# Chapter 345: Please, I Beg You
Yun Yao felt her legs beginning to tremble wildly from overexertion. Although she had received more physical training than ordinary people, carrying a man on her back over such a long distance was still somewhat too much for her.
Xu Qian and Yan Zhichun followed her to the entrance of "Heaven's Gate."
Today's guards were Old Lyu and Little Glasses. The moment they spotted Yun Yao, they were taken aback. She was covered in blood, and on her back was a man drenched in red—judging by the amount of blood loss, he probably wouldn't survive.
"Yun Yao, what happened to you?" Old Lyu asked with some concern.
"I'm fine. It's not me who's injured—it's Chen Junnan." Yun Yao shouted urgently. "Go get a doctor, quickly! Prepare hemostatic supplies!"
Upon hearing this, Old Lyu immediately turned around and ran into the teaching building. The frail Little Glasses stepped forward to carefully examine Chen Junnan behind Yun Yao.
After a moment, he shook his head. This man's condition was far too dire.
"Yun Yao, there's no point in saving this man anymore." Little Glasses said regretfully. "Even if you manage to stop his bleeding, he won't be able to recover in the remaining time. It'll only prolong his suffering. You might as well let him go early."
Yun Yao's eyes turned cold upon hearing this. She spoke slowly, "How much pain he's in has nothing to do with me, but I absolutely cannot let this man die. He gambled to death the Earth Serpent. I want to use him to prove to everyone that it's possible to survive after killing an Earth Grade 'Zodiac'."
Little Glasses was momentarily stunned. He could clearly sense a strange stubbornness in Yun Yao.
"You say he gambled to death an 'Earth Grade'?"
"That's right. For all these years, what Chu Tianqiu couldn't lead us to achieve, he has accomplished." Yun Yao wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, then shook the head of the Earth Serpent in her hand. "You can tell what this is the head of, can't you?"
Little Glasses squinted to look. Naturally, he could recognize it as the head of an Earth Grade "Zodiac." But who exactly was this man named Chen Junnan?
How could he have done something like this?
Xu Qian looked up at the school, feeling that this organization seemed much larger than they had imagined.
Yan Zhichun, standing nearby, moved her lips and murmured, "'Heaven's Gate'..."
"I'm here!" Old Lyu came running back with two young men carrying a long bench. "Hurry, hurry! Put that man down! I just asked around—there's a doctor surnamed Zhao here right now. Maybe he can save him!"
Xu Qian helped Yun Yao ease Chen Junnan down onto the bench, and the group quickly transported him toward Dr. Zhao's room.
After several violent jolts, Chen Junnan slowly opened his eyes. His pupils seemed unfocused. After a long while, he blinked slowly and looked at the dark red sky.
"Wait..." he said weakly. "You all... wait a moment..."
"What is it?" Old Lyu asked anxiously. "Young man, you're on the verge of death. Don't talk."
"I said wait..." Chen Junnan mustered his strength to grab the corner of Old Lyu's clothes. "Brother... tell them to stop..."
"What for?" Old Lyu frowned. "You don't want to live?"
"Young Master needs to take a piss..." Chen Junnan gave a bitter smile. "There are ladies here... it's not convenient..."
"In the state you're in, you still want to piss?" Old Lyu scolded. "You little brat, just piss your pants!"
"No way..." Chen Junnan used all his strength to sit up, then put some force into his hands. "Big Brother, I know you're a good man, but let me take a piss first..."
"Tch... you young fellow..." Old Lyu sighed helplessly, signaled the two young men to stop, then turned back to the girls. "Uh... you three look away for a bit. This kid insists on pissing now..."
The three girls stopped in their tracks and stared at Chen Junnan, who was now entirely covered in blood.
Chen Junnan staggered to his feet and wobbled off to the side.
"Kid, let me help you..." Old Lyu grabbed Chen Junnan's arm worriedly, but Chen Junnan shook him off.
"No need, brother. I don't need help with this kind of thing."
Chen Junnan waved his hand and, very slowly, walked alone toward the pile of rotting corpses on the playground.
Yun Yao shook her head, bent down, and massaged her legs. She had already heard the bell chime on the way here—her "Mighty Fortune" was over. But now that they were on Heaven's Gate's territory, Yan Zhichun beside her shouldn't do anything reckless.
"Say..." Yan Zhichun smiled as she looked at Yun Yao. "He's going to take a piss. Aren't you going to follow him?"
Yun Yao looked up, frowning slightly. "Is that necessary?"
"Didn't he mean a lot to you?" Yan Zhichun continued. "After hearing what you just said, I thought you were smart. I didn't expect you to be so careless."
"What...?"
Yun Yao blinked, carefully processing Yan Zhichun's words. Then she turned her head to look at Chen Junnan. She saw him reach the pile of corpses, pause to rest beside Qiao Jiajin's body, and slowly pick up a stone from the ground.
"Not good..."
Just as Chen Junnan was about to smash the stone against his own forehead, Yun Yao appeared and grabbed his arm tightly.
"Hey! Chen Junnan!" Yun Yao shouted. "What are you doing?"
"Ah...?" Chen Junnan turned his head, dazed. "What am I doing? Superstar, step aside... Young Master wants to die..."
"You can't die!" Yun Yao snatched the stone from his hand and threw it far away. "You barely survived the Earth Serpent's arena. How can you just die so easily?"
"You..." Chen Junnan looked exhausted. He slowly bent over, propping his hands on his knees, gasping heavily. "Superstar... you're making things hard for me... I just wanted to find a place with no one around and die quietly..."
His voice grew weaker, almost inaudible.
"I'm not causing anyone any trouble, am I?" Chen Junnan said, his voice trembling. "I'm in agony right now... I don't want to live another minute. I just want to die next to my brother..."
"You... you can't die." Yun Yao said stubbornly.
"Please..." Chen Junnan's lips moved slightly. "Let me die... please..."
A hint of sadness flickered in Yun Yao's eyes, but she still held tightly to Chen Junnan's arm. "Chen Junnan... I understand you're in pain, but I'm sorry. I really can't let you die."
"Won't listen to reason, will you..." Chen Junnan's eyes gradually lost their light. "Young Master's run into another bully, huh..."
"Old Lyu!" Yun Yao stared at Chen Junnan and shouted expressionlessly. "He's done with the bathroom. Take him to stop the bleeding."
"Ah... got it!"
Old Lyu and the two young men ran over, laid Chen Junnan back on the bench, and carried him toward the teaching building.
Watching Yun Yao stand there in a daze, Yan Zhichun took a few steps forward and said to her, "Well, since we're already here, aren't you going to invite us in to sit for a while?"