How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH39

Chapter 39

“Very well, Doctor Ye.”

Although he had a pair of rabbit ears on his head, making him look a little less serious, Lu Yuanqing’s expression was still solemn.

The reason he had exposed the beast ears was also because he had followed Mo Yin’s suggestion to disguise himself properly, so that Ye Yumeng would not be able to guess his true identity.

For that, he had even specifically dyed his hair black—plant-based dye that washed out cleanly and did not damage the hair.

The Yaojin royal family had never appeared in public in rabbit form, and on top of that, he had dyed his signature pale-gold hair a darker color. Even people close to him would have trouble recognizing him at a glance.

Even if Ye Yumeng saw photos of him in the news later, there was no way he would connect them to one another!

With this disguise, Lu Yuanqing would give himself a perfect score!

He looked at Ye Yumeng and said, “I’m the little rabbit’s… ahem, I’m his older brother, Ruan Qing.”

As he spoke, Lu Yuanqing glanced at the little rabbit on the bed. His imperial brother had been asleep all day, so he probably had not heard that, right?

Of course he had no idea that not only had Lu Nanzhou heard every word, he was at this very moment standing beside Ye Yumeng, staring coldly at him.

“All right.” Ye Yumeng also spoke up. “Mr. Ruan, thank you for being willing to give me this opportunity. I’ll do my utmost to treat the little rabbit!”

Though he sounded perfectly serious on the outside, inwardly he was thinking: So the little rabbit’s surname is Ruan?

A soft little rabbit… so cute!

Lu Yuanqing, however, hurriedly waved his hands.

“Doctor Ye, how can you say that? You saved my… our emperor twice. I should be the one thanking you. How can there be any logic in making our benefactor say thank you instead?”

Ye Yumeng smiled. “The fact that you were willing to trust me and give me the chance to prove my ability was also an opportunity for me.”

“Doctor Ye, your temperament is just too good!” Lu Yuanqing could not help saying. “If you ever get bullied on Medical Planet in the future, just come to me and I’ll stand up for you!”

“Our family owes you two favors. Once you cure my… our emperor, that’ll make three.”

“From then on, no matter what difficulty you encounter or what you need, as long as it’s within our power, we’ll do everything we can to make it happen for you.”

“Doctor Ye, please don’t refuse.”

Seeing that Lu Yuanqing truly looked sincere, not as though he were pretending, Ye Yumeng nodded. “All right, I’ll remember that.”

Only then did Lu Yuanqing smile as well.

Standing at the side watching them talk so warmly, Lu Nanzhou’s gaze grew colder. For the first time ever, he found his younger brother an eyesore.

At that moment, Lu Yuanqing continued, “As for the Yan family’s commission, it doesn’t matter whether you want to go or not. Refusing is fine too.”

“If you want a house, you can pick any of my properties on Capital Star!”

Ye Yumeng blinked. For some reason, he felt that there was a kind of instigation hidden in this rabbit gentleman’s eyes.

“You… hope I’ll take that commission?” he asked.

Lu Yuanqing paused, then quickly shook his head. “I absolutely did not say that. It’s completely up to you.”

Of course, he really had promised Yan Xinglan that he would help invite Doctor Ye. But if Doctor Ye refused, there would be nothing he could do about it, right?

“Mm, I already agreed to go,” Ye Yumeng said.

He had even already taken out a “life-preserving talisman” for the matter. How could he possibly back out at the last moment now?

“All right then.” Lu Yuanqing nodded with some regret. “Don’t worry, I’ll have people keep an eye on the compensation. I definitely won’t let the Yan family cut corners!”

“All right, thank you.”

Both of them were busy people, so after a few more words, they said goodbye and ended the call.

After the light screen went dark, Ye Yumeng looked at Lu Nanzhou. “The little rabbit’s older brother is actually pretty easy to talk to!”

Then, lowering his voice as though sharing a secret with Lu Nanzhou, he whispered, “I seriously couldn’t stop looking at his rabbit ears.”

