Arc 2: Luxury Cruise
Chapter 28
Xu Ziyue and Wu Wenshan hurried over. Most of the nearby staff were indifferent. The only one who came over gave them a suggestion: "He needs to go to the medical room."
"Then let"s hurry! Hurry!" Wu Wenshan looked more physically fit than Xu Ziyue. He picked the player up without a word and ran a few metres before realising: "Where"s the medical room?"
The NPC replied: "Third floor."
"Oh, okay, okay." Wu Wenshan called Xu Ziyue over to help and after getting the player onto his back properly, they left the twelfth floor hurriedly.
The injured players" consciousness was already fading. Faint groans could be heard coming from his mouth.
Xu Ziyue followed Wu Wenshan and they rushed over to the medical room. In the room was a man wearing a white coat who appeared to be a doctor.
"Doctor, please help!" Wu Wenshan placed the player on the bed.
With all the running, some of the players" blood had stained his clothes and the white sheets on the bed were also stained red.
The doctor grabbed medications and gauze and went over to treat the wound while Xu Ziyue and Wu Wushan caught their breaths. They now had the time to discuss the earlier incident.
Wu Wenshan was about to scratch his head, but he stopped when he saw his blood stained hands. He said: "I saw him throw the ball several times earlier, but the ball didn"t change."
Xu Ziyue recalled the players constantly losing at the casino, "The ball hasn"t gone in yet?"
Wu Wenshan shook his head, "No. If it got in we would have stopped. I still don"t have the stamp for it."
"Then is it possible that the ball would change into a human head when you"re about to get it in?"
Wu Wenshan gasped lightly, "It can"t be? It"s doing something like that to us?"
Xu Ziyue nodded. He felt that his guess was correct, "Because when I went to the casino before, I saw someone playing ten games and losing all ten."
Wu Wenshan looked anxious, "Then does that mean it"s impossible to clear?"
"That reminds me, how many stamps do you have? How did you get them?"
Wu Wenshan opened the card hanging before his chest and then looked at the stamps inside. Each grid that needed to be stamped had a different symbol so not remembering which activities you have and haven"t experienced was not possible.
"I have five. The library, buffet, specialty restaurant, main restaurant and table tennis. For the three restaurants, you can get it after eating there. You just have to read a book for an hour at the library and for table tennis, it was to have a ten consecutive rally with another person……..The most troublesome thing was that there was no one there when I went and I had to wait for half an hour for someone. There seems to be no one over here."
Xu Ziyue also mentioned the incident at the swimming pool, "……..Looks like there are dangerous activities, but there are also safe ones." For example, the opera he watched yesterday, and the library Wu Wenshan went to.
Please read this from kk translates
"Why do I feel that these dangerous activities are out to get us? You can"t clear it without twenty stamps, if you get the stamps but you don"t survive one month you don"t clear, if a sea monster targets you halfway…….You"re dead meat."
It was clearly something grim, but Wu Wenshan said it in an annoyed tone that made others have the urge to laugh.
Xu Ziyue comforted Wu Wenshan, "There should always be a way for us to live, right?"
"There should." Wu Wenshan thought for a moment, "Say………Two days before we leave, if we take the initiative to get parasitised by the sea monster, experience the dangerous activities over those two days and then leave; do you think that is possible?"
"Uh…….That is a good idea, but there is no guarantee that the people parasitised by the sea monsters would not be killed by these strange events."
Wu Wenshan nodded, "True."
The doctor finished bandaging up the player"s hand and then stamped the card on the players chest.
"Huuuh?" Wu Wenshan walked over to the bed quickly. He picked up the player"s card, "There"s also one for the medical room?"
"Ah…….That seems to be the case." Xu Ziyue remembered that there appeared to be something like that. He just didn"t think too much of it.
"Doctor, can I get a stamp for the medical room too?" Wu Wenshan pushed the card forward with the back of his clean hand.
"No." The doctor squinted and revealed a crooked smile, "The stamp for the medical room can only be given after I treat you."
"Uh……" Wu Weshan moved his hand away, "I seem to have a bit of a cold. Is it okay like this?"
Without a word, the doctor turned around. Wu Wenshan thought the doctor was angry. When he got ready to smile and apologise, the doctor took out a box of medications from the cupboard.
"Drink it."
