Chapter 190 : Chapter 190
Chapter 190: I Don’t Want to Wait Anymore
Li Mu did not know how long he had been unconscious.
He only knew that when he woke again, he was already lying on a bed.
Li Mu opened his eyes and tried to sit up.
Only then did he discover that his back seemed to be tightly wrapped in something.
A surging, violent pain slammed into his nerves.
It hurt so much that Li Mu hissed.
At this moment, he could barely turn his head and see that he was in a warmly decorated little room.
The hospital bed was wide, and in the small space beside him, a delicate body was curled up.
A familiar fragrance rushed into Li Mu’s nose.
It was Wang Yinhuan.
Li Mu’s hiss woke Wang Yinhuan.
She froze for a moment, then quickly raised her head and looked at Li Mu.
When she discovered that Li Mu had woken up, her eyes instantly turned red, and tears flowed down uncontrollably.
She propped herself up with her hands and moved close to Li Mu, asking gently, “Does it hurt?”
“My back hurts a little, but it’s fine. It’ll recover soon.”
“Stop crying. When you cry, you look like a steamed bun. Haha... Cough, cough, cough!”
Li Mu laughed, but the movement pulled at his wound, and he immediately coughed twice from the pain.
Wang Yinhuan was angered into laughter by him. She reached out and pinched Li Mu’s face, but very quickly, the pinch turned into a gentle caress.
Unable to suppress the sob in her voice, she said, “I thought you were dead.”
“What an auspicious little mouth you have,” Li Mu said with a laugh and a scold.
Wang Yinhuan sat up and looked at him resentfully.
“What’s wrong?” Li Mu asked, his heart tightening when he saw her like this.
“When you were unconscious, I kept thinking.”
“If you had died, and we still hadn’t...”
At this point, Wang Yinhuan automatically flushed scarlet.
Very scarlet.
“Still hadn’t what?” Li Mu asked with a smile.
But Wang Yinhuan slipped out of bed with a whoosh, jogged to the door, locked it, then drew the curtains and turned off her phone.
The already dim room suddenly became shadowy.
Wang Yinhuan walked to the hospital bed, unfastening her buttons as she said softly, “You don’t know what I went through during this day and night.”
“I was truly... so afraid that you would die just like that.”
“I don’t want either of us to suddenly leave this world without ever truly having everything of the other.”
“I don’t want to wait another moment.”
By the time she finished speaking, Wang Yinhuan had already removed all restraints and slipped back under the blanket.
Li Mu suddenly felt his brain buzzing.
His back was injured right now, and his upper body could barely move.
Fortunately, Li Mu had a C1 driver’s license. He could drive both manual and automatic transmissions.
He still remembered it clearly.
Back when he was on Earth, Li Mu had been most used to driving manual cars.
Later, a friend had once advised him that automatic cars were easy to drive and offered a different kind of driving experience.
Li Mu had shaken his head and waved him off, saying, “Manual transmissions let you change gears yourself. What matters is that sense of control from coordinating the clutch and throttle and shifting gears.”
That friend had smiled. “I admit that automatic transmissions do have the painful flaw of being beyond your control! But they are enjoyable. You can put your hands behind your back and let your thoughts fly.”
As the saying went, pain and joy could coexist.
Li Mu remembered that at the time, he had even said the man was talking nonsense.
How could a person possibly be in pain and happy at the same time?
It seemed he had still been shallow.
Brother.
This little brother apologizes to you from over here!
And also...
Deputy Commander-in-Chief Wang, Aunt Bai, I am sorry!
Li Mu silently took out a High-Grade Body-Fortifying Pill and swallowed it.
...
Several hours later.
The sky had already begun to brighten.
A knock sounded from outside the door.
“One-Cudgel’s wife, open the door. Has One-Cudgel woken up yet?”
That muffled voice was clearly Lu Chenfeng.
Immediately afterward, Zhang Zhiwei’s irritated voice came from beside him.
“Keep your voice down!”
“It’s already been two days and two nights, and he still hasn’t woken up. This isn’t right,” Lu Chenfeng muttered.
“Shut your crow’s beak!”
Li Mu speechlessly reached out, took his phone, turned it on, and called Zhang Zhiwei.
“Stop making a racket. I’ll come out right away.”
The area outside the door instantly quieted down.
Li Mu had already adapted to the pain in his back. He gritted his teeth and propped himself up, then got out of bed.
He was afraid of waking Wang Yinhuan, who was sleeping deeply with her brows faintly furrowed.
Li Mu got up, put on his clothes, walked to the door, and opened it.
Lu Chenfeng and Zhang Zhiwei were standing outside.
Seeing Li Mu come out while standing, both of them let out a huge sigh of relief.
“Damn, I thought you were dead!”
Lu Chenfeng patted his massive chest, looking as though he had suffered quite a fright.
“You broke through to the Profound Rank?”
Zhang Zhiwei keenly noticed that Li Mu’s aura was different.
