She was just unable to hold back her tears.
Jared put a forced smile on his face. The faint smile, against his pale face and wet body, gave him a sense of morbid beauty.
He raised his right hand and wiped off the tears under her eyes, "Stop crying. It's not pretty."
Hearing his words, Amber rolled her eyes back, "We survived. I don't care whether I'm beautiful or not."
Jared put down his hands and said, "You're right."
"By the way," Amber put his body straight, "Why did you sink down to the lake bottom?"
Jared closed his eyes, "I was under you when we fell on the water surface. We fell from the high cliff so the intensity of pressure we experienced was quite high and the water surface became quite solid. When we fell onto the water surface, I felt as if I fell on a heavy stone and then I lost my consciousness."
Oh, she understood.
"Then was there anything wrong about your head and your back?" Amber checked the back of his head hastily.
Jared shook his head, "I'm fine. I just feel a little sick."
And his back was burning.
The cut on his back did not recover totally. Now maybe it was torn apart again.
But that's not the most serious problem. Now he could not feel his left arm.
But Jared would not tell Amber those.
"You feel sick?" hearing this, Amber was quite nervous.
Generally, when one felt sick, it meant his head go hit heavily.
When she was hit by Judy Lashley with a stick and then suffered concussion, she kept feeling sick for a few days.
Now she was quite certain that he was also suffering from concussion.
He must be sent to the hospital soon. Otherwise, he would get chronic headache.
Over this, Amber let Jared to sit upright and then she stood up suddenly, "We shouldn't wait here for someone to find us. You need a doctor right now. We couldn't wait for a long time with wet clothes on ours. Now we leave here and make marks along the way to find whether there was anyone living outside the forest. If there was any, we are saved."
Then she bent over to take Jared's arm.
But there was something wrong when she touched his left arm.
It was quite soft and the knuckle connecting his shoulder and arm was slanted. It was certainly not normal.
With that idea in mind, Amber was so shocked that she stared at Jared without a word for quite a while before he said, "Your arm …"
"It seemed to be broken," Jared said with a faint smile on face as if it were not his arm.
Amber was taken aback before she said in a quivering voice, "Broken? Was that broken when we were hanging on the tree?"
She remembered that when the tree broke, he looked quite weird. The corner of his forehead was covered all over with sweat. But she thought it was because he could not cling to the tree anymore.
But now it was obvious that it was because his arm was broken.
Her question made Jared's pupils quiver for a second and he didn't say a word.
Amber knew she got it right and then she clenched his hands into fists, "Why? Why didn't you tell me?"
Seeing her as angry as such, Jared knew he could not remain silent anymore. Then he said softly, "I wanted to tell you. But by then we were falling and I thought we were going to die. So, there was no need to tell you anymore."
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