Preying on an Orphan's Estate—and Getting Preyed Upon in Return

Ge Yanxia's body stiffened.

Then she fell flat on her back, rigid as a board.

Her body bounced against the floor tiles a few times before settling.

Pfft— The next moment, two thick streams of red blood shot out like crimson fountains.

They sprayed from Ge Yanxia's nostrils.

The young nurse's eyes widened instantly.

She stared at the scene before her, completely at a loss.

Just then,

several doctors pushed open the door and entered.

When they saw Ge Yanxia lying on the floor with blood continuously gushing from her nose,

they collectively blurted, "Holy shit!"

Then they hurriedly carried her out of the ward and began treating her.

The young nurse quickly brought over a mop.

She wiped the bloodstains from the floor clean.

A moment later,

only Jiang Fu and Xu Chi remained in the VIP Ward.

Xu Chi seemed not to have processed what had happened.

He looked at Jiang Fu lying in bed and asked blankly, "What happened to her?"

Jiang Fu shifted into a more comfortable position on the bed.

"Maybe... her high blood pressure acted up."

Jiang Fu did not know either.

What would happen if someone's blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar suddenly increased tenfold?

She probably would not die.

And if she did, it did not matter.

He could consider it revenge for the original owner.

In his previous life,

he had been bedridden for three years.

Mentally, he was more or less different from normal people.

Xu Chi slowly let out a breath.

Then he looked at Jiang Fu and asked with both anticipation and caution, "How are you feeling now?"

Jiang Fu had been Xu Chi's prized student.

An eighteen-year-old Martial Artist!

Getting into Martial Arts University had been a sure thing.

He had been more than enough to become Xu Chi's lifelong pride.

A few days ago,

Xu Chi had learned that Jiang Fu's Blood Energy had been scattered and that he had been sent to the hospital Morgue.

It had felt as though the sky had fallen.

Seeing Xu Chi being so careful now,

Jiang Fu could not help thinking of his parents from his previous life.

On the day he was diagnosed with ALS,

his parents had worn the same expressions.

There had been despair, along with a cautious sliver of hope.

They had hoped a miracle would happen.

Thinking of his parents,

Jiang Fu sighed inwardly.

The him from his previous life was already dead.

That had been both Jiang Fu's release and his parents' release.

Since he had come to this world,

Jiang Fu would live properly this time!

And Xu Chi...

If not for Xu Chi, the current Jiang Fu would have long since been dragged off by Guo Fangdong and Ge Yanxia to be cremated.

Jiang Fu looked at Xu Chi, a bright smile spreading across his face.

"Teacher, I'm fine now."

Xu Chi thought of the Mist Ripple Fruit Ge Yanxia had mentioned.

Only then did he relax a little.

Then he said, "It's good that you're fine. Good, good."

"Rest and recover properly here for now. I still have classes to teach, so I'll be going."

"Goodbye, Teacher."

Xu Chi taught a senior class.

His schedule was packed.

He had rushed over to confront Ge Yanxia only after receiving the hospital's call.

He had paid all of Jiang Fu's medical expenses and ward fees.

Now that there was nothing else to handle here, Xu Chi still had to return to class.

Watching Xu Chi's hurriedly departing figure,

Jiang Fu pressed his lips together slightly.

Then,

he looked once more at the system panel floating before him.

Name: Jiang Fu
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Level: 0
Qi-Blood Value: 50
Lifespan: 100 days
Ability: Multiply by Ten (cannot be stacked)
Ability Limited Uses: Positive infinity

"Hm?"

"My lifespan actually increased to a hundred days?"

Jiang Fu pondered for a moment.

"Looks like how long I can live should be tied to my Blood Energy."

"But... a Qi-Blood Value of fifty is the standard for a normal adult, yet I can only live for a hundred days."

"And that's a hundred days after my base lifespan was multiplied by ten."

"Looks like there are other problems with my body."

Jiang Fu frowned.

