After Bai Ge said goodbye, he left.
He took out his phone and called Shao Yuan as he walked.
After a while, Shao Yuan answered. "Did you take care of things on your end?"
"Yep. What about you?"
Shao Yuan said, "I found out who he is."
"He was originally a magician, but he was almost completely unknown. It wasn't until two months ago, when he changed his stage name, that he began to make a name for himself."
"His signature trick after his comeback was the Heavenly Ladder. It was the same kind we saw last time—he could step on water, fire, and light. It became hugely popular, and he often performed all over North America."
Bai Ge thought about it. He had begun changing his style two months ago, which meant this was an early-stage anomalous object.
It was probably one of the twenty anomalous objects he had created during his experiments.
"What else did you find?"
Shao Yuan continued, "I looked into his medical records and found that he was deficient in hematopoietic stem cells—and that deficiency only appeared within the past two months."
"Hm? Isn't that leukemia?" Bai Ge asked.
"More precisely, a prolonged deficiency in hematopoietic stem cells could eventually lead to leukemia," Shao Yuan said.
Then Shao Yuan continued, "After that... he broke up with his girlfriend."
"Uh? Why are we suddenly talking about his girlfriend?" Bai Ge asked, puzzled.
"Not long after the breakup, that woman was also found to be deficient in hematopoietic stem cells," Shao Yuan said.
Bai Ge pondered for a moment before saying, "I understand. This should be his side effect, right? He and the people around him will continuously lose hematopoietic stem cells. He broke up with his girlfriend directly so he wouldn't drag her down."
Shao Yuan