Chapter 118: Dungeon x Brave Hero: Surgery Cost 200ml

Wen Chu didn’t expect the subway tickets to be sold in this way, and he felt bad all over.

“This isn’t my intention,” Wen Chu explained anxiously. “This subway station is just like this. I never thought about doing this kind of thing to you.”

Xiu raised his eyebrows, his attention shifting from the measuring cup in front of him to the void: “You never thought about doing what kind of thing to me?”

You’ve already done it, and now you’re telling him this?

Wen Chu then realized he was giving himself away and fell silent guiltily.

Xiu looked at the measuring cup thoughtfully.

If it was just the subway ticket, there were still solutions, but he was most worried about the hospital now.

If the hospital also charged this way, he might be drained dry before he could afford the medical fees.

Thinking of this, Xiu spoke: “Since you are the dungeon, can you move freely within the dungeon?”

“Of course,” Wen Chu said.

Xiu said: “Can you go to the hospital in the Comprehensive Service Zone first to check the charging standards? The subway ticket is a small matter. I’m worried that I won’t be able to afford the medical fees after arriving at the hospital.”

Wen Chu was originally both cowardly and expectant, but hearing Xiu say this, he also discovered the problem.

He just wanted to play with Xiu, not play him to death.

Given Xiu’s current condition, if he were asked to pay a 500ml medical fee, he might die in the hospital before receiving treatment.

He immediately said: “Okay, wait for me a moment. I’ll go check now.”

After speaking, Wen Chu immediately sank his consciousness into the dungeon and followed the road familiarly to the hospital.

The suburban hospital was huge. Wen Chu followed the map to the abdominal surgery department.

The abdominal surgery department was empty. Inside the consultation room was a fully automatic scanner, and inside the operating room were precision machines.

A panel appeared in front of Wen Chu.

[General Hospital – Abdominal Surgery, Current Revenue: 0ml]

[Consultation Fee: 10ml/visit]

[Surgery Fee: 200ml]

[Hospitalization Fee: 10ml/day]

[Note: As large public facilities, hospitals, subways, etc. will take a 20% cut for dungeon construction]

Wen Chu: …

He fell silent looking at the sky-high medical fees.

Xiu really guessed right. The hospital prices were scary expensive.

While he was hesitating about how to go back and tell Xiu, the subtitle slowly appeared.

Subtitle: [My block is finally lifted. Eh? You arrived at the hospital?]

“No, I just came first to see the situation,” Wen Chu said.

He suddenly remembered something and grabbed the subtitle to ask: “I am the dungeon. Can I choose not to charge Xiu’s treatment fees? The hospital is really too expensive.”

Subtitle: [No, these institutions also need energy to operate. They cannot run without energy. At most, you can waive your 20% cut.]

Wen Chu calculated. Even if his 20% cut was removed, the medical fee was still an astronomical figure.

He sighed and moved outwards: “Will the community hospital be cheaper? I’m afraid Xiu won’t be able to afford the medical fees in his current condition.”

Subtitle: [He can get treated first and pay later.]

Wen Chu, who was moving out, stopped.

“Really?”

Subtitle: [Really. Just go to the terminal to input identity and register for a medical insurance card. But it must be paid in full within one day after the treatment ends, otherwise it will be enforced.]

Regardless of whether it would be enforced later, at least no payment was needed now.

Wen Chu breathed a huge sigh of relief, and his mood improved.

He was really worried that Xiu would die.

He rushed out of the hospital happily, ignoring the subtitle’s wail of [Wait, I’m going to be blocked again], and quickly arrived at Xiu’s side.

“Xiu! The hospital allows treatment first and payment later. You can just pay after you recover!” Wen Chu shouted from afar.

Xiu was looking at the prices of goods in the convenience store, trying to estimate the prices here. Hearing Wen Chu’s words, he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

“That’s great.”

Xiu walked out from behind the shelves, came to the ticket vending machine, and picked up the small measuring cup.

Wen Chu leaned close to him and continued: “Also, there is a social welfare institute near the hospital. I can help you get nutritious meals there. Meals are free.”

Xiu was originally hesitating whether to go back to the Residential Zone to get some supplies. Hearing this, he hesitated no more and made a decision: “In that case, let’s go to the Service Zone now. I don’t know if the killers will chase all the way into the forest. The sooner my wound recovers, the better.”

“Okay!” Wen Chu agreed.

He looked at the measuring cup, then at Xiu, and said shyly: “Shall we start now?”

