Chapter 153: The Land of Shadows (4)

  Liu Mei suddenly became anxious and hastily said: "What can we do? We are here, lacking medical care and medicine, and don't know when we can find a way out. What can we do?"

  I didn't want to be a good Samaritan, but I remembered what Wang Mu said, that I should bring Qing'er back safely. 81 Chinese √ net ★★．★ So I had no choice but to prepare to use my inner energy to save people again. I don't know if my method will work, but there's no other way now, so I can only give it a try.

  "I'll try to use the true energy within me to save her, but whether I can succeed or not, I'm also not entirely sure." I said seriously: "So all I can say is that I'll give it a try, and whatever the outcome may be, we can only accept our fate."

  Liu Mei said without thinking: "Then you try it, anyway we don't have any other way now..."

  Qin Zhenzhen was very tired at this time, basically in a semi-comatose state, and didn't hear what Liu Mei and I said, so she didn't say anything.

  I knew that the only way now was to use my true energy to save her, so I didn't hesitate anymore. I directly stretched out my hand and grasped Qing'er's hands, slowly pouring my true energy into her body.

  Ying'er's body is quite strange, her meridians seem to be completely blocked, and when my true energy enters her body, it is immediately blocked, and there is no way to reach the position where she was previously injured.

  This is troublesome, my idea of using the true energy in my body to save her has become very difficult to achieve. Unless I disregard my own safety and use my true energy to unblock all the meridians in her body... At least two must be unblocked. One is the meridian leading to her brain, and one is the meridian leading to her heart.

  This isn't a simple matter, and we're currently in a precarious situation with powerful enemies pursuing us from behind. I was momentarily at a loss, withdrawing my hand as I slowly spoke: "Ying'er's meridians are completely blocked; to save her, we'll need to unblock at least two of them first. To do that, I'll have to go all out. But our current circumstances don't allow me to do that... Liu Mei, what do you think? What should we do now?"

  Liu Mei frowned and said with difficulty: "I know there are enemies behind us, and the exit in front of us is not something that can be found in a short time... I... I don't know what we should do now either."

  I forced a smile, gazing at the unconscious Ying'er, feeling her breathing grow weaker by the minute. I knew that her internal injuries were worsening and if we didn't do something soon, she might not make it.

  I glanced at Qin Zhenzhen, who was also half-asleep, and saw that she wouldn't be in any immediate danger, just losing too much blood and being very tired. So I made a plan in my mind and said decisively: "The enemy will take some time to find us here, so I've decided to first unblock the two meridians in Qing'er's body and save her life. You're in charge of taking care of Qin sister, she needs to eat something and then rest for a few hours. During this time, don't speak, don't turn on the flashlight, and don't disturb me."

  Liu Mei nodded silently and walked over to Qin Zhenzhen's side to take care of her.

  I then began to give Ying'er acupuncture without hesitation, wanting to save her in the shortest time possible and then withdraw from here.

  Ying'er's meridians were almost completely blocked, no wonder she had a relapse of her old injury and nearly lost her life. I went all out, pouring all the true energy in my body into hers, using all my strength to unblock the two meridians that were blocked.

  I couldn't possibly clear all the meridians in her body at once, after all, under current circumstances, everything doesn't allow me to do so. So I only cleared those two meridians that must be cleared in order to save her.

  My internal Qi is quite abundant, after all I am also a Heart Method Great Completion realm person. So three hours later, I finally opened up the two meridians in her body. However at this time, my internal Qi was almost depleted, and I suddenly felt like I had aged twenty years, feeling weak all over, only wanting to sink into deep sleep.

  I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth and poured the last bit of true energy into Jing'er's body, using my true energy to stabilize her injuries and prevent her from losing her life immediately due to my own depletion.

  The current me can only go this far. So after I finish these, I close my eyes and start cultivating, wanting to recover the true energy in my body as soon as possible, and then truly save Ying'er.

  But just at this moment, a voice came into my ears: "Don't move! Whoever dares to move, I'll kill whoever it is!"

  The sound of a rifle bolt being pulled back reached my ears at this moment, and I knew that the strong enemy had finally found us here.

  It seems that heaven is not helping us this time, we are doomed. I secretly sighed in my heart, stopped cultivating, opened my eyes and said: "I don't know which master wants our lives?"

  The person speaking was hiding in the darkness, and did not reveal himself. He said coldly: "Is it important who I am? Jin Cang, I didn't expect to see you here, it's really a pleasant surprise, and it didn't take any effort at all."

  "I was taken aback: 'Do we know each other?'"

  "This man sneered: 'You may not know me, but I know you. Do you still remember Wang Zhan whom you killed?'"

  I was startled and couldn't help but ask: "What is your relationship with Wang Zhan? Are you...?"

  "This man burst out laughing: 'Jin Cang is indeed Jin Cang, one point and it's clear. Alright, I am Wang Zhan's younger brother, my name is Wang Ping. You didn't think that Wang Zhan had a younger brother, did you? Today, let me take revenge for my older brother, and also for my father!'"

