Chapter 576: Chapter 555 What Is This Sll? (4000 words)
“This… because Jiang Qiao told first?”
Hai Lan’s reply was so straightforward it almost seed provocative, but there was no actual intent to provoke. The reason Jiang Qiao didn’t like Hai Lan interacting with outsiders was…
After her mory loss, Hai Lan’s intelligence was normal, but her emotional intelligence had shockingly decreased. The odd choices she sotis made weren’t due to shrewdness, but simply because she was oblivious.
It was likely only when Jiang Qiao wasn’t thinking straight that he would let Hai Lan contact outsiders alone.
This was probably the situation now.
“Big brother Hai Lan, if President Jiang Qiao told you first about his sickness, this doesn’t seem like just a work relationship.”
The person who loved gossip, Black Pot Cooked at, pointed out the problem with Hai Lan’s statent at that mont.
Jiang Qiao publicly claid his relationship with Hai Lan was rely professional. But would a work colleague inform you first thing when they fell ill?
It’s not like taking sick leave from a boss.
“Speaking of which, I seem to live next to the president. If he’s sick at ho alone, he might need soone to look after him. I’ll log off and see if he’s still alive.”
Extra Milk at No Extra Charge wasn’t overthinking it too much since the last ti Jiang Qiao ca over to invite her out for a al.
She had already realized that her neighbor was Jiang Qiao. As a neighbor and guild mber, it was perfectly normal to care about her president’s health off-line!
“I just happen to have the day off today, I could go… check too.” Wan Xiang knew where Jiang Qiao lived, so she subconsciously made this offer.
“Wait a minute… Wait!” Hai Lan finally realized where she had gone wrong.
But once such a grave mistake was made, it was impossible to redy it.
While the mbers of Sustainable Sanctuary and other guilds were still focused on Rosh, the mbers of the Naless Guild had already begun discussing whether to group up and visit the president’s house.
“Wait…”
Before Hai Lan could utter her words of restraint, Extra Milk at No Extra Charge had already logged off, followed by Wan Xiang.
In that instant, Hai Lan could no longer stay at the Lion Heart Yoga Dojo. She promptly made a voice call to Jiang Qiao, who was lying in a sickbed.
“Jiang Qiao! Help ! Sothing big has happened!” Hai Lan whispered urgently to Jiang Qiao.
“You just showing your face and saying hi, what could possibly go wrong? Don’t tell people are planning to team up and raid my house?”
Jiang Qiao, always able to morph into Zhuge Jiang Qiao in the face of Hai Lan’s actions, instantly computed the reason behind Hai Lan’s panic.
“What should I do?” Hai Lan asked, sowhat panicky.
“Don’t you have a ghost state?”
If Jiang Qiao rembered correctly, when he first t Hai Lan, he thought she was a ghost—her half-transparent state floating in midair would scare anyone.
“But… but I can’t be completely invisible, and now the perception of Spirit players isn’t like before. Using my Divine Arts in reality will let them sense it!” Hai Lan was quite chanical about this particular point.
“I hear soone knocking at the door. No choice, hide in the wardrobe.”
Jiang Qiao could only resort to his last desperate tactic, beginning to appreciate that his apartnt included a living room and two separate rooms—a bedroom and a study with a large wooden wardrobe big enough for Hai Lan to hide in.
After communicating with Hai Lan, Jiang Qiao imdiately logged out of the ga and woke up from the gaming pod in the study.
Hai Lan then walked into the study a bit sheepishly and glanced at Jiang Qiao.
“Get in!” Jiang Qiao pointed to the wooden wardrobe next to the gaming pod, used for storing books.
“How long do I have to hide? Is your health really okay, Jiang Qiao?”
“Just go inside!”
Jiang Qiao didn’t know where he found the strength, but he pushed the sowhat plump Hai Lan into the bookshelf, casually threw a pillow inside to make it more comfortable for her, and promptly shut the cabinet door.
