As the smoke grenade's haze dissipated, the Trailblazer slowly opened her eyes beneath an unfamiliar ceiling.
Conversation drifted into her ears.
[??? (Female): --Wake up. Your little toy isn't that destructive.]
[Sampo: Uh, then why hasn't he/she woken up yet?]
[??? (Female): Because he/she fell asleep. He/she was even mumbling in his/her sleep just now... Poor thing. It must have been a terrible nightmare.]
Wang Qiuer let out a long sigh of relief.
"Thank goodness that blue-haired scoundrel named Sampo still has a bit of conscience. He really did save us."
In the story, an underground doctor named Natasha spoke with Sampo, revealing that this was the Lower District, which had been sealed off for over a decade, and that Sampo seemed to have brought them down here to repay a favor.
[Natasha: Now that you're awake, move around a little. I'm Natasha, a doctor down here.]
On the screen appeared a beautiful doctor with long gray-blue hair, dressed in a white lab coat.
"The Lower District? Sealed off for more than a decade?"
Mu En stroked his beard, his brows drawing together slightly. "The people above cut off contact with the underground directly to protect themselves from the cold wave, completely abandoning the miners who supplied them with energy. This Supreme Guardian's methods are truly cruel to the extreme."
[Natasha: Sampo told me you fainted, but he didn't give me the details. Still, based on the diagnosis, there's nothing abnormal with your bodies.]
[Trailblazer: How much do I owe for the medical fees...]
The moment she saw that option, Wang Qiuer froze.
"Medical fees?! I have to carefully budget every single credit just to buy a bun in this game, and now I have to pay an NPC medical fees too?!"
Wang Qiuer clicked it warily.
[Natasha: Ah, it's