The Patient with Superpowers

"Master, why did you have to break the head of the escort?"

Su Ziyang followed closely behind Mr. Mengfei and Daoist Jin, constantly asking this question.

Finally, Daoist Jin couldn't take it anymore and glared at Su Ziyang: "When you were studying medicine, weren't you quite quick-witted? How come you get so confused when it comes to things like this?"

"What did I do now? Didn't you bring me out here to see the world? You even treated me like your master! How am I supposed to know if you don't tell me!"

Su Ziyang said this in a rather domineering manner.

"The old man asked us to help him find an apprentice. Although he said his apprentice had done something wrong and openly admitted it, didn't you hear the implication in his words? It meant that he is still my apprentice, and you can look for him, but you can't hurt him! Then he went out to practice darts and asked you to draw your darts. The meaning was even clearer: although I'm old, I'm not incapable of fighting. If you really want to harm my apprentice, you'd better think twice."

Seeing that Su Ziyang was not quite grasping the concept, Mr. Mengfei quickly explained it to Su Ziyang.

"Holy crap, are all you martial arts people's ways of thinking this profound?"

Su Ziyang's words came out completely subconsciously. As soon as he said that, Mr. Mengfei slapped him hard across the face, making Su Ziyang shrink back.

"Don't be so disrespectful to anyone. Let me tell you, you'd better learn something good. If you become like this old man's apprentice, don't blame me for turning my back on you."

Mr. Mengfei gave Su Ziyang a good scolding, and Su Ziyang, feeling utterly humiliated, dared not utter a sound and could only follow dejectedly behind his two masters.

On their way back, Su Ziyang started his usual nonsensical chatter, asking Daoist Jin a particularly absurd question, "Master, do you think our Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt techniques can block Yang Jinguang's rope darts? I want him to throw one at me to test my progress."

"..." Daoist Jin glanced at Su Ziyang but didn't say anything. Mr. Mengfei, standing to the side, suppressed a laugh and remained silent.

Upon seeing the reactions of the two, Su Ziyang immediately realized that his question seemed a bit off. The idea that he possessed the Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt techniques, making him invincible and impervious to swords and spears, was questionable.

Then Su Ziyang became withdrawn, and the three of them didn't speak to each other for the rest of the way, returning to the Daoist Medicine Clinic in silence.

After returning to the Daoist Medicine Clinic, Daoist Jin stopped seeing patients. Mr. Mengfei also disappeared. As soon as the two of them disappeared, Su Ziyang knew that they must have gone to use their connections in that ethereal world of martial arts to find someone.

Despite the long and tiring journey, Su Ziyang still opened the door to make house calls, his body slightly exhausted.

You're back?

Fairy Li, with her hair tied in a bun, popped in from outside the door, carrying a bag of clothes in her hand.

"You're back." Su Ziyang nodded as he watched Fairy Li enter.

"I've washed your clothes."

Fairy Li neatly folded the hoodie Su Ziyang had worn last time and put it in her pocket.

"You're too kind. I washed it after wearing it only once. Thank you so much!"

It was the first time a girl had helped Su Ziyang wash his clothes, and Su Ziyang was slightly unaccustomed to the fragrance on the clothes.

"You're welcome. It's because this fairy has shown me great mercy. Oh, by the way, I have something to tell you, but please don't get angry!"

Fairy Li first acted a little haughty, then spoke to Su Ziyang very seriously.

Su Ziyang was now afraid that people would suddenly become serious while talking, so he frowned and asked, "What is it?"

"Zhang Guozhou contacted me again..."

Upon hearing Fairy Li's words, Su Ziyang immediately jumped up from the stool.

"He still dares to contact you."

"You... you... you sit down, I haven't finished speaking yet, why are you getting all worked up? Sit down properly."

Seeing Su Ziyang instantly bristle, Fairy Li said somewhat nervously.

What does he want with you?

Su Ziyang did not sit down, but remained standing by the table and asked.

"Let me finish, don't get agitated. Last time, Xiao Yang and the other guy didn't help me, so they felt really guilty. This time, after Zhang Guozhou contacted me again, the three of us discussed it and decided to try and find out what he was up to."

Fairy Li spoke very quickly, finishing her sentence in one breath, as if afraid that if she said something wrong, Su Ziyang would get angry again.

