Chapter 29: Romance in the Cave

When Lin Lei woke up again, he found that it was pitch black all around and he could not see anything. Moreover, the temperature was very low. If he had not been holding a warm object glowing with red light in his arms, he would have almost shivered from the cold.

Hmm, a warm object. What was giving off such strong infrared radiation? Lin Lei moved his body and touched it with his hand. It felt smooth, warm, and had soft curves with rises and falls.

…This was a human body! Judging by the soft touch, it should be a woman. Fuweili. A name jumped into his mind, causing Lin Lei to sigh in his heart.

Did she not know that being so close to him was very dangerous? She was not even wearing that darn Combat Suit. This was truly life-threatening; it was taking Lin Lei’s life. Lin Lei felt his nose was very swollen and had the urge to spurt blood.

“Lei! You’re awake! How do you feel?” Fuweili, who was in a daze, felt something touching her body and instantly woke up.

She raised her head and felt a hot breath blowing on her face. Lin Lei, who had been in a coma for nearly ten days, obviously showed signs of life. Didn’t she see his hands still moving around?

The System had already repaired the external injuries on Lin Lei’s body. The reason he was unconscious for so long was entirely due to a series of fundamental internal damages caused by this battle.

This had taken the System nearly ten Blue Rain Star days to fully repair. Among this, the large amount of Epic Beast blood Fuweili fed him was of especially great help to Lin Lei.

The high energy and rich nutrients contained in the beast blood were the foundation for Lin Lei’s body to repair itself.

So Lin Lei was very healthy now. After hearing the extreme joy in Fuweili’s tone, he forcefully suppressed the desire in his heart and sent a message to Fuweili’s mind with a strange, strained tone: “I am very well, completely recovered. Thank you, Fuweili. But, where did your clothes go?”

Of course, throughout the process, Lin Lei’s hands never stopped moving. The feeling of warmth and smoothness was simply too wonderful; he did not want to stop at all.

“Ah!” She let out a soft cry. Obviously, Lin Lei’s hand had touched a sensitive part of her body.

Fuweili felt like her whole body was burning up, and the tips of her ears were trembling. She quickly scrambled up with her hands and feet and fled far away.

When she returned, that non-reflective tight Combat Suit was already back on her body. This made Lin Lei, who possessed infrared vision, feel a wave of disappointment, but also inexplicably relieved.

If this continued, he would certainly be capable of doing anything. However, he really did not want to hurt this slightly dazed little woman.

Let things take their course. However, this really made his little brother suffer.

Fuweili’s face was red as fire, but the darkness perfectly concealed this point, or at least that was what she thought. This made her feeling of shyness fade quite a bit.

She scolded coquettishly: “Lei, why are you so rude! If I hadn’t seen you shivering all over from the cold, I wouldn’t have bothered with you.” Although it was a scolding, her voice was soft and tender, sounding more like a lover acting spoiled.

Lin Lei sat up, lowering his head to avoid looking at Fuweili. In his infrared vision, whether Fuweili was wearing the tight Combat Suit or not, her outline looked about the same; it was just a difference in the amount of infrared radiation she emitted.

“Alright, I apologize. You know, this was just an instinctive physiological reaction from me just waking up.” Lin Lei felt he was truly a gentleman; even Liu Xiahui could not compare to him.

One had to know this was not the civilized world. This was a primitive wild planet. There were no real-world morals, laws, or public opinion to constrain individual behavior. Even if he had his way with Fuweili right here, no one would jump out to accuse him.

Since Lin Lei took the initiative to apologize, Fuweili did not want to dwell on this issue either. Just now, she herself had also been momentarily lost in passion. Being able to retreat at the critical moment was just a woman’s instinct for modesty.

“Then alright, I forgive you this time. You have been in a coma for ten days. Your external injuries were completely healed on the third day, but you just wouldn’t wake up. No matter how I called you, it was useless. You really scared me to death.” At the end, Fuweili patted her towering chest, looking like she was still in shock.

Clearly, in just this short while, she had already started to forget what just happened. What a thick-skinned woman. Lin Lei curled his lip.

He felt his current body. Hmm, very strong and power ful, even better than before his injury. He looked at his body stats.

Host Lin Lei (Supreme Earth Warrior)

Height: 1.85 meters

Weight: 93.5 kg

Physical Energy Level: 15.8 Standard Energy Level

Maximum Burst Attack Energy Level: 4.7 Standard Energy Level

Level 3 Strengthening Reserve Progress: 1%

Level 3 Strengthening Permission: 0/100.

Why had three of these stats increased so much? The Physical Energy Level and Attack Energy Level had increased by more than 50%, and the Level 3 Strengthening Reserve had actually reached 1%. Was this the so-called “destruction before construction”?

