From Prisoner to Si Chen..

Chapter 489 Half Moon

Chapter 489 Half Moon
Gillan, wearing a white hospital gown, stood by the window and moved her body to stretch her muscles.

Crackling.

Crunch.

There were crackling sounds in the joints all over his body.

"call……"

Jilan squinted his eyes and moaned comfortably.

He reached out and opened the window again, facing the morning light and breeze outside the window, took a deep breath, and smiled.

This feeling of being reborn made him close his eyes and silently feel the interaction between his body and the outside world.

After a while.

Jilan sighed secretly.

He felt that the energy flowing in his body had shrunk significantly. Apparently, the "Philosopher's Stone" had been over-consumed after repeated overloads, and now only less than one-fifth of its original volume remained.

'It seems that I need to refine a new one.'

Gillan couldn't help but think to herself.

'During this operation, we killed many demons in Coburn and the border of Hell, decomposing and reconstructing many demons, and accumulated a considerable amount of soul energy.'

'This is the core material for refining the Philosopher's Stone.'

"It's just a pity that there were at least thousands of demons that died at the border, and all that energy was wasted... and three patrollers were not corrupted in time."

But Gilan also knew very well that given the critical situation at the time and his serious injuries, he had no chance to clean up the battlefield.

So I just think about it in my mind.

It's just a slight regret.

Jilan collected his thoughts, sat back on the hospital bed, and counted the number of glass beads stored in the crystal ball "ether bubble".

Soon.

He sat cross-legged, and on the soft white bed sheet in front of him was a pile of dazzling glass beads. As he scooped them up, they made a crackling sound.

"There are 880 in total, 7 of which were made by the chief of the Eclipse Society, and 1 was made by the April Patroller. It contains the most energy."

Jilan finished the inventory and murmured.

He held eight particularly gorgeous glass balls in his hands and felt the extremely rich soul energy inside.

More than enough to refine a new "Philosopher's Stone".

"If all of this soul energy were corrupted into points, there would probably be nearly ten thousand..."

Gillan guessed and felt excited.

"Use it properly. It should be no problem to further improve the secret sword technique "Universe Sword" and even deduce the 6th level essence."

Just as he was thinking about it, his spiritual awareness was suddenly touched, so he flicked his hand and put all the glass beads on the bed sheet into the crystal ball again.

A few seconds passed.

A faint sound of footsteps came from behind the door, and then stopped. The ball-shaped door handle turned slowly, as if the person outside the door did not want to make noise and disturb Gillan's rest.

The door opened slowly.

The blonde woman who opened the door looked at Jilan who was sitting on the bed, and was immediately stunned.

The man and woman behind her were also stunned.

"Mr. Gillan!"

Aurora showed a look of surprise.

She quickly picked up her skirt, strode over, then excitedly threw herself into Jilan's arms and hugged him tightly.

"You finally woke up!"

"I just woke up not long ago. I'm sorry to have worried you, Aurora."

Gillan said softly, patting Aurora's delicate back in a soothing manner. Then he raised his head and nodded to Maeve and Franco who had come with him.

The two of them showed sincere smiles on their faces, as if they were happy about Jilan's awakening.

Aurora was a little excited, holding Jilan tightly and unwilling to let go, as if she was worried that if she let go, the man in front of her would leave her.

After a while.

Only then did she pull herself out of Jilan's arms, with an expression of tears of joy on her face, her cheeks flushed and her beautiful eyes moist.

Aurora was not wearing a nun's uniform today, but an orange pleated leg-of-mutton sleeve dress with a high collar and ruffles, long basque sleeves and a red lace shawl.

Gilan recognized that this was the gift he bought for Aurora when he first brought her to the capital, Muse.

At that time, in order to cover up the burn scars on her body, she deliberately bought such a very conservative outfit. It also came with a small hat and a veil, but Aurora didn't need them now.

Unexpectedly, she still kept it.

"Mr. Gillan, I'm sorry, I...I lost my composure a little. I'm just too happy."

Aurora tidied up her slightly messy hair and smiled brightly.

The fair and beautiful facial features, coupled with the morning light outside the window, made Jilan feel as if she had returned to the moment a year ago when she first met this "sparrow".

"It's okay." Jilan smiled.

"By the way, how is Mr. Gillan feeling? Are you still feeling unwell?"

Aurora leaned over, took one of Gillan's hands, and asked with concern.

"No, I'm basically fully recovered."

Jilan shook his head and asked again:
"Aurora, how long have I been unconscious?"

"It's been more than two weeks..."

The blonde replied quietly.

"Today is May 16th."

“It’s been so long!”

Ji Lan was startled.

He remembered that the devil's disaster broke out at the end of April.

Maiev then said jokingly:
"During this period, Miss Aurora has been taking good care of you, Commander Gillan. Originally, I was responsible for these matters, but she was very tough and said that this matter could only be handed over to her..."

Hearing this, Jilan was startled.

When he woke up, he found that he was clean and tidy. Apparently Aurora changed his clothes and wiped his body every day.