Just then,

the young nurse from earlier pushed the door open and came in, her face full of disbelief.

Jiang Fu could not help asking curiously, "Nurse Sister, how's that Fatty doing?"

The nurse froze. "F-Fatty... isn't she your aunt?"

Jiang Fu curled his lips and did not respond.

The young nurse seemed to realize something and gave an awkward laugh.

"No one knows what happened. Her blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar suddenly soared to an unbelievable level."

"If she weren't a Martial Artist, she probably would already be dead."

Jiang Fu frowned slightly.

Ge Yanxia was a Martial Artist?

The original owner's memories contained no mention of that.

But he quickly figured it out.

Ge Yanxia and Guo Fangdong, that married couple, had practically devoured the original owner's entire family estate.

The wealth and resources left behind by the original owner's parents—

they could have turned even two pigs into Martial Artists!

However,

the original owner had become a Martial Artist at eighteen.

To outsiders, it looked as though they had used all those resources on him.

And now,

with Jiang Fu severely injured and on the verge of death, the two of them could not even be bothered to keep up the act.

They had simply torn off all pretense.

Seeing Jiang Fu's expression, the young nurse gave another awkward laugh.

"Your uncle and aunt really are worse than your teacher."

"To save you, Teacher Xu spent over a hundred thousand in total."

"But that couple wouldn't spend a single cent, and they even wanted to send you to the Morgue."

Jiang Fu's heart trembled.

Although Xu Chi was a senior class homeroom teacher,

he was still only an ordinary person.

In a world where Spiritual Energy Revival had made things almost apocalyptic,

ordinary people were at the very bottom of society.

Over a hundred thousand... that was probably all his savings.

Jiang Fu took a deep breath. "What injury did I suffer, exactly?"

At this moment,

the young nurse was observing the instruments beside Jiang Fu's bed.

Hearing his question, she answered subconsciously, "Your Blood Energy was scattered, and you fell from being a Martial Artist back to an ordinary person."

"But you must have eaten a Spiritual Fruit. Your Blood Energy has recovered... so you should still have hope of becoming a Martial Artist again."

As she said this,

the young nurse stared fixedly at the instruments before her.

"But there's something strange. Your Blood Energy has clearly recovered and reached the standard of a normal person."

"Yet your physical condition is still extremely poor. It's a very contradictory situation."

Jiang Fu froze.

Then he immediately understood.

Qi and Blood Multiply by Ten.

It only multiplied his Blood Energy by ten.

It could slightly affect his lifespan.

But his other bodily functions had not been multiplied by ten accordingly.

So Jiang Fu was still seriously injured.

"So I can temporarily multiply my Constitution by ten as well..."

In an instant,

Jiang Fu found the root of the problem.

The system panel floating before him

had misled him badly.

It had made Jiang Fu instinctively focus on multiplying the values displayed on the system panel by ten.

But just now,

he had been able to multiply 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!

However,

his earlier conclusion still stood.

The larger the foundation, the greater the gains from multiplying it by ten.

So it was still only a temporary multiplication.

The young nurse had no idea what Jiang Fu was thinking.

She hesitated before saying, "The doctors in the hospital are all busy saving Ge Yanxia right now."

"She's a Martial Artist and has special privileges, so..."

Jiang Fu waved a hand. "It's fine. Don't worry about me."

He also wanted to see.

Whether things he had multiplied by ten

could be undone through other means.

For example...

Could a hospital lower Blood Pressure that had been multiplied by ten?

If it really could be lowered,

Jiang Fu wanted to try

whether he could multiply it by ten again.

That probably wouldn't count as stacking, right?

As for the original owner's family assets,

after all these years, that couple had probably laundered and transferred them away by every possible means.

Getting them back would likely be difficult.

In that case,

why shouldn't he wipe out their entire family line too?

If Ge Yanxia, Guo Fangdong, their family of three, and all their relatives on that side died out,

then their property would still become an inheritance,

to be inherited by him, their nephew.