“That’s right. This injury isn’t serious, but it’s in a tricky spot.”
As soon as Xuan Lie heard Yun Jiuqing correctly identify the cause of Xie Ciyuan’s blindness, he hurriedly chimed in to agree with her.
“There are people watching along the way, so I can’t perform surgery on you. I’ll have to use medicine to disperse the blood clot. It can be treated, but the effect will be slower.”
Xuan Lie asked excitedly, “What about his other injuries? Since the Princess can treat the Prince’s eyes, can she also treat his leg?”
The old steward also looked at Yun Jiuqing with eager eyes. If at first he had only taken her for a reckless, ill-mannered fool spouting nonsense, by now he was beginning to believe in her medical skills.
“There’s a foreign object embedded in the Prince’s patella that prevents him from getting up. But the reason he can’t stand has nothing to do with that object. To truly stand again, not only must the object in his patella be removed, but the one embedded near his heart must be taken out as well. Moreover, the poison here needs to be neutralized.”
As she spoke, Yun Jiuqing’s slender finger tapped Xie Ciyuan’s left abdomen. “That poison was injected directly into the spinal cord. This method of poisoning would cause quite a commotion, and the victim would suffer greatly. At the very least, they’d collapse on the spot, in so much pain they’d choke. At worst, they’d be crippled for life, never able to stand again. I’m curious—do you know who administered this poison?”
The others remained silent, and Yun Jiuqing, being tactful, didn’t press further. “The Prince’s leg injury is far more severe than his eyes. I’ll need to study it carefully. I have to neutralize the poison in his spine first before I can begin treatment. I’ll write a prescription, and you’ll need to find a way to procure the herbs.”
With that, she feigned exhaustion, walked to a corner, and sat down, pretending to sleep. In reality, she was frantically rummaging through her Strategic Space. This damn exile—who knew what dangers lurked ahead? Medicine, food, weapons for self-defense, and even a means of escape all had to be prepared.
Yun Jiuqing was just gleefully fantasizing about using the weapons from her Strategic Space to awe the ancient folks with a cool, domineering scene, when suddenly she froze.
“Where’s my big, huge Strategic Space? Where are all the supplies I stored in it? And what the hell is this familiar rundown driving school and that familiar beat-up pickup truck doing here?”
Yun Jiuqing snapped her eyes open, staring wide-eyed and muttering to herself. “Before I died, I said I never wanted to see that cursed thing again—not in this life, not the next, not for eight hundred lifetimes! I must have gotten up too fast. How else would that driving school and instructor car that killed me end up in my Strategic Space? A reboot should get rid of it…”
Confidently, she closed her eyes and sent her consciousness back into the Strategic Space. But then—
“Hey, you ghost! Aren’t you coming to practice driving, or are you waiting for me to treat you to a meal?”
A familiar voice rang out, and Yun Jiuqing jolted with a start. “Oh my, my terrifying driving instructor got transmigrated too! Can I just die again?” She couldn’t help but voice the sincere question from the depths of her soul.
“Hehe, no can do, Master!” The boss’s adorable voice chimed in. “Master, do you remember? The motto of Qing Feng Huang is to grow stronger with every challenge! Since you failed to pass your driving test in your previous life, the Command Center has temporarily locked all your supplies. If you want your supplies, you’ll need to earn them with corresponding exam scores! Only by passing all the exams set by the Command Center will you fully unlock access to the Strategic Space and be able to retrieve items at will without limits!”
“All the exams?” Yun Jiuqing felt like she was falling apart, counting on her fingers. “A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, motorcycles, electric scooters, all kinds of construction vehicles and radar trucks, flying licenses—if the Command Center wants me dead, just use a single bullet! Why go through all this roundabout nonsense? I’m someone who failed the written test for a manual transmission car license seven times and managed to kill myself during the road test! And the Command Center wants me to take all those exams? That’s not just wanting me dead—that’s wanting me to never be reborn again!”
The boss smiled with gentle warmth. “That’s not it, Master! You know this is the unified standard after Qing Feng Huang’s upgrade! Are you going to lose to the other members over these licenses?”
“Impossible!” Yun Jiuqing stubbornly craned her neck. “The word ‘lose’ doesn’t exist in my dictionary! Besides, Bai Feng is even more unreliable than me—don’t forget, she’s the one who got me killed in the first place! I refuse to believe I’d lose to her! Tell me the specific standards for exchanging supplies, and I’ll start practicing right now!”
Before she even finished speaking, she marched her short legs straight toward that instructor car—the one where everything rattled except the horn. But then, a fat, deformed orange cat dropped from the sky, making the beat-up pickup truck shudder under its weight, its whiskers arching proudly upward. The words it spoke were utterly chilling. “Sorry, Master, but you’re still a newbie right now—you can’t jump straight to the road test! You have to start with the written exam, strictly following all the rules of the driving test.”
“Master, during the driving test, the system will forcibly lower your intelligence and make you passively experience all three hundred and sixty ways to fail the exam.
Go ahead, Master. I’ve even prepared a place for you to practice the questions.”
The big orange cat gestured toward the maple grove with the air of someone commanding the world.
Inside the bright window, the power indicator light of a shabby desktop computer was glowing.
The moment Yun Jiuqing saw the heat dissipation vent with a hole in it, she was reminded of the exam computer at the testing center—the one where you had to click the mouse three times before the screen would respond even once.
Yun Jiuqing took a deep breath and looked at the big fat orange cat. “What if I just die again?”
As she spoke, her gaze drifted toward the training car, itching to act.
She had died in a car accident. Maybe if she crashed again, she’d go back and wouldn’t have to stay in this godforsaken place taking a driving test just to exchange for living supplies.
The fat orange cat squinted its eyes. “Master, think this through. First of all, even if you crash yourself to death, there’s no guarantee you’ll return to your original world.
Chances are, you’ll just be completely dead.
Secondly, let’s say you get lucky and actually go back—the driving test is still something you can’t avoid.
The difference is, here, failing just means you don’t get the supplies you want, and you can retake the test as many times as you like.
But if you go back, have you thought about what would happen if you fail again?”
Yun Jiuqing hesitated.
After Qing Feng Huang was upgraded to a comprehensive strategic assault rescue team, those driving skills were indeed essential.
If she couldn’t pass, she’d only become a burden to her teammates.
If she could practice here until she mastered it and then go back, she’d exchange the skills for the living supplies she currently needed without delaying her future training—wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds?
With that thought, she decisively sat down in front of the outdated desktop computer.
Skillfully pressing the power button, she couldn’t help but complain, “Honestly, even my great-grandmother doesn’t use relics like this anymore!
By the way, how exactly do I exchange my scores for supplies?
Subject Two only has a few items, and even if I add them all up, the points are just that much. What can I even get for that?”