Chapter 360
Extra Chapter is Too Double Standard
Chapter 360 Extra Chapter: Too Double Standard
Two days later, the group arrived at the Beast King City's encampment.
After Yuheng landed, he rested at the inn for three hours before heading to the front lines in the south ahead of Ling Chengen.
Xuan Yan sent word that Chang Tianchen's condition was not optimistic.
Therefore, Yuheng did not dare to delay and set off immediately upon receiving the news.
Ling Chengen could only be picked up and dropped off by soldiers in the army who could fly.
It was assumed that with Yu Heng's intervention, Chang Tianchen would be safe and sound, but the actual situation was quite different.
When Ling Chengen reached the entrance of the commander's tent, he saw the person standing outside and stopped in his tracks. He paused for a few seconds, stared at Wu Zhuo's dejected face, and asked, "Why do you look like that? Can't even Yu Heng treat Chang Tianchen's injuries?"
Just as Wu Zhuo was about to speak, Xuan Yan lifted the tent flap, revealing a white robe stained with blood. He was holding a wooden basin in one hand and, upon hearing Ling Chengen's voice, said, "Your Majesty, you've arrived?"
Seeing the weariness and exhaustion on his face, Ling Chengen nodded slightly as a greeting and asked, "Is the situation still not good?"
"External injuries can be treated, but he remains unconscious."
Xuan Yan handed the basin in his hand to Chang Yinbo, who was guarding the door, and stepped aside to make way, saying, "We still can't figure out what the problem is. We keep pouring healing magic into his body, but it's still not working."
Ling Chengen entered the tent and smelled a strong stench of blood. He turned to Xuan Yan and said, "Have someone open the tent curtains and windows to let in some fresh air."
The two nurses waiting nearby immediately followed her instructions to roll up the blinds and open the windows.
Ling Chengen walked around the wooden screen to the bedside, looked at Yu Heng's back as he sat on the stool by the bed, and patted his shoulder: "Will you die?"
"He won't die for now; his external injuries have all healed."
Yu Heng withdrew his hand, glanced back at Ling Chengen, and said with a somber expression, "He was seriously injured this time. His airway and internal organs were severely damaged, he had serious external injuries, and also his head..."
"However, there were no obvious wounds on his head. When I arrived, Xuan Yan had already treated most of the external injuries, but he still couldn't wake up. After I arrived, I focused on examining his head and blood vessels throughout his body, but I didn't find any problems."
Ling Chengen frowned slightly and said, "I'll give it a try."
Yuheng turned to look at her: "Can you do it?"
"Since there are no external injuries, it is highly likely that there was an impact or injury somewhere in the head, most likely nerve damage."
Yu Heng lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then suddenly turned to look at Su Weihua: "I remember that he seemed to have suffered a spinal nerve injury, which led to high-level paralysis..."
Ling Chengen nodded slightly and said, "Yes, but the brain is more complex than the body. Let me take a look first."
Yu Heng stood up and made way for Ling Chengen, who sat on the stool. Ling Chengen grabbed Chang Tianchen's wrist with his right hand and slowly injected his supernatural power into his body.
Thousands of spiritual threads, thinner than a hair, were aimed directly at his head and sped towards it.
Ling Chengen sat by the bed for a long time without changing his posture from beginning to end, while Yu Heng and Xuan Yan, who were standing to the side, looked at each other in bewilderment.
After a long pause, Xuan Yan couldn't hold back any longer and asked in a low voice, "Will this really work?"
Yu Heng spread his hands and said, "I still don't understand what kind of power her special ability is. If you ask me to explain it in detail, that's definitely impossible."
"However, even when her superpower was not yet at level ten, she was already able to accomplish the incredible feat of reconnecting Su Weihua's lumbar spinal nerves."
Xuan Yan asked, puzzled, "So, what exactly is a nerve?"
Yuheng thought for a moment before saying, "She said that as long as we can make optical microscopes and electron microscopes, we can see many things that are invisible to the naked eye, even nerve cells. However, handmade microscopes cannot reach this level yet, so we can only wait and find a way to make them in the future."
"However, if you break down superpowers into very fine details, you should be able to vaguely sense something while maintaining a continuous connection. I can't really explain it; it's just a very mysterious feeling."
Xuan Yan didn't quite understand, and it seemed there was no chance right now. He could only hope that Ling Chengen could find the time to get these tools out first.
After Ling Chengen stopped, he suddenly turned around and glanced at Yu Heng.
Yu Heng leaned down slightly and asked, "What's wrong?"
