Super Soldier in the City

Chapter 2454 - 2518: Rescuing Su Lio

The person who came was Li Yifei. He had just knocked on the door for a while and didn’t get a response from Su Lio. He originally planned to come back later, but suddenly he felt a jolt in his heart, a bad feeling, so he broke in directly.The air conditioning temperature is so high? Li Yifei frowned. Although it was indeed quite hot this season, the Li family had a Great Formation protecting it, keeping the interior temperature very stable unless manually adjusted. However, inside Su Lio’s room, the air conditioner was turned to the highest setting. Li Yifei immediately realized something was wrong, so without bothering about anything else, he sensed Su Lio’s position and rushed in. As he opened the bedroom door, he saw Su Lio curled up in the blanket.

Then there was the scene just now. Li Yifei saw something wrong with Su Lio’s condition, her face pale. Upon checking, his heart sank. Compared to the first time he met Su Lio, her physical condition was worse now, even much worse than before.

If Li Yifei had returned a day or two late, he might have only found Su Lio’s body. Without time to think more, Li Yifei urgently channeled True Qi into Su Lio’s body. But at this time, cold energy was erupting inside her, yin chill rampant, making Li Yifei’s Extreme Yang Qi unable to enter in large quantities, otherwise her body would not withstand it.

Her cardiac pulse was already very weak. Ignoring the concerns of propriety between men and women, Li Yifei held Su Lio in his arms, with one hand protecting her back and the other directly covering her heart. Su Lio was only wearing cartoon pajamas, so when Li Yifei placed his hand on it, he could directly feel some softness, even a slight protrusion in his palm—soft and elastic, undoubtedly lovely—but Li Yifei couldn’t afford to mind these things now.

He carefully, with concentrated focus, exercised his True Qi, entering Su Lio’s body through her back and front chest. The Supreme Yang True Qi entered slowly. Even when she wasn’t having an episode, suppressing the chill required extreme caution and was prone to sudden incidents, let alone in the current situation where Su Lio’s body was filled with an indescribable chill that had invaded her whole body.

Even a small delay might mean she could no longer open her eyes. Fortunately, Li Yifei had just decided to come see Su Lio, rather than delay at home. Although even then, it was somewhat late.

Li Yifei, undistracted, needed to calm himself in order to save Su Lio.

Li Yifei’s True Qi was of the Supreme Yang attribute. Su Lio’s Sky Yin Absolute Vein caused her body to be filled with cold. Not only were her already fragile and terminated meridians filled with this cold, but her entire body, causing her heartbeat to drop to the extreme, even to just over twenty times a minute, which was absolutely abnormal and unsustainable for life.

I must save you! I definitely will! Li Yifei couldn’t call for help from others, although Murong Yuanqing and others were only over a hundred meters away.

The Supreme Yang True Qi did play a role entering Su Lio’s body, but because of her Sky Yin Absolute Vein, she was, in a sense, also a top expert. Just her True Qi attribute was Supreme Yin. Supreme Yin encountering Supreme Yang, one being unconscious, the other conscious, naturally had the conscious dominating. However, Su Lio’s body was like a battlefield. Even though Li Yifei had the initiative, he dared not mishandle it; mishandling would destroy the battlefield that was Su Lio.

If that happens, there’s no one to save, and this is different from suppressing cold. That only suppressed cold in the Dantian, but now the cold is all over the body.

In short, it’s extremely difficult. Even with Li Yifei’s cultivation and control over True Qi, his grasp over the minute aspects was extremely slow. He could now control True Qi to transform into extremely thin threads, entering any part of Su Lio’s body.

Even so, it remained very slow. However, this was different from before. Li Yifei had to quickly eliminate the coldness, pushing it back to Su Lio’s Dantian. If delayed, even if Su Lio is saved, it would be a catastrophe for her body. It’s akin to a cancer patient, where chemotherapy might currently be the most effective treatment globally, but chemotherapy kills all cells, including healthy ones, using radioactive elements.

Su Lio’s current situation was similar. If Li Yifei eliminated the cold too quickly, her body wouldn’t endure it; too slowly, it would leave sequelae on her body. And Li Yifei was alone; he was already trying his utmost speed.

Ten minutes... half an hour... an hour, Su Lio’s eyes remained tightly shut, her brow furrowed, her face pale, as if devoid of blood, appearing terrifying; the cold just before almost froze her.

