Zhou was still defending himself against the goblins. I thrusted my spear in the head of both goblins and kicked them away.
"we can eat now" I smiled at Zhou. He probably wet himself from the goblins if he still has any left in him
He didn't say a word as he dropped the glass shard and began scanning the shelves. He opened anything with a wrapper and engulfed it in an instant. Cute monkey.
I opened the corpse of one of the goblins to try looking for any green crystals. To my surprise there weren't any. The wounds on my thighs couldn't be healed for the time being. Goblin organs weren't anything special really the things were all in the same place as a human's would be. Save for the heart. The heart was twice the size of a human's heart at that size. It was the size of more than an adults heart with the size of a child's body. The goblins didn't use any magical abilities during the fight either. Was the green crystal related to the magic output of a monster?
I walked behind the counter to look for any first aid bandages. To my Luck, there was some wrapping bandages I could tie myself up with.
Zhou later approached me as I took my pants off to tie up the wounds. He looked stunned to see me wearing so little and covered his eyes and asked me if he could help patch me up. he seemed to know first aid, and in his words, it was 'the least he could do'.
He looked at me and told me "you need stitches, but we don't have any here" he warned me "I need to tie it and cover with a bandage. You mustn't fight too hard until we can stitch you together, maybe there are some in the city."
He pressed iodine over a cotton patch and pressed it over the stab wounds and bite wounds in my thigh. In total there were maybe 5 wounds: 2 stab wounds and 3 bite wounds. Then there was the one on my shoulder.
He then wrapped bandages covering both upper parts of my thigh, and managed to blush every time he started by my waist. It took some time until he finished, and I then pointed to my shoulder, with another bite wound on it. we worked in silence until he moved over to my back and gasped suddenly.
"what's wrong?" I asked
"nothing" he answered quietly.
I probably didn't cover the burn marks that well. It was weird that I had any on my back, despite being only harmed in the chest. it may have been from being inside the dragon.
"I used to be a delivery man before the monsters appeared" I listened to him silently as he worked over my shoulder. "I lost my wife and daughter in a crash on the streets. They were eaten Infront of my as I ran away."
He felt him sigh on my shoulder
"Then, when I ran away earlier. I was reminded of the guilt I had that day.'" He continued to say that "even if I died, It would be better than living with the guilt of leaving 3 people to die to the same monsters."
"aww isn't that sweet" I poked fun at him. "… thank you." I told him. "I hope you keep living until this is over"
We sat in silence again for a little while longer even though he was done applying bandages.
He zoned out, staring at my back without saying any words.
It was a long week for the both of us. It was more than enough to need a little rest.
***
The first high rise building could be seen now that we moved closer to the city. We didn't have much trouble in the last couple hours of walking.
Every so often, we would stop to loot a car or change course to avoid Goblins and the such. There had been one time where I had to pierce the head of one without trouble.
I was curious about the tattoos again. Did monkey have one? He didn't wield anything obvious in battle so i assumed he didn't. that being said, his movements in running were abnormally fast, there could be a chance he had something like the void circle on my left wrist.
"Zhan, do you have a circle on your wrists?"
"my name is Zhou, and yes, there is a circle that appeared on my left wrist"
It was cute watching him be more at ease around me.
"Can you show me?" I stopped in my tracks, making Zhou bump into me from behind.
Zhou lift up his left arm exposing his wrist and it showed a similar shape to mine. Kind of like the black hole from intersteller. The only difference was that mine had a filling inside of it and his was just an outline.
"when and how did you get this, zhou" I looked him in the eyes.
"i… it appeared while I was running away that day. I felt a tingling sensation on my wrist and my running got faster." I was surprised he even told me to be honest.
I made a face that told him I got what I wanted, and we kept on walking.
I started making sense of the [void]
The [void] symbol is something that enhances the movements you were doing when you earned it.
Monkey was running away when he got it, and he got faster at running after the symbol appeared on him.
For me, I was using my entire body in an extreme way, so most my movements were enhanced. I was also trying to think of how to kill a dragon, so my thoughts also were enhanced
'Insight into [the void] has increased'
'it's also another fact the more thoughts that I had in line with the path of the [void] will increase my insight. I don't feel anything has changed, so these ''messages'' could mean that I increased it a fraction of a percentage.'
"We've arrived"