The wicked female is extremely fierce, but she's pampered by her seven beast husbands.

Chapter 175 Severe Injury and Amputation
Ling Chengen carried the severely injured and unconscious Silver-tailed Merman, used the tree branch for leverage, and landed lightly. He slightly raised his left hand and gave a perfunctory greeting to Yu Heng, who was standing on the head of the Knife-Bone Orange Serpent.

Upon seeing this, Yuheng couldn't help but chuckle: "Is this all the attitude you've got?"

Ling Chengen said unhappily, "Otherwise what? I'll kowtow to you."

Yu Heng raised his eyebrows and smiled, "It's not impossible."

"roll--"

Ling Chengen rolled his eyes at him, put Shi Panxing on the ground, and frowned, saying, "Come here quickly, he's burning up, he looks like he's about to die."

Yu Heng leaped down from Lin Quan's head and landed beside Ling Chengen. He raised his hand to brush away the unfamiliar male scent clinging to her body, glanced down at the half-dead sea creature merman, and couldn't help but click his tongue and sigh.

"I suspect you picked up guys based on their looks. Ordinary people might not encounter one of these top-tier male beauties even after many years, but you... picked up two right off the bat."

Yu Heng raised his eyes and glanced indifferently at Shi Ruoan, who was following closely behind not far away, his tone strange.

Are these two your alternatives?

Ling Chengen thought he was a lunatic, so he raised his left foot and kicked him in the shin, gritting his teeth and saying, "Do you think I'm a pervert? You pounce on every decent-looking male you see?"

"If you keep talking nonsense, I think we don't need to have our marriage ceremony. We can just maintain our cooperative relationship and clear my name."

Yuheng immediately shut his mouth, squatted down, and stopped mentioning the matter.

Just kidding. He finally managed to coax someone into being his partner. If he manages to ruin it with just a few words from him, he'll regret it so much that he'll sit up in his coffin in the middle of the night and slap himself twice.

Putting aside his usual carefree and unreliable attitude, Yuheng's professional abilities are beyond question.

The moment his hand touched Shi Panxing's body, the smile on his face vanished instantly.

As his supernatural abilities penetrated deeper and deeper, the wrinkles between his brows deepened.

Ling Chengen stood to the side, and the word "not optimistic" was written all over his face.

"Can it be saved?"

She looked up at Shi Ruoan, who was staring at her nervously, and asked directly.

Yuheng withdrew his left hand, rested his arm on his knee, and looked down at the injury on the long fishtail, remaining silent for a long time...

"He's more seriously injured than I expected. He must have been injured for a long time, right?"

Yu Heng turned to look at Shi Ruoan not far away and pointed to the wound on Shi Panxing's fish tail.

Shi Ruoan pursed her lips tightly and finally nodded heavily: "He has been taken to Huangyan Beast City for three months. I only confirmed that he was in Huangyan Beast City in the last half month. I went into the Beast City many times to find out where those people were holding him. I finally rescued him last night."

“These injuries were there when I first met him.”

"I'm not sure how long he's been injured."

However, judging from the extent of the wound's decay, the injury must have occurred more than a month ago.

Looking at Shi Ruoan's pale face and Ling Chengen who was quietly waiting for an answer, Yu Heng lowered his eyes and said with some reluctance, "The person can be saved."

"But his tail... might not be saved."

A mermaid who has lost her fish tail is no different from a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out and whose claws have been cut off.

The tail is extremely important to merfolk. Without it, this merfolk cannot even swim in the water, and cannot escape danger.

Moreover, according to Shi Ruoan, this person is a member of the royal family of the North Sea.

As soon as Yu Heng finished speaking, Shi Ruoan looked up instantly, staring at him in shock, then looked helplessly at the unconscious Shi Panxing.

Bai Qingyu was also startled. She silently sat up from the ground and turned to look at the fish tail with its hideous injuries.

Ling Chengen raised his hand to his lips and gently bit the tip of his thumb, unsure of what to say for a moment.

She thought that with Yuheng's abilities, saving this person shouldn't be too difficult.

But the result was contrary to expectations.

However, she knew very well that Yuheng was not to blame for this.

What could a doctor have done wrong? Yuheng was just telling the truth.

She was just a little worried that Shi Ruoan and Shi Panxing wouldn't be able to accept the result and would feel anger and malice towards Yu Heng.

If Shi Ruoan is truly repaying kindness with enmity, given the strength of this sea tribe high priest, dealing with him will likely be very difficult for them.

These two sea creatures had no connection to her; she had only brought them along as a matter of convenience.

If we can use this life-saving grace to gain future benefits, that would be ideal.

