Chapter 157: Goddess of Salvation

  After I rested for about five minutes, the roar of an airplane engine finally came from the sky. Jing'er didn't dare to stay here anymore, and called out to Liu Mei who was anxious and helpless beside me, and helped me up, slowly leaving this place.

  Our pace was very slow, so we hadn't walked out of a hundred meters, and the plane that was originally still far away had already arrived above our heads.

  I see that apart from the mountain road we're walking on, there's only wild grass and forest around here that can temporarily provide us with a place to hide. I said to Jing'er: "Let's go into the forest, the people in the plane won't be able to see us and won't attack us here."

  Just as I finished speaking, Liu Mei shrieked: "The plane has launched a rocket..."

  As I looked up, a plane really fired a rocket and the target of this rocket was just the area where we were.

  My heart was bitter, but my body suddenly gained a bit of strength. People say that when people are in danger, they can stimulate their own potential, I don't know if it's true or not, I let out a loud cry, and with a burst of energy, I knocked down both Qing Er and Liu Mei who were supporting me to the ground.

  A deafening explosion almost simultaneously entered my ears, and a fierce gust of air nearly threw me out.

  I felt a chill on my back, and when I turned around, I saw that the clothes on my back were almost torn to shreds, revealing a bloody and mangled back.

  The place where the rocket hit was at a certain distance from us, but it still injured me. Fortunately, the wound on my back wasn't very serious, just some superficial injuries.

  But now, with this kind of injury, it's enough to take my life. The body that had just shown a glimmer of recovery has lost all its strength again, and the whole person seems to be on the verge of complete collapse.

  In my heart, I don't want to die yet. After all, there are still many things I haven't done and many people I haven't said goodbye to. Besides, I'm only in my twenties now, life is at its best, how can it end like this?

  I struggled to lift up my head, and I didn't know why, but I used all my strength to shout: "Li Yingying, save me!"

  After shouting out this sentence, I couldn't hold on any longer and slowly closed my eyes...

  Actually, I don't even know why I would call out Li Yingying's name at the most dangerous moment. Maybe it was because of her superb medical skills and also because she is the junior sister of Qianbianmen.

  This time I didn't really pass out, because after I shouted Li Yingying's name, I heard a voice say with disdain: "What are you shouting for? Didn't you abandon me and not care about me? How come when you're in danger, you know to shout for me?"

  Who was the speaker? This question flashed through my mind, and then suddenly a very delicate face appeared in front of me.

  This face, it's actually Chen Jing! What's going on?

  I suddenly came to myself a bit, then heard Chen Jing say: "What are you looking at? Don't you recognize me?"

  I laughed, a very happy laugh, also a silly laugh: "How did you come here?"

  I wanted to reach out and grab Chen Jing's hand, but she suddenly slapped my hand away: "What are you doing? I'm Li Yingying, not your Chen Jing."

  I was stunned, then remembered something and smiled bitterly. I didn't dare to make any moves on her again. This Li Yingying, why did she have to disguise herself as Chen Jing? She almost misled me.

  Next, I discovered a fact: Li Yingying, who had disguised herself as Chen Jing, even spoke with the same tone and language as Chen Jing, making it difficult for people to distinguish whether she was Chen Jing or Li Yingying.

  Li Yingying didn't seem to care much about the injuries on me, listlessly looked at them for a while, then took out a needle tube, didn't disinfect it, and directly injected it into my neck.

  I felt a sharp pain, and then I felt a slight swelling. It seems that Li Yingying had injected me with some kind of drug, which is why I was feeling the pain and swelling.

  I don't know what this medicine is, but I almost immediately felt a lot more refreshed, not just physically energized, but also the pain from those wounds was significantly reduced. And my previous dizziness due to excessive blood loss has also improved a lot.

  This must be some kind of special medicine, it's like a life-saving elixir for me now, the effect is very good.

  After injecting the medicine, Li Yingying finally reached out to help me up from Ying'er's arms and let me sit properly. Although she had disguised herself, the unpleasant expression on her face still made it clear to me. I heard her say coldly: "You're quite good at pretending, taking advantage of a beautiful girl like that. Be careful, I'll tell my cousin later and have her ignore you from now on."

  I forced a smile, feeling that I had recovered a lot in these few minutes. Surprised and amazed, I couldn't help but feel astonished at the medicine Li Yingying had injected me with. As for Li Yingying's words, I didn't dare pretend I hadn't heard them, so I explained: "Isn't it because I lost too much blood and didn't have any strength..."

  Li Yingying glared at him, her voice filled with anger: "Then how do you have the energy now? I think you're just taking advantage of others."

  I could only smile bitterly, but Jing Er said: "Brother Shifu is indeed heavily injured. Doctor, please don't misunderstand, okay?"

  Li Yingying looked at me with a surprised expression and said: "You are Jin Cang's junior sister?"

  Ying'er nodded, her voice still gentle: "Master's brother took me as his disciple, now I'm a Wudang disciple."

