Chapter 72: Matching a Saint

Lin Lei was extremely anxious. He had returned to the Star Alliance base for over two hours, and nearly three hours had passed since Yan Siyu had been cursed!

As soon as he returned, he contacted Yuan Shanxing and reported everything that had happened in Roland City. Yuan Shanxing immediately contacted the medical team of the Star Alliance to perform a full-body scan and diagnosis on Lin Lei and Yan Siyu, both of whom were cursed!

The high efficiency and the attitude of importance gave Lin Lei a bad premonition.

Lin Lei had now finished his examination, but Yan Siyu was still in a coma. The medical staff of the Star Alliance seemed helpless in this situation; at least Lin Lei had not seen them take any positive or effective measures.

Yuan Shanxing walked over. His originally simple and transcendent aura now revealed signs of exhaustion. Seeing Lin Lei’s worried gaze, he smiled helplessly and said, “To be honest, you two are the first people in the history of the Star Alliance to be cursed and yet safely return to the base.”

Lin Lei didn’t have time for that. He was most concerned about Yan Siyu’s physical condition. “Yuan Shanxing, what exactly is Yan Siyu’s condition? Give me a definite answer!”

“The situation is very bad. She doesn’t have such a strong physique as yours, and the duration of the Curse’s direct destructive attack was much longer than yours. Through atomic-level scanning instruments, we observed that the atomic arrangement inside her body is extremely chaotic, nearing collapse!”

“What did you say? Isn’t there any way to treat it? I know she suffered dimensional attacks of the First, Second, and Fourth Energy Dimensions, so why can’t we treat the symptoms?” Lin Lei became anxious. At first, he had thought Yan Siyu had just fallen into a slumber because she had consumed too much energy. He never expected the situation to be so much worse than he imagined.

Once the atomic arrangement collapsed, even gods couldn’t save her. It was exactly as the System had said: the shattering of the spiritual imprint. Yan Siyu as a living being would cease to exist in the Universe!

Yuan Shanxing’s tone revealed a sense of power lessness. “For other objects, we can forcefully expel these entangled Dimensions. However, the body of a wise life form is too precise. We are helpless. This is a limitation of technology!”

“So, you mean there’s no hope for her?” Lin Lei asked blankly.

“For now, we are powerless. You should care more about yourself. In fact, your body also has the same Curse! I don’t know what method you used to suppress it, but these things should be time-limited. According to our observation and speculation, the suppression effect inside Yan Siyu’s body will last at most two hours. Stay with her for now. Our medical staff are striving to find a cure. Everything will be fine.”

After Yuan Shanxing finished speaking, he patted Lin Lei on the shoulder, stood up, and left.

At this moment, Xiao Boru, Li Yi, and Li Dasong, who had already been brought to the interior of the Star Alliance base, surrounded Lin Lei.

“Leizi, how are you feeling? Leizi… Leizi?” Li Yi called out a few times, but Lin Lei didn’t respond. He just stared blankly at the floor, not knowing what he was thinking.

Li Dasong pulled Li Yi’s arm and said, “Don’t bother him. Let him have some peace alone.”

Xiao Boru, on the other hand, had fallen back into his confused state. He was muttering to himself and gesturing with his hands in the Void. He must have sunk back into his kingdom of physics.

At this moment, Lin Lei was having an intense discussion with the System in his mind.

“System, if I want to expel a person’s Curse from the outside, what price do I need to pay?” He owed Yan Siyu a huge favor. Moreover, Lin Lei knew Yan Siyu’s feelings for him. Emotionally and rationally, he could not let Yan Siyu die!

“Expulsion is impossible. The entanglement of the Energy Dimension becomes tighter with the attacked person as time passes. It can only be suppressed. The consumption for suppression is one Enhancement Point per hour, and it will completely lose its effect after twenty-four hours!”

“So, you mean Yan Siyu can live at most for twenty-four hours? What about me? What’s my situation?”

“The attack received by the Host was intercepted by the System at the first moment. As long as there is body energy, it can be suppressed indefinitely. To completely expel it, ten Enhancement Authorities and 5% of the Enhancement Reserve must be paid.”

Lin Lei fell silent. Since his own Curse could be suppressed indefinitely, there was no rush to expel it. But for Yan Siyu’s, if there was no other way, death awaited her.

This was the last thing Lin Lei wanted to see. Not only would he not be able to forgive himself, but when he returned to the Galaxy in the future, he would find it hard to explain to Yan Qingming, who doted on his sister so much.

Lin Lei walked into Yan Siyu’s hospital room and looked at her pale face. The smiles that used to be there were gone. Her willfulness, playfulness, joy, and excitement were gone. Only haggardness remained.

She was like a beautiful flower carved from ice, slowly and irresistibly wilting and melting.

The Curse was slowly breaking free from the System’s suppression, just like a venomous snake lurking in Yan Siyu’s body, beginning to reveal its fangs again.

Yan Siyu’s brows slowly tightened. Lin Lei watched expressionlessly, waiting for the five hours to expire so he could have the System re-suppress the out-of-control Curse inside her body.