Lu Nanzhou lowered his gaze to him.

“You liked them that much?”

Ye Yumeng felt there was something a little strange in his tone, though he could not quite put his finger on why. Tilting his head, he said, “Aren’t they pretty cute?”

Lu Nanzhou’s lips moved slightly, but before he could speak, Ye Yumeng looked toward the little rabbit on the bed.

“Once the little rabbit recovers, he’ll definitely be just as cute!”

Ye Yumeng muttered softly, “I just don’t know if the little rabbit will be willing to let me see. It’d be nice if I could touch them too…”

Lu Nanzhou: “……”

He stared fixedly at Ye Yumeng. After a long moment, he turned his face away. If one looked closely, perhaps one would notice that the tips of his ears had turned faintly red.

Because Mo Yin was still preparing for the trip, Ye Yumeng followed what he had agreed upon with Shi Yichun and brought the pot with the little spirit scallion to the fifth floor.

When he arrived, only Shi Hanyu and her caregiver were in the room.

The caregiver had originally thought a doctor was coming in, so when she saw that it was Ye Yumeng instead, she could not help frowning and looking him up and down, especially his uniform and name badge.

Shi Hanyu’s caregiver was named Ji Jing. She was nearly forty, wore short hair, and looked clean and capable.

“Surname Ye? I don’t think I’ve seen you before. Are you new?” Ji Jing frowned as she examined him.

Ye Yumeng had just been about to answer when he heard footsteps behind him.

Turning around, he saw that Shi Yichun had somehow come up behind him. He nodded in greeting and said, “Caregiver Little Ye.”

Ye Yumeng smiled slightly. “Uncle Shi, I came to see little Hanyu.”

Then he turned back to Ji Jing and said, “That’s right, I’m new. I work in the top-floor ward.”

Ji Jing could not help being surprised. She knew that the patients on the top floor were all extremely difficult cases, and caregivers at her level rarely ever got access to them.

She had not expected Ye Yumeng to be so young and already assigned to the top floor…

Could it be that all the caregivers on the top floor, like the head nurse, had permission to access the other floors? But otherwise, he should not have had permission to enter little Hanyu’s room at all… had Shi Yichun just opened the door for him?

“Caregiver Ji, go have your meal. I’ll take over here,” Shi Yichun said.

“Oh, all right.”

Shi Hanyu’s condition was stable, and her spiritual power was strong. Taking care of her was fairly easy, so as long as family was present to accompany her, that was enough.

Ji Jing no longer lingered over the matter and left to rest and eat, leaving only Shi Yichun and Ye Yumeng in the room.

Shi Yichun set down the lunch box he was carrying on the table, then came over and sat beside his daughter’s bed. Ye Yumeng also walked over.

The room lights were not turned on. The bright, brilliant sunlight from outside streamed in, and by the time it reached the bedside, it had already softened.

The little lamb on the bed lay curled on her side. Today she was wearing a pink-and-white pajama set embroidered with little cartoon flowers and grass, which matched her fluffy soft white fur very well.

Her limbs were lightly tucked in, her eyes closed. Her long lashes curled faintly. She was a very cute and beautiful little sheep.

But she simply lay there sleeping deeply, seemingly unaware of their arrival.

Shi Yichun looked at his daughter and was silent for a moment.

“I was on duty in the activity room before, so I’ve met little Hanyu,” Ye Yumeng said. “Can she use spiritual power to communicate with you?”

Shi Yichun shook his head. “Only occasionally.”

Most of the time, she just lay in bed without any response to the outside world. Before, he could at least sometimes hear her call him “Dad,” or receive a few vague, unclear messages through her mind…

Lately, even that had become rare.

Shi Yichun looked at his daughter, and his eyes carried an overwhelming, sorrowful weariness.

In this era, being under fifty was not even enough to be considered truly middle-aged. Yet his hair had already turned completely white.

Ye Yumeng quietly said nothing. A flicker of light passed through his eyes as he activated the Qi-Reading Art to inspect her condition.

