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Chapter 256 is not yet extinguished
Blood oranges are a type of wound medicine that I always carry with me.

Chen Xuan took out two pills, crushed them, and applied them to her gunshot wound. However, the white frost did not appear as usual, and the wound showed no signs of healing.

“Blood oranges can only accelerate recovery; they cannot bring someone back to life,” Liu Shuyue said, frowning as she walked over. “If the body itself loses its self-healing ability, then pills will hardly be effective.”

"Do you have a better medicine?" Chen Xuan asked her.

The latter shook his head regretfully, "Legend has it that the Lotus Cloud Sect's treasury contains elixirs that can almost revive bones and reverse yin and yang, but no disciple has ever actually seen them. As for alchemy... that's not something I'm good at."

Back in the first transaction, she gave Chen Xuan alchemy as a bonus.

The fact that it's white and LV2 indicates that she hasn't really studied this skill in depth.

Even if Liu Shuyue were to relearn alchemy now, her skill level would probably be the same as before the transaction.

"Do you think she's still alive?" Lin Qing asked, somewhat incredulously.

“Well… because her name is still recorded in the store.” Chen Xuan said truthfully, “Gildre used to be a customer of this store, but now his record has disappeared.”

"I see." Lin Qing immediately believed him. "Then... should we start emergency treatment?"

She spoke with some hesitation, after all, while she believed it, there was no relevant record in her extensive first aid knowledge base—how to save a life when the injured person had no vital signs.

This reminded Chen Xuan, and he immediately took out his phone and dialed the number of Sun Suigong, the dean of the Northern Heaven Academy.

"Hello, is this Dean Sun? I need your help!"

The person on the other end paused for a moment before speaking, "Good lad, I thought you came to pay a New Year's visit, but it turns out you only remembered me when you ran into trouble? Never mind... You sound very anxious, so tell me, what do you need my help with?"

Chen Xuan recounted the situation, omitting the beginning and end.

After simplification, it becomes three points: multiple gunshot wounds, looks like he's dead but isn't, and is there any way to save him?

After listening, Sun Suigong was also somewhat dumbfounded. "Wow... I should have thought of that earlier. A situation that leaves young friend Chen helpless is definitely not a small matter. First of all, I won't ask how the gunshot wound came about, but no matter how advanced the medical skills of Beitian Academy are, they can't bring the dead back to life. So I can only treat him as someone who is dying but not quite dead. It just so happens that we recently collaborated with Dingsheng to develop a new type of treatment equipment. Why don't you bring the injured person over?"

Dingsheng? Is it the Dingsheng Pharmaceutical Company owned by the Gu family?

"Okay, I'll be right there." Chen Xuan had no other choice but to try anything now.

Taking a taxi would be too slow, so he had Liu Shuyue carry Elori and fly over using invisibility and wind-riding talismans, while he and Lin Qing would then take a taxi back.

Half an hour later, when he arrived at the treatment room at Beitianyuan, he found that Elori had been put into a huge glass jar.

The jar was filled with a pale yellow liquid, and bubbles kept rising from her body.

"You've arrived." Sun Suigong was chatting with Liu Shuyue when he saw Chen Xuan enter and waved to him. "Young friend, your friend here is very skilled."

"You flatter me," Liu Shuyue said modestly.

"Ah, I never speak politely."

Chen Xuan walked over and stared at the jar. "What kind of device is this?"

“It doesn’t have an official name yet, so we’ll call it the Sea of ​​Life for now,” Sun Suigong explained. “The nourishing fluid inside is a high-tech product. It can exchange oxygen with the alveoli when the body loses its ability to breathe on its own, and it can also simulate the most suitable growth environment for cells to promote the recovery of injured areas. Of course… its functions are not limited to this. The ultimate goal of the project is to make it a nurturing bed for life, where cells and embryos can grow successfully.”

"I didn't expect the Northern Heaven Academy to build this..." Chen Xuan was quite surprised.

"What, do you think I'm some kind of herbalist from the mountains who only knows how to refine elixirs and seek the Dao?" Sun Suigong scoffed. "Medical skills always evolve with the times. If you don't understand the most cutting-edge technology, then you're not worthy of being the successor of the Medicine Sect. In fact, you deserve some credit for making this thing possible."

Chen Xuan was puzzled, "My contribution?"

"The maintenance solution contains blood orange, which acts like a buffer, completely offsetting the side effects of some medications. Even the most delicate cells can survive in it for a long time."