"That's a bit strange." Ling Chengen got up and walked outside, beckoning to Su Weihua who was not far away, and asked, "Who was the person who fought Chang Tianchen and seriously injured him?"
Su Weihua followed her out, not understanding why she asked these questions, but still answered honestly: "He is a royal warrior, a seventeenth-level lion-type beastman, but not an ordinary lion. He has two pairs of wings on his back, so he can fly and run, and he is also very fast."
"Didn't you see what kind of superpower he used?" Ling Chengen asked.
Su Weihua shook her head and said, "The person who fought Chang Tianchen only revealed his beast form. As for his special abilities... I haven't seen him use them."
After listening, Yu Heng's expression became subtle as he asked, "How do you know a warrior without any special abilities is at the seventeenth level?"
Su Weihua frowned and said, "I can't quite put my finger on it, it's just a feeling."
"The moment that person appeared, he gave us a very powerful feeling. The two level 15 warriors and one level 16 warrior who stood in front of him were almost crippled in one move. There was also a level 15 peak warrior who was killed by him with a single blow."
Yu Heng looked at Ling Chengen, a guess forming in his mind.
Ling Chengen sighed and said, "We haven't been able to gather any information about the Nanyuan royal family all this time. It seems the problem really is here."
Su Weihua asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"
"The royal family of Nanyuan is probably like me, having awakened a spiritual ability."
"As for the specific level, I don't know. But based on my experience, the opponent should be at least level fifteen."
In fact, when Ling Chengen was at the ninth level, she used unexpected means to briefly suppress Chang Tianchen, who was at the thirteenth level at the time.
This is enough to show that if you don't know that the other party has a mental ability, you are almost bound to suffer a loss.
When Ling Chengen was at level 15, Chang Tianchen was also at level 15. As long as she used her mental abilities, Chang Tianchen could only struggle to cope and had no chance of defeating her.
This was even without her using her full mental abilities.
Ling Chengen sighed softly and said, "He has some damage in his brain, very minor damage, but enough to put him into a coma. Ordinary treatments rely entirely on indoctrination, which doesn't have much effect on repairing this kind of damage."
Yuheng asked, "Do you mean that we still need to precisely pinpoint the location of the injury and treat it at that specific point?"
Ling Chengen shook his head and said, "Not only that, we also need to rebuild his damaged mental domain."
Like most beastmen, Chang Tianchen's spiritual domain was undeveloped, hidden deep within, and quite small. After being injured by the spiritual force, it was in complete chaos.
It's like a complete thread being cut into countless pieces and then tangled up in a mess, with knots everywhere. Even if you use your powers to connect the broken parts, it's still a tangled mess, and the connection might even be misaligned.
To treat him now, we must untangle this tangled mess, reconnect the broken pieces, and then reorganize his mental domain.
This process is extremely complex, and it can only be completed by warriors who are proficient in psychic abilities and by a highly meticulous high-level wood-type warrior working together.
If things go wrong, Chang Tianchen might never wake up again.
If things go wrong during the process of sorting out the information, he might even lose his senses and forget that he is an orc, thus becoming completely beast-like and reduced to a wild beast that only retains the instinct for survival.
Ling Chengen carefully explained it to Yu Heng and waited for his reply.
Only Yuheng can do this job; Xuanyan can't do it for now.
Yu Heng pondered for a moment and said, "Could you let me sense... your spiritual power?"
Ling Chengen nodded and said, "Sense my supernatural ability?"
“No.” Yuheng looked up at her intently. “I remember you said that every beastman has a spiritual domain, but we have never developed this place, so we can’t sense its existence.”
"Could you guide me to sense my own spiritual domain?" "I want to try to stimulate it. Even if I fail, I should still gain some new insights."
Ling Chengen said with a serious expression, "This is very dangerous. If something happens... no one can save you."
"Me too."
Yuheng reached out and grasped her fingertips, saying without any hesitation, "Trust me."
He won't just collapse like that.
It's not that fragile.
Yuheng is an extremely stubborn person.
He rarely makes demands on others and rarely shows his stubborn side to outsiders, so most people think he seems to be able to do anything.
But in reality, that's not the case.
Ling Chengen couldn't persuade him to change his mind, and in the end she couldn't resist him and agreed to his decision.
……
Wu Zhuo stood guard outside the tent, looking at the lowered curtain, and said with a solemn expression, "No, how could you let them do such a risky thing at a time like this?"
"The commander-in-chief is currently unconscious, and morale has begun to waver."
"As the symbol of our Xiao Kingdom, if anything were to happen to Sister En, the Xiao Kingdom would be finished..."
