Chapter 436: Making a Choice (2)
In a clean and tidy bedroom, Shao Qiuxi was lying on the bed. Except for her face still turned pale, she could no longer see any inappropriateness, as if she was sleeping soundly.
However, combined with the current time and the conversation between the two people visiting around him, we can see that his situation is not good. It is approaching dusk, isn't it time to sleep? The conversation between Li Ling and Li Moyun had no effect on him at all, and even his breathing was still extremely slow. It was not sleeping soundly, but coma.
"So have you never woken up these days?" Li Ling frowned and asked after carefully observing his physical condition.
"No, although I feed him medicine every day and doctors come to give him acupuncture and massage, the master still did not react at all. As those famous doctors said, they had already stabbed the master dozens of big acupoints with golden acupuncture, but the result..." Li Moyun said this and had no words.
Li Ling's brows were locked deeper. After entering Beijing, he was busy dealing with the pressure from learning the Tao from Bian, and believed that the Cao Gang could take good care of people, so he did not come to visit Shao Qiuxi and the others. However, he did not expect that this situation was much more serious than what he did.
It has been several months since they rescued their master and apprentice in Lanxi Town. Shao Qiuxi has not woken up. Could it be that he has become a vegetable due to serious injuries? If this is true, the situation will be really difficult. Even modern medicine cannot guarantee that the symptoms can be cured. In this era, can he still be saved?
"Young Master..." Seeing Li Ling frowning and silent, Li Moyun became more and more frightened and couldn't help calling out softly.
"It seems that Senior Shao's injury is indeed much heavier than we wanted before." Li Ling could only sigh, "By the way, has his other injuries been healed?"
"Well, the worst wounds have healed now." Li Moyun was still worried, "But if so many medicines continue, why didn't the master wake up..."
Li Ling was about to sigh with her, but when she heard this sentence, she thought of something: "You said just now that you feed him the daily decoctions?"
"Well! Master has raised me, so I will naturally not use this little thing to others." Li Moyun nodded immediately.
"Then...how did you feed him medicine?" Li Ling asked again.
"That's right, just half-held him and used a spoon to put the medicine into his mouth. Is there anything wrong with it?" Li Moyun became nervous when he saw Li Ling's serious expression.
Li Ling narrowed his eyes: "How long does it usually take to take medicine like this?"
"Just have a meal."
"Are you wet on the collar after taking the medicine? Do you need to change your clothes or something?"
"No..." As Li Ling kept asking, although Li Moyun answered, his doubts continued to deepen. He wondered why the other party cared about these details. Then, he saw Li Ling smiled like seeing through something, glanced at Shao Qiuxi, who was still lying on the bed, and said, "Well, Mo Yun might as well go out first, let Senior Shao and me stay alone for a while."
"This..." Although he felt that this request was a little strange, Li Moyun still trusted Li Ling very much. He hesitated for a moment, nodded, retreated, and even closed the door.
So, at this time, only Li Ling and Shao Qiuxi on the bed were left in the room. He felt a little tired of standing, so he dragged a chair to the edge of the bed. Looking at Shao Qiuxi who was unconscious, Li Ling said slowly: "Senior Shao, it seems that people cannot wake up in my opinion roughly three situations. One is that the injury is serious and blood loss, which leads to physical problems. However, although you suffered a considerable injury at the beginning, you have not reached this point. After all, I have seen your injury, although it is serious but not fatal. It can only be considered a serious injury in the flesh, but even the bones are not damaged much.
"The second is that the brain is damaged, but this is the most important and mysterious place in the human body. Sometimes an accidental bump may lead to death and a better luck will cause you to fall asleep. However, logic is that with your martial arts, even in such dangerous situations, you will definitely ensure that this key is not severely damaged.
"Of course, nothing is absolutely absolute. Maybe it's really a coincidence that I was hit in the head during a chaotic battle. However, one thing I care about is that if you really fall into a coma, your situation will be worse. If you can't wake up, you will not react anyway. Not to mention drinking a bowl of medicine or being fed a sip of water, I'm afraid half of it will flow down the corner of your mouth. This is the characteristic of the body, and it won't change because you have extraordinary martial arts skills.
"The third is that you don't want to wake up. No, you should be pretending to be in a coma and wanting to escape certain things in such a state! For example, grudges, such as your own heart! This is the most difficult thing to treat, because no one can wake up a person who pretends to be asleep. Similarly, no one can cure a person who pretends to be sick.
