Chapter 59: Worsening Injuries

Amputate? Absolutely not. If my leg were to be amputated so carelessly, if it were you, would you agree?

How could such a question, damn it, come out of your mouth?

Everyone looked at each other in dismay; no one dared to step forward to pick up that bag of medicinal powder, but no one dared to act on their own initiative to use the method of sacrificing the chariot to save the commander by amputating Su Yu's leg.

"Ju Zi, help me up."

Looking at the guilt-ridden Ju Zi beside him, Su Yu spoke slowly. If he didn't know that Ju Zi had only caused the accident in a moment of panic, Su Yu would have killed her without hesitation.

But Ju Zi's action was, after all, unintentional. Looking at her guilty appearance, even if Su Yu had anger, it was hard to vent it. Should he hit her, scold her, or sever ties with her from now on?

These things were actually meaningless; to truly settle accounts, he had to let himself resolve the immediate problem first.

"Luo Yu, what are you doing?"

Ju Zi placed Su Yu's arm over her shoulder and gently helped him stand up, her movements extremely soft, fearing she might disturb Su Yu's wound.

Watching Su Yu summon his Sword Martial Soul, a look of horror appeared on everyone's faces simultaneously. Could it be that he really intended to amputate it?

The long sword dispersed, turning into countless fragments that began to rotate around Su Yu's wound. Shreds of flesh flew out along with them, and a large amount of fresh blood splattered, covering Ju Zi, who was holding Su Yu, in blood.

"Luo Yu, don't..."

Before Ju Zi's voice could fade, there were already numerous wounds on Su Yu's leg, along with traces of a large amount of flesh and blood having been shaved away.

Ju Zi could clearly feel Su Yu's body trembling. Su Yu only felt that his right leg had been completely pierced through; the fragments of the Fragment Martial Soul had pierced his skin, fascia, and flesh, and even left marks on his bones.

This pain, akin to death by a thousand cuts, was simply unbearable. Sweat poured down Su Yu's forehead. Although he tried his best to control his body, it kept trembling uncontrollably. His hands gripped Ju Zi's sleeves tightly, and his teeth chattered.

What is he doing?

Harboring the same question, no one spoke to disturb Su Yu. Su Yu, silently enduring the immense pain, had his eyes bulging, trying his best to keep his consciousness clear.

In fact, Su Yu was not self-mutilating, nor was he amputating to save his life; this was emergency treatment!

Using the Fragment Martial Soul as a scalpel to excise the festering and infected parts—as long as he could temporarily save this leg, Ju Zi would be fully capable of the subsequent hemostatic treatment. After all, as a Soul Master, basic medical treatment was a required course.

"If you really can't hold it in, just scream..."

Looking at Su Yu's painful appearance, a tear of guilt slid from the corner of Ju Zi's eye. She didn't know what to say; besides "I'm sorry," there was only "I'm sorry." But she knew that if saying sorry were useful...

Gently embracing Su Yu's body, and looking at his eyes, which remained clear, an indescribable pain rose within her through her blood.

Only she knew exactly what kind of pain Su Yu was experiencing.

Without warning, a pain struck her shoulder. Su Yu, in the end, could not hold back and bit down on Ju Zi's shoulder.

"Hiss..."

Ju Zi's whole body trembled. That feeling was not just painful; it also carried a hint of electric numbness. Afterward, her mind went blank.

Was I taken advantage of?

That's not right, but it doesn't seem like I lost anything either. I...

Because of this, Ju Zi fell into a state of utter confusion, blankly holding Su Yu, her face full of bewilderment.

As the infected, festering, and necrotic parts were excised, the pain suddenly subsided. Su Yu loosened his mouth and breathed heavily, his chest heaving violently, and his body once again exuded a large amount of sweat.

With the loss of a large amount of blood, his complexion turned ashen. Coupled with the intense pain Su Yu was enduring, no amount of willpower could withstand such devastation; after all, he wasn't a cheater with someone else helping him in his head.

As the pain suddenly decreased, Su Yu's spirit fell into a state of extreme exhaustion. He knew this was the body's instinct, which even a Soul Master could not avoid unless he had other Spirit Power support.

"Stop the bleeding, treat the wound..."

As he spoke, Su Yu's voice grew weaker and weaker, and then his vision went black, and he fell into a coma once again.

