Doctor will never die in a hellish situation.

Despite being free from any constraints or restrictions, the girl seemed like a bird trapped in a cage.

On the way here, Shining briefly explained Nightingale's condition: she had lost her memory, suffered from severe Oripathy, and even lost the function of some limbs. If she hadn't received timely treatment upon arriving at Rhodes Island, her condition would probably have been even more serious.

"If it weren't for you, Doctor, Liz might have suffered even more... Let's not talk about that now, let's go in and see her." Shining paused here, her eyes filled with gratitude and... a little guilt as she looked at Qin Duanyu.

Shining and Nightingale know Qin Duanyu from the past.

He already knew about this when he was in Siesta, and now that Shining has told him, he guesses that it's probably similar to Platinum's situation. Perhaps his amnesiac self helped them, and that's how they ended up on Rhodes Island.

However, the interaction between the three may have been limited to helping each other out. If it were really like Platinum being seriously injured and taken in for care, then Platinum and Shining should have come together to express their love in the first place.

Qin Duanyu put aside her somewhat chaotic thoughts and tiptoed into the ward.

This pure white girl is so heartbreaking; even breathing slightly heavier makes one worry that it might disturb her.

Fortunately, she was completely absorbed in her own world and seemed unaware that someone was approaching.

Her slender, fair fingers twisted and turned, but the color blocks remained incredibly complex, showing no sign of connecting into one piece. Her emerald eyes were filled with doubt, and her beautiful brows were furrowed.

Nightingale was playing with a dodecahedron Rubik's Cube. If an ordinary person has not been trained, it would take them a long time to even figure out a 3x3 Rubik's Cube. You can imagine how difficult it is to solve this type of cube, which is different from the normal ones.

"Why not try something simple? Before we came, I saw those kids playing with 2x2 Rubik's Cubes, and it looked really interesting," Qin Duanyu asked with a smile, trying to soften her tone.

“For me, memories are just scattered, chaotic fragments. Restoring them to their original state is much more difficult than this.” Nightingale raised her head, studied Qin Duanyu for a while, and then smiled, pointing to a small black cube. “In one of the fragments, there happens to be your shadow. Doctor, it’s been a long time.”

"I'm sorry, I... I've also lost my memory and can't remember anything about you." Qin Duanyu spread his hands helplessly, expressing his regret at not being able to respond to the girl.

"Why don't we solve this Rubik's Cube together? Maybe when it's back to normal, we'll remember everything, both the painful and the beautiful." Nightingale stretched out her free hand, stroked it through her mask for a moment, and then extended an invitation to Qin Duanyu.

"To be honest, if it's just about recovery, it's very simple, but... the method might be a bit rough." Looking at the girl's pure and innocent smile, he hesitated slightly before speaking as if possessed.

The girl stopped answering and handed the broken pieces to Qin Duanyu. Then, she naturally and skillfully took his arm and began to hum a tune that was difficult to decipher, like a lullaby a mother would use to soothe a child's restlessness.

With tacit approval, Qin Duanyu disassembled the originally complete Rubik's Cube into many pieces without saying a word, and then reassembled it according to the colors.

Unfortunately, even with a god-like perspective on the Rubik's Cube's internal structure, brute force disassembly still carries inherent risks. The reassembled Rubik's Cube does indeed look like it was manufactured, but it will fall apart with just a slight twist.

"How about I buy you another one?" Qin Duanyu said somewhat awkwardly. He didn't know why, as if a string was missing from his brain, he had forcibly made the Rubik's Cube into this mess.

Breaking a little girl's toy is worse than trash.

“Doctor, miracles don’t come for free. If you pray for hope, you will inevitably spread an equal amount of despair. So, is this really the result you hoped for?” Nightingale didn’t take the Rubik’s Cube, but held Qin Duanyu’s hand and murmured softly.

Qin Duanyu felt a sudden pang of fear upon hearing her words.

In a daze, he seemed to have returned to the ancient altar where the stone coffin was unearthed, standing alone in the center, quietly waiting for something. However, unlike the last time when he could only hear some whispers of the ritual starting, this time it seemed that the ritual was in progress.

The altar, constructed from Originium crystals, gleamed in the darkness. The runes, whose meanings were unclear, flashed with dazzling light, their rhythm as full as human breathing. A vast amount of power slowly flowed into his body, as if a suppression mode had been activated, giving him the illusion of being omnipotent.

Along with the power came indistinct and meaningless whispers, as if countless people were whispering in her ear, or as if someone was stirring her brain with a steel knife. This caused Qin Duanyu to have a problem with self-awareness, giving rise to philosophical questions such as "Who am I?", "Where am I?", and "What do I want to do?".

She had to stop; she couldn't rely on this power, or she would lose sight of who she was! Qin Duanyu was extremely anxious, but she didn't know how to escape this illusion.

Suddenly, a cool sensation came from my fingertips, yet it had a reassuring power.

