How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH22

Chapter 22

The hospital room was in complete chaos. Several machines were already crackling with flames, while the rest blared frenzied alarms, electricity and sparks spitting wildly from their circuits.

And yet, at this very moment, the most terrifying thing in the room for Mo Yin and Lei Qi was the dreadful pressure that seemed to be everywhere at once—like a crushing weight bearing down on them, leaving them unable to move.

Lei Qi was even so overwhelmed by fear that he revealed his plant-form body—

Yes, Director Lei was not a beastman, but a member of the plant folk.

The plant folk were naturally more resistant to bloodline suppression than beastmen, which was why he had previously been able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of caring for Lu Nanzhou.

But today, even he could not withstand it.

Following the conclusions he and Elder Cheng’s team had reached after several days of discussion, he had continued adjusting the treatment plan. Yet after injecting His Majesty with a coagulant and cellular repair fluid, Lu Nanzhou—who had remained stable for several days—suddenly fell into a berserk state!

A wave of destructive energy erupted from Lu Nanzhou as its center, forming a powerful invisible shockwave that blasted outward. Glass shattered from the impact.

Lei Qi, who had been standing closest to him, was sent flying on the spot.

This supreme powerhouse of the Yaojin Empire—his bloodline and mental power had suddenly spiraled into violent unrest without any warning at all!

Even Mo Yin, a high-level beast-blood warrior, had no strength to resist. He was suppressed so thoroughly that he could not move a muscle.

In the conference room of the inpatient wing’s core ward, the medical authorities monitoring Lu Nanzhou’s condition through remote surveillance were as frantic as ants on a hot pan.

The instant that terrifying force erupted, even the specially reinforced surveillance lens burst apart. The monitor screen displaying the live feed had already turned into static, leaving them no way to know what was happening inside the room.

As for rushing to the top-floor ward now?

Please. Even Lei Qi and Mo Yin could barely endure His Majesty’s pressure—how could they possibly fare any better? Going there would only create more trouble.

The only thing they could do was operate the nursing robot through the smart system and send it quickly toward the room to assess the situation.

Trapped under that horrifying pressure, Lei Qi and Mo Yin could not help sinking into despair. His Majesty’s sudden eruption of such overwhelming power was absolutely a dangerous sign.

If this continued, all the emergency treatment efforts of the past week would be wasted, and His Majesty would once again fall into the desperate brink of death!

And yet, just then, the tightly shut ward door suddenly opened, and a frail, petite nurse surnamed Ye from the Xihe Federation limped in.

“What’s wrong with you two? What happened?”

He seemed utterly unaffected by the suffocating, violent pressure. With a face full of shock and confusion, he stared at them.

After a moment of astonishment, Lei Qi and Mo Yin quickly realized—

Ye Yumeng was from the Xihe Federation.

He had already displayed something remarkable once before in the activity room, and that was precisely why he had been transferred to His Majesty’s side.

What they had not expected, however, was that he could withstand even His Majesty’s mental pressure so easily! Lu Nanzhou was the strongest being not just in the Yaojin Empire, but in the entire interstellar world!

The shock this caused them was impossible to put into words.

“Did Little Bunny act up again?” Ye Yumeng asked.

Li-Little Bunny?

Hearing that form of address for the first time, Lei Qi looked utterly bewildered. Was he talking about His Majesty?

Ye Yumeng could feel the divine-sense-like force raging through the room, but it had no effect on him.

He quickly ran to the bedside.

There he saw the cub curled tightly into a ball, his face twisted in agony. Mystic Flames streamed off his body, casting a crimson glow over his charred form.

The hospital bed itself seemed specially made and had not been burned.

The instruments connected to him were showing wildly fluctuating readings, all of them already on the verge of burning out.

Without needing Lei Qi to remind him, Ye Yumeng recalled the procedures he had learned during orientation training. Swiftly, he pulled the wires of more than a dozen machines off the little rabbit.

Though he was already moving fast, those machines were probably impossible to save.

Lei Qi watched with his heart bleeding.

After all, these were the finest medical instruments in the entire galaxy, each one staggeringly expensive. This time, they would probably all be lost.

