Chapter 52: Trade-offs

【Identifying the nature of an illness is the foundation of medical skill; accurately diagnose the conditions of ten patients (3/10); Reward: Physique +3】;

After accurately diagnosing the symptoms of three patients and breaking the nose of the Kuangfeng Gang cousin with a punch, Lin Bai stated their conditions accurately.

The mission progress remained stuck at three.

Lin Bai sighed and stood up with regret. Fine, it was ten patients, not ten conditions for one patient. You lot are lucky.

"It takes a hundred days to recover from an injury to the bones or tendons; remember to take your medicine on time and rest in bed more."

Aside from Negative Emotion, there was no more oil to be squeezed out of them. After Lin Bai delivered his medical advice with a blank expression, he walked away steadily amidst the curses of several patients.

No matter the situation, a doctor must never panic; only then can they provide comfort and confidence to the patient.

Although he was not yet a real doctor, it had to be said that Lin Bai already possessed the basic professional qualities of one.

……

"That's Zhou Jiang's medicinal ointment. What is he doing?" The two Dark Guards from the City Lord's Mansion, who were monitoring Lin Bai in secret, were stunned as they witnessed Lin Bai's miraculous operation.

"Is he pretending to be a physician?" the other Dark Guard asked with a blank expression.

"Is there something wrong with his brain?" the first Dark Guard gasped.

"I felt there was something wrong with him that day at the entrance of the Kitchen God Rice Divination," the second Dark Guard said. "Let's go. Even if there is something wrong with him, we have to follow him. We'll report everything he's done to the City Lord later. Don't let the City Lord be deceived by this madman."

……

Turning from the alleyway onto the main street.

A middle-aged man walked by in a hurry. Lin Bai hesitated for a moment, then blocked his path and said decisively, "Big brother, you have tooth decay!"

The middle-aged man was taken aback: "You're sick."

The mission progress did not increase.

Fine!

His teeth were quite healthy. Lin Bai looked him up and down and added, "You have athlete's foot."

The middle-aged man looked stunned. He glanced left and right, suddenly took a step back, bypassed Lin Bai, and fled as if flying.

Watching the middle-aged man's retreating figure, Lin Bai gave a sheepish smile. Without the bad scum, guessing people's illnesses on the street really wasn't a serious business!

The efficiency was too low.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Bai turned around and entered the medical clinic again, then stood beside the resident doctor.

The doctor was taking the pulse of a woman and did not even lift his head: "Young man, queue up to see the doctor."

"I'm not here to see a doctor," Lin Bai said with a smile.

"Go to the counter to get medicine," the doctor said.

"I'm not getting medicine either," Lin Bai said.

The doctor frowned and turned to look at Lin Bai. Just as he was about to reprimand this troublemaker, he saw a banknote in front of him and couldn't help but be stunned.

Lin Bai placed the banknote on the table and signaled with a smile: "Doctor, you treat your patients. I have no other hobbies, I just like watching people get treated. Just pretend I don't exist."

Looking at the banknote on the table, with a denomination of fifty taels, the doctor snorted and said nothing.

The money was too much; it wasn't worth losing his temper.

"The pulse is knotted and weak, with shortness of breath and an aversion to cold. Mrs. Li, this is a condition of Qi and blood deficiency. I will prescribe some nourishing medicine for you. Take ten doses, and you will be fine." The doctor silently covered the banknote under his sleeve, stated the woman's condition, and intended to send the patient away before addressing Lin Bai's matter.

But before he could write the prescription.

Lin Bai was already looking at the woman and said, "The pulse is knotted and weak, with shortness of breath and an aversion to cold. Big sister, this is a condition of Qi and blood deficiency."

"……" Mrs. Li.

"……" The resident doctor.

Progress plus one.

Lin Bai's face lit up with joy. He knew there was no system mission that couldn't be exploited. So what if he didn't know medicine? He could be a tape recorder!

Who said he couldn't diagnose an illness that someone else had already diagnosed?

"Pfft!" Mrs. Li giggled and cast a flirtatious glance at Lin Bai. "Young lad, if you're looking for fun, go to the Goulan. Why come to a medical clinic? Everyone here is a patient. If you're interested, why not come home with me? I'll let you see enough. Whatever illness you say I have, I'll have it..."

At her age, she plays quite wildly!

If you aren't deficient, who is?

Lin Bai wasn't angry: "Big sister, you're too old, not my type. Does your family have a daughter..."