Before losing consciousness, Su Yu was still secretly praying in his heart: I hope I don't wake up in this desolate mountain wilderness, otherwise, this leg of mine will really have to be amputated.

Looking at the unconscious Su Yu, Ju Zi, who was still holding him, leaned against a tree and fell into deep thought.

"You little bastard, you really bite hard..."

Gently wiping the tooth marks Su Yu had left, it was clear Su Yu hadn't held back. Holding the unconscious Su Yu, Ju Zi quietly pulled aside her collar, revealing her supple, fair skin.

The only flaw was that on this milk-like, silky skin, a row of neat tooth marks was deeply imprinted. Above these marks, there was still residual blood. Looking at the bite marks, Ju Zi herself didn't know if they would leave scars.

After the emergency treatment, Su Yu's condition was still not very optimistic. His originally rosy complexion was now ashen, compounded by excessive blood loss and the impact his internal organs had received.

Feeling Su Yu's pulse, she could clearly feel it weakening continuously. If not treated, this little guy before her would really die here from his severe injuries!

"I must stay calm. I must ensure that when Teacher Xuan arrives, Luo Yu's vital signs are maintained."

She carefully took out clean water and gauze, cleaned and bandaged the excised parts of Su Yu's leg, and used needle and thread to suture the larger tears.

A large amount of blood stained her clothes along with Ju Zi's arms. Her hands were trembling slightly, and her heart was trembling too. All of this was caused by her, so how could she calm her mind?

However, the most terrifying thing was yet to come. She had thought Su Yu's injuries were limited to his right leg, but after she finished treating the wounds on his leg, she discovered that on Su Yu's back, there were also some fragments that had pierced the skin and entered his flesh.

Looking at the fragments embedded near Su Yu's heart, Ju Zi's already trembling hands could no longer be controlled, because these few fragments happened to be stuck on Su Yu's heart meridian. A slight mistake, and his heart meridian would be damaged, and there was a great possibility he would lose his life here...

All she could do now was try her best to maintain all of Su Yu's vital signs, but Su Yu's body, having lost too much blood, was gradually turning cold. Ju Zi, who had been holding Su Yu the whole time, realized something was wrong and hurriedly expanded the Protective Barrier, holding Su Yu tightly in her arms.

She hoped to warm Su Yu's body with her own temperature, but Su Yu had already fallen into a deep coma.

In Su Yu's Spirit Sea, Su Yu saw only darkness. There was no sound here, not a glimmer of light; there was only a despairing darkness...

"Am I in a coma, or am I dead?"

Before losing consciousness, Su Yu had already used his greatest strength to slow down his injuries. Although he could feel that his wounds had been treated, the most serious ones remained his internal injuries.

However, the most bizarre thing was that even though his spirit had awakened and he could perceive changes in the outside world, he had been trapped in this dark, sunless Spirit Sea.

This place was like an abyss without light, trapping him tightly here, silently enduring this unknown fear.

He didn't know how long he had stayed here; Su Yu only felt that his perception was gradually fading. Apart from the darkness before him, he could no longer perceive anything...

I hope I'm just temporarily in a coma; I hope there's nothing else in this ghost place...

In this explosion, almost all the Protective Spirit Tools Su Yu could use were blown to pieces. The one stroke of luck in the misfortune was that he, Su, was still alive.

After a long wait, Xuan Ziwen appeared, piloting a Flying Soul Guidance Device. The Flying Soul Guidance Device on Xuan Ziwen's back looked like the wings of a dragonfly; it appeared soft and thin, but as the wings spread out, they had already enveloped the four of them.

Keke reached out and touched the seemingly fragile light membrane, but the light membrane was surprisingly tough. If Su Yu were still conscious, he would definitely have recognized what this Soul Guidance Device was.

"Teacher Xuan, I..."

Ju Zi, holding Su Yu, spoke with guilt, but she was interrupted before she could finish her sentence.

Xuan Ziwen turned to look at Su Yu, whose aura was growing weaker and weaker, and spoke with some anger: "I'll punish you all when we get back. Look at how you've been training! I told you to take good care of Luo Yu, and this is how you took care of him?"

There was indeed anger in Xuan Ziwen's heart. He had originally thought that since Wang Shaojie, Keke, and Ju Zi were the three leading Luo Yu on this training excursion, there would basically be no problems. After all, these few were all about to become Level 4 Soul Engineers.

