Still in Coma, Reason Found

"Cheng…"

On the fourth floor of Yun Che's villa, Yun Cheng who never needed to sleep was like a sleeping beauty on the bed of his room. He looked slightly pale and fragile with not much blood in his face, charming with long eyelashes and his innocent eyes closed, and still sexily seducing with his red lips. However, he no longer moved his lips and he had no breath and no heartbeat. Rather than a sleeping beauty, he was like a dead man.

Since he took Yun Cheng back, Leng Yehan had been maintaining the posture of holding Yun Cheng's hand at the beside, which made him not look like a living person but a statue, except for the moment he occasionally tried to wake Yun Cheng up in a hoarse voice. Enough though Heiyu said Yun Cheng should be fine and had no injuries on his body, Leng Yehan still felt increasingly painful in his chest for Yun Cheng was still unconscious!

"Wake up, Cheng. I'm so scared…"

With Yun Cheng's hand in his, Leng Yehan implored miserably in a voice that was too hoarse to be heard clearly. Three years ago, Leng Yehan experienced the hardest and most confusing time. One day, he got terribly drunk and Yun Cheng took him back to the dormitory as an angel would do. The moment Leng Yehan opened his eyes and saw Yun Cheng, Leng Yehan really thought he saw an angel. Starting that day, Leng Yehan no longer got drunk at pubs or gave up on himself. He finally managed to disentangle himself from his mother's sudden death and his father's cruelty. In the next two years, Yun Cheng was always with Leng Yehan, as a good senior fellow apprentice. Yun Cheng bought him meals and gave him things with various excuses, knowing that Leng Yehan had to earn his own living fees due to his family's poor condition.

Long time ago, Leng Yehan noticed that he treated Yun Cheng more than an alumni or a friend. It was love for Leng Yehan, something deeper and heavier, that existed between the two of them. But Leng Yehan didn't confess his feeling so as not to influence his own schoolwork and research. He made up his mind to further his education after college and not to confess his feeling until he found a job, throughout which he would always be there with Yun Cheng. However, something happened.

Out of blue, the doomsday befell. Even till now, Leng Yehan still remembered how frightened and uneasy he felt when he failed to find Yun Cheng in his dorm after seeing zombies bite people on that morning. Leng Yehan ran about the college like crazy so that he didn't realize when his superfunction was stimulated. All he knew was that he was suddenly able to attack the zombies with fire balls. When he accidentally overheard that Yun Cheng was at the school supermarket, he ran there like mad. God knew how excited he felt when he saw Yun Cheng again. However, Leng Yehan had no chance to give vent to his feeling because it was inappropriate to confess his love under that circumstance.

However, out of Leng Yehan's expectation, there would be no other chances to confess his love. Yun Cheng turned into a zombie right in front of him. At that time, Leng Yehan felt like the whole world collapsed. However, Yun Che's appearance gave him hope again. He was happy to hear Yun Che's decision to raise Yun Cheng in spite of the uncertainty of what Yun Cheng would become. At least, Leng Yehan could see Yun Cheng, no matter he would become a zombie or a person. The reality proved that Leng Yehan made a right decision. Although Yun Cheng forgot everything and was innocent of everything, like a piece of clean sheet, he was still alive, wasn't he? He could smile. He could speak. And he could even rely on Leng Yehan. Leng Yehan persuaded himself desperately that that was enough.

However, the hypnosis could just work for a while not forever. Sometimes, Leng Yehan got sober and could sense the deeper eagerness in his heart. He hoped that Yun Cheng would become what he used to be, even if Yun Cheng would not depend on him like he did now and everything had to start over again. Leng Yehan had such a hope because he was confused whether Yun Cheng really loved him or simply relied on him in the way he relied on Yun Che.

The contradiction tortured Leng Yehan over and over again. He was like a coward, not daring to reveal his true feeling. He didn't feel assured until the evening when Yun Che said he had come back from his previous life and that Leng Yehan and Yun Cheng had loved each other in their previous life. Leng Yehan no longer cared about whether Yun Cheng could become what he used to be. All Leng Yehan wanted was to be with Yun Cheng all the time. When Yun Cheng learned what true love was, they would get married and keep each other's company for the rest of their life.

However…

"Cheng…"

Why? It was just a moment of distraction. Why did Cheng end up like this? Why?

How Leng Yehan wished to slap himself! Why had he made Yun Cheng wait at that time? Why had he not put Yun Cheng on top priority? Why hadn't he found that awful level-6 zombie with Yun Cheng? How could the damn work compare with Yun Cheng? The work was even not so important as a string of Yun Cheng's hair… Leng Yehan's tears soaked Yun Cheng's hand and trickled down to the bed sheet from Yun Cheng's fingers.

"Yehan!"

Yun Che who came in unknowingly reached out to press on Leng Yehan's shoulder. The way Yun Che looked at his brother was also full of pity and grief. When everyone thought that Yun Cheng would grow maturer as his level rose and be as mature and smart as he used to be even though he didn't remember the past, he then…

Leng Yehan's body froze. All of a sudden, he grabbed Yun Che by the hand and asked in an almost imploring tone with his head raised, "You could do something to wake him up, couldn't you?"

