Chapter 389: I Won't Abandon the Patient

Bai Wei looked up and saw that Zhou Yanli had already opened his eyes, looking at her with extreme weakness.

She pointed to an iron tray containing a blood-stained Bullet.

"You're awake? I helped you remove the Bullet."

Zhou Yanli lowered his head slightly, only then discovering that he was bare-chested, wearing nothing but a pair of trousers.

His pupils dilated in shock, and his cold, elegant face flushed bright red.

After a long while, he regained his senses, gritting his teeth as he spat out a few words through his teeth.

"What are you doing... give my clothes back..."

Bai Wei was righteous and confident, "I'm treating your illness. If I give you your clothes, how am I supposed to perform surgery on you?"

Saying this, she glared at him again, "I really should have given you more anesthetic to let you sleep until dawn, so you wouldn't be so talkative!"

Ancient people are just troublesome, acting all coy about taking off a piece of clothing.

Although Xiao Moting is also thin-skinned, he is obedient; when told to take them off, he does, never saying an extra word!

Zhou Yanli lay bare-chested; he had been proud his whole life and, having grown this old, had never been stripped of his clothes by a woman and laid out on a bed like this.

His handsome face was red as blood, and anger surged in his eyes.

"It is improper to look, do not touch me!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Wei felt a bit annoyed herself.

She had saved his life, yet this National Preceptor was acting haughty, spouting "it is improper to look" without thanking her at all.

Truly, kindness is treated like a donkey's liver and lungs!

Seeing that Zhou Yanli could not move, Bai Wei conceived the idea of teasing him.

She reached out and deliberately touched Zhou Yanli's chest.

"National Preceptor Zhou, I didn't expect your physique to be quite good; you have pectoral muscles and abdominal muscles, do you usually train?"

A trace of shame and indignation flashed through Zhou Yanli's cold, clear eyes.

"You! Do not touch me indiscriminately!"

Bai Wei didn't listen; she examined his abdomen and then rubbed her chin with a wicked smile.

"Tsk tsk, eight-pack abs; if I hadn't taken off your clothes, I really wouldn't have known! Come, lie still and let this young lady have a feel!"

After saying this, she reached out to touch him.

Zhou Yanli was shocked, staring at her with an expression of disbelief; having likely never seen a woman as bold as Bai Wei, his pupils dilated slightly, filled with horror.

"You... stop!"

His handsome face was red as blood, and he wanted to struggle to escape, but because he had been given anesthetic, his body could not move at all; he was like a fish on a chopping block, forced to let Bai Wei handle him.

Seeing Bai Wei's claws reaching over, he finally panicked a little.

"Don't!"

Just as she was about to touch Zhou Yanli's body, Bai Wei pulled her hand back and immediately picked up the suturing needle.

She wasn't actually going to touch him.

Xiao Moting practiced martial arts long-term, with broad shoulders and long legs, a top-tier physique, and not an ounce of excess fat; even if she wanted to touch abdominal muscles, touching her own ancient boyfriend's abdominal muscles was enough.

"I'm suturing the wound now, don't move around." Bai Wei lowered her head to suture Zhou Yanli's wound, "If you move around and I happen to touch somewhere on you that I shouldn't, then that would truly be improper of me."

Zhou Yanli's pale lips parted slightly, and he stared at her, unable to speak.

After a long while, he gritted his teeth and let out a cold snort, simply turning his head away, refusing to look at her no matter what.

Seeing his look of desperate resistance, Bai Wei snickered to herself.

Usually he's so wild and arrogant, but now he's got no way out, right?

As she thought this, her hands didn't stop, nimbly suturing and disinfecting...

Just as Bai Wei was lowering her head, focused on suturing Zhou Yanli's wound, she didn't notice that Zhou Yanli had turned his head back at some point and was staring fixedly at her.

His eyes were pitch-black and cold, his gaze flickering, not knowing what he was thinking.

The surgery was not complicated, and Bai Wei finished it quickly.

