Chapter 96

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Chapter 96: Return to the Village of Dusk (VII)

Knock knock knock.

The knock on the door sounded, and Dr. Lu, who was giving love advice to Du Yue, looked at the time. It was 7:30 in the evening.

“Who is it? The clinic is closed, if there’s no urgent matter, please come early tomorrow!” Dr. Lu was a loyal supporter of never working overtime after hours. After suffering from overtime in the hospital, he refused to continue working overtime in the Nightmare World.

Knock knock knock.

The door continued to be knocked on. Whoever it was was very determined.

“I’ll open the door.” Du Yue stood up.

“Forget it, I’m coming!” Dr. Lu pursed his mouth, and the boss stood up from the comfortable sofa unwillingly. He walked impatiently to the foyer and opened the door.

The lights in the room lit up the person’s face.

“Ah! Qi Leren! You’re back!!!” Dr. Lu was overjoyed, and he jumped up with a bear hug. Because of his small size, it seems that his whole person was hanging off Qi Leren.

"Qianbei! You’re still alive!” Du Yue also ran from inside the house and said happily.

“You get off already, I am exhausted,” Qi Leren pushed Dr. Lu down, and came into the living room without taking his shoes off. He collapsed on the sofa. “Pour me a glass of water, I’m thirsty.”

Looking at the dying Qi Leren, Dr. Lu said strangely, “What’s the matter? When did you come back? Where’s Ning Zhou? When I met Chen Baiqi last time, I asked her. She said that you were fine, that is, you had been delayed in the Underground Ant City for a while and would come back soon.”

“We came back yesterday and started training today. Chen Baiqi definitely wanted to murder me.” Qi Leren took the water handed by Du Yue and drank it. He sat on the sofa and said weakly, “Do you know how much resilience it took me to climb over and report to you?”

As a matter of fact, as soon as the training was over today, Qi Leren just wanted to go home to sleep. When Ning Zhou came to pick him up, they had dinner together at Chen Baiqi’s house—made by Ning Zhou. Ning Zhou was supposed to accompany him in the evening, but instead, the Court temporarily asked him for something, and finally Qi Leren was the only one who came to see Dr. Lu.

Dr. Lu gloated: “Hey, isn’t that great? More training, more progress. You see, I’m running according to the training guide you gave me every day. I haven’t fallen very much recently.”

“Qianbei, Dr. Lu rolled down the stairs the day before yesterday. He wore too many clothes and rolled to the bottom like a ball,” Du Yue said in dismay on the side.

“Ahhh shut up! Don’t say it!” Dr. Lu screamed, holding his head in his hands and playing dead.

Qi Leren felt a burst of laughter.

“If you wear too much, how can you run like this?” Qi Leren said.

“Wearing less hurts! And now the weather is so cold, I’ll be frozen to death!” Dr. Lu glanced at the thin long-sleeved t-shirt Qi Leren wore and couldn’t help but shudder. “You should add a coat at least.”

“I don’t need it, I’m not cold,” Qi Leren said.

He had never seen anyone at the half-field level still feel cold.

Looking at Dr. Lu and Du Yue, who were already dressed for autumn and winter, Qi Leren suddenly realized what Chen Baiqi had meant when she’d said, “You have stepped into the new world with one foot” when she taught the chapter “Consolidation and Growth in the Half-Field”. He now had a deeper understanding.

Knock knock knock.

The door was knocked on again.

“Who is it?” Dr. Lu asked gloomily, “We’re closed, please be early tomorrow.”

The person persevered, and knocked three times.

“Could Ning Zhou have come?” Qi Leren stood up, thinking that he shouldn’t have come back from the Court so soon, and went to open the door with full expectation.

The door opened, and a familiar yet strange person stood outside the door, and looked at the Qi Leren inside the door.

“Qi Leren?”

“Xue Yingying?”

Qi Leren looked Xue Yingying up and down. After he’d come out of their Novice Village and entered the Village of Dusk, he had never seen this “manly woman” again, but unexpectedly met her here.

“You… came to see a doctor?” Qi Leren asked.

“I came to see Du Yue. Is he here?” Xue Yingying smiled and quickly passed by Qi Leren, rushing to the living room, “Du Yue! I just went to your house and found no one, so I guessed you must be here! ”

Du Yue said with a bitter face: “Ah… um… I’ll come as soon as I’m done here.”

Dr. Lu whistled: “If she came all the way to find you, you can talk with her.”

“How do you know each other?” Qi Leren asked, surprised.

“Didn’t Du Yue save a pregnant woman who wanted to jump off a building before?” Dr. Lu said.