Hearing what Fairy Li said, Su Ziyang felt a little more at ease. "Then you two be careful and keep things within limits. If you go out to meet again, let me know."

"Okay, I'll let you know. Just so you won't get angry and misunderstand again."

After Fairy Li finished speaking, she turned and left, leaving Su Ziyang alone in the consultation room to ponder what it meant to be angry and misunderstood.

"Hello, doctor."

As Su Ziyang was deep in thought, a young man knocked on the door and entered the room.

"Please come in."

Su Ziyang noticed that the young man who entered was very thin, had large dark circles under his eyes, and looked to be in poor spirits.

As soon as the young man sat down in front of Su Ziyang, Su Ziyang could faintly smell a fishy odor.

Su Ziyang frowned slightly and looked at the person who was about his age, asking, "Are you feeling unwell?"

After sitting down, the young man swallowed hard, looked around, and then cautiously leaned close to Su Ziyang's face, saying, "Doctor, I think I have superpowers, do you believe me?"

"..."

Su Ziyang looked at the gleam in the young man's eyes and scratched his head.

"He doesn't seem like a mentally ill person."

Su Ziyang thought to himself for a moment, then looked more closely at the young man's complexion. Apart from the dark circles under his eyes from staying up late, which made him look a little pale, he seemed alright.

"Doctor, why are you looking at me like that? I really do have superpowers. Don't you believe me?"

The young man blinked and repeated himself.

Watching the young man boast about his superpowers, Su Ziyang suddenly recalled a scene from the web series "Diors Man," where Qiao Shan told Dapeng he had superpowers, only to get slapped and teleported away...

I never expected to run into this today. I just wonder if that young man with dark circles under his eyes can teleport.

What superpowers do you have!?

Although Su Ziyang found it funny, as a doctor, Su Ziyang still responsibly followed the young man's lead and asked him a question.

"I can know what's happening outside," the young man continued, sounding rather nervous.

"Oh?" Su Ziyang feigned surprise. "How can you prove it?"

There are four people in the hallway now: two men, one woman, and one child.

The young man's words startled Su Ziyang, and for a moment he couldn't quite grasp what he meant.

But then I thought, isn't it normal that he knew there were a few people waiting in the hallway when he just walked into the clinic?

Thinking about it this way, Su Ziyang suddenly realized that the young man might really be a little mentally unwell.

"Now another woman is walking down the hallway, wearing red and carrying a package."

Before Su Ziyang could speak, the young man spoke again.

"Um?"

To verify whether the young man was lying, Su Ziyang immediately got up and went to the door, looking outside. Sure enough, there was a middle-aged woman in red clothes, carrying a box in her arms.

"Now a woman dressed in black, carrying a bag, walks in."

As soon as the young man finished speaking, a woman in a black trench coat followed closely behind the middle-aged woman in red.

"..."

Su Ziyang turned around and stared at the young man who was sitting in the chair without moving, not knowing what to say.

Suppressing his shock, Su Ziyang asked, "Then... if you have superpowers, why are you here to see a doctor?"

When Su Ziyang asked this, the young man fell silent. After pondering for a long time, he frowned and said something that puzzled Su Ziyang even more, "Doctor, let me put it this way. Actually, knowing who's outside the house isn't something I know. Well, it's not that it's not me. What I mean is, it's me and yet not me. It's just, it's another me."

"Take your time, tell me slowly. Let me sort it out."

Su Ziyang felt that the young man's words were a bit incoherent, so he scratched his head and gestured for the young man to speak slowly.

Seeing Su Ziyang scratching his head, the young man realized that what he had just said might not be accepted by the doctor in front of him. He pondered for a moment and slowly said, "What I meant was that I feel like there are two of me living in my head. When I'm spacing out, the other me starts working. It can know things that I don't know. The two people I just saw coming into the hallway were the other me. It can see things that I can't see with the naked eye."

"Then what are you doing..." Su Ziyang was interrupted by the young man before he could finish his sentence.

"You mean I have schizophrenia, right, doctor?"

Seeing that the young man neither denied nor admitted to what he said, Su Ziyang wanted to hear what the young man would say next.

"I was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a psychiatric clinic, and I've been taking medication for it for a long time. I've also tried some hypnosis and other treatments I don't fully understand, but they haven't been effective, which is why I came to see a Daoist doctor. Do you think schizophrenic patients might have superpowers?"

