44 We Meet Again【Part 2】
◎Axue, am I right?◎
Even though his appearance had changed, Qi Qiuxue could still recognize that the person in front of him was his former colleague, Wu Shanyue.
Besides her, there were three other players who were about the same age as them, all dressed as nurses.
"Axue?" The moment Wu Shanyue saw Qi Qiuxue, she was shocked at first, then extremely excited. She quickly stepped forward to Qi Qiuxue and asked, "Why are you here?"
"What about you?" Qi Qiuxue asked back, "Why are you here too? How many times have you entered this dungeon?"
"The second time." Wu Shanyue did not hide anything when facing Qi Qiuxue. "Where's Ah Xue?"
"Third time," Qi Qiuxue said truthfully. As the other players drew closer, she quickly warned the person before her, "Remember, my name in this dungeon is Zhang Xue."
"Oh, oh." Wu Shanyue understood what she meant. "I'll remember it. I won't call you the wrong name."
After he finished speaking, the other three had also arrived in front of Qi Qiuxue.
"Are you a player too?" The black-haired woman at the front of the group glanced at Qi Qiuxue's name tag and said in a cold tone, "Nice to meet you. My name is Zhu Lan."
"Zhang Xue." Qi Qiuxue didn't ask why she knew she was a player, just as she recognized her identity immediately. She glanced at the other two people's faces. Even though she had seen the names on their badges, she still politely asked, "Who are you?"
"My name is Lu Jin." said a brown-skinned girl.
Another red-haired girl then spoke up: "Xu Gui."
"I introduced myself to them when we entered the dungeon," Wu Shanyue said with a friendly smile. "Aside from Axue, we didn't see any other players. This means this is probably a five-player dungeon."
"Yeah." Qi Qiuxue nodded. She indeed didn't see any other suspected players. People were passing by around them, and the five of them standing there looked a little out of place.
But before they could communicate any more, a voice suddenly appeared and broke the situation. A curly-haired doctor came out from somewhere, with two carts parked in front of him. There was a patient lying on each cart. It looked like they had just finished the operation and were waiting for medical staff to push them back to the ward.
She clearly had a Western appearance, but due to the dungeon's mechanics, she spoke fluent Mandarin: "Don't just stand there, ladies. Come over and help accommodate the patient!"
"Okay." Wu Shanyue nodded hurriedly, and stepped forward to help with Qi Qiuxue and others. With the cooperation of several people, the patients were successfully pushed back to the room.
As they walked forward, Qi Qiuxue discovered that this was a very large hospital with about twenty-four floors, and they were on the thirteenth floor.
They did not have the opportunity to explore freely for the time being. After pushing the patient back to the room, the head nurse who arrived immediately assigned them new tasks. Lu Jin and Xu Gui had to make preoperative preparations for the next wave of patients preparing for surgery, while Wu Shanyue and Zhu Lan were sent to organize the nursing records.
Qi Qiuxue was going to measure the blood sugar, blood pressure and body temperature for the patient in room 1324.
Perhaps it was also due to the influence of the copy mechanism that Qi Qiuxue found that she had mastered the basic skills of a nurse. The patients in Room 1324 varied greatly in age, ranging from elderly people in their seventies and eighties to children in their teens. Most of them had stayed in the hospital for too long, and there was a faint air of decadence about them.
Fortunately, everyone was kind enough. Qi Qiuxue carefully measured and recorded them one by one. When she had only completed a quarter of the work, a familiar voice suddenly sounded outside the door.
"I'm here to help," the man said.
"?" Qi Qiuxue responded and turned around. Standing in front of the door was someone she was very familiar with.
——Li Yiqing.
It turned out to be Li Yiqing. Her appearance had also changed slightly compared to before. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. Even though she was wearing the most ordinary nurse uniform, she still looked beautiful and sexy.
"..." The moment she saw her, Qi Qiuxue did not feel much joy of reunion. Instead, a strong suspicion surged in her heart. Just as she had thought before, the probability of meeting her twice in a row in the copy was already very small, let alone encountering her a third time.
As the number and probability gradually increased, Qi Qiuxue knew that the scene before her had nothing to do with words like "coincidence" and "accidental".
"Ah Xue!" Li Yiqing walked forward happily and excitedly, seemingly unaware of Qi Qiuxue's thoughts, and greeted Qi Qiuxue cheerfully, "We meet again!"
"That's great, really great. I didn't expect to see you in the dungeon again!" Her tone was full of excitement, but upon closer inspection, she lacked some of the expression that a normal person should have.
It was surprise. Li Yiqing did not show the slightest surprise that Qi Qiuxue was also in the copy.
She walked forward quickly and acted coquettishly with the person in front of her as usual, "Axue, you don't know how much I have missed you these days."
"Really?" Qi Qiuxue remained calm, her tone remaining calm. "I miss you too."
"When did you enter the dungeon?" she asked softly, in a voice only the two of them could hear. "Why didn't I see you in the corridor just now?"
"Just now?" Li Yiqing was confused. "Axue, you just came?"
"I entered the dungeon yesterday," she said. "There wasn't a single other player there. I was surrounded by NPCs I didn't recognize. I spent a long time searching for them during my free time, and finally confirmed that I was the only player in the dungeon."
"You don't know how scared I was at that time." Li Yiqing said, perhaps recalling the helplessness and fear at that time, her eyes quickly misted up, "Thank goodness I see you again today!"
yesterday?
