Chapter 902 — Finally Awake
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"All right..." Gu Mengyao nodded, which served as her answer to Gu Pengzhan's suggestion.
Gu Pengzhan shook his head, turned, and left the villa.
Time slipped by, second by second. In the blink of an eye it was past one in the morning, and yet none of the three girls felt the least bit sleepy.
"Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, why don't you two go and rest first? I'll wait here for Wei Zhao by myself, you don't have to keep me company..." Tang Zhi looked at Shen Yushu, who was yawning again and again yet still had her eyes wide open, and felt sorry for her — she looked like she could use a matchstick propping up each eyelid.
"Who says we're keeping you company? We're waiting for Wei Zhao to wake up too — after all, he got hurt because of us..." Gu Mengyao said with a bitter smile after hearing Tang Zhi's words.
"Yeah, yeah, we care about Brother Arrow even more than you do!" Shen Yushu nodded as well.
"Hah... I'm afraid if all three of us keep this up, sooner or later none of us will be able to hold out," Tang Zhi explained somewhat helplessly. "We can go one day without sleep, and two days we can just barely manage, but by the third day we'll have to sleep, won't we? What if we all doze off, and Wei Zhao wakes up right then and needs our help, and there's no one to be found — what then?"
"Put that way, you do have a point..." Gu Mengyao nodded after hearing Tang Zhi out. "In that case, why don't we take shifts? One person sleeps while the other two stand watch — how about that?"
"That's what I was thinking too..." Tang Zhi agreed. "Shen Yushu, you seem to be the sleepiest — why don't you go rest first?"
"No, you go first, I'm not sleepy, I'm not sleepy... yawn..." Shen Yushu yawned again. Her constitution was in fact none too strong, which was also why, the last time Zhong Yongliang had locked them in that cave, she had not held out as long as Gu Mengyao.
"Xiaoshu, go to sleep. Be a good girl!" Gu Mengyao ordered her.
"Oh... all right then." Shen Yushu really was sleepy. Now that they had reached a consensus, there was no need for her to force herself to stay awake — resting now was so that she could wait for Brother Arrow with more energy later...
Yawning, Shen Yushu went upstairs... General Weiwu seemed to sense the tense atmosphere in the living room as well; he raised his head to glance at Shen Yushu, then lay back down in place and did not move...
Three days. The three girls lost count of how many times they had swapped places, and no one bothered to keep track. Whenever one woke, another went to sleep, over and over, round and round. Who knew how many cups of instant noodles they had eaten; dawn came and darkness fell again...
At last, some movement came from Wei Zhao's room!
At that moment Tang Zhi and Shen Yushu were on watch. Hearing the sound, they scrambled to their feet and rushed toward Wei Zhao's room.
Neither of them dared make any loud noise, however. When they reached the door of Wei Zhao's room, anxious as they were, they still opened the door gently and carefully, and cautiously peered toward the direction of Wei Zhao's sickbed...
Wei Zhao's eyelashes twitched. His eyelids were terribly heavy, but at last he struggled them open...
"Phew!" Wei Zhao let out a long breath. He had finally woken up! This had been the hardest time of all since he was injured! Before, at most a single night had been enough for his strength to recover by seven or eight tenths, or even to improve slightly! But this time, merely repairing the injuries to his body had taken three days and three nights, and his own strength had not recovered in the slightest!
Running the inner-energy method of the Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art, Wei Zhao discovered, somewhat bitterly, that the meridians within his body were still in a damaged state, and that there was not a trace of energy he could call upon. In other words, he was now no different from an ordinary person!