Her Talent for Courting Death Has Always Been Impressive - Chapter 46 Part 4

“Don’t think too much. I just fear you might lose your composure and report Xu Turan’s situation to the higher-ups. I’m giving you a heads up, so you know what’s going on,” Pu Han shrugged indifferently, seemingly seeing what he was thinking. “If my estimation is correct, when she wakes up this time, she’ll be at the Lamp level, and at the top of the Lamp level—think about it, what does this upgrade speed mean?”

Top-level Lamp already surpasses most people in the Ciji Institute in terms of level.

Yang Buqi himself was considered exceptionally gifted, and it took him nearly half a year to reach Lamp in terms of life tendency. Not to mention precognition. And Xu Turan, from Firefly to Lamp, didn’t even take two weeks.

Yang Buqi: …

“You should have seen it too. That girl is special, very special—this kind of special, if it were five years ago, there might have been room for development. But in the current atmosphere, it’s absolutely impossible. She will be targeted.”

Pu Han continued nonchalantly: “I’m not afraid to tell you this. I have two principles. The first is not to betray humanity, the second is not to betray Feifei. Since Feifei believes we should protect that girl’s secret, and this doesn’t conflict with the first point, I’m definitely on Feifei’s side.”

“Yang Buqi, what about you?”

He looked at Yang Buqi seriously. The latter remained silent for a moment, then looked away.

“You’ve been trying to tie me and Xu Turan together from the beginning. At this point, what other answer could I have?”

Yang Buqi spoke reluctantly. Pu Han stared at him for a while, then smiled lightly.

“That’s good. I was worried you wouldn’t cooperate. I even kept a photo…”

Yang Buqi: “…?”

“The one with your hand on your head,” Pu Han said lightly. “Fortunately, it seems we won’t need it.”

“…How bored are you?” Yang Buqi glanced at him impatiently, then turned and left.

It was lunchtime now. Yang Buqi walked non-stop, against the crowd, directly turning back to Xu Turan’s room.

In the room, Xu Turan was still asleep. Yang Buqi sat by the bed, thought for a moment, then tentatively placed his hand above her knee, his palm emitting a faint white light.

Leg pain… he thought silently, although he didn’t know exactly how painful it was, but this should help a little, right?

At the same time.

Inside the dream.

Xu Turan had her arms crossed on the ground, breathing heavily.

She couldn’t remember how long she had been crawling along this path—her legs had broken when she fell from the fish’s back, the pain almost making her head explode. Yet no matter what, she couldn’t get out of this space…

Unable to exit. Like being trapped in a nightmare she couldn’t wake up from.

There were no usable tools nearby, and the broken leg couldn’t be reattached. The only option she could think of was to drag her injured leg forward.

Xu Turan looked at the iron gate about a dozen steps away, gritted her teeth, and continued moving forward with a pale face—strangely enough, at some point, the pain in her leg had lessened somewhat, making her feel a bit lighter.

She didn’t know if she had gone numb from the pain or what, but she took advantage of this momentum to crawl forward faster. Finally, relying solely on her two hands, she managed to crawl to the front of that gate.

Xu Turan felt like her whole body was about to go limp, but she still instinctively reached out. A monster extended its claws through the gaps in the iron gate, but she swatted it away.

“—Get lost!” She rarely lost her temper, but her voice carried a hint of sternness.

She didn’t even realize it herself, but that low growl sounded like the roar of a wild beast.

As if an invisible pressure had descended, the monster actually withdrew its hand, as if frightened.

Xu Turan ignored it and used her last ounce of strength to push open the gate in front of her. As she pushed it open, she felt a flash of white light before her eyes—

【Congratulations, you have gained 400 Courting Death Value.】

【Congratulations, you have successfully completed a tendency upgrade】

【Current quality: Mad Rabbit】

【Current level: Chaos: Lamp / Beast: Firefly】

A large amount of text followed, which at a glance was mostly descriptions of skill upgrades—just like what she had seen before, after “Confusion” upgraded to Lamp level, in addition to automatically affecting non-human entities at Pyre level and below, it also added 0.75 seconds of active control effect. As for “Unlucky Rabbit Leg”, after upgrading to Lamp level, it added damage effects in addition to control.

Moreover, she also saw that she had obtained a “Cemetery of Disaster Entry Ticket” and “Cemetery of Disaster 3000 Steps”. The latter was strange, saying it could be used for Natural Disaster/Precognition/Long Night/Beast, making Xu Turan think she had unknowingly gained two more tendencies.

However, upon careful examination, she hadn’t.

The only explanation was that the usable range of this step voucher was unrelated to her actual ability tendencies. This itself was a step voucher that could be used for all four tendencies—as for why it was specifically these four tendencies, Xu Turan wasn’t sure.

More content flooded into her mind, but her brain was buzzing, and she really couldn’t focus on the details. She hurriedly dismissed all of this and suddenly opened her eyes—

Above her was a white ceiling.

Xu Turan blinked in confusion, wanting to sit up. The person leaning on the edge of the bed suddenly straightened up, eyes still sleepy: “What’s wrong?”

Xu Turan: “…”

She looked at Yang Buqi sitting by the bed, then at the top of his head, and exhaled.

It was a normal Yang Buqi. It seemed she had truly woken up.

A warm feeling came from her legs. She moved her gaze and realized that her legs weren’t covered by the blanket. Yang Buqi’s hand was suspended above, emitting a white light.

On the other side, Yang Buqi had finally come to his senses. Just as he was about to say something, his gaze followed Xu Turan’s line of sight, and he withdrew his hand as if waking from a dream.

“…Well, the effect wouldn’t be as good through the blanket,” he explained, somewhat nervously. “You kept saying your legs hurt, so I thought I’d try if this would help…”

Xu Turan: “It helped.”

“Hm?” Yang Buqi didn’t react immediately.

“It helped a lot,” Xu Turan nodded seriously, the corners of her mouth lifting slightly. “Thank you.”

“…” Yang Buqi was stunned for a moment, then looked relieved, “That’s good. How do you feel now?”

“Okay? Just a bit dizzy, chest feels tight, nauseous, like motion sickness…” Xu Turan described after carefully assessing her condition. Yang Buqi nodded, suddenly took out his phone, and quickly typed a few lines.

“Your brother has been messaging asking about you. Is it okay if I reply like this?”

As he spoke, he held the phone screen in front of Xu Turan, but on it were two lines of text: 【Wait, if someone asks, just say you ate too much of the medicine I gave you. Don’t mention anything about the runes, if anyone asks just say you don’t know, got it?】