After doing all that, Jiang Qiao almost collapsed to the ground, the weakness brought on by the void corruption far exceeded his expectations.
But when the knocking started, Jiang Qiao had no choice but to drag his weakened body and open his own front door.
“You… who are you?” Jiang Qiao, when opening his door, was already prepared to be onslaught without an increase in price.
The girl standing before him was completely unfamiliar to Jiang Qiao.
“Hello, I’m the guild leader of the Conquerors’ guild, Qi Junzi, and my real na is Li Junru. Are you the leader of the Naless guild, not updating today?”
Qi Junzi looked Jiang Qiao up and down, who was dressed in cat pajamas, and asked.
“Uh… yes?” Jiang Qiao didn’t understand why Qi Junzi from the neighboring guild was at his doorstep at this ti.
“Your guild’s joyful gar… his real na is Zhao Mingwei, he asked to co check on you. I was just buying groceries nearby, and later our team captain will also co. I wonder if it’s convenient for you here, not updating Guild Leader?”
As she spoke, Qi Junzi also showed the two large bags of daily necessities she was holding.
“I actually have nothing much, you didn’t have to make it such a grand occasion,” Jiang Qiao waved his hand, clearly understanding that Zhao Mingwei had planned for Qi Junzi to cook dinner here.
Jiang Qiao, after all, was Zhao Mingwei’s guild leader, who from not increasing the price knew that Jiang Qiao had contracted a severe illness, and would definitely be worried being alone at ho.
But the problem was that Hai Lan was still sitting inside the cabinet, and what Jiang Qiao needed to do was get these people away quickly.
“I see…” Just as Qi Junzi was about to relay this to Zhao Mingwei…
“Guild Leader!”
The voice of not increasing the price rose from behind Qi Junzi, and before Jiang Qiao could react, two hands clapped onto his shoulders.
The already weak and feeble Jiang Qiao imdiately collapsed to the ground.
“Guild Leader?”
Startled by Jiang Qiao suddenly collapsing, she quickly squatted down and rubbed Jiang Qiao’s face with her hands.
Regrettably, in the real world, not increasing the price couldn’t use any Holy Light arts to heal Jiang Qiao.
“Guild Leader, what’s wrong? Talk to ! Guild Leader!” Not increasing the price’s sowhat cold hands were placed on Jiang Qiao’s face, and feeling the temperature of Jiang Qiao’s cheeks, she realized sothing: “Is this fever symptoms? It’s way too hot.”
“It looks like symptoms of a high fever, ‘not updating Guild Leader’… it’s better to go to the hospital now.”
Qi Junzi realized from just a glance that Jiang Qiao’s condition was not sothing trivial, but very severe that required an ambulance to the hospital.
“I’m fine, it will be okay in a few days.” Jiang Qiao grabbed the hand not increasing the price pressed on his cheek, looking up at Qi Junzi he said, “If Laughing Grandpa is coming tonight, let’s have dinner here.”
Jiang Qiao could only opt for this sowhat compromising solution, as Qi Junzi had already taken out her phone to call an ambulance, but Jiang Qiao’s symptoms stemd from the Void Swarm’s corrosion.
The hospital wouldn’t be able to diagnose anything, and it seed Qi Junzi had grown accustod to this type of… Zhao Mingwei-like persistence, so she thought it over and put the phone away.
“Then ‘not updating Guild Leader,’ may I use your kitchen?” Qi Junzi asked again.
“Feel free.”
Jiang Qiao struggled to get up from the ground and sat on the sofa, and Qi Junzi without any hesitation walked straight into the kitchen, giving Jiang Qiao a feeling of the New Year festivities.
Just as Jiang Qiao had settled comfortably on the sofa, the still slightly open door frad another silhouette standing at the entrance.
“Wan Xiang… Are you guys planning to co over to my place for a ga of Mahjong?” Jiang Qiao, spotting Wan Xiang at the door, made her hesitate slightly about whether to co in, but after glimpsing at not increasing the price sitting on the sofa as well, she finally nodded slightly at Jiang Qiao.