He had already made up his mind. Since she couldn’t be cured, letting Yan Siyu live for another twenty-four hours was good. Perhaps hope would appear. As for those twenty-four Enhancement Points, Lin Lei could only offer a bitter smile.

He would consider it as owing her. If necessary, he would fight a few more battles in the future. The Enhancement Authority would return. Saving people was the priority.

The door to the hospital room was suddenly pushed open hastily, and a short figure ran in.

Lin Lei frowned and looked back. It was Xiao Boru, who had turned into a little boy.

“Old Xiao, do you have something to ask?” Although Lin Lei was very irritated inside, he still forced himself to suppress it, trying to make his tone sound calm.

Xiao Boru didn’t answer, nor did he look at Lin Lei’s expression. In fact, he didn’t even have this concept. He just ran to the monitoring instrument next to Yan Siyu and began to seriously look at the data on it.

He looked very seriously. His brows alternately tightened and relaxed. After looking for a while, he ran out of the hospital room with thumping footsteps. No one knew where he went.

Lin Lei was stirred by a shred of hope by Xiao Boru’s strange behavior. Right! Old Xiao’s intelligence level was as high as Level 12, higher than Yuan Shanxing’s, and he was on the same level as that Saint Anthony. Perhaps he had a way.

Thinking of this, Lin Lei couldn’t restrain his suddenly excited mood. He hurriedly stood up and chased after him.

With his speed, it was easy for him to catch up with Xiao Boru’s short legs. Lin Lei grabbed his hand and urgently asked, “Old Xiao, do you have a solution?”

Lin Lei looked at Xiao Boru eagerly, waiting for his answer. It felt like waiting for a judge’s verdict, a sense of the final moment.

Xiao Boru rubbed his forehead with his small hand. After thinking seriously for a while, he answered in a firm tone, “I have found a way to suppress the dimensional entanglement attack you mentioned. I need to return to the spaceship now to calculate the specific suppression time limit.”

“About how long?” Lin Lei was overjoyed and inadvertently applied a little force in his hand.

But Xiao Boru didn’t feel any pain in his arm. He said seriously, “Preliminary estimates suggest it can suppress for 10 days.”

Ten days! Better than the System. Lin Lei didn’t say anything else. He directly put Xiao Boru on his back. He didn’t take him back to the spaceship but went directly to find Yuan Shanxing. He wanted Yuan Shanxing’s medical team to cooperate with Xiao Boru’s actions.

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“What did you say? Letting us all obey the command of this little boy. Isn’t that a bit absurd?” Yuan Shanxing looked at Lin Lei with a difficult expression. He simply didn’t believe what he was saying.

But at this time, Xiao Boru, who had remained silent, spoke up: “I think you are going in the wrong direction. This kind of dimensional entanglement attack cannot be treated relying solely on pure physical means.”

“Oh, little guy, then tell us, how should it be treated?” Yuan Shanxing was not a dictator. Seeing that this little boy had clear eyes and clear words, appearing quite mature, he put aside his scorn and prepared to listen to his opinion.

Being called “little guy,” Xiao Boru didn’t mind. He didn’t care about these things at all. He broke free from Lin Lei’s back and began to speak at length: “Actually, as soon as I arrived in the Andromeda Galaxy, I found that the fine structure constant here was different from that of the Galaxy, slightly smaller. Then I started to calculate the impact of this change in the basic constant.”

“Oh, I think these impacts have already been displayed before us. That is, the wise life forms in Andromeda have powerful strength, but their technology is very backward.” Yuan Shanxing interjected.

“No, these are only superficial. There are deeper changes. In the Andromeda Galaxy, apart from the Four Space-time Dimensions, the other seven Energy Dimensions are relatively shallow and easier for wise beings to understand directly, rather than relying on instruments. For example, this ‘Curse’ is an attack where the Will of a wise being entangles the Energy Dimension. Simply expelling the Energy Dimension is useless because that Will is still there. It will still entangle the ubiquitous Energy Dimension strings!”

“Will, doesn’t it exist relying on matter? Since the attack has already left the body, where does the Will come from?”

Xiao Boru glanced at Yuan Shanxing and said, “Since the seven Energy Dimensions can be used to construct Subspace to contain matter, why can’t they be used to contain Will?”

“Okay, then what do you plan to do… Mr. Xiao!” Yuan Shanxing was persuaded by Xiao Boru and changed to a respectful title.

“To deal with the Will, which is the most ethereal yet truly existing thing in the Universe, only Will itself can do it! We need a person with incredibly powerful Will to suppress the Will of the person who cast the attack. Then those unconscious Energy Dimensions will be nothing to worry about.”

“Who can have such powerful Will? As far as I know, in the Andromeda Galaxy, the people who can cast the Curse are collectively called Saints! They all possess nearly heaven-destroying and earth-shattering power. The stronger the Will, the greater the power. I don’t believe there is anyone within the Star Alliance who can compete with them in terms of Will.”

Xiao Boru grabbed Lin Lei’s hand and said, “I have to say, your thinking is a bit rigid. This person is standing right in front of you, yet you turn a blind eye. Since Lin Lei could escape from that person named Saint Anthony and at the same time suppress the Curse, it proves that his Will is enough to match a Saint!”