Chapter 7

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Chapter 7: Resurrection Overture (VII)

You couldn’t see the difference between day and night in the Village of Dusk. Qi Leren walked in the street and walked towards Dr. Lu’s clinic.

After the task in the Holy City, Dr. Lu should have survived—he was still unconscious after being detoxed from ingesting the Nightmare Witch’s poison-medicine, so he was sent back to the Lord’s castle by Qi Leren, perfectly avoiding the chaos in the late hours of the night and once again winning the dangerous task. Qi Leren was convinced that his luck level was off the charts. He couldn’t even envy him.

When he came to the door of Dr. Lu’s clinic, Qi Leren was vaguely excited. He didn’t know how Dr. Lu would react when he saw that he was still alive.

He raised his hand and knocked on the door, and there came Dr. Lu’s faint voice: “I’m going to the grave today, you can’t see the doctor.”

Qi Leren kept quiet and knocked on the door.

After knocking for a while, Dr. Lu on the other side became angry and opened the door to denounce the guest who was harassing the doctor. He suddenly saw the smiling Qi Leren standing outside the door looking at him. His face went white with a scream: “Ghost!!!!”

Seeing that the door was about to be thrown closed, Qi Leren flashed sideways into the house and angrily grabbed Dr. Lu, who was about to run. "What happened to your face? Who hit you?”

Dr. Lu, who was black and blue, covered his face and refused to let him see it. Qi Leren pulled him up like a carrot and angrily demanded, “Look, I’m still alive! Come on, who bullied you?!”

Because Dr. Lu looked young, Qi Leren never regarded him as his senior. He usually took special care of him when doing tasks together. Now, he had been bullied like this in the few days that he couldn’t see him, which made him angry.

Dr. Lu completely ignored the second half of his sentence, stared at him for a moment, and then rushed to touch his neck.

It was warm and had a pulse. Dr. Lu cried with a "wow”, hugging Qi Leren to death with a strength that he didn’t know he had. Qi Leren was scared by him and wanted to throw him off, but when he heard him cry he became heartbroken and softened, standing patiently as he waited for him to calm down.

When Dr. Lu finished crying, Qi Leren’s shirt was soaked, and he wondered where he’d gotten so many tears.

“I saw your body with my own eyes,” Dr. Lu said with a stuffed up voice, his nose and eyes still red.

On the contrary, Qi Leren poured water on him like a master: “I was dead, but I had a resurrection item that allowed me to come back after seven days. I didn’t say anything about this, and I made a mess.”

Dr. Lu complained bitterly: “Do you know how long I cried?! I cry when I think of it. I’m so sad. I also wanted to clean up your things for you, but there was no key to your house and the door couldn’t be opened. I had to cry and go home, I was so ashamed.”

Although he has known Qi Leren for a short time, it was a friendship established in a dangerous and terrifying world. Seeing his best friend die, Dr. Lu, who was already full of feelings, was very sad. After the completion of the task in the Holy City, he had followed Ning Zhou to evacuate the residents, and the Holy See’s staff took the living residents away from their hometown. He and Ning Zhou had returned to the Village of Dusk. Ning Zhou was in a bad state along the way. Dr. Lu didn’t dare to cry. When he got home, he had seen the training menu Qi Leren had before, and then got into bed and cried for a long time.

He didn’t really feel the deaths he had experienced before. He only felt as if he was playing a game that was too realistic. It wasn’t until he saw Qi Leren no longer breathing as he was buried in the tree tomb that Dr. Lu had realized the cruelty of the world.

“Well, don’t be sad. You haven’t said what happened to your face?” Qi Leren looked at Dr. Lu’s face carefully. Dr. Lu’s forehead was swollen and covered with an ointment, and his mouth and chin were cracked. It looked miserable.

“I… I fell…” Dr. Lu whispered.

Where would Qi Leren believe this: “You fell all over your face?”

“Really.” Dr. Lu showed him his sleeves and bruises on his elbows. “I was born with an uncoordinated cerebellum, poor balance, easy to fall when running, and failed in all sports.”

Qi Leren remembered that Dr. Lu mentioned it to him before. At that time, he didn’t care. He thought it was an excuse to be lazy.

“Can this be cured?” Qi Leren asked seriously.

“Ah, I’ve been treated? I can just use [Doctor’s Orders], it doesn’t hurt anymore, that is, the bruises haven’t returned,” Dr. Lu said after a pause.

Qi Leren was distressed yet amused: “I mean, can you cure your coordination problem?”

“No, but more exercise will still improve it some… I’ve also been exercising recently, that is, the training regimen you gave me before… I just always fall, but now I’ve thought of a solution of wearing more clothes when I go running, so when I fall it doesn’t hurt. It’s just too tiring, I’ve never been so active in my life,” Dr. Lu complained, and secretly glanced at Qi Leren. “Anyway, I’ll work hard and won’t hold you back. Oh, my [Doctor’s Orders] have also been upgraded. Now the treatment effect is better. I’ll still milk you in the future. Tanks like you who die particularly easily need a reliable healer like me.”

