Pleased to Start Over

End of the World: The Doctor 7.3

Pleasing Start-Over Chapter 81: Arc 7 Part 3

Author: 橘子

T/N: I'm on the west coast in the USA, so we're all on fire over here. We had an earthquake the other night too. I don't mind the earthquake, but my god the air quality is pretty bad. Air purifiers are also sold out for at least a month. Send firefighters, please.

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Qiao Chen followed Long Ao and the others to the East One Base. Every base lacked people with healing abilities. Because of this, Qiao Chen devoted himself to healing the wounded as soon as he arrived. The rarer something was, the more precious it became. This was the same for people. Qiao Chen worked himself to the bone, but was also treated very well in this lifetime.

Qiao Chen was busy for the entire day. He prepared his things to return home. As soon as he exited the medical department's building, he saw Long Ao smoking while sat on the steps a few feet away from the entrance.

When Qiao Chen first arrived on the base, Long Ao would visit him often. From time to time, he would bring a small, rare treat to share with him too. They would chat and talk until he gradually allowed himself to bare his soul to Qiao Chen. Qiao Chen felt that this kind of communication where they slowly had some really deep heart to heart conversations was good. It also helped them with venting out their negative emotions.

"Going back?" Qiao Chen asked as he walked in front of Long Ao. Qiao Chen felt his heart twinge in pain when he saw Long Ao's exhausted looking but resolute face. He didn't need to use the system to dig up information about Long Ao. All he needed to do was make small talk with the wounded soldiers, and they'd bring it up on their own. He knew how powerful a lightening ability was. However, the stronger a person was meant that they'd carry a greater sense of responsibility and a heavier burden than others.

"Yeah." Long Ao grunted. Long Ao stood up, threw his cigarette butt on the floor, and stamped it out. He didn't know why, but his anxiety would wane and virtually disappear whenever he saw the man in front of him.

Long Ao walked Qiao Chen back to the dormitory. Neither of them spoke along the way. Qiao Chen knew that some of the soldiers must have died when they were attacked by the zombies in today's mission. Long Ao tended to silently mourn like this every time a soldier died. He didn't need any superfluous words. It was enough for Qiao Chen to quietly accompany him.

Qiao Chen opened the door to his room. Then he walked to the bed and sat down. Long Ao leaned against the wall. This room was the smallest room Qiao Chen had lived in in his past few lifetimes. However, it was very hard to have a room to yourself on the base. Even though the base was small, it was completely furnished. It had everything that he needed.

"Do you need to sleep? I can stay with you." Qiao Chen said and patted the bed.

Long Ao walked to Qiao Chen and sat down. He looked at Qiao Chen and said, "I'll just sit for a bit. I won't sleep. I'm scared that you'll do something immoral to me."

Qiao Chen saw that Long Ao could still joke around and immediately knew that he was in a much better mood. He stared at Long Ao for a while before he asked, "Do you have any more smokes?"

Long Ao immediately moved over to the side and said defensively, "Nope."

Qiao Chen wordlessly frisked Long Ao.

"I'm serious. There's no more. I found a pack, but it was forcibly distributed to everyone. They were like a pack of rabid wolves." Long Ao let Qiao Chen pat him down. Then he halfheartedly reached out to stop Qiao Chen's hands. If he really wanted to block Qiao Chen then he wouldn't have been able to catch the thread from his sleeves.