Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

Nian blinked, completely bewildered by the Grand Tutor's actions.

But she still breathed a sigh of relief.

If the Grand Tutor really insists on causing trouble, she and Qi Lin might be able to leave, but it would be difficult for others to leave.

If Qi Yan finds out when she returns to Yumen that she failed to kidnap the Grand Tutor and instead had a group of people kidnapped by the Grand Tutor, he will probably laugh at her for two and a half years!

Before she could fully exhale, she noticed that Ji Jing suddenly stepped forward beside her.

"Grand Tutor, please wait." Ji Jing cupped his hands and called out.

"Are you crazy?" Nian hurriedly tugged at Ji Jing's clothes.

The Grand Tutor stopped and turned around, glancing at Ji Jing for a few moments before realizing he was a stranger.

He lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before asking, "May I ask who you are, and what brings you to this old man's attention?"

Rhodes Island, the extreme.

Ignoring Nian's attempts to persuade him, Ji Jing said loudly, "This junior has been entrusted by Qi Yan to speak privately with the Grand Tutor."

"Oh?" the Grand Tutor said with a half-smile, "What if I disagree?"

As he spoke, two imperial guards stepped forward simultaneously. Although they did not speak, a terrifying aura pressed down on Ji Jing.

Ji Jing suddenly felt as if a giant hand was pressing down on his shoulder, making it difficult to even breathe.

With a muffled thud, Nian produced a large shield from who-knows-where and slammed it heavily onto the ground, her eyebrows furrowed as she glared angrily at the Grand Tutor:

"We were just having a little joke, it was just a joke, are you sure you want to act tough with us?"

The others in the pit also climbed out. Seeing that the situation was becoming tense, even though they were nervous about the Imperial Guards surrounding them, they still gritted their teeth and stood beside Ji Jing.

Qi Lin's gaze swept over the dark mass of soldiers before her, finally settling on the Grand Tutor, and she spoke:

"You'd better cooperate as you did in Shangshu to avoid getting hurt."

The Grand Tutor silently patted the Imperial Guards on the shoulder, signaling them to tone down their imposing manner, but his attitude remained unchanged:

“Miss Qi Lin, it’s not that I’m unwilling, but everyone here is a soldier of the Great Yan Dynasty, and there’s nothing that needs to be avoided.”

However, if what Mr. Extreme Realm wants to say requires him to avoid speaking to your own people, then pretend I never said these words.

Upon hearing this, Nian and Lao Li didn't react much, but Du Yaoye and Meng Tieyi couldn't help but fall into thought.

Chapter 894 Giant Beasts Are Only Good for Traveling

The Grand Tutor's counter-espionage scheme was not clever enough; in fact, everyone present knew that he said it on purpose.

But sometimes, that's just how people are; once they start getting stuck on something, they can't even control themselves.

Seeing that the army he had just assembled was being disrupted by the Grand Tutor, Nian was immediately furious and raised his eyebrows.

Just as she was about to exchange a few words with the Grand Tutor, Ji Jing raised her hand to stop her.

Under the puzzled gaze of the young man, Ji Jing stepped forward and said neither humbly nor arrogantly:

"I want to avoid the crowd in order to protect them. If the Grand Tutor thinks that his soldiers can withstand the message that Qi Yan wants me to convey, I will naturally not stop them."

"You take the rest of the group back to Yumen first. After I finish dealing with things here, it's time for me to say goodbye and get back to Rhodes Island to handle some important matters."

Ji Jing's frank attitude made Nian and the others exchange glances and temporarily put aside their suspicions.

But Old Carp couldn't help but worry:

"Let Miss Nian and Miss Qi Lin stay."

"No need."

Jijing smiled, raised his hand, and generously showed everyone the skeletal whale tattoo on the back of his hand.

"This is... Holy crap!"

The first thing Nian recognized about the tattoo was its origin: "Why did Qi Yan give this to you!"

Ji Jing glanced at the Grand Tutor, without lowering his voice:

"Because Qi Yan said that the matter is of great importance, and I have this giant beast by my side. If the Grand Tutor is too stubborn, he does not mind coming over in person through his authority of timing."

Also, the situation was too urgent. Once things were settled here, I would need the power of this behemoth to travel back to Rhodes Island and take the Doctor to deal with the troubles.

Nian was dumbfounded: "What kind of trouble is it that we have to use the power of a giant beast to travel, and even with the giant beast acting on its own, it can't resolve the matter directly?"

“Even Qi Yan has given up his playful thoughts and had to ask the Doctor for help. What do you think a giant beast can do?” Ji Jing said with a half-smile.

The information conveyed by his words left everyone present speechless for a long time.

Something big is about to happen on this land.

Moreover, it was a major issue that even giant beasts couldn't resolve, and even Qi Yan found it troublesome.

More importantly, in Qi Yan's mind, the role that the doctor could play was even greater than Qi Yan's own!

The Grand Tutor narrowed his eyes slightly.

He had heard of the doctor from Rhodes Island before, but he didn't really think much of him.

To be precise, if we exclude Qi Yan and the mysterious Ms. Kal'tsit, Rhodes Island is not considered important in the eyes of many people.

However, all indications now suggest that the Grand Tutor is able to clearly determine the rank of a Doctor.

Qi Yan genuinely trusts and relies on the doctor's abilities!

Seeing that Ji Jing was looking over again, the Grand Tutor abandoned his probing intentions and cupped his hands, saying:

“Mr. Extreme Realm, you misunderstand. That’s not what I meant.”

"What does the Grand Tutor mean?" Ji Jing retorted without giving any face.

The two imperial guards standing in front of the Grand Tutor shouted curses at the same time.

