Su Bai declined Zhang Yibu's offer to help him walk. He could still manage the next stretch on his own.
Whether he closed his eyes to rest or braced himself against the wall, Su Bai was simply listening to his body, resting whenever he could to make the side effects a little easier to bear.
In truth, as long as Su Bai was willing to endure the pain of those side effects and keep his body in a state of extreme discomfort, neither keeping pace with Yue Zhengqing and the others nor killing a few Ghost Creatures in this eerie apartment building right then would be difficult for him.
To Su Bai, feeling pain and enduring pain were two different things.
He felt pain because his body was only Regular human. Even an ordinary cold or fever would make him suffer.
But enduring pain...
For some reason, Su Bai kept feeling that although this bout of side effects left his head muddled, his body weak, and every bone aching, he seemed to have experienced far more painful, indescribable torment in his previous life.
He simply could not recall any memories of it.
It was like someone surviving seven days and nights of burning in flames. Even if all their wounds healed, even if they lost their memories, even if their next burn still hurt, the skin-flaying agony lingering in their body meant that nothing was truly unbearable anymore.
Like the Little Merfolk in the fairy tale from the Real World, even if every step felt as though she were walking on knife points, once she grew accustomed to it, she could feel the pain and still dance upon those blades.
Su Bai was in much the same state.
"Thank you." Su Bai drew back the right hand he had braced