CH 69

Pei Fuchen’s examination results were so good that the attending doctor gave up on the chemotherapy program and continued with the drug treatment.

His father also came to hear the news. The two elderly people, who were over 50 years old and had experienced numerous ups and downs, heard the news of their son’s turn for the better, and could no longer restrain themselves. They embraced each other and cried with joy.

When Pei Fuchen saw such a scene, his chest was stirred up with a hot swelling, and his eyes were burning. He took two deep breaths and finally suppressed the burning in his eyes before he slowly spoke, “Mom and Dad, let’s go home first.”

The two wiped the tears from each other’s eyes and nodded excitedly, “Okay.”

They entered the elevator and watched the numbers keep falling. When he saw the number almost reach 4, Pei Fuchen couldn’t help but think of the small-faced youth.

Has Xiao Lu’s fever gone down?

In his mind, he slowly conjured the youth’s quiet and cunning expression, and with a movement in his heart, he reached out and pressed the “4” button.

The elevator slowed down and stopped. The two people looked at Pei Fuchen puzzled and said, “Fuchen, why did you stop at the fourth floor?”

Pei Fuchen turned around after stepping out of the elevator and smiled at the two, “Mom and Dad, I have a small patient I just met on this floor. I’ll go say goodbye to him. You guys head back to the car first, okay? ”

They nodded at the words, and the elevator closed again.

Pei Fuchen looked at the slowly changing numbers on the elevator door, and then turned around to walk towards 4302.

Because of the morning test, he was discharged when it was almost five o’clock in the afternoon. He didn’t know whether Xiao Lu had been discharged from the hospital or not, so he went to visit him on a whim.

The door to ward 4302 was not completely shut, and a small slit was left between the white minimalist door and the door frame.

Pei Fuchen knocked gently on the door, and after not getting any response from inside, he hesitated for a moment and then slowly pushed the door open.

Unlike last night, when he found Xiao Lu playing games secretly, he was now lying on his side on the hospital bed with his back to the door.

Is he sleeping?

Pei Fuchen couldn’t bear to disturb Xiao Lu’s sleep, so he tiptoed around the hospital bed and walked to Bai Lixin’s front. He saw that his eyes were slightly closed and that he was sleeping with his face to the window and didn’t wake up even when someone came in.

Five o’clock is when the sun sets in the west, and the soft, warm scarlet light poured in through the window and spread onto Bai Lixin’s serene face. Pei Fuchen looked at the small face immersed in the sunset light and felt that time had slowed down.

His heart, which had grown indifferent, was electrocuted, and he couldn’t help but lean down and stick close to Bai Lixin’s face.

The long, thick eyelashes were like a small brush, quietly shading the eyes.

Bai Lixin seemed to have dreamed of something and suddenly stretched out his kitten-like tongue and licked his lips, his face scrunched up into a ball.

A bit embarrassed by the kitten-like action, Pei Fuchen couldn’t help but smile. He reached out and swept the bangs scattered on Bai Lixin’s forehead behind his ears.

After that, he was not satisfied, and put his hand on Bai Lixin’s forehead to test his temperature.

The forehead was only slightly hot, much lower than yesterday, meaning that the fever had receded. However, Pei Fuchen felt that his palm touching Bai Lixin’s forehead was hot, like it was being burned by something.

His heart trembled and began to flutter uncontrollably.

He removed his hand as if he had been electrocuted, but clenched his fist as if nostalgic.

This feeling was very strange. He wanted to approach, but also wanted to escape.

He wanted to approach because he was attracted to the other, but he also wanted to flee because he had never felt anything like this before.

Pei Fuchen used to have an almost indifferent attitude towards feelings, so he did not fully understand what feelings were. It’s also why he could easily leave his family to join the national team. Even when he was at odds with his parents, he didn’t feel anything at all.

His inner focus was only on the game, competition, skills, strength, and achievements. All the things that made his heart beat faster were related to the game. At that time, Pei Fuchen knew that he was in the wrong, but he didn’t have a trace of repentance.

But since his diagnosis, his parents’ sadness, despair, and happiness, feelings that he couldn’t detect before, eroded his cold heart little by little, and he suddenly felt that he had changed from a tool to a flesh-and-blood human being.

But even though he felt the concern from around him, he never felt these kinds of feelings where his heart was throbbing and beating wildly.

These intense to extreme feelings made his blood boil, and he also had an impulse to embrace the quiet sleeping youth in front of him.

Bai Lixin turned over, from lying on his side to lying on his back.

The already wide hospital gown was suddenly twisted around the body. Perhaps because of the heat, the top three buttons were unbuttoned, revealing a large area of milky white skin.

