Luoding City, Little Fish Clinic.
Consultation Room.
The gray-haired girl, who had just finished treating a patient, suddenly frowned.
“Forget it, I’ll just go out myself.”
The white-coated beauty sitting to the side looked up in confusion.
“Lukasi, call all the patients in together… forget it, what’s wrong?”
Leng Xiaoyu turned her head to look at the wall, her gaze seeming to pierce through layers of obstacles and see that polluted Small Luoding City.
“It feels like something big is about to happen.”
Lukasi was taken aback.
“Wait a moment, just a moment, please.”
She turned and spoke to the patients outside the consultation room, then directly closed the door and lowered her voice.
“What’s wrong? Has the contamination spread?”
“I don’t know.”
Leng Xiaoyu frowned slightly, her right hand resting over her heart, her pretty face a bit pale, looking pitiful.
“But I’ve never had such a bad feeling before. I have to go see for myself.”
She stood up and patted her light yellow dress.
A pair of slender, well-proportioned calves wrapped in white stockings flickered in and out of view beneath the flowing skirt.
[White stockings is the right call.]
[I want to see a fight!]
The gray-haired girl sighed.
“First, a fanatic believer came to Luoding City today, then suddenly people from another star system showed up asking for help, and now something’s happening in the Dark Swamp. Three things happening on the same day is too much of a coincidence. I suspect someone is testing me.”
[So Lao Xi really is connected to the Dark Swamp.]
[Anyone here into bare legs?]
[Whoa, there’s ice cream and they’re not sharing it. The Production Team is too selfish.]
“I’m just a doctor. Even if I have a good reputation, I’m still just an ordinary doctor. Those four coming to ask for my help definitely had someone behind them.”
“Could it be…”
Lukasi seemed to think of something, a trace of anxiety and worry in her eyes.
“The Circle.”
Leng Xiaoyu nodded, then said wistfully,
“Maybe.”
“Then, Doctor Xiao Yu, why did you refuse them? They’re not only Academy students, but also second-level star power users. If they helped…”
“They were just looking for a friend. There’s no need for them to get involved with someone cursed like me…”
Leng Xiaoyu turned her head away, her tone quite cold.
“…and lose their lives for nothing.”
[Tsundere fish is cute.]
[I like eating fish.]
[Then I like it too.]
Lukasi seemed displeased with the phrase “cursed.” She frowned tightly, her face showing some anger.
“Don’t talk about yourself like that anymore.”
“Besides, since they came knocking, they’re already involved in this!”
“You pig-headed fool!”
She gently jabbed the girl’s forehead, frustrated at her lack of progress.
Leng Xiaoyu nimbly dodged to the side, didn’t respond, and just smiled as she pushed open the consultation room door.
[Are the patients taken care of? Time to start killing?]
[What do you mean, Chosen of Khorne? She’s clearly going to hand out ice cream.]
“I’m going out first to… take care of the patients.”
[Give me a bite. The lunchbox is mine too.]
Lukasi reached out and grabbed the girl’s right hand, speaking softly.
“Let’s end today’s free clinic here.”
Leng Xiaoyu shook her head, slowly raised her right hand, and gently freed herself from Lukasi’s grip.
“A lot of patients came specifically from other cities, carrying hope for life.”
She looked up, meeting Lukasi’s eyes.
Her obsidian-like eyes were full of earnest pleading.
“I can’t let them down… And if someone really is testing me, this might be my last time acting as a doctor for the people here.”
“But if you use too much of your light power here, what if something happens later…”
“I’ve been working hard for two years, treating and saving people every day, all to prepare for today.”
Leng Xiaoyu said seriously,
“I will personally make up for my mistakes.”
“Sigh.”
Lukasi sighed.
After spending two years with Leng Xiaoyu, she knew how stubborn this little girl was.
Luoding City was the most dangerous place in the world for her.
But to make up for her mistakes, she had stayed here for two years.
How could she possibly persuade her?
Watching the girl’s back, Lukasi caught up.
“At least let me help you conserve a little energy.”
Leng Xiaoyu nodded and watched as Lukasi shouted at the top of her lungs, calling everyone to gather close and form a circle.
Then.
She closed her eyes, raised both hands, and took a deep breath.
A brilliant golden light shone from within her body.
This layer of golden light contained powerful life force, like the warm spring sun, bringing new life to all things.
In the open space outside the clinic, all the patients enveloped by the golden light instantly felt their bodies lighten and become much more comfortable. The chronic ailments that had plagued them for years seemed to vanish.
They touched their bodies left and right, faces full of joy, and cheered:
“Thank you, Divine Doctor!”
“Thank you, Doctor Leng Xiaoyu!”
“Doctor Xiao Yu works miracles!”
Leng Xiaoyu turned to Lukasi and smiled.
“Thank you, Lukasi. These two years, thank you for staying by my side.”
“From now on, I have to walk the path alone.”
“Take care. You have to come back!”
Lukasi’s eyes were full of tears, her lower lip bitten tightly.
“Mm. I will.”
Leng Xiaoyu—or rather, Yun Ruoxi—said insincerely.
She would not come back.
At least not until the storyline was over, she would never return.
Today was the last day she would act as a doctor and get along with Lukasi!
After all…
Lukasi was just an ordinary person.
And ordinary people…
had no ability to participate in the story from here on out, so naturally, they couldn’t follow in her footsteps.
Leng Xiaoyu turned and walked away.
Lukasi watched her back, but never noticed that some hair on the back of her head had turned pure black, nor did she see the faint purple ripples around the girl’s eyes.
[Leng Xiaoyu enters the battlefield!]
[Gonna outlast the Boss.]
[Gonna outlast the Boss.]
[Are you forgetting that Lao Xi hasn’t appeared yet?]
[Isn’t Lao Fish’s role a healer? Probably gonna brute-force her way onto the battlefield with her healing power, then get kicked to death by Dark Dust.]
[Outlast me? Don’t make your Sister Xi laugh.]
At the same time.
In the Twisted Jungle outside the Dark Swamp.
The steel battle armor’s right hand rose high, fingers together, then slashed downward fiercely.
Crack!
The frozen star energy metal was split in two by the hand blade, and the thick stellar energy metal wall collapsed to both sides.
Revealing the spherical shell below.
Inside the sphere, the people heard the commotion outside and quickened their pace in saving themselves.
They were covered in solid ice, losing body temperature rapidly.
They had to use their star energy while they could still think and move to break free of the frozen state!
Otherwise, even if that steel battle armor didn’t kill or capture them…
Once their core temperature dropped to the critical point and they fell unconscious due to hypothermia, it would all be over!