Cthulhu Gonfalon - Chapter 62

On the second day, Sui Xiong and Lei bid farewell to Lovell and Olivia, continued their journey to the south.
Due to Lei’s intense request, they got to the most luxurious restaurant in the Gerton city, had an expensive breakfast and then bought some camping necessities. Lei no longer carried those worn-out cheap space bags by his side.
Doing these things wasted a lot of time. After they had really left the city, it was almost noon.
"Frankly speaking, we should stay here to have lunch before going." Lei made a suggestion.
Just doing these inessential things had delayed a whole morning, Sui Xiong could no longer bear, immediately outraged, jumped several times, "Leave right now! Right now! Immediately! Immediately! Even a second cannot be delayed!"
Lei sighed deeply, put the backpack on his back, sadly left the city.
Don’t know how long I will see another human after leaving today!
"The Ancient Wood Desolate Marsh, the Broken Cloud Mountain Range, the Immemorial Forest... We could only return to the civilized world after arriving in the Mystique Tower Federation!" He was exclaiming as he was going, "I have to eat and sleep with wilderness along the way, not to mention have to deal with all kinds of dangers----why I have to go such sufferings!"
"I think I need to perform some little brain surgery on you, cut off those boring and hatred thoughts." Sui Xiong cruelly said.
Lei sighed, shook his head then silently advanced.
But Sui Xiong could clearly hear he was constantly cursing the "Cold Tyrant" inside.
Lei’s physique was really good. Despite the backpack on his back, his advancing speed didn’t slow down. At noon, after lunch, they had already left the densely populated area and entered a completely desolate wood.
"Remember the last time when we entered the wood, we heard a scream then found an exotic flower." Sui Xiong laughed then said, "Don’t know if we could a fine one this time----"
Before Sui Xiong could finish his words, a familiar scream for help came into their ears.
"This voice sounds a little bit familiar." Sui Xiong said.
"Of course it sounds familiar. Isn’t it Stelle’s!" Lei angrily put away his dry food, once again shouldered the backpack, held his pike as he rushed over the place where the scream came from, "How can this exotic flower run to this wood! Wouldn’t she find another group of lovers to satisfy again..."
The truth proved that he falsely accused Stelle this time.
When they rushed over, Stelle was escaping.
She wore a common adventure leather jacket. Her hands held jewelry instead of some practical sword. She was screaming for help while running for her life. By the sweats on her face as well as her struggling appearance, she must have been running for a while. Especially, there were few wounds with blood stain on her body. She clearly had been through a fight and severely wounded.
Not far behind here were pairs of ominous wolf eyes. These wolves were leisurely chasing her, waiting until she was exhausted to join forces attacking her. Or in the fight, Stelle had outburst her power to beat two wolves, which made the hunt of these people become harder. Therefore, they had chosen another method, starting to chase her, to make her, who was severely injured, exhaust her last strength to avoid danger.
When seeing Lei’s appearance, Stelle was overjoyed, screaming out loud for help.
Maybe because a savior had come, or maybe because she had been strongly running for a while, she immediately paralyzed, staggered then fell down to the ground. This time, she really could not stand up.
Fortunately, Lei ran really fast, stole her from the pack of wolves. Facing a grand formidable knight with a pike in his hand, this pack of wolves, which only liked to bully the weak, discontentedly retreated and soon disappeared without a trace.
Lei was too lazy to chase them. Those wolves were just ordinary wild beasts. To an experienced adventurer, they were not a threat, their fighting powers were even weaker than a normal person’s------knowing her own strength was not enough to fight but still ran into this barren and desolate place like this, she must have prepared to be the food for the wolves. Even a God couldn’t save a person who thought he was dead, not to mention Lei was not a god.
After chasing the pack of wolves, he turned back to see Stelle’s situation. He immediately furrowed his brows as he saw her condition.
The wounds on Stelle’s body were much more serious than he expected.