“Jiang Qiao senior, I brought so cold dicine and fever reducers, not sure if they will be of any help,” Wan Xiang said.
“There’s probably no use, but if you don’t mind, maybe we could have dinner together… Would it count as the first offline gathering of the Naless Guild?”
Jiang Qiao didn’t know how long it would take Zhao Mingwei to arrive, but his living room was already full of people.
Wan Xiang ca into Jiang Qiao’s living room holding a bag of cold and fever dicine and sat down sowhat awkwardly.
Jiang Qiao sat by himself on a single sofa, while Free-Additions and Wan Xiang sat side by side on the long couch.
In the kitchen, the sound of Qi Junzi cooking could be heard; Wan Xiang, who arrived later, was curious about who was in the kitchen but didn’t ask.
This silence lasted for about five minutes until a strange fragrance erged from the kitchen.
The scent caused a noise from Jiang Qiao’s study, like sothing had fallen to the floor.
The sound startled Wan Xiang, and she looked up towards the study, but unfortunately, the door was closed, and nothing inside could be heard.
“What was that noise?” Free-Additions curiously leaned over the back of the sofa, looking towards the study.
“Maybe sothing fell on the floor…”
Jiang Qiao was genuinely curious about why Hai Lan couldn’t turn into a cat.
“Should I go check?” Free-Additions, as if finding a topic, started chatting familiarly with Jiang Qiao.
“No need… Free-Additions, if you’ve got nothing else to do… could you help make a batch of 999 Cold Redy?” Jiang Qiao knew that if he didn’t give Free-Additions sothing to do, she would rush into the study.
“Make it? Do I need to mix it with sothing else?” Free-Additions seed to have forgotten how to prepare the mixture in reality.
“Let do it!”
Wan Xiang imdiately took a box of 999 Cold Redy and went into the kitchen. When she pushed open the door and saw Qi Junzi busy inside, she suddenly felt relieved.
“Hello,” Qi Junzi turned and greeted Wan Xiang.
“Hello…”
Wan Xiang recognized Qi Junzi; the two had bonded during events in the Sustainable Sanctuary, and Qi Junzi often included Wan Xiang when doing missions, so they had a very good relationship.
“Xiao Wan, do you have a crush on your guild leader?” Qi Junzi, while chopping vegetables, suddenly asked Wan Xiang this question, which almost made her spill the boiling water she was handling.
“Why ask that all of a sudden?”
But Wan Xiang’s hands were steady; as a sniper, her heart might panic, but her hands would never tremble.
“It’s obvious in the ga. I’m just curious why you’re fond of a… non-updating guild leader.” Qi Junzi, being a girl, also enjoyed gossip, but her question wasn’t for gossip’s sake.
“During my senior year… I couldn’t play Holy Spirit, and I could only use communication tools on my phone.” Wan Xiang, while making the mixture, said, “Back then, I chatted with him the most. I could talk with Jiang Qiao from school ti until bed ti. He used to share a lot of the latest occurrences in Holy Spirit with .”
“Then you need to act quickly.”
Qi Junzi was already done cutting a piece of carrot as she spoke.
“Is it because of Sister Free-Additions?” Wan Xiang guessed why Qi Junzi might be urging her to hasten her steps. The only competitor she could think of right now was Free-Additions.
“That Priest is indeed one of your formidable rivals, but the real problem might be soone you haven’t t,” Qi Junzi said.
“Soone I haven’t t?”
“Look over there, what do you see?” Qi Junzi, holding a kitchen knife, pointed towards the other side of the kitchen’s windowsill.
Wan Xiang looked in the direction Qi Junzi was pointing, and through the windowsill, she could just see Jiang Qiao’s balcony.
There were clothes drying on the balcony, which usually wouldn’t be a big deal, but among them, Wan Xiang spotted a bra and a skirt.
The pale blue bra and the thin sundress seed to mock Wan Xiang for being far too late!
