Dayan Pearl

East China Hospital

At this moment, in the conference room on the top floor of the outpatient building.

Aside from a few specialists who needed to remain on duty, nearly every available authority from every department of East China Hospital had gathered here, along with representatives from the provincial health department and lower-ranked hospitals.

"We can't find a specific cause."

"I've practiced medicine for fifty-three years. I'm probably the one here with the longest medical career, but I can't explain this situation."

Professor He, the honorary director of East China Hospital, adjusted his glasses. His tone was full of disbelief, with both shock and excitement.

A table was displayed on the conference room projector.

It showed the number of patients at East China Hospital and hospitals across the city over the past half year.

It contained all kinds of detailed data.

Among them,

there was one table labeled—

Number of Deaths.

"As we can see, starting from July this year through the present September, the patient mortality rate across the city has practically fallen off a cliff." The provincial health department official enlarged a table.

"And as Professor He said, this situation cannot be explained."

"Ever since we discovered this trend last week, we've begun investigating. The results show that the number of patients seeking treatment at hospitals each day has not decreased, yet regardless of the cause of illness, recovery rates have risen sharply at every hospital."

"We've even found that the conditions of terminally ill patients have stopped worsening and are all developing in a positive direction."

"There are also more than a dozen cases that can clinically be defined as fully recovered."

Even the provincial health department official found it a little hard to believe as he spoke.

Every expert present had already learned about the matter beforehand.

After all, they dealt with patients every day. No one understood the situation in the hospitals better than they did.

"What about the other cities?"

"Ledu and Anqing are the same, but aside from Ledu and Anqing, there have been no changes in the other cities and counties."

"But Ledu and Anqing don't border Rong City."

"In other words, it isn't limited to a specific region."

"This is a good thing." Professor He smiled. "This may be the best news I've heard in my entire life. Hahahaha."

"Yes, it's a good thing."

The experts present all voiced their agreement.

"It's certainly good news, but we still need to find out the reason behind it, Doctor Li."

The provincial health department official gestured to a middle-aged doctor.

"I'd like to share something very strange. That day, I performed surgery on a patient injured in a car accident."

It was not just Doctor Li. Other surgeons also said that all their operations over the past few months had been completed smoothly. Even when unexpected emergencies occurred, the patients had still been pulled back from the brink.

"Everyone has signed a confidentiality agreement regarding today's meeting, so I won't say much more."

"At the request of the state, and so that more people may live healthy lives, I hope everyone will pay close attention during your work and determine what exactly lies behind this matter."

"The investigation team will arrive in Rong City tomorrow to begin its research. Please cooperate actively. It's getting late, so this meeting is adjourned."

Su Lin sat on the subway, watching a highly liked video playing on a short-video app on his phone.

A man was walking down the street when he saw a group of burly men at a late-night food stall beating up two girls. He launched into a flying kick—one kick, then another, the Foshan Shadowless Kick.

He landed on a table, then casually left the scene.

Experts explained that the man might have been a long-jump athlete.

"A man was struck by lightning more than a dozen times, then got up and continued walking."

"Experts' reminder: The lightning struck a nearby concrete road. This was a low-probability event."

Those experts really were obstacles in his way of farming points.

That was only normal. If they did not put out some smoke screens and restrict traffic, it might cause unnecessary panic.

Anyone could guess that the authorities were investigating like mad right now.

But there was no wall that could keep out the wind, especially when the disturbances he caused grew bigger each time.

People online were already occasionally discussing topics like the return of spiritual energy, superpowered individuals, and aliens.

Su Lin was not in a hurry. After all, he knew that what he was about to do would change the structure of this world.

The world would change because of him.

Perhaps this world possessed hidden supernatural powers that had always remained beneath the curtain.

But he was about to become the one to lift that curtain.

The curtain slowly rose, and the show began.

People all over the world would be drawn into it by him.

The world order, resource allocation, development direction—everything would change.

He needed to do something.

He needed to let the ordinary masses gain some benefits.

It could be considered a bit of compensation from him, compensation for changing their daily lives.

Over the past few days, Su Lin's Historical Projections had been visiting hospitals of all sizes in these cities most frequently.

It had taken around three months of preparatory work, even with numerous Historical Projections working simultaneously, and cost five hundred points.

Naturally, the returns outweighed the expenditure.

Compared to the windfall he had made in Pirate World at the beginning, the points he had gained from stirring things up over the past few months amounted to only a little over a thousand.

The ten thousand points currently in his possession had no strict plan assigned to them. As for cultivation pills and the like, they already filled a small room on Water Mirror Peak.

The people in the group seemed intent on treating Water Mirror Peak as a reserve resource stockpile.

With spiritual herbs and medicinal plants covering the mountains, along with its dense spiritual energy, even ordinary people could live to a hundred and fifty if they stayed there long enough without cultivating.

Thanks to that environment and those resources, the benefits of the Heavenly Forgetting cultivation technique, and the point-consuming premium item Sands of Time rented through the system—

Su Lin was now close to reaching Qi Refining Great Perfection.

Another draw?

Su Lin opened the lottery interface and considered how many points would be appropriate to put in.

5000

He would not draw again anytime soon. He would save the remaining points for other purposes, and after cultivating for a while longer, he could also go to other worlds to farm points.

A gray light rippled out from Aether and flew into the system inventory.

Another item-type reward?

[Dayan Pearl: Reflection]: Searches the user's information and reflects parallel worlds related to the user. This item can be used to observe parallel worlds, and crushing it can cause space to shatter, forming a temporary spacetime corridor. —You're peeking at me, aren't you?

What a good thing. Su Lin's grin nearly reached his ears.

Let me see what my parallel-world selves are doing.

[Search failed. Unable to locate a parallel world related to the user.]

"**."

Five thousand points!

(End of Chapter)