Chapter 119: Dungeon x Brave Hero: Enforcement of 910ml

Before Wen Chu could think any further, the door to the operating room opened.

The robots pushed the hospital bed toward the ward. As the patient’s family member, Wen Chu also received a report on Xiu’s surgery.

The surgery went smoothly, but Xiu was still under anesthesia and hadn’t woken up yet.

Wen Chu immediately threw his previous thoughts to the back of his mind and followed the robots to the ward.

The hospital wards were actually graded. A double room cost 10ml a day, and a single room cost 30ml a day.

Since Xiu was the only patient in the entire hospital, and their wallets were stretched thin, Wen Chu chose a double room.

The ward was spacious and filled with a faint smell of disinfectant. Xiu had been changed into a hospital gown and was lying on the pristine white hospital bed, breathing steadily.

Wen Chu watched from the wall.

The robots moved nimbly, leaving the ward after settling Xiu down.

The subtitle tutted emotionally: [So miserable. I can’t believe even Xiu has such a miserable time.]

“Even Xiu?” Wen Chu caught the key information.

The subtitle paused: [Haha… After all, he is the Brave Hero. It’s my first time seeing such a wretched Brave Hero too.]

“Oh.” Wen Chu understood, then sneered, “Isn’t it all the King’s fault?”

He wanted to capture the King and bleed him too.

The current scene was exceptionally harmonious. Rarely not being blocked for so long, the subtitle was very happy.

Subtitle: [I support it. You move the dungeon entrance to the palace gate, roll the King down, and run.]

Wen Chu was greatly shocked: “Can I do that?”

That’s too wicked.

Subtitle: [Of course. All is fair in war.]

Wen Chu made a decision on the spot: “Show me the way. I’ll go find the King right now.”

With the unlocking of the three major zones, not only did he gain the ability to speak, but his control authority over the dungeon also increased significantly.

At first, Wen Chu needed to try his best to move toward Xiu. Now he could easily take the dungeon and run around everywhere.

He could even do high-difficulty things like manipulating the thorns in the dungeon to kill people.

The subtitle was obviously also keen on stirring up trouble: [OK.]

The two hit it off immediately. Wen Chu controlled the dungeon from within the ward and drove toward the capital right away.

The entrance to the dungeon was a wooden door, and beneath the wooden door were stone steps in disrepair.

A wooden door walking on the street was obviously too horrifying, so Wen Chu either detoured through deep mountains and old forests or quietly shuttled through alleys. His speed wasn’t fast.

It wasn’t until the afternoon that Wen Chu barely arrived at the edge of the capital.

Xiu woke up at this time.

Xiu opened his eyes slowly, stared at the snow-white ceiling for several seconds, and then realized what had happened today.

He took the subway to the hospital, was pushed into the operating room as soon as he entered the hospital, and owed a huge amount of surgical debt.

Wen Chu discovered Xiu’s awakening immediately, stopped moving at once, and said as if claiming credit: “Xiu, you’re awake. I ordered a nutritious meal for you!”

Xiu: …

Remembering the 910ml debt, plus the nutritious meal Wen Chu ordered for who knows how long, Xiu slowly closed his eyes.

Maybe he should just die.

But dying was definitely impossible. Xiu recovered for a while, barely accepted the reality of his debt, and asked: “How much is the nutritious meal?”

Wen Chu: “50ml a day. I ordered one day for you first. It was ordered with my own money.”

Xiu was genuinely stunned this time: “Your own money?”

Wen Chu glossed over it vaguely: “Just found some other ways to make money just now. Don’t worry about it. Anyway, I will make money to buy you food!”

Thinking the situation would be worse, suddenly learning that one burden was lifted, Xiu actually felt that the 910ml debt was nothing.

At worst, just drink more water.

Wen Chu didn’t know what Xiu was thinking. Seeing him wake up, he immediately pushed over the lunch box he packed from the welfare institute eagerly.

“The nutritious meal won’t start until tomorrow. This is chicken porridge I packed from the welfare institute, and snow pear. They all help recovery. Taste it.”

