Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 403 Strategy Mission
Although Zhong Yin and the other two looked fine, Ouyang Lianyu still insisted on taking them to the hospital for a check-up. You have to know that drowning can cause complications such as pulmonary edema and pneumonia, which can be life-threatening if you are not careful, so you must not be careless.

It's not just the three of them. Han Zhou also had a deep wound on his abdomen caused by the fishing line. Although he received simple treatment, he still had to go to the hospital for a professional bandage to prevent the wound from getting infected.

So everyone went back to the villa to change clothes, and then took a car to the hospital.

There were eight of them in total, and one car obviously couldn't accommodate them all, so they had to take two cars in groups of four. Han Zhou, Gu Zheng, Mo Yixia and Zhong Yin naturally got in the same car, after all, there were only four of them who needed to be checked.

It can be seen that the driver seemed to have a lot to say. It was probably the first time for him to accept an order near the villa, and it was also the first time he knew that people who could afford to live in the villa still needed to take a taxi when going out. If he didn't have to concentrate on driving now, he might have been thinking about how to post on WeChat Moments.

Han Zhou sat in the passenger seat, and the other three sat in the back seat. Even though Mo Yixia and Gu Zheng got into the same car, the atmosphere was not as tense as he had worried. He didn't know if it was because they were too tired or because they had already said what they wanted to say when they were lying together before, but as soon as they got in the car, they closed their eyes, folded their arms across their chests, and leaned their heads against the window. Even their movements were the same.

Han Zhou observed the situation in the back seat through the rearview mirror and couldn't help laughing. He had already heard from others about the specific circumstances when Mo Yixia and Gu Zheng fell into the water. He knew that they both drowned because they helped each other. Although he was still frightened, he also felt that this might be a blessing in disguise.

It has to be said that both Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia were quite unlucky today. One of them got a cramp in her leg right after diving, and the other got her feet entangled in water plants after sinking to the bottom of the lake. If it weren't for these two things with such low probability happening to them at the same time, it wouldn't have been Han Zhou's turn to jump into the water and save the beauty.

Today is obviously not a lucky day for Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia, but in a sense, it can be called Han Zhou's lucky day.

The luck here certainly does not mean that he has the opportunity to be a hero and save the beauty, but that he has the opportunity to ease the relationship between Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia.

Although it was subtle, the relationship between the two seemed to have improved - this was Xiao Xiaoxiao's judgment after observation.

This is undoubtedly a rare thing.

Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia are well aware of each other's love rivals. If not to say they are incompatible, they at least dislike each other. It is not easy to ease their relationship. However, with this drowning incident, both of them can be said to have almost lost their lives trying to save each other. Such a favor cannot be easily offset, and their attitudes towards each other will definitely change from now on.

It is certainly not possible to call each other sisters, but at least they can look at each other more favorably.

In this way, Han Zhou will be able to create more opportunities for the two to meet in the future, and he won't have to be so careful with making an alibi like he did this time.

Of course, the most important point is that the seeds of opportunity have been planted. Even if they cannot wait until the day when the seeds sprout, at least before they have to make a decision, Guzheng and Mo Yixia will not fight each other.

After all, in a sense, the two of them are friends who have been together for life.

Thinking of this, Han Zhou felt emotional and thought that he had been very lucky these past two days. When he wanted Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia to meet, a typhoon came, and when he wanted their relationship to ease, they both fell into the water. Although these two things were not good things, they were indeed a kind of luck for him.

His luck didn't end there.

After this drowning incident, Ouyang Lianyu and Zhong Ling felt deeply guilty for not being able to help because they could not swim. Mo Yixia also planned to find time to learn swimming. In the end, the girls hit it off and made an appointment to go to the swimming pool together to practice swimming next summer. The "everyone" here naturally included Han Zhou.

To be honest, Han Zhou is not very interested in girls' swimsuits, but if he has the chance to feast his eyes on them, he naturally would not refuse. After all, young people should have eyes that appreciate beauty.

Han Zhou thought about it for a while, and suddenly remembered that there were only zero points left in the status bar. He couldn't help feeling melancholy, and began to think about how to get the lost points back as soon as possible. You know, his body has not fully recovered yet, and he has no sense of security without some points.

