Chapter 2: The Mysterious Shadow (2)
In response to Yu Hong’s questions, the girl was completely unable to react; she didn’t know which question to answer first.
She stood there in a daze, trembling with the medicine box in her hands. The shaking was so intense that it seemed like the medicine might fall out at any moment.
Click.
The door was pushed open again, from the outside.
A middle-aged woman in a dirty white lab coat walked in. With yellow skin and black hair, wearing black-framed glasses, she was the same woman who had appeared earlier, presumably a doctor.
“I’ll answer your questions. Don’t make things difficult for Yi Yi. She had an illness before and was frightened. Her speech and thoughts aren’t quite right,” the woman said.
She walked over to the bedside and placed a light gray water jug on the wooden nightstand.
“We don’t know how you got here. Last night, Yi Yi went out to gather firewood and accidentally found you in a pit, then dragged you back.”
“When we found you, you were unconscious. There didn’t seem to be any visible injuries, but you were unconscious with a fever. Yi Yi fed you some filtered water, and you finally woke up after waiting through the night.”