Huo Yushen's face revealed a faint, barely perceptible smile as he said slowly, "How are you going to thank her? Saving your life isn't an ordinary favor."
A smile curved Miao Mei's lips. "Didn't you already sign all of us over to her as bodyguards? Twenty years of personal service..."
Huo Yushen raised a brow. "...You heard that? You were conscious then?"
Miao Mei said, "I wasn't at first, but after I heard that Voice of Nature, my mind gradually became clear."
"Although I couldn't move at the time, I could still hear some of what was happening outside, though not all of it."
Huo Yushen lowered his eyes.
So Xia Chujian's long howl could also restore the sanity of humans whose genes had been corrupted by the Zerg? But he had howled too...
Calm and collected, Huo Yushen asked, "The Voice of Nature you heard—are you sure it was a woman's voice, not a man's?"
Miao Mei said, "Although the voice sounded quite androgynous, I knew it belonged to a young woman."
"Even if it leaned toward androgynous, it was still different from a man's voice."
Huo Yushen was certain now. It hadn't been his howl.
It seemed his howl was only effective against the Mental Pollution of Remnants. It had little effect on the Zerg's corruption, which penetrated deep into the genes.
With that realization, his opinion of Xia Chujian rose another level.
Huo Yushen asked again, "Other than that Voice of Nature, what else did you hear?"
Miao Mei said, "...A lot of chaotic, noisy sounds, and then everything went quiet."
"After an unknown amount of time had passed, the owner of that Voice of Nature spoke to me."
Huo Yushen was somewhat surprised. "She spoke to you? What did she say?"
Miao Mei pressed her lips