Now, Leng Yehan couldn't care for Yun Che though Yun Che just delivered. All that Leng Yehan knew was that Yun Che was the only one who could wake Yun Cheng up.

"Calm yourself down. Let me examine."

Leng Yehan's red teary eyes increased the pain of Yun Che. Lu Haixuan came up to embrace Leng Yehan's arm and said miserably, "Yehan, chill out. Let Che examine first. I'm sure he feels as terrible as you do. We all hate to see Cheng like this."

Lu Haixuan had known Leng Yehan for the longest time and was the only person who had connected with the former Yun Cheng apart from Yun Che, Yun Yao and Leng Yehan. Therefore, Lu Haixuan was not in a good mood either.

"Cheng…"

Lu Haixuan dragged Leng Yehan away. Yun Che pulled Xing Feng away and sat at the bedside. Yun Che reached out and touched Yun Cheng's face which resembled Yun Che's. "Don't worry. Whoever tries to take your life, I won't allow him to do so, even God."

His choking voice sounded powerful enough to hit everyone at the eardrum heavily. No one doubted Yun Che's determination to fight even with God to save someone important. And they all would follow Yun Che to death!"

"Boom…"

A strong divine sense whooshed into Yun Cheng's body with the attempt to examine why he remained unconscious through his meridian. However, to Yun Che's disappointment, his divine sense ran through Yun Cheng's body but still failed to find why he was unconscious and what caused his coma.

On the way back, Gu Mingxuan had told Yun Che about the whole story. Yun Che knew that Yun Cheng fell into a coma because he got shot at his head back. However, something still confused Yun Che. Even though the head back was the most fragile part of a zombie, the energy gun could only cause extensive injury, at most, in the zombies below level 4, and hurt level-4 and level-5 zombies in some way, it was basically impossible to put the zombies to death. Moreover, the strength of Yun Cheng's external body had already reached level 10 and the internal and external balance maintained at least around level 7. Even if the energy gun shot him at his head back and caused concussion, it was impossible to cause the coma, unless…

"Yehan, anything special about Cheng today? Any difference from usual?"

They must find out the real cause of Yun Cheng's coma so that they could apply medicine accordingly to wake him.

"What?"

Hearing that, Leng Yehan calmed down a little and pondered with a frown for quite a while. He then said, "If I have to say what was different, he seemed specially anxious today. It's not the first time we have met level-6 zombies. He shouldn't have been so anxious. He wasn't even wiling to wait a few minutes for me and just turned around to pursue the zombies."

Indeed, Yun Cheng was always excited and couldn't wait to hunt whenever he met high-level zombies. However, he used to wait for other people before action, no matter whether Yun Che was with him or not. He never rushed to the zombie crowds by himself or reacted in the way he did today.

"Hmm…"

Yun Che touched his jaw, speechless. Everyone fixed their eyes on him, the only one who could find out the real reason.

Yun Che wasn't unaware of people's expectation, he just ignored their eager eyes. After a moment of silence, he opened the air panel and checked carefully. Everyone felt a second was as long as a year. A century seemed to have passed before Yun Che said in a low voice, "If I am correct, Cheng reacted so anxiously because he was going to upgrade. All he needed was perhaps the last six-level nucleus. Just like he didn't know how to use his superfunction, he probably didn't know he was going to upgrade. He just pursued the high-level crystal nucleus subconsciously. The energy gun is our research product. We know how destructive it can go. It's impossible to cause Cheng's coma. The only explanation is that he broke the level barrier and was going to upgrade after the battle with the level-6 zombie. At that very moment, the energy gun shot the most fragile place of his, that is the head back, the energy source. Instantly, the upgrade balance was destroyed. Consequently, he fell into a coma."

That was the only explanation of why the energy gun could hurt him and cause his coma. Once the superfunction possessors or the zombies broke the level barriers, they could upgrade almost in an instant, during which, however, they were definitely at the feeblest status. It was at that moment that the energy gun shot Yun Cheng and ruined his upgrade. That was the cause of the severe result. To put it in a simple way, it was like the computer crash.

"Damn it…"

After listening to Yun Che's analysis, Leng Yehan slapped his face. If he had been more careful, he probably wouldn't have taken Yun Cheng's anxiety as a joke or let this happen to Yun Cheng. It was too careless of Leng Yehan. It was all his fault!

"Yehan…"

No one could possibly face such a situation with calmness. Everyone couldn't help casting a worried look at Leng Yehan. It was understandable for them that Leng Yehan felt guilty, but it was not the time to feel that way now!

"Then, will Cheng…"

Shedding tears ceaselessly, Yun Yao wished to ask whether Cheng would be asleep like this forever, but she just couldn't finish the question in fear of receiving a positive answer. Not only she but many people present could not bear such a result. Although Yun Cheng spent most of his time only with Yun Che and Leng Yehan and just actively played with Chenchen at most, other people still attached great importance to Yun Cheng and no one wished to see him become a dead-alive person who could just spend the rest of his life lying on bed.

"No, Yao. He won't. God will not treat Cheng so cruelly."

Gu Mingxuan read her mind right away and gave her a hug, feeling distressed for her. Other people lowered their heads successively. They understood Yun Yao's fear because they felt the exact same way.