Chapter 188: Chapter 188: A Life Hanging by a Thread
Throughout the wait, Yang Fei felt extremely anxious, but he didn’t sit idly by; instead, he gathered some simple belongings and picked up a set of silver needles and some potentially useful herbs from the clinic.
Li Xuantong was not in today; Zhou Cheng was watching the store. Yang Fei told Zhou Cheng, "I need to make a long trip. I definitely won’t be back tomorrow, please let Old Li know."
Zhou Cheng nodded and said, "Okay, when will you be back then?"
Yang Fei thought for a moment and shook his head, "I’m not sure yet."
"Okay, the clinic has the master, Mr. Yang, don’t worry," Zhou Cheng said.
Just then, a call from Tong Yunshu came through.
Yang Fei answered the phone, and Tong Yunshu’s voice came over, "It will still be two hours before departure. Yang Fei, what exactly happened? You seem really anxious. Do you need my help?"
Yang Fei, touched, responded, "You have already helped me a lot, I truly appreciate it."
Tong Yunshu laughed, "Compared to the day you saved me, this little favor is nothing."
With the plane set to depart in two hours, Yang Fei felt less hurried.
From here to Yun City, the flight only takes a little over two hours. Although Yun City is not close to where Qin Yanyang is, with his walking pace, it would only take about five hours.
He said to Tong Yunshu, "Just like you said last time at the clinic, we are friends. And friends shouldn’t be so formal with each other, helping each other out is normal."
In her heart, Tong Yunshu muttered, "Just friends?"
But she didn’t ask. Seeing that Yang Fei didn’t intend to disclose what happened, she wisely chose not to push further and, after chatting for a few more moments, ended the call.
He picked up the car and headed straight to the airport.
On the way, he made a call to Zhang Long.
Upon answering, Zhang Long’s first words were, "Mr. Yang, is there more trash that needs cleaning up?"
Yang Fei smiled wryly, thinking of the times he had asked Zhang Long to help clean up some "trash," and feeling somewhat embarrassed, he said, "No, it’s just that I need to leave for a few days. My sister is studying at Binhai University, and both Xu Mao and Xu Xingzhou are not around, so I can only leave this task to you."
Zhang Long immediately assured him, "Mr. Yang, rest assured, as long as I’m not dead, Wenwen will never be bullied. Moreover, after your fame at the Life and Death Platform, you have become a notorious new elite in the Martial World; no one dares to provoke you now. As long as no martial artists intervene, I can handle the small fries."
Yang Fei nodded silently, feeling relieved.
That day, he had gained his brutal reputation in the Martial World by killing Yan Zhongshan in one move, followed by Wang Xiongying, Yan Cheng, and Xu Chou, with the aim to instill fear and respect.
It seemed the effect was pretty good.
At 10:20 PM, a private plane landed at a small airport in Yun City.
Upon leaving the airport, Yang Fei boarded a taxi and gave an address.
The taxi driver’s face immediately showed intense delight as he heard it, "Sir, are you sure you want to go that far?"
Considering it was already around 10:30 PM, travelers arriving at Yun City usually sought hotels to check into and planned to conduct their business the next day.
But Yang Fei intended to rush to the distant location overnight, which seemed unbelievable to the taxi driver.
Yang Fei didn’t waste words and asked, "Will you go?"
"I can go, but just to let you know upfront, it’s late at night and driving that far is tiring, so the price might be ..."
"Two thousand yuan," Yang Fei interrupted.
The taxi driver’s eyes lit up, "Alright then, brother, make yourself comfortable. You’re lucky to have found the fastest driver in Yun City."
With that, he floored the gas pedal, and the taxi roared forward, speeding off.
A few minutes later, Yang Fei closed his eyes to rest.
Indeed, the taxi driver’s skills were impressive, not just boastful.
The speed was fast, yet stable.
Two hours later, after driving through dense forests, they finally approached a small village.