Wu Wenshan stepped back. He eyed the green potion, "This………what is this?"
"Medicine.
Xu Ziyue walked over and looked inside. At the bottom of the bottle was something that looked a bit like hair, but it was only about a centimetre long and it was dark red. It looked like a bug that was so small, it was hard to see with the naked eye.
"What"s inside here?" Xu Ziyue pointed at the base of the bottle.
Wu Wenshan moved closer and looked inside curiously, "The h.e.l.l? What is that? AHH—– It"s still moving!"
"Looks like it sucks blood….." Xu Ziyue stepped back and looked at the doctor, "Can I not drink something like this?"
"If you"re sick, you need to take your medications." The doctor insisted that the bottle he held was medicine.
Wu Wenshan also took a step back and stood in line with Xu Ziyue, "Ah~ I think my body"s fine now. I don"t need the medicine anymore."
The doctor stared at Wu Wenshan quietly for a moment. He stared at him until he felt like his heart was about to explode. The doctor then said: "Don"t make jokes like this in the future." He then turned around and placed the medicine back.
Wu Wenshan was relieved.
The player had already fainted while he was being treated. Xu Ziyue and Wu Wenshan didn"t know him, so they had done their part by bringing him to the medical room.
And even though the doctor was a little strange, the player"s hand was bandaged properly. Even if the "medicine" given to Wu Wenshan was scary, it was also because Wu Wenshan lied that he was sick.
And so, Xu Ziyue and Wu Wenshan left the medical room. They also had things to do themselves so they couldn"t constantly keep watch over him.
After leaving, they discussed about the doctor.
"The doctor in the medical room is a little scary. When I said that I was sick, he gave me medicine like that to take. It"s clearly telling me that there"s something wrong!" The blood on Wu Wenshan"s hand had dried up. He had forgotten to wash his hands in the medical room and now that he had left, he didn"t want to turn back.
Xu Ziyue nodded and agreed with Wu Wenshan"s words, "The experience requirements for the medical room is very strange. He has to treat you. What should we do if we"re not sick?
Wu Wenshan said: "And you saw too that lying that you"re sick didn"t work."
"Do we have to cut ourselves?" Wu Wenshan gestured on his arm.
"………No need to go that far. You can try taking cold baths first?" Xu Ziyue then shook his head, "That"s not right. If it"s something that needs to be treated, do you think it"ll count if you say that you have to much heat?" (KKnotes: Here, XZY talks about 上火. To put it simply it is when the Chinese believe that you have too much internal heat. Common causes include eating "heaty" food like fried food.)
"That should count." Wu Wenshan said, "But I just remembered that I have athlete"s foot. I wonder if that"s okay?"
Xu Ziyue: "…………."
The atmosphere became stagnant for a moment. Xu Ziyue quickly dug out a different topic, "Why aren"t you with other players?"
"I was originally with two others." Wu Wenshan rubbed his hands and tried to get the dried blood off him, "But when I went to find them this morning, they said they didn"t want to be with me so now I"m alone. You?"
Please read this from kk translates
Xu Ziyue looked at Wu Wenshan"s hand, "It"s a bit gross like that. Let"s go find a place to wash your hands first." He quickly avoided answering his question.
Fortunately, Wu Wenshan was rather thick-headed, and he was instantly distracted by Xu Ziyue"s suggestion.
In addition to the medical room on the third floor, there was also a gym and a changing room. There was also a changing room on the twelfth floor, but Xu Ziyue had not been there yet, so he didn"t know whether the two changing rooms are the same or if they"re different.
Wu Wenshan stood in the bathroom near the changing room and washed his hand.
Taking advantage of the moment Wu Wenshan"s distracted, Xu Ziyue changed interfaces and couldn"t help but seek help and comfort from the system.
"Will I really be okay in this world?"
"Of course. According to host"s target-capture strategies, you will be 200% safe. All the activities will be safe and harmless to you."
"200%? Wow……..You"re now using exaggerated expressions? Or are you deliberately doing that to rea.s.sure me?"
"As long as host is happy."
Wu Wenshan casually dried his hands on his clothes when he was done washing. Returning back to Xu Ziyue, he interrupted Xu Ziyue and the system"s conversation: "Where do you plan on going after this?"
Xu Ziyue spoke up: "I……….."
"Ziyue."
