Four Split Personalities

"Just kidding~"

Yu Chen playfully stuck out her tongue, then tied a small butterfly knot on Motan’s arm with a bandage and whispered, "When I went to the Alchemy Workshop with everyone to get medicine, I chatted with Luna for a bit. She said you were in really bad shape back then, and the command before we got out of danger was just you forcing yourself. You finally coughed up a mouthful of blood and passed out. So, what exactly happened?"

Motan chuckled dryly and shrugged, "Maybe my physical strength value was consumed too much. I hadn’t expected that the second stage would be such a drain on me. That’s why I’ve said before that even though this is just a game, going all out can really be rough. I was so dizzy then. You’ve got to be careful in the future, even if it’s saving lives, do it within your limits, you know."

"When did you start lecturing me..."

The girl pouted and gave Motan a glare, huffing, "And then what?"

The other blinked innocently, "What ’then’?"

"You were really dizzy, right? So what happened after that?"

"Oh, that..."

Motan laughed heartily and pulled out the excuse he had just thought of, "I managed to hold on until you all were safe, then I took the chance when Luna wasn’t looking to log off on the spot. I crawled out of the Game Cabin, went to the bathroom, washed my face, made a cup of coffee, watched some cartoons, and had a really comfortable rest for a good while."

His words were seventy percent truth, thirty percent fabricated. Aside from a few key points, it was all truth, logically sound. As for the false parts, there was no way to prove otherwise, an absolute high realm of lying. So...

"So, how much of that should I believe?"

Yu Chen, sitting beside Motan with her knees hugged to her chest, smiled and looked at the suddenly stiffened latter, "Give me a suggestion."

Motan instinctively wanted to say, ’Of course you must believe all of it,’ but he ended up swallowing his words and after a while, he shook his head helplessly and said, "If I really have to give a suggestion, seventy percent."

"Mhm!"

Yu Chen actually nodded happily, "I got it~"

Motan was puzzled for a moment, "Huh? Just... just like that?"

"Didn’t you just give a suggestion?" the girl propped her chin, gazing toward the hundreds of exhausted figures in the distance, "That’s enough for me."

Motan rubbed his nose, smiling awkwardly, "Then what exactly did you..."

"At 10:35, for about ten or so seconds, Motan seemed very abnormal~"

Yu Chen’s lips curled slightly as she spoke softly, "At first glance, it might not seem like anything, but if you think about it carefully, you can feel a bit of panic, even fear. I don’t think that’s got anything to do with consuming too much physical strength value."

Motan was silent for a few seconds, then shook his head, "No, panic and fear are normal, right? Worrying about making mistakes because of excessive consumption is a completely plausible explanation, right?"

Yu Chen smiled sweetly, nodding, "Yes, it’s a plausible explanation, just that I don’t feel that’s the case~"

"Women’s intuition?"

"Don’t know~"

"Alright then."

Motan scratched his head, saying hesitantly, "It is indeed a somewhat complicated issue..."

A gleam came into Yu Chen’s eyes, "Like you’re actually living with some girl?"

"There’s no such thing!"

"There could be."

"There really isn’t!"

"Haha, just kidding, no more teasing."

The girl got up nimbly, tilting her body and smiling brightly, "I’m not that curious. But..."

Motan blinked, suddenly feeling somewhat lost, "But what?"

"Are you sure you’re okay?"

Yu Chen put her hands behind her back, looking at Motan with rare seriousness, "After resting, are you really, really okay now?"

"Yeah, really, really okay now. Even though I was just covered in blood a moment ago, I’m still feeling quite alright."

Motan smiled wryly, shaking his left arm that had been viciously slashed by a mutant, and shrugged, "So shouldn’t you be heading back soon?"

"Okay~"

Yu Chen nodded obediently and said cheerfully, "Then I’ll go first. Take good care of yourself, okay?"

And then Motan was stunned.

"There are a lot of severely injured warriors at the base waiting for me."

Looking at his dumbfounded face, the girl giggled, "Most of the high-ranking Priests stayed in Disk Tree City to dispel the Plague, so of course, I have to work hard on treatment here. My Magic Points are almost restored, so I must hurry back."

Motan gave a wry smile, "So what did you come here for exactly?"

Yu Chen’s smile bloomed, "To see you."

After saying that, she took off with a brisk pace towards the base.

...

Game Time PM14:15

The joint troops’ second combat sequence retreated nearly half a kilometer under the frenzied assault of the mutants before they barely stabilized their position. Relying on their powerful long-range strike capability, they temporarily contained the enemy. The first support sequence on both sides of the mountain wall also leveraged their positional advantage to strike at the mutants from a distance. In a short amount of time, they had depleted their reserves of boulders and logs. A second resource-gathering team made up of civilian carpenters, stonecutters, and blacksmiths had already been dispatched to collect projectiles from the surroundings.