616: Chapter 616 The Nunnery Has Been Slaughtered!

After he finished speaking...

Li Yao's eyes dimmed.

After all...

Those brothers who sacrificed themselves were the ones he had personally trained.

They had spent day and night together, fighting side by side, yet now, because of him, they all lay dead in that abandoned factory.

This self-reproach hurt him more than the wounds on his body.

Ye Chen patted his shoulder, offering no words of comfort.

Some things could only be faded by time.

"Brother Li, you get some rest first. I'll handle the rest."

Li Yao nodded, but then suddenly remembered something and hurriedly grabbed Ye Chen's hand.

"By the way, A-Chen, don't tell Xiao Ya."

Ye Chen was stunned for a moment.

A second later.

He thought of that young girl who was busy helping out in Yi Yue's Fujian Restaurant.

Hmm...

Back then, Li Yao was interested in her, and Xiao Ya also had feelings for Li Yao.

Seeing Li Yao's anxious look now, it was highly likely they were officially together...

Ye Chen nodded, between laughter and tears. "Alright."

Li Qin, standing nearby, immediately pricked up her ears.

"Wait... who is Xiao Ya?"

Ye Chen smiled and glanced at Li Yao's guilty expression. "Your brother's girlfriend. You didn't know?"

Li Qin's eyes instantly widened.

She spun around and glared fiercely at Li Yao.

"Li Yao! You secretly got a girlfriend and didn't tell me, did you?"

"Back then, I dragged A-Chen to a hotel to fake a room check-in, but you actually conducted an anti-prostitution raid on me! You really are my dear brother!"

The surrounding people looked bewildered.

Only Wang Guodong and the few police officers beside him had strange expressions.

They knew about the incident where he conducted an anti-prostitution raid on his own sister.

At that time, Li Yao was introducing a potential partner to his sister, only to be "taught a lesson" by his sister's boyfriend.

Consequently...

Unwilling to accept it, he went to conduct a raid, hoping to ruin their good time.

As a result...

It was a complete misunderstanding.

The entire police station had laughed themselves silly over it.

Li Yao met the Deputy Director's eyes, and his face instantly turned bright red. "I just started dating her; I didn't have time to tell you."

"Just started?"

Li Qin sneered, "Pah! I'm going to tell Mom and Dad in a bit, and let you experience what it's like to be lectured!"

Li Yao completely cowered, almost raising a white flag. "That... let's talk about it later. My injuries haven't healed yet..."

"Don't give me that!"

Li Qin pulled him off the operating table. "Ye Chen just said you're fine. Stop playing dead!"

Everyone: "..."

Assessment complete: they were definitely biological siblings!

Bing Lan also had a slight smile on her lips, but she still stepped forward to pull Li Qin back.

"Alright, alright. Your brother just came back from the brink of death. Can't you let him rest for a bit?"

Li Qin huffed and finally let go.

"Once you're fully recovered, just wait and see how I report you!"

Li Yao breathed a long sigh of relief and cast a grateful look at Bing Lan.

At that moment...

Yan Qingwu walked out with her phone at the right time and asked, "Ye Chen, do I need the Dragon Group to investigate their whereabouts?"

"Investigate it." Ye Chen nodded.

Yan Qingwu didn't waste any words, turning and walking straight out of the ward to start making calls for the investigation.

Ye Chen then turned to look at Little Song.

"Since Brother Li is fine now, Dr. Song, take me to see Luo Shui."

Little Song was more than happy to oblige.

Because if he stayed any longer, he suspected he would burst out laughing.

And so...

He nodded hurriedly. "Dr. Ye, this way please!"

As he spoke...

He respectfully led the way. His posture was not at all like a senior surgical director, but rather like an intern following behind a mentor.

Ye Chen nodded and said to Bing Lan and the others, "I'll be right back. Wait for me in the lobby."

Everyone nodded.

Ye Chen followed Little Song.

The two nurses also hurriedly followed.

Looking at Ye Chen's back, their eyes were full of admiration.

"My god, was that Chinese medicine just now? He repaired a heart with just a few Silver Needles?"

"What do you know? That's not just Chinese medicine; that's divine medicine!"

"Does he have a girlfriend?"

"Forget it. With so many beauties around him, even if he doesn't have a girlfriend, it won't be your turn!"

"Oh, shut up. Can't you stop being so honest?"

...

The two of them wouldn't stop chattering.

Little Song turned back and glared at them, and they finally shut up sullenly.

Soon...

Several people arrived at the ICU ward.

The ward wasn't large, with various monitoring equipment taking up half a wall.

Luo Shui lay on the hospital bed, covered in tubes, her face as pale as paper.

Ye Chen walked to the bedside, looked down at her without saying much, took the needle bag from his chest, and unfolded it.

He took out the Silver Needles again.

But this time, he didn't use the fourth needle; instead, he used the third needle, "Vitality."

