Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

Kroos looked in the direction from which the chill was coming and saw Qi Lin staring at her silently in the audience, her face expressionless.

Kroos: "..."

Just when she thought she was about to embark on her postdoctoral journey, Qi Yan, on the field, forced herself to raise her head and locked her eyes on her younger sister with a look full of wisdom.

Qi Lin seemed to receive some signal, nodded, and quietly left the audience.

"Qi Yan is protecting me!"

Kroos was instantly overwhelmed with emotion: "Qi Yan, you are the best boss on this land, I'm so devoted to you!"

“Knock…knock…”

Qi Yan pointed at Kroos and said with difficulty.

"I'll deduct your salary!"

In that instant, Kroos felt as if the sky had fallen.

On the other hand, Qi Yan managed to recover some money by deducting his salary, regained his composure, and stubbornly continued to push off the ground to accelerate, chasing after Logos.

Noticing what was happening behind him, Logos calmly turned around:

"Stop struggling. The doctor has been eliminated, and I saw your head-shaking and swaying movements earlier. Obviously, your underhanded tactics have gone wrong."

You sent Qi Lin away so she could investigate her own underhanded tactics, right?

"Heh, have you heard the story of the tortoise and the hare?" Qi Yan sneered from behind. "Pride and complacency will lead to defeat."

"Unfortunately, I have no pride in this matter."

Logos said calmly, "My judgments are all based on rationality. Right now, the top two seem to have a huge advantage, but they will eventually turn against each other. As for the players behind you and me, they are just girls with no fighting spirit. Now they are dizzy from my spinning and have started to withdraw from the competition one after another."

"Aren't you afraid of ruining your image in the eyes of those girls by treating them like this?" Qi Yan sneered.

"This low-level threat cannot shake my determination to win the championship. I will now focus all my attention on you, ACE and Scout."

Logos lightly pushed off with his feet, effortlessly leaving Qi Yan behind.

But soon he heard Qi Yan's sinister low laughter coming from behind him.

Logos frowned, a hint of worry appearing on his handsome face that could drive countless girls crazy.

"Logos, I know my mind is no match for the Doctor's, and I know that without using my hidden power, I cannot compete with you on the field."

Qi Yan stood a distance away from Logos and said mysteriously, "So of course I prepared some underhanded tricks, and as you expected, my underhanded tricks ran into problems and didn't work smoothly."

But I'm very self-aware; to put it bluntly, I have more than one underhanded tactic!

"what?!"

Upon hearing this, Logos felt a sudden alarm bell ring.

Immediately afterwards, he heard a gasp from outside the arena and quickly turned his head to look.

Qi Lin, who had left earlier, reappeared and walked directly towards the high platform where Kroos was.

But her actions were not the main point. What truly caused everyone to gasp was that Qi Lin was wearing a light blue cheongsam that she had never worn before.

The form-fitting cheongsam perfectly accentuated the girl's curvaceous figure, while the delicate white ice flower pattern on the cheongsam further enhanced Qi Lin's ethereal气质 (qi zhi, a kind of refined elegance), making her appear otherworldly without being too detached from worldly affairs. Combined with the slight hesitation on Qi Lin's face, she seemed like a woman from Jiangnan who had stepped out of a painting, gentle and charming, making people feel an irresistible urge to get close to her.

"This is... the new dress that was rumored before, specially made for Qi Lin by Yan Kingdom?" Logos couldn't help but take a second look.

On the high platform, realizing that she had attracted everyone's attention as soon as she appeared, Qi Lin tidied her long hair, which was naturally draped over her shoulders, and then slowly raised her arm.

In her hands was a rolled-up scroll.

"What does she mean by this?" Logos sensed something was wrong and focused intently on the scroll in Qi Lin's hand.

No matter how hard he tried to concentrate, he couldn't sense anything special from the painting.

Logos dares to guarantee that even the works of those few filmmakers on Rhodes Island today, upon careful observation, could not perfectly conceal their presence.

The painting in Qi Lin's hand was just an ordinary, unremarkable piece.

Even though she realized she had become the center of attention, Qi Lin coughed lightly, trying to draw more attention to herself.

Then, in front of everyone, she slowly unfurled the scroll, revealing one elegant calligraphy character after another.

'I want to say...'

Qi Lin suddenly stopped after opening the scroll halfway.

What do you want to say?

Everyone stared at Qi Lin expectantly, but Qi Lin seemed to be disconnected from the internet, holding the scroll without moving.

Keep opening the scroll! What exactly are you trying to say?

Seemingly sensing everyone's curiosity, Qi Lin successfully reconnected to the internet after being offline for nearly ten seconds.

She slowly...rolled the scroll up again.

Everyone:? ? ?

What exactly are you trying to say?

Saints are not defeated by the same move, but 'Kal'tsit is here'.

Just as everyone's curiosity had been piqued by Qi Lin, and their hearts felt like they were being frantically scratched by a group of Kal'tsit, Qi Lin finally put the painting down.

With a complex expression of helplessness and guilt on her face, she bowed and apologized to the players whose attention had been drawn to her.

Logos and the others were all taken aback.

Why did Qi Lin apologize to herself?

"Wait! Something's not right!"

Logos was the first to react, abruptly turning its gaze back to the front.

Previously, a certain white-haired Lupo, who lacked any martial ethics, had already slid far ahead, quietly catching up with the two ACEs who were originally in first and second place.

