Chapter 46: Gallstones

  I'm driving, suddenly I'm lost, where should I go now?

  I turned back and asked Killer Brother: "You won't die, will you?"

  The killer brother hummed a sound, but was covered in sweat. Su Jingdao said: "I'm afraid even if the bones are broken, it's not necessarily."

  "My goodness!" I knew that the lumbar spine was the most important, it's almost the hub of all nerves in the body. If Killer Brother becomes a high-level paraplegic, I'll have to serve him for the rest of my life?

  "This is all your fault!" I muttered to myself, having seen such things many times since childhood. In the heat of the fight, you hacked someone until they were bleeding profusely, and now you have to take them to the hospital for treatment. After all, taking a life isn't something to be taken lightly. Under the influence of this kind of enlightenment, I drove the car towards the hospital.

  We arrived at the hospital, and Killer Brother still didn't know what I was going to do. He instinctively followed us with his sword scabbard, initially looking like he was about to die. But when he saw all the people with IV drips in the corridor, his expression changed. After waiting for half a day at the registration desk, it was finally my turn. Someone inside asked: "What department are you registering for?"

  I thought for a moment and said: "Let the car crash..."

  "Orthopedics department, what's the patient's name?"

  I was taken aback and suddenly realized I didn't know Killer Brother's name. I turned around and asked him: "What's your name?"

  "Listen up, I'm Duan Tianya - I don't change my name or surname no matter where I go! What tricks do you have up your sleeve?"

  I ignored him and turned my head to say to the window: "Duan Tianya."

  "12 dollars and 50 cents."

  I paid the money and led Su Jing and Duan Tianya into the elevator, along with a middle-aged man leaning on crutches and an elderly woman sitting in a wheelchair, who was being pushed by a nurse, probably just back from a stroll outside.

  Duan Tianya looked at the middle-aged man and then at the old lady, his mouth twitching as he said: "You're so ruthless! Not only did you cripple such a good man, but you didn't even spare someone of this age!"

  The middle-aged man helplessly said: "Brother, hospitals are all like this now, just bear with it."

  The nurse then gave him a white eye and said irritably: "If you have any opinions, go tell our hospital director."

  "This organization is specifically responsible for tormenting people, right?"

  The middle-aged man smiled and said, "You're right in saying so."

  Duan Tianya's face was filled with indignation, and he muttered: "Traitor, traitor!"

  The old lady comforted him in her wheelchair: "Young man, people always have bad luck sometimes, where did you get so angry?"

  Duan Tianya sighed sorrowfully: "Looking at you, you should have been a heroic figure in your early years. At this moment, even the heart of resistance has been worn away?"

  Old lady: “......”

  I hurriedly told them: "Don't talk to him, he's just been hit by a car and isn't clear-headed yet. After I've checked his bones, I'll take him to the mental hospital."

  We went upstairs, and there were still a few people waiting outside the doctor's office. When it was our turn, the doctor briefly asked me about the situation and pressed on Tianya's waist again. Tianya surprisingly had a strong sense of endurance, biting his teeth without making a sound.

  The doctor gave me a prescription: "First go pay the fee, then get a CT scan."

  I spent a few hundred more and brought the two of them to the CT room, where we lined up again. Before long, someone called us in. A man in a white coat sat behind a computer and said, "Have the patient stand in front of the machine and take off their outer garments."

  I pointed to Duantianya and came to the back of the machine, took off his long shirt outside, and this guy was actually wearing a fiery red short jacket inside - Duantianya glared at me angrily: "What do you want to torture me?"

  Before I could even speak, Bai Dabao shouted: "Cut the crap, straighten your waist!"

  Duan Tianya stood up straight and puffed out his chest, the white coat rustled for a while before saying: "Alright, go wait outside."

  After a long wait, I finally got the film. This thing was also my first time seeing it, and I couldn't help but curiously hold it up under the sunlight to examine it carefully. In the midst of the dark shadows, the lumbar vertebrae of Duan Tianya presented a white shadowy scales-like appearance before my eyes.

  "What have you done to me?"

  I shoved the film in front of his nose: "Your bones."

  Duan Tianya jumped back in shock and turned pale: "What do you want to do?"

  The white coat scolded us: "Go outside, can you understand?"

  I hastily went back upstairs to find the doctor, and the doctor glanced at the film with a casual look and said: "The bone is not broken, probably soft tissue injury, rest for a month." As he spoke, he also gave me another prescription, "Go down and pay the fee, then pick up the medicine." I took a look at the prescription, in addition to the usual Sanqi injury medicine and musk tiger bone plaster, there was also a bunch of nutritional fluids, and when I went to pay, it added up to over 600 yuan...

  I carried a pile of medicine out of the hospital, threw it onto the passenger seat and said with a gloomy face: "I don't know if you're here to take my life or my money, I spent almost 2000 yuan this afternoon!"

  Duan Tianya climbed onto the carriage, dazed and confused, saying: "Is that it?"

  "What else do you want?" I threw him the medicine and a bottle of water: "Take it yourself."

  "What is this?"

  "Just eat if you want to eat, what's with all the nonsense?"

