The young player's attention was fixed on the tall, burly man. When he saw him stop, the man in the seat lifted his hat too and said weakly, "I'm injured. Go find another seat."
Under normal circumstances, the tall, burly man definitely wouldn't have let it go. He would've wanted to save face after being left with his bare backside exposed. But when he heard the man speak, he laughed awkwardly. "You're a patient, after all. Fair enough."
Then he chose an empty seat.
The bus settled down again. The passengers all looked away in unison, some going back to sleep, others watching TV. Two older women were cheerfully entertaining a child.
The music, snoring, and crying child made Xu Huo's head feel like it was about to explode. He pressed his hat against his face, the veins at his temples throbbing over and over.
He'd still fallen into a trap during his trip to Country Y. After boarding the train, he'd discovered that his arm was injured. The flesh beneath the skin on his right forearm had begun to rot, and eventually an open wound appeared. When he cut it open, the rot had already reached the bone.
The Self-Healing Agent and Antidote hadn't worked. King Fungus hyphae kept repairing the wound, but the burning pain and swelling returned again and again, leaving him exhausted and irritable.
Unfortunately, he'd already used the bounty feature this month, so he couldn't find out what was going on through the game platform for the time being. He'd thought he could look for clues in the new Sub-district after getting off, but it turned out the Dimensional Train had arrived in a remote mountain forest. A bus to the county seat passed through only once a day.
The bus could seat twenty-nine people,