Chapter 137: Virus Flare-up (2/2)

Maybe Lin Yixin thought that my arrogance was insufferable, but she went back to her grinding and didn’t reply.

......

All of a sudden, a red light on the game window started flashing. At the same time, I heard a familiar ding.

Ding~!

System Notice: Your vital signs are too low. You will be ejected from the game in 10 seconds!

……

“Ah?”

I was confused. What’s going on? What did it mean by ‘vital signs are too low’?

Although the message seemed pretty random, I wisely took out a tent and logged out of the game.

The second I took off my helmet, I immediately felt like my body was on fire. When I looked down at my body, I nearly flew into a blind panic. I had no idea when it had happened, but my skin had turned from pink to purple, and my blood vessels were swelling like they would burst open at any moment!

“AH!”

I screamed involuntarily at my condition. The virus’s flare-up was swift and damning, and I wasn’t sure how much time I had left!

I felt despair as my consciousness started blurring. I hurriedly grabbed my phone and called Du Thirteen’s number.

“Hello? Lu Chen?” Du Thirteen sounded confused. After all, he was literally in the room next to mine.

“Thirteen, get… get over here… now…”

“Ah? What’s wrong…”

But I had lost even the energy to speak. My phone slipped from my hand and hit the floor with a thunk. I myself collapsed heavily on the bed, unable to hold myself up any longer.

A few seconds later, Du Thirteen kicked open the door to my room and rushed in with a worried look. The moment he saw me, he turned as white as death. “Lu Chen… Lu Chen! What happened?”

Yamete, Beiming Xue and Gui Guzi also rushed in in the next moment. Everyone was similarly speechless when they saw my condition.

I was on the verge of losing consciousness, and my body felt like it would explode at any moment. Hot tears streaking down my cheeks, I held Du Thirteen’s hand in a death grip and said in a trembling voice, “Thirteen… my brother. If I die, please keep the gang together and fulfill the promise I made to He Yi. Please accompany He Yi to the last moment. This is the only thing I ask of all of you…”

Du Thirteen shivered like a leaf as tears poured out of his eyes. “Lu Chen, I’ve never seen you cry in my life… so don’t… I’ve only ever had one brother in my whole life, and you’re not allowed to skip life like a truant! You’re not allowed to die, you hear me!?”

Gui Guzi rushed forward and grabbed Du Thirteen’s wrist. “What’s going on? What’s happening to boss?”

Du Thirteen gritted his teeth and pulled out his phone. “Save the questions for later and let me call for help…”

Beiming Xue dropped next to the bed and gripped a blood vessel on my elbow tightly as if it would stop it from bulging somehow. However, she quickly discovered that she was only making it look worse. Beiming was so worried that tears started sliding down her cheeks like a waterfall. They felt warm when they hit my body.

Yamete walked toward with a deep frown. “What else are we waiting for? Let’s send him to the hospital already!”

Du Thirteen immediately waved him away while shouting, “Shut up! Send him to the hospital? He’ll die from the pain before he gets there! Just shut the hell up and let me do my thing!”

Everyone was stunned. No one had expected the gentle man to have a side like this.

The moment the call connected, Du Thirteen immediately started describing my condition to the receiver. It was impossible to tell what the person on the other side was saying, but two minutes later Du Thirteen ordered loudly, “Bring all the ice in the freezer and pour them over Lu Chen’s body! Quickly!”

“Ah? Okay…”

Beiming Xue and Gui Guzi quickly went away to grab the ice. I felt slightly better after they put ice on my body. It was like falling into an ice cave during summer.

“Okay… what should we do next?” Beiming Xue looked back and forth between Du Thirteen and me in worry. “Boss still isn’t improving…”

Du Thirteen nodded. “I know. We’ll carry Lu Chen downstairs in half an hour. He will be transported to Nanjing for treatment!”

“Mn, okay!”

…...

It was a torturous wait. By the time half an hour was almost up, all the ice had melted and I was boiling up again.

Finally, the ambulance I was supposed to get into had arrived, and my friends carried me downstairs to be picked up by a couple of people dressed in white uniforms. The strangers asked, “Is he the one who caught the LC virus?”

“Yes!” Du Thirteen nodded before adding, “We would like to accompany him as well!”

The staff stared at everyone for a moment before nodding. “Come in!”

I was injected with something the moment I got carried into the ambulance. A sense of dizziness hit me, and I fell into a deep slumber.

…...

I didn’t know how much time had passed. All I knew was that I was at Nanjing when I opened my eyes again.

I was surrounded by medical devices, and there were tubes connected to every part of my body. To be honest, I felt like fainting again when I saw the sci fi–esque scene. It was the kind of experience you should never have the misfortune of experiencing unless it was through a display screen.

“Ugh…”

I groaned because my body was hurting pretty badly, and the noise I made immediately alerted a couple of nearby specialists. “He’s awake!”