Xiu’s eyes softened a few degrees. He propped himself up to take the lunch box.

But after sitting up, Xiu paused.

There was no expected postoperative pain in the waist and abdomen, not even when getting up.

The anesthetic effect hasn’t worn off yet? Or…

Xiu’s hand suddenly changed path, looking down and lifting the hem of his hospital gown.

Wen Chu was shocked: “What are you doing?!”

Xiu lifted his clothes, revealing a perfectly intact waist and abdomen.

The hideous scar on his waist had completely disappeared, leaving not a single trace.

Xiu reached out in disbelief and touched it. It was real flesh and blood.

Wen Chu also noticed something was wrong and leaned over to look: “You are completely healed?”

Xiu pinched his waist and breathed a sigh of relief: “Yes, completely healed.”

Although the hospital was a bit expensive, this effect was indeed worth the money.

Xiu felt even more that the 910ml paid wasn’t a loss.

He even got a decent set of clothes because of it.

Although it was a hospital gown, it was complete fabric after all, much better than that small apron that covered the nipples but not the roots of the thighs.

After confirming his condition, Xiu took the porridge and drank it slowly, while saying to Wen Chu: “I think I don’t need to be hospitalized. Did you order ten days of hospitalization for me? Can it still be refunded?”

“I’ll go ask.”

Wen Chu went to the front desk to grab a robot and ask, and came back crestfallen after getting a negative answer.

“No, the payment has already been deducted and cannot be refunded or exchanged. And you haven’t paid off your debt yet. You are not allowed to leave the hospital until you pay off the debt.”

Xiu didn’t know about paying off the debt within one day and the forced enforcement. Hearing Wen Chu’s meaning, he thought it was indefinite repayment and he could only leave the hospital after repayment. Hearing this, he didn’t take it to heart: “It’s okay, 910ml isn’t much. Can pay it off.”

Wen Chu had also completely forgotten about the repayment deadline and added very thoughtfully: “Then shall I pour you more water?”

Xiu: …

No need to be that thoughtful.

Looking at the pair of hands extending from the wall, he hurried to stop them: “No need for now. Let me rest for a night first. We’ll talk tomorrow.”

“Oh.” Wen Chu obediently retracted his hands.

Xiu was indeed hungry. He quickly finished the porridge in the lunch box and immediately felt sleepy.

He had been having recurring high fevers these days, and was tossed about by Wen Chu like that. His body had long been stretched to the limit.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have come to look for a hospital so urgently this morning.

Xiu was really worried that he would die in the dungeon in an extremely lewd way.

Now that the most fatal wound was finally healed, Xiu could finally sleep peacefully.

Hospitalization fees were paid; at least he had to sleep enough to make it worth it.

Xiu lay down slowly in drowsiness and said to Wen Chu: “I’ll sleep for a while first. Call me if anything happens.”

“Okay.” Wen Chu agreed.

Xiu soon fell into a deep sleep, and Wen Chu could continue his kidnapping enterprise with the subtitle—

The dungeon sneaked all the way into the back garden of the palace.

Probably no one would have thought there would be a movable dungeon, so the protective shield of the palace failed to stop him at all. Wen Chu had unimpeded access all the way.

The back garden was adjacent to the study. Wen Chu heard a man’s angry shout from afar: “Nonsense! That mountain forest only has abandoned demon dungeons. There are no magic fluctuations at all. Where did the wood mage come from?”

“Xiu is such a big person, how could he disappear on the spot? Can he fly?”

Wen Chu moved following the sound.

He saw the killer he met yesterday standing dirt-faced in front of a young man wearing a crown and full of hostility, getting scolded.

The killer’s clothes were tattered. Presumably, after encountering his thorns, he rushed back to the palace without stopping, not even finding time to change clothes.

Subtitle: [Wow, a wild human. Hurry and capture him back to the dungeon as an offering!]

Wen Chu imitated the subtitle: “A wild human.”

He extended thorns, moving silently toward the study door.