What he saw was that the little lamb curled on the bed was surrounded by a dense earthy-yellow aura, a clear sign of malnourishment.

And what made Ye Yumeng’s brows slowly draw together was—

A faint shadowy image covered the little lamb’s body. It was both there and not there. Most of it was still within her body, but part of its outline had already shifted away, like a double image.

This was a classic case of soul-separation.

“Thank you for coming to see her. She loves liveliness the most.”

At that moment, Shi Yichun’s voice sounded again.

After taking a deep breath and steadying his emotions, he said, “As for that little scallion sprout you brought over, I’m going to plant it in the ground. Do you want to come take a look?”

Ye Yumeng shook his head.

“I still have things to do later,” he said. “Oh, right. I also have a golden hairpin grass in my dorm room… would it be okay if I entrusted that to you to plant too?”

Golden hairpin grass had medicinal value. Originally, Ye Yumeng had planned to raise it himself first and see how it went.

But now that he had more patients coming into contact with him, he felt his time was starting to get too difficult to manage. If Shi Yichun could take care of it and Ye Yumeng only checked on it when he had time, that would naturally be even better.

Shi Yichun raised a brow. “Golden hairpin grass?”

Suddenly something seemed to occur to him, and his mouth fell open.

“Could it be… that and that little scallion sprout are both king plants?”

King plants?

Ye Yumeng could not help pausing. Could it be that in this world, they also had their own method for identifying spirit plants?

But he quickly thought of the premium dishes in the cafeteria. Although they were all made using high-grade ingredients, the actual amount of spirit plants among them was still very limited.

So even if they could identify them, it probably was not as precise as his own method.

Thinking that, Ye Yumeng said cautiously, “They are indeed the same kind as the five pots I dug up before.”

At that, Shi Yichun could not help drawing in a deep breath. He asked, “Where did you get them? Online?”

“The little scallion came from the Xihe Federation. As for the golden hairpin grass, I found it growing by the roadside on the dwarf hill near Lakeheart Park, so I dug it up and brought it back.”

Shi Yichun looked at Ye Yumeng, and the more he looked, the more regretful he felt.

This kind of eye and talent for discovering king plants truly was very rare. Why had Ye Yumeng not gone into plant cultivation instead?

If he had invested himself in the cultivation industry, he probably could have achieved something remarkable… Shi Yichun could not help feeling moved by talent.

With this kind of natural gift, being just a small caregiver was truly too wasteful.

He had just been about to persuade him when Ye Yumeng’s communicator rang. It was Mo Yin calling him back.

“Uncle Shi, I’ve got to go first. I’ll come see you and little Hanyu again another time if I have time.”

The words at the tip of Shi Yichun’s tongue had no choice but to be swallowed again. He watched Ye Yumeng leave with regret in his eyes.

In the elevator.

Lu Nanzhou stayed by Ye Yumeng’s side the whole time. In spirit form, he had naturally also seen the little lamb’s condition.

“Do you have a way to treat her?”

“I’m not sure yet,” Ye Yumeng said. “I’ll come back and look again.”

Lu Nanzhou nodded, then added, “You don’t need to pressure yourself.”

Ye Yumeng turned his head to look at him.

When Lu Nanzhou noticed his gaze and looked back, Ye Yumeng gave him a small smile and softly answered, “Okay.”

East District Medical Institute.

The past few days, because of the severe public health incident involving the Alpha-type mind-devouring parasite, East District Medical Institute had also entered lockdown.

The building where the patient Shan Hai was staying had already been isolated. To reduce movement of personnel, almost all exchanges between medical zones were now being carried out by robot.

Ning Huiyu, Shan Hai’s attending physician, was operating a robot as she entered the office, preparing to hand over work matters to Zhuo Yuquan.

But when she saw what was happening inside the room, she could not help stopping in place.

In her impression, Dr. Zhuo had always been upright, severe, and not the type to joke around. Yet there he was now, sitting at his desk, making strange gestures with both hands.

Nor was he alone. Some of the assistants, now that they were free, were also absentmindedly practicing some odd movements.