The next second, as if aware of his predicament, a series of tasks suddenly popped up in the status bar -

[Activity mission has been opened: Please follow the target person Wang Lengqiu to her hometown within three months, check the important photos she keeps, and confirm the relevant information. After completing the mission, you can get 300 points and choose one of the three randomly drawn items to get.]

[Activity mission has been opened: Ouyang Lianyu may need your help in the near future. You can take the initiative to ask and accept the mission, or you can pretend to be unaware and refuse the mission. The mission details and related rewards will be displayed after you accept the mission. Note that after completing this mission, you may unlock a series of related tasks. After completing all the tasks, you will receive massive rewards.]

[Activity mission has been opened: Target character Gu Zheng and target character Mo Yixia have completed two disputes, one loss and one draw. Please make the two of them have no less than three disputes within three months, and make the total number of wins and losses of all disputes equal. After completing the mission, one enhanced skill will be drawn from each of the two target characters.]

[Activity mission has been opened: You have learned the correct way to use the mysterious kit. Please use the mysterious kit again at the right time next month and obtain important information from it. After completing the mission, you will get an important opportunity.]

[Activity mission has been opened: Please learn the target character Zhong Ling's heart knot in the shortest possible time, and complete the side missions related to him as soon as possible. The richness of the mission reward will be determined by the time you complete the mission.]

[Strategy mission has been started: the target character Zhong Yin is now in a conquerable state. Please confess to him without using any abnormal means. If the target accepts your confession in a heart-moving state, the mission will be considered completed. You will receive 1,000 points, a mysterious item, and a random enhanced skill from the target.]

Looking at the six tasks that popped up in succession, Han Zhou couldn't help but be stunned for two seconds, especially the last strategy task that he saw for the first time, which made his eyelids jump.

A mission? Or a mission to capture Jong-eun? What a joke!
He turned around to look at Zhong Yin who was looking down at his mobile phone in the back seat, and saw the words "Zhong Yin (can be conquered)" appeared above his head at some point, which made him feel startled.

When I thought about how this guy would probably sneer and take out a wrench from his pocket after I confessed my feelings to him, I couldn't help but shudder, feeling that the status bar was trying to get me killed.

Zhong Yin already hated his scumbag behavior, and he had done his best for himself by not telling Gu Zheng. If two-timing him was not enough, he even dared to go to her and confess his feelings. Isn't this just courting death?

"what happened?"

As if noticing Han Zhou's gaze, Zhong Yin asked without even raising his head, "Is there something on my face?"

Her tone was not as cold as usual, but rather unusually gentle, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"neither."

Han Zhou felt inexplicably guilty and wanted to say that there was nothing on your face, but there was something on your head. He shook his head and explained, "I just saw you looking at your phone as soon as you got in the car, and I was a little curious about what you were looking at."

I thought Jong Eun wouldn't answer, or would say indifferently, "You care about so many things." Unexpectedly, he said calmly, "Photos. I'm looking at photos of my childhood with my family."

Han Zhou was stunned, not knowing what to say. He knew that Zhong Yin and Zhong Ling's parents had passed away a few years ago, leaving only the two sisters to depend on each other. Suddenly looking through old photos, could it be that they remembered something sad?
Thinking that Zhong Yin's life was hanging by a thread today, and that he might have already seen the revolving door, he felt that this possibility was very high. "Sorry."

He sighed in his heart, thinking that he shouldn't have asked too many questions. He didn't know what else to say except to apologize.

Zhong Yin frowned slightly and looked up at him: "You seem to really like apologizing to people."

"Um...is there any?"

Han Zhou smiled awkwardly, not quite understanding what the other party meant.

Just then, his cell phone rang, and Zhong Yin's voice rang: "I sent it to you."

Han Zhou was stunned for a moment, took out his cell phone and saw that Zhong Yin had just sent him a photo.

It was a family portrait with a rockery in the background. A young couple was standing in front of the rockery with smiles on their faces, each holding a string of candied haws in their hands.

Behind the two were two little girls sitting on the rockery. The taller girl had a bright smile on her face and raised her hands to make two "V" signs, looking sunny and lively. The shorter girl also had a smile on her face, but it was a little forced, as if she was worried about falling off the rockery. One arm was pressed tightly on the shoulder of the man below, and the other arm was carefully holding the waist of the girl next to her, and she seemed to be saying something.