But this time, the situation has changed dramatically.

A flash of light appeared on the markings on the back of the Extreme Realm's hand, and the two Imperial Guards were immediately enveloped by an inexplicable power, slowing down all their movements.

The Grand Tutor's gaze sharpened.

He was now certain that Nian's reaction was not an act; that mark was definitely a genuine behemoth, even surpassing Nian in the completeness of its authority, and capable of avoiding Nian's perception while possessing it.

Ji Jing glanced at Tai Fu and realized that this old man had truly put away his contemptuous attitude, so he also stopped testing each other.

Having sheathed the power of the skeletal behemoth, the Extreme Realm extended an invitation once more:

"Grand Tutor, would you be willing to speak with me privately now?"

The Grand Tutor waved for the two Imperial Guards to leave and nodded, saying, "Thank you for your trouble, Master Jijing."

With a wave of his hand, the two figures vanished from their spot in the blink of an eye.

Yumen, an inconspicuous street in the north of the city.

A disheveled figure huddled in the corner, his tattered clothes and filthy, tangled hair and beard confirming his status as a homeless person.

His numb gaze was fixed on the trash cans on the other side of the street, illuminated by streetlights.

The bucket was empty, clearly having been cleaned by sanitation workers not long ago.

The homeless man seemed to be so hungry that he had no strength left, and had to try even harder to cover his stomach and curl up his body.

Just as he was struggling against the torment of hunger, a few coins fell in front of him.

"How pitiful, take this and buy something."

The passing man bent down to put down all the loose change he had on him, shook his head and sighed a couple of times before continuing his journey home.

The homeless man's gaze lingered briefly on the coin before he looked away without a second thought, his eyes returning to the trash can across the street.

After walking a short distance, the kind man suddenly felt a sense of surprise.

"Now that the two cities are connected, I remember that General Zuo specifically issued a new policy that should have provided relief to the homeless in the city. Was that person left behind?"

The man stopped and prepared to go back and find out what happened. If the person had indeed been abandoned, he would take the homeless person to receive assistance.

But when the man turned around, he was surprised to find that there were no homeless people on the street.

Where the homeless man used to huddle, now only a quietly placed trash can remains.

"what's the situation?"

The man quickly walked forward and circled the area twice, but could not find the homeless man anywhere.

But he soon noticed the trash can under the streetlight.

"Wait a minute, I see this trash can all the time, but the trash can that just appeared where the homeless man was..."

A strange sense of unease suddenly welled up in the man's heart, and he quickly turned his head to look at the spot where the homeless man had been curled up.

The homeless man was nowhere to be seen, and the extra trash can had also disappeared.

The man himself was standing in that position.

The man stared into the eyes of his other self, feeling as if he had fallen into an ice cave. His muscles stiffened and he could not move, and could only watch helplessly as his other self stepped forward.

The other person's demeanor, mannerisms, and even gait habits were exactly the same as the man's.

"I am going home."

The man walked up to the other man, leaned close to his ear and whispered, "I don't want my family to be frightened. I'm willing to pay any price for my family... So you can't appear in front of my family."

The man's eyes widened in terror, and he tried to scream, but a hand as strong as an iron clamp gripped his throat.

A moment later, the 'man' walked calmly through the streetlights-lit neighborhood and returned home with practiced ease.

In the living room, the toddler, who had just learned to walk, saw his father return and immediately toddled over.

The man, with a doting smile on his face, stepped forward, hugged the child, and reached out to knead the child's soft cheeks.

The child paused for a moment in the 'man's' arms, then suddenly burst into tears.

"What happened?" His wife poked half her body out from the kitchen. "Why did you make the child cry?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm hungry?"

The man looked puzzled, picked up his child, and walked toward his wife, saying vividly, "Let me tell you, on my way back just now, I saw a very strange homeless man."

I'm a kind-hearted person, and I can't bear to see this kind of thing happen, so I gave him some change. But when I turned back not far later, the homeless man had become a trash can!

"Are you out of your mind from exhaustion, saying such absurd things to scare me?"

The wife gave the 'man' a coquettish glare, then came out of the kitchen, took the child, and kept comforting him.

Even after the child returned to his mother's arms, he continued to stare at the 'man' and wail.

The wife felt a little strange and lowered her head to touch the child's forehead with her face:

"He doesn't have a fever, and it's definitely not because he's hungry. I just fed him."

“Maybe he prefers his mother?” the man chuckled.

The wife, somewhat smug upon hearing this, looked up and said:

"Of course, that's what the baby likes the most..."

The words stopped abruptly.

The 'man' disappeared, and in his place was the 'wife' herself.

Chapter 895 The Alliance Between Zuo Wei and Wei

Chongyue stood in front of the military camp, glanced down at the mummy lying on the stretcher beside him, and couldn't help but show a bitter smile on his face.

Upon seeing this, Wei Yanwu, who was dressed as a mummy, immediately protested:

"Grandmaster, I'm already in such a miserable state, how can you still bear to laugh at me?"

"Too much of a good thing, Lord Wei," the Grandmaster reminded him with a smile. "Brother Zuo isn't stupid either. Although your injuries are not light, you really don't need to abuse your body like this."

Upon hearing this, Wei Yanwu sat up abruptly, pulled the injury assessment report from the arms of the shadow guard beside him, and said with righteous indignation:

"I brought the documents with me. Whether the injuries are minor or serious is not up to Zuo Xuanliao to decide!"

Chongyue looked around and made sure that only Wei Yanwu and his four shadow guards were around, and that there were no other people eavesdropping.

After confirming that it was safe, Chongyue said in a deep voice: