Chapter 342

Li Zhuiyuan was held in Chen Xiyuan's arms.

The scenery on both sides was flying past rapidly.

Li Zhuiyuan did not understand why Chen Xiyuan would do this.

Until the youth saw her eyes.

He understood.

Chen Xiyuan's gaze was firm yet unfocused, meaning that under her severe injuries, she was currently relying entirely on an instinct for survival to hold on.

Her consciousness was already in a blurred state; taking him away was not some carefully calculated plan, nor was it a deliberate scheme, but...

Pure kindness.

He was currently being carried along by her kindness.

It was really hard to imagine that such a person was actually walking the river, and, she had managed to get this far, participating in a wave at the same level as himself.

Therefore, it was perfectly normal for that group of the white-haired youth to want to take advantage of the mistake to kill her.

As she was now, due to her temperament, she still had huge weaknesses.

If she were to let her temperament undergo tempering and continuous transformation, then on the entire river surface, how many people could suppress her?

With the old examples of the three Dragon Kings of the Chen family before them, if a talented successor of the Chen family were allowed to rise smoothly, then not only would everyone have nothing to play with, but even that little sense of participation would be lost.

Communication at this time was meaningless; the most ridiculous thing was that, influenced by the domain she had opened around her, Li Zhuiyuan couldn't even move his body or open his mouth.

Chen Xiyuan was fleeing toward the more suburban direction.

The optimal choice should have been to go to a densely populated area in the city, where it would be easier to hide and also make those who intended to continue hunting her down hesitate.

But she did not choose to do so; she probably didn't want to implicate the innocent.

Finally, Chen Xiyuan reached her limit.

Ahead, there was a small river.

Previously, there were wider rivers, and she had stepped across them directly, but now, she couldn't make it.

The domain she had held for so long finally dissipated, and Chen Xiyuan used the last bit of strength in her body on the youth, offsetting the inertia on the youth's body so that he could land steadily on the riverbank without injury.

As for herself, she completely lost control and crashed directly into the river.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up and looked at Chen Xiyuan floating on the river surface ahead.

The youth first spread his hands, and two sets of cards flew out, landing in front of him, and with a speed visible to the naked eye, they piled up into human shapes, and then two identical auras descended; General Zeng split into two and opened his eyes.

"My Lord!"

"My Lord."

"Change the form of address."

Both General Zengs showed the same confusion, clearly not understanding which form of address to change to.

"Ask the Master Tongzi."

"Yes."

"Yes."

Both General Zengs nodded; it looked like they would have to find time to fight the Master Tongzi again.

The youth's fingertips pointed at each General Zeng, the "Liu Family Qi-Watching Art" running, simulating Chen Xiyuan's aura on the two talisman armors using feng shui weather.

"Go separately; the incense, formation flags, and talisman needles are all in your bodies. Calculate the time yourselves; break the aura on your bodies halfway through, and then return here to find me.

Remember, don't get yourselves lost."

Talisman armors were not easy to make; lose one set and there would be one less.

The sponsorship fee given by the Jiujiang Zhao family last time had already been used up after making the talisman armors and repairing the Daoist field.

It really wasn't easy to find a treasure vault of the same level next time; what was even harder was that you also had to happen to have a high-level insider to open the door and lead the way for you.

"Yes."

"Yes."

Both General Zengs left rapidly in one direction each.

Li Zhuiyuan once again cast his gaze toward Chen Xiyuan; a circle of crimson had already rippled out on the river surface beside her.

The youth took off his backpack, removed his clothes, and walked into the water.

After swimming to Chen Xiyuan's side, he reached out and grabbed one of her ankles, bringing her back to the shore.

It was only because Li Zhuiyuan's foundation was built so well; if it were another child of the same age, they really wouldn't have the strength to salvage a floater from the river alone.

Taking a towel from his bag, he simply wiped his body and put his clothes back on.

With a "pfft" sound, he opened a can of Jianlibao, and the youth squatted down beside Chen Xiyuan while drinking, starting an examination.

The good news was that she wasn't dead yet.

The bad news was that she was dying.

Although Li Zhuiyuan had pulled off the rhythm perfectly in the operation to "save her," the youth still underestimated the lethality of that group of people and overestimated Chen Xiyuan's endurance.

She was actually relying on her domain to hold on to a breath; now that the domain had dissipated, the injuries could no longer be suppressed.

External injuries were not difficult to deal with; his partners had often been like this before, and the youth had very rich experience in this regard.

But her problem was in her meridians; they were almost all broken.

For an ordinary person encountering such a problem, at most, they would become a completely paralyzed cripple.

She was different.

Li Zhuiyuan discovered broken blue dots at the places where her meridians were broken; those should be fragments of the domain, or what was called residues of the domain.

Logically speaking, it shouldn't have been like this.

An existence like a domain was not something that could be beaten out by polishing one's muscles and bones; otherwise, the Qin family would be the perfect match for a domain.

The youth analyzed that it should be that she had forcibly taken the domain that should have been released outside her body into her body to stabilize her physique in order to ensure that she could continue to move under severe injuries.

The sequelae of this method had appeared.

If the meridians could not be repaired in time, allowing these blue dots to be successfully guided out and dissipate on their own outside, then they would gradually lose control within her body.

By then, she would swell, and her body would be like that kind of floater that looked like meat jelly all over after floating for a long time after death; no, even worse than a floater, she would explode herself.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the woman in front of him who was in a coma, imagining the scene of her exploding.

It wouldn't explode all at once; one blue dot exploding would trigger another.

In other words, Chen Xiyuan would be like a double-kick firecracker, being exploded continuously, once, twice, three times, four times...

In the end, I guarantee not even a piece of residue would fall down.

There were methods for connecting tendons and continuing meridians in the Jianghu, but this was an old manual craft; it wasn't something you could learn just by reading theory, and, it also required a lot of talent.

If A Li were given enough time to learn and practice, she should be able to reach that level; A Li's aptitude in this regard was something even Li Zhuiyuan had to admire.

After all, if there were a choice, Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't want A Li to work hard to do manual labor for him, but now the tools were becoming more and more high-end, and the requirements for manual skills were getting higher and higher; without A Li, Li Zhuiyuan really couldn't do it himself, and the youth could only be reduced to doing design and helping out most of the time.

Of course, it wasn't realistic to take Chen Xiyuan back to his old home in Nantong now; even without considering the factor of walking the river, there wasn't enough time.

Rather than waiting for A Li to learn to master it, it would be better to find a more open field, tie Chen Xiyuan to a wooden stick, so that it would be more convenient for her to explode into the sky.

Li Zhuiyuan: "You are really lucky."

The youth carried Chen Xiyuan on his back and walked out of the riverbank.

She wasn't heavy, and she had lost a lot of blood, so she seemed even lighter.

Calling it carrying on his back, actually, he could only shoulder half her body; her legs were still sweeping on the ground.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't feel that he was short; it was that her legs were too long.

Ahead, there was a melon field; Li Zhuiyuan brought her into a simple melon shed.

Inside, there was a bed covered with an old straw mat, a small stove built with bricks, a pot, and bowls; in the corner, there were oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar in beverage bottles.

After Li Zhuiyuan placed Chen Xiyuan on the straw mat, he went to the riverbank to fetch water, returned to light a fire to boil it, took out various medicinal pills, added them in, and decocted the medicine.

Taking advantage of the time it was boiling, the youth took out medicinal powder and applied it to all the wounds on Chen Xiyuan's body.

Then he put the decocted medicine into a bowl and fed it to her.

It was okay; although she was in a coma, she could still swallow instinctively, which saved a lot of trouble.

After feeding the medicine, Li Zhuiyuan cleaned up the bloodstains on Chen Xiyuan's body, making her look not so bloody and terrifying, like a person who was simply sick and in a coma.

As for concealing her aura, you had to have an aura to conceal it; she was currently as weak as a gossamer, in a living-dead state, which saved trouble, and Li Zhuiyuan also pasted a Heart-Clearing Talisman on her chest, which counted as the final layer of insurance.

After doing all this, Li Zhuiyuan was just about to get some vegetable buns and compressed biscuits to cook a meal for himself, but he heard footsteps approaching constantly.

Before long, an old hand grabbed the edge of the melon shed, and then an old grandmother's face slowly poked out.

She must have seen the smoke and fire in the melon shed and knew there was someone inside, so she was even more careful when checking.

The old grandmother looked at Li Zhuiyuan, then looked at Chen Xiyuan on the mat, so scared that her hand immediately let go, and she turned around and ran away directly.

Li Zhuiyuan took the money out of his bag and prepared it.

At this time, General Zeng returned, turned into a card, and returned to the youth's palm again.

Not long after, the old grandmother came back, bringing an old grandfather with her.

The old grandfather was very thin, his limbs like straw stalks, but he still gave people a feeling that his body was quite sturdy.

However, they were not here to settle accounts.

The old grandfather was holding a bag of noodles in his hand, while the old grandmother was carrying a black plastic bag.

"Ah ah ah~ ah ah ah~"

The old grandfather was a mute, his hands gesturing non-stop.

The old grandmother squatted down and poured out the things in the black plastic bag; inside were all medicines.

A small part had medicine boxes, and most were those kinds of small white paper bags used in photo studios to hold photos.

When ordinary people saw a doctor, a whole box of medicine was too expensive, and usually, you didn't need to eat that much for the illness to improve, so clinics would sell these loose medicines.

It was just that these yellow and white small tablets were basically used to treat headaches, fever, and diarrhea, and were useless here.