Qi Qiuxue frowned at the sound. She didn't know if Li Yiqing was lying, but if what she said was true, what exactly was the mechanism of this dungeon? How could this happen when the players entered the dungeon on different days?
"Let's go to work first." Time was tight, so Qi Qiuxue didn't continue chatting with her. The two of them fell silent and concentrated on completing the work at hand.
After finishing everything, they finally got a moment to rest. The head nurse didn't give any other tasks. Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing walked out of the ward together with the equipment. Just as they returned to the nurses' station, Qi Qiuxue suddenly said, "Ah Qing, do you know where the bathroom is?"
"I know." Li Yiqing put down the instrument in his hand and nodded quickly, "I'll take Axue with me."
"Thank you for your help." Qi Qiuxue followed her pace, and the two walked side by side in the corridor, one in front and the other behind. When no one knew, Qi Qiuxue kept staring at Li Yiqing's back.
She began to review the previous two copies. She and Li Yiqing had shared life and death and experienced many things together. Personally speaking, Qi Qiuxue did not think that Li Yiqing would harbor any evil intentions.
But she is not a person who acts solely on emotion. Most of the time, Qi Qiuxue is more accustomed to thinking about problems rationally. Li Yiqing in front of her is weird in every way, and she cannot completely believe what she says.
Just as he was thinking about it, the two of them had already arrived at the bathroom.
"Axue." Li Yiqing pointed his finger at her and said, "We're here. Go in. I'll be waiting for you at the door."
"Okay." Qi Qiuxue said, turning and entering the toilet cubicle, but after a few seconds, she suddenly called Li Yiqing's name, "Aqing, I'm in some trouble, can you come in and help me?"
"Okay!" Li Yiqing was completely unprepared for her. Qi Qiuxue left the door open for her, and Li Yiqing stepped in without hesitation. "I'm coming."
"What's wrong?" She looked at Qi Qiuxue in front of her, "What trouble did Ah Xue encounter?"
Qi Qiuxue didn't say anything and locked the compartment neatly. Then she took out her bone knife from her backpack and quickly put it against Li Yiqing's neck.
Everything happened very quickly, in a flash. Li Yiqing was frightened by her and leaned his back against the wall, not daring to move.
"Axue, what's wrong with you?" Qi Qiuxue's eyes were fierce. Li Yiqing knew she was serious. He felt panic and a little aggrieved. "Why did you do this to me?"
"Why are you following me?" Qi Qiuxue suddenly asked after she finished speaking.
Li Yiqing was confused: "Axue, what do you mean? I don't understand."
"Don't play innocent." Qi Qiuxue whispered to the person in front of her. Driven by emotion, she did not kill Li Yiqing. The bone knife was actually far away from Li Yiqing's neck and would not hurt her at all, but it was quite effective in scaring people. "Speak."
Li Yiqing's eyes were moist. She stared at the person in front of her for a few seconds. Perhaps because she was afraid that Qi Qiuxue would really not remember their friendship and hurt her, she finally told the truth.
"Because I like Axue very much and want to be her companion forever," she said pitifully, "so this time I used a prop to enter the same dungeon with Axue."
Qi Qiuxue: "What props?"
"I bought this 'Traveling Talisman' at the player market," Li Yiqing said hurriedly. "Remember the four-man team we encountered in the Lake Heart Island dungeon? They also used this talisman to enter the same dungeon. Items like this have a fairly high drop rate in the game. Some players who are used to traveling alone or have full inventories find them useless and sell them on the player market. I have another one in my backpack, Ah Xue, I'll give it to you right away."
"Okay." Qi Qiuxue agreed to her gift request, and the talisman in Li Yiqing's backpack was quickly transferred to her backpack. Qi Qiuxue read the function introduction above, and it was indeed as Li Yiqing said. After the user used the talisman, they would have a bond and could meet again in the subsequent copy.
However, it is not useful for a long time, and one talisman can only be used in one copy.
"Just before leaving the last instance, I asked for your real name. Under the pretext of writing your name, I touched Ah Xue's hand to form a bond. The talisman was hidden in my palm at the time. I'm sorry, Ah Xue, I lied to you."
The more she spoke, the more she blamed herself. Tears streamed down her cheeks, making her look so pitiful and vulnerable. "But this talisman only works when both parties have the same intention. I wasn't sure I'd actually meet Ah Xue in the next dungeon."
"Axue." She called her name, her tone filled with not only testing but also joy and surprise. "Does this mean that you actually want to see me too?"
Qi Qiuxue did not answer. She kept looking into Li Yiqing's eyes, as if to verify whether she was lying to her. After a moment, she retracted the bone knife in her hand. Apart from sincerity and joy, she did not see anything else in her eyes.
"I'm sorry for scaring you." She apologized to her, not knowing whether she had intentionally or unintentionally ignored Li Yiqing's question.
But Li Yiqing refused to give in and continued to dwell on the previous topic. As usual, she reached out and shook Qi Qiuxue's clothes, and asked her softly, "Axue, am I right?"
【Author’s words】
I saw some people guessing that Shanyue is a little skeleton, but it’s not actually a little skeleton.
But Shanyue is indeed an important character, just like our Liuge and Suwen~
Thank you all for your Overlord tickets and nutrient solution~
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