To be honest, this feeling of being physically asleep but mentally alert was incredibly agonizing. Especially with Mei's mother occasionally sobbing in her ear, Qiao Zhen decided it was better to just play dead.
Because the original owner had taken the elixir, his body was almost fully recovered within a month, except for his two legs, which were still numb.
My dear Chu, why hasn't my leg gotten better yet?
That...this...
[You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. However, this judge believes that if you remain silent, this case cannot be tried; the death penalty is the best course of action.]
[Sobbing, the original owner's body was too weak to withstand the strong nourishment of the pills. A small portion of the medicinal effects accumulated in her legs. It will be fine once the effects are used up.]
How long is "one long"?
[About 120 years.]
【Why don't you tie the tail to a thin pole and then spin it 360 degrees into the sky?! Will this car even be able to drive properly anymore?】
【Zhenzhen, if you cooperate with the world's treatment, you'll be able to stand up before you die of old age!】
[See you again, you son of a bitch, you're going to crash and burn!]
Qiao Zhen shut down her mental channel. She probably needed to drink some water to calm her nerves. Without her, her combat abilities were almost halved. Fortunately, this mission shouldn't involve any violent matters.
Qiao Zhen is currently a junior in college, so even though she is disabled, she still insists on going back to school to catch up on her missed classes. She doesn't expect to be able to assist the mission targets, but at least she shouldn't be a burden.
Forget it, she'll just stay a couch potato and rely on Master Chuchu for Mandarin and history.
That day, Qiao Zhen went to the school cafeteria for a meal. As she entered, she saw Ling Wei sitting by the window. Ling Wei also saw her when he looked up.
So Qiao Zhen turned her wheelchair and went to Ling Wei's side, "Good afternoon, fellow patient."
Ling Wei, for some unknown reason, smiled slightly. "Good afternoon."
Qiao Zhen looked at the game character avatar on his laptop screen and grinned like a scoundrel. "Hey, rich bro, I didn't expect you to be so handsome in the game, not bad in real life either."
"Hmm, not as stunning as the Empress." Ling Wei clicked "accept" on the dungeon invitation with the mouse. "Or perhaps, a pure... female student?"
Qiao Zhen, who always thought she had hidden her true identity well: Σ(°△°|||)︴
Ling Wei was slightly slow to respond to the word "pure".
Qiao Zhen put the notebook on her lap on the table. "Don't say anything more, let's have a PK. If I lose, we'll both delete each other."
Ling Wei raised an eyebrow. "Then I dare not win."
"Ha—men!" Qiao Zhen gave Ling Wei a contemptuous smile.
Ling Wei found it quite novel that these chat messages from the game were suddenly spoken aloud by her in real life.
In the end, the two still didn't have a showdown, since the outcome had already been decided by Qiao Zhen's words.
Looking at Qiao Zhen's smug expression, Ling Wei felt the last bit of darkness in his heart dissipate. "I didn't expect you to be as optimistic as you are in the game."
"Life is like a play, and a play is like life; they're the same thing. No wonder you were playing games so frequently during that time, yet you acted so profoundly. What's wrong?" Qiao Zhen's gaze swept over Ling Wei's legs like an X-ray.
"Yes, I am a doctor myself, and I know how slim my chances of being able to stand up again are, so I was very desperate in the beginning."
Qiao Zhen looked away, opened the game, and cupped her face in one hand. Staring at the game screen, she said casually, "A slim chance is better than no chance at all. Think of time as spirit stones, and whether you can stand up or not as using spirit stones to draw from a spirit bag. Maybe one day there will be a surprise in the spirit bag."
“You’re right.” Ling Wei looked at Qiao Zhen, who was still smiling as always. He could tell that she wasn’t forcing it, but was genuinely optimistic.
He had always received Qiao Zhen's unconventional comfort in the game, such as "Despair is not scary, what is scary is that you can't find anything more desperate."
"As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. Sometimes, building optimism on the suffering of others is also accumulating good karma for them."
"But you can just accumulate good fortune for others in your heart. I'm afraid you'll be foolish enough to offend them and end up building your optimism on someone who is even more desperate."
...
But Ling Wei harbored a deep-seated resentment: those who don't experience the pain will never truly understand its depth. If she were to face the same situation as him, would she still be able to utter such unconventional words?
Today, Qiao Zhen has given him a clear answer: Yes.
She can still say those unconventional things, and she can still be calm at school, ignoring the strange looks others give her.
Qiao Zhen rubbed her hands excitedly, then used the spirit stones she had saved for several months to draw spirit bags. Finally, on the fifteenth spirit bag, the system brought Qiao Zhen exciting news—
[System] Congratulations to the pure and innocent female student for obtaining [Flower Mist].
So Qiao Zhen rallied and bought a Wuxun Flower Spirit Bag.
[System] Congratulations to the pure and innocent female student for obtaining [Misty Flower]
Ling Wei's hand twitched slightly, and Qiao Zhen immediately pressed his hand down. She said pitifully, "Brother Hao, for the sake of us fellow patients, could you please not kick me? I just applied for God status a few days ago."
"Okay." Ling Wei reluctantly moved his hand away, then looked at Qiao Zhen's smug emoji on the screen, rubbed his temples and smiled helplessly.
While chatting with her friends in the game, Qiao Zhen kept nagging at Ling Wei, "I told you, when God closes a door, he opens a window. If he doesn't even open a window, then turn your grief into a hoe and we can still have a blast prying open a wall."
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