After finishing the poker ga, Shao Qingge and Yu Hanjiang shook hands with the bigshots at the table and said goodbye.
Li Mo took the initiative to say, “I’m tired after playing for four hours. Why don’t I invite you all to have a late night al?”
Yu Hanjiang nodded. “Thank you, Chief Li.”
As people who ‘ca to learn poker’, Xiao Lou and the others didn’t follow. Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge attended the late night al together.
At the al, Shao Qingge chatted with Li Mo, Uncle Chen and the others about business matters. He was an investor himself. After coming to this world, he had been paying attention to the stock market and they had many common topics to talk about. He also specifically ntioned that he was a ‘foreigner’ and he hoped they would all take care of him.
Yu Hanjiang didn’t speak much. He sat there and listened carefully.
In the middle of the al, Li Mo suddenly answered the phone. The mont he saw the caller ID, his eyes beca extrely gentle and he deliberately lowered his voice as he answered the phone. “I’m entertaining outside and I’ll co ho soon. Go to sleep first and don’t wait for .”
Uncle Chen laughed beside him. “Chief Li, is it your wife checking on you again?”
Li Mo was helpless. “If I don’t go ho by midnight then Xiaong always calls to check. She is afraid I will have an accident.”
Uncle Chen sighed. “This husband and wife love is really enviable.”
Li Mo’s wife was Shu Xiaong, the girl who was hospitalized in the 4 of Hearts case. She didn’t participate in the train trip but she had five best friends nad ‘X Xiao X.’
It seed that Li Mo’s experience was all true. After that case, he married Shu Xiaong. It was many years in the past when Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou entered 4 of Hearts. In that secret room, Li Mo was still a young man in his 20s.
All the secret rooms in the Card World might be mories of the past. In this world, ti can be freely controlled by the keepers and this further confird Xiao Lou’s original speculation. If everyone returned to reality, it was very likely that they would go back to the past to avoid accidents and get a new opportunity to start life over.
Due to Li Mo’s wife, the al ended on ti at 12:30 that night. After leaving the restaurant, Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge took a taxi back to the villa. Xiao Lou and their teammates had been waiting for them there.
Seeing the two people return, Xiao Lou took the initiative to bring a glass of warm water to Yu Hanjiang. He asked, “Have you heard anything?”
Yu Hanjiang took a sip from the glass of water and spoke in a low voice. “The Hunter’s League is huge and there will definitely be strong financial support behind it, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many bounties. Chief Shao just chatted with them for a while and even deliberately ntioned that he is a foreigner. I observed from the side and found nothing wrong with their expressions.”
The two of them went to the al to test if these wealthy people were related to the Hunter’s League.
The number of foreigners (challengers) in the City of the Moon was extrely large. Most of the residents could live with them peacefully. Only the Hunter’s League was full of hostility to foreigners and even killed them quickly. Every ti they killed a foreigner, they could get a high bounty. There was definitely a wealthy benefactor behind such an organization.
Shao Qingge sprawled out on the sofa, settling in a comfortable posture as he smiled. “These people in the business are quite good at pretending, but I have an intuition that among the six people today, there must be so of the top level people of the Hunter’s League.”
Those who ca to participate in the card ga today were among the top 10 richest people in this world. It was very possible that so of these people secretly provided financial support to the Hunter’s League.
Ye Qi scratched his head and guessed. “Will it be Li Mo?”
Shao Qingge said, “On the surface, he has deep affection for his wife and doesn’t seem like such a cold-blooded person.”
Yu Hanjiang spoke indifferently, “Don’t forget, he quietly borrowed a knife to kill his own father.”
Their teammates were silent for a while. Then Xiao Lou spoke. “We can’t determine if it is Li Mo or not at the mont. That bald Uncle Chen also has a strong sense of the world and perhaps it is him. Let’s stop worrying about this problem and think about sothing happy. How much money did we win today?”
Hearing Xiao Lou’s words, their teammates consciously gathered around Chief Shao. Shao Qingge took out his identity card and summoned the ATM machine to show everyone the balance of the account. Their eyes were about to fall out when they saw the string of zeroes behind the number.
Ye Qi’s eyes were wide as he counted carefully. “Is this two billion?”