  Li Yingying looked at Ying'er for a moment, then suddenly reached out and grabbed one of her hands, exclaiming dramatically: "Don't go! With your conditions, why would you choose to go to Wudang? Come to our Qianbianmen instead. I'll tell you, if you come to our Qianbianmen, you can definitely cultivate the most profound inner skills and may even become the most powerful figure in the martial arts world. What do you say, will you consider it?"

  Ying'er's face was filled with surprise and confusion, and her eyes were immediately filled with a strange gaze as she looked at Li Yingying.

  I knew Ying'er didn't understand Li Yingying's meaning, so I said: "She is my cousin, named Li Yingying, and is a junior apprentice of the Thousand Changes Gate."

  Ying'er's face was full of surprise: "Qian Bian Men? What is that?"

  Li Yingying smiled and said: "That is the name of our sect, just like Wudang. But I can tell you that our Qianbianmen is definitely more suitable for you than Wudang."

  Ying'er asked strangely: "Why? Is your Qianbianmen's kung fu more powerful than our Wudang's kung fu?"

  Li Yingying's face suddenly tensed up, and she hastily said: "How can we say that? Our... our two families' martial arts have different focuses, there's no comparison to be made."

  Ying'er smiled and said: "That's to say that our Wudang Sect doesn't need your Qianbianmen either? Then why should I go to your Qianbianmen? I'd better just stay in our Wudang."

  Li Yingying looked puzzled, then said stubbornly: "You'd better think carefully, our Qianbianmen disciples can cultivate at least thirty-six kinds of changes. This is a very advanced kung fu, Wudang doesn't have it."

  Ying'er smiled again: "But the Thousand Changes Sect has never saved me in times of crisis. You know, my life was saved by Jin Cang Shixiong, so how could I possibly switch to the Thousand Changes Sect?"

  Li Yingying seemed somewhat disappointed and said with a hint of resentment: "Then I won't force you, you should know... actually, Jin Cang's life was saved by me, you can probably guess that our Qian Bian Men is indeed stronger than Wu Dang..."

  I couldn't listen anymore and blurted out: "Ying'er has already said that she's joined our Wudang sect, what more do you want to say?"

  "Shut up! Don't you know what I mean? Be careful or my cousin will find out... Hmph!"

  I forced a smile and didn't dare speak again. Instead, Liu Mei beside me said: "Dr. Li, how is Master Jin's injury?"

  Li Yingying tossed her head back and smiled complacently, "Don't worry, his injury is nothing serious. Didn't you see the medicine I just injected him with? That's a very expensive genetic medicine, the latest research result from Huaxia Country. Generally speaking, as long as someone still has a breath of life left in them, they can basically be saved... but if they're already dead, then this genetic medicine is useless."

  I was shocked and muttered to myself, "So it's a gene medicine. Has our country's scientists developed another gene medicine? Didn't I and Sun Heng lose the previous one?" To be honest, I still don't know what happened to that gene medicine until now. After all, when Sun Heng went missing, everything became a mystery. Later when Sun Heng came back, we didn't dare ask too much and could only let it become an unsolved case.

  Now Li Yingying took out the gene medicine to save my life, it's really unexpected, because I never thought that I would really use the gene medicine one day. To know that previously I got the news, all said that once the original liquid of the gene medicine is lost, there is no way to develop the gene medicine again.

  Li Yingying seemed to have seen through my thoughts and whispered to me, "You don't need to suspect, the injection I gave you earlier was indeed a gene agent. To be honest, you should thank your friend Sun Heng, it was he who provided the original liquid of the gene agent, which allowed us to develop this new type of life-saving gene agent."

  I nodded: "This gene agent is very useful. If it can be mass-produced, our front-line soldiers will have a much greater chance of survival in the future."

  Li Yingying smiled wryly: "This, for now we can't mass-produce gene medicine. You know that gene medicine isn't ordinary medicine, it's not something you can make as soon as you want to, and it's not something you can make as much of as you want."

  I know she's right, but I feel a little sorry, after all, if we can mass-produce gene medicine, the mortality rate of our soldiers on the front line will definitely be greatly reduced.

  Ying'er also had the same idea as me: "Isn't there a way to mass-produce this gene agent? Many people need it."

  Li Ying shook her head: "As far as I know, there are only a thousand doses of gene medicine that can be used now. Moreover, half of this thousand doses have been reserved by the country for special needs in the future. So, nationwide... no, globally, there are only 500 doses of this gene medicine."

  I let out a soft sigh, knowing that some things were beyond the control of just a few people: "Five hundred copies? That's still too little, it's not even enough... The whole world, even five billion copies wouldn't be excessive..."

  Li Yingying interrupted me: "You've already used one, don't say anything more here, be careful that others will say you're ungrateful."

  I forced a smile, not knowing what was going on, and suddenly felt a little fearful of this cousin. I quickly threw away this thread of fear, afraid it would affect me.

