"You cried?"
"I didn't!"
"Then what's this?" Cheng Shi kicked Chen Shu's foot aside and pointed at the wet trace on the floor beneath him.
"Gasoline."
"?"
"Ji Yue said she wanted to die in the flames, so I prepared to burn her."
"..."
There was really no way to respond to that, because Cheng Shi had indeed seen a bucket of gasoline in Chen Shu's hand.
Seriously, bro!?
How did you manage to pull out that bucket of gasoline while crying?
And where did you get so many buckets of gasoline?
Did you rob a gas station?
Cheng Shi had initially thought he would run into a different Chen Shu, but as it turned out, he had simply overthought things.
Chen Shu was still Chen Shu. He had merely shed some of his noisy pretense.
He pushed Chen Shu away irritably and sat down beside the bed. As he carefully examined Ji Yue's injuries, he avoided Chen Shu's view and quietly drew a symbol of Order on Ji Yue's back.
Ji Yue's injuries were indeed severe. Any Priest who came would only shake their head. Treatment alone could not save this Fire Keeper, unless the Gravekeeper personally kept her alive.
But Squinty Old Zhang had not been assigned here, and Cheng Shi was not the Gravekeeper today either, so he could only use another method to share some of her pain.
Justice Official!
A Priest of Order could balance vitality between two people. Its effect was similar to the Symbiotic Cord Squinty Old Zhang had once used. As it happened, Cheng Shi had deceived a believer of Order in the previous round, so when Shadow Cheng Shi sent back news that Ji Yue was gravely wounded, Cheng Shi had already made a plan.
He once again blasphemed a certain