But if we can't save them, that's okay.

On the contrary, Yuheng and she were partners.

The life or death of a stranger is far less important than the well-being of a loved one.

Ling Chengen, wary of Shi Ruoan, reached out and pulled Yu Heng, who was squatting on the ground, up: "Let them decide for themselves. This place is not suitable for accommodating the wounded. Let's take them to the cave to rest first."

Yuheng looked at the wrist she was holding, smiled subtly at her, and whispered, "Don't be nervous, that person can't beat me."

"Are you sure?" Ling Chengen asked softly.

Yuheng glanced at the heavily injured merman at his feet: "Compared to the one standing, the merman in front of you is actually more dangerous. You shouldn't underestimate this heavily injured merman. If you really have to compare the two, his lethality is much greater."

Ling Chengen leaned back slightly, saying incredulously, "How is this possible?"

"He looks..."

"And I didn't sense any fluctuations in his supernatural abilities either."

Yu Heng pointed to the two blood-stained black chains on Shi Panxing's collarbone: "These chains on his body, and the thing in his heart meridian, have completely imprisoned his supernatural abilities, just like the special stone cone with special properties that was inserted into my heart meridian before."

"Don't you think his injuries look familiar?" Yuheng asked in return.

Ling Chengen touched behind his ear, thought carefully for a moment, and frowned, saying, "It looks somewhat like the first time I saw you. However, because of your wood-type abilities, your injuries don't look as terrifying as his."

Yuheng nodded, confirming her statement.

He was also impaled by chains through his collarbone and several other vital parts of his body. Even though he had completely lost his powers and mobility, he was imprisoned in a sunless cave by those people with stone rings, barely surviving on the water dripping from the cracks in the rocks.

Ling Chengen squatted down and observed Shi Panxing's chest for a while before looking up and asking, "Although he has many injuries on his upper body, they haven't penetrated deep into his heart, and I haven't found the kind of stone cone you mentioned."

Yuheng squatted down and lifted Shi Panxing's body to one side so that she could see Shi Panxing's back.

"I was hit by a stone spike, which went in through my chest."

"His was from the back of the heart, and the shape of the stone cone was very special, making it much more difficult to get stuck than mine."

Yu Heng beckoned to Bai Qingyu: "Come and lend a hand."

Bai Qingyu frowned, but still got up and walked to the two of them: "What are you doing?"

"Wash his wounds with water and clean them thoroughly," Yuheng said.

Bai Qingyu raised her finger and hesitated, "Won't tormenting him like this make the situation worse?"

"This wound needs to be washed sooner or later. If it stays this dirty, it might kill the merman even faster," Yu Heng scoffed. Besides, in this heat, the filth on the wound will breed many diseases, which will only hasten the merman's death.

Seeing that he said that, Bai Qingyu did not hesitate any longer and directly used a lot of water to rinse Shi Panxing's body.

As the water carried away the filth, the blood-stained, black-covered mermaid finally revealed its true form.

Yu Heng turned Shi Panxing over so that he was face down and lying on the ground.

A slender, clean fingertip slowly sprouted a tender green thread, which directly probed into the broken wound on Shi Panxing's back. With swift movements, it parted the rotting flesh, allowing Ling Chengen to see the deep blue stone cone head covered by the swollen, decaying flesh.

Shi Ruo'an appeared behind the three of them at some point, her eyes fixed on the dark blue cone tip. Her Adam's apple bobbed twice, and she asked with difficulty, "What is that?"

“A stone that can seal supernatural abilities.” Yu Heng retracted the slender vines and sighed softly. “What kind of supernatural ability does he have?”

Shi Ruoan lowered her eyes and pondered for a long time before frowning and saying, "I'm not very clear about it, but it's not the usual metal, wood, water, fire, or earth element. I only know that it's quite rare."

"Haven't you seen him use his superpowers?" Ling Chengen felt this was a bit far-fetched. These two had obviously known each other for a long time, so it was impossible that they didn't know each other's abilities, right?

Shi Ruoan glanced at Ling Chengen, but wasn't angry at her question. She patiently explained, "I've never seen Pan Xing's ability before, so I can't be sure what it is. He only awakened it when he was seventeen, and his ability was very weak before that..."

"I haven't seen him use it much, but it's somewhat similar to my talent."

Ling Chengen's eyes lit up instantly: "Your innate ability, teleportation?"

"More or less." Shi Ruoan thought for a moment and felt there was no need to hide her talent from these people, so she explained in great detail, "Instead of teleportation, a more accurate description would be shortening the time of movement, and the distance is limited, it cannot pass through objects."

