Chapter 1476: Chapter 1525: Buried Alive and Revived
This sudden mention cast an instant atmosphere of horror, but Meng Xiaofei didn’t care. She shook her head forcefully and said, "No, Brother Li won’t die... Please help me pull him out."
Li Yifei lay in the pit, his face almost devoid of blood, deathly pale, and the exposed skin was extremely cold, seeming to be the same temperature as the surrounding soil.
Not afraid of Li Yifei at all, Meng Xiaofei held his head and helped clear the mud off his face and body.
Li Yifei’s one hand still maintained a raised position, occasionally twitching, proving he was not dead.
Aoki Reiko lay on Li Yifei’s chest, listening intently, her small face wrinkled; after a while, she couldn’t hear Li Yifei’s heartbeat.
Half an hour later, Li Yifei, who had not responded all the while, suddenly produced a hiccup sound, like that after a full meal.
As the sound resonated, Li Yifei’s body visibly flushed, and Meng Xiaofei and Aoki Reiko, having failed to warm him for a while, saw their body temperature swiftly rebound.
Meng Xiaofei and Aoki Reiko widened their eyes, their faces showing excitement! Li Yifei was indeed not dead; he had really come back to life.
Li Yifei’s eyelids twitched, seeming to struggle, his eyeballs continuously turning, and a minute later, he finally opened his eyes.
Upon opening his eyes, Li Yifei saw Meng Xiaofei and Aoki Reiko and was still a bit dazed, his mouth moving, only making hoarse sounds.
"Brother Li, you’re awake, boo-hoo..." Unable to hold back, Meng Xiaofei covered her mouth, hugged Li Yifei’s hand, and cried.
Aoki Reiko exhibited almost the same behavior, holding onto Li Yifei’s other hand, tears streaming down.
Li Yifei took a few minutes to adapt to his body, understanding the situation from the women’s fragmented speech.
His speech and physiological systems recovering, Li Yifei recounted the experience to the two women.
"That day, I originally had the opportunity to kill Motoharu, but he was lucky. When I was about to act, his men came, and I immediately drove away, but my body was indeed failing. After driving a distance, I turned here, drove the car into the river, jumped out of it, ran here, and then... I knew nothing."
"Blurred, I only felt something press against me. Now it seems it was then that I got buried, possibly covered by mud washed down by the storm."
Mentioning this, images from that time appeared in Li Yifei’s mind, like a boundless dark world, as if in a vast cosmos, with occasional meteors streaking across the sky. Li Yifei felt it more like bioelectric currents probing if his body was dead.
Buried, Li Yifei fell into a state of pseudo-death, unable to describe that state precisely. Saying it was ’turtle breath’ was inaccurate as it has a time limit, but his pseudo-death state had no limits, seeming even his heart didn’t beat, and his body’s metabolism almost halted.
But he didn’t die of burial, thanks to those days with severe internal damage. Under normal recuperation, it might take months to recover, but entering pseudo-death, Li Yifei lost consciousness, minimized body consumption, while his internal True Qi autonomously operated to repair his body.
Once the repair was nearly complete, Li Yifei extended a hand, serving two purposes: replacing his mouth for breathing and attracting attention for someone to dig him out.
Even if no one dug him out, after recovering thoroughly in a few more days, Li Yifei would break out on his own.
As for breathing, his hand’s hair pores were entry points for oxygen. At a certain level of cultivation, achieving this isn’t hard.
Li Yifei’s body now almost fully recovered from pseudo-death, only took a moment to relay the situation, soon standing up and walking freely.
The two women listened in a daze, Li Yifei’s explanation... too extraordinary; they had never heard anything like it. But regardless, as long as Li Yifei was fine, it was the best outcome.
Meng Xiaofei remembered something, took out her phone, dialed, saying, "Brother Li, I am calling Sister Mengxin to inform her. Sister Mengxin feared family would worry, never mentioning your disappearance..."
Speaking so, the call connected, Su Mengxin’s voice was heard, but Chu Xiaoyao’s voice echoed nearby, seemingly grabbing the phone, "Hey, is it Sister Xiaofei? Where’s my husband?"
Meng Xiaofei handed the phone to Li Yifei, saying, "It’s Xiaoyao."
Li Yifei nodded, took the phone, and said, "Hey, Xiaoyao, what’s up?"
Chu Xiaoyao initially grabbed the phone aggressively, but upon realizing it was indeed Li Yifei’s voice, the confusion on her face disappeared instantly. She glanced at Su Mengxin with a bit of embarrassment, stuck out her tongue, and switched to a gentle voice, saying, "Hello, hubby, I... I’m fine, just missing you."