Xi Ziyue shivered. He turned around and looked in the direction of the voice.
Sure enough, it was Austin. He knew as soon as he heard the voice. Who else could have such a good voice?
Austin"s voice was as gentle as ever. It was so gentle, it made people hearing it have an urge to cry. Xu Ziyue blushed, "This is the first time you called my name."
"It sounds good."
And he even called him so intimately. It made his legs feel weak, okay?!
Austin pushed his wheelchair over to Xu Ziyue, "I saw the breakfast at the door and looked around everywhere for you."
Xu Ziyue apologised immediately: "Sorry!"
"Why are you apologising? You did nothing wrong."
Xu Ziyue couldn"t speak for a long time. He eventually could only utter a sentence, "Austin, you"re so good-looking."
"Ah, no, I mean, you"re so good!" Xi Ziyue quickly smacked his lips which had said the wrong things with his hand.
Austin wasn"t angry. He accepted it as a compliment.
Wu Wenshan nudged Xu Ziyue"s arm with his elbow and whispered: "Who is this?" There was no green symbol above his head, so he wasn"t a player.
Xu Ziyue also whispered back: "I"ll tell you later."
Xu Ziyue then turned to Austin and said in his normal voice: "We just came down from the basketball court."
Austin asked: "You went to play basketball?"
Xu Ziyue shook his head, "Something happened………So I didn"t manage to."
"Then let"s go together."
"Huh? But………." Xu Ziyue"s eyes met with Austins, "……Then let"s go."
Wu Wenshan: "…………???" What"s going on?
While they entered the elevator, returned to the twelfth floor and made their way to the basketball court, Wu Wenshan furiously winked at Xu Ziyue.
On one hand, Xu Ziyue nodded at Wu Wenshan with "I got it", "I understand" and "Don"t worry" expressions, on the other hand, his feet firmly pointed over in the direction of the basketball court.
When they reached the court, they saw that both halves were occupied. And they were both players.
"I"ll ask the staff how long it"ll take." Austin glanced at Wu Wenshan, "You can chat amongst yourselves for now."
Wu Wenshan wondered how this NPC noticed that he wanted to talk to Xu Ziyue. Wasn"t he sitting in a wheelchair in front of them the entire time?
Before Austin could take more than three steps, Wu Wenshan quickly asked: "Who is this person? You"re even interacting with an NPC?"
Xu Ziyue watched Austin"s leaving figure, "Don"t you think he"s special?"
"Special? Ah………He is indeed special." Wu Wenshan"s "special" referred to Austin"s wheelchair. He then thought some more, "He just looks too good. I don"t like it."
Xu Ziyue turned around and looked at him. He looked at Wu Wenshan like he was looking at a strange creature, "Why don"t you like that he"s good looking?"
Wu Wenshan felt a little scared by Xu Ziyue"s stare, "It-it"s just that with the existence of these people, I won"t be able to get a girlfriend?"
Xu Ziyue nodded in realisation. He then looked at him accusingly: "That"s pure jealousy!"
Wu Wenshan stood tall and refuted Xi Ziyue, "What jealousy?! Do you like people like him who could steal your sweetheart?"
Xu Ziyue snorted, "You thought wrong."
Wu Wenshan asked: "What did I think wrong?"
"Because my sweetheart is him. How could he steal himself from me?"
Wu Wenshan was speechless.
"Y-y-you…….you"re gay?"
"Superficial."
Wu Wenshan was completely shocked. Who here is superficial? It"s obviously Xu Ziyue who likes this seemingly useless person who only looks good.
"This isn"t right! He"s an NPC! What is this?!"
Wu Wenshan finally realised the main issue. Although he was thick-headed, it didn"t mean that he was stupid.
Liking an NPC in this world? Wasn"t that just seeking death?
"Even if he"s an NPC, I like him." Xu Ziyue stubbornly defended his characteristic love for good looks.
Wu Wenshan circled around Xu Ziyue, "But nothing will come out of it."
Xu Ziyue looked at Austin who was smiling at him and making his way back. He then said to Wu Wenshan next to him: "It doesn"t matter how long we are together for; it"s the time share together that matters."
Wu Wenshan: "………….."
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KK has something to say:
Lol Wu Wenshan is just so done with Xu Ziyue and his love for attractive faces