"Like this tree in front of me, I can't pass through it; I can only glide over it from above where there are no obstructions..."

"But climbing stars is possible."

"He can ignore any obstacles and move from one place to another. He also has his own space, not the kind of space container that is forged by earth-type ability users. The space of Climbing Star has no physical carrier. As long as he is alive, that space exists, and as his ability level increases, the space is constantly expanding."

"This is the first time such a unique ability has appeared among our sea race, so we cannot give an accurate judgment or location."

Hearing this description, Ling Chengen had already guessed what was going on.

"This is a space-based system!"

Like her mental abilities, it belongs to the rare category of superpowers.

She originally thought that the superpower system in the beast world was quite different from that in the apocalypse.

She is probably the only one with such a unique ability as the mentalist.

I encountered a wind-type creature during the Beast Tide before, and I thought it was just a coincidence.

Moreover, inferior beasts and normal beastmen are different and cannot be generalized.

But now a space-type merman has appeared, which means that rare superpowers also exist in the beast world, only they are much rarer.

In a post-apocalyptic world, the probability of a spatial ability appearing is approximately one in 100,000.

The probability of awakening a mental ability is one in 300,000.

The five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth) have a higher awakening probability, approximately one in thirty.

In addition to these seven superpowers, there are also abilities derived from and mutated from the five basic superpowers.

For example, the wind element belongs to the mutated wood element.

Lightning type, belonging to the mutated fire type.

Ice type, belonging to the mutated water type.

The mutated abilities derived from the five basic elemental abilities, like the mental and spatial abilities, are all rare abilities with a very low probability of awakening.

However, it is said that if the basic five elemental abilities can be cultivated to the top level, they are actually the same as rare abilities.

For example, fire-type ability users, once they reach the top level of strength, can possess lightning abilities.

Moreover, compared to rare superpowers, the basic five-element superpowers upgrade faster because the awakening probability is higher. Therefore, during the upgrade process, you can refer to the experience of predecessors and avoid many detours.

Rare abilities upgrade slowly, and most are relatively weak in the early stages, making them prone to dying halfway through.

Looking at the space-elemental merman before him, Ling Chengen couldn't help but feel a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a complex feeling of mixed emotions, including admiration and reflection).

Space-based abilities are actually quite powerful. They can be used not only for escaping and hoarding goods, but also for killing people silently when it comes to actual combat.

Even when she encountered space-type ability users during the apocalypse, she had to be cautious and generally tried to avoid conflict with them.

It's truly remarkable that a spatial ability user has fallen to the point of needing amputation.

She was now genuinely curious about how this seemingly harmless, unlucky fellow had fallen from the royal family of the seas to this state.

Perhaps it was because her gaze was too intense, Yu Heng couldn't help but raise his hand to cover her eyelids, and turned to look at Shi Ruoan behind him: "He is currently unconscious, and this injury cannot be delayed for too long. Whether to save him or not, you make the decision."

"If you don't trust my judgment, you can take him to another witch doctor."

Yu Heng wasn't really keen on taking on this job. If these two hadn't been brought back by Ling Chengen, he wouldn't have given them a second glance when he passed by.

After all, saving these two people came at a great cost and took a lot of effort.

Judging from their miserable state, they wouldn't have any good medicine to pay for the treatment anytime soon, so saving them would be a losing proposition.

In the past, he might not have cared about the consultation fee.

But it's different now.

He has a partner who is almost an adult to support, and who knows, they might have kids in the future.

If we continue like before, letting people buy on credit everywhere...

As time went by, he forgot about it again.

Forget about raising female offspring; you might end up living off your own female offspring in the future.

Although he wouldn't mind being a kept man, given Ling Chengen's personality...

Hmm, I have a feeling that getting a free meal from a woman won't be too easy.

Forget it, I'll just have to work hard myself for the next few years.

We can't just hang on like we used to, half-dead and ready to go at any time.

Yu Heng sighed with some worry, took Ling Chengen's hand, and prepared to take her back to the cave.

Before he could even take a step, he looked up and saw a large man blocking his way.

Those dark, sorrowful eyes, with a hint of deep purple, had thin eyelids that were lowered. His gaze flickered for a moment, lingering for a few seconds on the hands he was clasping with Ling Chengen's.

On that young and beautiful face, only a hint of grievance appeared, before she put on a feigned calm.

Even though they didn't say a word, it felt like they said everything.

Seeing Bai Qingyu's behavior, Yu Heng gritted his teeth and instinctively tightened his grip on Ling Chengen's hand.

He couldn't help but curse inwardly!
Damn, I've met my match!