5ml. According to Xiu’s thinness yesterday, it would probably take about two times to gather enough money.

This wasn’t some messy business; this was a warm-hearted dungeon who enjoyed helping others helping a pitiful Brave Hero.

Xiu nodded.

Before Wen Chu could act, he lowered his head and bit his finger.

Drip—drip—

Blood dripped into the measuring cup drop by drop, and soon 5ml was gathered.

Wen Chu was dumbfounded.

“You…”

He opened his mouth but didn’t say anything for a long time.

How could he suddenly let blood? Shouldn’t the normal plot be Xiu lifting his apron and mating with him?

Xiu raised his eyes, a faint smile appearing on his lips: “What’s wrong with me?”

Wen Chu whispered: “I think letting blood is not very good.”

Xiu dragged out his voice, deliberately repeating his words: “But didn’t you never think about doing that kind of thing with me?”

“For such a small matter, there’s no need to trouble Lord Dungeon Baby to personally move.”

Wen Chu: Whimper?

Shooting himself in the foot was nothing more than this.

Because he was talking to him, Xiu didn’t withdraw his finger in time and dripped a few more drops of blood into the measuring cup until the wound stopped bleeding.

At this time, there was already 7ml of blood in the measuring cup.

Holding the measuring cup, Xiu walked to the ticket vending machine and placed the cup on the platform.

The ticket vending machine retracted the measuring cup.

[You have spent 5ml to purchase 1 subway ticket from [Residential Zone 1] to [Large Comprehensive Service Zone]]

[Your account balance: 2ml]

[Please take the subway ticket from the ticket outlet in time]

Click.

A small card fell out of the ticket outlet. Xiu picked up the subway ticket, looking thoughtfully at the account balance on the machine.

Wen Chu was still lost in thought when Xiu had already walked into the convenience store with the subway ticket.

The oden still emitted a rich aroma. Xiu took a paper cup, selected a fish ball and a chikuwa from the pot, and went to the counter to check out.

Sure enough, his balance also appeared on the cash register at the counter.

[You have spent 2ml to purchase Oden x2]

[Your account balance: 0ml]

It seemed that the account balance was universal throughout the dungeon.

Xiu poured some soup into the paper cup and then called: “Baby.”

Wen Chu reacted for a moment before realizing Xiu was calling him, and obediently leaned over: “What is it?”

Xiu handed the paper cup in his hand to the void.

“Didn’t you want to eat this just now? For you.”

The golden-haired man had sharp features, yet he wore an apron that couldn’t even cover the roots of his thighs. Observing him so patiently and carefully, buying him the food he wanted with the balance exchanged for blood.

Thump—

Wen Chu clearly heard his heartbeat at this moment.

It was actually bought for him.

Wen Chu instantly forgot about his sorrow and sadness, and said flusteredly: “I-I didn’t want to eat it that much… And I don’t have a mouth, can’t eat. You eat. No, you return it. Don’t spend money recklessly.”

[Current Favorability: 80%]

Wen Chu sounded linguistically disordered, still flusteredly saying messy things.

Xiu lowered his eyes and looked at the favorability panel.

So silly.

Bought over by just two sticks of oden.

He held the paper cup happily: “Already bought, can’t return. Since you can’t eat, I’ll eat it for you to see.”

“…I’m not greedy, but if you really want to give it to me—Eh?!”

Wen Chu paused halfway through his sentence.

He had already reached out his hand to take it away and find a room to hide it, but Xiu suddenly took back the paper cup and picked up a stick of fish balls to eat himself.

One bite took a whole fish ball.

Wen Chu: QAQ?

He was just being polite. Why didn’t Xiu really raise him?

While eating, Xiu commented: “The bone broth is stewed very flavorfully. Quite delicious.”

As he spoke, he finished that stick of fish balls in a few bites, took the chikuwa through the security check, and finished eating before walking down to the subway station.

He also drank the soup clean by the way and casually threw the paper cup into the recyclable trash can.

Bad guy!!

Wen Chu was so angry that tears almost fell.

He decided to break off relations with Xiu for three seconds.

Xiu walked to the second basement level, saw the subway route clearly, and stood at the south-bound end waiting for the subway. The smile on his lips never fell.

Even if he couldn’t see Wen Chu, he could imagine the other party being so angry that tears were spinning in his eyes.

Little rascal, yesterday he held back a belly full of bad water, finished him and ran. Of course, he also had to give back a little harmless revenge.