"Hmm, I believe you have superpowers. But I still don't understand, what's wrong with you?" Su Ziyang interrupted the young man and asked again.

"The uncomfortable thing is that this superpower affects my sleep. It makes me sleep poorly. Because even when I fall asleep, the other me doesn't fall asleep either. So after I sleep, it feels the same as if I haven't slept at all. This is causing me a lot of trouble now."

After going around in circles, the young man finally revealed his problem: the other self in his head was causing him to have trouble sleeping.

Su Ziyang nodded. "Okay, I understand. Let's register. What's your name?"

"Ye Yichen. The 'Yi' in 'ye' (meaning 'okay'), and the 'Chen' in 'sun, moon, and stars'."

Su Ziyang recorded Ye Yichen's basic information in the medical record book.

Ye Yichen, male, 28 years old.

"Let me take your pulse first."

From the moment he entered, Su Ziyang had already begun diagnosing Ye Yichen's illness. Based on his facial features, Su Ziyang made a preliminary judgment that Ye Yichen's condition was due to kidney deficiency caused by insomnia or other reasons.

Ye Yichen's panda eyes were so noticeable that even an ordinary person could tell that the young man wasn't sleeping well.

This kind of symptom of prolonged kidney deficiency generally indicates that the pulse at the cun position is insufficient. However, when Su Ziyang's fingers lightly touched Ye Yichen's wrist, he felt a strong pulse beating, and no matter how much pressure he applied, the pulse was very strong.

If the pulse and symptoms do not match, the disease will be difficult to treat.

After recording Ye Yichen's pulse in the medical record, Su Ziyang began to observe Ye Yichen's tongue coating.

The tongue has almost no coating, and the surface is completely Tongtong, which is clearly a manifestation of yin deficiency and excessive fire, and liver stagnation transforming into fire.

"May I ask, when did this start happening to you?"

Su Ziyang decided to start with a medical consultation to see if he could obtain some more important information.

"Hmm... it's been about half a year since then," Ye Yichen recalled. "It should be more than half a year. At first, I always thought that my condition was due to lack of rest, causing hallucinations, or that I was dreaming. But later I found that this feeling was becoming more and more concrete and real."

"What do you do for a living? Is it tiring?" After figuring out the approximate time when Ye Yichen fell ill, Su Ziyang asked about Ye Yichen's occupation.

"I'm a self-taught designer, mainly taking on graphic design jobs. I enjoy my work, so I don't find it tiring; in fact, I quite enjoy it."

As he talked about his work, Ye Yichen, who had been in a low mood, finally smiled.

"This kind of job requires a lot of imagination, doesn't it?" Su Ziyang's seemingly unrelated question was actually quite informative.

"Haha, it's alright!" Ye Yichen forced a smile. "It does require a lot of inspiration, but I'm alright. My thoughts have always been quite imaginative since I was little, so I don't find it difficult."

Su Ziyang nodded thoughtfully. "Do you usually get angry?"

Ye Yichen shook his head and denied the question directly, "I can't say I have a particularly good temper, but I really don't remember ever getting angry with anyone. It's probably because of my work; I don't talk much usually, and I mostly stare at the screen on the computer, so I really rarely get angry."

"I see. So, how much do you usually eat? Do you enjoy your food?"

Su Ziyang asked again.

"I haven't been eating well for the past six months. Nothing tastes good in my mouth. I can only eat a little more when I eat spicy food, and I feel more energetic after eating spicy food. Otherwise, I can only eat a few bites of normal food before I feel full. And even if I skip two meals, I basically don't feel hungry."

Ye Yichen is quite meticulous about his eating habits.

"In other words, your appetite used to be okay, but it hasn't been good for the past six months."

"Yes, that's what I mean." Ye Yichen nodded.

Are your bowel movements and urination normal? What about the quantity and color?

"My urine sometimes has a yellowish tinge, but my bowel movements are the same as before, once or twice a day, neither dry nor loose. That's all!"

After asking these questions, Su Ziyang looked at the relevant information he had recorded in the medical record book and fell into thought.

Su Ziyang is extra careful when it comes to mental illnesses, and this is the only time he has ever had so many patients since he started seeing patients at the Daoist Medicine Clinic.