Such Beautiful skin, he really wanted to bow down and kiss it.

Looking past the waist, Bai Lixin’s trouser legs were half rolled up, and ten cute toes were revealed.

He wanted to reach out and touch those thin white calves…

Shocked by his perverted thoughts, Pei Fuchen immediately stiffened, and rushed out the door.

After Pei Fuchen left, Bai Lixin slowly opened his eyes. The eyes were clear, with no trace of sleep.

Bai Lixin glanced at the door, smiled silently, and got up to go through the discharge procedures.

……………………

The official announcement of the ten-person elite dungeon had long set a lot of suspense and awoken the curiosity and interest of countless players. What’s more, a lot of money has been invested this time to give each player of the first team a top-quality orange weapon!

Orange weapons were the highest grade weapons in the game!

The game had a lot of people with orange weapons, but most of them were bought for huge amounts of money.

Generally, an orange weapon could go for about 50,000 yuan.

And now players can get an orange weapon without spending money. It was like a pie falling from the sky, right?

People die for money, and birds die for food. In front of the huge benefits, everyone was eager to try.

This day, various chat rooms in “Chivalry Road” had people gathered, almost all in units of ten.

Before opening, a new stage of official maintenance and upgrading is carried out. The opening time was set for 12:00 noon sharp.

Pei Fuchen finished eating and saw the clock hands pointing to the position of 11:00 before going online. As expected, the game was still in the maintenance phase, so he just entered the chat room.

The chat room had already gathered many people, and Pei Fuchen took a look and saw that Xiao Lu was among them.

When he saw Xiao Lu’s name in the chat room list, his hand shook gently, and his palm, which had tested Xiao Lu’s forehead temperature yesterday, started to slightly burn again.

Bai Lixin was studying the map and boss features. When entering the battle, once the player dies, it is impossible to revive, and even more impossible to be revived by the healer. So, once a player dies, the result is a loss of combat power throughout the whole boss raid.

Only when the boss is defeated, the entire group is destroyed, or the range of the boss’s hatred circle is limited, can a healer revive the dead player.

But if it is done twice or thrice, the boss will regain 100% of its blood and all their previous efforts will be lost and then start the raid all over.

The death of attack-type players is okay, but the consequences are simply not conceivable with the death of a healer.

The ten-person dungeon needed every player to do their own duties; there was no room for slacking off.

As soon as Pei Fuchen entered the chat room, Bai Lixin said, “Boss, you’re finally here. We have been waiting for you.”

He was slightly stunned, then calmly replied, “Little Lu, long time no see. Has your fever gone down? ”

Bai Lixin chuckled. His clear voice sounded as pleasant as a flute to Pei Fuchen, “Yes, it has gone down. I was discharged from the hospital yesterday evening. The doctor said it would be OK to take some more western medicine to consolidate in the next few days. Thank you for your concern. ”

“Oh, that’s good.” Hearing Bai Lixin’s spirited voice, Pei Fuchen’s hanging heart finally dropped, “You guys were discussing the boss mechanism?”

Bai Lixin “En,” “I am studying the official boss introduction released. This dungeon was tested in the beta service for a month before it was opened, but I happened to be off the game at the time. After returning, I went to play for a while to try it out. One has to rely on dodging skills and good timing. I later studied that the specific process can also be improved, but these improvements are on the premise of everyone’s wit and equipment perfection. ”

Bai Lixin paused and added, “I think it’s about time. I have created a sub-chat room. I’ll invite you guys in to talk about specific matters inside.”

As soon as Bai Lixin’s voice fell, Pei Fuchen heard a “ding ” sound from his headset, and he had been pulled into the new chat room.

The “ding” kept coming, and only after several times did it stop.

Pei Fuchen then looked at the people in the chat room; he was familiar with all of them.

He, Lao Er, Lao San, Lao Si, Wu, and Xiao Lu made six people, and the three others included a more stable player in their club who was a healer, and two attack type players.

Eh?

Pei Fuchen counted the people in the chat room once more and asked in confusion, “Xiao Lu, how come there are only nine people? Where is the other one? ”

Bai Lixin’s voice paused for a while and said, “Ah, there’s another person right next to me, an assassin. He won’t enter the chat room. He will just sit directly next to me. ”

Pei Fuchen did not doubt him. This raid was commanded by Xiao Lu, and since he had said so, he naturally would not say anything more.