The subway entered the station.

Xiu walked onto the subway. Looking at his empty lower body, out of consideration for hygiene and his own situation, he still didn’t sit on the subway.

He stood holding the handrail, looked up to confirm the direction again, and then looked into the void: “Baby?”

Three seconds had passed. Wen Chu responded hummingly: “Mhm.”

Xiu said amusedly: “Alright, don’t be angry. When you can eat in the future, I’ll buy for you again. Buy all kinds once.”

Wen Chu actually wasn’t that angry. Hearing this, he was embarrassed again: “No need… at least no need to buy with blood.”

It sounded erotic to be fucked by him until money couldn’t be spent, but letting blood to buy him oden sounded tragic.

At least he couldn’t eat the things Xiu exchanged for blood with a clear conscience.

Xiu nodded, thoughtfulness flashing in his eyes.

Wen Chu didn’t deny that he could grow a mouth in the future, which meant that Wen Chu in this world might be able to detach from the form of a city.

Since seeing Wen Chu, the system had been blocked. Xiu knew nothing except the initial task and being forced to appreciate Wen Chu drawing circles in sorrow. Most information could only be speculated by himself.

Yesterday in a trance, he couldn’t think, but today after regaining consciousness, Xiu found something wrong.

Wen Chu’s body seemed to be unlocking bit by bit along with the dungeon.

At first, there was only a jj, then hands, and then a crotch capable of movement.

Although the unlocking order was a bit messy, at least it could be seen that Wen Chu was gradually possessing a body.

It wasn’t that he was unwilling to do it with the dungeon, but if there was a choice, Xiu still wanted to hold Wen Chu himself more.

Warm, beautiful little angel.

While thoughts were churning, the subway arrived at the transfer station for Lines 1 and 2, the Shopping Center Station.

Unlike the bright and clean Residential Zone 1 Station, the Shopping Center Station was in darkness. The road leading upwards was sealed by wire mesh, and only the underground subway was still operating.

Xiu guessed it was because the Commercial Zone hadn’t been unlocked yet.

Commercial Zone…

Thinking of the ticket buying experience at the subway station, Xiu silently thought that the currency of the Commercial Zone was probably also bodily fluids.

The clothes on his body were about equal to nothing. And because the Shopping Center Station was too dark, after Xiu transferred to Line 2, his figure was completely reflected on the subway glass.

He wasn’t the gentle type. Wearing this small and exquisite lace apron, he looked exceptionally disjointed.

He had gradually gotten used to it, but seeing his whole body unexpectedly in the empty subway, a wave of shame surged up in Xiu again.

When he saved enough currency, he would buy some normal clothes in the Commercial Zone by the way.

Thinking this, Xiu only felt that the currency he needed to save seemed to be increasing. His waist and abdomen began to ache faintly again.

What Succubus Wen Chu failed to do, Dungeon Wen Chu achieved.

Xiu was really worried now that he would be drained dry by this dungeon and die from exhaustion.

But immediately, looking at this tiny apron on his body, Xiu felt that the problem he should worry about most now wasn’t whether the currency was enough.

But whether the Commercial Zone actually sold normal clothes.

Xiu glanced at a hand secretly extending from the subway handrail, attempting to sneak over and hold hands with him. He sighed heavily.

If the dungeon followed Wen Chu’s will, then this matter should be very uncertain.

.

The dungeon subway ran very fast. In just over six minutes, Xiu arrived at the Comprehensive Service Zone Station.

Walking out of the subway, passing through the gate, and exiting from Exit A according to the signs, Xiu walked into the large hospital not far away.

Wen Chu, who had been here once, guided him: “Go to the outpatient side, take the elevator to the third floor, turn right to Abdominal Surgery. Register for a medical insurance card first.”

Xiu walked to the terminal in front of Abdominal Surgery as told.

The terminal scanned him up and down, then entered the data ID and spat out a medical insurance card.

Holding the medical insurance card with a balance of 0, Xiu also successfully saw the hospital’s medical fees.

[General Hospital – Abdominal Surgery]

[Consultation Fee: 10ml/visit]

[Surgery Fee: 200ml]

[Hospitalization Fee: 10ml/day]

Xiu: …

The sky-high medical fees made Xiu pause directly at the entrance of the consultation room.

For the first time, Xiu experienced the embarrassment of wishing to split a penny in half.

He asked Wen Chu uneasily: “Is it possible to pay after treatment here, and only bodily fluids are needed?”

