How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH27

Chapter 27

Top-floor ward, Room 006.

After speaking with Mo Yin, Ye Yumeng was kept here, and Mo Yin asked him not to leave for the time being.

He did not stay idle, either. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him, he began figuring out how to record the health exercise—

Although he already had a large bonus on the way and would receive it in ten days, he still wanted to try out the idea he had last night.

After all, he had already spent time researching it and even made a plan. If he did not carry it out, that would be a real waste.

And thanks to those two spiritual plants from earlier, the spiritual energy concentration in Room 006 was high right now. If he practiced the health exercise a few times, he could absorb all of that spiritual energy as well.

Recording it was simple enough. He had a smartbrain, so he could just use that.

Ye Yumeng moved everything aside so that only a clean metal wall would appear in the frame, then began going through the motions.

He had not practiced this technique in a long time, yet these movements had practically been engraved into his bones. After running through it once, he remembered everything.

He practiced it again and again, speeding up each time, and his movements gradually became smooth and natural.

And to his delight—

His leg injury had already mostly healed, but walking still felt a little awkward. He never dared put much weight on it, so he still looked slightly lame.

But after doing the health exercise several times, and with the spiritual energy circulating through the technique, he suddenly felt completely healed.

Ye Yumeng kicked his legs out, then jumped in place a few times. Feeling how light his body had become, he was overjoyed. At last, he would not have to worry about being unable to run fast enough when fleeing for his life!

Only then did he begin recording in earnest.

The smartbrains issued to caregivers by the Royal Sanatorium were not high-end. Aside from glasses mode, they only had the default orb mode and watch mode.

Ye Yumeng switched the smartbrain into orb mode and turned it on, filming one pass from the front and then another from the back.

Once filming was complete, he gave the smartbrain a command, and it automatically generated the editing effect he wanted.

He first combined the front and back views into a single frame. After looking it over, he blurred out his face before finally uploading it to the video platform.

At first, he was a little hopeful. But after half an hour had passed and the views were still stuck at zero, Ye Yumeng closed the page.

Sure enough, trying to make money from this was still too difficult.

After thinking about it, he felt a bit unwilling to give up.

So Ye Yumeng opened the Golden Forum and registered an account, using the same name as on the video platform—Every Day I Want to Eat Spiritual Plants.

Then he began composing a post. He shared the link to the health exercise video in both the medical section and the fitness section as promotion.

After posting it, he did not bother with it any further.

In any case, he was not short on money right now, and healing the sick and saving lives depended on fate. If someone had deep enough karmic fortune, naturally they would click into the post.

Then Ye Yumeng opened the local shopping site on Medical Planet and began browsing, preparing to look for materials suitable for making talismans.

He had studied a wide variety of things—talismans, arrays, pills, acupuncture… Ye Yumeng knew a little of all of them. But even the cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice. Without suitable materials and tools on hand, he could not make anything at all.

Relatively speaking, talismans were the simplest. He only needed talisman paper, a writing brush, and ink.

The best talisman paper was made from spirit wood or beast hide. Of course, ordinary yellow paper could also work, and the brush did not need to be especially good.

The key lay in the ink—it needed cinnabar that could store spiritual energy.

Ye Yumeng searched on the shopping platform, and just as he had expected, none of the results were quite right.

After all, these were two entirely different civilizations. Cinnabar might exist in this world, but perhaps it went by another name.

Ye Yumeng thought for a moment, then entered “red mineral stone” into the search bar. Sure enough, several stones that looked fairly similar popped up.

The cheapest option was sold in ten-gram units. Ten grams cost one hundred Yaojin coins. It could be used as a pigment for painting, and it was called Crimson Rock.

It already looked very similar to the cinnabar he needed. As long as it could store spiritual power and not let it dissipate for a certain length of time, it would work.

Though it was truly expensive, the thought of the twenty-thousand bonus about to arrive soon made Ye Yumeng grit his teeth and place an order for ten grams.

Next came the talisman paper.

He had already tried using note paper, but it would not work. It could barely hold any spiritual energy at all. Ye Yumeng suspected it was synthetic paper rather than paper made from pure wood.

Technology in the interstellar age was highly advanced, and life was very convenient, but many things from his understanding had disappeared or simply did not exist at all.

Ye Yumeng tried searching for pure wood paper, and to his surprise, he really found it—but… it was so expensive!

A stack of twenty sheets cost fifty Yaojin coins! That meant each sheet cost 2.5.

Ye Yumeng sucked in a sharp breath.