Bai Lixin gathered the people before saying: “I’ll first talk about the skills of these five bosses. The first boss has a total of five cycle functions: dash forward, capture, group attack, crossbow arrow scattering, and a demonized roar. Anyone who is within range will be knocked down, and the blood loss will be quite high. This skill is used when the boss is still at 95% blood. ”

” For the capture skill, the boss will target a person, grab him to their side, depleting their blood to replenish his own. The duration is 20 seconds. This skill has no counterattack, but I later found that if the player takes off in the air the moment he is targeted, it is possible to solve this problem. ”

After introducing all five skills in turn, Bai Lixin took a sip of water and said, “In accordance with the already established playing style, our insurance play is to observe the moves. However, its desperate play is the demon roar. Although the attack power rises sharply, its defense power also drops to the lowest point. As for how to prevent the boss from killing us in a single move, it is necessary for all teammates to have a keen sense of awareness. ”

“When the boss makes the demonized roar, the healer is kind of the anti-boss, pulling the boss around, so as to prevent the boss from causing maximum damage. The others need to keep looking for the back of the boss. This is our best opportunity to kill the boss, and we also have to find the right moment to grab the opportunity before the other teams. That’s why I said at the beginning that we need everyone’s resourcefulness and players to be well-equipped. ”

“The word “stable” is key to raid a dungeon successfully. Everyone needs to be stable, ” Bai Lixin said this before he paused, “except for Lao Er.”

Lao Er, who was still listening to the explanation, sneezed and said, “I’m listening carefully. Why are you suddenly naming me?”

Bai Lixin laughed and continued, “Don’t take any chances, everyone. We can take shortcuts to beat the dungeon. However, shortcuts are reserved for those who are prepared. If we have the ideas, but no passable equipment or awareness, the result is just empty talk. ”

“We are aiming for the first armor, and we must be absolutely determined to make no mistakes! Now, for the second boss… ”

Time passed minute by minute under Bai Lixin’s careful and patient explanation. It approached 12:00 slowly, and everyone had long been standing by.

People kept trying to enter the dungeon and kept getting the gray “maintenance” prompt again and again, but they were still undaunted and continued to try.

Suddenly, a scream erupted from Lao Er in the chat room, “The server is open! Everyone get on! ”

At the words, everyone quickly logged into their game accounts.

The scene changed in front of Pei Fuchen’s eyes, and he appeared in Yangzhou City. He then received an invitation to form a party from Bai Lu’s Dangling Song.

Pei Fuchen hurriedly clicked yes. He entered the team and silently looked at the personnel list. When he saw a certain ID, he froze.

He saw the figure of an assassin in the team, an assassin he had met once before, called “Killing you just”!

Pei Fuchen’s eyes widened. Wasn’t this Xiao Lu’s side account? Is it being operated by someone else? Or did Lu intend to manipulate two characters and command them at the same time?

Is this kid crazy?

It is very distracting in the dungeon because the commander has to take care of the actions of the whole group and keep an eye on the boss’s moves.

Additionally, the healer and assassin are very stressful and important roles, and they cannot be distracted. So a party commander will generally choose attack characters that only need a quiet fighter role.

Not that there were no assassin and healer commanders, but they were rare in dungeon parties, not to mention those that were aiming for the first armor.

Pei Fuchen’s eyes revealed a radical appreciation.

Little Lu, how many secrets do you have that have not been discovered yet?

Only Pei Fuchen knew about Bai Lixin’s side account, not even Lao Er and the others had ever seen it.

Lao Er and Lao Si first met him at the internet cafe when Bai Lixin happened to be playing the “Killing you just” account, but Lao Er didn’t have the thought to look at Bai Lixin’s account critically.

Just as Pei Fuchen was surprised at the secrets Bai Lixin presented, Bai Lixin was currently manipulating the two keyboards in front of him. His left and right hands alternated in action, the ten fingers tapping the keyboards at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

“Alright, things are pretty much spoken for, let’s get going!”

Quickly grouping all ten people together, Bai Lixin’s party flew towards the entrance of the dungeon.

At the same time, Liang Xuan and Qiao Qun also formed a good group and arrived at the entrance of the dungeon.

For this raid, Qiao Qun felt it was imperative to win.

As a skill tester, he had been involved in the testing of the boss’ skills in this dungeon, and when he had participated in the skills development, he had long heard the gossip that the reward was an orange armor.

So he deliberately left a small loophole in the boss skill that could help him a lot in the “Demonized Roar.”

A pure attack skill that abandons defensive power. Although the attack was too powerful, the boss’s defensive power would be almost zero.

In order to prevent other players from finding out about this loophole, he deliberately guided a stable way of playing in the test service. It seemed like a reasonable strategy, but in fact, it was only in the upper-middle range.

The ten-player dungeons were so difficult that it looked like a good way to beat it. Therefore, it is rare for anyone to explore a new way of playing.