But now was not the time to mourn equipment. How to calm Lu Nanzhou down was the most urgent matter at hand…

Under the influence of the pressure, Lei Qi and Mo Yin’s faces grew paler and paler.

Just then, the nursing robot controlled by Elder Cheng’s team finally entered the room.

Its camera swept the room once, then it flew toward a freezer cabinet deeper inside the ward, seemingly trying to retrieve something from it.

“That’s right! A high-potency sedative!”

Lei Qi’s brain finally managed to function again. In a hoarse voice, he shouted, “Help me over there, quickly! It needs iris verification to open!”

The nursing robot immediately stopped what it was doing and flew back to support him.

Mo Yin forced himself upright, staggering over to help Lei Qi, and the two of them slowly made their way toward the freezer cabinet.

Password input… iris verification…

At last, under Lei Qi’s direction, the nursing robot took out a tube of powerful sedative.

But at that moment, Mo Yin suddenly reached out and stopped it.

“Wait a second…”

He turned to Lei Qi, brow furrowed tightly. “Can His Majesty’s body withstand the side effects of a high-potency sedative?”

No medicine came with only benefits, especially not something labeled “high-potency.”

Lei Qi froze.

He shook his head hard, trying to clear the fear and panic caused by Lu Nanzhou’s pressure, and said in a raspy voice, “There will indeed be side effects… but if we do nothing and let this continue, his body will collapse first!”

They had to bring His Majesty back to consciousness as soon as possible. His body was already as fragile as paper. With an outburst like this, every second was burning away his life.

And once that life was burned out, only death would remain for him.

Mo Yin clenched his teeth. Clearly, His Majesty had already been improving these past few days…

He glared fiercely at Lei Qi. After several seconds of deadlock, he could only release his hand. And yet—

Mo Yin suddenly sensed something and said in surprise and confusion, “Hasn’t His Majesty’s bloodline frenzy… weakened?”

Lei Qi also felt the pressure loosen.

Could it be that His Majesty had recovered his consciousness?

Both he and Mo Yin turned to look at the hospital bed—only to witness a scene that nearly scared them out of their wits—

That little nurse surnamed Ye had actually picked His Majesty up!

The mysterious fire on His Majesty’s body was no ordinary flame. Even in the Empire, only a tiny handful of supreme experts could withstand it.

Even Mo Yin himself would never dare touch it barehanded without any protection!

The two men were terrified and shouted in unison.

“Put him down!”

“Are you trying to die?”

This little nurse was from the Xihe Federation. They could understand him being immune to His Majesty’s bloodline pressure and mental force. But this mysterious fire was absolutely beyond what he could endure!

The fire was nearly impossible to extinguish.

Even the tiniest spark would rapidly spread with the help of anything flammable nearby, becoming an unstoppable blaze. Even after everything around it had been burned to nothing, it could continue burning for days.

The reason His Majesty had once driven the insectoid army into retreat again and again was due in no small part to this fire.

If an ordinary person were touched by it, then unless a member of the Yaojin imperial family personally intervened to control it, they would be burned alive to death.

And yet, the scene they had imagined—of the little nurse being reduced to ashes—never appeared.

Ye Yumeng held the charred little beast in his hands. Though black-red flame flickered faintly around him, he remained calm in a way that far exceeded everyone’s imagination.

The nursing robot captured everything happening in the room, and through its camera, even the medical authorities in the conference room were watching this miraculous scene unfold.

For a moment, not a single person stepped forward to stop him.

Hidden from their view, Ye Yumeng was using the Minor Rejuvenation Technique with all his strength. A soft glow wrapped around his hands.

His brows were tightly knit, and the hair at his temples was already soaked through. In only a few seconds, all color had drained from his face.

He could feel that the flames rising from Little Bunny’s body contained an incredibly powerful and sinister force.

Even back in the cultivation world, he had never encountered flames this tyrannical and terrifying!

Was this Little Bunny’s power?

At last, Ye Yumeng finally understood why such a tiny rabbit was being treated with such importance…

It was probably not just because demon spirits were protective of their young. It likely also had something to do with these flames.

But now was not the time to think about that.

The flames scorched his palms, but for the moment, the isolation effect of the Minor Rejuvenation Technique kept them from harming him.

Still, this definitely could not last long. The moment his spiritual power ran out, he would be thrown into grave danger.

