Chapter 153: Peace offering.
When the three girls and Xiao Lian got down the cliff, the sight of Lee on the riverbank left them speechless.
If earlier he was covered in dreadtalon blood, then now he was bleeding all over from large open wounds, mostly on his extremities.
There were still around half a dozen dark colored palm-sized fishes biting down on Lee’s arms and legs, with one stuck dangerously close to his family jewels. And several more were lying at his feet – apparently he had removed them earlier, but the spots they had bitten at were currently profusely bleeding.
This was the reason why Xiao Lian panicked seeing Lee fall in the water, not the fact that he fell off the cliff. Breaking a leg or even both was nothing compared to jumping in those deadly waters – he and Lee tried it, except this time Lee looked beyond miserable.
Xiao Lian’s sigh of relief seemed completely out of place when he went to help Lee to remove the rest of the fishes. The three girls were completely blanked out and Lee had to call them several times until they heard him.
"Do you have any spare bandages?" Lee asked for the third time, "We used our last ones when we tested the waters yesterday."
"I’m sorry little L ... I’m sorry, Lee! I didn’t know there were ..."It slowly registered in Ling Xiaotao’s brain what exactly happened, and the shock was quickly replaced with panic.
She was young and playful, and didn’t intend to seriously hurt him, but she had never seen anyone injured so badly and it obviously was her fault.
"Don’t care!" Lee said, "Do you have any bandages or not? I need to stop the bleeding!"
His own clothing was in tatters and wet, and seeing there was no reaction from the girls, Lee began to tear off the sleeves and crudely bandage the wounds on legs first. With Xiao Lian’s help they patched him up, but had to use pieces of both of their clothing.
In the end the two boys were wearing something that resembled torn shorts and t-shirts, to not speak about Lee’s condition.