Inside the cave safe house.
The faint morning sunlight seeped in through the inspection window shutters.
Yu Hong leaned against the fireplace wall, slowly waking from a groggy dream.
His brow was tightly furrowed, and he tilted his neck, feeling some numbness in his back and stiffness in his cervical spine, probably from being compressed.
Upon opening his eyes, his first action was to look at Doctor Xu lying on the sleeping bag.
The guy was sleeping soundly, his complexion much better than yesterday.
"Doctor Xu? Doctor Xu?" he called out a few times.
Doctor Xu slowly moved her eyelids, her legs twitched, and suddenly she opened her eyes, showing a look of alertness.
"Am I still alive...?"
"It seems so," Yu Hong replied, "I thought you were paralyzed yesterday, but thankfully you recovered after lying down for the night."
Doctor Xu propped herself up, her dry lips moved.
