The room was a single ward with a hospital sign. Next to her, Fu Ying was asleep, her hands tightly gripping her right hand.
Zhou Xuan looked at Fu Ying's face, which was half-turned and fast asleep. It was fair and beautiful, but it also looked very tired. Her long eyelashes were trembling, and there seemed to be traces of tears at the corners of her eyes!
Zhou Xuan didn't know how much time had passed. He looked out the window, but because of the sky-blue curtains, he couldn't see the scenery outside. However, the white light shining through the curtains suggested it was daytime. He thought he had returned to his room around three or four in the afternoon. Was it only four or five o'clock now? It didn't seem to be dark yet.
Zhou Xuan carefully recalled his own story. How did he end up in the hospital?
After returning to his room, he first tried to break the crystal, and when that failed, he began to practice internal energy breathing. Then, "then Zhou Xuan suddenly remembered what happened next!"
Thinking of this, Zhou Xuan trembled, and Fu Ying immediately woke up!
After staring at Zhou Xuan for a moment, she looked up in surprise and exclaimed, "Zhou Xuan...you're awake?"
"You're not awake, you're dreaming!" Zhou Xuan said casually with a grin. Fu Ying was taken aback, then bit her finger. It hurt, so she wasn't dreaming. She immediately snapped, "I was so worried, and you're still... still joking!"
As she spoke, tears rolled down her cheeks, falling like pearls.
Zhou Xuan panicked immediately and hurriedly said, "Alright, alright, Yingying, I was just joking with you. I'm perfectly fine, look at me, I'm perfectly alright!"
Although Fu Ying cried, she quickly got up and left the ward to call the doctor. After the doctor examined Zhou Xuan, he nodded and said, "Very good, the preliminary examination is normal, but further careful examination is needed!"
After the patient was brought in yesterday, the expert team confirmed that it was damage to the nervous and vascular systems. Treating this disease is very difficult, so the hospital told Fu Ying and her family to be prepared to transfer to another hospital, because this disease is also very difficult to treat in China.
Fu Ying was terrified. She didn't know how Zhou Xuan could suddenly have a problem. The examination report from the expert group was also very alarming.
Wei Haihong brought him here; it was specially arranged by the old man. This is the General Hospital of the Military Region, and the doctors here all say so, which means that Zhou Xuan's illness is indeed very serious.
To be honest, Zhou Xuan's illness is indeed very serious, according to common sense. His meridians are damaged, and theoretically speaking, the world's medical community has not yet been able to overcome it, because who would violently damage their meridians by practicing internal energy? Practicing internal energy is more like a legendary story, and it is very rare to see in reality.
But Zhou Xuan was different. His ice energy ability did not belong to this world. It also had extremely strong regeneration and self-healing abilities. Although he was seriously injured at the time, after one night, his ice energy ability, which was ten times stronger than before, had completely repaired and healed the injured meridians in his body.
Zhou Xuan moved his hands and found nothing wrong. On the contrary, he felt incredibly energetic and refreshed, better than ever before. Then he thought of a very important question: "Yingying, there's a tiny crystal-like gemstone in my room. Have you seen it?"
Volume 1, Chapter 231: A New Test of Icy Air
"Crystal." Fu Bi paused for a moment. Then he shook his head and said, "No, I didn't expect that." Yesterday, "After Liu prepared dinner, I went upstairs to call you. I couldn't wake you up, and I couldn't open the door. You had locked it from the inside. I was so scared that I kicked the door and went in to find you lying on the bed, covered in blood. I didn't care about anything else. I just carried you downstairs. The whole family was terrified, afraid something bad had happened. My mother told me to call Brother Hong. Brother Hong and Grandpa rushed over immediately and brought you here together."
Zhou Xuan dared not circulate his ice energy at this time, for fear of causing another problem. Moreover, he also felt that his body was very different from before, with many things feeling wrong. If something went wrong here, it would be difficult to cover it up.
If the old man and Wei Haihong are both here, then things will be much easier.
Fu Ying didn't know what crystals were, had never seen them before, and didn't know what Zhou Xuan meant by asking this, but she really didn't know when she was at home.
Zhou Xuan didn't dare to ask further questions, and besides, if Fu Ying said she didn't know, she really didn't know. She wouldn't lie to her. If she wanted to find out, she would have to be discharged from the hospital and go back to look for her.
At this time, the old man and Brother Hong arrived, along with Jin Xiumei and Zhou Ying. They had come together as well. After spending the night in the hospital ward, the old man had the hospital's kitchen prepare a meal for Jin Xiumei and her daughter. Fu Ying declined, saying that something had to be done for them. Since it was good for them to stay, the old man didn't insist she go.
In fact, such a high-class ward usually has special hospital nurses to look after the patient, but Fu Ying insisted on staying by her own. There was no other way; she was most worried about this. This was understandable.
Upon seeing Zhou Xuan awake, Wei Haihong exclaimed joyfully, "Brother, are you feeling better? You scared me half to death yesterday!"