The young King was probably tired of scolding. He happened to stop his voice, looked at the killer gloomily for a while, and then said: “Come with me. I have another sword here… Ah!!”

Before he finished speaking, he stepped into empty air the moment he stepped out of the room.

The King only felt stinging pain all over his body, as if countless small knives had cut countless wounds on his body. Blood flowed instantly.

The killer following behind him was directly dumbfounded.

Before the killer had time to escape, he saw the thorns that dragged away his companion in front of his eyes yesterday wrapping around like ghosts, dragging him into the dungeon as well.

Wen Chu closed the entrance contentedly.

The study entrance fell into silence. Not even a drop of blood was left. Only the door that had just been opened was still shaking slightly.

Wen Chu had no concept of King or country. He didn’t care at all how much turmoil rolling away the King like this would bring. He happily took his newly captured wild humans and hid in the back garden.

Then he began to deal with the King and the killer.

The King and the killer were wrapped in thorns and thrown to the dungeon entrance one after another, both dumbfounded. In the end, it was the killer who reacted first and scolded sharply: “Who is assassinating in the palace!”

Wen Chu ignored him, immediately pressed the two against the stone gate, and collected 100ml entry fee.

Then, following the old route, he dragged the two all the way to the residential area in the south.

Because he was afraid Xiu would wake up halfway, Wen Chu was very fast, taking a straight line distance.

This inevitably meant passing through the abandoned Commercial Zone.

Both of them were already wrapped in thorns all over, and being dragged and bumped on the ruins of the Commercial Zone, the thorns’ spikes completely pierced into their skin, no less painful than salt on wounds.

“Ah—!” The King cried out in pain, his face pale.

Wen Chu also opened accounts for them. By the time he dragged the two to the subway station where the killer from just now was, both of their accounts had a balance of 150ml respectively.

Wen Chu repeated his old trick, spent a lot in the convenience store, and left with 60ml commission and food, leaving only four pieces of bread and two bottles of water.

The subtitle was indeed right.

Still need to collect a few more people to make a profit.

Looking at the full 160ml balance in his account, Wen Chu spun around happily.

In the future, he would specifically collect people who were bad to Xiu, bring them all to bind in the southern residential area, and bleed them.

Wen Chu returned fully loaded and went back to the hospital happily.

Inside the subway station, the three people reunited looked at each other amidst the stinging thorns.

They were all stunned by these bizarre thorns and dungeon. The King’s face was pale as he looked at Killer No. 1 who had been tied here early on: “What exactly is going on?”

“Don’t know.” Killer No. 1’s face was even paler.

Two bags of half-eaten bread wrappers were scattered in front of him, and he himself was curled up in the corner shivering, trembling lips saying: “Monster… This city is a living monster… Haven’t you noticed that everything here is strange?”

Following his words, the King and the other killer finally realized how weird the place they were in was.

On the ground were unknown white floor tiles, overhead were magic lamps of styles never seen before, and even the layout of everything around was so strange.

Pitch-black glass doors on both sides, weirdly shaped seats, and black stairs running autonomously as if leading to heaven.

Not to mention the convenience store and gates next to them—they didn’t know what these were at all. In their eyes, these stood like steel monsters.

“What is this place?” Cold sweat also broke out on the King’s back.

Killer No. 1 curled up tighter. He stared blankly at the station entry screen overhead, which had already jumped to the words “Train arriving soon”.

He didn’t know the text here either, but after observing for so long, he already understood what this pattern meant.

“It’s coming…” The killer trembled and shrank back.

As his voice fell, a bright light suddenly illuminated the dark window beside them.

The King and the other killer watched helplessly as a long white snake sped into the station.

The inside of this long snake was empty, also full of strange decorations they couldn’t understand. It slowly stopped after entering the station.

Then, accompanied by “beep beep” sounds, the pitch-black window actually opened.

The killer muttered to himself: “This must be the train leading to Satan’s hell. We have all arrived at the transfer station of hell…”

As he spoke, he laughed nervously, already falling into a trance under blood loss and fear.

