Chapter 283: Find Him (1/2)
Chapter 283: Find Him
Translator: InsigniaEditor: Svjohn
One step, two steps. Luo Yuan was moving as slow as an old person at first, but he was gradually getting faster and faster, his movements becoming more sturdy. After a few minutes, he could walk like a normal person again, the pain in his body subsiding rapidly. His brain, which felt like it had been clogged, started to clear up. Suddenly, he felt like he was shedding off a heavy armor and getting back his freedom.
However, that did not last long.
Soon, the exhaustion of his Sensory Perception made him dizzy. His body was detached from the Earth Pulse, and his emotions came back accompanied by fatigue and pain. Luo Yuan felt lost.
It took him a while to snap back to reality, but he slowly sat down at the corner of the bed. He turned on the system attributes panel right away. The Earth Pulse’s healing was super effective. Although it lasted less than half an hour, all his attributes had recovered fully. Both his Strength and Dexterity had gained +1 each, while the rest had reached +8. If he were to add the bonus of his Earth based abilities, his Physique would go as high as +13. However, bonus attributes were not an upgrade on his intrinsic abilities. In a certain context, he could be given a bonus; for instance, the halo in games. Besides the enhancement of his stamina though, it had no other effect on his recovery.
Most importantly, the concentration of his Will remained obscure, although not as torturous as before. His Sensory Perception was spreading naturally like mercury flowing on the floor, but due to exhaustion, it could only be maintained at a six-meter radius. If nothing else, at least this meant that his brain was recovering at lightning speed.
There was no price to pay for such powerful self-healing. What it took was only a massive amount of nutrients and energy. Luo Yuan felt hungrier than he ever had, and a part of the energy nucleus near his heart was used. It was the energy enrichment he had extracted from the snake, which could support him twice as much.
”This should be enough!” Luo Yuan thought to himself as he clenched his fists, feeling the energy growing inside his body.
There was a knock at the door, and a basin full of steamed buns and a big bowl of water were shoved through the small window under the door. Wen Yujie snapped out of her daydream and placed the food on the ground before Luo Yuan. She picked up a bun, squatted in a corner of the cell, and started eating it. There were tears rolling down her cheeks, but she kept eating.
Luo Yuan thought her being emotional during such a moment was ridiculous. ”What is there to cry about?”
Hearing what Luo Yuan had asked her made Wen Yujie lose control of her tears.
”I just… I don’t want to talk you, you liar!” she said hatefully while still crying.
She hadn’t had a good rest those past few days, especially during the days Luo Yuan had been spiking a high fever. Every day she’d had to wipe his body more than 10 times. She’d even had to do it at night. Sometimes she would try to catch up on her sleep, but then she would hear Luo Yuan telling her that he was thirsty in his sleep and she’d have to feed him. When he had finally awakened and started getting better, she had still been concerned that he could lose his life at any time.
It was his fault for knowing that he had the unique ability to heal, but not saying anything to her. Did he not realize how worried she was about him? She could not stop crying as she thought about all the things she’d had to do for him.
Luo Yuan was stunned. He turned to Wen Yujie and told her apologetically, ”Actually, there were certain conditions that had to be met for me to heal like I did. It’s not like I enjoyed lying in bed doing nothing. Thank you for taking care of me though.”
Sensing that there was a boundary in his tone, the girl’s sensitive heart was hurt. Wen Yujie turned cold as she said, ”I don’t need to hear that. I would have done this for anyone.”
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Since then, Luo Yuan could sense that Wen Yujie was being cold to him. Although he realized it, he did not say anything. He knew that he had a complicated love life, not only with Huang Jiahui and Zhao Yali, but even with Wang Shishi. Wang Xiaoguang had been hurt so bad that she did not even want to be friends with him anymore. He really should not be planting any more seeds of love. Plus, he was now behind bars and unsure of what would happen to him, so he was not in the mood to invest in a relationship.
After dinner, Luo Yuan put this behind him. He lay down on his bed, closed his eyes and prepared to meditate to speed up the healing of his Sensory Perception and Will. His meditation was not limited to one position. He could do it sitting or lying down. Not long later, he closed his eyes, and all the thoughts in his mind quieted down.
Wen Yujie stared hatefully at Luo Yuan, who was sleeping like a pig right after eating his dinner. She got into her own bed and just stared into space. She thought she would make a bad impression on him. If she did not explain herself properly, it might cause a misunderstanding between them. On the other hand, she was worried that she was being too cold to him and he might think that she was angry with him. Her mind was in complete chaos.
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Meanwhile, in the other room, there were cigarette butts everywhere, and smoke was filling the air as if there was a fire.
”The underground cables were cut off recently, and the satellite phones were turned up with the excuse of re-encryption. Due to the electromagnetic storm, the Desert City is now untraceable,” a guy in glasses laughed.
Su Yu nodded and said, ”Good. At least the civilians won’t be affected temporarily. By then, we will be rich and there’ll nothing we’ll need to care about.”
Su Yu then looked at Lao Xie.