The little female is incredibly sweet and soft, healing the five evil beasts right from the start.

Chapter 153 Trapped
The space was cramped, with only the light from the computer's lighting illuminating the surroundings.

The light from the computer was clearly coming from Zhou Qing's wrist.

Above was a large, sloping stone slab, and the ground was covered with damp soil, mottled wall plaster, and some wooden planks. At this height, one could only sit; it was impossible to stand up.

Zhou Qing leaned against the opposite side, a deep, dark fishtail placed in front of Jiang Mian. Her originally short, black hair had transformed into long, silky hair after she became a mermaid, hanging down to her waist.

Jiang Mian was also sitting down, but one of her legs got stuck in the gap on the right and she couldn't pull it out. She felt the solid stone slab pressing down on her whenever she moved, so she didn't dare to move, afraid that the stone slab would collapse and crush her leg. Luckily, she was stuck and safe.

Her other leg was resting on Zhou Qing's fish tail, and the cool, warm touch she felt in her sleep was probably from that fish tail.

"I'm sorry." Jiang Mian silently lowered her legs from his fishtail to the ground. Even though they were on the ground, because of the cramped space, her legs were still pressed against his fishtail, only separated by a layer of clothing. But there was nothing she could do about it.

"Cough... It's nothing." Zhou Qing simply smiled gently.

The handsome face of the ink-painted white paper scroll was now stained with some dirt.

Jiang Mian wasn't sure if it was just her imagination, but she felt that the city lord in his mermaid form looked even better. His eyes were incredibly dark, and his skin was as white as the snow-capped peaks of Cangshan Mountain. The contrast between the colors was even more striking, and the black and white combination was minimalist yet beautiful.

But is the city lord really going to throw caution to the wind? Why did he transform into a beast?
Is it because she accidentally bumped into the other person's mermaid form last time, so she stopped pretending in front of her?

She glanced down at her personal terminal and realized that only three hours had actually passed.

I could faintly hear people digging up the ground above, so there must be a rescue operation underway.

Jiang Mian's lips moved slightly, and she found that they were very dry. She pursed her lips slightly to moisten them before slowly speaking: "City Lord, wouldn't it be inappropriate for your fish tail to be exposed when the rescuers dig it down from above?"

Wasn't he pretending to be human? He probably didn't want humans to discover his orc identity.

After she finished speaking, she noticed that Zhou Qing had already closed her eyes and was in a light sleep.

After hearing her words, Zhou Qing slowly and lazily half-opened his eyelids: "Ahem... The rescuers should all be my people."

Jiang Mian paused for a moment. It must be so. Since the other party isn't worried, why should she worry about them?

She didn't say anything more. She was extremely thirsty, but luckily the hub space was still around her neck. She took out a bottle of water from the hub space and took a big gulp.

A moment later, she thought of something else and took out another bottle of water, handing it to Zhou Qing: "Lord City Lord, here you go."

Zhou Qing's gaze lingered on her water bottle for a moment, then she reached out and took the bottle, twisted off the cap, took a sip, and still coughed slightly.

The water he often drinks is also this brand; it looks very old, and the logo on it is an old man wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo hat.

So when a young girl saw such an old brand, her gaze lingered for a moment.

Jiang Mian actually owns all kinds of water, but it just so happens that this is the brand she brought out today.

"By the way, City Lord, you're not in the same place as me, how did you end up falling with me?" Jiang Mian hit her head and lost consciousness when she fell, so she had no idea what had happened.

She seems lucky now. Her forehead hurts, her back hurts a bit, and her ankle, which is stuck, also hurts. She probably got scratched by something. It doesn't hurt when she's pinned down, and her leg feels numb and her ankle still hurts.

Luckily, you're neither dead nor crippled!
"Cough cough... I was knocked away by a bug and then I fell over." Zhou Qing coughed lightly a few times with his fist to his lips.

He seemed to cough several times after every sentence he spoke, as if he was in some discomfort, and his eyelids drooped even more wearily.

Seeing his expression, Jiang Mian decided it was best not to say anything more to him.

The surroundings quieted down, but the city lord's suppressed coughs could be heard from time to time.

"Cough cough..."

"Cough cough cough..."

...The next second, he coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Jiang Mian's eyebrows twitched. He saw the young man's slender, fair hand fall to his lips. Blood was coughed up onto his palm, staining his pale fingers red. Blood seeped from between his fingers and dripped onto his fishtail.

His lips were also stained with bright red blood.

The young man merely lowered his eyelids, seemingly unsurprised, and appeared listless.

"Lord, are you alright?" Jiang Mian asked quietly with concern. "I'm an orc doctor, would you like me to take a look at you?"

"It's an old problem." Zhou Qing didn't look at Jiang Mian, but leaned back slightly against the stone slab, lowered his head against the wall and closed his eyes. His bloodstained hands hung at his sides, as if he was too lazy to even wipe the blood clean and just wanted to close his eyes and rest.

However, his chronic illness clearly prevented him from sleeping soundly.

He would still cough slightly from time to time.

The frequency of this cough is somewhat different from before.

Jiang Mian immediately remembered the medicine Zhou Bai had asked her to give to the city lord; it was probably for treating his ailment.

"Lord of the City, don't you carry your own medicine with you?" Jiang Mian asked quietly.

The main problem was that the city lord kept coughing, and she couldn't pretend she didn't hear it.

“The hub space has fallen somewhere…” Zhou Qing’s voice grew softer and softer.

Jiang Mian:......

He looked like he was about to die.

Before long, she felt the fish tail next to her legs, separated by a layer of cloth, getting hotter and hotter.

Jiang Mian paused, looked up at Zhou Qing, and sure enough, noticed that his skin was slowly turning red.

Zhou Qing seemed to realize her situation as well, and slowly lifted her eyelids. The fingertips holding the water bottle trembled and tightened slightly due to the burning pain.

He twisted open the water bottle and poured the water onto his fish tail, but it was no use.

He had been tormented by the aftereffects of his manic episodes for many years.

This caused his lungs to constantly feel tight and painful, making him unable to stop coughing.

It also caused him to lose his keen hearing as a mermaid, as well as the sounds of attack and courtship, leaving him a disabled fish unable to produce courtship sounds.

It was still a black, ominous fish.

Jiang Mian's hand landed on Zhou Qing's fish tail.

Zhou Qing seemed to sense something and looked at Jiang Mian, his ink-black eyes were pitch black and extremely calm.

“Lord of the City, I will help you through your manic phase.” Jiang Mian looked steadily at Zhou Qing. “In return, I would like to draw a vial of your blood and give me a bottle of the potion you drink.”

Zhou Qing looked at her for a while without saying anything, and after a long time she softly said, "You are F-rank."

Jiang Mian:......

Oh, I forgot, she seems to have gone to the city lord's mansion to have her healing level measured, and deliberately gave an F-level answer.

Jiang Mian considered it for a moment, then quietly said, "Actually, I'm not F-rank. My level is more than enough to cure your manic phase."

(End of this chapter)