Recovering from a Serious Illness

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

Life-Sacrificing System

Host: Lu Chengchuan

Realm: Body Forging

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

Current Lifespan: 55 days.

Host's bodily functions have recovered, unknown disease has not been cured.

The three zombies gave him 21 days of lifespan. Subtracting yesterday, he had 55 days left, nearly two months. It wasn't much; he still had to find monsters to kill.

The sudden appearance of the system, the sudden appearance of monsters, Lu Chengchuan couldn't help but link the two things together.

The possibility of this being a coincidence was low. He had never seen real monsters before. There were a bunch of stories on internet forums, but today was the first time.

Lu Chengchuan went online to search and suddenly discovered that it wasn't just Anyang City; cities in other provinces had monsters appearing as well.

Many people took pictures and posted them online, all kinds of monsters, some of them like the zombies he killed.

Half an hour after he got home, she also arrived.

"Xiao Chuan, are you okay? I heard something happened at Star Prosperity Plaza; someone died."

Huang Yuyun only found out that something really happened near the rental apartment, and hurriedly asked him.

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

The monsters were very similar to the zombies in the movies, but they could survive in the sunlight, while movie zombies would be injured by sunlight and die after being exposed for too long.

"You went out?! Were you injured?" Huang Yuyun's focus was on the fact that her son went out; she came up anxiously to ask if anything happened.

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

Knowing that killing monsters could gain lifespan, Lu Chengchuan didn't hide the fact that he was 'better'.

Although the root of the disease hadn't been removed, as long as he continued to kill monsters and accumulate enough lifespan to improve his martial arts, his illness would have a good day eventually. By then, he would truly be alive.

"You're better?! How is that possible!"

Huang Yuyun seemed to have heard something impossible. Yesterday, she was still taking care of her son by the hospital bed, and today her son told her that his illness was cured. Was he comforting her?

"I'm really better, look."

Lu Chengchuan walked to the refrigerator, his hands steady, and with a little force, he lifted the refrigerator.

"This..." Huang Yuyun looked at him in shock, as if she had seen something incredible.

Since he got sick, his body had become weaker day by day. Not to mention carrying a refrigerator, it was difficult for him to carry a bucket of water. What was going on? How did he suddenly get better?

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

Lu Chengchuan started making up a story. Anyway, he couldn't talk about the system; he could only tell a little lie.

"Dreaming, being burned by fire..." Huang Yuyun couldn't accept it for a long time. An illness that couldn't be cured after several years of treatment was cured just by having a dream?

But the fact was right in front of her. Her son lifted the refrigerator in front of her. This was definitely not the strength that someone who had been sick for several years should have.

"It's good, the illness is cured..."

Tears flowed from Huang Yuyun's eyes as she murmured constantly, looking at her healthy son. Joy occupied her entire heart. She walked up and grabbed her son's arm.

"Good, good, no matter what, it's good as long as you get better, as long as you get better..."

As she spoke, Huang Yuyun's voice choked up, and she couldn't hold back her tears any longer. She began to cry loudly, wanting to vent the pressure of the past few years.

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

She had worked too hard these past few years. In order to save him, she had borrowed money from many people and suffered all kinds of contempt. Now that he had obtained the system and found a way to obtain lifespan, he would not let his mother suffer anymore.

Huang Yuyun cried for a while, and after venting, she looked up at her son.

Her ruddy complexion, her eyes full of energy, didn't look like someone who had just recovered from a serious illness. She believed that her son's illness was really cured.

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

"Mom, the situation isn't right now; let's not go out." Lu Chengchuan stopped his mother.

There were monsters outside, and the authorities hadn't given a definite response yet. What if they encountered monsters again when they went out? He wasn't afraid of monsters; he couldn't wait to encounter monsters when he went out, after all, they were moving lifespan.

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

Huang Yuyun remembered this, nodded, and changed her mind to buy groceries at the nearby vegetable market to cook herself.

Lu Chengchuan went with her. While they were buying groceries, on the other side of the city, in the forensic autopsy room of the police station, a group of people looked solemnly at the four corpses on the platform.

"Old Lin, what exactly are these things?"

When the old forensic doctor put down the scalpel, everyone immediately surrounded him to ask.

"They are not living people." The old forensic doctor took off his mask and said this.

"We know they aren't living people. They're all lying on the table. How could they be alive?"

"They aren't normal dead people. They're dead people who haven't rotted for a hundred years. I've never seen anything like it. Weird, very weird, just like... monsters from a movie, completely defying logic."

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

He'd been doing this for decades, and this was the first time he'd handled corpses like this. He simply couldn't believe it and thought the police were digging them up from some grave to mess with him.

"Who killed these three monsters?"

The police chief stood before the monster corpses: three bodies with their throats torn open and another with several bullet holes in its head.

You had to shoot these monsters in the head to kill them, and even then, it took seven or eight shots. What kind of person could kill these things with their bare hands?

"We checked the surveillance footage from the scene. It was a man who killed them. He was wearing a mask and hat. He ran when we got there, and we haven't found out who he is yet."

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

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

"The Investigation Bureau? What department is that..." The chief was puzzled by the officer's news.

He hadn't heard of such a department. Could it be... a special classified organization? Now, another unknown department was showing up. Yang Jikai was filled with questions.

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

Yang Jikai and his subordinates walked to the parking lot in the courtyard, approaching a black car.

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

The woman had a cold and aloof demeanor, and her face was expressionless, but she was still pleasing to the eye. Yang Jikai stepped forward, and the woman produced a small black notebook.

"Director Yang, this is our identification."

Director Yang took the identification and examined it for a moment. He looked up at the woman. "I wasn't aware the country had such a department. Are you aware of the consequences of deceiving the police?"