Recovered from a Serious Illness

Lu Chengchuan ran all the way home and opened the system to see how much lifespan he had left.

Life-Sacrificing System

Host: Lu Chengchuan

Realm: Body Tempering

Martial Arts: Everspring Skill Yellow Grade/Level 1, Eagle Claw Iron Body Skill Yellow Grade/Level 2

Current Lifespan: 55 days.

The host's bodily functions have recovered. The unknown illness has not been cured.

The three zombies had given him twenty-one days of lifespan. Subtracting yesterday, he had fifty-five days left—nearly two months. It was not much. He still had to find monsters to kill.

The suddenly appearing system and the suddenly appearing monsters made Lu Chengchuan instinctively link the two together.

The odds of it being a coincidence were low. He had never seen a real monster before. There were plenty of stories online, but today was his first time encountering one for real.

Lu Chengchuan searched online and suddenly discovered that monsters had appeared not only in Anyang City, but also in cities across other provinces.

Many people had posted photos online. There were all kinds of monsters, some resembling the zombies he had killed.

Half an hour after he returned home, Huang Yuyun returned as well.

"Xiaochuan, are you all right? I heard something happened over at Star Prosperity Plaza. Someone died."

Huang Yuyun had only learned that something had really happened after returning to the area near their rental apartment, and she hurriedly asked him.

"There were monsters at Star Prosperity Plaza. I went out and saw them just now. They looked a lot like zombies, and they bit several people to death." Lu Chengchuan shook his head, then explained to his mother.

The monsters resembled the zombies in movies, except they could survive under sunlight. Movie zombies would be injured by sunlight and die if exposed to it for too long.

"You went out?! Were you hurt?" Huang Yuyun focused on the fact that her son had gone outside and hurried over to ask whether anything had happened to him.

"I'm fine, Mom. My illness suddenly got better."

Now that he knew killing monsters could earn him lifespan, Lu Chengchuan did not hide the fact that he had "recovered."

Although the root of his illness had not been eliminated, as long as he continued killing monsters and accumulated enough lifespan to improve his martial arts, there would come a day when his illness was truly cured. Then he would truly be alive.

"You recovered?! How is that possible!"

Huang Yuyun looked as though she had heard something impossible. Just yesterday, she had been caring for her son at his bedside, and today he was telling her he had recovered. Was he trying to comfort her?

"I really did recover. Look."

Lu Chengchuan walked over to the refrigerator, steadied both hands, and with a slight exertion, lifted the refrigerator onto his shoulders.

"This..." Huang Yuyun stared at him in shock, as if she had witnessed something unimaginable.

Ever since he fell ill, his body had grown weaker by the day. Forget carrying a refrigerator—even carrying a bucket of water had been difficult for him. What was going on? How had his illness suddenly gotten better?

"I had a dream last night. I dreamed I was being burned by fire, and when I woke up, I found that my body had recovered."

Lu Chengchuan began making up nonsense. He could not reveal the system, so he could only tell a small lie.

"A dream... being burned by fire..." Huang Yuyun could not accept it for a long time. An illness that had remained uncured after years of treatment had gotten better just from one dream?

But the facts were right in front of her. Her son had lifted a refrigerator before her eyes. That was not strength a person who had been ill for years should possess.

"It's better. Your illness is better..."

Tears streamed from Huang Yuyun's eyes as she kept murmuring to herself. Looking at her healthy son, joy filled her heart. She stepped forward and grabbed his arm.

"Good, good. No matter what, as long as you're better, that's all that matters. As long as you're better..."

As she spoke, Huang Yuyun's voice began to choke up. Her tears could no longer be held back, and she began sobbing aloud, wanting to release the pressure she had endured over the past few years.

Lu Chengchuan went over and hugged his mother, silently comforting her.

She had suffered too much these past few years. To save him, she had borrowed money from countless people and endured endless cold stares. Now that he had obtained the system and found a way to gain lifespan, he would not let his mother suffer anymore.

Huang Yuyun cried for a while. After venting her emotions, she raised her head and looked at her son.

His face was rosy, and his eyes were full of vigor. He did not look like someone recovering from a serious illness at all. She believed that her son's illness had truly gotten better.

"Let's go out to eat and celebrate properly."

"Mom, things aren't right out there right now. We'd better not go out." Lu Chengchuan stopped her.

There were monsters outside, and the authorities had yet to give a definite response. What if they ran into monsters again after going out? He was not afraid of monsters. In fact, he hoped to encounter them whenever he went out, since they were mobile sources of lifespan.

But his mother was just an ordinary person. It would be very dangerous if she encountered them.

Remembering this, Huang Yuyun nodded and changed her mind, deciding to buy groceries at the nearby market and cook for themselves.

Lu Chengchuan went with her. While they were buying groceries, on the other side of the city, a group of people stood with grave expressions in the police department's forensic autopsy room, staring at the four corpses on the tables.

"Old Lin, what exactly are these things?"

After the elderly coroner put down his scalpel, everyone immediately gathered around to question him.

"They aren't living people." The old coroner removed his mask and said only that.

"We know they aren't living people. They're lying on the tables. Could they still be alive?"

"They aren't normal dead people. They're corpses that have been dead for a century without rotting. I've never seen anything like this. Strange, very strange, just like... monsters from a movie. There's no logic to them at all."

"The victims had all their blood drained, and the wounds match their fangs."

He had worked for decades, yet this was the first time he had handled corpses like these. He could hardly believe it and had thought the police had dug them up from some grave to play a prank on him.

"Who killed these three monsters?"

The police chief approached the monster corpses: three with their throats torn open, and one with several bullet holes in its head.

These monsters had to be shot in the head to die, and it had taken seven or eight shots. What kind of person could kill such things barehanded?

"We reviewed the surveillance footage. A man killed them. He wore a mask and a hat. He ran off by the time we got there, and we haven't identified him yet."

"Find him. You must find him! I'm assigning this matter to you."

Several people left the autopsy room. A police officer jogged over. "Chief, a group of people has arrived outside. They say they're from the Investigation Bureau and want to see you."

"The Investigation Bureau? What department is that..." The news the officer brought left the chief confused.

He had never heard of such a department. Could it be... some secret organization? And now another unknown department had appeared. Yang Jikai's head was full of questions.

"You go look for clues. Where are they? Take me to them."

Yang Jikai walked with his subordinate to the parking lot in the courtyard and stopped beside a black car.

He walked over, and the rear window rolled down, revealing a young woman's face.

The woman had a cool, aloof bearing and an expressionless face, yet she was all the more pleasing to look at. Yang Jikai stepped forward, and she took out a small black booklet.

"Director Yang, these are our credentials."

Director Yang accepted the credentials and examined them for a while before looking up at the woman. "I didn't know the country had a department like this. Do you people know the consequences of deceiving the police?"