Chapter 68 - 68 68 I Will Wait Until He Wakes Up

68: Chapter 68: I Will Wait Until He Wakes Up 68: Chapter 68: I Will Wait Until He Wakes Up Boom— In the deafening explosion, a violent shockwave, carrying the momentum to destroy and annihilate everything, swept outward in all directions. The restaurant at Fresh Fish Manor began to collapse amidst intense shaking. Fortunately, most of the diners had already fled the restaurant, some even distancing themselves far away; otherwise, this explosion would have caused tremendous casualties. Fang Bai exerted all his strength to push his speed to the limit, holding Tang Wenrou as he rushed towards the entrance of Fresh Fish Manor. When the booming sound of the explosion came from behind, Fang Bai knew things were bad. In an instant, he concentrated his True Yuan into the area of his back, taking Tang Wenrou down to the ground with him, tightly shielding her beneath him. Just as the two of them hit the ground, the powerful shockwave hit them like a tsunami, destroying everything in its path. Fang Bai was shaken so hard by the shockwave that his internal organs nearly shifted; he almost vomited blood, and his entire back felt as though it had been viciously scraped by thousands of blades, a burning pain. Although he couldn’t see his back, Fang Bai knew that his clothes were likely shredded to pieces, and his flesh was a gory mess, too gruesome to behold. “Back when I was the Immortal Emperor, even a nuclear explosion next to me in this world wouldn’t dream of harming me. But now, this mere explosion shockwave has gravely injured me…” Fang Bai sighed inwardly, then immense pain engulfed his consciousness… … In Zhongzhou First People’s Hospital, outside a critical care unit’s corridor, a man and two women sat opposite each other with sorrowful expressions. The man was Fang Bai’s father, Fang Gang; the women were Fang Bai’s mother Yang Mei, and his sister Fang Yun. Fang Gang had red-rimmed eyes, a deeply furrowed brow, and a face full of worry. Over this period of treatment, Fang Gang’s paralyzed legs had mostly healed. Although he still couldn’t run, he could stand and walk like a normal person. Yang Mei and Fang Yun sat together, embracing and crying; both had eyes swollen red from weeping. The three of them had rushed over after receiving the news of Fang Bai’s injury and hospitalization. When they saw their son and brother, Fang Bai, lying unconscious on the bed of the critical care unit, his body entirely wrapped in white bandages, Yang Mei, frail of heart, nearly fainted on the spot. The explosion at Fresh Fish Manor had shocked the whole of Zhongzhou City. In the incident, about a dozen people were injured, but fortunately, there were no deaths—a silver lining in the misfortune. Among those dozen injured were Fang Bai and Tang Wenrou. Since Fang Bai had protected Tang Wenrou with his body, she only sustained minor injuries to her arm and was otherwise unharmed. Although Fang Bai was powerful, he was still made of flesh and blood. Struck by the rampaging shockwave, his internal organs were injured, and his back was torn open with countless wounds; he fell into unconsciousness on the spot. After the explosion, Tang Wenrou pushed Fang Bai off her and, upon seeing his bloodied and mutilated back, the typically resolute and indifferent Tang Wenrou immediately burst into tears. Then, almost frantically, she lifted Fang Bai up, hailed a nearby car, and rushed him to Zhongzhou First People’s Hospital, the medical facility with the best conditions in Zhongzhou City. Once the hospital staff had treated Fang Bai’s injuries and arranged for him to be placed in the critical care unit, Tang Wenrou promptly notified Fang Bai’s family. With Fang Bai injured and unconscious, hovering between life and death, having his family by his side was the most important thing. After Fang Gang’s family of three rushed to the hospital, Tang Wenrou, with red eyes, recounted the events to them before going to consult with the doctors about further treatment. Fang Gang’s family of three, then, waited anxiously for news in the corridor outside the critical care unit. According to the doctor, if Fang Bai had only been injured externally, there wouldn’t have been much of a problem, but his internal organs were impacted in the explosion, resulting in damage and bleeding symptoms, which made the outcome very difficult to predict. The hospital had already taken aggressive treatment measures, but as for how Fang Bai would fare next, they could only leave it to fate. This wasn’t good news at all. Tang Wenrou came back to the corridor outside the intensive care unit with a devastated look, unsure of how to begin speaking to Fang Bai’s family, her heart gripped by excruciating pain. Searᴄh the Nôvel(F)ire.nёt website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. She leaned against the wall, standing woodenly without speaking, simply letting silent tears fall. Two years earlier, the man Tang Wenrou deeply loved had died in the line of duty while protecting her, leaving her deeply affected and depressed until now. Now, Fang Bai, who bore the shadow of her former boyfriend, had also been critically injured while protecting her, plunging her into an endless sorrow, feeling as if she were an omen of misfortune. If Fang Bai was alright, it would be a relief, but if something worse happened, Tang Wenrou would never find peace. “Officer Tang, what… what did the doctor say?” Yang Mei, wiping her tears, sat up straight and asked Tang Wenrou in a soft voice. Actually, seeing Tang Wenrou’s expression, she had a premonition that her son’s condition might not be good, but she still harbored a sliver of hope. “The doctor said… they’ve done all they could; Fang Bai’s fate now rests in the hands of the heavens… If Fang Bai can wake up, he should be fine…” Tang Wenrou knew her emotions were affecting Fang Bai’s family, so she sniffled, trying hard not to let herself cry again. Yang Mei covered her mouth tightly with her hands, not daring to cry out loud, afraid of disturbing her son, who was in a coma in the intensive care unit, and she whimpered softly, “If anything happens to Fang Bai, I don’t want to live either…” “Fang Bai isn’t an ordinary person; his vitality is very strong. He will be fine…” As a martial artist, Tang Wenrou knew that a martial artist’s endurance and self-healing ability were far greater than an average person’s. If Fang Bai had been an ordinary person, suffering such a serious injury might have meant he would never wake up, but she felt that there was still hope for Fang Bai. Fang Bai did not wake up all night, and Fang Gang, Yang Mei, and Fang Yun did not eat, drink, or rest, spending the entire night waiting in the corridor outside. Tang Wenrou also did not rest that night. However, while Fang Gang and the others sat through the night, she stood still, like a statue, not moving at all the whole night. As dawn approached, Yang Mei could no longer bear to watch and said to Tang Wenrou, “Officer Tang, we’ll stay here and watch over him. You should go back and rest!” Tang Wenrou shook her head and said, “Fang Bai was injured saving me; I can’t leave. I want to wait until he wakes up.” Seeing her determined attitude, Yang Mei sighed and said nothing more. From her previous conversation with Tang Wenrou, Yang Mei knew that her son had come to know this beautiful policewoman because they had once cooperated to apprehend two fugitives, and her son had even received a cash reward of one hundred thousand yuan from the police for this. If it weren’t for Tang Wenrou mentioning it, Yang Mei would have been kept in the dark about this matter. Yang Mei was not happy that her son had received a reward of one hundred thousand yuan; instead, she was full of worry. In her view, catching criminals was the police’s responsibility, and her son’s involvement was simply too dangerous. Take the incident at Fresh Fish Manor, for example. The three criminals’ target was Tang Wenrou; if her son had not gotten involved, he might not have ended up harmed. With a selfish yet understandable parental heart, Yang Mei’s inclinations were not wrong. Yang Mei planned to tell her son after he awoke, that he should not do such foolish things in the future. The reward money might be tempting, but what could be more important than her son’s safety?