"Senior Shao, I don't know what I said right. What are you escaping and worrying about? He actually has the heart to let Mo Yun stay with you and be afraid. Don't you think this is unfair to him?"
Li Ling said a lot in anger, but the person in the bed was still lying there calmly. Not to mention waking up, even his breathing did not change at all, and he was still so calm.
Li Ling smiled bitterly: "Why do you have to use my tricks to let me expose your disguise before I can be honest with each other?" As he said that, he stood up and approached, and at the same time took out a short knife for self-defense.
Of course, he did not intend to give Shao Qiuxi a few stabs to wake him up. This method may not work, and it is not easy to explain to Li Moyun. Instead, he regarded the knife as a small hammer, aimed it at Shao Qiuxi's knee, and gently knocked it down.
In just one moment, Shao Qiuxi's calves gently flicked, and when Li Ling put away the knife and looked at the other party, the master who had been "unconscious" for several months finally opened his eyes slowly, with helplessness and confusion in his eyes. He didn't expect that just this time, his body would move uncontrollably, and he realized that it was impossible to pretend again, so he could only "wake up".
"What method are you..." Because you haven't spoken for a while, Shao Qiuxi's words were a little stagnant at this time.
"Oh, this is called a knee jump reaction. As long as you are not in a completely unconscious person, you can use this trick to test..." Li Ling replied with a smile, only he knew that this was a bit nonsense.
The knee jump reaction is certainly medical knowledge that is not available in this era, but this move is not used to detect whether a person is a vegetable. It can only be used to test whether a person is completely relaxed. Obviously, in order to keep his "coma" out of his flaws, Shao Qiuxi tried his best to relax the whole body, so after the hammer, his feet moved.
However, Shao Qiuxi did not understand these scientific knowledge after all. As his legs moved, he thought he had revealed his flaws, so he naturally admitted that he opened his eyes. Of course, this was related to a long passage that Li Ling had laid out before. What he said before was indeed reasonable, but it was a big problem that the soup had not been leaked.
Li Moyun naturally would not doubt these details because he was not careful enough and respected his master. But Li Ling was different. This time, he took it right.
"Haha..." Shao Qiuxi smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect that my disguise would be completely exposed."
"Senior Shao, I'm really curious. What are you hiding from? You would rather lie here and pretend to be a living dead person than face it actively? Do you don't want to have any contact with the people of the Luotian Sect anymore, or do you don't want to take revenge? Or do you have other difficulties?"
"I..." Shao Qiuxi rarely showed hesitation. He has always given people the impression that he was free and confident, as if nothing in the world could stump him. Even if there was, when he used the knife, he could "solve the problem easily", well, literally.
But this time, it was obviously not something that could be solved by the quick knife. After he hesitated for a while, he whispered: "There is a grudge between me and Luo Tian Sect that you don't know. In short, I have made a vow to the person I respect most that I will not betray Luo Tian Sect in this life and will not do anything that I am sorry for them. As long as there is something in the religion, I will definitely help."
Li Ling nodded to express his understanding, and at the same time he also solved a question in his heart - why do heroes like Shao Qiuxi join forces with the Luotian Sect?
Since the first time he met Shao Qiuxi in Hengzhou, Li Ling has seen that this was an open-minded man, and then the meeting in the southwest again deepened this impression. Isn’t a hero with great courage to assassinate the dignified marquis of the court among millions of people?
The gap between such a person and the Luo Tian Sect, who only knows how to engage in conspiracy and tricks, is too big. But Shao Qiuxi is actually an important figure in the Luo Tian Sect. Li Ling couldn't understand why he joined the group before. Is it not good to be a hero who is a lone hero who is fighting for the people? Why do you need to join these villains and do things that violate your own rules?
And now, the answer is. This is actually not from Shao Qiuxi's original intention. He made this choice because he made a promise to the person he respected the most!
Although Shao Qiuxi did not tell more details, Li Ling believed this statement. At the same time, he said: "So even if someone in the Luotian Sect attacks you several times, you have chosen to forgive you, and still do your best to do things for them, and even throw your life in the southwest?"
Shao Qiuxi was shocked by this question, and looked at Li Ling with a strange look: "How did you know this? You can even know more than just attack me this time?"
Chapter completed!