At the same time, he also understood.

Aurora: This is a very cautious move.

After all, Gillan was in a coma and unconscious, and anyone who got close to him had the ability to threaten him.

"Thank you, Aurora."

Gillan smiled gently and said softly.

Aurora blushed and said nothing, but just shook her head, as if she had done something insignificant.

But Maavi continued:
"Miss Aurora stayed in the ward almost 24 hours a day, massaging and cleaning you, changing your clothes, telling you..."

"Stop...stop talking, Miss Maiev!" Aurora's ears turned red and she interrupted quickly.

Maiev then raised her eyebrows and closed her mouth.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Jilan changed the subject and asked Cang Guan:

"Mr. Franco, what's the situation at Coburn now?"

"The situation over there has been brought under control by the Empire. The Committee and various forces have subsequently sent additional support. Most of the trapped people have been rescued, transferred, and properly resettled."

The man in a suit said in a deep voice.

"Thanks to you for closing the 'Dream Gate' and cutting off the passage between Hell and the mortal world, the number of demons has stopped increasing dramatically... However, there are still many demons roaming around Coburn, and the committee is working on hunting them down."

"I see."

Gillan nodded.

"How are the casualties?"

"..."

Franco fell silent, and Maiev's face became even more solemn.

At this time, Aurora pursed her lips and whispered:
"According to incomplete statistics, more than 200,000 residents of Cockburn died, and more than 500,000 people were permanently disabled or even had serious mental problems."

Hearing this, Jilan said nothing more.

Although he had no connections with the ordinary people of Coburn, when he heard this huge number, he knew exactly what it meant.

This is a sea of blood and corpses.

There are countless tragedies and tragedy.

It is simply not comparable to the movements made by ordinary cults and secret societies.

This is just part of the plan of the "Spirit King" to ascend to the seventh month of the lunar calendar and create the "wave".

He needs these layers of bones as steps to ascend to the high seat. He also needs the wailing to create celebration and accompany his magnificent steps.

Jilan suddenly deeply realized the good intentions of the "Cruel King".

When promoting the "Gear Plan", his counterpart, the Führer Caesar, once gave an impassioned speech at a secret meeting:

"When humans beg for mercy, they never notice the shadows behind the hateful and cunning gods."

"The old gods are vicious, and the new gods are complicit!"

"The seat Wang Ying is mostly an accomplice!"

"Dreams have no walls, it's a hoax!"

"Give up your illusions and fight now!"

"In this case, we will create our own gods! This is the unyielding will of mankind. It will become a torrent, declare war on the gods, and live for mankind!"

No wonder the "Cruel King" wants to create a peaceful and prosperous era and pull those new gods off the altar!
Gillan took a deep breath.

The topic seemed a bit heavy. Aurora silently took out an alchemical leather bag and took out a half-human-high cylindrical tin bucket from it.

"Mr. Gillan, this is our trophy."

It seemed that there was an outsider, Maiev, present, and she did not explain much.

But Gillan understood immediately.

This is the massive amount of "Evil Sand" obtained by Aurora, Franco, Werner and Alevia when they wiped out the group of demons in the spiritual kingdom of Lordran.

Gillan nodded.

He reached out his hand and placed his palm against the tin bucket.

Immediately he started alchemy.

Crackling!

Silver arcs flickered.

The half-man-high tin bucket, along with the "evil sand" that was almost full inside, was instantly decomposed.

Gillan clasped his hands together.

"Refining!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a snap and a large area of hundreds of glass beads emerged.

Jilan waved his hand, and all the glass beads piled up on the bed sheet.

"Although the 'Evil Sand' is a mysterious material, it is even more valuable when it is decomposed into this pure soul energy."

He explained to Aurora.

"Since it is your spoils of war, I will not take even a single one... Moreover, without your help, my actions would only be more difficult."

"But, Mr. Gillan..."

Aurora heard this and spoke quickly.

Unexpectedly, Jilan raised his hand and shook his head.

"You are all long-lived people. You will need a lot of resources to continue your journey on the 'Path of the Fire Sword'. These are exactly what you need. You can trade them or use them for other purposes."

Seeing this, Franco patted Aurora on the shoulder.

The two looked at each other and understood what Jilan meant. So they stopped refusing and accepted it silently.

Aurora planned to find time to divide the money into four equal parts, and then give the gull and black snipe's share to them during the dream gathering.

At this time.

There were footsteps outside the ward again.

Everyone turned to look.

I saw a hunchbacked old man with white hair and wrinkles on his face standing at the door with a white cane.

"Chairman!"

Maiev's expression became serious and she bowed quickly.

Aurora and Franco also bowed and said respectfully:
"Mr. Pala."

"No need to be polite."

The old gentleman laughed and waved his hand.

He walked in, and the three of them, in tacit understanding, said hello to Jilan and left the ward, closing the door behind them.

"Jilan, my good student."

Pala came closer, a relieved smile appeared on his wrinkled face, and patted his shoulder.