Chapter 668 — Can't Save Them!
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"Ha, all right, I understand." Wei Zhao said with a smile.
Wei Zhao was standing right beside Gu Mengyao, so she had heard every word of his phone call — and even she wore an expression of disbelief. She had never imagined that Tang Zhi would call Wei Zhao and ask him to save her!
The young lady's heart suddenly ached. She had always been cold on the outside and warm within; even her somewhat aloof nature was something long bred in her by such a family, hardly a serious flaw. At bottom, she was very kind.
So when she heard Tang Zhi's concern for her, she felt a pang of guilt. If she were Tang Zhi, would she have sent Wei Zhao to save the other? Perhaps. She didn't know anymore...
In truth, had their positions been reversed, Gu Mengyao would have sent Wei Zhao to the rescue as well. It was like that first time she ran into An Liwen again at the amusement park: though she loathed his pursuit of her, when he had one of his attacks, she still could not stand by and watch him die.
Seen this way, Tang Zhi and the young lady did have something in common — a kind heart.
"Thank her for me..." Before Wei Zhao hung up, the young lady wanted to say a word of thanks to Tang Zhi, but the words would not come out. Only after he had ended the call did she speak.
"Ha... all right." Wei Zhao nodded. If the young lady were a little less hard on Tang Zhi in future, he would only be glad to see it.
While Wei Zhao was on the phone, the parents dared not intrude. They had already learned from Guan Xuewen and Gu Pengzhan that the one who had woken Gu Mengyao was none other than this absurdly young man before them, so the moment he hung up, they swarmed around him.
"Miracle doctor, I beg you, go see my child, please? Say whatever fee you like — Chairman Chu can afford it, and my family would sell everything we have to pay you!" This parent took Wei Zhao for a miracle doctor invited by Gu Pengzhan, and spoke in urgent haste.
"That's right! Please save our children — we won't let you work for nothing!" another parent chimed in.
"My family runs a company. Not as big as Chairman Chu's, but we have a few million in assets. If you save my child, just name your price!" a parent dressed rather respectably added.
"It's not that I won't save them — it's that I can't yet." Wei Zhao, feeling a headache coming on, could only tell the truth.
"Huh?" The parents were all stunned, and so were Guan Xuewen and Gu Pengzhan. They could not tell what Wei Zhao meant by that. Can't save them? Was Wei Zhao unwilling to act?
As for Qing Bo, he was quietly turning it over in his mind. Perhaps Wei Zhao truly had awakened Gu Mengyao by channeling his own true qi into her through the transmission of internal power — but such a method takes a heavy toll on one's own strength. Unless the person were of especial importance, no one would sacrifice their own power to save another!
Qing Bo was an expert in the external school, and had no true qi in his body — but even if he had, he would only use it at the cost of his own decline for Gu Pengzhan or Gu Mengyao. And now Gu Pengzhan and Guan Xuewen were asking Wei Zhao to save strangers — clearly they were putting him in a difficult position!
"Miracle doctor, you can't just stand by and watch them die!"
"That's right — this isn't what a miracle doctor would do..."
The parents grew anxious at once, yet dared not say anything too offensive. After all, Wei Zhao was under no obligation to save them, so while flattering him, they tried all the harder to make him act.
"I've already said it — it's not that I stand by and watch them die, but that for now I am powerless to help." Wei Zhao shook his head.
"Powerless? But you already woke Chairman Chu's daughter..."
"That's right, that's right — miracle doctor, haven't you already cured Gu Mengyao?"
The parents did not quite believe him, taking his words for an excuse because he simply did not wish to treat them.