Actually, given Ye Yumeng’s cautious nature, he never should have rushed in so recklessly while fully aware of the danger.

But if he did nothing, Little Bunny would surely die.

The scene of Xueqiu dying in front of him that day surfaced in his mind once more.

To him, Xueqiu had not been merely a spirit rabbit. It had been his companion in life and death, the most important bond in his life.

And yet he had stood there and watched it be killed, watched it die in his own arms.

He had been able to do nothing!

He could not save it, nor did he have the ability to avenge it…

That was his inner demon, the obsession he had never been able to break free from.

If this time he was still powerless…

Then what was the point of cultivating? What was the point of seeking the Dao?

“Wake up!”

As Ye Yumeng resisted the mysterious fire and endured the agony of his palms being scorched by the heat, he desperately poured spiritual energy into Little Bunny to protect the source of his life.

“Wake up… you can’t keep sleeping! Wake up!”

In the endless darkness, Lu Nanzhou felt his consciousness growing more and more blurred. Exhaustion and weakness were eroding his will.

For one brief moment, he finally gave rise to the thought of giving up, of letting himself fall into the abyss.

And then, a warm, gentle force wrapped around him—

“Wake up! Little Bunny, wake up!”

That voice…

Lu Nanzhou struggled with all his strength, finally managing to force his eyes open a tiny slit. In the hazy glimmer before him, he saw a slender figure.

The only person who would call him Little Bunny…

It was Ye Yumeng…

And also… Lu Nanzhou sensed the aura of the mysterious fire burning—

It was his innate power. He knew it too well.

And at that moment… was there also the smell of blood?

His pupils trembled. His muddled consciousness cleared in an instant. Realizing what was happening, Lu Nanzhou panicked.

No, no!

He couldn’t let the mysterious fire hurt Ye Yumeng!

With that thought erupting inside him, the rippling waves of energy filling the room suddenly withdrew back into Lu Nanzhou’s body, and the Mystic Flames streaming from him went out in the blink of an eye.

Ye Yumeng, who had been holding on with all his strength, felt the flames extinguish and immediately lost all strength in his legs, collapsing onto the floor.

From the moment he had picked Little Bunny up until now, no more than a minute had passed, but to him it had felt like every second lasted a year.

His cultivation was not high to begin with, and before this he had already treated the little kitten. While casting just now, Little Bunny had drained almost all his spiritual energy in under a minute.

The final dozen seconds had been bought by overexerting his vital essence.

Still, the effort had not been in vain.

Feeling that Little Bunny’s condition had stabilized and that his life force was no longer weakening, Ye Yumeng finally revealed a relieved smile.

“You made it back…”

Lu Nanzhou stared blankly at him.

He suddenly wanted very much to touch the little nurse’s face, to wipe the sweat from his brow, to check his injuries…

But he could not even lift a hand.

Lu Nanzhou, who had just escaped death, felt almost no joy at all. Instead, never before had he hated himself so deeply.

He hated his weakness and helplessness. He hated being trapped like useless waste inside this broken body…

But looking at the little nurse’s smile, looking at the way he had risked everything for him, Lu Nanzhou could no longer speak lightly of giving up.

He closed his eyes and painfully gathered his mental strength.

‘Mo Yin…’

‘Mo Yin!’

Hearing Lu Nanzhou’s voice suddenly ring in his ears, Mo Yin snapped back to himself.

And in truth, it was not only him—Lei Qi, Elder Cheng, and the others watching from the conference room had all been shaken by Ye Yumeng.

He had actually withstood the power of the mysterious fire!

Could it be that people from the Xihe Federation were not only immune to mental pressure and bloodline suppression, but could even resist the mysterious fire?

Or was this little nurse simply… special?

Mo Yin no longer had the luxury of speculating. He hurried over to Ye Yumeng and took Lu Nanzhou from his hands.

Then he heard Lu Nanzhou’s broken, intermittent voice say once more: ‘Forget about me… check… check how he is…’

Who this “he” referred to was obvious without saying.

But after Ye Yumeng handed Little Bunny over to Mo Yin, he peacefully closed his eyes and immediately fainted.

“Caregiver Ye!”