When the other women heard Chu Xiaoyao say this, their expressions all changed. They had been worried that something had happened to Li Yifei, but now that they heard his voice, that worry naturally dissipated.
Chu Xiaoyao didn’t say much before handing the phone back to Su Mengxin.
Li Yifei chatted briefly with each woman before hanging up.
Holding Meng Xiaofei in his arms, Li Yifei placed his chin on top of Meng Xiaofei’s head, hugged her tightly, and said, "Silly girl, it’s good you’re alright, it’s good you’re alright."
Meng Xiaofei’s tears, which had just recently been controlled, suddenly flowed out again. Of course, she was fine, and she didn’t want anything to happen to Li Yifei either. Holding onto Li Yifei, Meng Xiaofei nodded vigorously and said, "Brother Li, I’m... I’m sorry, I made you all worry like this, and almost..."
"Alright, no need to say that. Let’s find a place to go back to first, I might need to use the restroom, and you and Reiko need to make me some food. I haven’t eaten in days, your Brother Li could devour an entire cow."
Meng Xiaofei quickly nodded, and Aoki Reiko also nodded repeatedly. The group hurriedly got in the car and drove back to the city.
Once Li Yifei got home, he headed straight to the bathroom and took twenty minutes before coming out. When he emerged again, there was something noticeably different about him; his eyes seemed even darker and more profound.
It was a feeling hard to describe, as if Li Yifei had somehow become stronger. As he moved, he exuded a strong sense of pressure.
Aoki Reiko was cooking, and Meng Xiaofei was reluctantly assisting while chatting with Li Yifei, recounting the events of the past few days.
Li Yifei leaned lazily against the doorframe, watching the two women busy themselves. The experience of narrowly escaping death over the past few days made Li Yifei feel different, as if he had gained a renewed understanding of many things after such an ordeal.
When they mentioned Koboto Kobayashi, Li Yifei nodded with a smile and said, "You can tell him you’ve found me, and also tell him that if he can’t handle Motoharu, I’ll help him."
Meng Xiaofei nodded, took out her phone, made a call, said a few words, and then hung up.
With the meal ready, considering Li Yifei hadn’t eaten for days, Aoki Reiko had only prepared some light porridge. Meng Xiaofei held the bowl and fed Li Yifei spoonful by spoonful, while Aoki Reiko watched enviously from the side. She too wished she could do these things for him, but unfortunately, since then, she had never seen him again.
Li Yifei didn’t eat much, he didn’t even feel full, but Meng Xiaofei wouldn’t allow him to eat any more. Li Yifei immediately pouted, and Meng Xiaofei hugged his neck, coquettishly saying, "Brother Li, eat more at the next meal, okay? Your body is just recovering, eating too much now would upset your stomach. Be good, we’ll eat more tonight."
With enticing fragrance and a soft body snuggling in his arms, how could Li Yifei refuse? He had no choice but to nod and say, "Alright, then I won’t eat anymore, but tonight let me eat my fill. It’s unpleasant not to feel full when eating."
Meng Xiaofei nodded repeatedly, agreeing with "mm" sounds.
Soon, Aoki Ryota returned home, and when he saw Li Yifei, he was overjoyed, pulling Li Yifei’s arm and checking him up and down, insisting on calling a doctor to the house to examine Li Yifei.
Li Yifei shook his head and said, "No need, really no need, President Aoki, I know my own body, I’m already fine, maybe just a day or two more and I’ll be fully recovered."
Aoki Ryota laughed heartily, "Yifei, you’re truly a miracle, a magical man!"
Li Yifei chuckled as well and said, "Indeed, I was pretty lucky. But if it weren’t for the rain and dirt covering me, you all might have found me long ago, instead of almost leaving me for dead in the wild."
At the mention of leaving Li Yifei for dead in the wild, Meng Xiaofei couldn’t help but pout. During those days of searching, people had unknowingly passed by the place where Li Yifei was buried countless times, probably even stepping on his head unknowingly over and over again. There were so many times they passed by and missed.
Who would have thought Li Yifei had been buried? Koboto Kobayashi even covered the entire area in his search without finding Li Yifei, and the police stations in various places had no reports of unidentified bodies, as if he had truly evaporated into thin air.
Li Yifei chatted with Aoki Ryota for a while, simply explaining the reason he survived being buried underground.
Aoki Ryota listened with wide eyes and an open mouth, repeatedly expressing amazement.
Two hours later, Koboto Kobayashi ran in hastily. Upon seeing Li Yifei, Koboto Kobayashi immediately fell to his knees.
After all, Li Yifei had defeated and even killed Yanagio Inujiro, a man who defeated the Martial God. How could Koboto Kobayashi not bow? He would not only bow but likely never harbor any doubts in the future.