Chapter 51 Group Battle "Of course."
The entire ward seemed to have been muted; apart from the chirping of a few birds outside the window, the room was so quiet it was as if no one was alive.
Liang Jun stood there, her hands and feet ice-cold, unable to move.
Her brain was rapidly processing the chaotic and confusing information before her, but her gaze never left the person in front of her.
He wore an ill-fitting striped hospital gown. When the wind blew, the loose garment clung to his thin body.
Those familiar black-rimmed glasses were still perched on his straight nose. His bright eyes, like Liang Jun's, were fixed unwaveringly on each other.
This is indeed Luo Chuan Ge.
The bed curtains were not fully drawn back; the part that was still covered faced the fourth bed.
Qi Zhixia lay in the hospital bed. She was still recovering from anesthesia and couldn't control herself to lift her head to look up, but she noticed Gu Keke's strange expression.
"How could you..."
Her voice was hoarse, and before she could finish asking the other person a complete question, Gu Keke shot off like an arrow.
Now, Liang Jun, who has met Luo Chuange again, has yet to speak.
She hesitated, unsure of what to say to the other person.
Are you concerned that the injuries he sustained from the first battle haven't fully healed, and that he still has his arm in a cast?
Or should we ask him why he also appeared in this mysterious hospital?
But before she could figure out how to start the conversation, Gu Keke rushed out at top speed.
Upon seeing a flash of light before his eyes, Luo Chuange's eyes shone even brighter.
"cocoa?"
Hearing the familiar voice and seeing the familiar person, Gu Keke's nose tingled, and she immediately gave him a bear hug.
"Waaaaah! I thought we'd never see you again!"
She used great strength in her arms to hold the slightly weak Luo Chuange tightly in her embrace.
Luo Chuange was made to grimace as she kept lifting the fragile plaster cast in his hand.
"Wait, wait...you're stepping on my cast!"
Gu Keke belatedly released the excited hug, her face flushed, her eyes and nose glistening with tears.
"I never expected to see you here."
It was Luo Chuange who spoke first.
A faint smile played at the corners of his eyes and mouth, but as if he had suddenly realized something, his gaze quickly scanned Liang Xun and Gu Keke.
"Why are you here?" His tone held a rare hesitation. "You weren't... injured too, were you?"
Gu Keke waved her hands repeatedly, and Liang Jun, standing beside her, added, "No, Keke and I had very minor injuries from the first trial, and they healed on their own in a few days; we also passed the second trial smoothly without getting injured."
Luo Chuange breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good."
"And you? Why are you here?" Liang Xun asked casually, her gaze lingering on his bandaged arm with a hint of inquiry. "Is it still because of your old arm injury?"
Luo Chuange lowered his head and glanced at the bandage on his left side.
“Yes, I broke my left arm in that Wilson Academy instance. Although you helped me find an NPC to treat me, it only healed within the instance.” At this point, Luo Chuange sighed softly, “When I came out of the instance, I found that the wound that had healed in the game had reopened, and was even more serious.”
As if remembering something, Luo Chuange turned around and walked to the bedside table next to the hospital bed, opened the drawer below, and took out a few photos.
"Look, this is what my injuries looked like back then."
A collective gasp filled the air.
Gu Keke's features contorted in pain. "It's that serious..."
His arm injury at that time was similar to Qi Zhixia's leg injury, both showing signs of degloving.
Luo Chuange nodded and put the photos away again.
"I was also bleeding heavily at the time, and I gradually lost consciousness. Before I lost all consciousness, I tried my best to get to the nearest hospital to the safe zone—this is it."
It turns out that Luo Chuange is a local of Wangjiang City.
So it's not surprising that he's here.
But Liang Jun still had something she didn't quite understand, "So how did you pass the second test?"
After a fourteen-day rest period, players will be forced to log into the game. If Luo Chuange's injuries from the first level haven't fully healed by now, how did he manage to successfully clear the second dungeon in his weakened state...?
You mean this...
Luo Chuange didn't seem to think it was a question worth exploring in depth, and he laughed heartily.
"The doctors who treat patients here are also players. They, like us, have time limits for entering dungeons. If I need to enter a dungeon before my wounds are fully healed, they will stay in the same area as me and enter the same dungeon to ensure that I can escape from the dungeon smoothly."
This method?!
They had never imagined the solution would be like this. The two women, who had just been suspecting the doctors of having ulterior motives, now looked at each other with disbelief on their faces.
"Really..." Gu Keke's face flushed even more, "Really?"
"Really, of course it's true." Luo Chuange seemed to be in an exceptionally good mood. "Otherwise, why would I lie to you?"
