Chapter 538 In the Sea: Cocolia Looks at You with a Smile

"Well!"

Before he even realized what was happening, his upper body had skillfully jumped up from the bed.

Then, as expected, he met the familiar face of Cocolia.

"Xie'er finally woke up?"

"Uh...Mother Cocolia..."

Unknown birds were chirping by the window, and the too bright sunlight stung the eyes, which also brought about a severe sense of time and space confusion, so that Xi'er looked at Cocolia's smile and was a little unable to react for a moment.

"Huh? Xi'er, what's the problem?"

Cocolia's smile faded a little, and she pursed her lips. But this made Xi'er feel a little uncomfortable.

Because...she could no longer connect the gentle Cocolia mother in front of her with the Cocolia who decisively drew her gun last night.

"Huh? You kid, haven't you been sleeping for a long time and made you sleepy?"

"Well……"

"You don't feel any discomfort, do you? It's time to get up."

Cocolia patted Xier's leg gently.

"Wash up. The children still need your help. Oh, by the way, I told them that you were not feeling well today, so you slept in, so don't worry. Also, the orphanage doesn't have enough food. Yes, someone will deliver a batch this afternoon, and I will ask you to pick them up. But remember, just like last time, it is best not to let the delivery person see the children, understand."

"Um."

Xier responded obediently as always.

Cocolia left quickly. Xi'er got dressed, rubbed her head, washed herself in silence, and recalled what she saw the moment before she woke up.

The sound of a gunpowder explosion, even if it was just a small propellant of a pistol bullet, against the background of the silent night, seemed like a violent explosion, hitting the human heart and eardrums heavily.

But what happened next made Xi'er a little confused.

She vaguely remembered that almost at the same time as the gunfire sounded, there seemed to be a blue light blooming on the hand of Sister Bronya in front of her, and then, a transparent barrier with a vague hexagonal matrix pattern appeared in front of her. In front of the two of them.

"Click——"

It seems that someone pressed such a button, and all memories ended here. If you think about it further, it will be the memory of this morning.

"There is no useful information... But Sister Bronya's inference seems to be correct. But when she saw her sister wearing a military collar and armband, Cocolia's mother was so excited that she drew her gun... No, we have to find a way. , take advantage of the half day before Sister Bronya arrives to collect some information, but what to do? "

She gently applied a towel soaked in ice water to her face for a while. If possible, Xi'er would like to apply hot water on her face, but the dormitory of the orphanage obviously cannot provide the same living conditions as the dormitory of St. Freya Academy. But this is okay. Although the bone-deep chill will irritate the skin, it can also make the nerves more active and make people more awake.

Looking back at the angle of the sunlight hitting the bedroom, Xier stared blankly at the light particles floating in the sunlight, her eyes gradually becoming hollow and numb.

"well……"

With a slight sigh, Xier opened the door. As soon as she stepped one foot into the corridor, she heard the boy shouting:

"Good afternoon, Sister Xi'er! Tamini pooped in her pants this morning!"

"You fart! Last time you blamed me for wetting the bed!"

Xi'er's lower lip trembled and moved upward. She couldn't help but hold the door frame with her hands. She wanted to say something, but in the end she covered her forehead and then her eyes with her free hand.

Not long after, a violent coughing sound came from her ears. Xier rubbed her eye sockets vigorously. When she took her hand away, her eye sockets had sunken slightly.

She walked silently to the two children. The two boys were only wearing thin woolen sweaters, and they were leaning against the cold concrete wall, pressing their backs hard, shaking their heads and coughing.

She was already short of breath, and the more she coughed, the more she felt like she was suffocating due to lack of oxygen. She coughed until stars appeared in her eyes, and she felt like she was about to vomit out her entire lung in the next second. It was not that Xier had never had such an experience, but that It was the result of being led by the instructor to run three sets of ten kilometers with weights on the St. Freya training ground.

