Chapter 133: Luo Jinyou: Save Me! Save Me! (Revision)

The Academy's infirmary was filled with the scent of disinfectant, and Teacher Li Ya was tidying items at the equipment cabinet, her gaze repeatedly flicking toward the innermost hospital bed.

No other reason—she didn't want her infirmary bombed again by someone.

On the bed, Luo Jinyou lay perfectly straight, his head wrapped in several conspicuous white bandages, his arms and chest tightly bound, making him look like a severely wounded soldier dragged from a brutal battlefield.

He stared blankly at the ceiling, his face expressing a complete lack of will to live.

The "hero" of all this, Ying Duo, sat calmly on the chair beside the bed, still holding the game console that belonged to Luo Jinyou but had been moved over by Ying Duo.

The screen's light fell on Ying Duo's expressionless face as his fingers moved deftly.

Earlier, he had tried to slip another controller into Luo Jinyou's uninjured hand, inviting the "seriously wounded" to co‑op a level, but Luo Jinyou politely declined.

That wasn't all; just a blink later, Luo Jinyou saw Ying Duo's seemingly magical hands sweep naturally over the fruit that other classmates had brought on the bedside table.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh," he sucked everything into that mysterious space, leaving nothing behind.

Luo Jinyou watched the bedside table become empty, holding only an empty paper cup, his mouth twitched, and he let out a feeble sigh.

After the match ended and scores were tallied, Luo Jinyou earned the highest personal score in the Security Team for successfully protecting Ying Duo until the mission was completed and surviving to the end.

In stark contrast, he also became the patient who had to lie in bed the longest among all the injured.

The mastermind behind all this now sat beside him, playing games with a clear conscience.

Who would have thought that waking up, aching all over as if about to fall apart, and opening one's eyes to see a Ying Guang Lu head beside you, like a death‑seeking male ghost guarding his bedside.

What made Luo Jinyou's scalp tingle even more was that Ying Duo seemed unusually fixated on the answer to a certain question, asking it routinely after every game round.

As a game round finished, Ying Duo set the console down, turned his head, and stared straight at Luo Jinyou with his un‑glossy eyes, posing another soul‑piercing query:

"Why have you lowered your affection for me?"

Luo Jinyou: "......"

He's at it again! He's at it again!

God, how does he even calculate that thing?!

"I didn't!"

Luo Jinyou reflexively denied, his voice weak and breathless from exhaustion.

"When did I lower my affection for you?"

He couldn't figure out how Ying Duo's affection system worked, only feeling more wronged than Dou E, thinking it impossible that Ying Duo would notice even two offhand remarks.

Ying Duo was clearly dissatisfied with Luo Jinyou's answer.

At the end of the assessment, Luo Jinyou's affection for him did indeed rocket upward like a rocket, briefly surpassing the 50/100 threshold.

A few more points would break the 60‑point barrier, complete the main quest, and unlock the next step!

Yet at that crucial moment, the rate of increase slowed, and the value stubbornly stuck at the awkward number 59.

Now, in his game‑system interface, it clearly displayed:

【Luo Jinyou Affection: 56/100 (Friendly)】

Next to it a glaring red arrow pointed down with 【-3】.

Not increasing is one thing, but deducting?

This NPC is really hard to serve.

Yang Yixie sighed inwardly, but there was nothing he could do—he still had to grind the affection.

Ying Duo looked at Luo Jinyou and changed to a more direct question, his tone still flat but the content carrying a strange grievance.

"Aren't we friends?"

"Friends?"

If it were before, Luo Jinyou might have felt guilty facing Ying Duo and begun to doubt himself.

But now he had evolved successfully under Ying Duo's torment.

Luo Jinyou turned his head slowly, looked at Ying Duo, then glanced again at the empty bedside table, his voice weak.

"You say it's so… mainly, this is still my first time seeing that you don't treat the injured as an injured, nor treat the injured as a 'friend' who is a person."

As he spoke, he stared at the vacant bedside table, sorrow welling up, his thoughts involuntarily drifting back to the "darkest moment" right after the assessment ended…

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Time rewound to the moment the assessment had just ended and the broadcast announced victory.

At that time he was lying on the ground, exhausted, listening to Ying Duo's confident words; looking up, he happened to see the silhouette of a youth against the light, shouldering a Cannon Barrel, and an indescribable feeling surged in his heart.

Ying Duo was just like him…

No, he should say he was even more abnormal than Luo Jinyou, yet so confident—maybe he could also try to strive…

Then…

And there was no "then".

Seeing the affection stuck at 59, Ying Duo decided to take the initiative and seize the main quest in one go.

He noticed Luo Jinyou's Blue Bar and stamina both depleted, his Blood Bar also looking bleak, and "thoughtfully" decided to personally take him to the Academy's doctor for treatment, grinding a wave of affection.

Thus, the nightmare began.

Ying Duo stepped forward, bent down, and for the first time pressed the 【Interaction】 button.

The player chose the easiest point of leverage, grabbing Luo Jinyou's ankle in one hand.

Then he turned, stepped forward, and dragged him away.

Yes, dragging him away.

Luo Jinyou had been lying on the ground, finally finishing the match, feeling completely exhausted.

Suddenly his ankle tightened, a massive force surged, and his whole body was dragged like a sack, sliding a short distance on the rough floor with a "screech".

His back scraped violently against the ground, and the speed was so fast that his head, unprepared, struck a protruding stone with a "thud".

Luo Jinyou's vision went black; the crucial "death" Rune that would have protected him after the match ended was completely disabled once it was confirmed the target was no longer in danger.

And Ying Duo's sudden arrival almost caused him to "die a second time".

He struggled, trying to break free from Ying Duo's grip, emitting a dying struggle sound from his mouth.

"Let, let go...... I'm dying......"

Ying Duo heard the sound, his movement paused slightly, as if realizing that this "dragging" posture was not quite right.

He stopped, looking at Luo Jinyou on the ground, who had already lost half his life, and the favorability on the system interface fluctuated subtly.

Thus, Ying Duo decisively released his ankle, stood in place, thought for a moment, bent down, slipped his arms under Luo Jinyou's knees and behind his back, trying to lift him up.

Luo Jinyou hadn't yet recovered from the dizziness of the head blow when he felt his body lighten, his vision spin, and then he met a pair of close, calm golden eyes, and a blinding Ying Guang Lu.

He only felt himself suddenly lift off, and then...... as he raised his head, he met the expression of Qi Hengyu, who had just arrived nearby, a look of complex multiplicity, his eyes seeming to say:

"You two...... are playing quite elaborately?"