Laughing at Chang'an

Geng Yan opened his eyes in a blinding white light with slight and fine ticking sounds.

An unprecedented feeling of weakness permeated every part of his body. It took him a long time to direct his right hand to lift upwards. The infusion tube connected to the back of his hand was pulled, and then there was a piercing buzzing sound. Soon, from the door Hurrying footsteps sounded beside him, and Zhang Puqiu appeared in his line of sight with a look of surprise and vague joy.

"……you're awake?"

Geng Yan moved his lips, but couldn't make a sound. Zhang Puqiu made a stop gesture, and went to the nearby instrument to operate it.The platform behind Geng Yan rose slowly to help him sit up. Zhang Pu asked for a cup of nutrient solution and carefully fed it to him.

"I know you have a lot of things to ask, but now you are too weak to talk for a long time, don't worry, I will tell you everything you want to know, you are safe now..." Zhang Puqiu seldom talked with such a lengthy People talk about topics that have nothing to do with research. He tried his best to word his words, trying to make Geng Yan feel at ease, but obviously, he did not do well. When he heard his last sentence, Geng Yan silently frowned. .

……very safe?

If it hadn't been for some unsafe situation, Zhang Puqiu would not have specifically emphasized to him that he is safe now, and to be precise, if the Geng Army is safe, his safety does not need to be considered at all... In other words, something happened to the Geng Army?

Zhang Puqiu didn't know that his unintentional words had made Geng Yan think a lot. After feeding the nutrient solution, he lowered the platform and let Geng Yan lie down again.The nutrient solution may have been mixed with sleeping ingredients, Geng Yan's eyelids drooped uncontrollably, and his consciousness gradually sank into darkness again.

Just before he fell into a deep sleep, he vaguely heard Zhang Puqiu let out a dull sigh.

………………

"Your body was severely damaged. The alien energy that exploded when the Kongshan Gold was taken out destroyed all the source veins and some internal organs in your body, especially your heart. More than half of your heart was replaced with artificial organs. Exercising too vigorously, or getting too excited..."

Geng Yan calmly interrupted him and asked, "Why didn't I die?"

Zhang Puqiu pushed his glasses and said with a thoughtful expression: "I didn't witness the situation at that time, but it is said that when you were discovered, Li Shen's right hand was inserted into your heart... According to my guess, it may be Li Shen once regained consciousness for a short time, and somehow cleared the alien energy in your body, so you didn't die."

On that day, Geng Yan took out the Kongshan Gold buried in his heart and stuffed it into Li Shen's heart.The moment he lost Li Shen, he finally learned to let go.In fact, it was not as difficult as imagined, and there was not much hesitation and struggle. Just looking at Li Shen's sleeping face, his heart was filled with pity and pampering, infinite warmth and love.

Li Shen was reluctant, how could he be willing?

"I want to see Li Shen." Geng Yan begged Zhang Pu.

Zhang Puqiu nodded, pushed a wheelchair, carried Geng Yan from the platform that kept him alive to the wheelchair, and then pushed him through the fully enclosed metal corridor to another intensive care room.Geng Yan stared at Li Shen who was lying quietly on the platform as if he was asleep, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart. He frowned and covered his chest, trying his best to calm himself down under Zhang Puqiu's nervous persuasion.

Calm down, calm down... The heat in his eyes made him lower his head in embarrassment, not wanting to be seen by Zhang Puqiu in such a gaffe.

"Li Shen, when will he wake up?" Geng Yan suppressed the turbulent emotions in his heart and asked as calmly as possible.

Zhang Puqiu shook his head.

"I don't know, he's different from you, and from any normal person. His body is full of alien energy, which has been fused with various organs of his body, and I can't The existence of Kongshan Jin was detected in his body, and it is likely that he has already assimilated with the alien energy in his body. I have used all the methods I can think of, but I can't awaken his consciousness, and his body functions have completely stopped, but There's no sign of decay, it's like time has stopped on him."

Geng Yan was silent for a moment, and said: "Didn't you say that you can save him with Kongshan Gold?"

"Kongshan Jin's function is to help him control the violent alien energy in his body." Zhang Puqiu explained, "But the premise is that he consciously drives Kongshan Jin to control it. In this unconscious state, Kongshan Jin can't get up. any effect."

The heart throbbed again, this time Geng Yan ignored the pain, he let it throb indifferently—so, he let go too late, and missed the chance to save Li Shen's life.

Zhang Puqiu pushed him to the front of the platform, Geng Yan stretched out his hand, gently stroking Li Shen's cold and stiff face.Without breathing or pulse, like a corpse, Geng Yan lowered his head, pressed his cheek to his quiet chest, and closed his eyes deeply.