The old man stepped forward and examined Zhou Xuan carefully. Zhou Xuan looked to be in good spirits, completely different from yesterday. He said with relief, "Little Zhou, what happened?"
Zhou Xuan looked around and, seeing that the doctor and nurses had left, whispered, "Grandpa, Brother Hong, I'm fine. I had a little trouble practicing yesterday, but it's all better now. It's not convenient to talk about the martial arts, but I'm all better now and I want to be discharged."
Hearing Zhou Xuan's words, the old man felt relieved. He knew Zhou Xuan had some unusual characteristics, and although the hospital's test results were alarming, Zhou Xuan's own words after waking up put his mind at ease. After all, he had experienced similar things, both his terminal illness and Old Li's shrapnel wounds. These were things that hospital treatments couldn't explain!
Nodding, the old man went to the hospital leader's office to discuss his discharge. The hospital staff naturally obeyed his orders; his entry and exit were arranged by him.
The procedures were very simple. Zhou Xuan's family didn't have to do anything. They went in and out directly, and when they returned, the old man's guard drove them there.
Back at their home in Hongcheng Garden, the old man sat with Brother Hong for a while, then gave Jin Xiumei some more instructions. He told her to call if she needed anything and to just let him know.
Jin Xiumei thanked her gratefully. She wouldn't usually ask for help with ordinary matters, except for important ones that her family couldn't handle on their own.
After the old man and Brother Hong left, Zhou Xuan hurriedly went to his room on the third floor.
Aunt Liu had changed all the sheets, blankets, and quilts in the room. Zhou Xuan couldn't find the crystal on the floor, so he searched for a while before finally finding it in the corner under the table.
Zhou Xuan dared not exert even a fraction of his ice-energy ability. He simply took the crystal with his hand, then quickly found a cabinet, opened it, and stuffed it inside.
Zhou Xuan wasn't worried about others taking it; he understood that he had accidentally gained the Ice Qi ability, and only with this ability could he absorb the energy within the golden stone. Therefore, he wasn't concerned that others would also obtain the same energy. He already knew this before; when he was in America, Fu Tianlai and Fu Ying had both come into contact with that small golden stone, but neither of them gained any abilities. Only he could absorb the energy within it.
The characteristics of this crystal are similar, but the energy inside the crystal is obviously too enormous. It's as if the previous small golden stones were like small batteries, while that large golden stone weighing several tons was like a car battery, with much greater energy. And this crystal is practically like a power plant!
The energy in the crystal is like that in a power plant. The endless electrical energy seems inexhaustible, at least for now, but Zhou Xuan dares not touch it again!
At this moment, Zhou Xuan could examine the current state of his body and the ice energy. He intended to close the door, but then noticed that it had been kicked open with a large hole.
Fu Ying's martial arts skills are not low, and she may have been anxious at the time, so her strength was naturally stronger.
Zhou Xuan gave a wry smile. He'd let it go; he'd call someone to fix the door tomorrow.
After sitting on the bed, Zhou Xuan slowly began to circulate his ice energy. Because of the terrifying memory from yesterday, Zhou Xuan dared not exert his full strength to circulate his ice energy. He first circulated a small portion of ice energy, and then carefully circulated it along his meridians. However, at this time, the ice energy circulated in his meridians, and it felt extremely comfortable, like clear and cool mountain spring water flowing into a dried-up ditch under the scorching sun. His meridians absorbed the nutrients brought by the ice energy.
At the same time, Zhou Xuan felt that this small amount of ice energy was far from enough for his meridians and body to absorb, so he gradually increased the intensity of the ice energy circulation. In less than five cycles, Zhou Xuan had the ice energy fully circulating.
When the ice energy was fully activated, Zhou Xuan felt an unprecedented increase in his body's sensitivity. He closed his eyes, and the ice energy... Ma Ju took in almost the entire area within a fifty-meter radius, his mind clearly imprinting all the movements within that fifty-meter range.
Zhou Xuan was overjoyed. In the past, at its strongest, the ice aura could only detect movements within a range of fifteen meters, but now it had easily expanded to fifty meters. It seemed that the increase in ice aura was indeed a qualitative leap!
Such increases are usually not to be judged by ordinary standards. For example, the energy of the pill's ice energy seems to have increased more than tenfold, but the detection distance has not increased tenfold.
This cannot be explained by simple data, because if you spread out in all 360 degrees from the center point and then move forward, then for every inch you advance, you might have to exert ten times more effort.
This is similar to a light bulb in an open field. The light can only illuminate a few hundred meters at most. But if you focus the light into a beam and concentrate it on a single point, the distance can be much greater.
Thinking about this, Zhou Xuan paused for a moment, then immediately realized that if he concentrated the ice energy into an extremely small point, he wondered how far he could detect it. Without hesitation, Zhou Xuan immediately concentrated the ice energy into a thin thread, and then sent the thread of ice energy in one direction. When it encountered a wall, the intensity of the ice energy weakened considerably after penetrating the wall, making it much more difficult to detect.