  Duan Tianya clutched a handful of pills in his palm, tilted his head back and swallowed them all at once. I didn't bother him, anyway the medicine wouldn't kill him. Su Jing saw that he was struggling to open the bottle with a helpless expression, so she reached out and helped him twist it open.

  After getting back on the road, the three people in the car all looked like they had a lot on their minds. Duan Tianya seemed to have come back to his senses and hesitated for a long time before saying: "You didn't mean to torment me?"

  I glared at him and didn't say a word.

  Duan Tianya said: "Originally, you wanted to torture me, I would rather die than speak. However, since you are still somewhat decent, ask whatever you want to know and I will tell you everything I can."

  Su Jing inserted a sentence: "We don't have anything we want to know either. You're just here from the Hei Jie Continent to assassinate the Reincarnated Sword God."

  Duan Tianya paused for a moment, unwilling to give up, and said: "Then you don't want to know who sent me?"

  "Who else could there be besides Emperor Heigis and the Military Ministry?"

  Duan Tianya said: "Although they are in charge of us, we don't directly belong to them."

  "Who are you?"

  "I am a man of three-colored stone."

  Su Jing thought for a moment with her chin in her hand and said: "Three Color Stone - is that the killer organization with three sub-teams under its jurisdiction, namely Red, Yellow and Green?"

  Duan Tianya seemed dissatisfied with Su Jing's reaction and raised his voice: "I am the captain of the Three Color Stone Red Character Team!"

  Su Jing said with a hint of surprise: "No wonder you were sent, is the Red Team specialized in assassination?"

  Duan Tianya's face had a hint of color: "Not bad, so Lu Renjia, with the prestige of being a Sword Saint, can only coordinate with my actions. He'll lure you away, then I'll take action."

  I inserted a sentence: "As a result, you were hit by three bums?" No wonder he wore a red short jacket inside, now thinking about it, this must be one of their organizational methods to identify themselves.

  "Unexpected, that's all it was, unexpected. To be honest, I couldn't bear the thought of the former Sword God dying at my hands. Otherwise, do you think you'd still be alive now?"

  Su Jingdao said, "The Three-Colored Stone is nothing special, it's just a few petty thieves who have succeeded. The only thing I want to know is how you knew that I was looking for the Sword God?"

  Duan Tianya said, "Don't forget that the Qingzi team under the Qing altar of Sanse Stone is specifically responsible for all kinds of intelligence. Your Nüguo thinks it's absolutely confidential, but in fact, the news has been leaked out. So, you shouldn't look down on us Sanse Stone."

  Su Jing nodded and said, "This time I came to find Sword God, it was indeed a lot of trouble for many people. Originally, I didn't think I could hide for long, but you guys moved too fast - what benefits did Sanseki get this time?"

  "Money!"

  Su Jingdao said: "Has your leader ever thought that if this mission fails, you will offend two sword gods?"

  Duan Tianya turned his head to one side and said, "Wealth and honor are sought in danger, so these things can't be taken into consideration. Our Three-Colored Stones have participated in countless assassinations and palace struggles on the two continents, and those big shots we've taken down were all roles that could bring us catastrophic disaster with just a word. If we had always been afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind, the Three-Colored Stones would not have been born from the very beginning."

  Su Jing smiled and said: "You're right, it seems that after I go back, I'll have to find the three-color stone's bad luck and teach you guys a lesson on how to be human, or else you'll be blinded by money."

  Duan Tianya said coldly: "Rest assured, you will definitely not be able to return!"

  Su Jing's eyebrows furrowed: "Oh, why are you so confident?"

  Duan Tianya said: "I don't know about this, I only know that our boss's plans have never gone wrong." After saying this sentence, he remained silent and started staring out the window...

  Taking this opportunity, I popularized traffic knowledge to him. I stopped the car at the intersection and pointed to the traffic light, saying: "See, in the future when crossing the road, go on green and stop on red, and no car will be able to hit you again."

  Duan Tianya looked at the red light in front of us, then looked at me, my face turned red, and I thought he saw through my plan to borrow a knife to kill someone. Unexpectedly, he said to me: "How do I see that it's all one color?"

  "...At first I thought he was joking with me, but then I thought he shouldn't be in such a mood. I picked up a can of bright red strawberry flavored chewing gum and asked him: "Then what color do you say this is?"

  "This... is dark..."

  I picked up another can of banana flavor: "How about this one?"

  "This... is also dark."

  I threw the can aside and said with relief: "Alright, you've crossed the road a few more times, I'll be at ease."

  Su Jing asked me strangely: "How could he be like this?"

  "Everyone is color blind." I turned back and asked Duan Tianya, "Does everyone in your organization wear the same style of short jacket as you?"

  Duan Tianya nodded: "Same."

  "What about the color?"

  Duan Tianya lowered his head and took a look, then said, "It's the same."

  "Didn't you make this dress yourself?"

  "No, it's the host who uniformly distributed them to each of us."

  "Oh, then how did you know they were from those two gangs when you saw other brothers in the organization?"

  "Every time we meet they introduce themselves - what's with all the questions?"

  "Never mind." I saw the green light and started driving with concentration: "So, in your eyes, the three-colored stone is actually a gallstone, all one color."

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  Gallstones sometimes seem colorful too, don't delve into it. Total color blindness can't distinguish any pigment, only light and dark sensations.