Primordial Patient.
The first patient in the world—the first patient in the truest sense.
Unlike ordinary illness, it was the beginning of pestilence becoming monsters in this age.
"The first patient to fall ill in this world was connected to the Medical Department."
"That person suffered from an affliction that could not be measured or diagnosed. Yet from that disease as its point of origin, pestilence spread like the tide. Even if the history of the past had been buried by the Great Calamity and concealed by the Medical Department, fragments of it would still rise to the surface like bubbles."
"The source of pestilence was called [Father]."
"Bearing the final patient, it carved a resolute slash across the skin of history."
This history had been buried beneath wind and sand.
Yan Nü had spoken it aloud herself.
Liang Xiao was too stunned to say a word.
Information of such an elevated level had completely exceeded her imagination.
The things she had once done selling [addictive substances] did not even count as children playing house.
Any one of these pieces of information was enough to shatter the public's worldview.
Zhou Zhi looked composed, but his heart was a stormy sea.
Judging by her age, Yan Nü had to be several centuries old at least. As a Plague Exterminator from Cui Ni's era, she had indeed been tempered by history and uncovered fragments of truth within the hidden past.
Though Yan Nü's words could not be wholly trusted, they could at least serve as a reference.
[Source of All Diseases—Father] was itself the disease borne by the world's first patient.
The Medical Department had emerged from this Primordial Patient and was deeply connected to him.
However... some details in this information slightly conflicted with what Zhou Zhi had learned before.
For