Shao Qingge smiled. “Yes, I won a lot with Group Leader Yu today. Along with the previous savings, our gold coins have exceeded the two billion mark. Now Xiao Ye won’t dislike for spending money on skills, right?”
Ye Qi exclaid, “There is so much money that you could use your skill tens of thousands of tis!”
Yu Hanjiang was solemn. “Transfer two million to Xiao Lou. This is enough for our daily life. The most expensive thing in the Card World is skills. Chief Shao’s Rich and Willful card costs 5 million gold coins to copy a card and it should be used wisely.”
Shao Qingge took the Rich and Willful card out of his card pack and said, “This card might be very strong but it also has restrictions. It can only be used in the secret room and it can only copy cards seen within the last half an hour. This ‘seen’ isn’t just taking out the card and looking at it. It is to release the skills in front of it. Every ti, the secret room can copy up to two cards and each card can only be copied once.”
For example, the Li Qingzhao card had been copied and couldn’t be copied again. Otherwise, they could directly take out 8 Li Qingzhao cards and use Stray Into the Depths of the Lotus Flowers to set eight teleport markers in the maze. This was simply a bug.
Only cards seen in the last 30 minutes could be copied and this also limited Rich and Willful. It had to be used after seeing the cards used by teammates or opponents. There was no way to copy a card if it was banned in that secret room.
Shao Qingge stated, “At present, the cards copied include Li Qingzhao, Qin Guan, Ye Qi’s teleportation card and Xiao Liu’s light footwork card. In the next secret room, should I spend another 10 million gold coins to make two copies?”
Xiao Lou thought about it for a while. “In the next secret room, how about copying the Bug King card first?”
Yu Hanjiang agreed. “The Bug King card can treat wounds and even regenerate severed limbs. However, the number of bugs will be consud during treatnt. Once the Bug King card is used for treatnt, the attack power will decrease. Copying one will be safer.”
Shao Qingge simply nodded and agreed. “What about the other card? Do you want to copy a control card?”
Yu Hanjiang looked at Ye Qi. “Xiao Ye, what is the cooldown ti for your flute?”
“For the full level flute, the cooldown ti is 7 seconds and the control ti is 3 seconds.”
There was a 4 second gap in the middle and the uncertainty of Long Sen’s badminton control was too high. Yu Hanjiang spoke decisively, “Copy the single control Flute card. The two flutes can take turns to smoothly connect the control skill in critical monts.”
Now Chief Shao’s total amount of gold was scary. His teammates had no objection to him using the Rich and Willful card to copy other cards. If it wasn’t for the skill restrictions, they even wanted him to copy everyone’s cards.
After discussing the next plan, Xiao Lou said, “It is already late today. We should go to sleep and rest well. Once we get up tomorrow morning we will discuss what level to go to next.”
The team mbers were really tired after clearing the levels continuously. They went back to their rooms and fell asleep.
The next morning, everyone woke up in high spirits. After eating the breakfast prepared by Xiao Lou in the dining room, they went to the rooftop of the building and summoned the team’s Card Wall.
Yu Hanjiang raised his head and stared at the four cards on the tenth level of the Card Wall. “What is the next level?”
Xiao Lou wondered, “Shall we go in order of Hearts first?”
Yu Hanjiang didn’t hesitate to pull out the 10 of Hearts directly.
To everyone’s surprise, they weren’t sent to the Hearts secret room this ti. Instead, they ca to the personal space as a group. There were four sofas in the space and sitting on them were A of Hearts, A of Diamonds, A of Spades and A of Clubs.
The Hearts sister gently brushed her curly hair behind her ears and smiled. “Congratulations everyone on triggering the hidden secret room. Since all your previous A-level secret rooms have been evaluated as a perfect clearance, the A-level secret rooms in the 10th level will beco a large-scale integrated linked room.”
The A of Diamonds loli continued. “This room will combine the reasoning of Hearts, the maze of Diamonds, the survival of Spades and the challenge of Clubs. Once you smoothly clear the instance, the four of us will provide you with one S-grade card each.”
The eyes of the team mbers lit up after hearing the reward.