The King and the other killer also stared blankly at this pitch-black window and the unknown long snake.

Bang—

Accompanied by beeping sounds, the train doors closed again.

The white long snake left quickly again at an unreasonable speed. From beginning to end, they didn’t feel a trace of magic fluctuation.

Looking at his own figure reflected on the pitch-black glass, the King also shivered.

He seemed to see the monster’s huge mouth swallowing everything, and the passage to the abyss.

Here… what exactly is this place?

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On the other side.

Wen Chu was rushing the whole way. Coupled with a lack of common sense, he didn’t realize any difference between his dungeon and the outside world at all. At this moment, he was looking for fruits on both sides of the road.

Xiu hadn’t woken up yet, and the greenery beside the road had recovered a lot. Some places had fruit trees planted, so Wen Chu went to pick fruits for Xiu.

By the way, he brought some necessary daily necessities from the residential area.

“Eh… strange, have these thorns grown thicker?”

Wen Chu definitely couldn’t carry so many things with a pair of hands, so he simply put everything in a box and dragged it with thorns.

Dragging along, he found something wrong and gestured against the thorns.

They had indeed grown a circle thicker.

Subtitle explained: [After all, you provided them with nutrition. When you become strong, everything in the dungeon will also become strong.]

Wen Chu was quite happy. This way he could tie more people to the dungeon.

He estimated the scale of the dungeon and began to calculate: “Can the dungeon still expand? If too many people are kidnapped, with the current scale, it will be easily discovered by Xiu.”

Subtitle: [Of course. After all functions are unlocked, you can continue to upgrade and expand the territory. The current five zones are just the most basic areas. In addition, there are planting zones, animal husbandry zones, heavy industry zones, light industry zones, etc. You can also build subway lines 3, 4, 5. Eventually, you can even become a kingdom, float to the surface! Become the overlord of this world!]

Wen Chu wasn’t interested in being an overlord. Hearing this made his head big: “So many zones, doesn’t it require a lot of people to provide energy?”

Subtitle: [Of course. A qualified King must have countless subjects!]

Wen Chu: “…Thanks, no need.”

Just hiding these three people wasn’t easy. A few more, and that wasn’t being a King; that was him looking for trouble for himself.

The subtitle was unwilling to give up and persuaded: [Don’t you think being a King is cool?]

Wen Chu thought seriously: “Just so-so. I just want to be with Xiu.”

If he had to be a King to be with Xiu, he wouldn’t mind the trouble. In other cases, Wen Chu really didn’t want to find so many things for himself to do.

Subtitle: […Can you have some ambition.]

Wen Chu: “I just don’t like hardship.”

As long as you can endure hardship, there will be endless hardship.

Choosing between managing a myriad of affairs every day and singing every night, he could still distinguish clearly.

The subtitle had nothing to say to him. Wen Chu was also happy to be leisurely. After dragging all the supplies to the hospital, he obediently waited aside for Xiu to wake up.

But he didn’t expect Xiu to sleep for so long.

From noon to night, then from night to the next morning.

Xiu had really overdrawn himself too much. Recovering from a serious illness, he slept for a full day before waking up.

He was woken up by the sound of the robot delivering food, otherwise he could have continued sleeping.

“Xiu! You’re awake!”

Wen Chu waited for a long time and finally waited for Xiu to wake up. He immediately leaned over happily: “I went home and packed a lot of things over here, and picked fruits. Do you feel better? Taste how the hospital breakfast is. If it’s delicious, I’ll buy it for you again.”

As soon as Xiu woke up, he was stunned by Wen Chu’s string of words.

Looking at the steaming matsutake mushroom and chicken rice soup and snow pear and lily bulb juice in front of him, listening to Wen Chu’s chatter, the corners of his lips curled up: “Mhm, Baby is amazing. Thanks to you, I feel much better. How long did I sleep?”

Wen Chu was praised into blooming with joy and answered truthfully: “Almost a day.”

Xiu was surprised: “So long?”

“Yeah, I’ve been watching you all the time,” Wen Chu said as a matter of course.