  Li Yingying's words made both Jing'er and Liu Mei change their gaze towards me, and Liu Mei directly said: "I knew you were still one of the government's people! It seems that's true after all. Otherwise, how would you have a share of such precious genetic medicine?"

  Ying'er glared at me: "I thought you were my lifesaver, but it turns out you're a mole?! Humph, I think I'll just go to the Qianbian Gate instead. Anyway, I don't like being a spy."

  I smiled wryly: "My identity, from the beginning, wasn't hidden from you all! My purpose in coming here is to cooperate with you. The Queen Mother also knows, just now... didn't the Queen Mother say that we would cooperate?"

  Ying'er pouted: "Then tell me, how do you have the right to use gene medicine? Is your identity very special? Or are you simply the head of your military department?"

  I hadn't even had a chance to speak, when Li Yingying said: "Jin Cang is one of the heads of the military department and also a national guard. I think it's better for you to come to our Qianbianmen, at least I won't have anything to hide from you."

  Ying'er listened to Li Yingying's words and immediately smiled at me: "So, Brother Shifu is the head of the military department? Then am I also considered a head too? Anyway, I'm your junior sister, you say it's true or not, Brother Shifu?"

  Facing Ying Er's sometimes good and sometimes bad mood and words, I was speechless. Li Yingying, on the other hand, looked embarrassed for a moment before getting angry: "You're really something, Ying Er! You actually used my own words against me! Let me tell you, if you weren't Jin Cang's junior sister, I wouldn't be so polite to you!"

  Ying'er smiled and said: "If I had asked you directly about Jin Cang's identity, you would have definitely not told me. I'm also helpless to do it this way, don't mind, I apologize to you here."

  Li Yingying smiled wryly and turned to look at me, with a somewhat warning tone: "You... be careful not to fall into the gentle trap and make a big mistake without realizing it."

  I forced a smile, feeling a bit at a loss. Being with these girls, I also felt... embarrassed.

  So I said loudly: "The plane will be back soon, we can't stay here and get bombed by our own people, let's hurry up and leave this place."

  Ying'er immediately said: "Yes, the plane will be back soon, let's hurry up and leave here."

  Li Ying nodded and said to Liu Mei who was still standing beside her: "Don't just stand there, hurry up and go."

  Liu Mei quickly came over to support me, and then we started another escape together. However, unlike before, this time our escape was not from the enemy, but from our own people.

  The effect of the gene medicine is really good, although I still feel weak all over, but I can already walk on my own. This has to be said to be a miracle, in general, after being injured, people will not be able to move normally until several days after treatment. But now I can walk by myself, if this gets out, everyone will probably try every means to get their hands on this gene medicine.

  Of course, I still need some help now, after all, I just lost blood and my body is very weak.

  So now Liu Mei took the initiative to support me, and even Ying'er also took the initiative to support me, so that I could be as comfortable as possible.

  Li Yingying looked at me with a completely different gaze, almost filled with hatred. I knew she was blaming me for not being careful and getting mixed up with the enemy. But I couldn't explain myself, after all, I needed help now, and Li Yingying wasn't coming to help me, so I could only rely on Liu Mei and Ying'er.

  If someone else saw us now, they would definitely envy my good fortune at this time. However, if they had also experienced the previous events, they might not think so. The experience of narrowly escaping death is not something that just anyone dares to go through.

  We had been gone from the place where Li Yingying treated my wound for less than two minutes when we heard the roar of planes behind us. I turned around and saw two planes swooping down towards us, as if they were going to drop another rocket or bomb on us again. My heart racing with anxiety, I said: "Quickly, let's go, the planes are coming again."

  Li Yingying was also startled and cursed while running: "Blinded, can't even recognize their own people!"

  "Stop talking and just leave here quickly."

  Liu Mei said: "Not far ahead there is a cave, we can temporarily hide in it and wait for the plane to leave before leaving here."

  Then we followed Liu Mei and ran into the cave she mentioned with almost all our might.

  This cave doesn't seem to be natural, it looks like it was left after mining something before. It's quite spacious. The four of us sat in a row inside the cave and didn't feel cramped at all. However, if we wanted to stand up, it would be very difficult. After all, this kind of mine tunnel is only about 1.2 meters high, which doesn't allow us to stand up at all.

  For safety's sake, we crawled as far inside as possible. It turned out that our decision was very correct, because shortly after we entered the cave, an airplane came over and a rocket exploded not far from the entrance of the cave, with shockwaves and smoke entering the cave. We were naturally unharmed, but the shaking of the cave also scared us quite a bit.

  We waited quietly for a while, heard the plane flying farther and farther away, knew that danger had temporarily left us, and let out a sigh of relief together.

  I secretly sighed in relief, this time I really did encounter a lifesaving goddess, if it weren't for Li Yingying and those few women, I really wouldn't have known what the outcome would be...