East China Hospital
At this moment, in the conference room on the top floor of the outpatient building.
Apart 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 longest-serving doctor here, but I can't explain this situation."
Professor He, the honorary president of East China Hospital, pushed up his glasses. His tone was filled with disbelief, shock, and excitement.
A spreadsheet was displayed on the projection screen in the conference room.
It showed the patient numbers from East China Hospital and hospitals across the city over the past six months.
It contained all sorts of detailed data.
Among them,
there was one table labeled—number of deaths.
"As we can see, since July of this year, up to the present in September, the patient mortality rate across the city has almost fallen off a cliff." The provincial health department official enlarged a table.
"And just as Professor He said, this situation cannot be explained."
"We began investigating after discovering this phenomenon last week. The results show that the number of patients visiting hospitals each day has not decreased, yet regardless of the cause, recovery rates have risen dramatically in every hospital."
"We even discovered that terminally ill patients have stopped deteriorating and are all improving."
"And more than a dozen cases can clinically be defined as cured."
Even the provincial health department official found it hard to believe as he spoke.
Every expert present had already learned something 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 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."
"Ledu and Anqing aren't even adjacent to 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 echoed the sentiment.
"It is a good thing, but we still need to find out what lies 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 was operating on a traffic accident victim."
Doctor Li was not the only one. Other surgeons also said that every operation they had performed in the past few months had been completed smoothly. Even when unexpected situations arose, the patients had turned danger into safety.
"Everyone signed confidentiality agreements regarding today's meeting, so I won't say much more."
"At the state's request, and so that more people can live healthy lives, I hope everyone will pay close attention during your work and see what exactly is behind this."
"The research team will arrive in Rong City tomorrow to begin its investigation. Please cooperate actively. It's getting late, so the meeting is adjourned."
Su Lin sat on the subway, watching a highly liked video on a short-video app.
A man was walking down the street when he saw a group of burly men beating up two girls at a late-night food stall. He flew in with a kick—one kick, then another, the Foshan Shadowless Kick.
They landed on a table, and he casually left the scene as if nothing had happened.
Experts explained that the man was possibly a long-jump athlete.
"A man was struck by lightning more than a dozen times, then got up and continued walking."
"Experts remind the public: the lightning struck the nearby concrete road, making this a low-probability event."
These experts really were obstacles in his way when it came to farming points.
That was normal too. Without some smokescreens and traffic restrictions, it might cause unnecessary unrest.
Anyone could guess that the higher-ups were investigating like mad right now.
But there was no such thing as a secret that stayed hidden forever, especially when the commotion he caused grew bigger every time.
Nowadays, people online would occasionally talk about Spiritual Qi Revival, superpowered individuals, aliens, and similar topics.
Su Lin was in no hurry. After all, he knew that what he did next would change the world's landscape.
The world would change because of him.
Perhaps this world possessed hidden supernatural powers that had remained concealed behind the curtain.
But now, 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 distribution, development directions—everything would change.
He needed to do something.
He needed to let ordinary people gain some benefits.
It could be considered a bit of compensation from him, compensation for changing their everyday lives.
Over the past few days, Su Lin's Historical Projections had been visiting the hospitals of all sizes in these cities most frequently.
It had taken roughly three months of preparatory work, even with numerous Historical Projections working at once, and cost five hundred points.
Naturally, the returns outweighed the costs.
Compared to the massive windfall from the Pirate World at the beginning, he had only gained a little over a thousand points from causing trouble over the past few months.
The ten thousand points he had now had no strict plan assigned to them. Things like cultivation pills had already filled a small room on Water Mirror Peak.
The people in the group clearly intended to treat Water Mirror Peak as a reserve resource storage facility.
The mountains were covered in spiritual herbs and medicinal plants, and the spiritual qi environment was rich. Even ordinary people who lived there for long periods without cultivating could live to one hundred and fifty.
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 from the system,
Su Lin was now close to reaching Qi Refining Great Perfection.
Should he draw once more?
Su Lin opened the lottery interface and considered how many points would be appropriate to put in.
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5000
He would not draw again anytime soon. He would save the remaining points for other uses, and after cultivating for a while longer, he could visit other worlds to farm points.
A gray light rippled out from the Void 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. Crushing it can cause space to rupture, forming a temporary Spacetime Corridor. --You're spying on 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 search for parallel worlds related to the user.]
"**."
Five thousand points!
(End of Chapter)