Wen Chu nodded: “The rules of the dungeon are all the same.”

Xiu barely put his mind at ease.

He always felt he missed asking something, but after thinking carefully, he couldn’t find any loopholes.

Since he was here, the abdominal wound really couldn’t be delayed.

Xiu took a deep breath and entered the consultation room with the medical card.

Upon seeing his wound, the robot in the consultation room immediately issued a sharp red alarm. Before Xiu even had time to explain the situation, he was carried into the operating room by a group of robots with the medical insurance card bearing a balance of -10ml.

The robots couldn’t speak, but the dungeon’s light screen played the current situation for Xiu in real-time.

Abdominal open injury, indication for abdominal organ exploration, hemorrhagic shock risk assessment…

A long string of professional terms floated past Xiu’s eyes, but the most eye-catching thing was the bill following behind.

[Basic Items: Emergency laparotomy, debridement and suture, organ repair, 200ml]

[Additional Item 1: Anesthesia, 100ml]

[Additional Item 2: Special agent damage removal, 100ml]

…

Xiu was somewhat bewildered being unexpectedly carried onto the operating table, but after seeing the bill clearly, he wasn’t bewildered at all. He almost sat up from the hospital bed.

Originally seeing the surgery fee was 200ml, Xiu braced himself thinking at worst he’d lose face a bit and muddle through with other fluids.

But these bits and pieces of additional items added up to an astonishing 800ml.

Even if they knocked him out, he couldn’t produce that much??

Xiu wanted to struggle and say he actually didn’t need anesthesia, but the robot doctors moved too quickly. Before he even had time to make a sound, he began to lose consciousness.

One second before losing consciousness, he heard Wen Chu’s voice.

“I am a family member, I am a family member. Process hospitalization… stay for ten days first? What? The hospital can also order nutritious meals…”

Xiu: …

Ten days, another 100ml.

And nutritious meals, don’t know how much that costs.

He just came to treat a wound, didn’t want to die in the hospital just like that.

…Prodigal idiot.

Xiu completely passed out.

Wen Chu didn’t know he had become a prodigal little city in Xiu’s heart. He was staring burningly at the nutritious meal list sent by the robot.

Packing from the nearby welfare institute was free, but the nutritious meals offered by the hospital were simply too tempting.

Post-operative days 1-3 mainly liquid and semi-liquid food to reduce gastrointestinal burden. Breakfast is matsutake mushroom and chicken rice soup, snow pear and lily bulb juice; lunch is silver cod pumpkin puree; afternoon snack bird’s nest and lotus seed soup; dinner is oxtail and yam paste.

Post-operative days 4-7 mainly soft food, like truffle shrimp steamed egg, millet porridge, fresh stewed fish maw…

The hospital listed the menu for a whole month after surgery, transitioning from liquid food to normal diet step by step. Wen Chu even had the impulse to let Xiu stay in the hospital for a month.

But looking at the meal fee of 50ml a day, Wen Chu calmed down again.

“We’ll consider it again,” Wen Chu said.

He also really wanted to order nutritious meals for Xiu, but he was a destitute dungeon.

Xiu was worse; Xiu’s balance was now -910ml.

Before paying off the debt, they two paupers should rely on the relief from the welfare institute first.

Getting a reply, the robot left with the menu. Wen Chu ran to the welfare institute and packed a lunch box of food.

Although he couldn’t get nutritious meals for Xiu, Wen Chu tried his best to get a cheaper version according to the menu given by the robot, and swiped two snow pears by the way.

Xiu was locked in the operating room, and the subtitle appeared.

Subtitle tut-tutted: [So miserable. How can there be such a miserable dungeon, even relying on welfare institute relief to live. I have a plan to make you rich. Want to hear it?]

Holding the lunch box and fruits outside the operating room, Wen Chu heard this and said: “What big fortune?”

Subtitle: [Those two killers from before came back again. They still feel something is fishy about that patch of grass. You quietly go and collect them into the dungeon, make them your slaves. You know, when they spend, you get a 20% cut.]

Wen Chu lifted his eyelids. Thinking of the 20% cut, he was finally moved.

He really needed money now.

“Let me think… there is also a residential area in the south. Xiu shouldn’t go there in a short time. Hiding them there shouldn’t be discovered. Just so happens there is a subway station there…”

The subtitle was startled: [I-I-I was joking. Don’t really cheat on him!!!]

Wen Chu was confused: “Cheat on what?”

Subtitle: [Aren’t you preparing to find someone else?]