Her limbs had several bites, which were definitely from the wolves. These kinds of wounds were really complicated to sew. If it got the saliva of the wolves, it would almost lead to infection or even the dangerous werewolf disease.... If one had been infected with that disease, it would mean they had set half of the foot into the underworld.
However, those wounds were not the most serious. The most serious one lied on the stabbed wound on under her left rib. Lei checked a little bit, then determined this wound was not different from a fatal one-----after that, he took a dagger to poke into the wound under her rib. What scarier was that there was poison on the dagger. A black poison blood came out from the mouth of the wound.
He didn’t think she could be able to hang on for a long time like this with such a fatal wound.
"Her heart grows on the right. Her lungs also have some deformity." After a quick scan, Sui Xiong could be able to get to the bottom of the matter, "The key is that blade has missed and thus couldn’t harm her lungs. Therefore, she still got the strength to fight and run away. Maybe the poison has spread inside her body. She generally can’t be saved."
Lei knew that the so-called "can’t be saved" of Sui Xiong only meant "I don’t want to save". If this jellyfish god was willing to, he could still do it.
However, wasting his effort to save this kind of lowly and licentious woman?
It was obviously unnecessary.
Stelle perhaps knew her situation. She forced a smile. After letting Lei check her injuries, she found a comfortable posture to lie down.
"Giant Dragon sire, thank you for saving my life----although it is just temporary, as compared to being eaten by wolves, being able to die peacefully is also a happiness of mine."
It was probably like the words of a person on his deathbed. Her face seemed very calm. Due to losing too much blood, her face was strange. But there was no licentious feel but somewhat a quiet and contented feel from her.
"Who stabbed you?" Lei asked in a low tone, "Murdering a nobleman is not a small thing!"
"Nobleman? Ha ha, it’s not." Stelle bitterly smiled then said, "That is my servant. I originally thought that after all, I still got a loyal servant after being expelled from the Gerton’s dominion. But it turned out he followed me because of the wealth..."
"He has run far. Wait until we block the road, we send him off to meet you!" Lei coldly asked.
Although he was fed up with this dissolute woman, he hated the servant who betrayed his master more!
"No need, I’ve already killed him----I don’t know where he could get some of the thief gut, but it is only this much... These years, probably due to my attitude, everyone has already forgotten that I can shoot arrow, swing swords and ride horse; and that I am a woman in a dominion, how come I can’t fight!"
She laughed out loud. There were some threads of blood flowing out from the corner of her mouth.
"You should stop saying. Or else it just causes you more pain." Lei advised.
Stelle sighed, turned her face up to the sky, didn’t say a word, thought about something.
A while later, Lei originally thought she had stopped breathing. She suddenly opened her mouth to speak, "Giant Dragon sire, I want to entreat something."
"What’s the matter? As long as it doesn’t go against my principle, then it is possible." Facing a heavily wounded dying woman, Lei couldn’t help but somewhat become gullible.
Lei’s hair stood on end as he heard those words. He was driven mad even more, "Why don’t you hurry to come up with some solution for me! You are a God, I am your believer! You can’t stand still and see me being stuck with this bad luck!"
"With the terrible level of the noble circle. I don’t find this a bad luck..." Sui Xiong whispered, "She hasn’t died yet anyway... Even if she has died, there is the saying that goes "strike while the iron is hot". Right, don’t you know? In a distant country, there was a king, whose wife was about to die and would be buried soon. He still couldn’t stand and strike one try.. ."
Lei was angered till the point that his entire body was shaking. His right hand was pressing hard against the sword handle, wanting to take away the life of this chatty Sui Xiong who had made an unsatisfied remark.
Seeing him being overly angered, Sui Xiong also stopped teasing him, silenced for a while then showed a figure.
"Stelle - Gerton. I don’t want to save a person like you. But if I don’t save you, my believer will have to face a plight that he could not keep his words. Therefore, you have to thank your luck, your last crazy thought. I give you one last chance."
While saying, he reached out his hands, which were like a sharp blade, stabbing into Stelle’s comatose body.
"Wounded? Lost too much blood? Poisoned? Those are nothing! Even if you die, I can also make you alive again!"