Chapter 338: Rescue in water
Chapter 338 Rescue in the water
Is it an illusion? Was she seeing him because she was dying?
However, the touch of the body was so real. His strong arms supported her body and led her upwards.
It turned out that he really came to save her. At that moment, Xia Ling's eyes filled with tears, and all her grievances and unwillingness disappeared. At the most critical moment in her life, at the critical moment of life and death, it turned out that he could lay down his life for her.
He is her god, it turns out, he always has been.
She struggled to raise her head and followed his strength up the river. In order to lighten his burden, she used her good arm to paddle together. Inadvertently, she touched his wrist.
There seemed to be some hard metal object on his wrist that fell off.
Pei Ziheng suddenly turned around and his expression changed.
Sensing that he was stagnant, Xia Ling pulled him hard and motioned for him to move quickly. They are all too small before the brute force of nature. If they stay in the water for even one second, the danger will increase exponentially.
However, Pei Ziheng did not leave.
He looked at the direction in which the thing sank, and then at her.
A bad premonition arose in Xia Ling's heart. An inexplicable fear filled her heart. It was a very cold feeling, unprecedented terror and darkness... She couldn't explain what that feeling was. She was at a loss and could only press with all her strength. She pulled him and looked at him pleadingly, hoping that he could take her out of here quickly.
However, he opened her hand bit by bit.
His strength was strong and determined, and he peeled her off his arm like a dead thing.
Xia Ling didn't expect it to be like this. She finally knew where the fear just came from. In the cold river water, in the rapids where life was in danger at any time, he abandoned her for something she didn't know what it was. .
She lost her support, her injured arm was unable to paddle, and involuntarily, she was carried away by the current and swept away. She opened her eyes wide, desperately trying to see his face clearly, and wanted to ask him why, but he was reluctant to give even a glance at the last moment. He had already turned around and followed the lost item.
Starting from the heart, the cold spreads.
Xia Ling only felt that her body was getting heavier and heavier, and she was becoming more and more numb, as if she could no longer feel her own existence. After an unknown period of time, she fell into silent darkness.
It seemed as if I had had a very long dream.
In the dream, there was a huge cage, the devil, and boundless darkness.
She ran away desperately, terrified as if being chased by some monster, until a light appeared in front of her. A faint, but bright and warm light. She ran towards the light and faintly heard someone calling her name: "Ling...Xiao Ling, Ye Xingling..."
who is she?
Isn’t she Xia Ling? How could it be Ye Xingling?
She paused as she ran toward the beam of light, and her voice became clearer: "Xiao Ling...Ye Xingling... wake up, wake up! Promise me, nothing will happen to you..."
Whose voice is it? So familiar.
Ye Xingling...?
Yes, she is Ye Xingling, who is Xia Ling? No…
She is no longer Xia Ling.
"Ye Xingling, come back. Ye Xingling!" The familiar voice called eagerly. She walked hard towards the light in the darkness, staggering, and finally, it was within reach. Her eyelids trembled slightly, and she opened her eyes slightly. What came into view was Li Lei's anxious face.
“Xiao Ling, you finally woke up!” He was dripping with water, and his body and face were stained with mud and water plants. He looked dirty and embarrassed. But the smile he showed her was the most beautiful smile she had ever seen in her life. He just smiled like that and said to her, "I will save you! Believe me, I will save you! Xiao Ling, and I say talk, stay awake, don’t fall asleep.”
She felt it was difficult to breathe and felt uncomfortable in her lungs, but she still obeyed his command and opened her mouth.
“What did you say?” He didn’t hear clearly.
“Ugly…so ugly…” she said weakly.
He was stunned for a moment, then laughed again, and wiped her face clean of the water stains and grass mud.
“You’re not ugly,” he said. “You are always the most beautiful.”
“I mean...you are ugly.” She coughed and smiled weakly.
He was stunned again, but this time he said: "Okay, if you say I am ugly, I will be ugly, but you are not allowed to dislike me. My body has been exposed to you, and you have to be responsible for me." As he said, he put He took off all the wet clothes on his body, revealing his perfectly proportioned upper body and slender legs. He hugged her almost naked, and then covered the two of them with those wet clothes.
"What are you doing?" She didn't have the strength to fight, looked at him, and said with difficulty, "You will... catch a cold."
"I'm in good health and I'm fine." Li Lei said, "This way you can keep warm. Xiao Ling, hold on a little longer, I have already called for rescue, and someone will come to save you soon. You will survive."
Her body was frighteningly cold, and her pulse was so weak that it was almost impossible to check. Li Lei had never been so scared in his life. He watched helplessly as her life passed by, but he didn't know if he could be saved.
His body was also very cold. When he went into the water to rescue her, he found that she was entangled in the water plants at the bottom of the river and she had fallen into a coma. It took a lot of effort for him to lift her up. He was almost exhausted and needed to replenish his strength. However, even in this situation, he was still worried about her who was weaker, and used his body temperature as weak as the embers of a flame to warm her colder body. Hypothermia was fatal, and he couldn't let her die.
He hugged her for a while, and she regained her breath slightly: "I'm fine, you... don't be like this." She could see that he was very cold, his lips were black and blue from the cold, and he was shivering in the autumn wind in the mountains. However, he put her ice-like hands on his chest. She wanted to move away, but he held on tightly.
"I'm fine." Although his body was shivering from the cold, his voice was steady, "We will all survive. I want to protect you for the rest of my life, but I can't die in front of you."
"Hey..." She interrupted him with some dissatisfaction. How could this person live or die?
He smiled, lowered his head and kissed her forehead, "I'm here, don't be afraid." Following her pale face, he saw the amulet around her neck. It was made of sycamore wood. He had poured half of his blood into it. She prays for blessings and shares disasters. "You will be fine," Li Lei said again, "You are wearing the amulet I gave you."
She hummed softly.
I remember that at the beginning, she laughed at his amulet as a fifty-cent street stall product, and she was unwilling to wear it no matter what. It wasn’t until I experienced all these things that I discovered that even if it’s a fifty-cent piece of street food, or even something picked up on the roadside, the thoughtfulness contained in it is priceless.
He is the one who can protect her with everything he has.
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(End of this chapter)