It would take 10 minutes to kill the boss while avoiding damage, but if the demonized roar is unleashed, it would only take 5 minutes to kill the boss. That would be five minutes less than other teams!

So Qiao Qun was confident that as long as he was commanding, this first armor was in the bag.

The moment he entered the dungeon, Qiao Qun had already taken that orange armor as his own.

The party was harmonious during the first four skills, but on the fifth, Qiao Qun suddenly shouted, “Everyone go around behind the boss,” and three of his teammates hesitated.

With this hesitation, the three were attacked by the boss’s Demonized Roar, killing them directly.

Qiao Qun let out a low curse and said, with some annoyance, “Can’t you obey the command? I told you to go around the back, don’t you understand?”

Among the dead people happened to be the healer, Wandering Fingers, and when she heard Qiao Qun’s accusation, she sneered back, “Heh, at first you didn’t say it, and only when the boss went berserk did you remember to tell everyone to hide behind. Who could react that fast?”

As soon as Liang Xuan heard the accusatory voice of Wandering Fingers, he exploded: “Hey, Wandering Fingers, you only have to obey the command, not to get a reason. Don’t you understand? The principle of playing a dungeon is to listen to the command. Are you a newbie? Are you stupid? ”

“Wandering Fingers” snorted coldly, “The principle of raiding a dungeon is trust. Do you have faith in us, leader? We thought you were playing the old way according to what we planned, but you changed it temporarily after the fight started. ”

Wandering Fingers took a look at the boss’s rapidly dropping blood and snorted in the chat room, “Why is the boss’s blood dropping so fast? So you were hiding something. Why didn’t you tell us in the first place? Were you afraid we would tell others? Heh, with the fact that you don’t trust us, who are you to talk about me when you have no desire to do so? ”

Wandering Finger’s accusation was like a stick poking Liang Xuan’s spine, poking him slowly and making him unable to stand up.

Before, he only thought she was a sister whom you could talk to about anything and who was spontaneous and bold. But now, when they started to fight for their interests, he realized that she was so aggressive and uncultured, speaking like a shrew.

Hearing the tit-for-tat conversation between Wandering Fingers and Liang Xuan, Qiao Qun only felt a headache, “Alright, stop arguing! When the boss stops releasing skills, we shall retreat. Xiao Wen will revive the dead, then we fight again. ”

Qiao Qun’s voice was frighteningly cold, and the party did not dare to speak more. Hearing the commander’s order, they ran out of the boss’s hate circle when the violent skills were paused.

With all the enemies in its hatred circle gone, the boss let out a loud laugh, and the amount of blood above its head that was 75% a moment ago now became 100%. Standing back with a proud look, the boss stared fixedly into the distance.

“Regardless of your opinions, please don’t forget that the final reward is the orange armor. Wrap your head around it. Don’t you want the orange armor? If you don’t want it, I’ll kick you out now and find a new healer. ” As he gathered the people, Qiao Qun said coldly.

The players were brushing up on their buffs and adding blood to those who should. Even as they were busy, no one dared interrupt.

It was then that Wandering Fingers remembered that there was an orange armor. She was impatient once her own interests were involved or when she came across something she didn’t like, and she let her nature get the better of her and kept talking, never caring about the consequences.

This is very similar to Liang Xuan, which is why the two could be good friends when they had no conflict of interest before.

When she heard Qiao Qun’s threat, Wandering Fingers hurriedly shut her mouth and silently boosted everyone’s blood.

When Qiao Qun saw that Wandering Fingers had been put in her place, he said, “Although we failed this time, we still have a chance to overtake. Don’t be discouraged, everyone. As long as we don’t make any more mistakes after that, the first armor will definitely be ours. ”

With that, they plunged into the sight of the bosses once again and began to attack desperately. After several bosses, with everyone’s efforts, they came to the final boss without any problems.

Seeing that only 25 minutes had passed, a smile appeared on Qiao Qun’s face.

There was a timer in the dungeon raids, and the fastest ranked group was theirs at 48 minutes and 34 seconds.

Now that this dungeon was open, even if other teams fought hard, it would be impossible to finish clearing it in 35 minutes.

Qiao Qun was now determined to win, and so were his team members.

Seeing that only 25 minutes had passed, everyone cheered as they hurriedly urged Qiao Qun to hurry up and take command.

Qiao Qun smiled confidently and was about to start arranging his team when a bright and eye-catching system message appeared:

[Congratulations to the team led by Bai Lu for being the first to clear the Demon Sect dungeon in a record time of 25 minutes and 48 seconds!]

Qiao Qun stared dumbfounded at this announcement and was frozen on the spot, unable to return to his senses for a long time.