[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-bear-school-astartes":3,"chapter-bear-school-astartes-bear-school-astartes-chapter-373":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Bear School Astartes",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1620203,2087,"Chapter 373. The Clinic’s Mutation","bear-school-astartes-chapter-373",373,"\u003Cp>\"Are you all right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dr. Yusefka used her fingers clad in white gloves to tuck her flaxen hair behind her ear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bending down, she inquired about Viola and the children in the clinic’s corner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two little girls, after seeing Lann off, quickly lay back down in their mother’s embrace and fell asleep again, exhausted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Viola seemed burdened with worries, only absently caressing her daughters’ hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka knew what she was thinking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was still worried about her husband, Gascogne.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their love had always been something many envied. But on this treacherous night, it became a tormenting thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, we’re all fine, it’s just that we are troubling you too much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viola was brought back to her senses by Yusefka, and immediately put on a comforting smile, urging the doctor not to worry too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was never one with a weak character.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’ve been very tired, Yusefka. Take some rest as well. The incense has just been replaced; there’s nothing to worry about. If you need, I could watch over things and wake you if something happens.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The doctor was not at ease in the clinic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The patients sat distantly from each other, due to the dangers of this night, they distrusted one another, wary, tired, exhausted...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding to their already poor physical condition, the psychological burden had them on the brink of collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka couldn’t leave them alone and had to go between each patient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comforting them, encouraging them, telling them that no one in this clinic showed any signs of the beast plague.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The plague of beast transformation didn’t exist here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka was a mature doctor; she knew how to throw out a bunch of uncommon terms to make patients dizzy and, through the gap in knowledge, foster trust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And on this night, the patients could only trust her, or rather should trust her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, who else could take care of a group of already ill people?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunters could also treat diseases; they specialized in beast transformation sickness, and their treatment had one method only—kill the patient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Forget it, Viola. They don’t trust you, you’re from the outside. If you walk beside them, they might panic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka smiled gently, shaking her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Viola, upon giving it a thought, understood the situation slightly, and thus could only look apologetically at the doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, it seems I really can’t help... Thanks for your hard work, doctor.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You taking care of the children is already helping.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka didn’t mind at all; she simply poked the cheeks of the two little girls, making their round faces dent slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the little girls’ muddled murmurs, Yusefka stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The motion made her momentarily dizzy; she rubbed her forehead before stabilizing again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How long had this night been dragging on? It felt like taking care of patients overnight was never this exhausting before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka waved her hand while responding to Viola’s worried gaze, once more heading toward the patients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They started to look around neurotically again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t collapse; she was the only professional in the clinic... although merely a small clinic doctor, incomparable to the scholars in the Healing Church, but undoubtedly a professional.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, only she could bring reassurance to people, she still had to hold on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But, as she moved her tired and heavy steps towards the patients, the silence was shattered by knocking sounds from the tightly shut doors on the second floor of the clinic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is there anyone there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka raised her voice slightly, hesitantly asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the clinic, all patients stared warily at the door, as if a beast-transformed patient was lying outside, using its melted and dispersed pupils to watch everyone inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No response came from outside the door, but indeed there was someone, for the knocking came again, growing louder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In such circumstances, Yusefka unconsciously hugged her arms before her chest, tightly clutching them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was full of fear, especially after witnessing a patient in the clinic suddenly transform into a werewolf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would there be a hunter outside the door?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hunters would, on a hunting night, knock on doors house by house; residents unable to respond wisely would have their doors broken down and dragged out to be killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such bloody stories were long-standing tales in Yan’an, second only to jokes about outsiders facing hardships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having serious cases of beast transformation at the clinic, would it be hunters coming to eradicate the issue?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those crazed hunters have done such things before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she couldn’t let such things happen in her clinic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you a hunter, on a hunting mission?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No words came from outside; even the knocking stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka held back her fear, swallowing as she continued to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m really sorry, but... but I cannot open the door for you. This is a clinic with normal patients only, no beasts, and I won’t let my patients be exposed to the risk of beast plague.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know you are hunting for us for this city, but I really can’t open the door.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understanding that most hunters weren’t that rich in compassion, Yusefka quickly ran to the clinic’s bookshelf, pulling out a vial from a slender box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is the refined blood I extracted myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She spoke of her past identity as a Blood Saintess while handing the vial out through the broken glass of the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I can only offer you this kind of help, please accept it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She extended her hand through the broken glass, for a while, nobody took the vial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one responded, nor were there knocking sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yusefka felt at a loss about what to do, her wrist was suddenly seized, followed by a piercing needle pain lanced from her blood vessel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost simultaneously, dizziness surged into her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her long-fatigued body went limp, and in a blur, she saw the limb-like appendages resembling soft creatures extending in through the window’s crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those slippery and soft appendages, amidst the ’slap slap’ sound of oozing, drew out the door latch from the exit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patients screamed, Viola seemed to have picked up the IV pole to fend off, but the limb-like appendage easily flicked away the flimsy metal rod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two little girls’ anxious voices called for ’Mommy’.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ah, Sister, my sister...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the chaos and commotion, a gentle female voice came from outside, mirroring Yusefka’s yet not as mild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yusefka suddenly widened her eyes, trying to resist the effect of the drugs to see the scene outside the door clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was useless, in her uncontrollable blurry vision, the last scene was only the sight of a woman’s boot stepping inside the doorway.\u003C\u002Fp>",1094,"2026-06-06T10:40:07.942Z",1,"novelbin.me","451ab7eb2b08921077f673d11e24266f85476059ad0932873cfff4851de39745","bear-school-astartes-chapter-374","bear-school-astartes-chapter-372",1043,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fbear-school-astartes-cover.jpg"]