Wen Chu looked at the operating room and chuckled: “Yeah, find someone else. Since any bodily fluid is okay, letting blood is the same, right?”

“Just a pity I only have a pair of hands now. The dungeon can’t cause much damage. If only I had a body.”

Subtitle: […]

Wen Chu: “What?”

Subtitle: [Nothing, just suddenly understood why Xiu was topped by you.]

Subtitle: [But I really have a way. You are a dungeon; dungeons have many means of attack. Come, come, while not blocked yet, let me hurry and tell you.]

Wen Chu’s eyes lit up. He looked at the surgery countdown; there was still over an hour.

He put down the lunch box temporarily and left with the subtitle.

…

Above ground.

“Strange, the grass here didn’t seem so sparse yesterday?”

A killer searched through the grass, voicing his confusion.

The killer next to him said: “Indeed. Could someone have cut it away?”

“Doesn’t look like it. No traces of cutting. And in this deep forest, who would come here to cut wild grass for no reason…”

All attention of the two killers was focused on the grass in front of them, completely failing to notice a section of green branch covered with sharp thorns quietly approaching them from behind.

Suddenly, the killer walking in the rear felt a sharp pain in his ankle.

He thought he was scratched by grass blades and didn’t care. But in just a few seconds, this sharp pain quickly spread to his thigh and waist.

This killer looked down, only to see a thorn as thick as an arm wrapping around his body like a python, unbeknownst to him when.

“Ah!!” He screamed.

Hearing the sound, the killer in front turned back. Seeing this scene, he didn’t hesitate at all, promptly taking out a scroll from his pocket and tearing it open. His figure disappeared from the spot instantly.

His companion left behind could only scream as he was dragged into the dungeon by the thorns, leaving a trail of dragged blood on the ground.

Inside the dungeon.

“Success!” Wen Chu shook the thorns happily.

Unexpectedly, the thorns on both sides of the road were also under his jurisdiction. He could actually use the thorns to drag people down directly.

Just controlling thorns for the first time, Wen Chu wasn’t very skilled and failed to capture both killers together. The only prey caught wasted a lot of blood during the dragging process.

But it didn’t matter. At least there was income now!

Wen Chu pressed the person, whose body was bloody from being scratched by thorns, directly onto the stone gate.

The stone gate had been repaired. Latecomers needed a 50ml entry fee to enter the city.

The killer was already scared out of his wits. The thorns scratched him into a bloody man. In just two or three seconds, the entry fee was paid enough.

The entry fee belonged completely to the dungeon. Wen Chu easily earned money for Xiu’s nutritious meal for a day.

He got more energetic, dragging that person all the way to the residential area in the south.

This killer was roughly dragged on the ground by Wen Chu, contributing blood constantly along the way.

Because the urgent matter was lack of money, Wen Chu didn’t exchange this blood for repair progress but established an account for this killer immediately and stored all the blood into the account.

The killer rolled on the ground in pain begging for mercy: “I was wrong!! I didn’t mean to chase you! The agent on the sword that cut you was also given to me by the King, I don’t have the antidote!! Let me go ahhhhh!!!”

Oh, so he was the killer who injured Xiu.

Wen Chu wrapped the thorns tighter, piercing directly into the other’s flesh.

He tied this killer inside the subway station of the southern residential area. At this time, the killer had accumulated a full 150ml of blood, looking like he might faint at any time.

Wen Chu forced him to consume a round in the convenience store and got another 30ml commission.

The subtitle watched the drama and didn’t think it was big enough: [Don’t kill him yet. Keep him and let blood slowly. This way, there will be endless descendants.]

Wen Chu felt what the subtitle said made sense. He happened to have some things to ask this killer, so he didn’t continue to leave scars on the killer. Instead, he picked out two bags of bread and a bottle of water from the supplies frantically purchased in the convenience store just now and threw them next to the killer.

The rest would all be returned for Xiu to eat.

As for how the killer, tied up tight, would eat—that wasn’t his concern.

Wen Chu was very fast. Doing this series of things only took half an hour.

He immediately returned to the hospital, ordered a day’s nutritious meal for Xiu, and then obediently nestled in the chair waiting for Xiu to come out.

He was such a good and amazing dungeon.

Could earn money to support Xiu by himself.

Wen Chu happily held the pre-order menu sent by the robot, looking at the consumption limit on it.

The hospital was so good, even allowing ordering meals for a day, and even buying on credit.

By the way, did he forget something?