Although Luo Shui's injuries were severe and her internal organs were damaged, she was not in life-threatening danger.

The third needle was enough for her to recover.

He twirled the needles between his fingertips and inserted them one by one into Luo Shui's body.

A faint golden light flowed through the Silver Needles into her body, circulating within her. Everywhere it passed, the damaged organs began to repair, and the stagnant qi and blood began to flow smoothly.

In less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea...

A hint of color appeared on Luo Shui's pale face.

The numbers on the ECG monitor stabilized within the normal range.

Ye Chen withdrew his hand and said calmly, "She will wake up soon."

Little Song stood to the side, his eyes filled with shock and awe.

He had seen Chinese medicine, and he had seen acupuncture; he had even learned a few moves himself.

But he had never seen such a miraculous treatment method.

A few Silver Needles and a few twists could restore Vitality to a severely injured person with damaged internal organs?

This was no longer medicine; this was metaphysics!

No, this was a miracle!

Metaphysics wasn't even worthy of being compared with Dr. Ye!

But he didn't dare ask or speak, for fear of disturbing Ye Chen.

But soon...

On the bed, Luo Shui's eyelashes fluttered slightly.

Then...

She slowly opened her eyes.

At first, her eyes were a bit dazed, staring at the ceiling for several seconds as if she hadn't yet realized where she was.

Immediately after...

She saw Ye Chen, and her pupils suddenly contracted.

"Ye... Ye Chen!"

Ye Chen frowned. "Who injured you like this?"

Luo Shui didn't answer.

She suddenly sat up from the bed, completely ignoring the tubes on her body, and grabbed Ye Chen's collar.

"It's all because of you!"

"Shenni Nunnery has been slaughtered!"

That's right!

Shenni Nunnery had been slaughtered!

Last time, after her sect members escaped from the island and returned to the Kunlun Ruins to relay the news about Ye Chen, it had enraged the Bai Family.

Consequently...

Overnight, the Bai Family had ordered several sects to slaughter Shenni Nunnery.

And all of this started because of Ye Chen!

"Shenni Nunnery was slaughtered?"

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. "The Bai Family did it?"

"Yes, but it's also because of you!"

Luo Shui's tears gushed out. "If it weren't for you, how could they have met with such a fatal disaster?"

Hearing this, Ye Chen rolled his eyes.

"You nun, you're quite foolish."

"Your Shenni Nunnery was slaughtered, and you're blaming it on me?"

"The Bai Family slaughtered them; wouldn't it be better if you went to the Bai Family?"

"Instead, you..."

Ye Chen smiled. "Shouldn't you be thanking me?"

"I thank you?"

Luo Shui couldn't hold it in anymore. "You caused the destruction of my Shenni Nunnery, and you want me to thank you?"

Ye Chen asked back as a matter of course, "Isn't that right? If I hadn't forcibly kept you here, you would probably be one of the corpses now."

"But..."

Luo Shui's face turned pale, and she was dazed. "But if it weren't for you, how could my Shenni Nunnery have met with disaster?"

"Your words are a bit unreasonable."

Ye Chen said nonchalantly.

"If you hadn't kidnapped my friend, would I have ruined your plans?"

"You nuns all talk about karma and retribution; can't you even figure out this bit of cause and effect?"

Luo Shui froze, then lowered her head dejectedly, her hands hanging weakly at her sides.

Yes.

Ye Chen was right.

It was her sect members who first kidnapped Ye Chen's friend, breaking the rule in the Kunlun Ruins that one must not touch ordinary people outside the Kunlun Ruins.

They sowed the cause, and thus reaped the current result.

Karma and retribution, the cycle of heavenly principles.

As a monastic, she understood this principle better than anyone.

But she didn't want to admit it.

She didn't dare admit it.

Because once she admitted it, she wouldn't even have the right to hate.

She could only hate herself—hate her own incompetence, hate that she couldn't save her master, her senior sisters, or her fellow disciples who spent every day with her.

"I..."

Luo Shui opened her mouth, tears falling silently. "I..."

She couldn't go on.

Ye Chen looked at her, neither urging nor comforting her.

He had never been someone who knew how to comfort others.

After a long while...

Luo Shui finally took a deep breath, wiped the tears from her face, and looked up at Ye Chen.

In those eyes, the anger and resentment from before were gone.

"Ye Chen, you're right."

"The slaughter of Shenni Nunnery is my sect's tribulation; I cannot blame others."

"The Bai Family slaughtered my sect, killed my master, and wiped out my entire house. I must avenge this debt."

"But I can't defeat them."

"So..."

However...

Before she could finish...

Ye Chen had already calmly interrupted her.

"If you tell me the situation now, maybe I can still catch up with them and help you get revenge."

"If you insist on thinking it's my fault, then I won't keep an unstable factor around me."