"He's not dead." Zhang Puqiu's voice sounded, "It's just that he can't wake up his consciousness. I will continue to think of a way. Just like you can wake up, he will wake up sooner or later."

Geng Yan knew that Zhang Puqiu was talking to himself. He believed in Zhang Puqiu’s ability, but he also knew that the other party was not as confident as he said——If Zhang Puqiu was really sure, he would not say such uncertain words as sooner or later of.

"Leave me alone with him for a while."

Geng Yan whispered, Zhang Puqiu left in silence, and closed the door of the room.In the silence, Geng Yan leaned his head sideways on Li Shen's chest, fingered Li Shen's peaceful face that seemed to be asleep, and smiled with joy and sadness.

"It's nice that we're both alive..."

………………

Five years have passed, and Geng Yan fell asleep for more than five years.

It is already the [-]th day of the Tang Dynasty, April [-]th.

Geng Yan's body was extremely weakened by the long sleep, and his muscles were atrophied, leaving only a row of bones. He began to do rehabilitation with the help of Zhang Puqiu, but the bad thing is that his current body can no longer carry out Cultivation, even the level of opening the gate of heaven is not enough.

He's a complete wreck, but that's not the worst of it.

Five years is not a short period of time, and a lot has happened during this time.Not long after he and Li Shen fell into a coma, a large-scale rebellion broke out within the Guangming Empire. The emperor was overthrown and executed in public. National leaders, and the establishment of the National Assembly, as the country's leadership center.Of course, this is all later. When the rebellion broke out, the imperial troops fighting in Middle-earth began to retreat one after another. Chang'an mercenaries followed closely and recovered the lost territory, and chased them all the way to drive away all the imperial troops. Out of Middle Earth.

On February [-]th, [-], the year of the Tang Dynasty, the Mercenary Guild of Chang'an City issued an announcement to Quan Fanglu, announcing the end of the war with the Guangming Empire.

Peace once again returned to Middle-earth, but the peace of Chang'an City did not last long. This war not only caused huge damage to the entire Middle-earth, but also completely disrupted the power structure of Chang'an City.Countless mercenary regiments that suffered heavy losses in the war were annexed and destroyed, and more and more greedy eyes were cast on the Geng Army who lost the two leaders Li Shen and Geng Yan at the same time.

But after the war ended, the first big cake to be eaten was not the Geng Army, but the Blood Massacre.

Compared with the Geng Army who still had some vitality, Xue Tu was really weak and easy to bully, especially in the end Bu Shi took away all the elites to rescue the Northern Blood Empire, and the rest were old, weak, sick and disabled except for civil servants. Guarding such a large family business, how could it not be envied.

Even the Geng Army participated in this food sharing... but unexpectedly, other people were already thinking of the Geng Army while eating blood on their lips.

The Geng Army led by Geng Lian resisted desperately, but the enemy they faced was not one or two families, but the countless greedy mouths in Chang'an City.However, from the beginning to the end, no one in the Geng Army defected, Zhou Bingyan died in battle, Mu Xiaofang died in battle, and even the iron rooster Murong Lin, carrying a storehouse of explosives, died together with the mercenaries who rushed in to loot.

Zhang Puqiu finds Donggong Shen Murong, and on the condition that he voluntarily joins Donggong, he asks the other party to protect Geng Yan and Li Shen who are in a coma.Donggong, who had not suffered much loss in the war, undoubtedly had such strength. Shen Murong agreed to Zhang Puqiu's conditions, and really withstood the pressure from the outside world, saving the lives of Geng Yan and Li Shen.

The final destruction of the Geng Army was marked by Geng Liancheng's heroic battle against the twelve Immortal Road Jiubu alone, marking the end of the battle.Geng Liancheng, who killed seven immortals nine times in a row, was rescued by Huang Sha when he was on the verge of death. He was seriously injured. It was almost shattered, and it was difficult to make any progress after recovering from the injury.I had no choice but to take shelter in Huangsha, and worked as a guard in the Damo Guild Hall, spending all day drinking to soothe my worries.

The waves are surging, the old is gone and the new is being reborn, this city is changing every day, and it will never truly be peaceful.

It has been five years since I opened my eyes, and everything has changed.Geng Yan looked at the thin and thin person in the mirror, he was surprised by the strangeness, only those eyes that were as deep as the abyss were unmistakably familiar.

He reached out and pressed himself in the mirror.

"I am back."

he said to him.