Chapter 30

Huadong Hospital

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

Except for a few experts who needed to be on duty, nearly all who could come—every authority expert from Huadong Hospital, representatives from the provincial health department, and delegates from other lower-ranked hospitals—had gathered here.

"No specific cause has been found."

"I've been practicing medicine for 53 years—I'm the one with the most experience here—but I cannot explain this situation."

Professor He, honorary president of Huadong Hospital, adjusted his glasses, his tone filled with disbelief, shock, and excitement.

On the projection in the conference room was displayed a table.

It showed patient numbers from Huadong Hospital and all hospitals in the city over the past six months.

It contained detailed breakdowns.

Among them

was a table labeled—Number of Deaths.

"We can see that from July this year to September, the city's patient mortality rate has plummeted dramatically," said the provincial health department official, zooming in on one table.

"And as Professor He said, this situation is inexplicable."

"Since we discovered this trend last week, we've launched an investigation—the results show that the daily number of patients coming to hospitals has not decreased, yet recovery rates across all hospitals have risen sharply, regardless of illness."

"We've even found that terminal patients' conditions have stopped deteriorating and are improving."

"There are over a dozen cases clinically defined as fully cured."

Even the provincial health bureau official himself sounded incredulous as he spoke.

Every expert present had prior awareness of this matter.

After all, they were the ones who encountered patients daily—they knew the hospital's situation best.

"What about other cities?"

"Le Du and An Qing show the same pattern, but no other cities or counties have changed."

"Le Du and An Qing aren't even adjacent to Rong City."

"So it's not limited to any specific region."

"This is good news," Professor He smiled: "This is probably the best news I've heard in my lifetime, hahaha."

"Yes, it's good news."

The experts in the room all chimed in agreement.

"It's certainly good, but we must uncover the cause behind it, Li Yi."

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

"I'll share something very strange: the other day, while performing surgery on a car accident patient..."

Not just Li Yi, but other surgeons also reported that their operations over these past months had all proceeded smoothly, and even when emergencies arose, patients were pulled back from the brink.

"Everyone here has signed a confidentiality agreement, so I won't say more."

"At the state's request, and to ensure more people can live healthily, please pay close attention during your work and investigate what's behind this phenomenon."

"The research team's staff will arrive in Rong City tomorrow to begin their investigation—please cooperate fully. It's late, meeting adjourned."

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

A man walked down the street and saw a group of big men beating up two girls at a late-night food stall—flying kicks, one, two, the Foshan Shadowless Kick.

He landed on the table, then walked away as if nothing had happened.

Experts explained this was likely because the man was a long jumper.

"A man was struck by lightning over ten times, then stood up and kept walking."

"Expert reminder: the cause is that lightning struck nearby concrete pavement—a low-probability event."

These experts were truly roadblocks to his point-earning.

It was normal—if they didn't release some smoke screens and impose traffic limits, it might cause unnecessary unrest.

You could guess with your toes that the authorities were now frantically investigating.

But no wall is truly windproof, especially when his disturbances grew bigger each time.

Lately, people online kept talking about qi revival, superpowers, aliens, and such topics.

Su Lin wasn't in a hurry—he knew his next actions would reshape the world's structure.

The world would change because of him.

Perhaps this world held hidden transcendent powers, always concealed behind a curtain.

But he was now about to become the one who lifted that curtain.

The curtain was rising—the grand performance was beginning.

All people on Earth would be drawn into it.

The world's structure, resource allocation, development direction... everything would change.

He needed to do something.

Give the common people some benefits.

A kind of compensation—a compensation for changing their daily lives.

In recent days, Su Lin's historical projections had been visiting hospitals large and small in these cities most frequently.

Back and forth, over roughly three months—even with many historical projections working simultaneously—it had cost him 500 points just for this preparatory work.

The returns, of course, far outweighed the cost.

Compared to his initial windfall in the One Piece world, the points he'd gained from these months of meddling amounted to just over a thousand.

The ten thousand points he now held had no strict plan—he'd already stuffed a small room on Water Mirror Peak full of cultivation pills.

The group's members seemed to treat Water Mirror Peak as a backup resource warehouse.

Mountains and fields were filled with spiritual herbs and medicinal plants; in this rich spiritual energy environment, ordinary people could live to 150 years without cultivation.

Thanks to this environment and resources, the benefits of the technique 【Gu Tianwang】, and the paid item 【Chrono Sand】 rented from the system.

Su Lin was now nearly at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

Try again?

Su Lin opened the lucky draw interface and pondered how many points to spend.

-5000

No more draws for now; save the remaining points for other uses. After more cultivation, he could visit other worlds to farm points.

A gray light rippled forth from the void and flew into the system's inventory.

Another item, then.

【Great Expansion Pearl: Yu Yingzhao】: Retrieve user information, illuminate parallel worlds related to the user; through this item, one may observe parallel worlds. Crush this item to cause spatial rupture and form a temporary temporal corridor. — Are you spying on me?

A valuable item—Su Lin's lips nearly stretched to his ears.

Let me see what my self in the parallel world is doing.

【Retrieval failed. Unable to locate parallel worlds related to the user.】

"**."

5000 points!