Chapter 13: Saving the Wounded Soldier?

For those soldiers who were clearly beyond help due to severe injuries, there were special personnel who would ‘relieve their pain’—they used a very exquisite metal hammer, forcefully striking it down on the fatal spot at the back of a person’s head. This could instantly kill the severely wounded soldier without any pain.

Someone with injuries like Pierce’s was clearly the type who should be ‘relieved of his pain’.

However, because Pierce was known in the city as a famous strongman, had fought bloodily in battle, continuously destroyed two siege ladders with outstanding performance, and also because the Royal Guard’s Squadron Leader Brook had specifically instructed them to wait, they had delayed until now.

“How is he?” Sun Fei asked the young physician, clinging to a sliver of hope.

“I’m sorry, Your Majesty the King, we have done our best. However, his internal organs were shaken and are almost shattered. Even a high-level Divine Master from the Holy Church wouldn’t be able to treat such injuries!”

Divine Master?

Sun Fei caught an interesting keyword from the young physician’s words.

But now was clearly not the time for him to ask detailed questions. He quickly thought in his mind, trying to find a solution.

Several physicians wearing white robes came over and bowed respectfully to Sun Fei.

They were holding a large wooden tray, on which lay an exquisite small hammer and some nails with a peculiar shape. Those were precisely the tools used to relieve the pain of the severely wounded. Pierce was the last severely wounded soldier. Although he was in a coma, it was clear that he was suffering great pain. His injuries wouldn’t take his life immediately, and blood was gushing out from his wounds and mouth like mineral water…

An older physician slightly propped Pierce up from behind.

Another young physician had already placed that peculiarly shaped nail against the back of his head. Just as the hammer was about to fall—

“Wait!”

Sun Fei couldn’t help but stop the physician’s action.

He truly couldn’t bear the thought of such a real brave warrior, who hadn’t died under the enemy’s sword in battle, leaving the world in such a humiliating way. For a man like the white-haired Pierce, this was simply a disgrace… Moreover, Sun Fei wanted Pierce to live.

“But… how should I save him?”

Sun Fei’s brain was working rapidly.

Just then, Pierce, who had been severely injured and unconscious since being carried down from the city wall, seemed to sense something. He miraculously woke up. He opened his eyes, saw Alexander standing in front of him, then looked at the physician supporting him. His gaze finally fell on the small hammer, and he suddenly showed a smile: “Cough cough cough… My turn? Do it…”

Pierce didn’t say a single word to Sun Fei.

Because he had been severely injured and fallen unconscious before Sun Fei displayed his divine power, he didn’t know that the former fool king had now become the hero of Shampoo City.

The physician raised the hammer again.

“Wait…”

Sun Fei spoke up once more to stop the physician.

He looked down at the disoriented Pierce, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind. He lowered his head and said: “Pierce, maybe I have a way to save you, but you might have to endure more pain.”

“You? Ha… Alex… Alexander, Your Maj…esty, this… this… joke isn’t… funny… If… if you care for your soldiers… then… then I hope… hope you can… can give my poor nine-year-old daughter Louise a… piece of bread!”

Although not fully conscious, Pierce clearly didn’t trust the king standing before him at all. Believe the words of an idiot? Did you think I, Pierce, am an idiot too? But when he mentioned his daughter, Sun Fei clearly saw a trace of worry in the eyes of this fierce man who hadn’t even flinched when the enemy’s longsword pierced his body.

“What? Are you afraid of pain?” Sun Fei squatted down, a mocking smile on his face.

He was deliberately provoking Pierce.

It worked!

Pierce took the bait easily.

This hot-tempered guy struggled desperately to sit up, as if a male lion in the middle of mating had its mate taken away. Instantly, his wounds burst open and blood flowed wildly again: “Ha… haha… ha… I… I, Pierce, would… would be afraid of pain? Cough cough cough… I…”

Sun Fei was startled.

This guy really had a donkey’s temper. He didn’t dare provoke him further. If he kept stimulating him, Pierce would probably spit blood to death. Leaving behind the words, “If you’re not afraid of pain then hold on, for your daughter’s sake,” Sun Fei quickly turned and left the wounded treatment center.

As soon as he went out, he saw Brook coming towards him hastily with Angela and Gemma.

The two beautiful girls, Angela and Gemma, had flushed faces. When they saw Sun Fei come out, their eyes lit up, their watery big eyes filled with disbelief.

Ha, it seemed these two girls had fully learned about his ‘heroic deeds’.

Sun Fei felt a wave of relief and couldn’t help but act smug again.

“Your Majesty the King, Pierce, he…” Brook asked full of hope.

