Chu Fu was taken aback.
The little nurse's phone number—why was a man answering?
"Who is this?"
"I'm the doctor in charge of monitoring your condition. I need your cooperation."
Chu Fu frowned immediately, finding it suspicious.
"Doctor, I think I'm in good shape right now. I don't need a checkup."
"That's not acceptable. You've been in the game for a long time, which might blur your sense of reality. Have you seen the news? Recently, someone started shouting that the game could descend into reality—end of the world nonsense. We're worried about your mental state, so we want to run a check!"
Chu Fu thought: That person isn't wrong at all.
But she couldn't say that.
"However, I'm in the middle of a dungeon right now; I can't log off. How about this: in two hours, I'll come out for the check. Is that okay?"
"The check won't take long. As a patient, if you want to recover quickly, you need to cooperate with the doctor!"
Chu Fu: Wasn't lying in a vegetative state for three years enough cooperation? I was at everyone's mercy!
"No can do. This dungeon is a must. I'm not coming out. Busy now, gotta go. Talk later."
Chu Fu hung up, but the caller immediately dialed again.
Chu Fu grew more uneasy.
She hung up again, and before the other party could call back, she quickly dialed Chu Feng.
"Brother, some doctor wants to give me a checkup today and wants me to get out of the game pod, but I'm in the middle of a dungeon. Tell them I don't want the checkup. I'm aiming for the first kill!"
Chu Feng naturally knew the importance of the first kill, but he was also worried about his sister's health.
"Maybe you should get checked?"
"Brother, once I leave the game, I'm locked in a dark room. I can't speak, I can't move—it's unbearable. I don't want to go back."
Hearing that, Chu Feng's heart ached instantly.
"Alright, Fufu, no checkup. I'll call them right away."
"Mm. Oh, and Brother, today Wan Huanyu met with Sword Saint Brother—that is, Xie Lin—and threatened him, saying he'd come after us. Be careful when you go out. Better yet, don't go out at all."
Chu Feng's ears perked up instantly.
What Sword Saint Brother?
What Brother Xie Lin?
She said that so smoothly.
Damn it, why was the selection process for [Primordial Gate] so slow? Why hadn't the servers merged so my little sister could come over?
Otherwise, some blind bastard would be trying to steal her away.
First that Shen Chi, and now another Xie Lin.
He grumbled internally.
But out loud, he replied, "Alright, I won't go out. Don't worry about me. Just enjoy yourself in the game!"
"Alright, Brother. I'm off to raiding. I'm already fighting in the Beast God Temple!"
With that, Chu Fu hung up.
Whether it was the suspicious outside situation or the overly eager doctor, as long as Chu Feng handled it, it should be fine.
It wasn't like they could pry open her game pod, could they?
After all, back when the country researched game pods, they used the most terrifying technology to bombard them—nothing worked. The pod could even withstand a nuclear blast. No one could touch her.
"I'm here! I'm here!"
Chu Fu rejoined the team.
"We can quit and leave if the hospital thing is serious," Jiao Jiao Bu Jiao said.
"No need, no need. Let's keep fighting! Besides, who wants to be locked in a dark room?"
Shen Chi frowned and said, "You've been in the game pod for days, and your condition has been stable. Why would the hospital suddenly want a checkup? Could it be related to Wan Huanyu meeting Xie Lin this morning? Maybe he's plotting something against you?"
Hearing this, the others felt a chill run down their spines.
In fact, Chu Fu had a similar suspicion too, but no proof.
"It's fine. We'll handle things as they come. My brother called them. Let's hope it's just a misunderstanding."
But Shen Chi frowned again.
"Plant Girl, call your brother back. If it really wasn't a doctor, tell him not to go out. If he has to leave, he should take people—a lot of people."
Chu Fu realized the implication belatedly and felt a flicker of fear.
If the call hadn't been from a doctor,
then Chu Feng might worry about her,
and after worrying, he might rush straight to the hospital.
And if Wan Huanyu seized that moment...
Chu Fu was about to call Chu Feng.
But just then, her game pod's phone rang.
Chu Feng said, "Fufu, I've already coordinated with the hospital. They reported your condition, saying monitoring shows you're doing fine. Apparently, a recent heavy-suffering patient using the game pod gained weight afterward, so the hospital wanted to check you too. But I've already declined on your behalf! Focus on your dungeon!"
Chu Fu felt relieved.
Alright!
Just me freaking myself out.
"Okay, Brother. I'll get back to the dungeon."
Chu Fu hung up and gave everyone an OK sign.
"It was just the doctor suddenly concerned about me. Let's continue the dungeon!"
Everyone relaxed.
Although official guides existed, Chu Fu was afraid their levels had risen too fast and they hadn't read them yet. So she gave a brief rundown.
"Time with the oil lamp is limited. We need to clear this dungeon quickly. The challenge here is time—the oil lamp only burns for an hour. Once it runs out, darkness will engulf us, and hidden monsters will attack."
Xie Lin said, "Does that mean I saved time again?"
Chu Fu smiled. "A darkness debuff will stack up. Once it hits 20 stacks, instant death."
"So, not only do we need to finish within the oil lamp's time limit, but we also have to watch out for monsters that might extinguish the lamp."
The team also had night vision potions, so they could see their surroundings, but the lamp was still a must-have.
Chu Fu handed the lamp to Suture Saint.
He took the back position to protect the lamp, where it was less likely to be attacked.
Everyone then moved into the dark passageway.
Unlike Rat Rat Palace, which tried to imitate human architecture, this underground passage was a true palace, built with bricks and stones, grand and luxurious.
Within ten meters, figures crouching on the ground appeared under the lamp's glow.
"Meow!"
"Light! Humans. You're not from the Beast God Temple."
"This is blasphemy against the gods!"
Two monsters—they were cat-human hybrids.
Human heads, cat bodies, with ears sticking out.
But on closer inspection, it looked like the heads and spines of humans had been sewn onto cat bodies.
The wounds were grotesque but had healed, leaving scars.
However, before the two cat-humans could pounce, Chu Fu hurled a huge watermelon at them.
"Boom!"
Instant kill!
The team pushed forward effortlessly.
"Man, these monsters are disgusting! Cat-humans, dog-humans, wolf-humans, frog-humans—all stitched together."
"Come to think of it, that werewolf Tuge's faith—could it be some Beast God too?"