Still, after comparing prices from several shops, he ultimately bought the first one he had seen, because it was already the cheapest.

As for the brush, after some hesitation, Ye Yumeng decided to save that money.

After all, brushes were easy to make. All he needed was animal hair.

That made him think of Shan Lan’s long fur when he turned into a cat.

He wondered whether that guy shed at all. If he could collect some, maybe he could try making a brush out of it?

He would ask Sheng Hao about it later.

So Ye Yumeng ordered the Crimson Rock powder and the pure wood paper, spending a total of one hundred and fifty Yaojin coins. They would arrive tomorrow.

After placing the order, he felt he really had nothing else to do, so he secretly slipped out of the room, preparing to move those two spiritual plants back so he could study them properly.

The Red Leaf Lotus itself could treat burns, and he had also experienced that crimson spiritual energy before. Perhaps it could be used to make a spiritual medicine for treating burns.

But he had never seen that kind of plant before, so he still needed to study its medicinal properties. Even if he succeeded in making the medicine, it would still need to be tested—it could not possibly be used directly on patients.

And besides, he also lacked the tools needed for making medicine.

So it would be better to start with that crimson spiritual energy first. Perhaps he could find some way to make use of it.

However, the moment he stepped out of the room—before he had even closed the door behind him—he saw Mo Yin come out from the neighboring room and catch him red-handed.

So Mo Yin had been in the rabbit’s room…

Ye Yumeng gave an awkward smile, then turned around as if nothing had happened and went back into the room.

“I’ve already reported it to the employer. He is willing to give you this opportunity, but you will need to undergo an assessment.”

Mo Yin followed him in and shut the door behind him before speaking.

“Mm-hm, I understand.”

He was only a caregiver who had not even finished his probationary period, yet he was claiming he wanted to become the child’s attending physician. Of course the family would question that.

Was that not one of the reasons he had chosen to go through the family rather than approaching the sanatorium directly?

Ye Yumeng asked, “What does the assessment involve?”

“We will select ten dying patients. If you can preserve the lives of more than half of them, and extend their lives by at least three days beyond the time the doctors have predicted…”

Mo Yin said, “Then my employer will be willing to hire you. You will be allowed to intervene in the young master’s treatment, and may even serve as his attending physician, taking full responsibility and having all treatment follow your arrangements.”

Ye Yumeng frowned.

He asked, “Is there a time limit? With my current abilities, there is no way I can handle that many patients at once.”

With the amount of spiritual power he currently had, treating even one patient was already difficult enough.

Understanding his difficulty, Mo Yin nodded. “There is no time limit. Just proceed at your own pace. Any other questions?”

Ye Yumeng thought for a moment, then asked, “If something happens to the rabbit while I’m treating other patients, what then?”

Mo Yin looked at him, then suddenly said, “So in truth, you never intended to give up on treating the young master at all, did you?”

Ye Yumeng froze for a moment, then remembered what he had said when he laid everything out before him.

Either let him serve as the attending physician, or he would give up treating the rabbit.

He nodded frankly. “I’ve already saved him twice. Doesn’t that prove my method is more effective?”

So naturally, he had the confidence to replace the current treatment. As long as he was given the chance, he would seize it. And in that case, the question of giving up on the rabbit’s treatment did not really exist.

Mo Yin looked at Ye Yumeng, gentleness in his gaze. Although the outcome was not yet decided, he sincerely hoped this Caregiver Ye could pass the test.

No matter who it was, as long as they could heal His Majesty, he would be willing to support them.

And compared to Lei Qi and those medical grandmasters, this Caregiver Ye was clearly more responsible, willing to step forward of his own accord.

“I will arrange the timing properly and try to let you leave when the young master’s condition is stable,” Mo Yin said seriously.

“Alright.”

Ye Yumeng looked at him, his gaze falling on his severed arm. After hesitating for a moment, he said, “Your arm… perhaps I may also have a way to heal it.”

Mo Yin froze. What?

He suspected he had heard wrong. “Heal it how?”

“With my current abilities, I still can’t do it for now.” Yet Ye Yumeng shook his head. “But if you truly do not want to install a prosthetic limb, then you can wait.”

Mo Yin’s gaze became somewhat dazed, though he soon frowned again.

He was just about to speak when Ye Yumeng had already guessed what he was thinking, so he waved a hand. “Whether or not I can become the rabbit’s attending physician, what I just said is true.”

“It’s just that I can’t say for certain how long it will take. That depends on whether you’re willing to wait.”

The technique of regrowing bone and flesh was something he could not control at all with his current cultivation level, and as for the spiritual medicine materials related to it, he had not found any leads either.