She carefully wrapped a Bandage around Zhou Yanli's lean chest and abdomen, giving medical instructions in a businesslike manner.

"The wound is sutured, but it will be a while before it recovers. Remember not to get it wet, avoid strenuous exercise, don't eat spicy food, change the medicine every two days, and prevent infection... have you remembered all that?"

Bai Wei asked once, but heard no reply.

She frowned and looked up at Zhou Yanli.

"Did you remember the points I mentioned?"

Zhou Yanli kept a cold face, his cheeks still flushed with a red glow; he let out a cold snort and then turned his head toward the wall.

Seeing him like this, Bai Wei was both angry and amused.

This little look of his, he acts just as if he'd been molested by her.

She crossed her arms, "Zhou Yanli, you didn't even thank me..."

Before she could finish, Zhou Yanli suddenly turned his head back, his tone urgent.

"You must leave here quickly."

"What?" Bai Wei was stunned.

A flash of urgency crossed Zhou Yanli's eyes.

"It's going to collapse, you must go!"

"Collapse?" Bai Wei blinked in confusion, then suddenly remembered that he possessed Precognition, "Are you saying this cellar is going to collapse?"

Zhou Yanli's brows knitted together, and he reached out to steady himself on the edge of the bed, trying hard to stand up.

However, the effects of the anesthetic had not yet worn off, and he could not stand up at all.

Bai Wei felt a wave of tension.

She gritted her teeth, immediately rushed forward, and grabbed Zhou Yanli's arm.

"Let's go together!"

"I can't move! It's very dangerous here, don't worry about me! Go quickly!"

Bai Wei reacted quickly and immediately tried to carry him on her back, "I'll carry you, get on quickly."

However, although Zhou Yanli was lean, he was very tall, and he was also a martial artist; he was the type who looked thin in clothes but had muscle underneath, so he was very heavy and not light at all.

Bai Wei was petite and couldn't carry him at all, so the two of them fell to the ground together.

"It's too late, don't worry about me!" Zhou Yanli pushed her hard, "You leave quickly!"

"No!" Bai Wei knelt halfway on the ground, desperately pulling him toward the door, "I am a doctor, I will never abandon my patient. I studied medicine to save people! Healing the sick and saving the dying is a doctor's mission!"

Suddenly, the cellar shook, and large chunks of dirt and rubble crashed down.

Without a second thought, Bai Wei immediately threw herself onto Zhou Yanli to block the falling rocks, so they wouldn't hit his wounds.

Dirt covered her head and body.

Zhou Yanli's pupils constricted; he didn't seem to expect that she would actually shield him.

He came to his senses and pushed her away with all his might.

"Go! I can't leave, you don't need to die here with me!"

There was still residual anesthetic in his body, so although he pushed with force, he still couldn't push Bai Wei away.

"I will not abandon my patient." Bai Wei was also very firm, "This is my medical ethics as a doctor!"

She looked up at the ceiling of the cellar.

This cellar was not deep, so even if the roof collapsed, the falling dirt would not be very heavy.

In her space, there was still a simple preservative-treated wooden house, which was very sturdy and could block the dirt at a critical moment.

Xiao Moting was not far away and would definitely come to save them.

By then, the two of them could hide in the wooden house, and the remaining oxygen would be enough to last until the Northern Frontier Army dug through the dirt.

Bai Wei thought it through very clearly.

The worst-case scenario was merely that Zhou Yanli would discover the secret of her space.

But he was injured now, so even if he wanted to seize her for questioning, he lacked the strength to do so.

Suddenly!

Bai Wei felt the ground tremble, and the dirt under her feet seemed to become loose.

She looked down in surprise... and immediately after, her body felt weightless, and she plunged downward.

"Ah—"

A panicked scream echoed in the cellar.

At the very moment she fell, Bai Wei finally understood.

She had been wrong!

So... it wasn't that the cellar was about to collapse, but that the ground itself was about to cave in!