136: Chapter 137 A Lifesaver Encounters an Old Friend

Afterward, Manager Zhou called several more times in a row. Lin Ye casually added him to the blacklist, following the principle of 'out of sight, out of mind.'

Boarding the high-speed train, Lin Ye closed his eyes to rest.

Since talents didn't take effect in the real world anyway, he naturally didn't bother spending effort to Cultivate.

It was enough to Cultivate all day and night in the game; if he did the same in reality, wouldn't his time offline be wasted?

Five hours later, the train arrived at the station, and Lin Ye slowly opened his eyes.

Speaking of which, ever since his spirit attribute broke through the limits of an ordinary person, it had been a long time since he had slept properly like this.

Although he could remain full of energy without sleeping, sleep itself was a form of enjoyment.

Picking up his backpack, Lin Ye stood up and walked out of the station.

His hometown was in a small village below the county seat, surrounded by mountains on all sides.

From the county seat to the village, one had to walk a mountain path. A taxi would take over forty minutes, while walking would take at least two or three hours.

But that was for ordinary people; Lin Ye was clearly not among them.

Finding a secluded corner, he slung his backpack over his shoulder and pushed off lightly with his toes. Like an agile cheetah, he vanished into the roadside mountain forest.

With his current physical fitness, even without using Qinggong, traversing mountains and ridges was like walking on level ground.

The rugged mountain paths in the eyes of ordinary people were no different from flat highways to him.

The Basic Qinggong at the Mastery level had already become part of his muscle memory.

He didn't even need to consciously control it; his body instinctively knew where each step should land.

His speed was very fast, turning into an afterimage as he leaped and moved through the forest.

If anyone else saw him, they would surely think they had seen a ghost.

After running for about ten minutes, Lin Ye suddenly stopped.

He vaguely heard a sound.

Though it was very faint, with his current hearing, the sound still clearly reached his ears.

"Is this... someone calling for help?"

If it were his past self, adhering to the attitude that 'less trouble is better than more,' he wouldn't have bothered meddling at all.

But now that he possessed extraordinary power, he had far fewer scruples and sought more to act according to his conscience.

He identified the direction of the sound; it wasn't too far, about five or six hundred meters away.

If he remembered correctly, there should be a mountain gully there.

Without hesitation, Lin Ye pushed off the ground and glided toward that direction.

Sure enough, in a matter of moments, a gully appeared before him.

The gully was deep, with steep rocky walls on both sides covered in shrubs and weeds.

Lin Ye leaned over to look down, and the scene before him immediately made him frown.

A small white car was overturned in the pile of rocks at the bottom of the gully. The front had crashed into a large tree, the windshield was shattered into a spiderweb pattern, and the doors were severely deformed. The entire car looked like a crushed soda can.

With his superior eyesight, Lin Ye saw a woman lying half-prone in the driver's seat. She was covered in blood, and one leg seemed to be pinned by the deformed dashboard.

Disregarding everything else, Lin Ye leaped down, reaching the bottom of the gully in a few steps.

"Hmm?"

Just as Lin Ye was about to reach out and pull the car door, he suddenly felt that face looked familiar.

Ye Yu?

The gates of memory opened, and the image before him gradually became clear.

The girl who sat in the row in front of him during high school, who had two shallow dimples when she smiled.

He had once spent countless nights during self-study sessions staring blankly at her back.

As everyone knows, the heartbeat of first love always comes mysteriously and leaves silently.

Once the college entrance exams ended, the interaction between the two became less and less, and that hazy feeling slowly faded.

Like a cup of hot tea left for too long, it grows cold and loses its flavor.

However, Lin Ye hadn't expected to meet her again under these circumstances.

"Ye Yu?" Lin Ye tried calling out.

Hearing her name, the woman jerked her head up.

On her blood-stained face, a pair of eyes struggled to open, as if trying to recognize someone.

"You... you are..." Her voice was so weak it was almost inaudible.

"Lin Ye, your high school classmate."

Hearing this, she seemed to finally recognize the person who had come.

Ye Yu's lips trembled, and tears suddenly gushed out, flowing down her face mixed with blood.

She wanted to say something, but her throat seemed blocked by something, and she could only make whimpering sounds.

Her current emotions were complex, likely a sense of salvation from suddenly encountering an acquaintance in a desperate situation.

"Don't move, I'll get you out first." Lin Ye grabbed the car door with both hands and then suddenly exerted force with his arms.

Creeeeeak!

The door frame emitted a piercing sound of metal grinding as it was forcefully wrenched open by Lin Ye's raw strength.

Bending down to crawl into the car, he looked at the dashboard pinning Ye Yu's right leg.

The plastic panel was completely shattered, and the metal framework underneath was severely twisted and deformed, pressing tightly against her calf.

Blood seeped from her pant leg, staining a patch of the seat red.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have to wait for the fire department to arrive and use hydraulic shears to cut the car body bit by bit, but Lin Ye obviously didn't need that much trouble.

Taking a deep breath, he grabbed the edge of the dashboard with both hands and then gave it a sudden pull.

The dashboard let out a sharp wail as the thick framework was easily bent back by Lin Ye, and Ye Yu's leg was instantly freed.

Lin Ye supported her under her arm with one hand and braced against the roof with the other, carefully lifting her out of the car.

Ye Yu slumped onto the ground, gasping for breath, her whole body shaking uncontrollably.

Her right pant leg was soaked with blood, but the bone shouldn't be broken.

Lin Ye did a simple scan with his Mental Energy; the bones were intact, with no obvious displacement.

The most serious injury was likely the wound on her face, a long gash from broken glass stretching from her left eyebrow down to her cheekbone.

If not treated properly, it would likely leave a scar.

And for a woman, appearance was sometimes more important than life itself.

"It's alright, they're just superficial injuries. Your life isn't in danger," Lin Ye comforted her after checking her wounds.

He didn't mention the injury on her face; it was better not to upset the patient at this time.

"Thank you... thank you... How... how did you end up here?" Ye Yu's voice was still trembling, clearly badly shaken.

"Going back to my hometown, just happened to pass by." As Lin Ye spoke, he pulled a clean T-shirt from his backpack, tore it into strips, and briskly bandaged her wounds.

Though the technique was crude, the blood-staunching effect was quite good, and the bleeding was soon stopped.

Of course, it might also have something to do with him secretly using a bit of Internal Qi.

He casually found a thick branch to splint her injured leg.

Leaning against a rock, Ye Yu watched him do all this in silence, her expression somewhat dazed.

"You... when did you become so powerful?"

Her voice grew smaller.

"That dashboard just now, you used one hand and..."

Lin Ye didn't respond, simply continuing with what he was doing.

Once everything was done, Lin Ye sat down beside her, pulled a bottle of water from his backpack, unscrewed the cap, and handed it to her.

"Have some water. I've already called 120; the ambulance should be here in about an hour."

Seeing this, Ye Yu stopped asking questions and took the water, drinking it in small sips.

As she drank, she started crying again. Looking up at Lin Ye with teary eyes, she said, "Do you know, I thought I was going to die here just now."

"It's not that serious, just superficial injuries."

"Though that cut on your face might leave a scar, with today's plastic surgery technology, a few stitches will fix it right up."

Ye Yu was stunned by Lin Ye's words. She instinctively reached out to touch the wound on her face. "Hiss~~ You're still the same as before, so blunt and stiff."

Lin Ye didn't say anything, mainly because he couldn't really respond to that.

What did she mean by 'blunt and stiff'? It sounded like she had seen it before.