“Mm.”
Li Mu nodded.
“Don’t talk about that for now.”
Li Mu gave the two of them a reminder.
Then he turned back into the room, dressed properly, and tucked the blanket around Wang Yinhuan. Only then did he quietly leave the room.
He led the two of them a few steps to the side.
This place was actually the Officer Medical Department of Wanren Military District. The spacious corridor had quite a few medical staff occasionally passing through.
Li Mu asked the two of them, “How are the casualties?”
Zhang Zhiwei said, “The Liang Family lost one Profound Rank Second Grade and six Yellow Rank Ninth Grades.”
“Twelve people died in the military district riot. They were all among the ones from Thousand Victories Military Academy who turned traitor.”
“Wanren Military District lost two officers at the Profound Rank Fourth Grade.”
Li Mu exhaled a long breath and nodded.
Although the deaths of several experts were indeed regrettable, after seeing so much, this level of loss truly could not be considered large.
In guarding the Abyss, which military district did not lose several or even a dozen people on any given day? It was not uncommon for a minor regional disturbance to kill several hundred people.
Had he not nearly died fighting desperately too?
Otherwise, how could the various military districts always be short of people?
“Have you investigated Thousand Victories Military Academy’s betrayal?”
Li Mu asked again.
This time, Lu Chenfeng had the right to speak.
“We investigated it! That damned bastard of a Principal from Thousand Victories Military Academy had always wanted to join the Heaven Society.”
“So starting four years ago, the Heaven Society began giving him some special potions.”
“That Principal distributed those potions to Thousand Victories Military Academy’s students as rewards.”
“Every student who used that special potion improved in strength very quickly, and there were no side effects either.”
“But in reality, the Heaven Society could use a blood secret method to control these people who had drunk the potion.”
“It was just that the students themselves had no idea.”
“The reason Thousand Victories Military Academy’s students were able to improve so quickly over these past few years was exactly this.”
“According to the experts’ analysis, it was fortunate that the military district discovered the rune stone tablet.”
“In order to cover the rune stone tablet opening the spatial barrier, the Heaven Society controlled the students of Thousand Victories Military Academy in advance and launched the riot.”
“That meant they could only make the students’ minds chaotic, but could not perfectly control them.”
“If it hadn’t been for the rune stone tablet, then in a few more years, these students’ wills would have been completely controlled. By then, the consequences would have been unimaginable.”
After Li Mu finished listening, he also felt a wave of lingering fear.
“Have they all been arrested?”
“They have! I already have all of Thousand Victories Military Academy’s leaders under control.”
“All of the berserk martial artists have also been isolated.”
“After regaining consciousness, they were all very cooperative.”
“Old Shui said he has a way to deal with it and can completely cleanse the blood poison inside those martial artists.”
When Lu Chenfeng said this, Zhang Zhiwei added, “Old Shui is Linyuan City’s Earth Rank expert, Shui Tianxing.”
“While you were fighting the Earth Rank monster down below, Old Shui was also fighting an Earth Rank martial artist from the Heaven Society on the sea, along with more than a dozen Heaven Society members at the Profound Rank Seventh or Eighth Grade.”
“Clearly, the Heaven Society was determined to obtain that rune stone tablet.”
Lu Chenfeng clenched his fists.
“That damned Heaven Society. What benefit do they get from doing this?”
As the three of them chatted, a medical-type martial artist in the corridor saw Li Mu and immediately greeted him.
“Tiger Marquis Li, you’re awake!”
“Deputy Commander-in-Chief An instructed us that if you woke up, you should go find him.”
“It seems Old Shui wants to meet you.”
“Understood.”
Li Mu responded, then had Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Chenfeng leave first while he returned to his room.
Wang Yinhuan was still deeply asleep.
Li Mu entered the bathroom, removed the gauze wrapping on his back, and let the water wash away the bloodstains there while opening the system.
Li Mu looked through all of his Divine Abilities.
He truly lacked this kind of ability to recover quickly after being injured.
Strictly speaking, of course, it would be best if he did not get injured at all.
If he wanted to solve this point, upgrading a spirit treasure specifically for recovery would be a good choice.
Changing one trait of the Great Heavenly Immortal Art would also work.
Or perhaps...
Li Mu turned his gaze toward the SSS-grade Destiny Spirit Crystal.
The green-armored giant had come from another world, so there probably was no such thing as talent for it.
Therefore, Great Heavenly Immortal Art had directly transformed the plundered destiny into a talent.
If that was the case, then after Li Mu consumed this Destiny Talent, it should not be completely related to the green-armored giant’s abilities.
In other words, Carnival of Life was an entirely new talent.
Just hearing the name, it was probably related to recovery.
Li Mu directly harvested a portion of the herbs for the Ghost-Axe Destiny Pill from the Blessing Field and synthesized them into a Ghost-Axe Destiny Pill.
Then he swallowed it...