“I don’t think the president who doesn’t update is a person with a fetish for cross-dressing, and when I ca in here, I slled a peculiar scent, was there a noise just now in the study, right?”
Qi Junzi entered the state of deduction, and Wan Xiang sowhat dazedly nodded her head on the side.
“I’m afraid a woman has already moved in with your president, it’s just not clear if they have established a relationship, although I dare not conclude, the person he’s cohabiting with should be… that player from your guild nad Hai Lan.”
“…Should I back out?” Wan Xiang was already bewildered at this ti, the more she thought about it, the more it seed to be the case. If Jiang Qiao had indeed been living with that girl for so long, she had already lost, utterly and completely, with nothing more to say.
“If your president and Hai Lan have already confird their relationship, I suggest you back out, if not, you continuing to interfere is not a problem.”
Qi Junzi made a very experienced statent, and he even used the descriptive word “interfere”, his tone as if he saw himself in Wan Xiang.
“Then, Master Qi Junzi, how should I interfere?” Wan Xiang, feeling imnsely enlightened, even added the respectful ‘Master’.
“I don’t know, this… it’s up to you.”
When Qi Junzi discussed this, her cheeks blushed slightly, her face was not thick enough to impart such skills.
“I myself… watch myself.” Wan Xiang murmured, just after she had brewed the dicine in her hands, she suddenly heard a cry from the living room.
“President, what’s wrong with you?”
This caused Wan Xiang and Qi Junzi to glance at each other, stopping their tasks and running out to the living room.
At that mont, Jiang Qiao was slumped on the sofa, breathing heavily, his forehead was covered with a heavy sweat, and his complexion was pale as if he were about to die on the spot.
“I’ll call an ambulance!” Qi Junzi imdiately decided, just about to take out her phone when…
“We don’t need an ambulance! There are several gaming pods in the study! Help inside,” Jiang Qiao called out, stopping Qi Junzi.
The reason Jiang Qiao’s symptoms were worsening was due to so changes in the corruption of the Void Swarm, and Thorne’s words were not entirely correct.
Now, as a human, Jiang Qiao could no longer suppress this corrosion, which is why he needed to access the state of the Devouring God and Holy Spirit.
“How can a gaming pod cure this condition!” Qi Junzi knew the characteristics of a gaming pod, though they could enhance a person’s spirit and body, they were hardy effective for treating illnesses.
Lin Xi had even caught a cold before because of using a gaming pod.
“I believe in the president,” said ‘No Milk, No Price’, holding Jiang Qiao’s hand to Qi Junzi, “the Holy Spirit in this ga has also cured .”
“This is not the ti to ss around, Wan Xiang…” Qi Junzi was about to have Wan Xiang do sothing when ‘No Milk, No Price’ had already, together with Wan Xiang, assisted Jiang Qiao towards the study.
Wan Xiang hesitated for just a mont when pushing open the study door, but she still gripped the doorknob and opened the door, only to find no one inside except for a half-eaten apple.
“Just use the middle gaming pod.”
There were three gaming pods in Jiang Qiao’s study, a normal setup for Holy Spirit players, sotis even three gaming pods were not enough.
Wan Xiang and ‘No Milk, No Price’ together helped Jiang Qiao, laying him into the middle gaming pod, where he directly logged into the Holy Spirit.
But when Jiang Qiao opened his eyes again, he found himself not in Fureya’s room, nor anywhere else on the Holy Spirit map.
Instead… he was in the Sustainable Sanctuary completely corroded by the Void Insect Nest!
Worse still, it seed the creatures of the Void Swarm had been waiting for Jiang Qiao for a long ti.
Had his spirit been hijacked?
Many possibilities instantly flashed through Jiang Qiao’s mind, but after looking at his status bars as an Elental Summoner, all statuses were still intact.
Yet, the feeling of weakness and dizziness still enveloped Jiang Qiao.
No matter what, he had to fight!
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