Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 25 [Parts 1 to 6] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

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In the three days after catching Amusehorn’s breath, I didn’t wake up even once.

According to what I was told later, I occasionally responded when people called out to me, and I was able to drink water and medicine on my own, but I did all of that unconsciously. For the entire time between when I collapsed out in the kitchen and when I awoke, I was completely unaware of the real world.

And all the while, I was moaning from the nightmares I was having.

Well, perhaps it wouldn’t quite be accurate to call them nightmares per se, but regardless, it felt like I was going back and forth between a pitch black void and a scorching crimson hell. When I sunk into the darkness, I was chilled down to my bones, and when the blazing red heat took me, it felt like it would burn me to ash.

I spent three whole days in that world of agony. However, my consciousness and my very soul were saved from being torn apart by these brief moments of relief I felt every so often. Sometimes they would come in the form of a soft white light, and other times it would be a sweet scent, or occasionally the gentle touch of a fingertip. My five senses weren’t functioning properly, but I was still able to vaguely pick up on that hand of salvation reaching out to me again and again.

If not for that relief, however faint it was, the experience could very well have destroyed me. The suffering and despair I faced really were that intense.

And as if that wasn’t enough, those blazing flames inevitably reminded me of my death. I had been burned by fire, wrapped in black smoke, and then finally crushed under rubble. It was a truly horrifying way to die. I had relived it in a nightmare once before, and had felt the full force of my despair washing over me. I couldn’t imagine anything being harder to endure than that.

Only people who had actually experienced death could understand. I had been burned alive while struggling for breath, and then finally my whole body had been crushed. It was the kind of pain and despair a living person could only experience once, but in this nightmare I had been pulled into, it came back to me again and again. And each time I felt my death repeating itself, I was sure my mind would be shattered.

That white light was all that saved me. Months ago, when I’d had that nightmare about my death, it had enveloped me then as well, and allowed me to return to Ai Fa. But this time around, there was no escape for me. Now, even if I clung to that white light, tendrils of black and crimson wrapped around my legs and dragged me back down into the depths of hell.

And in the midst of that cycle of despair, I would occasionally see visions of my old home. I saw my old man lying in

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