So that's how it is. But he wasn't too concerned about the ingredients; he was more concerned about the guest's life or death. "And what about Airo... the person in the jar?"

“Her name is Elori, right? Miss Liu has already introduced her to me.” Sun Suigong walked to the glass jar with his hands behind his back. “I still maintain that the dead cannot be brought back to life. In my opinion, she is already dead. If you hadn’t made the request yourself, I would never have put a dead person into the Sea of ​​Life, because it would be meaningless.”

"But as long as she has a breath left, this treatment can keep her alive, am I right?"

“Not bad.” Sun Suigong sighed. “Even if the patient’s heart stops beating and there is no blood pressure, these fluids can replace blood and provide the necessary oxygen and nutrients to the patient’s organs. See those wires inserted into her body? They monitor nerve impulses, hormones, and any parameters that indicate life. It’s a pity…”

He said no more.

Chen Xuan knew what the other person meant by the second half of their sentence: all of Elori's parameters indicated that she was beyond saving.

"Let's leave it like this for now..."

Chen Xuan was also a little unsure. Could it be that there was a delay in deleting the customer records? Elori's accident happened in another world, so it seemed reasonable that the information in the ability shop would be updated a little slower.

“Alright.” Sun Suigong didn’t try to persuade him further. “The nourishing fluid is being replaced every second, and the amount of medicinal materials consumed each day is around three million. I won’t charge you, but the research progress can’t be delayed for too long. How about five days of treatment? If there’s no effect after five days, we’ll have to give up.”

Chen Xuan was about to nod.

However, at that moment, a doctor standing in front of the operating table suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

"Dean Sun! The DR5 electrode has just detected a brain signal!"

"What?" Sun Suigong was greatly surprised. "Not a jumble of waves?"

"No... another one! The brainwave image is in!"

His shocked shouts drew the attention of the other doctors, who gathered around him.

"impossible?"

"Can he really come back to life?"

"Everyone, move aside!" Dean Sun quickly pushed through the crowd and came to the control panel. Among the dozen or so monitors of varying sizes, one showed a noticeable change. Although it was a chaotic curve, it appeared much more dynamic than the other unchanging straight lines.

"What does this mean? Is it good news?" Chen Xuan asked.

“Dead people don’t have brainwaves, so from that perspective, it’s indeed good news. But…” Sun Suigong paused for a moment, then changed the subject, “but this waveform doesn’t look like the shape a conscious person should have. Even if it’s very faint, it should be complete. In my experience, this kind of brainwave doesn’t produce true consciousness. In other words… it’s the unconscious discharge of nerve tissue. We usually call such patients vegetative state patients.”

……

This soaking lasted for a whole week.

Chen Xuan would make time to visit Elori at Beitian Academy every day. Compared to seven days ago, the angel's condition had improved significantly. Not only were her nerves responding and her heart beginning to beat weakly, but her various wounds were also healing. Because he was worried that leaving the Life Sea device would cause the injured person's condition to deteriorate rapidly, Sun Suigong did not rush to perform surgery to remove the bullet remaining in her body, but continued to observe.

Just as the dean said, Elori's body was undergoing self-repair, but she never woke up. The fatal wound on her forehead went deep into the skull, leaving her brain incomplete, and this part of the tissue has no ability to repair itself—unlike skin, blood vessels, or organs such as the liver, it cannot regenerate as long as it has enough nutrition.

The healing solution cannot change the underlying logic of genes. It can promote healing, but it cannot give cells additional functions that they do not already have.

Chen Xuan has come to understand something these past few days.

Elori survived not because she was lucky.

The key lies in her abilities.

Chen Xuan had previously traded the undead to Elori, which is probably why she didn't die immediately. The undead can significantly reduce a person's need for essential survival elements, such as body temperature, oxygen, and blood pressure. When their body temperature is in the twenties and they can hold their breath underwater for thirty minutes, the undead behave no differently than a normal person.

What if we take it to an even more extreme level... such as when the temperature drops to ten degrees Celsius, the heart stops beating, the body suffers severe blood loss, and the oxygen supply is completely cut off?
Even the undead couldn't survive that long, but they could prolong the time they were on the verge of death. Coupled with the angels' already exceptional physical abilities, this turned Elori into a true undead after being severely injured: she appeared to be completely lifeless, but the flame of life was never truly extinguished.

(End of this chapter)