The two boys in front of me only ran back and forth two or three times in the dozens of steps upstairs and downstairs.

"You two... don't cough for now. Just bear it for a while. I'll take you back to the bedroom first, and then drink some water and have a good rest."

Xi'er used her strength to lift up the two boys who were almost speechless. This action was actually a little inaccurate. She almost put her arms directly through the armpits of the two boys, pinched them up, and then used The pace that was neither slow nor steady enough brought the two of them back to the bedroom, and carefully placed them on their respective beds, but did not let them lie down immediately, but just sat and rested.

The next thing is to pour some hot water, add a pinch of precious sugar and salt, let the two of them drink it all in one gulp, wait until their breathing and heartbeat are stable, and then let them lie down slowly.

The whole process was so orderly that Xi'er even forgot whether she blinked or not. After all, she had faced the same situation so many times that she didn't need to think about it again. Sometimes her body would automatically repeat what it had done in the past.

However, this time, something seems to be different.

Tamini fell into a deep sleep quickly as always, but the child in front of Xier seemed to want to say something, but as soon as he opened his mouth and took a breath, he couldn't help but cough violently again.

"Sister Xier, it hurts..."

"Ah?"

Before Xier could answer, the child was already covering his chest, crying and twisting his body on the bed.

"No... No, how could this happen..."

Xier stood up at a loss, but she soon seemed to have thought of something. She held the boy's body and lifted his shirt. As expected, the purple lines had spread to the right side of his chest.

"How could this happen!"

This problem had not occurred several times before. Was it a coincidence? Or... time was not actually moving in a strict closed loop as she and Bronya had speculated?

Without time to think too much, Xier rushed directly out the door. After running two steps, she turned back and warned:

"Xier, go call Cocolia's mother over right away. Don't worry, nothing will happen!"

However, the child rolling on the bed could no longer make any sound except the groan of pain.

When Xier and Cocolia rushed back to the bedroom of the two children, even the groan of pain disappeared.

Xier and Cocolia were so scared that they checked quickly. The child should have fainted. Although his breathing and pulse were disordered and weak, they still existed.

But the good news ended there. Pulling open the clothes, the purple lines on the chest extended to the heart at a speed visible to the naked eye. If it continued at this speed, death might be within ten minutes.

"But... Cocolia mother..."

"Don't say it... I know... I know..."

Cocolia supported her forehead with her hand and paced back and forth in the room anxiously.

Xier looked at this scene, and her anxiety was self-evident, but she also felt something strange. Cocolia's current appearance seemed to be...

"Xier, you stay here with Lape, I'll go get some medicine."

Xier couldn't refute it, so she could only hold the boy's hand silently.

After waiting for about two or three minutes, the sound of high heels was heard again at the door. Cocolia rushed in with something in her hand, but what she said made Xier feel puzzled.

"Xi'er, can you please go out for a while?"

Xi'er couldn't refuse. After all, she knew only a little bit more about this place than nothing, so she didn't dare to say or do anything more. What's more, the child's condition was urgent. Even if she really wanted to say something, she couldn't delay the treatment.

She quickly walked out of the room and closed the door behind her. Xi'er sighed helplessly and depressed.

"What was that thing that Kokolia mother held in her hand just now? I've never heard of a precedent where a Honkai patient could be saved after reaching this stage. Will this be different from Kokolia mother's... Let's observe the situation again..."

Thinking of this, the door suddenly opened from behind.

"Eh? Kokolia mother, he..."

"Don't worry, he should be fine..."

Before Kokolia finished speaking, Xi'er squeezed in through the crack of the door. She lifted the boy's clothes again. The purple lines were still there, and seemed to have faded a little bit, but it was still not far from the heart.

Fortunately, it no longer extended at a speed visible to the naked eye, but it did not continue to fade.

If this state is maintained, it cannot be said that everything is fine. After all, it will only take a few days...

