Chapter 902 — Finally Awake
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Though he had long since come to terms with it inside the jade pendant, Wei Zhao, back in the real world, still felt a touch of disappointment — to go from a skilled fighter to an ordinary man in the space of a single instant! Yet Wei Zhao did not regret it!
Under the circumstances at the time, Wei Zhao had had no choice. Without using the energy bomb, he had stood no chance of winning whatsoever!
Ma Zhu was an oddity among external-school experts; what he practiced was the Golden Bell Shield, which made him impervious to blades and spears. On top of that, Wei Zhao was two grades below him in strength. An internal-school expert at the peak of the early Mystic rank could still handle an external-school expert at the mid Mystic rank, but against an external-school expert at the peak of the mid Mystic rank he would struggle — and Ma Zhu was a madman besides.
With no chance of victory whatsoever, Wei Zhao could only stake everything, throwing himself into a deadly situation in the hope of coming out alive!
If, as Jiao Yazi had said, he had kept back a third of his energy to repair his meridians, would the energy bomb formed from the remaining two-thirds have dealt Ma Zhu the same damage? Wei Zhao could not be sure...
Even a hundred-percent energy bomb had failed to kill Ma Zhu — it had only blown off one of his arms. What, then, could a bomb at two-thirds strength possibly do to him? And if that single strike failed, Wei Zhao would have squandered two-thirds of his energy for nothing, while the remaining one-third would be of no use at all!
So if that scene were to play out again, Wei Zhao would still make the same choice!
Heh. All things considered, he supposed he had been a competent enough follower. True, when Gu Pengzhan first hired him, the man's main intent had merely been to have someone accompany the young miss through her studies and daily life, not to serve as a full-time bodyguard — but Wei Zhao was a stubborn man! In what he did, he looked not to money but to loyalty and friendship!
If he had not come to feel something for the young miss and Xiaoshu, would Wei Zhao have risked his life fighting someone for thirty thousand yuan? That would have been impossible!
"Wei Zhao, you're awake?" Tang Zhi ran over, a note of joyful surprise in her voice.
Shen Yushu was not about to be outdone; she too hurried over at a quick pace to claim her share of the credit: "I knew Brother Arrow would be fine — he's the most amazing, isn't he!"
"Heh..." Though Wei Zhao had been unconscious before, he had still been able to sense what was happening in the outside world afterward; he simply had no way to force himself awake, because his body was far too weak. Only after his injuries had been thoroughly healed did he finally come to: "You've had a hard time of it! Thank you — for staying with me three days and three nights!"
"Huh?" Hearing Wei Zhao's words, both Tang Zhi and Shen Yushu were stunned! How did Wei Zhao know that they had stayed with him for three days and three nights?
"Though I seemed unconscious on the surface, I was awake the whole time!" Wei Zhao said. "Heh, this time, you two can finally get some proper rest, can't you?"
"We're not tired..." Tang Zhi shook her head.
"That's right, Brother Arrow, you must be hungry, aren't you? What do you want to eat? I'll go make it for you!" Shen Yushu said.
"Heh, I don't want to eat anything. I want to rest a while longer. You two go rest as well — otherwise, if you make any noise, it'll disturb me." Looking at the red rims around Tang Zhi's and Shen Yushu's eyes, Wei Zhao knew they had not rested properly at all; the only way to make them go rest was to say this.