He pushed the bowl toward Xiu again: “Taste it quickly. Is it delicious?”

Under Wen Chu’s enthusiastic greeting, Xiu picked up the spoon and tasted a mouthful of porridge, praising: “Delicious.”

As expected of a breakfast bought with money. The plain porridge was boiled until the porridge oil came out. The fresh aroma of matsutake mushrooms combined well with the shredded chicken breast. Stewed soft and rotten, it melted in the mouth.

After a long rest, waking up to eat such a steaming bowl of porridge, Xiu only felt that the fatigue pressing on him since entering the world had completely disappeared.

Eating the porridge, he thought, start paying back the debt today. After paying off the money, seize the time to save up for Wen Chu’s body, lest Wen Chu be bullied by the killers who come to the door.

Wen Chu wasn’t idle while waiting for Xiu to eat. He had two hands and could peel fruits.

So, an extremely bizarre scene appeared in the extremely modern ward:

At the edge of the table, two pristine white slender hands grew out like mushrooms on a tree trunk, holding an apple and peeling it.

After peeling, these hands moved on the table and placed the apple extremely lightly on Xiu’s table.

There was a weird cuteness.

At least Xiu thought so.

He pinched Wen Chu’s fingers: “All dirty. Go wash them. No need for you to peel fruits in the future.”

Wen Chu protested: “You can’t deprive me of my fruit peeling rights.”

Xiu: …

Does this count as a right?

Forget it, humans don’t haggle with cities. At worst, he would peel it first in the future.

Xiu didn’t dwell on this issue with Wen Chu. After quickly having dinner and putting away the lunch box, he was about to get out of bed.

Sleeping for a day and a night, waking up twice to drink porridge, Xiu’s lower abdomen was already a bit bloated.

However, he had just sat up when red lights suddenly flashed in the ward.

“Warning! Warning! Detected that a patient has exceeded the repayment deadline. Mandatory enforcement is about to begin!”

Xiu was caught off guard, looking at the flashing red light in the ward in astonishment: “What repayment deadline?”

Wen Chu finally remembered what he had forgotten.

He wrung his hands helplessly: “I forgot… It’s just, the hospital said the debt must be paid off within one day, otherwise it will be enforced.”

They arrived at the hospital yesterday morning. It was indeed almost twenty-four hours by now.

The words “mandatory enforcement” sounded very bad.

Wen Chu thought of the trio tied up by him in the subway station to bleed, and at this moment thought of the worst result.

Xiu had just recovered. If 910ml of blood was forcibly drained at once, he would definitely die.

Wen Chu gritted his teeth: “Don’t be afraid. I have a way. I won’t let the hospital hurt you.”

He would go to the subway station now to slaughter people to pay back the debt for Xiu. If paying on behalf was not allowed, he would demolish the hospital.

Just a broken hospital. Gone meant gone. Absolutely couldn’t hurt Xiu.

Xiu wasn’t afraid. Listening to Wen Chu’s words, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “It’s okay. It should be just restricting freedom or something for repayment? Don’t be afraid.”

Wen Chu wanted to say I’m not afraid, but looking down, he found his hands were already trembling.

He was really afraid of losing Xiu.

The red light continued to flash. Amidst the alarm sound, Xiu suddenly felt a piece of the bed board empty out.

He was sitting on the bed originally. With this, he fell directly from the hospital bed.

The bed board stuck right at his lower abdomen.

The next second, the bed board slowly stood up, and the quilt fell down.

Xiu was forced to assume a “┐” posture following the bed board, his rear facing the wall where Wen Chu was.

The bed separated him like a wall. He was like being forced to receive guests, revealing himself to the dungeon.

[Calculated, your current debt for medical expenses is 910ml. The debt is overdue. Interest increases by 10ml for every hour overdue.]

[Mandatory Enforcement Mode has been activated. This mode will be personally supervised and conducted by the dungeon.]

Wen Chu, who was ready to fight: ?

Ah, ah…?

Is there such a good thing?