When Ye Yumeng woke up again, the sky outside was already dark.

He realized he was lying in an unfamiliar room. The weakness left him dizzy, and after a while he finally noticed the pain coming from his hands.

He raised both hands to look and saw that they had already been carefully bandaged.

Because of the wrappings, he could not see the exact condition of the injuries, so he could only lower them again.

Ye Yumeng rested for a while, then suddenly sensed something. Turning his head, he saw that the two pots of spirit plants he had dug up that morning had been placed by his bedside.

Threads of faint spiritual energy were being released from the leaves of the Red Leaf Lotus and Green Jade Bamboo, slowly gathering around the bed.

He took a deep breath, then let out a comfortable sigh.

Once the spiritual energy concentration rose a little further, even without actively cultivating, he would be able to absorb it and quickly replenish the spiritual power he had expended.

Ye Yumeng checked the condition of his body and finally felt his heart settle. Just as he was about to begin healing himself through cultivation so he could recover as quickly as possible, he heard movement at the door.

The tightly shut ward door opened automatically, and Mo Yin walked in.

Ye Yumeng could only put it off for the moment.

“You’re awake? How are you feeling?” Mo Yin asked with concern.

“I’m alright.”

Ye Yumeng braced himself on the bed, trying to sit up, but Mo Yin rushed over in a single stride. Not only did he use his one arm to help him sit upright, he even thoughtfully placed a soft cushion behind him so he could lean against it.

This attentive attitude was clearly very different from before.

Seeing Ye Yumeng looking at him in confusion, Mo Yin showed a faint smile and said gently, “Young Master’s condition has stabilized for the time being. This time, it’s all thanks to you.”

After everything that had happened over the past few days, Mo Yin had completely let go of all suspicion toward Ye Yumeng.

No spy intending harm toward the Yaojin imperial family would risk his own life like that to save His Majesty.

And if such a person really did exist, then Mo Yin could only admit defeat.

Hearing this, Ye Yumeng truly felt relieved.

Good. His efforts had not been wasted.

Ye Yumeng nodded, then could not help asking, “Why did Little Bunny suddenly get worse? Wasn’t he doing alright before?”

At his question, Mo Yin frowned, displeasure surfacing in his eyes.

He explained, “After discussion, the medical department adjusted the medication ratio, increasing the dosage of the coagulant and cellular repair fluid slightly. We didn’t expect it would trigger such a severe rejection reaction…”

In Mo Yin’s view, this already counted as a major medical accident.

After all, if not for Ye Yumeng, His Majesty likely would not have regained consciousness so quickly. Whether they had left him to rampage or injected him with the high-potency sedative, both would only have worsened his condition!

In serious cases, he might even have fallen back into a near-death state.

However…

Mo Yin raised his eyes and studied Ye Yumeng, his gaze probing.

Still dizzy and lightheaded, Ye Yumeng did not notice the change in his expression, instead sinking into his own thoughts.

When treating illness with medicine, no one could ever be one hundred percent certain. But the problem was—

Because of this mistake, not only had he been injured, he had also lost the vital essence he had built up through days of hard cultivation. On top of that, a full week of treatment work had basically gone to waste!

This time, he had been lucky enough to rush back in time, and Little Bunny had regained consciousness quickly.

But what about next time?

Would he have such luck again?

Ye Yumeng frowned deeply.

He suddenly realized that secretly treating the patient like this was actually inappropriate.

Leaving aside how slow his cultivation improved, his healing methods might conflict with the Royal Sanatorium’s treatment, and such a conflict was extremely dangerous for the patient.

At best, it would slow recovery. At worst, it could cost a life!

And besides, Ye Yumeng looked down at his hands wrapped in bandages.

The power system of this world was clearly very different from that of the cultivation world. If this conflict continued, it might very well push him himself into danger.

Clearly, this method was no longer suitable to continue.

So what should he do?

Suspend treatment for Little Bunny for now and focus first on his own cultivation until his level rose further? Or… take the initiative to reveal his abilities?

Those two choices circled constantly in Ye Yumeng’s mind, and the more he thought about them, the more his head throbbed.

“Are you feeling unwell anywhere?”

Mo Yin’s voice interrupted his thoughts.