In the past, the Hearts, Diamonds and Spades secret room rewarded them with up to six cards while the Clubs room only gave coins. Moreover, after clearing four secret rooms in a row, everyone would be exhausted physically and ntally.
The biggest advantage of rging it into a comprehensive secret room was that the background of the secret room remained unchanged. The disadvantage was naturally the increase in difficulty. A secret room that combined reasoning, a maze, survival and challenge tasks was definitely not easy to clear.
Xiao Lou asked, “Is it necessary to go to the hidden room?”
A of Spades replied coolly while wearing sunglasses, “You can choose not to go. If you continue to do the sa as before and go to 10 of Hearts, 10 of Diamonds, 10 of Spades and 10 of Clubs individually, the final reward isn’t as much as going to the hidden room. Once the hidden room is cleared, I will also reward you with a team shared Secret Room Resurrection Card.”
Xiao Lou’s heart jumped. “Resurrection card? Resurrection from death?”
The Clubs teenager explained in an expressionless manner. “After a death in an ordinary secret room, anyone who is eliminated will go to the Nightmare secret room. No matter who it is, the person can imdiately return to their teammates with the resurrection card. This opportunity can only be used once.”
Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang glanced at each other.
Shao Qingge had the Bug King card in his hand and could heal any serious injury. Liu Qiao had the Witch Card and could save soone with the bottle of antidote. However, what if a teammate encountered fatal danger and died in the secret room when Shao Qingge and Liu Qiao weren’t around? Then they were destined to be eliminated and go to the Nightmare room. It was very difficult to survive the Nightmare room.
At this ti, the resurrection card shared by the team would beco a lifesaver. Every person would get an S-grade card and there was a team resurrection card. This was a big temptation and it was difficult to refuse.
Yu Hanjiang simply declared, “Let’s go to the hidden secret room.”
The Hearts sister smiled. “Are you sure?”
Yu Hanjiang’s eyes were firm. “Yes.”
The next mont, the four keepers reached out at the sa ti. The 10 of Hearts, 10 of Diamonds, 10 of Spades and 10 of Clubs cards flew out of their hands and floated in front of the group. They quickly rged and ford a comprehensive card with four colors.
In the center of the card was a huge black and red vortex. The vortex ford a strange air current. Everyone was sucked inside in an instant and the view in their eyes darkened.
Xiao Lou’s heart was beating very fast. He didn’t know how difficult the four colored secret room would be. There would be murderers all around them, mazes, threats to their survival and other challengers. What type of world was so complicated?
He opened his eyes and found himself wearing a white coat and sitting in a doctor’s duty room.
Before he could react, the phone on his desk rang abruptly. Xiao Lou didn’t hesitate to answer the phone and a young nurse’s anxious voice entered his ears, speaking quickly. “Dr Xiao, a patient was sent to the ergency departnt. He was shot in the abdon and must be operated on imdiately! You should go to the ergency operation room on the first floor. Professor Zhu is waiting for you there and is asking for you to help him!”
This was probably a plot task? Xiao Lou had no doubts and imdiately took the elevator to the operating room on the first floor.
At the sa ti, there was the Clubs teenager’s emotionless voice ringing out in his mind. “You are the chief resident of the general surgery departnt. It is your turn to be on the night shift tonight. There is an ergency in the ergency departnt. Side task: rescue the wounded. If the task is successful and the wounded is hospitalized then you will be given the authority to access the hospital’s case database. You will soon know the result of the task failure.”
Xiao Lou took a deep breath and walked quickly to the door of the operating room.
A middle-aged doctor in a white coat was waiting for him. The sign on his chest read ‘Professor Zhu Wen’. He was the professor ntioned by the nurse. The other person saw him and said, “Dr Xiao, I called you here to help temporarily with an ergency. I don’t have enough manpower here.” He lowered his voice and whispered in Xiao Lou’s ear. “A policeman was shot and already has symptoms of shock. We must try our best to rescue him!”
Xiao Lou nodded solemnly and quickly followed Professor Zhu. The two people entered the operating area, washed their hands, disinfected and changed clothes.
After all, Xiao Lou was a dical student and he hadn’t forgotten these basic procedures. He entered the operating room and was about to look at the patient’s condition only to see a very familiar face on the operating table.