The whole scene looked extremely bizarre, enough to make one wonder whether they had all fallen ill or been parasitically controlled by something.

After a moment of silence, Ning Huiyu continued guiding the robot over toward Zhuo Yuquan.

Before the robot could fully approach, Zhuo Yuquan had already come back to his senses and resumed his usual serious, proper manner.

By the time the work handover was nearly done, Ning Huiyu finally could not help asking, “Was Doctor Ye’s method really that miraculous?”

Although the Alpha-type mind-devouring parasite had been discovered thanks to that Doctor Ye, Ning Huiyu herself had not seen him actually perform treatment.

As for the surgical footage involving Zhuo Yuquan, even the director had watched it, let alone her. Yet the more people watched, the more unbearably curious they became.

Zhuo Yuquan did not explain much. He simply said, “Xia Nanxue has already passed the critical stage.”

Ning Huiyu looked somewhat dazed.

She had seen that little girl’s report. For her to have been saved at all, and then to leave danger that quickly, really was a miracle!

Then she thought of something and could not help sighing.

“What’s wrong?” Zhuo Yuquan asked in confusion.

“I just heard from Lu Feiguang that Doctor Ye is coming to East Campus again today. Too bad I’m still in quarantine, so I’m afraid I won’t get to see him this time.”

The moment Ning Huiyu finished speaking, Zhuo Yuquan abruptly stood up.

“Doctor Ye is coming to East Campus again?”

He looked full of excitement, with none of his usual seriousness and steadiness left. “Where is he?”

Ning Huiyu froze for a moment before answering, “Still on the way.”

Hearing that, Zhuo Yuquan thanked her, then rushed out of the office like a gust of wind, completely ignoring the astonished looks from Ning Huiyu and the assistants.

Around eleven in the morning, Ye Yumeng arrived at East District Medical Institute.

This time, besides Mo Yin, there were also two additional aircraft escorting him, and He Jun and the others had come along as well.

Of course, Ye Yumeng did not really feel much about it.

Because on the way there, he had once again eaten the spirit-plant dishes Mo Yin had prepared for him, then circulated his power to recover spiritual energy. His reserves now stood at around eighty-something, which should be enough to handle most situations.

Lu Nanzhou remained at his side as always.

Even having left the Royal Sanatorium and traveled this far, he still felt no discomfort. It was only that his perception of his own body was somewhat weaker. And yet…

He looked at Ye Yumeng. He could sense that his connection to Ye Yumeng, on the contrary, seemed to be growing stronger, and that could not help but set him thinking.

Spirit summoning was not an unusual ability, nor was it unique to Ye Yumeng alone.

In Lu Nanzhou’s memory, beast-blood warriors with similar powers had once existed in the Yaojin Empire.

That was a bloodline of vicious beasts known as the Netherworld Wolves. They could summon the dead to fight for them, and they had once been a very powerful clan.

But as the years passed and times changed, the Netherworld Wolf line gradually declined. By now, it had been many years since anyone had heard news of that wolf clan…

“Doctor Ye!”

At that moment, an excited male voice interrupted Lu Nanzhou’s thoughts.

Ye Yumeng turned at the sound and saw two people waiting by the landing pad. He quickly recognized the person calling to him.

“Doctor Zhuo, we meet again.”

He also had a deep impression of this young attending doctor. After all, that kind of precise micro-control medical technique was something Ye Yumeng had only ever seen for the first time.

Finally having managed to secure the chance to receive him in person, Zhuo Yuquan could not help feeling delighted when he saw that Ye Yumeng still remembered him.

“You still remember me?”

“Mm.” Ye Yumeng nodded. “How is that little girl doing? Is she out of danger now?”

“Her life has basically been saved. She’s in stable recovery now! Doctor Ye, I…”

Just as Zhuo Yuquan was about to ask for Ye Yumeng’s contact information, he suddenly saw him turn his head slightly as though listening to someone.

