the man walked over and said anxiously. He had been outside for more than half an hour and didn’t know how his unconscious girlfriend was doing.Xiao Yu saw the worry in the man's eyes and quickened hi...Chapter 258: Xiao Yu's Helplessness

The minibus was upside down, lying across the road. The middle part of the vehicle had been completely smashed flat, and from within came intermittent screams and cries of pain from children. Blood seeped out slowly through gaps in the bus.

On the other side, a truck that had collided with the minibus was also parked askew in the middle of the road. The front end of the vehicle was completely deformed; judging by the situation, the driver would likely be dead beyond revival. Cargo inside consisted of soybeans and they were scattered all over the ground due to the collision.

Some drivers and villagers nearby had begun picking up fallen beans from the ground with bags, even going so far as to enter the truck to collect more beans while ignoring the children's cries coming from the minibus.

Xiao Yu pushed through the crowds of onlookers. Looking at the慘不忍睹的車禍現場 (horrible car accident scene), these bystanders pointed and commented, some even recounting what happened, but not a single one stepped forward to help.

"Be careful, go slow......"

As soon as Xiao Yu pushed through the crowd, he heard voices coming from the other side of the bus.

Xiao Yu circled around the minibus and went to that side. There, a driver from Renhetang Clinic was working with several highway police officers trying to rescue children trapped inside the vehicle through broken windows.

"Please, please help! Save those kids, they're only five or six years old! Please, I beg you! Waaah......"

Not far from the minibus stood a bloodied woman in her thirties, kneeling and pleading desperately to the surrounding crowd but nobody came forward.

On another end near the minibus, cries of children could be heard. Xiao Yu looked over and saw four or five kids lying on the ground side by side; Xiao Hongyang was holding golden needles and applying acupuncture to them.

"Hongyang, what's going on"

Xiao Yu asked as he approached Xiao Hongyang.

“Uncle Shi, you're here! It seems a kindergarten organized an outing for the kids and this happened. Only four out of over thirty have been saved so far!"

said Xiao Hongyang while looking up to give Xiao Yu a brief glance.

Xiao Hongyang kept his hands busy with needles despite talking to Xiao Yu, causing him to furrow his brows slightly upon hearing the situation and glancing at the minibus.

With such damage done to this bus, chances of survival for all those kids were slim. Xiao Yu retracted his gaze from the vehicle, reached out to take the pulses of children lying on the ground.

Xiao Yu stood above where the children lay and extended both hands, grabbing one child's wrist with each hand before taking their pulse slowly. After a dozen seconds or so, he released these two kids' wrists and repeated the process for another pair of them.

"Hongyang, they don't have any life-threatening injuries. You stay here and watch over them; I'll go check on the vehicle!"

A moment later, Xiao Yu put down the wrists of these two children and said to Xiao Hongyang. During pulse diagnosis, he found out that these children weren’t seriously injured. Delaying a while wouldn’t cause any immediate danger.

"Okay, Uncle Teacher! I'll take care of it here!"

Xiao Hongyang nodded after hearing Xiao Yu's words. He had also checked the pulses of these children and knew their conditions. But as a scholar, he couldn't do much on the spot except help reduce the pain for them.

Xiao Yu stood up and quickly activated his Yin-Yang Eye. He remembered what his grandpa said: in emergency situations or rescue operations, every second counts; one should prioritize saving those with severe conditions first before attending to others who are stable.

Through the Yin-Yang Eye, Xiao Yu observed the bus ahead of him. A layer of death energy was hovering around it. Seeing these dark energies, he sighed in relief—though dense, they hadn't formed human shapes yet.

Xiao Yu realized that this situation meant none of the children had died yet.

However, despite this, Xiao Yu remained vigilant; streams of death energy were continuously gathering from within the vehicle and rising upwards.

The area in the middle of the minibus was where the death energy rose fastest.

As he approached the bus, Xiao Yu saw several traffic police officers trying to pull out the children through its windows but seemed unable to do so as something appeared to be pinning them down inside.

The one who looked like a superior officer was standing far away from the minibus, smoking and giving instructions via radio to his subordinates on-site.

"What are you doing here Clear out!" The traffic cop with a cigarette in his mouth stopped Xiao Yu as he got close to the bus.

"I'm a doctor here to save lives."

Xiao Yu had already noticed this police officer. He felt disdain for him but didn’t say anything; time was of the essence and could not be wasted.

"Saving lives Sure, go ahead then—just remember to follow orders or get out of my way!"

The smoking traffic cop sized up Xiao Yu before waving his hand at him.

