth. He really doesn't know this foreigner, and what he said is inexplicably inappropriate.
"Okay! You guy!"
The wrinkles on the old man's face stretched out, and his original smile disappeared, replaced by an angry look, "Okay, I didn't expect that the changes to people would be so incredible after joining the army. Lu Jia, I think on the battlefield, not only did you make your stomach open, but your head hurts!" As he said that, the old man started to move his hands, waved his fists and slapped Liu Ende's head. It hurt so much that he shouted in pain!
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
At this time, the wooden door not far away opened with a creaking sound, and an old woman dressed in a very simple and messy burlap and ran into the house in panic, must have heard Liu Ende's scream.
"Oh, Bella, what are you doing?"
The old woman stepped forward to stop and stared at the old doctor, and continued in a reproachful tone: "You must have hurt Xiao Lujia. Really, you have a bad temper at such an old age. No wonder no one in the village is looking for you to see a doctor now!"
"Enough, you are an old woman who is not easy to hold a spoon!" Dr. Bella was angry at this time. He fought back without hesitation in the face of his wife's reproach: "This little bastard doesn't even recognize me now. I now suspect that something must be wrong with his head, otherwise he would just let him pretend to be stupid. Then who should he steal my herbal money when he was a child?"
“Hey hey hey hey!”
When talking about thieves, Liu Ende was not very happy and thought to himself: Hey, this old guy, I am from the world, and I have been in your underworld. Could it be that my soul in the underworld has been born and didn't tell them that I'm back now when I die, I'm back again? It's not that many years have passed since this little money. As for everything here, I'm full of doubts, but the most important thing now is to comfort this angry old man first!
"Old sir, I am really a newcomer and don't know what rules are in the underworld. But don't worry, since I have owed you a considerable amount of money, I will definitely pay it back as much as possible." Liu Ende deliberately slowed down his tone, otherwise he would have been beaten up by an old doctor.
"Return it back in full?" Old Doctor Bella narrowed his eyes and looked at Liu Ende up and down. He probably saw that there was nothing valuable on him. Liu Ende was not very good when he heard his tone. "You poor boy, when you joined the army, you told me that you were going to do something big, but now it seems, huh, if you join the army, you will go and cheat and drink to make up a set of military equipment!"
"Old man, why do you speak so badly!" The old woman on the side couldn't stand watching and wanted to stop her. But this angered the old doctor even more. He stood up and pushed down the stool he had just sat, snorted coldly and walked out of the cabin without looking back.
"This old thing!"
The old woman was a little angry, but she still complained a few times. When she turned around, she saw that Liu Ende's stomach was covered with black charcoal residue, which made the old woman feel pity. She quickly stepped forward and brought the wooden basin that had been prepared long ago. It was clear water inside. She picked up a piece of linen cloth and gently removed the useless debris from the wound that had been forced to heal. After all, she was still old, and her hands and feet were not as flexible as before. When I pinched the wet cloth, I could clearly see her trembling hands. She accidentally touched Liu Ende's wound several times. The wound healed by the scald continued to transmit the pain to his brain through the nerves of the skin. After experiencing such painful torture for a whole year, Liu Ende was already exhausted.
If you look at the old woman carefully, it is not difficult to see that although she is old and the years have covered her appearance when she was young, it can still be roughly seen that this old woman was a great beauty decades ago. She only regretted that time was flies, her hair turned gray and her face was aging. She is grateful to this couple Liu Ende. No matter how mean they are, they will save him. I wonder how to repay this in this completely unfamiliar underworld. Can they really wait until Liu Ende repay them? Could it be to earn some money from the Tiandi Bank? Do old couples abroad really recognize the money from the Great China?
"Little Luga," the old woman said to Liu Ende while busy: "Do you still remember when you were a child outside the fishing village, when I and other women were doing laundry, I often saw you fishing by the river alone, but I was young and clumsy, and I couldn't catch fish, but you just didn't give up. The women around me laughed at you as stupid as you."
"It turns out that I have lived here since I was a child." Liu Ende was secretly surprised in his heart, and asked the old woman: "I really can't remember the story that happened before, but I'm very curious now. I want to know what I owe Dr. Bella?"
The old woman stopped the work at hand, raised her head, stared straight into my eyes, with a very serious attitude.
“A promise.”
Chapter completed!