Zhuo Yuquan looked to the side in confusion. Yet beside Doctor Ye there was clearly no one there, and the one-armed man had not spoken either…

The one speaking, naturally, was Lu Nanzhou.

Ye Yumeng heard him bring up that old gentleman Yan’s identity. Although he found it strange that Lu Nanzhou had chosen this moment to mention it, he still listened carefully.

Yan Jin had once been the lion clan’s leader. His eldest son had not inherited his position, and so the chieftainship had been seized by another family, only to later be reclaimed by his younger son.

And his grandson, Yan Xinglan, had recently taken first place in the beast-fighting tournament and would go on to become the next lion clan leader.

“As a high-rank beast-blood warrior who once led the lion clan, Elder Yan should theoretically have had a longer life…”

“It’s just that during the war with the zerg, he repeatedly risked his life to rescue trapped civilians, and the many old injuries left behind are the reason he aged so quickly after the war ended.”

Ye Yumeng thought of the old man’s golden merit-light and could not help feeling an added measure of respect.

He nodded, then looked toward the person beside Zhuo Yuquan, just as Mo Yin made the introduction.

“This is the East District Medical Institute director, Xiang Hongfu.”

Xiang Hongfu was also looking Ye Yumeng over. Previously, he had only received them through a remotely controlled robot, and had never actually seen him in person.

Later, when he tried pulling up the surveillance footage to review it, he still could not make out Doctor Ye’s real face, nor clearly see his astonishing method.

So would he get to see it this time?

“Doctor Ye, it is a great honor to meet you again,” Director Xiang said, having none of his earlier arrogance left. His attitude as he shook hands with Ye Yumeng was respectful and proper.

“Where is Doctor Lu? Why haven’t I seen him today?” Ye Yumeng asked.

“You mean Lu Feiguang? He was exposed to the Alpha-type mind-devouring parasite host, so he is currently in quarantine,” Xiang Hongfu replied.

That made Ye Yumeng think again of that sinister zerg organism.

“Has that mind-devouring parasite been captured?”

“It has,” Zhuo Yuquan hurried to answer. “That patient named Shan Hai has already shown signs of improvement. Of course, the alert status hasn’t been lifted yet. We still have to wait until the quarantine period ends.”

“Oh.” Ye Yumeng nodded. “Then let’s go see Elder Yan.”

Zhuo Yuquan, who had wanted to take the chance to ask for a contact method, had no choice but to put it off again for now.

“All right, this way please.”

Soon, they arrived outside Yan Jin’s ward.

The old man lay on the bed, breathing weakly, clearly already looking like a lamp with no oil left.

His daughter, Yan Xueyun, was there at his side. Beside her now stood an additional middle-aged man—Yan Xueyun’s husband, Zhuo Qi.

Both of their eyes were red-rimmed, and they looked exhausted.

The moment they saw Ye Yumeng and Mo Yin, Yan Xueyun hurriedly rose.

“Doctor Ye…”

Ye Yumeng did not waste time with extra greetings. He went straight to the bedside and took the old man’s pulse.

His brows tightened.

This old gentleman really had reached his limit. If Ye Yumeng were to cast Minor Rejuvenation Technique on him, he could probably help him last another couple of days.

Ye Yumeng turned to Yan Xueyun. “Let me make this clear first. I have no way to truly cure him. All I can do is temporarily delay things for a little while.”

And the instant there was backlash, he would immediately stop.

“Mm, please, I’m begging you!”

Yan Xueyun knew that this chance had been obtained only with great difficulty by her nephew. She naturally did not dare treat it lightly.

Still, when she and her husband were asked to step out of the room, both of them looked somewhat confused.

“What exactly is this Doctor Ye’s background? He looks way too young. Does he really have a way to prolong the old man’s life?”

Staring at the now-closed ward door, Zhuo Qi could not help complaining, “And why weren’t we allowed to stay as family members? It didn’t look like he was about to perform surgery or anything…”

Yan Xueyun was already troubled enough, and she waved a hand impatiently. “Enough. We’ll know soon enough.”