  When Wang Ping spoke, I felt that he had already raised the muzzle and aimed at my head. But I smiled and said: "Are you really King War's brother? So to say, Wang Yingzu is your father? What I find strange is that I've never heard of Wang Yingzu having another son."

  Wang Ping's tone was somewhat indignant: "That's because he never dared to tell anyone that he had another son. Humph, Wang Yingzu is not my father either, I will never acknowledge him as my father..."

  I laughed: "So you're an illegitimate child? No wonder I've never heard anyone mention that Wang Yingzu had another son."

  Wang Ping became even more enraged: "Are you intentionally provoking me? Congratulations, you succeeded. Now all of you are in my hands, and I'd like to see how the legendary Jin Cang, who is said to be invincible, will be shot dead by the gun in my hand."

  "Invincible? Who said that? If I were really invincible, would you still be able to point a gun at my head?"

  Wang Ping burst out laughing: "But no matter who it is, everyone has their weaknesses. You're quite formidable, but you're too soft-hearted. You actually risked your own safety to save your enemy. Haha... Aren't you regretful now? If I were in your shoes, I'd be dead from regret - how could I let myself be held at gunpoint just to save an enemy? Haha..."

  I said helplessly: "So you think I'm stupid."

  Wang Ping continued to laugh loudly: "Of course it is, otherwise I wouldn't have caught you so easily."

  I shook my head, and didn't care if Wang Ping could see or not: "We're all locating each other by sound now, are you so sure that only your gun is pointing at my head?"

  I was stunned for a moment, and then I saw a light rising up.

  My body suddenly sprang up at this moment, and then flashed out of my hand like lightning, hitting a stone towards the bright light.

  Wang Ping did not seem to have expected that I still had such a fast speed at this time, and immediately dodged the stone I threw while shouting: "So you still have energy, let me see how I will knock your head out!"

  Gunfire rang out with his voice, and I felt bullets flying past my back from time to time, just a little bit away from hitting me. I used the fastest body technique to avoid these bullets, and also threw some small stones that I had picked up from the ground earlier, trying to interfere with Wang Ping.

  Wang Ping was indeed a rare master, the stones I threw out couldn't touch him, but the gun in his hand was threatening my life at every moment.

  I gritted my teeth and dodged, secretly regretting that I had rushed to save Ying'er earlier and didn't put the backpack on my back. If the backpack was still in my hands, I could have used the gun to deal with Wang Ping, at least not being at a disadvantage in terms of weapons. Now, forced to use stones against Wang Ping's gun, I'm very passive.

  Wang Ping's speed was no slower than mine, and he used a gun, the speed of the bullets was much faster than the stones I threw out, so I quickly fell into a disadvantageous position, except for dodging, I lost the power to fight back.

  I secretly lamented, but for a while there was no way to change the situation, and I could only keep dodging.

  When I was dodging and hiding, Wang Ping's gun finally ran out of bullets. Taking advantage of the moment he changed bullets, I rushed forward, punching his chest with one fist, forcing him to abandon his gun and face me head-on.

  I was confident in my own strength, and even without the assistance of true energy, I wouldn't be at a disadvantage. So after I rushed up, I launched a fierce attack, completely disregarding any rules or techniques, just attacking wildly, pinning Wang Ping down tightly.

  Wang Ping's counterattack technique is quite peculiar, seemingly a product of the combination of Huaxia's kung fu and the ninja techniques of the Japanese pirates.

  It was also my first time encountering such kung fu, and for a while, I really didn't gain any advantage. I fought Wang Ping to a draw, and neither of us could get the better of the other.

  I was anxious in my heart, worried that I would accidentally hurt Ying'er and the others. So I attacked while shouting: "Liu Mei, quickly take Ying'er and the others away from here, find an exit and leave this place!"

  Liu Mei seemed to have been doing this thing for a long time. After hearing my voice, she shouted: "Okay, be careful, he's very fierce."

  I couldn't afford to be distracted while speaking, facing Wang Ping's increasingly fierce offensive, I could only focus all my attention on responding, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

  Wang Ping's attacking style was quite unusual and also very fierce. My fists, palms, legs, and feet all came out together, almost as if I was using my full strength, but he couldn't withstand it either. However, it was also difficult for him to hurt me, we were stuck together, fighting with an unprecedented intensity.

  In the darkness, we fought for almost two hours, and gradually both of us were exhausted. But neither of us dared to speak, nor did we dare to retreat first. Because we are all masters, no matter which side relaxes slightly, the other side will seize the opportunity to launch a full-scale attack. The relaxed side, if lucky, will be injured, but if unlucky, may lose their lives.

  The outcome of the battle is decided in an instant.

  So we all still focus on attacking and defending, without any signs of retreat.

  I gradually felt that my physical strength was somewhat inadequate, after all, I had previously exhausted my internal energy to save Ying'er, and at the beginning, it was relying on my own physical strength to fight Wang Ping to the death. Now, I can barely hold on.