Han Zhou recognized the two girls in the photo at a glance. The one with her hands raised was obviously Zhong Yin, and the other was naturally Zhong Ling. Looking at the slightly distressed expressions of the girls in the photo, he seemed to be able to imagine the senior anxiously saying, "Sister, be careful, this is too dangerous."

He couldn't help laughing and was quickly attracted by this heartwarming scene. Behind him, Zhong Yin's eyes were gentle: "Little Ling was very cute when she was a child, right?"

"Ah."

He nodded sincerely, without giving it much thought, and commented while looking at the photo, "Sister Yin was also very cute when she was a child."

He regretted it as soon as he said it. Although his comments were objective, they might be a little inappropriate, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "Are these two people your parents?"

"Correct."

Zhong Yin seemed to be immersed in memories and didn't pay attention to what he just said. "This is a photo of Xiao Ling when she was six years old. That day was her first day of school. She kept crying after she came back and said she didn't want to go to school anymore. So her parents bought her candied haws to comfort her and took us to the park to play. We took this photo by the way."

Han Zhou couldn't help laughing. He didn't expect that the senior sister who was always quiet and well-behaved had such a side to her when she was a child.

"Xiao Ling has been very attached to her parents since she was a child. When she was in high school, she didn't want to live in the school dormitory even though she had to walk a long way every day, just so that she could go home for dinner every day. You have been with Xiao Ling for such a long time, you should have noticed that she usually walks very fast, right? This is a habit she developed after entering high school."

Han Zhou nodded. The senior sister’s steps were indeed very fast when she walked. It shouldn’t be like this. Ever since he mentioned it once, she would always walk half a beat slower than him when they walked together, so he gradually couldn’t feel that she walked fast anymore.

Perhaps because she had survived a disaster, Zhong Yin had a strong desire to talk today and talked about a lot of things in the past, but the topic was basically focused on Zhong Ling, and she didn't mention much about herself. Gu Zheng and Mo Yixia must have really fallen asleep and didn't respond. Only Han Zhou listened patiently.

I thought Zhong Yin would keep talking like this, but he suddenly said, "Han Zhou, thank you."

"What?" Han Zhou was stunned.

"Thank you for saving me." Zhong Yin said seriously.

"Why are you talking about this again?" Han Zhou smiled bitterly, "Haven't you already thanked me several times before?"

Zhong Yin didn't say anything, but turned his head and stared out the car window in a daze.

"When Han Zhou came ashore, the fishing lines on your bodies were tied in a knot."

It has been a while since that sentence came out, but it still keeps ringing in my ears.

Of course she understood what this sentence meant - the moment he tied the fishing line around his body, Han Zhou had already prepared himself to die. Either bring everyone ashore with him, or die with everyone at the bottom of the lake.

The fishing line was tied into a knot, which meant that he had no chance to regret abandoning the others and going ashore alone.

Judging from the situation at the time, it was obviously unrealistic to bring the three people ashore. The probability of dying at the bottom of the lake with everyone was obviously greater. But this guy did it anyway. Afterwards, he didn't even take it seriously, as if it was what he should have done.

In fact, Zhong Yin has always wanted to ask Han Zhou whether he regretted tying the knot in the fishing line, but when the words came to his lips, he just couldn't ask the question.

For some reason, she suddenly thought of the day when her parents died unexpectedly and herself who had said to herself as if to comfort herself, "I can't save everyone."

She can no longer remember whether there was a rescue worker who followed her into the ambulance that day, saying "I can't save everyone" and apologizing continuously, but she still remembers clearly that she had a clear chance to save her parents at that time, but missed it because of cowardice.

In a sense, she killed her parents with her own hands.

Especially after learning that Han Zhou was able to risk his life to save everyone, this thought became more and more lingering in her mind.

Han Zhou didn't know what Zhong Yin was thinking, he was just curious why a strategy mission related to Zhong Yin suddenly appeared.

He felt that there must be an important reason for this. Otherwise, since they were both non-unlockable characters, why were there no strategy quests for Ouyang Lianyu and Xiao Xiaoxiao, but only one strategy quest for Zhong Yin?

(End of this chapter)