So Ye Yumeng truly could not give a clear timeframe. It would depend entirely on Mo Yin’s own decision.

“Then I’ll go back and take care of the rabbit first,” he said.

Mo Yin nodded blankly. What Ye Yumeng had just said had clearly dealt him quite a shock.

So Ye Yumeng left him there to digest it on his own and returned to the room next door.

The rabbit on the hospital bed had his crimson-gold eyes open, watching Ye Yumeng walk in through the doorway.

“Rabbit, you heard everything, didn’t you?” Ye Yumeng came to sit down beside the bed.

From the time he went to find Ah Mo and laid everything out in the neighboring room, he had already sensed mental power coming from this direction.

As for who that mental power belonged to, that went without saying.

Ye Yumeng waited for the rabbit to question him.

But unexpectedly, when the mechanical voice sounded, the first thing it asked was, “Do you really have confidence you can heal Ah Mo’s arm?”

“Yes.” Ye Yumeng nodded.

“How fully can it recover?” the mechanical voice continued.

“Completely.”

Ye Yumeng answered with just those four words, and the rabbit fell silent.

Then he added, “But it will take time.”

“Alright.”

After a while, the mechanical voice sounded again. “Then go make your preparations. You don’t need to worry about things here.”

Ye Yumeng was surprised.

Aside from Ah Mo’s arm, the rabbit had not asked a single other question. It seemed the two of them were indeed very close.

That made sense. The rabbit had been gravely injured while still young, and his parents were not by his side. It was only natural that he had grown deeply attached to the guard who had stayed by him.

Poor little rabbit…

Ye Yumeng fondly stroked the top of his head. “Thank you. I’ll work hard.”

Ye Yumeng packed up a lunchbox from the top-floor ward. After saying goodbye to the rabbit, he left to return to the dormitory, only to be stopped by the dorm supervisor as soon as he reached the entrance.

“There’s a delivery for you.”

Ye Yumeng was surprised. Hadn’t they said the Crimson Rock powder and pure wood paper would only arrive tomorrow?

Then he saw a huge thing.

“What is this?” He stared blankly at the oversized crate stacked outside the dorm supervisor’s office.

“Hello, this is the latest model virtual holographic pod. Please confirm receipt.”

A number of medical staff who had not yet gone off shift noticed the scene and stopped to watch. When they heard the delivery robot’s words, some even cried out in shock.

“The newest model holographic pod? That costs over a million, doesn’t it? Who is this? What a lavish gift!”

Although everyone marveled, they were only envious. No one really felt any jealousy or resentment. After all, theTreatment on Medical Planet was very good.

As long as one worked hard here, saving up that much money was not actually difficult.

But Ye Yumeng sucked in a breath of cold air.

He had the original owner’s memories, so he knew very well how hard it was to earn money. Converted into the currency of the Xihe Federation, this million-plus Yaojin coins would amount to more than ten million!

“I didn’t buy this. Could it have been sent by mistake?” he quickly said, shaking his head.

The delivery robot rechecked the delivery address and the recipient, then confirmed to him, “There is no mistake. Respected Mr. Ye Yumeng, this was gifted to you by a friend.”

A gift from a friend… Could it be the father and son landlord pair from the Xihe Federation again?

“There is also a message for you.”

Puzzled, Ye Yumeng took the tablet. At the very top, he saw a line of large text:

[Everything is well. Don’t worry.]

He froze, then joy burst across his face.

This was Lu Qi, right?

Then it suddenly occurred to Ye Yumeng that even if Lu Qi could not remember his contact number, he did know where his dormitory was.

Last night, when Ye Yumeng had been taking a bath, Lu Qi had stepped out for a while. Could it have been to memorize his room number?

By this point, the number of onlookers was growing larger and larger, so Ye Yumeng did not continue to dwell on it for the moment. He quickly had the delivery robot help him move the holographic pod into his room.

After it had been installed and he had finished learning the usage instructions, he asked, “Other than the message, did that friend leave any contact information?”

“Sorry. The other party made the purchase through an anonymous channel. In order to protect customer privacy, we are unable to disclose that information.”

Ye Yumeng could only give up.

After sending the robot away, he turned back to look at the holographic pod set in the corner of his room, and a delighted smile spread across his face.

Wonderful. Lu Qi had really returned to his own body!

He ran a hand over the pod’s smooth, beautiful shell and could not help wondering: Was it because he had said he was going to join the StarNet community gathering tonight that Lu Qi had sent him this device?