  Wang Ping was almost in top form and started competing with me at his peak. So from the beginning, I had already lost half the battle.

  Now I don't dare to retreat, Wang Ping also doesn't have the intention of stopping, so I can only grit my teeth and persist. But my moves gradually became chaotic, and was caught by Wang Ping, who left a punch and a kick on me.

  The place where I was hit by Wang Ping is inevitably painful. However, this also stirred up my anger, and I couldn't help but lose my strength gradually, gritting my teeth and rushing over, using all my might to throw a punch at Wang Ping's head, who was rejoicing in his successful attack.

  I don't know if Wang Ping was too proud and forgot himself, or if he was also at the end of his strength like me. My fist somehow managed to hit his head successfully.

  My strength had greatly weakened, but after hitting him, I still managed to hear his miserable cry, as well as a sound that seemed to be him flying up after being hit by me and then heavily crashing into the wall.

  I knew that this punch of mine must have injured Wang Ping, but it was not enough to make him lose his combat effectiveness. So I retreated a step, fully alert and on guard.

  Wang Ping also seemed to be intimidated by this punch, and after falling to the ground, he made no sound. I didn't know if he was secretly catching his breath or accumulating strength to attack me. So I retreated another small step, quietly approaching my backpack.

  It's pitch black here, but with my current strength and my previous memories, I can still roughly judge where my backpack is. If I can get my backpack, I won't have to worry about Wang Ping's attack anymore. After all, in his current state, he can't avoid bullets no matter what.

  I quietly retreated to my backpack, feeling that one of my feet had already touched the backpack at the same time, and also heard a strong gust of wind. This was the sound of something hitting me with force.

  I exerted force under my feet, and my body almost leaned back to stick completely to the ground. At the same time, my left hand had already grabbed onto the backpack.

  As I was about to take this opportunity to grab my backpack, I also felt that my backpack was being pulled by another force.

  I immediately knew it was Wang Ping who was competing with me for the backpack, and I also knew that he had the same idea as me, to grab the pistol inside my backpack.

  So I hurriedly used force, wanting to grab the backpack. Wang Ping's angry shout sounded at the same time, and it was him who was competing with me for the backpack. We both used force, and the backpack was torn open with a "ripping" sound, and everything inside flew out instantly, like a goddess scattering flowers, flying in all directions.

  I subconsciously reached out to grab the places close to me, and then relied on my senses and weak eyesight to distinguish whether it was a handgun in my backpack.

  Wang Ping probably was also like me, hastily scrambling to grab those flying things.

  Then I heard Wang Ping's maniacal laughter: "Hahaha... Jin Cang, the gun is in my hands, what can you do now..."

  With this sound, the gunfire immediately rang out. "Bang bang bang" three shots in a row, almost at the same time spread out. The gunfire sounded particularly loud in this dark place, far and wide, as if a bomb had exploded.

  I stood there stupidly, as if I had been struck by Wang Ping, and even my breathing stopped.

  There was no sound from Wang Ping's side either, as if he had never appeared at all.

  We fell silent simultaneously, and the surroundings became quiet. Even the sound of water flowing in the river was gone. Time passed slowly, and after a moment, I finally heard a very faint voice.

  "You... there are two handguns in your backpack?" Wang Ping's voice was calm, but also somewhat puzzled.

  "My voice was also calm: 'There are indeed two guns in my backpack, you grabbed one and I grabbed one.'"

  Wang Ping smiled wryly and said, "Heaven still took care of you a bit, you grabbed the gun a little earlier than me."

  I laughed: "Good people will be rewarded, you came to kill me for the sake of that scoundrel Wang Zhan, heaven will naturally not bless you."

  Wang calmly said: "That's not necessarily true, otherwise how could I have avoided being hit by you?"

  I laughed: "Don't be silly, can you deceive me with this? You've been hit and are seriously injured."

  Wang Ping laughed, his voice was very strange, just like a broken drum, hoarse and dull: "How did you confirm that I was shot?"

  I smiled and said: "Because after you got the gun, that one shot you fired was a bit too far off from me. With your marksmanship, this is very unusual."

  Wang Ping burst out laughing, then suddenly said painfully: "If only we weren't opponents, that would be great. Although we just met today, but... I...". His voice suddenly lost strength and he spoke intermittently: "I really... want to... be your friend..."

  I still smiled: "If your father wasn't Wang Yingzu, we might... no, we would definitely have become friends!"

  As soon as I finished speaking, Wang Ping loudly shouted a "good" word, and then I heard a very dull sound - that was the sound of someone falling to the ground.

  I slowly walked over and came to where Wang Ping had fallen, squatting down to look at Wang Ping: "Rest assured, from now on you won't feel any more pain..."

  I reached out and closed Wang Ping's eyes, looked at him for a while, stood up silently, turned around and walked towards the upstream of the underground river...