The Cardboard Explorer

Once he saw what was at his side, he knew he was in a hospital. There were few other beds around with patients and there were also nurse around.

"Ah, you woke up. I will call the doctor to check on you," said the nurse as she went out of the ward to call for a doctor to check on Cade.

"So… I survive. I wonder how long have I been unconscious?" said Cade while he was looking at the other patients.

"I wonder how the others are doing? Seeing that I am alive, that meant they defeated the humanoid toad," thought Cade. He turned his head and looked outside the window. The weather was nice and it was peaceful outside.

"Cade! You woke up! Nice~," suddenly a voice came from the direction of the ward"s door. It was a familiar voice but at the same time, annoying.

Cade recognized the voice and when he looked at the voice"s owner, true enough, it was someone he knew.

"You… I prefer Jonathan to be here," said Cade. The voice"s owner was actually Shihoon. He was not fond of Shihoon and likes Jonathan more.

"That is mean~ Do you know who save you?" said Shihoon pouting as Cade did not appreciate him came to visit.

"Isn"t that healer girl that save me?" asked Cade. The only one at that time that can save him was the healer girl.

"I can do that too you know~ by using the picture of the healer girl… by the way, her name is Viola. I took Viola picture and summon another her to save you. If not because of me, hmph! Don"t even dream of staying alive," said Shihoon pouting.

He was just playing around and did not feel angry that Cade did not believe him. He was not a healer after all. However, after what had happened with the humanoid toad, Shihoon had started collecting pictures of many things that can help him in the dungeon.

"…Oh, thank you for saving me," said Cade. He did not know if Shihoon really save him but it was possible for him to be able to do what he said and it was right for him to thank Shihoon… but thanking his stalker still felt a bit weird.

"How long have I been unconscious?" asked Cade.

"Not long, five days," said Shihoon.

"… Five days is long…" Cade suddenly did not know what else to talk with Shihoon.

Looking at Cade that went silent, Shihoon said, "It is really a surprise when I took off your mask. Who would have known that you are quite a handsome man?" Shihoon smiled while he looked at Cade from head to toe.

Cade looked at Shihoon weirdly and said, "I don"t swing that way…"

Upon hearing that, Shihoon was laughing so hard that everyone in the ward was looking at them. The doctor and nurse came to check on Cade and they scolded Shihoon for disturbing other patients.

They checked on Cade and he had no other problem. He just needed to rest for a few days. The doctor said that if not because of the emergency treatment by Shihoon and Viola, Cade might have lost his life or he might end up paralyzed.

When the doctor said that, Cade saw Shihoon puffing his chest proud as if he was the only one responsible for saving Cade. Cade felt a bit annoyed at him.
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He had broken and fracture bones all over his body but once he arrived at the hospital, the doctor that was a healer immediately healed him.

Broken bones and damaged organs can nowadays be easily healed with healing skills. Only disease or sickness like cancer, epidemic and everything similar to them were needed the help of doctor and technology.

Regenerating limbs or something similar was also possible with healing skill but that skill was super rare and only a select few have them.

However, current technology was also capable of regenerating limbs but that treatment was super expensive.

Once the doctor finished checking up everything, they left Cade to rest and he glared at Shihoon to not cause anymore disturbance. Shihoon awkwardly nodded as the doctor had quite a temper and he was scared to get scolded by him.

With all of that done, Cade felt hungry and wanted to eat something. He asked Shihoon for help to buy him some food.

"Oh, I already ask your friend to buy some for you," said Shihoon.

"Friend? Who?" Other than Shihoon and Jonathan, he did not think he was close to anyone else. He might consider Jonathan as his friend because he was a really good boy. As for Shihoon, he was merely his acquaintance.

"Cynthia. I have been coming here once and this is my second time but she had been taking care of you since you got out of the dungeon," said Shihoon.

Hearing Cynthia"s name, Cade blanked. "How did she know I got injured?" asked Cade after he came to his sense. He was really shocked to hear that Cynthia had been taking care of him every day in the hospital.

"She said she was looking for you all this time. She wanted to enter the dungeon but her level pa.s.sed the limit and ended up waiting outside all the time while you were inside the dungeon," said Shihoon.

"She… really did that?" asked Cade still cannot believe what Shihoon was saying. He was inside the dungeon for more than ten days and she waited outside the dungeon all that time? Unbelievable.

Cade also remembered that he left her alone on the train and he knew she must have been really mad at Cade but she waited that long?

"I think she-" Shihoon wanted to say something but Cade stopped him as he knew what Shihoon wanted to say. Cade knew Cynthia"s ident.i.ty and there was no way she will feel that way.

"Uwu~ She is going to steal you from me~" said Shihoon pouting and then he laughed. Cade was really annoyed with Shihoon but he cannot chase him away as he came there to visit him.

And Cade realized something about Shihoon. As he had spent quite some time with him, the way Shihoon acted at the time was quite different than before. It looked like he forced himself.

Cade stared at Shihoon and Shihoon realized that Cade was staring at him. "Hmm? Why are you staring at me? Are you FALLING for me?" and he laughed again.

Once he had enough laugh, he stopped and decided to buy some drinks for Cade. Looking at Shihoon"s behavior, he knew something was wrong.

Once Shihoon was out of the ward, he stopped his step and stared blankly in the air. He did not look happy as when he was with Cade earlier. After about 15 seconds staring in the distance, he started to walk again.

Cade wanted to ask Shihoon but he felt like it might be something personal and he did not want to ask something like that to Shihoon.

Cade decided to check on his geniusphone for the news. He had been out of touch with the news since he got inside the dungeon.

The last news he heard was that from Jonathan about another five time-limit dungeons appeared after the earlier three. Many days had pa.s.sed since then and he wondered what happened.

Did the explorers succeeded in closing the dungeon or did they end up like Planet s...o...b..ll? Cade was curious about that.

He opened his system to access his storage and something was different about the system. Usually, the screen of the system was green but the screen in front of Cade was blue.

Other than that, there were other functions that was added to the system that was not there before.

"What happen? Did the system went through changes the same as the dungeon?" Cade wondered.

From the list of the functions available there, only three of them were the old ones. The other functions were all new to him.

The three old functions were the stats view, the storage and the skill list. Before awakening, only the stats and storage were available but after awakening, the skill list was added to the system.

The new functions that Cade saw on the system screen were the equipment list, mapping and appraisal. Looking at the new functions, Cade wondered if the old functions had some kind of new features available.

Cade wanted to check them one by one. Trusting the system, all the new functions will possibly be really helpful in his exploration.

Cade first chose the stat view to see if there will be any difference to the old ones. Once the stats appeared, unfortunately for Cade, there was nothing new added there.

He looked at his stats and saw his 101 maximum luck and he sighed.