Among them, Ju Zi had officially become a Level 4 Soul Engineer during her studies a while ago.

But reality had slapped him hard. When he received Ju Zi's distress signal, he only felt that his teaching had been trampled upon.

The students he had taught had actually panicked because of an encounter with a small Beast Tide, and then thrown a Level 5 Explosive Spirit Tool at their junior who was about to fall into the Beast Tide, resulting in the junior being severely injured and on the verge of death.

All of this felt like a joke played on him by the heavens, a joke that felt so unreal...

After returning to Mingdu, with Xuan Ziwen's authority, he had arranged for Su Yu to be taken to the best medical facility early on. Fortunately, Su Yu's right leg was saved.

However, the Soul Master in charge of the treatment said something that shocked Ju Zi, Keke, and Wang Shaojie: "If the necrotic and ulcerated parts hadn't been removed in time, I estimate this child's leg wouldn't have been saved either. You made a very wise choice. I want to know who handled the removal of the wound at that time?"

"It must have been you. Your clothes are covered in his blood. I have to say, your decision was very wise; you saved his leg. Not bad, you are indeed students taught by the Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy. Worthy of encouragement."

As he spoke, the Soul Master in charge of the treatment also praised Ju Zi without reservation.

However, the next words truly made the other party's jaw drop.

"I only performed hemostasis for him. As for the ulcerated and infected parts of the wound, he removed them himself..."

"Impossible! How could he have performed such a precise removal? In some places, if you cut even a little deeper, you would hit an artery. Even if he did it himself, it would be impossible to endure the pain. Did you give him any drugs to reduce the anesthesia?" The Soul Master in charge of the treatment seemed unable to believe that a person could rely on their own willpower to endure a surgical removal that was like torture.

However, Ju Zi and the others just shook their heads, then walked into the ward and took on the heavy responsibility of taking care of Su Yu.

In fact, amidst a human's intense desire to survive, there is no pain that cannot be endured. Not to mention Su Yu, a transmigrator; in terms of how much he cherished his life, he had practically ingrained the four words "cherish life" into his bones and soul.

Looking at the haggard Su Yu, Ju Zi felt a complex mix of emotions. Looking at the young, immature face before her, Ju Zi's heart could not be calm for a long time.

How old was this little fellow named Luo Yu, really? He looked three or four years younger than her.

"I know this was all my fault. It's all my fault. You must wake up properly. No matter if you want to hit me or scold me, you just have to be okay..."

I don't know why, but looking at Su Yu's face, the more Ju Zi looked, the more she blamed herself. In the end, tears slid from the corners of her eyes, wetting Su Yu's face.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Just at this moment, Su Yu opened his hazy eyes. Looking at the slender jade hand pinching his face, Su Yu looked at this self-reproaching senior sister with some helplessness.

"Senior Sister Ju Zi, please show some self-respect!"

Struggling to push away Ju Zi's delicate fingers and rubbing his face, which had been pinched red and swollen by Ju Zi, Su Yu looked aggrieved.

I finally woke up from my coma, and I still remember that before this, you specifically gave me a bomb, almost blowing me into a state of being paralyzed from the waist down. Now you want to mess with my face again? Is there any justice left!

Looking at Su Yu's face, which had returned to a rosy color, Ju Zi hugged Su Yu excitedly. "It's no wonder you're someone whose culinary skills can rival mine. You survived a great disaster; in the future, this senior sister will definitely not let anyone hurt you."

Su Yu's vision went black, and his head was pressed directly into Ju Zi's embrace. It wasn't until a long time had passed that he saw the light again.

Fine, Su Yu actually wanted to say, even if it happened again, so what...

"Senior Sister Ju Zi, move aside first, you're pressing on my injured leg..."

A miserable scream resounded through the ward. Ju Zi was startled, then hurriedly jumped up from the hospital bed.

Ju Zi was truly quite good at taking care of people, but that was only limited to situations where the injuries were relatively severe. Once Su Yu was out of danger, Su Yu had to suffer Ju Zi's torment.

Although his meals had indeed improved quite a bit during the half-month he was hospitalized, he still had to endure Ju Zi's torment, especially regarding Su Yu's precise surgical removal; this matter was nagged about by Ju Zi until the moment Su Yu was discharged from the hospital.