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Ge Yanxia's body went rigid.
Then she toppled straight backward and landed flat on the floor.
Her body bounced several times on the tiles before coming to rest.
Pfft—
The next instant,
two thick jets of blood, like crimson fountains,
sprayed from Ge Yanxia's nostrils.
The young nurse's eyes widened.
She stared at the scene, utterly at a loss.
Just then,
several doctors pushed through the door.
When they saw Ge Yanxia on the floor, blood gushing from her nostrils,
they all blurted, "What the hell?"
Then they scrambled to carry her out of the ward and began treating her.
The young nurse hurried to fetch a mop
and wiped the blood from the floor.
A moment later,
only Jiang Fu and Xu Chi remained in the VIP Ward.
Xu Chi still seemed unable to process what had happened.
He looked at Jiang Fu in the bed and asked blankly, "What happened to her?"
Jiang Fu shifted into a more comfortable position.
"Maybe... her blood pressure spiked."
Jiang Fu wasn't sure either.
What happened when someone's blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar suddenly rose tenfold?
She probably won't die.
And if she does, so what?
I'll call it revenge for the original owner.
In his previous life,
he had spent three years paralyzed in bed.
Psychologically, he wasn't quite like most people.
Xu Chi slowly exhaled.
Then he looked at Jiang Fu and asked, hopeful yet cautious, "How are you feeling now?"
Jiang Fu was Xu Chi's star pupil.
A Martial Artist at eighteen!
His admission to Martial Arts University had been all but certain.
He would have been Xu Chi's pride for the rest of his life.
A few days ago,
Xu Chi had learned that Jiang Fu's qi and blood had been scattered and that he had been sent to the hospital morgue.
It had felt as if the sky had fallen.
Seeing how cautiously Xu Chi looked at him now,
Jiang Fu couldn't help thinking of his parents in his previous life.
On the day he was diagnosed with ALS,
his parents had worn the same expression.
Despair, mixed with a fragile hope
that a miracle might happen.
Thinking of his parents,
Jiang Fu sighed inwardly.
He had died in his previous life.
That had freed both him and his parents.
Now that he had come to this world,
Jiang Fu meant to truly live!
And as for Xu Chi...
Without him, Guo Fangdong and Ge Yanxia would have had Jiang Fu cremated by now.
Jiang Fu looked at Xu Chi and smiled brightly.
"Teacher Xu, I'm all right now."
Xu Chi thought of the Mist Ripple Fruit Ge Yanxia had mentioned.
Only then did he relax a little.
"It's good that you're all right. That's what matters."
"Stay here and recover for now. I still have classes, so I need to go."
"Goodbye, Teacher Xu," Jiang Fu said.
Xu Chi taught a Senior Year of High School class.
His schedule was packed.
He had rushed over after receiving a call from the hospital, arriving in time to confront Ge Yanxia.
He had paid Jiang Fu's medical bills and ward fees in full.
Now that things were settled here, Xu Chi had to return to his classes.
Jiang Fu watched him hurry away.
He pressed his lips together slightly.
Then
he looked once more at the System Panel floating before him.
[Name: Jiang Fu] [Sex: Male] [Age: 18] [Level: 0] [Qi-Blood Value: 50] [Lifespan: 100 days] [Ability: Multiply by Ten (cannot be stacked)] [Ability usage limit: positive infinity]
"Hm?"
"My lifespan increased to a hundred days?"
Jiang Fu pondered for a moment.
"Looks like how long I can live is tied to my qi and blood."
"But... a Qi-Blood Value of fifty is normal for an adult, yet I only have a hundred days to live."
"And that's after multiplying my base lifespan by ten."
"So there must be something else wrong with my body."
Jiang Fu frowned.
Just then,
the young nurse from earlier returned, disbelief written across her face.
She pushed the door open and came in.
Curious, Jiang Fu asked, "Miss Nurse, how's that fat woman?"
