Chapter 110: Chapter 102: This Woman’s Demolition Skills Are No Less Than Mine

Twenty minutes later, Li Zheng slowly regained consciousness, with his hearing being the first to return.

The sound of Zhan Zhouzhou and the others talking reached his ears, chattering indistinctly.

“Huh? Why do I feel so exhausted all over?”

Li Zheng wanted to open his eyes, but his eyelids felt heavy. He tried to speak, but his mouth wouldn’t open.

However, his hearing was rapidly recovering, and he soon clearly heard what the others were saying.

“This kid’s physical condition isn’t bad, so how did he end up fainting from exhaustion?” That was Xiao Siyuan.

Li Zheng sensed someone measuring the wound on his chest with their hands.

Xiao Siyuan’s voice continued, “Look, I didn’t use any medical equipment, and in just twenty minutes, his wound, which was deep enough to see the bone, has healed more than halfway.

With that kind of physical condition, you can’t really say it’s bad, right?”

His body gradually regained sensation, and the pain in his chest became clear.

Li Zheng wanted to frown from the pain but felt as if his eyebrows each weighed hundreds of pounds.

“Sigh… Why is Old Xiao so stingy with me? He didn’t even use any medical supplies on me?” Li Zheng thought angrily. “At least spray me with some hemostatic spray.”

Liu Jiale, standing by, seemed a bit surprised too. “He bled quite a bit when he was first injured. With such a large wound, if the bleeding isn’t stopped, he should be in the ICU in about ten minutes?

But for him, it looks like as soon as he collapsed, the bleeding stopped on its own.”

“Oh, so I didn’t need the hemostatic spray.” Li Zheng realized.

These people distributed the loot based on contribution, and the more Xiao Siyuan used medical equipment, the more valuable it would be for him in the distribution.

Of course, they weren’t fools; they knew roughly what medicines or equipment to use in different situations and wouldn’t use Platinum Level gear for a small wound.

The main reason they still brought Xiao Siyuan was that he mentioned before their last instance that his medical specialization could enhance the effect of the equipment.

Besides, Xiao Siyuan wasn’t that type of person.

But why couldn’t he move?

His body felt so heavy, and every muscle was exhausted.

“Strictly speaking, his blood loss isn’t even as much as an average woman’s period for a week, so it shouldn’t cause such a long fainting spell.

And when I checked, his muscles were stiff all over, especially in the waist and back, which hadn’t relaxed, similar to symptoms of cramping.”

“His energy was depleted, triggering a protective mechanism in the body, forcing him to rest and recover stamina,” Zhan Zhouzhou explained. “Think back carefully; when Li Zheng chopped off the BOSS’s two arm bones with that strike, he was actually already exhausted.

He was only able to cut into the cyborg’s skull by over exerting his body.

Normally, people raise a knife to chop things, just like he did at first, then burst with force so the knife would briefly store power during the chop.

But instead, after chopping off the two arm bones, he didn’t raise the knife again and pressed it down using brute force.

It’s like placing the knife flat on the bone without storing power, and relying completely on physical strength to break it.

Clearly, his spear art is just passable, but his control over strength is still at a very, very… hmm, basic level.”

Li Zheng could hear that Zhan Zhouzhou initially wanted to call him a “rookie” or “garbage.”

“It’s a good thing I’m not cultured; one powerful statement conquers everything.” That was Liu Jiale, obviously in the same “basic” category as Li Zheng.

“So when will he wake up? Are we just going to keep waiting here? Or should I go ahead and decompose those things and hand him his share later?” That was Ye Yuan, sounding a bit impatient.

Zhan Zhouzhou hesitated for a moment before finally saying, “Let’s wait a bit longer.

If you can’t sit still, you can wander around the hall and see if there’s anything new.”

“Huh? More wandering?

I’ve been so bored that I dug up that broken statue and a few mechanisms from before.” Ye Yuan exclaimed exaggeratedly, “If I wander any more, I might tear down this entire hall.”

“Good thing you’re not old enough to marry,” Xiao Siyuan exclaimed. “Otherwise, if you went tomb-sweeping with your husband and got bored, you might end up digging up someone’s ancestral grave?”

“No, I wouldn’t.” Ye Yuan said with absolute certainty, “Digging up ancestral graves is pointless, more boring than spacing out.”

Everyone: “Hmm!?!”

The way she said it so matter-of-factly was unnerving.

Their shock didn’t last long.

Because Li Zheng “woke up.”

The sensation of gaining control over his body came abruptly. The first thing Li Zheng saw upon opening his eyes was a somewhat bald head.

Oh, it was Zhan Zhouzhou’s head.

Clearly some hair roots had grown back, but at first glance, it still looked bald.

“Awake.” Zhan Zhouzhou didn’t seem surprised at all when he saw Li Zheng open his eyes.

“Mm.”

Li Zheng hummed softly and then struggled to prop up his still slightly soft body.

“Where’s the BOSS?”

“Over there.” Zhan Zhouzhou gestured with his mouth, “Standing right there.”

Li Zheng looked in that direction and saw a five-meter-tall black skeleton, a black blade embedded in its head, raising a broken arm, frozen in the posture it had when it hit him.

“This…” Li Zheng was speechless.

So that last hit was just the BOSS’s dying counterattack?

“Yep, that last strike of yours killed it,” Zhan Zhouzhou rolled his eyes, “By the way, what were you thinking?

You knew its weakness was in the eyes, yet you chose to slash with that knife instead of aiming for its eyes?”

“Heh, you think I didn’t know?”

Li Zheng said with a wry smile, “I didn’t have much Genetic Force left, only enough for one strike. If I couldn’t kill it in one go, we’d have to drag it out another ten minutes.”

The trait of Ice and Fire Attachment is that the larger the attached object, the more Original Force it consumes. (Bullets are an exception and can’t be compared.)

Actually, Li Zheng initially planned to use the more threatening Black Blade to try and finish off the BOSS, and if that didn’t work, he would use the Titanium Alloy Spear to pierce through the cyborg’s eyes.

Then, regardless of whether its skull contained components or a brain, he would just mash it up.

But as he swung the blade, he realized a crucial point.

That the Titanium Alloy Spear was only Silver Level, and without attaching his Genetic Ability, breaking through its eye defenses would be a problem.

So, he gambled with the Black Blade imbued with the ability.

Even if it failed, Zhan Zhouzhou was skilled enough to handle it.

And besides, at least with that strike, he could sever the cyborg’s two arms, right?

Unfortunately, he guessed the beginning but overlooked the end.

The cyborg’s dying counterattack made Li Zheng suffer.

“At least the outcome is a good one, right?”

With Xiao Siyuan’s support, Li Zheng got up, looked around the hall.

“Wow!” He was stunned by the scene in the hall, giving Ye Yuan a thumbs-up, “I don’t know if you’ve ever dug up an ancestral grave, but your demolition skills are equal to mine.

I won’t watch the next ‘Grave Robbery Chronicles’ movie if you’re not in it.”