He returned to the somewhat cramped hospital room, where a flawless white-skinned girl sat not far away.

By the way, I am Qin Duanyu, a doctor from Rhodes Island, and I have several girlfriends I am currently dating... The gradual return of his self-awareness brought him back to his senses.

"Doctor, don't space out." Seeing that he had finally come to his senses, Nightingale tore something off her clothes and shoved it into his hand. "This is the gift I promised to give you after we met again."

Bra strap?!

Coming to her senses, Qin Duanyu stared wide-eyed at Nightingale.

"What's wrong? You once said that it's common sense to give someone the bra strap when you meet someone after a long separation." Nightingale tilted her head and said matter-of-factly, "Oh, one isn't enough? Then I'll give you the other one too."

"Damn it, I'm a legitimate PhD! I really didn't do anything inappropriate to Nightingale!" Qin Duanyu was terrified, not even bothering to consider what the illusion she had just witnessed truly meant.

The black silk ribbon still carried a trace of body heat and a faint, intoxicating fragrance, but Qin Duanyu had no time to appreciate it. He had already seen Shining carrying a sword and Nearl carrying a warhammer, charging towards him with murderous intent.

That's terrifying, bro!

The group stage is an all-LPL vs. LCK showdown! If FNC and G2 meet in the finals, wouldn't that be incredibly surreal? 233333333

Chapter 8, Section 286: How Could the Beautiful Girl Astrologer Be a Fraud?

Click!

Presumably because there had been no movement in the room for too long, Shining and the others decided to come in and check on the situation out of concern. Since everything happened so suddenly, the bewildered Qin Duanyu didn't even have time to hide the shoulder strap in her pocket.

Two pairs of eyes first swept over Qin Duanyu, lingered briefly on the two black silk ribbons, and then landed on Nightingale's smooth shoulders.

Such an obvious change makes it clear what just happened, even without Leeuwenhoek-like observation skills.

Shining and Nearl exchanged a glance, then slowly walked over, holding the "staff" in reverse.

"No, no, no, I can explain, please don't call the police... Fine, you should still call the police, at least leave me with a complete corpse..." Qin Duanyu waved her hands wildly in front of her chest, causing the silk ribbons to flutter in the air.

Bang!

A crisp sound.

"Shining, it hurts!" Nightingale clutched her forehead, looking at her friend with teary eyes.

Huh!?

Seeing Shining's actions, Qin Duanyu was stunned. For a moment, he really thought that the Sword Saint was about to draw his sword to rid the people of evil.

"I'm sorry, Doctor, Liz sometimes makes these kinds of funny jokes, please don't take them to heart." Seeing Qin Duanyu's bewilderment, Shining seemed to be suppressing a laugh. "However, this also shows that Liz doesn't have any reservations about you."

Nightingale is usually quiet and reserved in front of other medical staff, but she occasionally shows signs of girlish behavior when she is with her and Nearl, such as joking with the Doctor, which shows that she remembers him.

Besides, being able to scare the doctor was a way of venting the anger he had often felt at being teased by him in the past.

"Near Light, you be the judge. It's not easy for people to finally see a real doctor..." Nightingale pouted and snuggled into Near Light's arms, complaining softly.

"The real me?" Qin Duanyu frowned, looking at Nightingale with a puzzled expression.

“Yes, it’s warm now, instead of being cold,” the girl said casually, her attention quickly shifting to a jigsaw puzzle that Lin Guang had brought.

Warm? Cold?

"Was I a zombie or a robot before?" Qin Duanyu wanted to ask again, but Nightingale ignored him and instead played with a jigsaw puzzle with great interest. Seeing how completely absorbed she was in her own world, he could only wait until his next visit to ask.

“Doctor, as you probably guessed, we have indeed met you before and received a lot of help from you.” As soon as he left the ward, Shining followed him out, saying somewhat uneasily, “Without you, I would not have been able to save Liz at all. Her condition… might have been much worse than it is now.”

"I knew it! No wonder you understand me so well." Qin Duanyu wasn't surprised at all, after all, her behavior was too obvious. "Stay and keep Nightingale company today, I bet she misses you too."

The only thing I don't understand is that since he had helped the two girls in the past, it would be normal for Shining to show gratitude and trust, so why is she so uneasy, as if she feels guilty?

"What? But I'm your assistant, I should always be by your side."

"It's okay. You've been working as my assistant all this time, so you probably haven't had a chance to stay in the ward, right?" Qin Duanyu habitually reached out to pat the girl's head, but quickly withdrew his hand awkwardly. "What's there to worry about on Rhodes Island? I'm not going to sneak out."

After all, the other party is a mature and intellectual older sister, the Sword Saint, and not a girl like Texas with whom she has a close relationship. What if it causes resentment?

"Okay then, see you tomorrow." Shining hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded in agreement.