The old grandmother pointed to the medicine on the ground, then pointed to Chen Xiyuan, who was lying on the mat unconscious:

"Eat medicine... cure illness... eat medicine... will be fine... bitter... good..."

The old grandmother was not a stutterer.

From when she came over alone earlier, Li Zhuiyuan could see that her intelligence had problems.

So earlier, Li Zhuiyuan didn't call her to stop, but waited for her to call her family over, and then he would give the money.

Without permission, he used other people's things and also dirtied other people's straw mat; he should naturally compensate.

However, they clearly had no intention of wanting him to compensate.

The old grandfather began to manage, cooking noodles.

The old grandmother was still obsessed with letting Li Zhuiyuan choose medicine from these tablets for Chen Xiyuan to take; in her cognition, the illnesses in this world only needed to eat these bitter little tablets to be cured.

Li Zhuiyuan complied with the old grandmother's wishes, chose a few berberine tablets, and gave them to Chen Xiyuan.

Seeing this, the old grandmother clapped her hands happily and even jumped a few times.

Berberine was for stopping diarrhea, and the side effect was that it was easy to cause constipation.

After the old grandfather put the noodles in the pot, he ran out again, picked some vegetables from his own vegetable field, washed them by the river, brought them back, broke them, and put them into the pot.

Next, he didn't stop being busy, picked a few melons from the melon field, and handed them to Li Zhuiyuan to eat.

Seeing Li Zhuiyuan wave his hand to show politeness, the old grandfather simply opened the melon himself and handed it over enthusiastically again.

In their eyes, Li Zhuiyuan and Chen Xiyuan should be... a mother and son or siblings who came to flee from disaster.

They were actively providing help within their power; from beginning to end, they didn't make any indication about collecting money at all.

After eating the noodles, Li Zhuiyuan asked them where there were vehicles; no sedans or vans, tractors would also do.

To save Chen Xiyuan's life, he had to go into the city, to the vicinity of the hospital he came to when he first entered Luoyang.

When describing, he had to use gestures and sound effects.

The old grandmother understood immediately, nodded vigorously, and then patted her own chest.

The old grandfather was a deaf-mute, and his comprehension ability was poor; instead, he had to let the old grandmother use the sign language between them to describe it.

After understanding, the old grandfather hesitated for a moment, then nodded heavily again, and walked out with the old grandmother.

When the old grandfather returned, he was pulling a cart he usually used to transport melons.

After placing Chen Xiyuan on the melon cart, Li Zhuiyuan wanted to pull the cart, but was refused by the old grandfather; he put a strap across his chest, grabbed the cart handle with both hands, and walked forward steadily.

Passing through the field path, they arrived at a village; ahead, a tractor drove out with a "dudu" sound, and the old grandmother stood in the rear carriage of the tractor, waving her hands very happily.

The man driving the tractor stopped the vehicle and gestured a number to the old grandfather, who nodded repeatedly.

This meant that the tractor was called with money.

Chen Xiyuan was put on the tractor; Li Zhuiyuan told the master the location of that hospital; it was perfectly normal for sick and injured people to go to the hospital, and the master nodded, turned the direction, and drove the tractor out.

The old grandfather and old grandmother stood where they were, watching.

Then, they seemed to have discovered something and chased after them again; each of them was holding money in their hands; it was the money the youth had secretly put in their clothes pockets earlier that they had discovered.

But they didn't run far before they stopped and began to pant.

The tractor master didn't notice behind and continued driving.

Li Zhuiyuan took a look at Chen Xiyuan, imitated the gesture she had made to Tan Wenbin in the soup shop earlier, and waved his hands at the old grandfather and old grandmother.

Heaven has eyes; otherwise, so many terrifying existences wouldn't be afraid of the Heavenly Dao.

But it should be very busy; in many places, it actually can't take care of everything; good having good rewards and evil having evil rewards is sometimes not accurate.

Li Zhuiyuan waved his hands a few more times.

Hey,

You look more.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't let the tractor master drive into the hospital, but let him stop at the entrance of the alley opposite.

After getting off the vehicle, the tractor master asked Li Zhuiyuan for the fare.

"They will give it to you."

"One is a fool and one is deaf; what if I can't get the money?"

"How much money."

The master said a number, which was double what he had gestured with the old grandfather earlier.

Li Zhuiyuan gave the money.

The master bit a cigarette, smiled, and left driving the tractor.

Li Zhuiyuan carried Chen Xiyuan on his back and entered the alley.

Just after entering, he met two women dressed in heavy makeup; they each said "Oh my," and took the initiative to run over to help support the person.

One asked: "What's wrong?"

Another asked: "Do you want to send her to the hospital?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's nothing, my sister just had a bout of hypoglycemia."

The two women supported Chen Xiyuan and walked inside.