The nurse froze. "Fat... fat woman? Isn't she your aunt?"
Jiang Fu curled his lip and said nothing.
The nurse caught on and gave an awkward laugh.
"We don't know what happened. Her blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar suddenly shot up to unbelievable levels."
"If she weren't a Martial Artist, she'd probably be dead by now."
"It's just... the surge in blood sugar and lipids clogged her blood vessels, but the spike in blood pressure forced the blockage open. Her qi and blood also kept her vessels and tissues from bursting... That's why she's still alive. That's all."
Jiang Fu frowned slightly.
Ge Yanxia was a Martial Artist?
There had been nothing about that in the original owner's memories.
But he soon understood.
Ge Yanxia and Guo Fangdong had practically taken over everything the original owner's family had left.
With the wealth and resources his parents had left behind,
even two pigs could have become Martial Artists!
But
the original owner had become a Martial Artist at eighteen.
Outsiders would have assumed the couple had spent all those resources on him.
And now,
with Jiang Fu gravely injured and near death, they couldn't even be bothered to keep up the act.
They had shown their true colors.
The young nurse saw his expression and let out another awkward laugh.
"Your aunt and uncle really can't compare to Teacher Xu."
"He spent over a hundred thousand to save you."
"That couple wouldn't pay a penny. They even wanted to send you to the morgue."
Jiang Fu's heart trembled.
Xu Chi might be a Senior Year of High School head teacher,
but he was still an ordinary person.
In this world of Spiritual Energy Revival, a world bordering on the apocalyptic,
ordinary people were at the very bottom.
Over a hundred thousand... That was probably all Xu Chi's savings.
Jiang Fu took a deep breath. "What exactly happened to me?"
At that moment,
the young nurse was checking the instruments beside his bed.
Hearing his question, she answered without thinking, "Your qi and blood were scattered, and you fell from Martial Artist back to an ordinary person."
"But you must have eaten a Spiritual Fruit, because your qi and blood have recovered... You may still have a chance to become a Martial Artist again."
At that point,
the nurse fixed her eyes on the monitor before her.
"But one thing is strange. Your qi and blood have clearly recovered to a normal level," she said.
"Yet your physical condition is still very poor. Those readings shouldn't go together."
Jiang Fu froze.
Then he understood at once.
Qi and Blood Multiply by Ten.
It only multiplied his qi and blood by ten.
That could improve his lifespan a little,
but his body's other functions had not been multiplied accordingly.
So Jiang Fu was still gravely injured.
Then I can temporarily multiply my constitution by ten too...
In an instant,
Jiang Fu found the root of the problem.
The System Panel floating before him had misled him.
He had instinctively focused on multiplying the values shown on it.
But just now,
he had multiplied Ge Yanxia's blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar by ten.
That meant he could multiply his own bodily functions by ten as well!
Still,
the same principle applied.
The higher the starting point, the greater the benefit of multiplying it by ten.
So for now, it would only be temporary.
The young nurse had no idea what Jiang Fu was thinking.
She hesitated. "All the doctors in the hospital are treating Ge Yanxia right now."
"She's a Martial Artist, so she gets priority. That means..."
Jiang Fu waved his hand. "It's fine. Don't worry about me."
He wanted to see, too.
Whether the things he had multiplied by ten.
Could be eliminated by other means.
For example...
Whether the hospital had the ability to bring his multiplied blood pressure back down.
If it really came down.
Jiang Fu wanted to try again.
To see whether he could multiply it by ten once more.
That shouldn't count as stacking, right?
As for the original owner's family fortune.
After all these years, it had probably already been laundered and transferred away by that couple through various means.
It would probably be very difficult to get it back.
Since that was the case.
Why shouldn't he take their entire estate for himself as well?
If the three members of the Ge Yanxia and Guo Fangdong family, along with all their relatives over there, died.
Then their property would still become an inheritance.
To be inherited by him, their nephew.
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