When Xier thought of this, her nose was sore and her vision was a little blurred, but she did not cry.

"He should be fine, he is fine now."

Cocolia walked gently behind her, put her palm on Xier's shoulder, and comforted her softly.

"Things have come to this, there is no way... Let's do this, Xier, these two children will be temporarily left to you, I will take the other children to the front yard to play games and make lunch, so that it will be quieter here, but these two children will be left to you."

"Understood."

Xier answered in a daze, while putting down the boy's clothes, and pulling over the hard quilt to wrap the boy's body.

After doing all this, she sat quietly by the bed, and the noise of the children outside the house gradually faded away.

The two children behind her made a slight and even snoring sound. They were no longer noisy and unusually quiet, completely different from the previous few times. Xier also sat quietly, and even didn't know what she had to think about for a while.

When the angle of sunlight coming in from the window tilted about three degrees, Seele finally realized that this was a rare opportunity.

Cocolia was with the children in the front yard and the kitchen, and the two children didn't look like they would have any problems. Then, she might be able to sneak into Cocolia's office now, at least to see what method Cocolia used to stop the boy's Houkai disease from worsening.

After all, even if this kind of thing happened a thousand times in front of Seele, she could only say... unheard of.

"No... Sister Bronya has been suffering all the time, Seele must do something."

Standing up, she walked to the door of the room with slow steps, opened a crack in the door, and quickly flashed out after careful observation.

There were no children in the backyard, and probably everyone was taken to the front yard. Seele didn't have time to hesitate. She rushed up to the second floor in three or two steps, gently turned the door handle of Cocolia's office, turned around and glanced behind her quickly, and then slipped in through the crack of the door.

After entering the room, before she had time to turn around and take a closer look, Xier sniffed and smelled the scent of disinfectant alcohol.

The room was not big, even more cramped than Xier's bedroom, probably because three walls were lined with bookshelves. The whole room was basically a sofa for rest and sleep, with quilts and pillows piled on the sofa, and a desk inside.

The smell of alcohol, as expected, came from a pair of disposable rubber gloves left on the table.

"That is..."

Xier walked to the desk and looked at the test tubes and syringes that had not been put away. She instinctively wanted to reach out and touch them, but chose to stay away.

"Is the thing in this test tube the thing that just saved the child? The bag contains saline... Has it been diluted? It seems that I have heard of a serum that can cure Honkai disease, but ordinary people can't get it... Uh, did I hear it from another me or Brother Mikael? No, no, no, it doesn't matter, but how did Cocolia's mother get this?"

Xier couldn't figure it out, and she didn't waste her energy on this kind of thing. Instead of racking her brains over a bunch of things that can't talk, it's better to find other clues.

The drawer of the desk opened with a pull, and there were several books stacked in the drawer.

The top one was the accounting book that Seele was familiar with, but she had no idea about the books below.

She reached out to pull out the book to check, but her fingers touched the sides of the second and third books, and she touched a gap.

"What's hidden here?"

She took the book out of the drawer and effortlessly saw what was sandwiched between the two books.

"How could it be... No, this can explain a lot..."

What was sandwiched in the book was clearly the badge and armband of the United Government and the captain's rank badge.

Seele was not unfamiliar with this, because she had seen it on Bronya "last night", but the pattern of Bronya's badge and armband was a burning moth, which was slightly different from Cocolia's.

Moreover, this was not unimaginable, because wasn't Cocolia a soldier in the original world?

But the facts in front of her made Seele even more confused.

Since Cocolia's mother was also a soldier, why did she step by step get to the current situation?

But in a sense, Seele felt that this identity was more beneficial to her and Bronya's actions. At least the Cocolia mother in front of her had more similarities with the familiar one, and her mind was easier to guess...

Wait! In front of her?

Seele slowly turned her neck and turned her eyes back to where she was three seconds ago.

Cocolia was leaning against the door frame silently, smiling at her, silent.