The cause of infection was unknown, and so was the treatment.
Mortality rate...
One hundred percent.
Reciting the words silently, the young man pushed open the door to a hospital room.
"Annie, how are you feeling today?"
"Dr. Su!"
Sitting on the hospital bed was a short-haired blonde girl. She was one of the many Honkai Disease patients under Su's care.
Although Su's reason repeatedly told him that Annie would likely be unable to escape the tragic fate of dying from Honkai Disease, he still refused to give up.
"Normal temperature, normal blood pressure. The purple patterns haven't changed either."
After completing the daily routine examination, Su carefully recorded Annie's condition on his tablet.
"Dr. Su..."
Looking at the purple patterns on her arm, Annie recalled what the other doctors had told her and her parents.
"The other doctors said I have Honkai Disease. I heard this illness can't be cured... Dr. Su, am I going to die?"
Seeing tears stream from Annie's eyes, Su felt a pang in his heart.
With his blue medical rubber-gloved hand, he gently wiped the tears from Annie's face, speaking words he did not know were meant to comfort her or himself.
"Don't worry, Annie. Your condition hasn't worsened. I will definitely cure you!"
Dr. Su skillfully closed the ward door and was about to turn away when an urgent, familiar call pierced the silence of the corridor.
"Su, come here for a moment!"
It was his superior at this hospital, the director of his department—Director Fal, a renowned scholar in the medical field who had devoted herself to researching a cure for Honkai Disease ever since its emergence and had treated hundreds of patients over the years.
At that moment, she strode over and delivered some terrible news to Su.
"The patient in