Seeking medicine

"What are you doing?! What did you give the professor?"

Liu Weimin was the first to jump to his feet.

Zhang Hongxing merely raised an eyebrow in disdain, then found himself a stool and sat down.

"Professor, how do you feel now?"

Lin Mo, who stood nearby, also questioned Professor Yang. Ultimately, he did not really trust Zhang Hongxing either.

Of everyone present, only Xu Qinian, who had taken a Beauty-Preserving Pill, had complete faith in him.

"Professor, are you all right?"

When Professor Yang failed to respond, Lin Mo asked again, his voice noticeably more worried this time. But Professor Yang still did not answer.

At that moment, he was savoring a most extraordinary sensation.

It felt like a tender shoot breaking through the soil.

It was the feeling of spring.

Spring had arrived, bringing everything back to life, and everything within him was reviving too.

His heart, blood vessels, bones, skin, mind...

Every part of his body gave him a sensation he had never experienced before.

"Ah!"

Professor Yang suddenly threw back his head and let out a long cry. Only that could express his excitement.

"Professor, what's wrong? Professor!"

"Hahaha... I'm fine. Not only am I fine, I feel better than ever! I can't even remember how many years it's been since I felt this full of energy."

"Professor Yang, I recommend a full examination. After all, no one can guarantee that what this man just gave you wasn't some kind of stimulant."

"There's no need. I know my own condition. No stimulant in the world could be this powerful."

"Professor, why not get checked anyway? Even if it's just to reassure everyone in the research lab, you should have an examination, shouldn't you?"

Lin Mo's persuasion changed Professor Yang's mind. Before the examination, however, he made sure to approach Zhang Hongxing and bow in thanks.

"I, Yang Weiguo, thank you, sir."

"Mm."

Zhang Hongxing accepted Professor Yang's thanks without hesitation. A Life-Extending Vitality Pill that could add fifty years to his life was more than worthy of a bow of gratitude.

As the examination results came in one after another, the way everyone looked at Zhang Hongxing changed.

Liu Weimin looked as though he had seen a ghost.

He even begged Professor Yang to undergo another examination, only for the results to be slightly better than the first.

This completely overturned his understanding of medicine.

The tales of ghosts and gods passed down in the Xia Kingdom since ancient times immediately sprang to his mind.

Once someone as stubborn as Liu Weimin believed something, changing his mind was difficult unless he encountered something that completely overturned his understanding.

What had happened to Professor Yang was precisely such a case.

"Impossible. This is impossible. How could it be..."

Liu Weimin lost his mind. He could not accept having his lifelong understanding overturned, yet there was no arguing with the facts he had witnessed.

And so, he went completely insane.

Having a chief physician go insane was naturally a loss for Central City Hospital. But Liu Weimin had brought it upon himself, so the hospital had neither grounds nor the courage to make trouble for Zhang Hongxing.

The next day, Professor Yang's condition had fully stabilized. At his insistence, the hospital had no choice but to discharge him. To thank Zhang Hongxing, Professor Yang offered him one million, the savings of half a lifetime.

Zhang Hongxing did not refuse.

Before Professor Yang left the hospital for the Research Center, Lin Kui handed Zhang Hongxing a fairly thin file.

Qin Dagang, a UFC men's lightweight fighter, was currently ranked fifth in the world. He had defeated the Thai fighter Badi Ku a month earlier, and his ranking might rise again. On the first of next month, he would face the Japanese boxing champion Banjo Ichito.

As one of the few fighters from the Xia Kingdom to make it into the UFC, Qin Dagang had considerable commercial value. If his match against Banjo Ichito next month went well, he would qualify for a title shot.

When that happened, his worth would multiply.

"What exactly have you been digging up for me?"

Reading the string of introductions to the UFC at the beginning, Zhang Hongxing could not help complaining.

"Senior, keep reading. It took me a lot of effort to get this information."

As a rising star in the UFC, Qin Dagang was also almost flawless in his private life. No negative reports about him had surfaced, publicly or privately, and his harmonious relationship with his wife, Zhang Ying, was common knowledge.

Smack.

Upon reaching that point, Zhang Hongxing tossed the file straight back to Lin Kui.

If everything in the file was true, how could Wenwen's earlier words be explained? How could Wenwen, who was not even six, have fabricated a lie about her father beating her and her mother?

"Are you sure you haven't missed anything?"

"Senior, what exactly are you trying to investigate? Aside from being busy with work, your son-in-law really has no other shortcomings. You could even say he's more faithful than most men."

"All right. Leave it at that."

Zhang Hongxing turned and walked toward the hospital exit. Since ordinary methods apparently could not resolve this matter, he could always go back to Capital City with Yingzi and stay there for a while.

"Senior, you're leaving just like that?"

"What else should I do?"

"Well... Senior, I don't mean anything by it. I just thought that since you're here in Xinzhou, why not let me play host and treat you properly?"

"No need. I have to hurry back."

"Senior, well... actually, there's something I'd like your help with."

A rare trace of embarrassment appeared on Lin Kui's face. Asking Zhang Hongxing for help now did make it seem as though he was demanding repayment for a favor.

"If you need something, just say it. You're a grown man, and a special forces soldier at that. Aren't you embarrassed to be hemming and hawing like this?"

"Uh..."

After that rebuke, Lin Kui wished he could find a crack in the ground to hide in. But when he thought of his grandfather, who had been bedridden at home for nearly a year, he forced another smile and said:

"Senior, here's the situation. My grandfather has been bedridden for over a year because of his heart, so I'd like to ask you to examine him. If you can make him well again, my life is yours."

"Haven't you asked Qinian to take a look?"

"I asked him long ago. Dr. Xu said my grandfather's vitality had already run out. If he forced the treatment with acupuncture, he could get him back on his feet, but he would only live another six months at most. I'd already given up hope,

but after seeing Professor Yang practically regain his youth today, I finally realized that such miraculous medicine exists in this world. Please, Senior, save my grandfather."

Lin Kui knelt before Zhang Hongxing.

Life-Extending Vitality Pills were not particularly difficult for Zhang Hongxing to obtain, so giving Lin Kui one was no great matter. What worried him was having requests like this turn up one after another.

These days, what family did not have an elderly relative?

If they all came begging him, he would not be able to handle it even if he returned to the Immortal Venerable Realm.

"I can give you one pill, but you'll have to deal with some trouble for me. After all, I only have four of these left. Once I give you one, I'll have just three. You understand what I mean, don't you?"

"From this moment on, Senior, your affairs are my affairs."