"Brother, I can only drop you off at this village. Going further south, the road conditions are too bad for my car," the driver said as they arrived at the village entrance.
Yang Fei nodded, transferred two thousand yuan to the taxi driver, and got out of the car.
"Could he be trying to smuggle himself?" the taxi driver wondered aloud, but then he dropped the thought and turned back towards the city.
Today’s trip had netted him an easy eighteen hundred yuan, and he could now go home, embrace his wife, and sleep peacefully.
Entering the forest, Yang Fei put on a headlamp and took out his phone to open an app.
After entering the longitude and latitude that Qin Yanyang provided, Yang Fei determined the direction and dashed off.
It was night, but he moved through the forest as if on flat ground, with moonlight unable to penetrate the dense branches casting down into the woods; he had to rely on the headlamp for illumination.
This was a true trek through the jungle on foot.
At about 3:40 a.m., Yang Fei had reached the coordinates Qin Yanyang had sent him.
It had been less than ten hours since Qin Yanyang had called him.
They were less than a hundred miles from the border but deep in the mountains and rivers, with no villages or towns nearby—it was the most primitive section of the forest.
After over three hours of high-speed trekking through the mountains and forests, even Yang Fei, a Martial Artist, felt his body heating up, and some True Yuan had been drained from within him.
Soon, Yang Fei found the precise coordinates Qin Yanyang had reported to him.
The location was on a rock beside a small stream.
Yang Fei drank some stream water, washed his face, and looked around nearby. Not seeing Qin Yanyang, he did not shout out loud but instead took out his phone to call her.
"Sorry, the number you have dialed is switched off..."
Yang Fei furrowed his brows.
Switched off, could it be she was worried about being wiretapped?
But she clearly switched to an unfamiliar number, right?
At that moment, Yang Fei realized the problem might be even more severe than he had thought.
While he was worrying, suddenly, he heard the sound of a stone striking up the stream.
He quickly looked up.
He saw no one, but he knew this could be a signal from Qin Yanyang, so he instantly dashed over.
After about a hundred meters, Yang Fei detected a faint breathing sound.
Startled, he said, "Yanyang?"
"Cough... cough cough, it’s me..." came Qin Yanyang’s incredibly weak voice.
Following the sound, Yang Fei found Qin Yanyang lying in a concave groove of a huge rock, well concealed.
The headlamp illuminated Qin Yanyang’s stunning yet utterly pale, bloodless face.
Moreover, Yang Fei noticed her breath was unusually faint, almost ceasing.
Hurriedly, he ran to Qin Yanyang’s side and picked her up, concerned, "What happened to you, who did this?"
As he asked, he held her in his arms and grabbed her pulse with his hand, examining her injuries.
A moment later, Yang Fei’s brows twisted.
Such a weak pulse.
With his Medical Skill, he barely sensed it.
She had sustained extremely severe internal injuries!
A flash of light crossed Yang Fei’s eyes, and without delaying any further, he took out silver needles from his backpack and applied the Revitalizing Thirteen Needle Technique on Qin Yanyang.
Half an hour later, Yang Fei’s expression was even graver than when he had first seen Qin Yanyang.
With his current Cultivation, the effect of the Revitalizing Thirteen Needle Technique was very powerful, not exactly bringing the dead back to life, but certainly its Power was not weak.
However, Qin Yanyang’s injuries had only been stabilized by his efforts.
Her injuries were just too severe!
Having sustained such severe internal damage and still not dead, still waiting for him to rescue her, Yang Fei grew even more perplexed about Qin Yanyang.
Such a tough vitality.
Fortunately, her condition was stabilized, and there was no longer a threat to her life.
Seeing that Qin Yanyang was still unconscious, Yang Fei once again activated the Revitalizing Aura for treatment.
In fact, he was very tired himself, and the previous activation of the Revitalizing Aura had been all-out, causing significant depletion. Doing it again now was almost like pushing himself to the edge of losing control.
But to heal Qin Yanyang, he had to struggle on.