Hearing the two of them talking nonsense, the doctor coughed heavily: "Young man..."

"Doctor, if you feel it's inappropriate, return the money to me, and I'll change to another clinic." Lin Bai stopped paying attention to the flirtatious Mrs. Li and reached out to take the banknote the doctor was pressing under his sleeve.

The doctor trembled and changed his tone: "Since you want to learn how to diagnose illnesses, watch attentively and do not speak. When there are more patients, I will diagnose them first, and then you can diagnose them again."

"Many thanks, doctor." Lin Bai hurriedly thanked the doctor.

Sure enough.

After finding the right method, he was getting closer and closer to being a real doctor.

……

"Nasal congestion and runny nose, coughing, thin white tongue coating; this is a condition of wind-cold."

……

"Soreness in the waist and knees, heat in the five centers, irritability and easy anger; this is a condition of kidney yin deficiency."

……

Perhaps the clinic's doctor took Lin Bai for an apprentice who loved medicine; after accepting the banknote, he tacitly allowed his posturing and even his behavior as a tape recorder.

Lin Bai took the opportunity to grind missions in the clinic for a day:

【Identify ten types of medicinal herbs; Reward: Physique +1】

【Write the first prescription of your life; Reward: Physique +1】

【First pulse diagnosis of your life: Reward: Physique +3】

【Prepare a qualified dose of traditional Chinese medicine for a patient; Reward: Herb Identification Knowledge】

【Provide the warmest care to a terminally ill patient; Reward: Observation of Qi and Complexion】

【Personally collect twenty types of medicinal herbs; Reward: Basic Alchemy】

……

The sky turned dark.

After grinding through all the tasks available in the medical clinic, Lin Bai possessed a Physique as high as ten; the specific manifestation was that even without using Internal Energy, his strength grew greater and greater, and his vision, hearing, and sense of smell became much more sensitive.

Especially after he was rewarded with the Observation of Qi and Complexion.

From five meters away, he could clearly see whether the other party was truly ill...

In the end, the Peerless Divine Doctor task got stuck on herb gathering.

Facts also proved that the system did not recognize medicinal herbs gathered from the medical clinic's medicine chest.

It seems that to proceed to the next task, he must take a trip outside the city.

To Lin Bai's surprise, the reward for the herb gathering task was Pill Refinement, not traditional medical arts like acupuncture or massage.

But once he thought about the fact that he was in a Xianxia-style game world, Lin Bai felt relieved.

Compared to Wangwenqie, Pill Refinement was more in line with the game's setting.

When players fight monsters and get injured, it makes no sense to put on splints, come back, drink a few doses of herbal soup, and lie in bed to recover for two or three months.

Pills with immediate effects were likely what fit the setting.

Qingfeng, and the doctor who treated Zhou Jiang inside the City Lord's Mansion, both used ready-made pills when treating internal injuries.

The resident doctor in the medical clinic should be there for beginners to unlock their profession.

After the healers in the party leveled up, they would probably all change classes to become alchemists.

Following this logic, there should be specialized healing spells or immortal arts later on; otherwise, when fighting group battles, a healer who could only perform Pill Refinement would have no presence at all.

The road is long and the burden is heavy!

Declining the doctor's request for him to stay, Lin Bai, walking out of the medical clinic, felt his dissatisfaction with the Peerless Divine Doctor System reach its peak: "Broken system, it's completely unable to achieve office automation; only a fool would waste time on one task after another!"

By comparison, other systems were much more excellent.

In one day's time, the Negative Emotion Tree grew another Spirit Fruit.

The task for the Wanwu Youque System was also automatically completed, and the Seven Injury Hand was delivered.

With the cook and waiter provided by Song Qing, several tasks for the Chef God System were also completed, and all twenty-one types of knife skills were rewarded to Lin Bai;

However, the subsequent reward changed to ladle skills, and the task content was to have Lin Bai personally take the ladle and make a dish...

Just like the Divine Doctor System, the Chef God System also removed itself from the automated process and required Lin Bai to operate it personally.

And so.

Lin Bai decisively ignored the Chef God System's new task and decided to banish the Chef God System to the cold palace.

With so many systems, one must make trade-offs.

A real man's ambitions lie in the four corners of the world.

Even if he gave his time to the Divine Doctor System, he could not trap himself in the Kitchen God Rice Divination to be a cook; he wasn't relying on culinary skills to make money anyway, so what was the use of practicing them well? To pick up girls?

(End of this chapter)