Lu Qi did seem to have mentioned before that compared to the smartbrain glasses, the virtual holographic pod offered a much better experience.

But this was far too expensive!

If only he could lend him that money instead, so he could buy spiritual plants and other materials.

Ye Yumeng felt the pain of wasted money even as he could not help feeling happy. Lu Qi had remembered him, had found a way to let him know he was safe, and had even sent him such a useful gift.

So it was not just him being warm on one side only. Lu Qi was thinking of him too, wasn’t he?

At the thought, Ye Yumeng could not help smiling again.

It was just a pity… he had already decided not to go to the gathering tonight.

Compared to meeting up and having fun with his coworkers, the assessment to become the attending physician was obviously more important. His cultivation was too low. He had to seize every moment to practice.

Even if it was only cramming at the last minute, any improvement was still improvement.

Ye Yumeng stroked the virtual holographic pod once more, then turned away, took out the packed meal box he had brought back, and looked toward the green onion sprout on the windowsill.

He had not paid attention to it for a while, and this spirit onion had grown another section taller. It looked lush and green, its leaves swaying gracefully in the orange evening glow.

Ye Yumeng walked over and carefully plucked off one leaf, washed it clean, then stuffed it directly into his mouth.

Freshly picked and uncooked spirit leaves retained their spiritual energy to the greatest degree. For someone as weak in cultivation as Ye Yumeng, it was a perfect tonic.

Sensing the spiritual energy surge through him, he quickly sat down cross-legged and began circulating his technique to refine it.

At eight in the evening, Entrance to District One of the StarNet Community.

The Royal Sanatorium’s team-building group had already gathered in the login plaza, around fifteen or twenty people in total.

Gan Yang and Mo Jingyun were among them.

While waiting to enter the district, Miao Kerui, who had never gotten along with them, actually moved up beside Mo Jingyun and asked, “Where’s Ye Yumeng? Why didn’t he come?”

Mo Jingyun gave her a wary glance and replied, “Something came up for him at the last minute. He’s not coming.”

“Oh, I see…” Miao Kerui nodded and walked away without saying anything else.

But she also did not go along with Hui and the others.

“What’s with her?” Mo Jingyun asked Gan Yang. “Her attitude seems different.”

“She wants to curry favor with Ye Zi.”

Gan Yang shrugged. “Because of Ye Zi’s recommendation, you got transferred to the core inpatient ward. They’re insanely jealous. I heard the two of them even had a huge fight over it these past couple of days…”

Mo Jingyun could not help laughing. “Serves them right! Let them regret it!”

Then she looked at the login plaza crowded with people. “There are so many people. There haven’t been this many the past few days, have there?”

“Heh heh, I heard District One is going to broadcast a holographic battle video of His Majesty the Golden Emperor today. Of course there are lots of people!”

Gan Yang’s face was full of excitement. “Too bad Ye Zi didn’t come, or else we could’ve recorded it…”

As they talked, the two followed the larger group through the doors into District One.

They did not notice that not far away, a figure stood among the crowd, and there was no telling how long he had already been waiting there.

Even after another two hours had passed and the peak of the crowd had gradually thinned, Lu Nanzhou still had not seen Ye Yumeng appear.

Though privacy protections could be set on StarNet, under Lu Nanzhou’s powerful mental sweep, such protections were as good as useless.

So he could be certain that Ye Yumeng had indeed not appeared in District One tonight.

He pressed his lips together, handed the ice cream he had been holding all evening to a passing child, and then went offline…

Because strong mental fluctuations had been detected, and there were concerns that someone might be causing trouble, the cyber police brigade had remained on guard in the plaza all night.

When they sensed him leaving, the officers relaxed in relief, but they also could not help feeling confused.

So who exactly was this big shot? Why had he stood there like a post for so long? What had he come there for in the first place?

Core inpatient ward.

Mo Yin, who had been waiting inside the ward, heard the instruction and immediately opened the specially made virtual holographic pod. Using the caregiver robot, he carefully lifted the young beast lying inside out of it.

This virtual holographic pod had originally been borrowed from the event organizers and customized for the patient. It could provide a ninety-nine percent five-sense experience—

Originally, even lying on the hospital bed would have allowed him to enjoy the same effect, but that function had already been damaged by Xuan Huo and was still under repair.

Now he could only be transferred into the virtual holographic pod, but for Lu Nanzhou, whose severe injuries had still not healed, this was no small challenge either.

Probably no one would have guessed that the “mysterious person” on StarNet, powerful enough to alarm the cyber police brigade, was in reality more fragile than a newborn baby.

