Multiply by Ten, Multiply by Ten, Multiply by Ten, Multiply by Ten, Multiply by Ten, Multiply by Ten

Brain Safe

Bin City.

District 9 People's Hospital.

A sharp, ear-piercing roar echoed through the hospital corridor.

It went on incessantly.

"I told you to send him to the morgue, so why did you bring him to a ward? And a VIP ward at that!"

"Is your hospital trying to extort money from us on purpose?!"

Ge Yanxia was short, stout, and bloated, dressed in a tight black dress.

Her spit nearly flew onto the face of the doctor opposite her.

The doctor hurriedly explained, "Family member, please be rational! Jiang Fu is..."

"Rational! What do you expect me to be rational about!"

Ge Yanxia rudely interrupted the doctor.

"No matter who he is, his vitality has been shattered! He's as good as dead!"

"With injuries like these, he's better off dead and reincarnated sooner!"

The doctor smiled bitterly and said, "Even if his vitality is shattered, it is not incurable."

"As long as there is a Vitality Pill, the patient can continue to live..."

Ge Yanxia's eyes widened like a cow's: "A Vitality Pill?! Do you have any idea how much a Vitality Pill costs!!"

"Do you think money just grows on trees in my house!"

"I am just that little bastard's aunt, not his mother!"

"Transfer him to a general ward immediately... no, wait! Discharge him right now!"

As she spoke, Ge Yanxia kicked the cowering man beside her.

"Guo Fangdong! It's all your fault! You were the one who insisted on taking that little bastard in all those years ago!"

"Do you know how much money he's cost us over the years!"

"I thought that once he became a martial artist, he could help support the family!"

"But he went out into the wild to pick a few fruits for Xiao Feng and ended up getting beaten like a stray dog!"

Guo Fangdong was dressed in a suit and tie, with gold-rimmed glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.

Facing his overbearing wife, he instinctively shrank back.

He stammered, "But, if we hadn't taken Jiang Fu in back then, his parents' inheritance and pension wouldn't have come to us, and Xiao Feng's cultivation resources were also provided by Jiang Fu..."

Hearing words like 'inheritance', 'pension', and 'cultivation resources', a flicker of guilt flashed in the depths of Ge Yanxia's eyes.

Then, she hopped on her two thick calves.

Her obese body landed on the floor with a heavy thud.

The hospital corridor seemed to emit a faint, rumbling sound.

"I'm not listening, I'm not listening!"

"Setting the facts aside, isn't that little bastard at fault too!"

"Anyway, he's already eighteen! Whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with me!!"

"Don't even think about making me pay his medical bills!"

Inside the ward.

Jiang Fu lay stiffly on the pristine white hospital bed.

Feeling the familiar sense of weakness and powerlessness in his body.

His eyes were filled with despair.

So, I finally managed to wither away to death, only to transmigrate into a paralyzed body?

In his previous life.

Jiang Fu was a patient with ALS.

He had been bedridden for three full years before he finally died.

But he never expected that the moment he opened his eyes again.

To think I transmigrated to another world, another hospital bed... and another paralyzed body!

At this moment.

Jiang Fu was radiating a faint sense of death from head to toe.

Ding!

Detected that the host has ten days of life remaining.

Multiply by Ten System loading.

Hearing this sound.

Jiang Fu's dead-fish eyes twitched slightly.

"What the hell?"

"Only ten days of life left?"

"Does this mean I'm not just paralyzed, but dying?"

System: The system detects that the host's blood and qi have been scattered and you are severely injured, which is why you cannot move.

Jiang Fu: "That's... simply wonderful!"

In an instant.

A spark of vitality ignited in the depths of Jiang Fu's eyes.

System: ...

This host seems a bit different.

Multiply by Ten System loading complete!

Host: Jiang Fu
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Level: 0
Blood and Qi Value: 7
Lifespan: 10 days
Ability: Multiply by Ten
Ability Usage Limit: 1

Jiang Fu stared at the light screen floating before him, which looked just like a smartphone display.

He couldn't help but be stunned, "Multiply by Ten? What does that mean?"

System: This system is the Multiply by Ten System; it can multiply any existence by ten! However, the host only has one opportunity to use Multiply by Ten! Once the multiplication is complete, the system will immediately detach. The system detects that the host has ten days of life remaining. It is recommended to multiply your lifespan by ten, so that the host can obtain one hundred days of life.

Jiang Fu looked skeptical: "Can you really multiply anything by ten?"

System: I am a system; I do not lie.

Jiang Fu pondered for a moment.

Then—

"Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten..."

At this time, although Jiang Fu's body was weak.

His mouth moved incredibly fast.

Like someone chanting a sutra, a long string of "multiply by ten" spilled out in the blink of an eye.

System: ???

System: Host, you only have one opportunity to use Multiply by Ten.

Jiang Fu: "Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten..."

System: No, host, what are you multiplying by ten?!

Jiang Fu: "Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten..."

Jiang Fu did not respond.

He simply kept chanting "multiply by ten."

A moment later.

System: !!!

Holy crap, are you exploiting a bug here!!!

Stop it right now!!

Jiang Fu: "Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten..."

At this moment.

The system's originally cold, mechanical voice turned shrill: Initiating capability restriction!

Restricting Multiply by Ten ability, stacking is now prohibited!

Jiang Fu hurriedly shut his mouth.

Then he looked at the system panel floating before his eyes.

He was extremely satisfied with his masterpiece.

