Shen Tang was astonished. "A living person? She's still breathing?"
Lin Feng nodded heavily. "Mm, she's still alive."
That was something one rarely came across.
Corpses thrown into the water had generally already been finished off by their enemies, ensuring that the person was well and truly dead. Either they had been stabbed once through the heart and once through the throat, or someone had driven a blade through an eye socket into the brain. No matter how tenacious their vitality, they could not survive that.
To fish out a living person...
What kind of incredible luck did that take?
Shen Tang suddenly found the cake in her hand tasteless.
"Where is she? I have to go take a look."
Kang Shi secretly shook his head. Being thrown into the water did not necessarily mean she had been caught up in the war. She might have tried to take her own life, or been driven into the water after reaching the end of her rope... If it was one of the latter possibilities, being lucky enough to be rescued alive was not impossible...
However, Shen Tang had already gone to watch the excitement.
The person they had rescued was a woman.
Calling her a woman was not quite accurate. Judging from her appearance, she was probably only a few years older than Shen Tang at most—perhaps two or three years past reaching adulthood, making her a girl of seventeen or eighteen. Unlike the delicate, graceful air of the sheltered young women of the day, this person's features were strikingly heroic.
Yet this little girl bore several wounds deep enough to expose bone: one on her shoulder, three crossing her back, two on her arms, and three each on her thighs and calves... Such injuries would have been severe even for