Xiao Yu didn't join the police officers in their rescue efforts but went straight to the middle part of the minibus, where he had observed the densest concentration of death energy and also the point of impact from the truck crash.

Xiao Yu looked at the spot where the passenger bus was hit, and it had already completely dented inward. Moments ago, Xiao Yu saw five strands of death energy rapidly gathering toward the sky from this place.

"Little Zhou, come here to help me!"

Xiao Yu glanced around and shouted at the driver of Renhetang.

"Yes, Doctor Xiao!" Driver Little Zhou, upon hearing Xiao Yu's shout, quickly responded and rushed over.

Looking at this dented spot, since it was on the roof side, there might be a chance to save them easier.

"Little Zhou, help me pull up this place a bit!" Xiao Yu pointed towards the sunken window.

Xiao Yu looked at that section of the window. As long as they could pull it open slightly, they should be able to see inside. The two men each grabbed one corner and pulled with all their might.

With both of them pulling together, the bus shifted, but the dented part remained motionless.

"What are you guys doing Stop moving!" A traffic police officer who was busy rescuing people felt the tremor from the vehicle and turned around to see Xiao Yu's group trying to pull up the sunken window of the bus. He roared at them.

"Out! One came out!"

As that traffic policeman shouted at Xiao Yu, another police officer who had been lying inside the vehicle and pulling someone out shouted loudly.

The one who was yelling at Xiao Yu immediately turned his attention away from him to help receive the child being pulled out by the other policeman.

Xiao Yu saw that although the child was covered in blood, there were no signs of death energy around their body. Xiao Yu knew this child wasn't seriously hurt but had fainted due to severe shaking.

One traffic police officer carried the child and ran towards Xiao Hongyang.

"Officer, there are still a few children inside! These children's injuries are very serious; if we don’t save them soon, it will be too late!" Seeing that policeman crawl out of the vehicle, Xiao Yu hurriedly told him.

The traffic police officer who had just crawled out glanced at Xiao Yu in surprise upon hearing his words. When he entered through the window earlier, he saw several children trapped between seats with their bodies motionless and a large patch of blood below them. Instinctively thinking they were dead due to where the bus was hit, he ignored that area and prioritized saving those who were still alive first.

However, when he just climbed out, his gaze swept over the area and noticed a child's hand move. Therefore, after rescuing that child, he also crawled out to see if there was any way to save the children in the middle first.

This traffic police officer came to the middle position and tried pulling on the car window with his hands, but every time he moved, the entire vehicle trembled.

"No good. We can't move this here; let's wait for the fire brigade to arrive! Otherwise, if we accidentally pull it over, the consequences will be unimaginable!" That traffic police officer looked at the shaking car and told Xiao Yu.

"How long until the fire brigade arrives"

After saying this to Xiao Yu, he turned around and asked another nearby traffic police officer.

"I just called them. The fire brigade will arrive in about fifteen minutes, the ambulance is ten minutes away, and I've contacted the command center. A group of People's Armed Police are training here and should be arriving in seven or eight minutes!"

Hearing this traffic police officer's question, another one nearby responded.

"Sigh... There's nothing we can do but try our best to save as many people as possible."

The rescuing traffic police officer sighed after hearing that and walked back towards the window he was previously at.

Hearing their conversation, Xiao Yu frowned heavily. He turned his head toward the middle of the bus where the children's life force was rapidly gathering in the air.

Xiao Yu didn't know if these kids could hold on until help arrived.

"You two come over and give us a hand!" A traffic police officer shouted at Xiao Yu and his team.

Hearing this, Xiao Yu looked towards the middle of the bus. He thought to himself, "I hope they can hang on," before turning around and walking toward where the rescuing traffic police officer was working.

Xiao Yu felt a deep sense of helplessness at that moment; these kids were only six or seven years old but had to die in front of him. He could only watch as death slowly approached them, feeling utterly powerless.

This was the first time since he inherited Zhong Kui's legacy that he experienced such a sense of powerlessness: ‘I am not omnipotent after all.’ Thinking this, Xiao Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Suddenly, ambulance sirens came from afar. Turning his head to look, Xiao Yu saw several ambulances and cars driving in the opposite direction towards them.

After these ambulances arrived at the accident scene, doctors and nurses carrying stretchers walked down. Seeing a man in his forties giving needles to six or seven children lying by the roadside who had come from the ambulance, they quickly approached him. (To be continued...), yet he showed no symptoms of illness whatsoever. This kind of deterioration seemed to happen naturally without any sign or symptom of disease.This left them at a loss for what to do, as such cases a...