"Rumble, rumble, rumble."
The Flash Grenade began rolling over the mountain.
Xu Nian woke from her nightmare, her head drenched in sweat.
She seemed to have had a nightmare, but once she woke, she could remember nothing.
Wiping her forehead, she struggled to get out of bed and turn on the light.
Xu Nian thought the lights here had been arranged terribly.
The township Clinic had adequate facilities: one doctor, a few nurses, and several brick rooms. Three beds had been placed in this room to serve as a ward. Next door was the medicine storeroom, which had a large freezer containing antivenom for several common local snakes, as well as insulin.
She wondered whether storing insulin and antivenom together might render one of them ineffective because they required different storage temperatures.
The ward's light could be switched on with a pull cord.
But the cord was by the door, where someone entering could conveniently pull it.
The light here was the same kind of incandescent tube they used to have in schools, painfully bright.
Xu Nian still had a slight fever, and her steps felt unsteady.
Standing barefoot on the floor, however, felt very comfortable.
She felt heat against her chest. Reaching down, she discovered that the Rhinoceros Horn Lingguan hanging there was growing hot.
"What is this?"
Then she remembered. Her teacher had hung it around her neck before she came down the mountain.
Professor Han had said it had been passed down by her grandmaster—Professor Han's own grandmaster—and had been handed down through three generations. It was supposed to go to Ran Zhihui after Professor Han retired.
Unfortunately, something had happened to Ran Zhihui.
At that thought, Xu Nian recalled what Ran Zhihui had looked like, and a chill ran through her.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble."
Outside, the