An Xiang Hospital, Lan Province.
The hospital was bustling with activities.
Sick patients and worried family members either waited for consultation or went to different places for x-rays and scans.
Along the corridor, a mother had gone on her knees and prayed for the wellbeing of her child.
Passersby couldn't do much to help but shook their heads at the tragedy and walked away.
Inside his office, Dr. Lee sighed as he looked at the reports and scans.
"Don't give up. With modern medical science there will always be a chance that your cancer goes into remission.
"If you have your medical insurance, a supportive family, you can pull through this."
In front of him was a young man in his twenties.
He had expected the young man to be anxious and fearing for his life, but to his surprise, the young man just gave him a smile.
Lin Xuan Qi had expected this result before he came.
Insurance? Family? Support?
He had none of those.
Lin Xuan Qi laid his head back on the chair and said, "Thanks, doctor. I will pull through it one way or another."
After his parents died two years ago, he worked hard and got into university.
Lin Xuan thought his life was about to start until he had a fever for over a week.
Thinking that he had must have overstretched himself due to lifting heavy weights in his second job, he went and did a checkup.
Shockingly, he was diagnosed with cancer, and it had spread through his body.
The pain and weakening of his body due to treatment forced him to drop out of school.
And he was only able to work at odd jobs to pay the bills and keep himself alive.
Now that Doctor Lee had just told him that he had at best 3 months left to live.
He had decided to live out the final days of his life as best as he could.
With dignity, and for once, living it for himself.
No longer would he apologize to customers even though it was their fault.
And from now on, he wasn't about to keep quiet about his landlord increasing the rent without any reason.
"See you at the next appointment, Doctor Lee."
Lin Xuan Qi stood up from the chair and walked out of the doctor's office.
He picked up his phone from his pocket and checked his bank account balance.
$2340 was all he had.
This could barely last him half a month after rent, transport, utilities and groceries.
Just then a notification appeared on the screen.
[Ding!]
[Zhao Jia Rui is being surrounded and attacked by hungry ice wolves.]
[Purchase 50 Fire Talismans for $10 to rescue her. Y/N?]
Lin Xuan Qi frowned and clicked on 'Y' without hesitation.
This game had mysteriously appeared on his phone one day.
Which he thought was a virus that had installed itself.
But since he was going to die soon, he didn't think much about it and clicked into it.
Instantly, he was wowed by the realistic graphics.
It convinced him that it wasn't a virus or scam.
These virus makers and scammers weren't about to spend so much investment on a virus.
So, he got into the game, and it was one of the reasons that kept him going.
He tapped on the screen, and he zoomed in where his Zhao Jia Rui was.
Zhao Jia Rui with her long flowing hair and white robe was hiding behind some trees.
She looked around anxiously with her big round eyes and held a broken sword in her hands tightly.
Growl.
The sound of wolves growling could be heard as they sniffed on the ground and got nearer to Zhao Jia Rui.
She bit her lips and tears welled in her eyes.
Her parents had used up all their savings to send her into the Thunder Sword Sect.
But she was framed by some of the senior martial sisters and her master destroyed all of her cultivation, and finally she was driven out from the sect.
To make it worse, those that had framed her didn't want to let her live.
They had released some of the ice wolves.
How could she die here without taking revenge on these savages?
The thought made her feel even more grievance.
A tear rolled down her cheek.
No, she must survive. Zhao Jia Rui steeled her will and wanted to survive.
Lin Xuan Qi tapped impatiently on the screen as he waited for the loading indicator.
[10% to delivery of fire talismans.]
An ice wolf stopped and looked in Zhao Jia Rui's direction.
The other ice wolves also stopped and did the same.
Zhao Jia Rui tried to direct her Qi to her sword but couldn't do so.
Her dantian, now destroyed, couldn't sustain the circulation of Qi for too long.
[50% to delivery of fire talismans.]
One of the ice wolves nearest to Zhao Jia Rui lowered its body, ready to pounce on her.
Zhao Jia Rui knew she had to do something quick.
She saw an old wooden hut not far away outside of the woods.
Maybe if she reached there, the inhabitants would be able to help her.
If they didn't have any means to protect themselves, they wouldn't survive long out here in the woods.
She picked up a stone from the ground.
[60% to the delivery of fire talismans.]
The ice wolf leaped to the side of the tree that Zhao Jia Rui was hiding behind.
Its mouth opened and an icicle appeared in front of it.
Before it could shoot the icicle at Zhao Jia Rui, she threw the stone at the ice wolf's mouth.
Thud.
The stone hit the icicle but didn't do much damage to it.
Zhao Jia Rui quickly ran for her life towards the wooden hut.
Thud!
The icicle shot at her and plunged into her waist.
Lin Xuan Qi cursed again at the slow loading indicator.
He even stopped in the middle of his tracks to focus on what was happening to Zhao Jia Rui.
Zhao Jia Rui gritted her teeth and ignored the pain.
She continued running and got to the wooden hut with the ice wolves following closely behind her.