Even though Mo Yin was already being extremely careful, he could still notice the trembling of the young beast’s body.

Knowing it was from pain, Mo Yin was anxious, yet he did not dare speed up. Instead, he controlled the robot even more carefully, and finally managed to transfer him back onto the hospital bed.

Once Mo Yin released control, the caregiver robot hurriedly disconnected the equipment attached to the holographic pod and reattached it to the rabbit.

Watching the instrument readings gradually stabilize, Mo Yin finally let out a sigh of relief. With his remaining left hand, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

He also knew about what had happened in District One—not because he had deliberately been monitoring him, but because… it had been too obvious.

If this were before, His Majesty would have been fully capable of coming and going on StarNet like the wind, never alerting anyone at all. Not like now: still powerful, but no longer able to control it with precision.

“Your Majesty…”

“It is nothing.”

Lu Nanzhou endured the pain sweeping through his whole body. Only after forcibly steadying himself did he ask, “That holographic pod… was it delivered?”

“Yes. It has already been sent to Caregiver Ye’s dormitory.”

Although Lu Nanzhou had never said it outright, Mo Yin had long since guessed who it was that he insisted on using the virtual holographic pod for, waiting so bitterly on StarNet.

Now that had effectively been confirmed.

“He is now…” Lu Nanzhou paused, then said, “Forget it. Don’t disturb him.”

Mo Yin lowered his head and answered yes, but still offered reassurance. “After Caregiver Ye entered his dormitory, he never came back out. He is probably making preparations for the assessment.”

“Mm.”

After resting for a while, Lu Nanzhou added, “Arrange the assessment as soon as possible. The list… I want to review it personally.”

“Yes, sir!”

Ye Yumeng opened his eyes from cultivation.

Morning light poured down, and he was radiant with spirit. A clear, luminous sheen flowed through his black eyes.

Ye Yumeng slowly withdrew his technique, joy appearing in his eyes.

He had actually broken through!

The cultivation method Ye Yumeng practiced was called the Nine-Turn Spirit Pivot Scripture, passed down to him by the old medical cultivator.

The old medical cultivator had once said this was a top-tier cultivation method.

And it truly was powerful. The miraculous life-saving healing art Rejuvenation Technique was one of the abilities unlocked at its second layer. Because he was recultivating and was already familiar with the spell, he had been able to force himself to use it ahead of time.

Feeling the spiritual power within him grow much fuller, a smile spread across Ye Yumeng’s face.

Before this, his dantian had contained only thirty strands of spiritual power. At most, he could use the Rejuvenation Technique three times a day. But after breaking through, his spiritual power capacity had expanded to one hundred!

It had increased by more than threefold. For the upcoming assessment, this was simply timely rain.

And completing the first layer also brought another benefit…

Ye Yumeng looked toward the spirit onion on the windowsill. In order to cultivate, he had plucked off all the intact leaves and onion sections.

Now only a small tuft of shoots remained. It looked listless, utterly lacking the lively vitality it had before.

Ye Yumeng directed his magical power to his eyes.

As a faint layer of spiritual light covered them, the onion sprout in his vision immediately changed.

At the broken ends where he had pinched it off, a shallow black aura lingered.

Apart from that, the entire plant also gave off a faint earthy yellow tint, making the originally wilted sprout appear even dimmer and more lifeless.

Black represented rot and death; earthy yellow represented malnourishment.

This was the innate ability gained upon completing the first layer of the Nine-Turn Spirit Pivot Scripture—Aura Sight.

As long as it was a living thing, it had aura.

Whether human, plant, or beast, he could use this ability to judge its physical condition.

Originally, Ye Yumeng had never imagined he would reach first-layer completion this quickly. Back in the cultivation world, he had struggled at the first layer for a full three years!

But now, even counting generously, it had not been more than three months, right?

On the one hand, that was because he was recultivating. Walking the old road again, with past experience to rely on, everything came more easily to him. On the other hand…

Ye Yumeng felt it had a great deal to do with his current circumstances.

After all, he had already experienced life and death, and his current environment was peaceful and comfortable, allowing him to devote himself to cultivation without distraction.

Of course, another major reason was that he had been eating spiritual plants every day. Back in the cultivation world, how could he ever have dared dream of something so luxurious?

Ye Yumeng squinted happily, got up, walked to the windowsill, and cast a Spirit Plant Nourishing Technique on the spirit onion.

This spell required ten strands of spiritual power—equivalent to one use of the Rejuvenation Technique. But now that his spiritual power capacity had gone up, he no longer had to pinch pennies the way he had before.

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