Chapter 511 - Matters of the Heart (Part 2) (1/2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
This time around, Gu Nianzhi was unresponsive to Huo Shaoheng’s words. She was still lying in He Zhichu’s embrace, faced away from Huo Shaoheng. Of course, she couldn’t move even if she wanted to.
She had endured everything when she was underwater. Didn’t people always have such sudden outbursts of energy when they were faced with crises? However, after she’d managed to bring Huo Shaoheng and Zhao Liangze up, she couldn’t take it anymore. She felt like a deflated balloon, without an ounce of strength left.
However, from Huo Shaoheng’s angle, the position Gu Nianzhi was in felt wrong on so many levels. He felt that Gu Nianzhi was deliberately rejecting him, and he could not accept that at all.
“Nianzhi!” Huo Shaoheng raised his tone and took a step forward. He reached out to He Zhichu and attempted to pull Gu Nianzhi away from his embrace.
He Zhichu tightened his hold on Gu Nianzhi and refused to let go. He glared at Huo Shaoheng. “You try touching her again, and I’ll kick you off the boat this instant!”
The lifeboat wasn’t big, and He Zhichu had brought a good number of people. If He Zhichu seriously wanted to kick him off the boat, there was really nothing he could do to save himself.
Initially, Gu Nianzhi did not want to pay any mind to this. However, when she heard that a fight was about to break out between He Zhichu and Huo Shaoheng, she turned around and breathed, “No…” She sounded tremendously weak.
Huo Shaoheng finally saw her face. It was so pale that it looked like the first snow in winter. However, it was summer right now—how could there be snow? It gave people the chills. Her plump lips were all bruised, with two clear teeth impressions, which had obviously been bitten by herself.
Her lips were chapped and bleeding. Half of her face was swollen. She looked completely different compared to how he had seen her just 30 minutes ago. She looked like she’d just gotten slapped brutally.
Huo Shaoheng’s heart sank, and he understood immediately—Gu Nianzhi had been hurt, too. And judging by how pale she was and how weak she sounded, her organs must have been badly affected. Was she like that due to the electrical currents under the water?
So, her body wasn’t so strong that the high-voltage electrical fence hadn’t been able to affect her. Rather, she’d been worried that he wouldn’t allow her to save him, and that was why she’d forced herself to bear all the pain and pretend that nothing was wrong. Using the diving goggles, she had hidden it from him, as well.
Within a matter of minutes, Huo Shaoheng thought it through and understood what Gu Nianzhi was thinking. No matter what, he was the one who had brought her up. She understood him, but he knew her better.
However, his habit while being at war all these years was to ensure the safety of his comrades first. This had already ingrained in him for a long time. After making sure that Gu Nianzhi was fine, the main person of concern was Zhao Liangze.
Zhao Liangze blacked out because he refused to take in more oxygen for himself. As his superior and commander, Huo Shaoheng had to know his condition immediately. Only after knowing that he could recover, could Huo Shaoheng be calm, so he neglected Gu Nianzhi just now.
Gu Nianzhi looked at Huo Shaoheng, closed her eyes, and breathed weakly again. “…Tired.”
“Get lost!” He Zhichu yelled at Huo Shaoheng again. “I’m sending her to the s.h.i.+p to get treatment!”
Huo Shaoheng stopped insisting and allowed him to pa.s.s.
Carrying Gu Nianzhi, He Zhichu walked past him quickly. The lifeboat had arrived beside the cruise s.h.i.+p. Seats and ropes were put down for He Zhichu and Gu Nianzhi. They made their way up. After that, Zhao Liangze, the doctors, and the nurses went up. Huo Shaoheng and He Zhichu’s subordinates went last.
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Gu Yanran watched, fixated on what was happening on He Zhichu’s end from her boat.
Even though she did not see He Zhichu and Huo Shaoheng argue, she had seen Gu Nianzhi save them on the other end of the boat, and she felt extremely confused.
The electric fence surrounding the blue hole was her father Gu Xiangwen’s proudest invention. It was a huge but extremely detailed project. The key factors in this project were unknown to everyone, even Gu Yanran. Therefore, the moment Gu Xiangwen and his wife had met with that fateful accident, this electric fence had practically become barren—because no one knew where its switch was, and how to activate it.
Gu Yanran was shocked to begin with that the electrical fence had been activated all of a sudden, but what shook her more was that someone had managed to survive it!
It was true that Gu Yanran did not know how to start the electrical fence, but she did know how powerful it was. That was due to Gu Xiangwen bringing it up during dinner multiple times after he’d invented it. He was extremely proud of it, and he’d told his family how powerful it was during dinner…
Moreover, before Gu Xiangwen had met with that fateful accident, Gu Yanran had seen Gu Xiangwen start the fence once, and she had witnessed its power. This was something that even she did not know about on a technical level. It was an obstacle that even she could not overcome. How could Gu Nianzhi, at her age, do it?
Gu Yanran thought long and hard about it. When she saw He Zhichu and everyone on his boat boarding back onto the s.h.i.+p, she told her subordinate, “Contact Mr. He. tell him that I’d like to visit Mr. Huo and Miss Gu to see if they’re okay.”
Her butler immediately got in contact with He Zhichu’s side.
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The moment He Zhichu boarded back onto his s.h.i.+p, he carried Gu Nianzhi into the medical room with the best equipment on board. Giving an order to the doctor who was attending to Zhao Liangze just now, he informed him gravely, “Give her a detailed checkup quickly. See if she has to be sent to America for emergency treatment.”
The doctor, seeing He Zhichu’s expression, prepared the entire set of medical equipment and called his best a.s.sistant to conduct the checkup for Gu Nianzhi.