A Gold Coin and a Girl

But clearly, Quill was still a step too late.

Leo crouched down and looked at the little girl before him, reaching out to wipe the dust from her face.

A patch of fair skin appeared on her dirt-covered face.

But the moment Leo's fingers touched the little girl, he felt her body tremble, and fear showed in her eyes.

Leo naturally looked toward the girl's arm and saw several deep bloodstains on it.

It looked as though she had been scratched while passing through a thicket of thorns.

Or as though she had been viciously whipped several times with thorny branches, with the wounds still oozing a faint trace of blood.

Leo took the girl's injured right arm, and a faint Golden Light shone from his hand and seeped into it.

The several wounds wrapped in rags began rapidly healing before their eyes.

After the bloody wounds oozed a few drops of fresh blood once more, they completely returned to normal.

The girl also felt the pain in her wounds rapidly lessen, until even the pain she had felt before disappeared completely.

Leo's powerful affinity helped the girl relax considerably around this clean, big Brother.

Leo flicked two fingers of his right hand, and a hundred-unit gold coin appeared in his hand. It was one of the universal currencies of the cosmos. Naturally, it was not made of gold, but of an extraordinarily complex technological alloy.

It also bore the anti-counterfeiting marks of the Three Great Empires and an intricate design.

The cost of copying such a coin would definitely exceed its actual value.

So there was no fear of others forging it, and there were channels everywhere for converting the coin into electronic currency.

Of course, a gold coin like this was not worth little. The currency in circulation