Knowing the cause and effect, Qi Leren was really angry and amused, and lastly he was a little touched. For a long time, he had positioned Dr. Lu’s role as a healer who could find 100% of the task items and counterbalance his own luck value, so he didn’t expect him to help in battle. Now it seemed that his death had had such a big impact on Dr. Lu. In fact, Dr. Lu had grown a lot more than before.

The two chatted for a long time, and Dr. Lu also carefully told Qi Leren what happened after his death, especially about Ning Zhou. Dr. Lu was very happy to learn that Ning Zhou could come back in a month at most. He accepted the fact that his best friend was gay and he was eager to teach him prostate massage skills that could make even straight men fly up. After being shot down by Qi Leren, Dr. Lu gave him a look of “peerless martial arts will be lost”.

Qi Leren was hungry, too. He pilfered the delicious cupcakes Dr. Lu hoarded and ate his meal under Dr. Lu’s resentful gaze.

“Those are my favorite ones… I waited in line for three hours to buy them.” Dr. Lu wanted to cry.

“I just died and you were in the mood to line up to buy cupcakes, confiscated!” Qi Leren ate two of them and thought they tasted really good. No wonder they were so popular.

Dr. Lu looked at the cakes with a flat mouth amid his grief: “I was going to take them to your grave to offer them to you.”

“Oh, I’ll take them.” Qi Leren smiled and smashed half a cupcake, stuffing it into Dr. Lu’s mouth. “Well, you eat it too. It tastes really good.”

Dr. Lu, who is good at buying, said happily, “As long as you don’t die, I’ll buy it for you every day.”

“Bah, don’t say something so unlucky! I don’t want to die again,” Qi Leren said.

“But you always die when you use S/L Data,” Dr. Lu poked a knife in his sore spot.

“……”

The two men hurt each other for a while, and Qi Leren became tired. Because Dr. Lu had no extra bed at home, he ruthlessly robbed Dr. Lu of his bed. Heedless of the fact that Dr. Lu, who had been robbed of the bed, was whining off to the side, he fell asleep rolled up in the blanket.

He had another nightmare.

In his dream, he returned to the church at the top of the old site of the Vatican and stopped in front of the huge stone door.

He held out his hand to push the door open, and his remaining reason screamed at the top of its lungs telling him to stop, but in his dream he was ignorant and fearless and bravely pushed open the door.

The deceiver is watching him with a charming smile.

Blinded by shock at that moment, Qi Leren had no time to take in the smile on Su He’s face. He actually laughed with no malice, only a hint of ponder and ridicule, just like a human watching crickets fighting to the death in a jar, watching quietly, wondering which one would win.

Once upon a time, Qi Leren didn’t quite understand why Su He always had a calm and casual attitude, as was the case when he first met him. While he and Dr. Lu were extremely nervous, Su He remained composed. Because for him, this was just a cricket game. How could a chess player who could overturn the chessboard at any time be afraid because of the thrills on the chessboard?

Qi Leren dreamed of his death again.

His throat’s trachea was cut, and the pain of suffocation and the weakness from blood loss brought back to him with the dream. He crawled desperately on the cold ground, every inch of distance exhausting him, and his will constantly collapsed as he was tortured by death. He couldn’t persist and gave up…

“Qi Leren, Qi Leren wake up!”

Qi Leren suddenly sat up, short of breath and in a cold sweat. Dr. Lu sat by the bed and looked at him anxiously: “You asked me to wake you up at this time… You seemed to be having a nightmare.”

“…I’m fine.” Qi Leren wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand. “Is there any water?”

Dr. Lu poured him a glass of water.

Qi Leren gulped, slow to come over from the nightmare. This dream reminded him that Su He might already know about his resurrection, and he might make another action. He had to be careful that Du Yue wouldn’t leak the Nightmare Game. At the end of the day, this was actually his fault. If he was making the arrangements now, his first choice would be to ask Chen Baiqi that if anything happened to him, she should give his letter to the Courthouse’s Prophet.

It was a pity that when he wrote the letter, it was during the time when he accepted the role of “Red”. At that time, he and Chen Baiqi weren’t very familiar with each other, and he didn’t like the Court, and he didn’t even know about the Prophet. Naturally, he couldn’t be as thoughtful as he was now.

He could only mend things by getting a contract from Chen Baiqi for Du Yue to sign, swearing that he would keep this secret.

His appointed time with Chen Baiqi was coming. Qi Leren got up, put himself together, and walked towards Chen Baiqi’s home.

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Editor’s Notes: I love Dr. Lu so much 😭😭😭 He’s like an awkward parent who texts you about a cute cashier that he thinks is gay after you come out to him because he’s trying too hard to show that he’s supportive

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