Watching Qin Duanyu's departing figure, she touched her forehead, feeling a little lost.

……

Leaving the special care area, Qin Duanyu rubbed her temples, trying to stop herself from recalling the hallucinations she had seen in the ward.

fear.

That was a different kind of crisis than the one where he was juggling multiple relationships and ended up with a girl pointing a weapon at him. Instead, it was a deep-seated tremor that made him instinctively want to escape and avoid facing the unknown past.

"Ouch!" With a soft cry, Qin Duanyu almost fell to the ground.

That was the Liberian girl, with long, flowing blue-black hair, wearing a black ladylike dress, and her large blue eyes were full of confusion.

“No wonder Aphrodite veered off course and was unusually bright last night. It turns out I was going to meet you today.” After seeing Qin Duanyu’s appearance, the Liberian girl generously extended her hand. “Starry Sky, the new recruit of the Human Resources Department, it’s a pleasure to meet you, Doctor.”

"Miss Starry Sky? Hello, hello. I'm sorry, I was thinking about something and didn't notice you." Qin Duanyu immediately connected the girl's image with a certain illustration from her memory.

She's the only melee guard with sustained magic damage in the game. Qin Duanyu had no choice but to level her up to max level when they were playing Contingency Contract, so she still remembered her. I think she joined Rhodes Island during everyone's vacation in Siesta.

After all, reality is different from the game. Just like Gavial can't just stand on the high platform and heal people, but instead grabs his staff and rushes up to hit people, Lappland can't charge up her attack before releasing Wolf Spirit, but releases it throughout as long as her body can handle it.

Therefore, Astro's status is not as important as it is in the game; he only knows that this operator has come to the island.

"Well, actually I was also wrong. Standing in the middle of the corridor did cause inconvenience to others." Xingji generously expressed that he didn't mind, then showed a troubled expression, "The convergent genes among blood relatives cause, uh, Originium to resonate and... this is the real mystery, I can't understand it at all..."

"Medical examination report? Is there anything you don't understand? Let me explain it to you." Qin Duanyu glanced at it and said to Xingji.

Even without regaining her past memories and becoming an all-knowing scholar like Kal'tsit, she still works for a pharmaceutical company and has learned a lot from interacting with operators every day. Helping someone who knows nothing about the field to understand the meaning is not difficult.

"I see, then I'm relieved. As a token of my gratitude for translating your medical report, let me do an astrological reading for you." Xingji let out a long sigh, as if relieved of some burden, and then extended an invitation.

"Fortune telling? Forget it, I'm not really interested." Qin Duanyu thought of the so-called fortune teller she had encountered in Siesta and instinctively resisted.

He only wanted a compass reading to predict his marriage, but the swindler, whether he hadn't adjusted the equipment properly or what, claimed that the compass needle would point to his true love. Instead, the needle spun like a propeller and showed no sign of stopping.

If you really want to repay someone, you might as well apply to be transferred to the Operations Department and become a tool. It's more reassuring to have blue Lungmen dollars.

"So, Doctor, you also think astrology is a hoax, right?" Xingji said somewhat dejectedly. "If you really had the ability to predict the future, how come you couldn't even see your own sister's illness?"

"Then... I'll leave it to Miss Xingji. I'm really troubled." Looking at the girl's expression, Qin Duanyu figured that since she had nothing to do that night and was indeed feeling uneasy, seeking some emotional comfort wouldn't be bad.

And so, he followed the girl to the personnel department’s office area, to an office with a sign that read “Psychological Counseling”.

As soon as the door opened, a strong aroma of incense wafted out. Through the wisps of smoke, one could vaguely make out various divination tools, an enigmatic star chart overhead, and furniture predominantly purple...

Hmm, I feel like I've seen this somewhere before, it looks like that scammer's tent.

No, with this fantastical setup, it doesn't look like a scam at all.

It's definitely not because the other person is pretty.

"Doctor, feel free to ask if you have any questions. Star will give you the answers and show you the way forward." Star led him to a low table, sat down cross-legged, and reached under it to rummage for something.

It was a blue glass sphere with a gold border around it. It looked like a celestial globe simulating celestial motion. Although it still had a bit of a mystical feel to it, it was at least much more sophisticated than an astrological chart or anything like that.

"Hey, why isn't this a star chart?" The extremely familiar layout made Qin Duanyu's mind fill with thoughts of that swindler named Ah something. He was somewhat surprised to see Xingji pull out a celestial globe from under the table.

"Hmm?! Doctor seems to have some experience with astrology?"

"Ugh, don't even mention it. I ran into a scammer while playing in Siesta." Qin Duanyu recounted her experience, expressing extreme disdain for the so-called master.

"Oh, the charlatan you mentioned is actually my grandfather," Xingji said with a half-smile after listening to Qin Duanyu's complaints.

As the girl finished speaking, the celestial globe she held in her palm suddenly emitted an eerie light.