Name: Jiang Fu

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Level: 0

Vitality: 7

Lifespan: 10 days

Ability: Multiply by Ten (stacking prohibited)

Ability usage limit: Positive infinity

The system felt as if the sky were collapsing.

It told him to multiply by ten, not to multiply the usage limit of Multiply by Ten by ten!

Positive infinity!

Positive infinity!!

Positive infinity!!!

Just how many times did he multiply by ten to trigger such a heaven-defying bug!!!

The system was on the verge of a breakdown.

After a long while.

The system's voice sounded again, sounding somewhat cautious: Host, is there nothing else you would like to multiply by ten?

Jiang Fu: "Like what?"

System: Like multiplying the Multiply by Ten ability by ten, turning it into a Multiply by Hundred ability or something.

Jiang Fu's gaze was pure, and he said with an apologetic face: "Better not."

"It was all my fault just now, it's all on me."

"System, come out, I want to apologize to you in person!"

The system huffed.

The next instant.

A Blue Light Orb about the size of a fist appeared in front of Jiang Fu.

System: If you multiply the Multiply by Ten ability by ten and let the system evolve into a Multiply by Hundred system, I will forgive you!

Jiang Fu stared at the little light orb: "Multiply by ten!"

System: ???

System: !!!

Holy crap! Host, you have no honor!!!

Ten systems simultaneously emitted shrill, piercing shrieks.

Jiang Fu asked with an innocent expression: "The Multiply by Ten ability cannot be stacked..."

"Now that there are ten systems, can I stack it ten times?"

"And... if I really did as you said and multiplied the Multiply by Ten by ten to become a Multiply by Hundred system, wouldn't the usage limit reset to the original one?"

Plus the restriction that it cannot be stacked.

At most, one hundred uses of Multiply by Hundred!

Jiang Fu knew perfectly well which was heavier: one hundred uses of Multiply by Hundred or infinite uses of Multiply by Ten.

What a devious system!

System: ￥%#￥T#%&#￥%!!!

System: This sneaky bastard is too cunning! He didn't fall for it! Run!

Emergency detachment, emergency detachment!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

The next moment.

The ten small orbs of light transformed into ten blue beams.

They vanished completely.

"Gone?"

Jiang Fu was stunned. "System? System? Are you still there?"

The surroundings were silent.

In the hospital room, there was no sound other than the beeping of the medical equipment.

In the end.

Jiang Fu had no choice but to reach a conclusion.

...The system really had run away.

"If the system ran away, is the 'Multiply by Ten' ability still here?"

No sooner had the thought crossed his mind.

Than the system panel reappeared before Jiang Fu.

Name: Jiang Fu
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Level: 0
Vitality: 7
Lifespan: 10 days
Ability: Multiply by Ten (Cannot be used cumulatively)
Ability Usage Limit: Positive Infinity

Only then did Jiang Fu heave a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness, the system is gone, but the Multiply by Ten ability is still here."

"Hm? Wait!"

"Behind this system panel... there seem to be shadows."

"Could it be that after I multiplied the system by ten, the system panels also became ten?"

Jiang Fu's eyes darted around.

He tried to find a way to open the other nine system panels.

But the remaining nine panels remained hidden behind the first one.

They simply refused to come out.

Jiang Fu had no choice but to give up.

"Let me test the Multiply by Ten ability first."

Thinking this.

Jiang Fu turned his head with great difficulty to look at the bedside table beside him.

On the bedside table.

Sat a bottle of water and an orange.

Jiang Fu's gaze landed on the orange, and he tentatively said, "Multiply by ten?"

As the words fell.

The single orange.

Suddenly turned into ten identical oranges.

The bedside table was not large.

Of the nine additional oranges, several rolled onto the floor.

Jiang Fu's eyes lit up.

His heart couldn't help but thump wildly.

"It really multiplied by ten!"

"Right, before the system ran away, it seemed to add a restriction."

"Cannot be used cumulatively?"

Thinking of this.

He gave it a try, targeting the orange on the bedside table that had already been multiplied by ten, and attempted to multiply it again.

The orange did not react.

"So, it's not stackable in that way."

"Items that have already been multiplied by ten cannot be multiplied by ten again."

Jiang Fu frowned, struggling to think.

"It seems that multiplying the system itself didn't break the stacking limit..."

"No, wait. Behind the system panel, there are nine other panels. If I find a way to activate those nine, could I continue to stack the multipliers?"

"Ah, I'll have to study that slowly later."

"Also, I wonder if I can add a time limit to the multiplier."

"For example, after multiplying for a certain duration, it could automatically revert..."

Thinking this, Jiang Fu's gaze fell upon the mineral water bottle next to the orange.

He tentatively said, "Multiply by ten... for one second?"

As the words fell, the single mineral water bottle instantly turned into ten.

A few bottles tumbled from the nightstand onto the floor.

But after one second, the extra bottles vanished, leaving only the original one behind.

"Multiply by ten, one second!"

As the words fell, the remaining water bottle turned into ten once more.

One second later, the other nine vanished simultaneously.

In an instant, Jiang Fu's eyes lit up.

"It really is possible to set a time limit on the multiplier!"

Just as Jiang Fu was feeling excited, his vision went black, and a wave of dizziness washed over his mind.

"Oh no!"

"I forgot that I'm not just a cripple anymore—I'm dying!"

This was the last thought in Jiang Fu's mind before he passed out.