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Chapter 512 is almost Chapter 520!

Coco's body was quite resilient; she opened her eyes the next day as the first rays of sunlight streamed through the window.

The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was a face beside the bed. She recognized the face; it belonged to a celebrity.

But Coco didn't stare blankly at that face; almost the instant she opened her eyes, she sat up in bed.

Her weak body couldn't withstand the sudden movement, and Coco felt dizzy, as if her head had been severely injured.

She forced herself to get out of bed despite feeling dizzy, and Xiao Qiao, who was standing by the bed, finally spoke up: "You'd better lie down."

The person who had just gotten up did not listen to Xiao Qiao. She forced herself to stand up, holding onto the headboard, her legs throbbing with dull pain: "I need to go find someone."

"Who are you looking for?"

"elder sister."

After a series of mechanical questionings, Xiao Qiao finally understood that Keke and her sister had come to Lianhua City together. Due to some reasons, only Keke participated in the college entrance examination activities, while her sister stayed in the stolen house. Unexpectedly, Keke had an accident and was unconscious for two days at Lianhua University, so she rushed home as soon as she woke up.

She ran into the fat man who was there to gather intelligence as she went out.

After listening to Xiao Qiao mechanically recount Coco's situation, the enthusiastic fat man volunteered to go with Coco to the west of the city and carry her sister back.

Because her older sister had difficulty moving around, Liu Ruyan, who came to see what was going on, specially arranged a room for her on the first floor. Of course, Coco wanted to stay on the first floor with her sister.

As for Xiao Qiao, who was abandoned, she packed her bags and went to live with Liu Ruyan.

As for why the older sister was carried back...

"This is what I want to ask of you." Keke leaned against the window, looking outside. It was unclear whether she was looking at the abandoned vehicles or the overgrown weeds. She had shed the panicked, innocent aura she had exuded in the dungeon and was now very composed.

Gu Mian stood beside her.

Coco stared out the window for a long time before slowly speaking, "My sister, Xu Nuo. She has late-stage lung cancer. She's in a lot of pain and is usually too weak to move."

Calling it lung cancer might not be appropriate, as the cancer cells have now spread throughout her body, destroying her bones and causing her constant, relentless pain.

Gu Mian knew that patients like this, who were usually in this much pain, were not far from death.

Coco was clearly there for her sister.

but……

“I know the supermarket doesn’t have the right medicine, and you can’t help me right now… But there’s always hope in life. You’re the only doctor I’ve ever met in the game, so I came to you hoping that there’s still hope. I beg you, if there’s any chance, any chance that my sister can live, please help her.”

Gu Mian felt that the use of the formal "you" was a bit strange, so he nodded hastily and said, "I don't think you need to address me with such formality."

Ah, the fat man muttered absently, "After spending so much time in the dungeon, I've forgotten that there are sick people in the real world."

Some people were already terminally ill before the game even started, and unable to obtain resources, they quickly vanished from the land.

People like Xu Nuo are relatively lucky, barely surviving thanks to their younger sister... well, they are indeed barely surviving.

I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky.

"So you came to Lianhua to see me?" Gu Mian asked.

Coco nodded slightly: "It was that guy surnamed Chu who told me in the Werewolf game that you guys participate in every event."

So Coco chased after Gu Mian all the way to Lianhua University, but before she could even see Gu Mian, she was almost buried alive. Luckily, Gu Mian sneaked into the school again in the middle of the night.

Since Chu Changge told Coco this, she must have gone to the dragon boat race as well. Sure enough, she continued, "I went to the dragon boat race first, by myself, of course, but your boats were too fast, I couldn't keep up..."

Gu Mian remembered that there was a live stream of each ship's location projected onto the screen, and he subconsciously asked, "Do you know which ship is ours?" Projecting the screen doesn't show who's on each ship.

Coco paused, seemingly organizing her thoughts, before continuing after a few seconds: "The names you've chosen are too straightforward."

Oh.

Gu Mian remembered; the fat man had named their boat "The Doctor's Stunning Fan Club."

At this moment, the fat man next to him looked at the ceiling guiltily and said, "The weather is really nice today."

"I didn't catch up with you, but I still made it into the top 20% and got an admission ticket."

The college entrance exam activities were conducted by school bus. To get on the bus, you needed an exam admission ticket. Even if you didn't take the exam, you could still ride around with your admission ticket. Since Coco and her sister were both here...

Gu Mian thought for a moment: "So you tricked someone into giving you an exam admission ticket?"

Judging from her behavior in the dungeon, she doesn't seem like the type of person who would honestly trade with others.

The person in front of me didn't speak, as if they had tacitly agreed.

Gu Mian had no interest in lecturing others. He thought of the closure of the supermarket's medical supplies section: "Well, there's something you might not know. The supermarket's medicine section has closed for some reason, so we won't be able to buy medicine anymore."

Coco looked up in surprise. Although the supermarket did not have any cancer medications, it did have painkillers.

She paused for a moment, then carefully took out two small, clear bottles filled with liquid, each about half the length of a finger. One of the bottles had been broken open, and only a small portion of the clear liquid remained. The opening was plugged with a small stopper that she had clearly made herself, and then carefully wrapped with multiple layers of plastic wrap.

This thing is very common; its scientific name is "ampoule," a type of sealed, transparent glass container. You often see doctors breaking these open by hand in hospitals.

But this is a disposable container, meant to be broken and thrown away. Gu Mian had never seen it used like this before, with the stopper plugged in.

“Sedatives have a certain pain-relieving effect… She’s in so much pain, I want to buy painkillers, but they’re too expensive.”

As Coco spoke, she pulled out a not-so-new syringe that looked like it had been used many times: "Every time my sister is in so much pain that she can't sleep, I give her a little injection... but it doesn't help much."

Gu Mian remembered that this was the lowest grade medicine in the supermarket, and even the lowest grade cost hundreds of game coins.

He only gets 1,000 game coins for completing a dungeon, which is only enough to buy ten small bottles.

Not to mention the average player.

“Thanks to you,” Coco addressed Gu Mian again, using a term reserved for precious items, “the Heartbeat Hide-and-Seek instance crashed, and I received a thousand game coins as compensation. After that, it was winter…”

Most of the players on Earth died because of this harsh winter.

Coco seemed unwilling to recall that period, but she still said, "I survived the most difficult months with my sister and me using those thousand game coins. We didn't freeze to death or starve to death."

Subconsciously, Gu Mian started doing arithmetic problems.

The cold winter lasted for about three months. Even if it lasted for a hundred days, then with a thousand game coins, that would be ten game coins a day.

Ten game coins are needed to feed two people, and in winter, the heating needs to be turned on so they don't freeze to death. There are also promised painkillers.

Can you really do all that with ten game coins a day?
The fat man could tell what Gu Mian was thinking just by looking at his expression.

As Gu Mian was deep in thought, he noticed the fat man leaning close to his ear and whispering, "Doctor, you're being too extravagant!"

What if GuGu writes up to chapter 520 by tomorrow?
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