Chapter 30: The Great Expansion Pearl

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 remain on duty, nearly every available authority expert from Huadong Hospital, along with representatives from the provincial health department and other lower-ranked hospitals, had gathered here.

“No specific cause has been found.”

“I’ve been practicing medicine for fifty-three 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 mortality rates across 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 citywide 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 number of patients coming to hospitals daily 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 recovered.”

Even the provincial health department official sounded incredulous as he spoke.

Every expert present had already been aware of this phenomenon.

After all, they were the ones who dealt with patients daily—they knew the hospital’s situation better than anyone.

“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. “It’s probably the best thing I’ve heard in my entire life—hahaha.”

“Yes, it’s good news.”

The experts in the room all nodded in agreement.

“It’s certainly good, but we must uncover the cause behind it, Doctor Li.”

The provincial health department official gestured toward a middle-aged doctor.

“I’ll share something strange—last time I operated on a car accident patient...”

Not just Doctor Li, but other surgeons also reported that their surgeries over the past few months had proceeded smoothly; even when unexpected complications arose, patients were saved.

“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 healthy lives, please remain vigilant in your work and investigate what might be causing this.”

“The research team 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 large men beating two women at a late-night food stall—he kicked, one kick, two kicks, 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-jump athlete.

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

“Expert warning: the cause is that lightning struck nearby concrete pavement—a low-probability event.”

These experts were truly the biggest roadblocks to his point-grinding.

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

Anyone with half a brain could guess the authorities were now frantically investigating.

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

Lately, people online kept talking about the return of spiritual energy, superpowers, and aliens.

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 beneath the veil.

But now he was about to be the one who lifted that veil.

The curtain was rising—the performance was beginning.

Everyone on Earth would be drawn into it.

The world’s structure, resource distribution, development direction... everything would change.

He needed to do something.

Give the common people some benefits.

A kind of compensation—a change to their daily lives.

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

Over the course of roughly three months—while many historical projections worked simultaneously—he spent 500 points on this preparatory work.

The returns, of course, far outweighed the cost.

Compared to his initial windfall in the Pirate World, the points he’d gained over these months amounted to barely over a thousand.

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

Those few in the group treated Water Mirror Peak like a backup resource warehouse.

The mountains were covered in spiritual herbs and medicinal plants; the dense spiritual energy allowed ordinary people to live to 150 even without cultivation.

Thanks to this environment and these resources, the benefits of the [Heavenly Forgetting] technique, and the paid item [Chrono Sand] rented from the system,

Su Lin was nearly at the peak of Qi Condensation.

Try one more draw?

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

-5000

No more draws for now—he’d save the rest of his points for other uses and continue cultivating before venturing into other worlds to farm more.

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

Another item, huh.

【Great Expansion Pearl: Reflection】: Scans user information, reflects parallel worlds connected to the user; allows observation of parallel worlds. Shattering this item creates a temporary spacetime corridor. — Are you spying on me?

A fantastic item—Su Lin’s grin stretched nearly to his ears.

Let me see what my parallel selves are up to.

【Search failed. Unable to retrieve parallel worlds connected to the user.】

“Damn.”

Five thousand points!