nycdaug Chapter 323 Finally Awakening
Chapter 323 Finally Awakening
After crying for a while, Chu Kexin looked at Li Chenglong's terrible condition and asked, "Sister Yun, you are already an 11th-level water-type ability user, can't you cure him?" Yun Qian shook her head: "I used my strongest healing skill and released it continuously for 20 minutes, but his condition did not change at all. If Xue'er were here, she would definitely have a way."
Upon hearing Yun Qian's words, Chu Kexin sighed, "Li Xue disappeared ten years ago and has not been contacted since. It's probably impossible now." She sat down in a chair and pulled Zhao Ruolan over, "Ruolan, tell us how you met this person and where you met her."
Zhao Ruolan recounted her encounter with the man in detail to Yun Qian and Chu Kexin. Yun Qian nodded, "Yes, we understand. You've worked hard. Go home and get some rest." Zhao Ruolan smiled and said, "I'm not tired. Now that we have supplies, we can hold out for a while longer. I'm going to check on the distribution of supplies. Goodbye, Grandma Yun Qian, Grandma Chu Kexin."
After the girl left, Chu Kexin asked, "Sister Yun, what do you think?" Yun Qian shook her head: "I'm not sure either. I just asked Wu Chou to contact Zhao Liying. I believe they'll be back soon." Chu Kexin said sadly, "Sister Yun Lan, Wu Gang, Zheng Aiguo, and the others have all sacrificed their lives. Li Xue and Li Yunhao left 10 years ago. Currently, our base only has the elderly, women, and children." Yun Qian looked at Li Chenglong, who was fast asleep on the bed: "But he's back, so we have hope."
At 6 a.m., Zhao Ruolan, who was staring at Li Chenglong, seemed to have discovered something and said happily to Yun Qian, "Grandma Yun Qian, do you think he has recovered a little? Last night, there was no skin on his right arm, but now it seems to have grown back." Yun Qian smiled and nodded, "Yes, I noticed some signs of recovery around midnight. We can only wait now."
Wu Ruolan remembered that Grandma Chu Kexin had asked her about the dragon ring last night, so she asked, "Grandma Yunqian, I feel like I've seen that dragon-shaped ring somewhere before, but I can't remember where." Yunqian nodded, "Your grandfather, who sacrificed himself 10 years ago, should have told you about it, but you were too young then to remember clearly." Wu Ruolan thought for a moment, then suddenly covered her mouth with her hand, looked at the dragon-shaped ring, and took two steps back, "This, could it be, could it be, the Holy Dragon Ring of City Lord Li Chenglong of Dawn City? And this person?!" Yunqian stood up and said, "Yes, he is Li Chenglong, the first city lord of Dawn City, who suddenly disappeared 70 years ago."
Wu Ruolan's eyes widened. She had heard her grandfather Zhao Rui and father Zhao De tell stories of Li Chenglong many times since she was very young. However, this hero had suddenly disappeared during a support mission. Afterwards, Dawn City and China faced continuous attacks from zombies, aliens, and other strange creatures. Except for Dawn City, which held out for 10 years, all other strongholds on Earth were quickly captured. Yun Qian said, "Don't tell anyone about this yet. What we need to do now is quietly wait for him to wake up, no matter how long it takes."
At 8 p.m., a commotion arose outside. Yun Qian went to the window and saw that Zhao Liying's team had returned, and judging from the situation, they must have made quite a haul. Within a minute, more than a dozen people arrived at Yun Qian's door. Yun Qian said, "Please keep quiet, he needs to rest," and opened the door.
Zhao Liying, Yang Liu, Wang Shuang, Chen Xiaoke, Han Xiaoling, Lü Xin, and more than a dozen others walked in. Han Xiaoling immediately burst into tears and tried to rush over, but was tightly hugged by Yang Liu, who was already in tears. Yang Liu whispered, "Everyone, calm down. Now that the person is back, don't rush things."
The group stayed at Yun Qian's house until the early hours of the morning before gradually dispersing. After discussion, they decided to take turns caring for Li Chenglong in pairs, rotating every eight hours, just like they had done in the special forces and the Dawn City Central Computer Office. Meanwhile, Zhao Liying also had someone use a communicator to call Li Xue and the others using the channel they had left behind, hoping for a miracle.
In the following days, although Yunqian and the others kept the matter very secret, because they lived in a hollowed-out mountain that wasn't very large, and the adults had adopted a stricter management system than usual, the news of finding Li Chenglong spread like wildfire, reaching every corner of the residential area.
Zhao Liying sat at a table, looking at the latest personnel census list. Currently, there were 130 people in their residential area: 41 men and 89 women, of whom only 34 were over 16 years old. Of these 34, 10 were disabled. A few days ago, she led them out to try and reach further, hoping to obtain supplies and information, but aside from a batch of supplies, they gained nothing else.
Han Xiaoling stared at Li Chenglong, who had been re-bandaged, and said to Yang Liu beside her, "Sister Yang Liu, when do you think my brother will wake up?" Yang Liu was currently an 11th-level wood-type ability user. She had tried to treat Li Chenglong several times in the past two days, but without much success. Yang Liu shook her head: "I don't know either, but I can see that he has been recovering these past two days. His injuries are improving, although slowly, but he will definitely recover fully one day."
Two months later, Zhao Ruolan knocked on Zhao Liying's door and entered her room: "Grandma Zhao, our supplies are running low again. I've calculated that they can only last for about seven or eight days at most." Zhao Liying smiled and said, "Okay, I understand. I'll discuss it with them and see how to solve it."
They were still chatting when they suddenly felt waves of energy emanating from outside, even the dishes on the cabinet began to vibrate. The two quickly went outside and saw bursts of golden light emanating from Yun Qian's room on the fifth floor. With each flash of the golden light, a large amount of energy erupted. Just as Zhao Liying was about to rush up, Yun Qian's door opened, and a figure radiating golden light slowly walked out, directly to the edge of the stairs.
These stairs were very simple, made of welded iron frames and plates. Watching the man continue walking forward, Zhao Ruolan said, "He's going to fall if he goes any further." Surprisingly, the man's body passed right through the iron railings, suspended in mid-air, and he was still walking slowly.
As the man walked, a dazzling orb of light and a golden dragon gradually emanated from his body. The golden dragon chased the orb of light, frolicking around the man. The man's body also constantly changed, switching between a psionic form and an armored form. The bandages and gauze covering his body had long since fallen off, but because the man was radiating a dazzling light, the details of his body were not visible.
After a while, the golden dragon finally caught up with the ball of light, grabbed it in its mouth, and charged directly into Li Chenglong's body. Dragon roars echoed within the mountain, and Li Chenglong roared incessantly. His skin and wounds rapidly healed, and in no time he was indistinguishable from an ordinary person. Li Chenglong opened his eyes; his left eye was golden, his right eye was red, and his silver-gray hair grew at a visible speed, cascading down his back. Just as Zhao Ruolan finally felt the glare less intense and wanted to observe him more closely, Li Chenglong's figure had already vanished, leaving only a voice: "All members of Dawn City, assemble in the central hall!"