Spiritual Recovery: Gamification of Reality

Chapter 40

The familiar white ceiling.

The familiar smell of disinfectant.

There was also the familiar texture of the iron bed.

After Xu Bai opened his eyes, it took him less than a second to figure out where he was. He could not help but say a word.

F*ck!

Again?!

If he remembered correctly, it had been less than seventy-two hours since he was discharged from the hospital.

Good lord…

‘How closely am I supposed to be related to the hospital now?’

As Xu Bai thought about this, he struggled to sit up from the hospital bed. He leaned against the headboard, stretched out his right hand to rub the space between his eyebrows, and tried to detect his current state.

He was alright.

Xu Bai realized that after sleeping, other than feeling a little sore in his limb muscles, he did not feel like he had suddenly had 500 milliliters of blood sucked out with a large needle last night.

Still…

He clenched his fists. He still felt a little powerless…

Wrong.

He could not call himself powerless.

Xu Bai was referring to the feeling of powerlessness he felt when he made a comparison to his state of being Level 20. Currently, this feeling reminded Xu Bai of how he was like when he was at Level 13 or 14.

Hiss.

Could it be that his level got lowered?

It seemed that it was better to use Collapsing Mountain as little as possible.

When Xu Bai thought of the sudden incident last night, he could not help but feel a lingering fear. Then, he thought of his level and hurriedly summoned his level interface.

In the next second, Xu Bai heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that he was still Level 20. Then, his gaze landed on the red exclamation mark above the mini Xu Bai on the left.

He clicked on it.

Information] about his current state appeared in front of him again.

[Current Status: Depletion of Vitality—Curse of Ruin!]

[Curse of Destruction—Blood Curse of the Great Desolate Sacred Sect. Those who are cursed will be plagued by destruction. Their qi and blood will be depleted. Their luck will be inauspicious. (It will continue to erode your experience and reduce your level for seven days!)]

[Removal: You can use medicinal pills to remove the related adverse status, level up, or consume character experience to offset this status.]

Level up?

He had yet to find out where the Dragon Heart Herb was. What in the world was he supposed to use to level up?

Pills?

Well, he had yet to learn that.

Character experience offset?

‘I’ll use this.’

[Ding!]

“Are you sure you want to use 100,000 character experience points to remove this adverse effect?”

“…How much?”

Xu Bai was slightly taken aback as he listened to the system’s notification. “100,000 experience. I was busy the whole day yesterday, and I only earned 17,000 experience. Are you crazy? You just asked for 100,000 experience?”

The system did not give any explanation to Xu Bai’s question. However, after Xu Bai questioned him, a dialog box silently popped up.

[Confirm removal/cancel removal.]

“…”

The corners of Xu Bai’s mouth twitched, but even though he was complaining, the feeling of powerlessness that had decreased by five or six levels overnight still made him feel very uncomfortable. “Confirm removal.”

The second the words “removal successful” sounded in his mind, Xu Bai instantly felt as if something had come from the void and entered his internal organs.

It was numbing.

It was warm.

Something surged inside his body again, and the feeling of unimpeded qi and blood, as well as the joy of leveling up, returned.

Xu Bai could not help but narrow his eyes. His entire consciousness was involuntarily intoxicated by this strange yet irresistibly wonderful feeling.

When he opened his eyes again, this indescribable feeling had already disappeared. What replaced it was a heartbeat that seemed to be transmitted to his ears.

Thump, thump, thump, thump. It was as strong as a drum.

Xu Bai was fully immersed in the peculiar sounds coming from all over his body. He lifted his blanket and stood on the ground. He could not help but stretch.

A crackling sound immediately traversed all across his body, but this sound sounded very terrifying. Even then, the comfortable feeling it brought made Xu Bai unable to help but pull himself up from the ground and do it again.

After it ended, Xu Bai lowered his head, looked at his hands, and squeezed one hand with another. At this moment, the power that should have been at Level 20 returned to his body.

It felt amazing!

Xu Bai let out a heavy breath. Then, when he heard footsteps coming from outside, he raised his eyebrows and lay down on the bed again. With just a thought, he used the Magic Ring immediately to decrease his level from 11 to 7.

Previously, he displayed that he was at Level 11 to everyone. Now that he was so severely injured, reduction of a few levels was expected.

Someone pushed the door open.

Su Meng, who looked a little sad, walked in with her head lowered. She held a bag of bone-strengthening powder in her left hand and a bag of blood supplements in her right hand. When she saw Xu Bai, who was lying on the bed and waving at her, she was stunned for a moment before shouting, “Ah!!! Master!”

The only thing that Xu Bai could register was that his ears were filled with Su Meng’s screams.

Su Meng shouted happily and quickly ran to the bed. She looked at Xu Bai excitedly. “Master, you’re awake. How do you feel? Do you feel any discomfort at all?”

Xu Bai looked at Su Meng, whose cherubic face was filled with worry and excitement, and smiled. Just as he was about to say that he was fine, his gaze could not help but landed outside the ward again.

The first thing he saw was…

An energetic but obviously incompatible flower appeared at the door of the ward.

“What’s wrong, Su…”

Hearing Su Meng’s scream, An Ya hurried over. She was about to ask what had happened when she saw Xu Bai, who had woken up and was leaning against the headboard. She was stunned for less than a second before her face returned to its usual indifference. She walked in and looked at Xu Bai, who was lying on the bed, and said coldly, “You’re awake?”

Xu Bai was curious as to why An Ya was here. He looked at Su Meng.

Su Meng placed the bone-strengthening powder and the blood supplements on the bed at the side and said to Xu Bai, “Master, after An Ya found out that you were injured, she came to the hospital immediately. She has already accompanied me to watch over you for the entire night.”

One night?

Hearing Su Meng’s words, Xu Bai was in disbelief. He looked at An Ya. “Team Leader An stayed here all night? Is it because you’re worried about me?”

When did this cold-faced tiger become so concerned about her colleagues? Did she not like to investigate her own people and send them to prison?

An Ya said expressionlessly, “I’m here for the sake of the case.”

‘There, I knew it. How could this cold-faced tiger be so kind?’

Xu Bai smiled and looked at An Ya.

“Leader An, are you here for the four corpses?”

“Yes…”

“I was defending myself. Su Meng can prove it.”

“I know. Su Meng has already told me.”

Xu Bai smiled. “So, you won’t accuse me of doing this on purpose and find an excuse to take my gun, right?”

An Ya continued to speak without expression, “I’m not interested in your gun. Since it’s self-defense, I’ll take my leave.”

With that…

An Ya turned around and left the ward without hesitation.

This cold-faced tiger…

Xu Bai watched An Ya leave in confusion.

At this moment, Xu Bai looked at the small medicine bottle in front of him. He blinked and looked up at Su Meng. “What is this?”

Su Meng pushed the Madam’s Oral Blood Tonic in her hand towards Xu Bai. “Master, drink it quickly. It’s to nourish your blood.”

Xu Bai, “…”