The man’s nose was high, he had a strong figure and a very handso appearance. Yet at this mont, his eyes were closed, his lips were pale and bloodless and he had a needle in his strong arm as he received an infusion. The monitor next to him showed that his blood pressure, heart rate and breathing were all unstable.
The mont Xiao Lou ca in, the monitor started to ring the alarm.
Di—di—
The shrill alarm made Xiao Lou’s breathing stop. It was Yu Hanjiang and he was having a cardiac arrest!
At this mont, he felt cold all over. The cold air from the air conditioner in the operating room poured down from his neck and reached the soles of his feet, making him almost motionless.
“You will soon know the result of the task failure.” The reminder from the Clubs teenager just now echoed in his mind and Xiao Lou finally reacted. It was serious. If he failed then Yu Hanjiang was likely to die directly on the operating table!
Xiao Lou clenched his fists hard and forced himself to remain calm. “Hurry, give him CPR!”
The nurse next to him imdiately moved away. Xiao Lou rushed over to Yu Hanjiang’s hospital bed and stood firmly. His left and right hands overlapped with each other, aiming at Yu Hanjiang’s heart as he pressed down forcefully.
CPR—cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It was the basic thing that all dical students had to master. During the ti when Xiao Lou was at school, he had scored full marks every ti on the clinical tests of the ergency departnt. His movents were extrely standard.
He looked at Yu Hanjiang who was pale and unconscious on the operating table and it felt like his heart was being strangled by a rope, making him unable to breathe. However, he knew very well that if sothing went wrong in the first aid phase, forget the team failing to clear the level. He could lose Yu Hanjiang completely.
Xiao Lou couldn’t imagine such an outco. It was simply unacceptable to let Yu Hanjiang die in the operating room of the hospital. Xiao Lou quickly controlled his emotions with great self-control and shouted at the nurse next to him. “Defibrillator, 200 joules!”
The nurse imdiately handed him the adjusted defibrillator. Xiao Lou aid at Yu Hanjiang’s heart. The electrode pads of the defibrillator pressed against Yu Hanjiang’s strong chest and almost caused Yu Hanjiang’s entire body to bounce up.
After the defibrillation, Xiao Lou continued the chest compressions according to the standard first aid techniques. A frequency of 100 to 120 tis a minute was almost two tis a second. The extrely fast-paced compressions made the rescuer’s physical exhaustion very serious but Xiao Lou couldn’t care about this.
His arms tensed and his overlapping hands continuously pressed against Yu Hanjiang’s chest. After pressing for five seconds, Xiao Lou took a deep breath and leaned over to Yu Hanjiang’s lips to give him artificial respiration.
He might secretly adore this man in his heart but Xiao Lou had no ti to think at the mont. He was currently a doctor and Yu Hanjiang was hovering on the edge of life and death. Xiao Lou’s actions had to et absolute standards.
He wouldn’t allow himself to be distracted at this ti!
Xiao Lou’s left hand gently pressed against Yu Hanjiang’s forehead while his right hand slightly raised the man’s chin. Then he pinched his nose and joined their lips together so there were no gaps. The air in his mouth was evenly blown into Yu Hanjiang’s mouth and he observed if there were any movent from the chest.
After the artificial respiration, he continued to do chest compressions and another round of artificial respiration…
Xiao Lou’s rhythm was very good.
Professor Zhu stood by. He had wanted to help but then he saw Dr Xiao walking briskly to rescue the patient. His reaction was very fast and standard. Professor Zhu eventually just stepped back and observed.
The steps for a cardiac arrest had long been deeply imprinted in Xiao Lou’s mory. His mind was blank and his movents gradually beca chanical. At this ti, he only had one thought in his mind.
Yu Hanjiang had to be rescued. He would drag this man back even if Yu Hanjiang was knocking on death’s door.
TL: Author’s explanation about why Xiao Lou used mouth to mouth respiration during CPR in the hospital is in the .
PR: Yeah, I was like, “where’s your artificial breathing equipnt, you’re in a hospital… but also… they kissed >< (while one was unconscious and the other trying to bring them from the edge of death, but still, progress!)”
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