"Haha! You've fallen for it! This was my underhanded trick!"

Seeing that his actions had been exposed, Qi Yan no longer concealed his behavior. Laughing wildly, he pushed off the ground and accelerated past ACE and Scout, becoming the first in the race.

"You bastard, how could you come up with such a dirty trick!"

Logos was so angry that his handsome face twisted slightly.

Qi Yan, while pushing off the ground with both feet at the front, turned around, pointed to his eyes, and asked:

"Do you see what's in here?"

"It's filled with the desire for victory!"

Having finished his provocation, Qi Yan stopped wasting time and began to accelerate at full speed.

Ten seconds later, ACE and Scout passed by him, giving him a pitying glance.

Twenty seconds later, Logos crossed his arms and gracefully passed by Qi Yan, who was panting heavily.

He said nothing, only letting out a soft, ambiguous laugh beside Qi Yan.

Qi Yan: "..."

Damn it, hurry up and kick!

On the commentary stage, before Qi Lin could even step down, she witnessed the advantage she had helped her older brother gain vanish completely.

Qi Lin: "..."

Qi Lin raised her hand to rub her temples, then turned and handed the scroll to Kroos.

Kroos hurriedly ran over, took the scroll, opened it, widened her eyes, and let out an exaggerated gasp.

On the track, Logos has successfully caught up with ACE and Scout.

Hearing the noise from Kroos, he couldn't help but sneer:

"Qi Yan is really at his wit's end. He actually thinks we'll be defeated twice by the same move."

While maintaining speed, ACE also used a dirty trick:

"Kroos has revealed the scroll, and the second half of it is actually..."

"Before you say something like that, take your eyes off the track for a second, even if it's just for a moment," Scout couldn't help but retort.

"There's a series of obstacles ahead. If I dare to distract myself, you won't let me get away with it."

ACE was not surprised that his little trick failed.

Kal'tsit is here!

Kroos's scream suddenly pierced the ears of the three.

The three, who had been fully focused on the match, immediately changed their expressions and turned to look at Kroos.

Then they saw Kroos holding up a fully opened scroll, on which the complete sentence was, 'I want to say that Kal'tsit has arrived.'

Scout realized he had been tricked again, and let out a soft click as he refocused his attention on the track.

As soon as he turned his gaze back, he saw an obstacle blocking his path.

"Hmph, this little difficulty is no threat." Scout calmly controlled the stool's trajectory.

"I'm here to help you!" *2

Logos and ACE's mischievous laughter rang out simultaneously.

"You...stop!"

"Scout, out!"

The moment Scout crashed into the obstacle, chair and all, Kroos couldn't wait to announce his elimination.

Logos, seeing Scout lying on his back on the ground, immediately added a sarcastic remark:

"Each session is worse than the last."

"You... I hate you!" Scout cried out, his voice trembling with grief. "It's all because of Qi Yan's heartless and despicable tricks. I still have a secret weapon I haven't used yet!"

Unfortunately, his cries were met only with two heartless backs as they sped away.

Kroos carefully put away the scroll, which had already run out of uses.

Although this painting is no longer useful on the field, it is still Qi Lin's calligraphy, and it can definitely fetch a high price if sold to Qi Lin's support group!

After carefully putting away the scroll, she resumed her role as a commentator.

"Although there is only one lap left in the race, the intensity of the competition is far beyond what we expected. If nothing unexpected happens, the champion will be decided between Logos and ACE."

"Now both competitors have realized this, and as they navigate the obstacle course, they can't help but start attacking each other in dirty tricks."

“ACE’s shield has already been used up, and now he is at a complete disadvantage against Logos, who is wielding a bone pen… Wait, ACE still has a backup plan; he has actually used his warhammer!”

"But Logos is even more ruthless. He knows he can't break through ACE's defense in a short time, so he sets his sights on ACE's bench. Once ACE loses his bench, he will be eliminated!"

"Logos made a move... but ACE easily shattered the spell with his warhammer... Wait, something's not right!"

"Logos, being a warlock, actually used a physical attack. He kicked ACE's stool, causing ACE to lose his balance!"

"As expected of the ACE, our Rhodes Island ace has displayed amazing skills in close combat. He used the momentum of his loss of balance to swing his warhammer... He hit Logos's bench, and the bench shattered!"

After a series of unexpected events, the bench race eventually returned to the arena for a head-to-head contest.

All the spectators held their breath, watching the commentary from Kroos and the duel between the two players, anxiously awaiting the outcome.

Logos' figure plummeted to the ground the moment the stool shattered, but with a flick of his bone pen, he summoned a dark golden chain of runes that forcibly repaired the broken stool, allowing it to return to the arena.

On the other side, ACE also stabilized his position with his amazing core strength.

The two raced side-by-side on the track, simultaneously bursting out of the obstacle course and entering another straight acceleration zone.

ACE accelerated with all his might, glancing sideways at Logos and jokingly said:

"It seems you've put a lot of effort into defending your title as the bench racing champion, even inventing this kind of targeted spell."

“You’re not bad either,” Logos retorted. “This kind of fighting technique on a round bench is something that most people don’t deliberately train for.”

"I am Rhodes Island's ace, so naturally I must demonstrate my dominance!"

"What a coincidence, I'm also a recognized genius on Rhodes Island!"

Their gazes collided in mid-air, almost sparking a flame.