Qi Leren couldn’t help but cast his skeptical eyes on Xue Yingying’s stomach. He recalled that Xue Yingying had just had a misscarriage during their Novice Village, and was impressed at the thought that she could have already fooled around to this extent.

“Not me! She was a good friend of mine. At that time, she was about to jump. Fortunately, Du Yue pulled her up and she only broke her arm when she fell. I asked him for an address to thank him when he brought my friend to me, and then I became familiar with Du Yue.” Xue Yingying’s happy smile appeared on her face, and her eyes were shining when she looked at Du Yue.

Qi Leren: Oh, I see.

Unfortunately, Xue Yingying’s enthusiasm didn’t get a response, and Du Yue reluctantly dealt with it. Dr. Lu happily ate the cupcakes brought by Xue Yingying, which were obviously to buy him off.

“Qianbei, you were gone for a long time, when did you come back? Dr. Lu said it was a main world task. Did it still go smoothly?” Du Yue turned around and simply chatted with Qi Leren.

“Not bad, I just came back yesterday.” Qi Leren didn’t elaborate, but vaguely brushed it off. “I encountered some difficulties, but it was still smooth and has been completed.”

Xue Yingying pursed her mouth, and the boss looked at Qi Leren and Du Yue who were chatting happily, and began to insert a topic.

Talking was too tiring. Qi Leren, who had been trained to the point of his energy being completely drained, soon became dizzy and sleepy, yawned, and was ready to leave.

At that moment, the door was knocked on again.

Dr. Lu really collapsed: “Who is it now?! Why bother a doctor who’s left work?!”

"I’ll open the door!” Du Yue suddenly jumped up from the sofa and actively opened the door.

The door opened, and Ning Zhou, standing in the shadow, nodded slightly to Du Yue, who had opened the door. His line of sight had fallen straight on Qi Leren.

Qi Leren stood up happily: “Are you done?”

“Hmm.”

“Then let’s go.”

Qi Leren waved at the three people, and his face was filled with a sweet smile without knowing it: “Ning Zhou has come to pick me up, I will go first, goodbye.”

Dr. Lu winked at him: “Go on, go home.”

“Are you Ning Zhou?” After opening the door, Du Yue looked at Ning Zhou and asked sullenly.

“Who are you?” Ning Zhou asked.

“Du Yue, I told you last time,” Qi Leren said.

“Oh, I forgot.” Ning Zhou turned his eyes away and ignored Du Yue. He pulled Qi Leren’s hand a few steps forward and nodded goodbye to Dr. Lu and Xue Yingying. “Goodbye.”

Xue Yingying didn’t wake up from her shock until they had walked out the door: “How handsome! He’s called Ning Zhou? The name is also great!”

“Don’t think about it, he has a boyfriend,” Dr. Lu said coldly.

“It turns out that Qianbei really does have a boyfriend. Hadn’t he dumped Qianbei and disappeared?” Du Yue asked gloomily.

“Ah? Why did you suddenly add so much drama to Qi Leren? I only said that he thought Qi Leren was dead, so he wandered off far waay,” Dr. Lu looked dumbfounded

“But he came back!” Du Yue was extremely sad. “Qianbei will definitely ignore us in the future.”

“Thank God, I’ll never have to do a copy with him again.” Dr. Lu spread his hands. “If it weren’t for friendship, I wouldn’t ever accompany him on a task. It’s bad luck every time!”

“Wait, you said the two of them are gay?!” Xue Yingying, whose reflex arc could circle the earth, finally came to her senses.

"Yes, they’re a couple.” Dr. Lu gave her a look.

Xue Yingying’s heart ached: “Two handsome men gone at once! Ah, my heart hurts. At least I still have little Du Yue.”

Du Yue: “I want to go home!”

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On the way back, Qi Leren asked Ning Zhou, “Du Yue is the new player who lives in my house. Didn’t I tell you before?”

“Hmm.” Ning Zhou frowned.

“Don’t you like him?” After living with Ning Zhou for a while, Qi Leren could already sense some of his emotions—although his emotions were very few. For example, Ning Zhou’s attitude towards Xue Yingying, who was also a stranger, was normal, but he didn’t like Du Yue.

“No.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

“Not lying to me?”

“I’m not lying to you.”

The two were just like ordinary little couples, exchanging short insignificant sentences. Finally, Qi Leren raised his eyebrows: “Is it because he took my house, so you don’t like him?”

“……”

“Really?”

“…Mm.”

Qi Leren couldn’t help laughing. He put his arm around Ning Zhou’s neck and whispered in his ear: “Ning Zhou baby, you are so cute!”

Ning Zhou: ??????

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