The two of them waited anxiously in the corridor, expecting it to take a long time. Yet only a few minutes later, the ward door opened again, and Zhuo Yuquan invited them back inside.

That quickly?

The couple exchanged looks, then hurried back into the room.

There on the bed, Yan Jin—who had previously been half-conscious and hanging by a thread—had now opened his eyes again. Even the cloudiness in those old eyes seemed to have become much clearer.

“Father…”

Yan Jin nodded toward her, and there was visibly more life in his aged face.

Yan Xueyun was overcome with grief and joy at once, while Zhuo Qi stared wide-eyed, the way he looked at Ye Yumeng now tinged with awe and ingratiating respect.

And not only them—even Zhuo Yuquan, who had already seen Ye Yumeng’s methods once before, was still utterly amazed after witnessing it again.

As for Director Xiang Hongfu, he wore the expression of a man whose entire worldview had just been shattered.

In fact, after Yan Xueyun and Zhuo Qi were ushered outside, he and Zhuo Yuquan had also been sent to the corner by Mo Yin.

When Mo Yin demanded that they keep the scene that followed confidential, and even swear by beast-blood, Xiang Hongfu had initially felt offended.

However, since Zhuo Yuquan swore without hesitation, and because Xiang Hongfu was simply too curious about Doctor Ye’s medical skill, he ultimately agreed.

And now, after seeing it with his own eyes, he finally understood why Zhuo Yuquan and the others had all been endlessly practicing those strange hand gestures…

Now he wanted to start imitating them too!

How could hand gestures possibly produce such an effective result? What was the connection between the two?

Director Xiang’s worldview was currently undergoing complete reconstruction.

After collecting herself, Yan Xueyun wanted to thank Ye Yumeng, but he lifted a hand and stopped her.

“If Elder Yan’s life is to be maintained, then the treatment has to continue,” Ye Yumeng said, looking at the old man on the bed. “But I have no way to stay here long-term.”

Fortunately, when he used Minor Rejuvenation Technique on this old gentleman who was nearing the end of a natural lifespan, it had not triggered backlash—

Most likely because the golden merit-light on Elder Yan had not yet fully dissipated.

In other words, Elder Yan’s merit-light had shielded him from the backlash, and the old man was also someone of deep blessings and fortune…

However, Ye Yumeng could not possibly remain in East Campus for an extended period.

Something could go wrong on the little rabbit’s side at any time, and it was unrealistic to have him commute back and forth between the two locations every day. As for the shadow talismans…

Those were emergency-use items, and he had no way to produce too many of them in a short time.

So now only one option remained.

Ye Yumeng looked at the family members and said seriously, “I suggest transferring Elder Yan to the Royal Sanatorium. That way it’ll be easier to look after him.”

He had already checked the overland travel time. It would take about seven hours to reach it. Compared to him spending three hours traveling back and forth every day, it was still much more worthwhile to bring the patient back directly.

At that, Yan Xueyun could not help worrying.

“With my father’s current condition, there’s no way he can take an aircraft. And if we go by land, the trip is too long. If anything happens on the road…”

“You don’t need to worry about that. I’ll be there,” Ye Yumeng said.

“As long as I’m there, I won’t let anything happen to him.”

His voice was warm and even, carrying a quiet power that soothed the heart. Yan Xueyun could not help lifting her head to look at him.

Doctor Ye’s face was still covered by a mask, revealing only his eyes.

They were very beautiful eyes, clear as the water of first-melted snow, with an open and steady gaze that held not the slightest hint of evasion or uncertainty.

For some reason, even though this was only their first meeting, Yan Xueyun found herself unable to stop wanting to trust this Doctor Ye.

Their eye contact lasted a little too long.

Standing silently at the side the whole time, Lu Nanzhou could not help narrowing his eyes.

The next second, Zhuo Qi—standing beside Yan Xueyun—suddenly felt as though someone had pushed him. He stumbled and accidentally bumped Yan Xueyun aside, breaking their line of sight at exactly the same moment.

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