No, something else must have happened in between. He raised his head and asked: “Fuweili, can you tell me in detail what happened after I lost consciousness? This is very important to me.”

“Okay, I’m also very curious about your external injuries healing so quickly. You don’t know how scary your injuries were at that time; your whole body was almost torn apart.” Fuweili sat carefully beside Lin Lei and began to recount what happened that day, one by one.

It turned out that after Fuweili was doused with excrement by Lin Lei that day, and was sitting beside him feeling angry, suddenly a black shadow flashed into her field of vision.

She was startled at the time, but when she looked carefully, she found it was the beast that had been following Lin Lei. This guy was easy to recognize; just by looking at its eyes, one could tell. Its eyes were more spirited than most beasts. When it looked at people, there was no brutality, but rather a warm, crystal-like look, revealing a sense of goodwill. The wildness in it was very weak.

This made Fuweili very happy. She smiled and greeted it, even sending brainwave messages to it.

Very strangely, Xun, this beast, seemed to understand Fuweili’s words. Following Fuweili’s instructions, it obediently carried Lin Lei on its back. The two humans and one beast returned safely to the cave.

Upon reaching the cave, Fuweili discovered an even more amazing thing. The original owners of the cave, the three young beasts, were also inside, but they were all dead.

The three young beasts had died in exactly the same way. Apart from bleeding from their mouths and noses, there were no other wounds on their bodies. Presumably, they were shaken to death by the Epic Beast’s earth-shattering roar.

Well, Fuweili didn’t have to worry about food now. She had Meng drag one away, and the other two served as food for the past ten days.

However, processing the carcasses of these young beasts took Fuweili a long time. Even starting a fire was achieved only through her unremitting efforts plus luck.

Apart from eating herself, she kept boiling meat soup until the meat inside was like mush, and then fed it to Lin Lei. Ten days passed, and she had completely fed him a whole young beast nearly three meters long and weighing over 150 kilograms.

The majority of it went into Lin Lei’s stomach. Lin Lei’s eating, drinking, and waste elimination over these ten days were all taken care of by Fuweili. Fortunately, there was a living spring in the cave, and Fuweili often helped him clean his body; otherwise, Lin Lei would have really started to stink.

Fuweili finished speaking, and Lin Lei roughly knew the reason for his increased strength. It must have been the result of drinking a large amount of Epic Beast blood.

The Physical Energy Level of this Epic Beast, that is, its vitality, was as high as 180 Standard Energy Levels. Its blood naturally contained extremely high energy. Fuweili doing that at the time could be considered a lucky fluke.

He looked at Fuweili’s slightly haggard, beautiful face, his heart filled with gratitude. If not for this alien woman, he would probably have been a corpse in the wilderness by now. How could he have turned misfortune into a blessing?

Lin Lei pulled the woman beside him into his arms, conveying a message in his mind: “You are so good to me! Wei. Except for my mother, you treat me the best!”

Lin Lei’s impression of his mother stopped when he was nine years old. He only remembered that she was very gentle and very beautiful. After his parents passed away in a car accident, no one else could truly care for him, nor care for him tirelessly without avoiding dirty or tiring work.

In the orphanage, what he feared most was falling ill. Because at that time, it wasn’t the fear of injections, but that he couldn’t even see his playmates. There was often no one around him. That was true loneliness.

His optimism was just a disguise; loneliness was his reality.

Being hugged by Lin Lei almost domineeringly, Fuweili instinctively resisted, but Lin Lei’s words made her body go soft. A man could place her in the same position as his mother, which was enough to show her importance in his heart.

Fuweili’s heart trembled a little. In this instant, she felt she saw Lin Lei, the vulnerability in the heart of this powerful man. She felt she had walked into Lin Lei’s inner world.

He was lonely, yet he only ever showed his confidence and strength in front of outsiders.

He was human, not a god! Then let me soothe his loneliness in the future, and leave his power and dominance to irrelevant people. Fuweili thought so, and prepared to do so.

She hugged him back, her hand gently stroking Lin Lei’s back.

However, as the saying goes, weakness shown by a man in front of a woman is just crocodile tears. It is just a brief emotional outburst, after which his true nature will be revealed.

“Lin Lei, you rude bastard!” Fuweili’s angry shout came from inside the cave.

“This is just a normal physiological reaction; how can I control it?” This was Lin Lei’s powerless defense.

“Is your hand also? Don’t tell me your hand’s control nerves are connected to your lower body!”

“…”

Finally, the cave somewhere on Blue Rain Star quieted down, leaving only a certain beast at the cave entrance, curiously peeking into the depths of the cave.