"Although this experiment didn't harm Sister En much, wouldn't Yuheng's accident at this time make her even more distracted and upset? And the only person who can save Boss Chang is..."
Su Weihua reached out and grabbed him by the back of the neck, dragging him away. She summoned a group of soldiers to guard the area around the tent, then turned around and said coldly, "Be quiet. Do you think I don't know all this?"
"If I could stop it, would I be like you, standing guard at the camp entrance waiting for news?"
With the back of his neck being gripped, Wu Zhuo looked at Su Weihua's unpredictable expression and realized that he was indeed... not up to par.
He wasn't as favored as Yuheng in front of Sister En!
After a few seconds of silence, Wu Zhuo suddenly muttered, "Sister En's favoritism is too obvious..."
"And you, why can't you be a little more ambitious?"
Su Weihua stared at him with a dark expression, wondering whether she should gag him.
A perfectly normal person, but he just happens to have a gossipy mouth.
……
Ling Chengen guided Yu Heng to perceive the existence of the spiritual domain, and the whole process was actually very short.
She initially wanted to slow down so that Yuheng wouldn't be unable to keep up.
But soon, she realized a problem.
Yuheng's talent is truly exceptional.
As expected of someone with exceptionally high talent certified by the system, his perception was incredibly sharp. He only had some initial adjustment time before quickly catching up with her pace without the slightest hesitation.
Yuheng couldn't quite describe his state of mind.
He truly didn't understand what psychic abilities were, and could only focus on his own feelings. At the same time, he divided his wood-type abilities into strands, spreading them throughout his body. After Ling Chengen's invisible power, which was different from his own, surged in, he felt a strong sense of incongruity.
This power, which did not belong to him, left a clear trail as it surged through his body, as if marked with fluorescent light.
That power lingered somewhere in his head, but didn't go any further.
Yuheng quickly realized that she was afraid of hurting his mental domain, so she dared not go any further.
There was no need for Ling Chengen to continue forward; his split ability bypassed the trajectory of her mental energy and explored on its own.
He could feel a slight pain in his head, but it wasn't obvious. In addition, his superpower was powerful yet gentle, and his body was very familiar with this power, so it wasn't difficult for him to bear it.
Despite wave after wave of supernatural energy washing over him, Yu Heng still couldn't find the spiritual domain.
He reached out and pinched Ling Chengen's fingers, whispering, "Help me."
Ling Chengen stared at his face. His eyes were closed, his lips were pressed tightly together, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and his face was somewhat pale, but his attitude was very firm.
Ling Chengen slowly lowered his eyes, but ultimately allowed his superpower to continue moving forward.
As soon as her supernatural power entered, Yuheng's face turned even paler, and deep wrinkles appeared between his brows. It was clear that he was not used to it and could not block out the pain.
Ling Chengen immediately prepared to withdraw his superpower, but was suddenly entangled by a burst of powerful mental energy.
She opened her eyes in shock, staring at the face so close to hers.
The pallor faded quickly, replaced by a rosy complexion, and her breathing returned to a steady and long rhythm.
Ling Chengen did not forcibly withdraw his superpower, fearing that he might not be able to control it and could injure himself instead.
As Yuheng gradually got used to the sudden surge of power, he slowly opened his eyes, which were as cold as stars, and tightly grasped Ling Chengen's hands, saying, "I succeeded."
"A very peculiar ability."
His mental energy was very flexible, and it kept wrapping around her supernatural tail.
Extremely clingy.
"You recover first, and then we'll try to help Chang Tianchen with the alienation treatment."
As Yuheng watched her get up to leave, he immediately grabbed her fingertips and asked, "Are you angry?"
Ling Chengen lowered his eyes and said, "No."
Yuheng said with certainty, "You're definitely angry."
He knew some of her micro-expressions and habits, especially when she was angry. Her expression would be very calm, but her pupils would reveal a nonchalant indifference and sharpness.
Ling Chengen looked at his hands and took a deep breath: "You often advised me to take care of my health and not to do anything risky. You even insisted on going on the ship with me because you were afraid that I would encounter sea monsters and be in danger."
"But what about you?"
"When you're faced with something you insist on doing, have you considered your own safety?"
I don't like you doing this.
"That's such a double standard."
He's alright now, and only now can she finally let out the anger she'd been holding back.
If something really happens, she won't even have a chance to be angry.
She agreed to his request and cooperated with all his actions because she knew that if she didn't do it, he would definitely try it himself, and the result would be even worse.
But helping him doesn't mean she's not angry.
Yuheng was speechless for a moment, unable to refute her words. He watched as she broke free of his grasp, turned and walked out, her back view exceptionally sharp and aloof.