Li Yifei’s True Qi was consuming like it was free, using the stupidest method, exchanging his True Qi for the other’s physical recovery, eventually leaving Li Yifei’s Dantian empty, almost exhausted of his True Qi. He then drew upon his stored Innate Vital Energy. In order to save Su Lio, Li Yifei didn’t begrudge these hard-earned, life-preserving Innate Vital Energies, but this time they were for saving a life, Su Lio’s life, which was equally worth it.

Li Yifei opened his eyes, and Su Lio in his arms was already awake, having awakened earlier. By that time, it was already dark outside, and neither of them knew what time it was. Previously, Li Yifei had desperately saved Su Lio, even consuming all the stored Innate Vital Energy, only then temporarily dispersing the cold inside Su Lio.

Li Yifei left a voice message for Su Mengxin explaining the situation, and then directly entered a cultivation state to restore True Qi; he couldn’t be without True Qi, otherwise, if Su Lio’s condition relapsed, Li Yifei would have no means to continue saving her.

After rushing to restore some energy, Li Yifei opened his eyes to see Su Lio resting her head on his leg. Her eyes were bright and captivating, eyes one couldn’t bear to leave after a glance. With such beautiful eyes belonging to such a lovely girl, how could Li Yifei bear to watch her die in pain? So he had to save her, and he must save her.

Su Lio had already woken up. She felt much warmer now, a thousand times better than when ill, maybe even more, because after her vision adjusted, she saw Li Yifei from this vantage point, seeing his chin from this angle for the first time, without distinguishing his stubble, yet for the first time seeing him from such a perspective.

Perhaps this could also be said as the first time resting on someone else’s leg since waking up, knowing she narrowly escaped death once more, and this time it was Li Yifei who saved her. But wasn’t he out on a mission, how did he get back in time? She didn’t know, but she felt a warmth throughout her entire being, warm from head to toe, every pore exuding warmth.

She even secretly smiled several times; now they were in close contact, she could smell Li Yifei’s breath, smell him, he seemed to have sweated a bit, so there was a faint sweat smell, but appealing; she couldn’t help but smell it for a long time.

She thought she would fall asleep like this, who would have imagined this man appearing once more to rescue her, suddenly making her not want to die anymore, she seemed to see sunlight, even though it was still night.

Seeing Li Yifei open his eyes, their eyes met, and they were speechless, Li Yifei’s expression revealing unmistakable fatigue, while Su Lio lay motionless, the room filled only with their breathing, heartbeats, and the subtle sound of blinking.

Maybe it was a few seconds or a few minutes before they both almost simultaneously smiled, Li Yifei inhaled deeply, exhaled slowly, and said, "Let me check you first."

"Mm!" Su Lio didn’t say much, feeling her hand being held by the other, a warm energy passing over, Su Lio pursed her lips, feeling more comfortable.

True Qi entered Su Lio’s body; her condition was dire. Li Yifei had hastily helped dispel the cold, but damage still remained, though that wasn’t crucial. What was crucial was that the cold in Su Lio’s Dantian wasn’t completely suppressed by Li Yifei. Even after just a few hours, threads of sinister coldness began leaking out.

This was beyond Li Yifei’s expectations. Normally, a suppression could last about half a month, at least a week, yet now it was leaking out in a matter of hours, implying catastrophic adverse changes within Su Lio’s body.

Is there really no way to save her? No, there must be a way, a way other than reaching the Indescribable Realm.

When he was checking and treating me, his demeanor was so focused, Su Lio thought, as for how her body actually was, at this moment she wasn’t as concerned or worried.

"Ali, I’m sorry, this time I was out too long and didn’t attend to your health in time," Li Yifei said apologetically.

Su Lio blinked weakly and replied, "It’s not your fault, it’s just my body is too frail."

"Don’t do this in the future, if you feel unwell, tell us immediately, don’t bear it alone, it’s extremely dangerous!"

"With you here, what is there to fear," Su Lio replied.

Key is sometimes I’m not... Li Yifei smiled slightly, saying, "Thank you for believing in me so much, I will find a way, even if I can’t completely cure it, I’ll relieve your current condition!"

Su Lio gave an "Mm," then tiredly closed her eyes, saying, "I trust you, Yifei, but even if my time comes, don’t blame yourself... "

"Shh, you don’t need to say such things, you’ll be fine, when you’re better, you can go to school normally, date normally, marry normally, have children normally, just like Mengxin and the others," Li Yifei said, placing his finger on Su Lio’s lips.

Su Lio felt his finger, and as Li Yifei described, she seemed to envision scenes of schooling, dating, marrying, having children, only the imagined male lead turned into Li Yifei, making her heart pound and giving her an indescribable feeling.