“Maybe there’s still hope…” Sun Fei wasn’t very confident about the method he was about to try, so he could only shrug and say: “I can only give it a try. If we’re lucky, Pierce might keep his life.”

“That’s wonderful.” Brook was overjoyed.

As one of the few professional soldiers in Shampoo City who had witnessed killing, Brook clearly knew how severe Pierce’s injuries were—they were almost certainly fatal. Originally, he had only come to ask Alexander out of a sliver of hope, but he hadn’t expected this miraculous king to actually have a way.

“Oh, Brook, this wounded treatment center is too simple. Don’t we have a better place to accommodate the injured soldiers?”

Sun Fei was very dissatisfied with this so-called wounded treatment center.

Brook was stunned and seemed to hesitate to speak.

Instead, the little Lori Gemma following him, who was a bit breathless from walking too fast, didn’t spare Sun Fei any face. Rolling her eyes, she sarcastically said: “Isn’t this because of you? If you hadn’t listened to that dead fat pig Gerger’s slander, sold all the valuable things in the treatment center for fun, not only drove away the physicians but even tore down the windows, the treatment center wouldn’t have become like this…”

Sun Fei was embarrassed.

So he had done such a rotten thing before.

“Besides here, is there any other spacious place suitable for accommodating the wounded soldiers?” Sun Fei ignored the blonde little Lori who was challenging him like a small sparrow and turned to ask Brook.

“The Holy Church’s church in Shampoo City, and Herald Bazel’s residence, can both accommodate them, but… but…” Brook spoke in one breath but suddenly hesitated at the end, his tone becoming faltering.

“But what?” Sun Fei was very curious.

Brook didn’t know how to say it.

“The two places Uncle Brook mentioned indeed have enough space to accommodate these wounded soldiers, but Alexander, you can’t do that…” Angela, who hadn’t spoken until now, patiently explained: “Because the Divine Masters evacuated Shampoo City before the enemy attacked, the church has been sealed. We don’t have the right to open it, otherwise we would face severe punishment from the Holy Church. On the Azeroth Continent, no country dares to oppose the Holy Church. As for Herald Bazel’s residence, it’s not very convenient right now…”

This explanation was a bit vague to Sun Fei.

Once again, he realized that even though he had absorbed Alexander’s memories, his understanding of this world was still pitifully small. Seeing Angela speak so seriously, Sun Fei couldn’t help but tease her: “Is the Holy Church so powerful that even a king can’t control them?”

The blonde little Lori started opposing Sun Fei again: “When the city’s Divine Masters were leaving, even the enemies outside the city didn’t dare to stop them. Instead, they respectfully saw the Divine Masters off. Isn’t that powerful enough? Even those Ninth-Level Empires that dominate the Azeroth Continent don’t dare to openly oppose the Church.”

Sun Fei smiled wryly and didn’t press the issue further.

His knowledge of the continent’s powers was too little; asking more would really expose him. He quickly diverted the trio’s attention: “Alright then, besides the church and Herald Bazel’s residence, is there any other place?”

Brook shook his head.

Angela and Gemma also shook their heads, seeming to have no good ideas either.

Seeing this, Sun Fei rubbed his chin. He was already considering Herald Bazel’s residence. That bastard fat pig Gerger, Bazel’s son, still had an unsettled score with him. If the son was like that, the father probably wasn’t a good person either. Occupying such a person’s residence didn’t give Sun Fei the slightest guilt.

Just then—

“I know there’s another place!” the blonde little Lori Gemma suddenly spoke up.

“Where?” Sun Fei, Angela, and Brook were overjoyed and asked in unison.

The blonde little Lori stared at Sun Fei, a mischievous smile appearing on her face, her two shallow dimples full of pride: “The front courtyard of Your Majesty the King’s palace can completely accommodate the wounded soldiers. Hee hee, it just depends on whether you’re willing or not!”

Sun Fei’s eyes lit up.

“Good idea, let’s do it. Brook, organize people as soon as possible, move all the wounded soldiers to the front courtyard of the Great Hall. Inform all physicians, no matter how severe the injuries, to try their best to keep the soldiers alive. Leave the rest to me to figure out!”

Brook was greatly surprised: “Your Majesty, how can that be?”

“Why can’t it be?” Sun Fei chuckled: “They bled for me, can’t I provide them a better place for treatment?”

The blonde little Lori Gemma was completely stunned.

She had suggested this idea not to solve the problem, but purely out of a childish desire to oppose Sun Fei. She hadn’t expected… “Hey, Alexander, have you really decided this?” the little Lori asked unwillingly.