"Someone wanted to kill me... No, he already killed me."
Lu Li was helped into a chair by the long-haired young man, leaving drops of blood along the way.
His face was as pale as paper from blood loss, but his words were clear and orderly. "That person came up behind me and hit me over the head with something heavy—I think he smashed the back of my skull. I used an item to transfer the fatal injury away from my head, and that's how I managed to survive."
As he spoke, he placed a small idol, no bigger than half a palm, on the table.
Qi Si studied it for two seconds, and a prompt appeared on his system interface.
[Name: Gift of Axo (depleted)] [Type: Item] [Effect: Randomly transfers the location of a fatal injury. There is a 10% chance of turning a fatal injury into a nonfatal one.] [Note: The Goddess of Health saves lives and heals the wounded, but has no wish to make an enemy of the God of Death. She simply leaves everything to fate.]
Qi Si lowered his eyes to Lu Li's right leg.
The leg was clearly ruined, dragging limply along the floor. Though the trouser leg had been tied off and the wound hastily bandaged, blood still seeped out relentlessly.
This must have been the "nonfatal injury" that had once been fatal, but it still looked dire.
Without timely treatment, the infection in his leg could spread throughout his body and kill him at any moment.
Qi Si ran through all his saddest memories from childhood to the present, then put on a worried expression. "Professor Lu, are you saying... a player attacked you?"
Lu Li smiled bitterly. "Though I don't want to believe it, I'm afraid that's exactly