Then, he swung his free right hand back and forth and added, "Of course, not all the doctors are focused on me. As you all know, there are too many wounded here."
He stretched his legs a couple of times, the empty trouser legs fluttering lightly.
"Therefore, each of them was led through the dungeon by their own attending physician. Each attending physician could protect about two or three wounded soldiers. This ready-made team could also form its own team in the dungeon and play the same role in protecting themselves."
Liang Jun's heart sank. She told Luo Chuange everything they had seen and learned in the second instance, and also told him about Qi Zhixia's injuries.
When the three returned to bed number four, Qi Zhixia had already fallen asleep again.
Seeing Gu Keke's worried expression, Luo Chuange comforted her, "Don't worry, this is just normal anesthesia-induced coma. She'll be fully awake after a day or two of sleep."
Liang Xun coughed dryly at the other end of the hospital bed, "In Qi Zhixia's case, will she need an attending physician to accompany her next time she enters a dungeon?"
“Yes,” Luo Chuange affirmed.
Qi Zhixia's wounds were exposed to the environment. Luo Chuange only glanced at them briefly before shifting his gaze away from her legs.
“Her injury is much more serious than mine, and I don’t know how long it will take to recover—it depends on the attending physician’s diagnosis.”
Gu Keke scratched her head and asked, "Attending physician... then who exactly is Qi Zhixia's attending physician?"
"You still don't know?"
Luo Chuange seemed extremely shocked, "Who told you to come to this ward? That person is her attending physician."
Liang Jun's head was buzzing.
At the same moment, the door to ward 602 was pushed open.
Wang Jianping was still wearing that white coat that symbolized cleanliness, holding a notebook in his hand, as he slowly walked into the ward.
He seemed oblivious to Liang Xun and Gu Keke, his slightly sparse head facing them, the pen in his hand writing back and forth in his notebook.
"Bed 2, how are you feeling today?"
Luo Chuange readily replied, "Everything is normal, I don't feel anything unusual."
Wang Jianping raised his eyes and quickly glanced at Liang Jun and Gu Keke.
“Go sit on the bed,” he nodded slightly, “I’ll check it over.”
Luo Chuange nodded to the two rather embarrassed people, and then obediently sat on the hospital bed as instructed by Wang Jianping.
Wang Jianping casually slipped the pen into his pocket and began skillfully checking Luo Chuange's recovery progress.
After a moment, he took out his pen again and started writing again.
"The recovery is going quite well. You should be able to remove the cast after you clear the next dungeon."
Luo Chuange thanked him repeatedly, and while Wang Jianping was walking towards the next bed, he gave the two clueless people a victory sign.
But Liang Jun and Gu Keke's minds were not on this at all.
Wang Jianping walked straight to the fourth bed. Qi Zhixia, fast asleep, did not react at all to his arrival.
Has the patient in bed four woken up?
Wang Jianping turned his head to look at the two people standing beside the bed. His tone remained as usual, as if the unpleasantness in the office had never happened.
"He woke up once, and his consciousness was relatively clear; he could still recognize a few of us."
Liang Xun's throat bobbed as she truthfully reported Qi Zhixia's condition, "But she fainted again not long after."
"That's normal."
Wang Jianping's response was exactly the same as Luo Chuange's. Following protocol, he checked Qi Zhixia's diagnostic data again and then continued recording it in his notebook.
"Her injuries are quite serious; she'll probably need to complete about three dungeons to fully recover."
He closed the notebook, making a crisp sound in the quiet ward.
Wang Jianping habitually scratched the hair on his head twice. "I am the attending physician for bed four. Before her injuries are fully recovered, I will be responsible for ensuring her safety in all the dungeons she participates in."
Before Liang Xun and Gu Keke could say anything, a very faint gasp suddenly came from the second bed—
"Very good!"
Luo Chuange had tried his best to control his volume, but his voice still sounded particularly abrupt in such a quiet environment.
Liang Jun, Gu Keke, and even Wang Jianping all turned to look at him.
"What's so good about this..." Gu Keke muttered under her breath.
Both she and Liang Jun felt that Wang Jianping had many unsolved secrets and wanted to avoid him as much as possible; but now they were announced that they would be working together to overcome the next level of the game...
But Luo Chuange obviously doesn't worry about this aspect of the problem.
He stood up from his bed. "Director Wang is also my attending physician. That way, the five of us can tackle the third challenge together!"
Liang Jun smiled wryly, "No, it's six..."
She turned to face Wang Jianping, her tone carrying a hint of negotiation.
"If I were to add another team member to the challenge in addition to the five of us here, would Director Wang have any objections?"
A hint of surprise flashed across Wang Jianping's face, but he quickly masked it.
He still had a faint smile on his face.
"sure."
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