Ye Yumeng shook his head and casually said, “No. I want to rest.”

“Alright.”

Mo Yin then helped him lie back down again.

Looking at the concern in the silver-haired young man’s eyes, Ye Yumeng thought for a moment and added, “After I fall asleep, can you make sure no one comes in to disturb me? Including robots.”

In his current state, if he were interrupted while cultivating, it would be very dangerous.

If he could not be left alone, then he would rather return to the dormitory.

“That’s fine.” Mo Yin nodded. “You rest well. If anything happens, call the robot at any time. I’ll be nearby.”

Ye Yumeng’s ward was right next door to Lu Nanzhou’s, and Mo Yin would continue keeping watch on this side.

After that, Mo Yin took his leave.

When he stepped into the corridor, the ward door had already been set to Do Not Disturb mode. Unless there was an emergency, the nursing robots would not enter casually.

Only after confirming that he had gone did Ye Yumeng close his eyes and begin circulating his cultivation method to heal himself.

The injuries on his hands were not too serious. The main issue was the loss of vital essence, which had left him dizzy, short of breath, and oppressed in the chest.

This vital essence was formed through cultivation of the technique.

Each full major circulation of the technique could accumulate a single thread of vital essence, which could be considered the concentrated essence of spiritual power.

Vital essence merged into his dantian, gradually altering his physique and expanding his spiritual capacity. It was the foundation of cultivation.

This time, because he had forcibly drained and consumed his vital essence, he would need at least two full major circulations of the technique to restore it… At his previous speed, that would take about half a month.

Ye Yumeng slowly began to operate the technique.

The spiritual light released by the two spirit plants gradually floated toward him.

Among them, the light released by the Red Leaf Lotus carried threads of faint red. Part of it was absorbed into the center of his brow, while the rest lingered around his hands.

Ye Yumeng noticed this.

With a shift of thought, that rosy spiritual energy passed through the bandages and gauze, settling onto his palms.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Ye Yumeng felt that the wounds left by the Mystic Flame on his palms did not seem to hurt as much anymore.

He remembered Shi Yichun saying that the Red Leaf Lotus seemed capable of treating burns…

In the past, he had had very few chances to come into contact with spirit plants, so he had never heard that the spiritual energy released by spirit plants could also carry medicinal properties corresponding to the plants themselves.

Could this be a unique trait of the spirit plants in this world?

Just then, Ye Yumeng suddenly shuddered, and the circulation of his technique noticeably faltered.

He hurriedly gathered his thoughts, not daring to let his mind wander any longer.

The ward was utterly quiet.

At some point, Ye Yumeng vaguely felt a force similar to divine sense sweep across him.

Although he had already entered a state of near-forgetfulness, he found himself distracted once again.

Someone was spying on him with mental power?

Who was it? What did they want?

Ye Yumeng became inwardly alert, but he did not dare move at all. He was in the middle of circulating his technique, and he had to at least finish this minor cycle before stopping.

That divine-sense-like force circled the room once, then landed on him again.

Ye Yumeng could feel that force lightly brushing over his cheek.

He resisted the urge to open his eyes and forced himself to keep his breathing and heartbeat steady. Having walked the line between life and death several times before, his acting skills had been sharpened considerably.

Whoever it was did not seem to notice anything unusual.

In the end, Ye Yumeng felt the force settle on his head…

And rub it?

It was a very strange sensation, and he was not entirely sure if his judgment was wrong.

Just as his distraction was causing the circulation of his technique to become more and more obstructed, that force withdrew. Then something soft fell over him.

After that, the force disappeared.

Had that person left?

Ye Yumeng hurriedly reined in his wandering thoughts and focused once more on his cultivation. Little by little, his breathing truly calmed again.

Finally, after this minor cycle was complete, he opened his eyes.

Ye Yumeng lifted a hand and wiped at the sweat that wasn’t actually there on his forehead. Then, thinking of something, he quickly lowered his gaze.

What had fallen over him was actually his blanket.

Because cultivating did not make him feel cold, he had only draped a corner of it over his stomach. But now the entire blanket had been pulled over him.

He blinked in confusion.

Could it be that the person using mental power to spy on him had only wanted to check whether he was properly covered with a blanket?

That was way too strange, wasn’t it?

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