How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH51

Chapter 51

Ye Yumeng thought of all the little animals in the activity room and stepped out into the corridor to take the call.

“Uncle Chen, what’s up?”

Chen Limin’s image appeared on the light screen. Just like before, he still had that messy bird’s-nest hair, dark circles under his eyes, and a thoroughly worn-out look on his face.

“Little Ye, you…”

When he saw the doctor’s uniform Ye Yumeng was wearing, Chen Limin paused, then said in surprise, “You really got promoted to doctor?”

Clearly, he had already heard the news too.

“Yeah, I just got promoted today.” Ye Yumeng nodded.

“Congratulations, congratulations!”

Chen Limin broke into a smile. “That’s good news. You really do have genuine skill.”

Ye Yumeng smiled along with him, then asked again, “Uncle Chen, did you need something from me?”

“Oh, that kid Bai Shuo told me—you have a special medical technique that can assist patients with eating?”

Ye Yumeng nodded.

Chen Limin looked at him with shining eyes. “Then can it work for other patients too?”

Strictly speaking, a patient’s diet should be decided by the attending doctor and the nutritionist. Chen Limin really ought not to overstep, but…

He was truly sick to death of mealtimes every single day!

That whole bunch of little ancestors had long since grown tired of nutrient solution. They couldn’t be coaxed, and they certainly couldn’t be hit.

Every day when mealtime rolled around, the activity room turned into complete chaos. The worst part was that they refused to go back to their wards and insisted on staying in the activity center to torment him!

As the person in charge of the activity room, Chen Limin had originally thought this sort of scene—bad enough to make someone have a stroke from anger—would continue until the day he retired.

Who would have thought a turning point would finally come?

Ye Yumeng could assist patients with eating, and even if they consumed normal food, it would not burden their bodies.

How could something this wonderful even exist in the world?

It was practically the perfect solution to a problem that had plagued him for years.

Whether or not Ye Yumeng was these patients’ attending doctor, whether or not it fit the rules, Chen Limin felt he absolutely had to fight for it for the sake of his own physical and mental well-being.

“Although it’s a bit presumptuous to ask…”

“Doctor Ye, would you be willing to come by the activity room every day around lunchtime and assist the patients here with eating?”

“If you’re willing, I’ll go talk to the director and say it was my idea.”

As for those patients’ attending physicians, if any of them dared object, then let them go feed nutrient solution to that group of little troublemakers themselves every day!

Ye Yumeng blinked, a hint of a smile appearing in his eyes.

Helping the cubs in the activity room eat had always been part of his plan.

It was just that those cubs belonged to different attending doctors. Even though he had permission to enter the activity room, there was only so much he could interfere with.

After all, every bit of food the cubs consumed was recorded. He couldn’t secretly feed them the way he could secretly use Minor Rejuvenation Technique on them.

As for having Director Lei grant him direct authority? That would attract too much attention. There were simply too many people involved, and Ye Yumeng still felt it would be better to go about it in a more roundabout way.

So he had started with Bai Shuo and Zhang Zhuyu. With them serving as examples and proving that he really did have this skill, the people who needed it would naturally come to him.

From the looks of it, that strategy had worked.

He nodded and said, “I can, but I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to go every single day.”

Digestive Fluid Generation was different from Minor Rejuvenation Technique. It couldn’t be stored in a shadow talisman, because it required precise control during the process and had to be done by him personally.

That being the case, he could only go when he had the time.

“And there are quite a lot of children in the activity room. I probably won’t be able to take care of all of them in a single day.”

When he heard Ye Yumeng refer to the patients as “the children,” Chen Limin’s mouth twitched slightly.

Still, he knew those patients’ files were all classified, so it was perfectly normal for Ye Yumeng not to know their real ages.

And, honestly speaking, sometimes those regressed patients really were even less mature than children.

Chen Limin was already extremely grateful that Ye Yumeng was willing to help.

He asked, “Just come whenever you have time. As for there being too many people… at most, how many can you assist in one day?”

Ye Yumeng did some quick calculations. He had been on duty in the activity room before, and at that time there had been thirty-five cubs there—plus some who never went to the activity room, so the real number was probably even higher.

Although he really wanted to help them, for someone with only 105 strands of spiritual energy stored, that was simply too many.

After all, besides treating the little rabbit, there was Elder Yan, little Shan Lan, and Shi Hanyu, plus drawing calming talismans. Every day, his spiritual energy was stretched painfully thin.

And Ye Yumeng couldn’t even guarantee that, once he came into actual contact with those cubs, he would limit himself to only assisting with food.

Like when he had seen that little fox and little bear before, he simply hadn’t been able to stop himself from using Minor Rejuvenation Technique on them.

After thinking for a moment, he said, “Maybe about ten more.”

If they lined up, and each cub got assisted once every three days, that would more or less work.

“Great!”

Chen Limin sounded energized. “I’ll go talk to the director. I’ll let you know once there’s a result.”

Then he hurriedly ended the call.

So Ye Yumeng continued on his way to the little snow ferret’s room.

The moment he walked in, the little snow ferret, who had clearly been waiting for him for a long time, immediately became so excited that he started bouncing all over the place.

“Doctor Ye, you’re finally here!” Inside the ward, the little snow ferret wore a voice machine and could use his spiritual power to operate it and speak.

Ye Yumeng smiled and rubbed his little head. Beside them, Dong Qing stood there, looking at the doctor’s uniform Ye Yumeng was wearing, feeling ashamed of his earlier doubts.

“Time to eat.”

“Yay!”

Because there were only two bites’ worth of food, the little snow ferret ate with extraordinary care this time. Holding the chunk of meat in his paws, he nibbled at it bit by bit. The sight was truly adorable.

Unfortunately, there really wasn’t much meat. No matter how carefully he tried to slow down, he still finished it very quickly.

The little snow ferret licked his paws with lingering reluctance. Only after he had licked them spotless did he let Ye Yumeng rub his tummy for him.

Dong Qing hurried over and wiped the little guy down with a wet cloth.

Only then did Ye Yumeng use Digestive Fluid Generation on him, while also mentioning that he might be going to the activity room in the future.

“Tomorrow?” the little snow ferret asked.

“Not sure yet.” Ye Yumeng shook his head. “When the time comes, you and Xiaoyu should go to the activity room too.”

The little snow ferret nodded, just about to say something, when Ye Yumeng’s light brain rang.

It was Huai Yebai.

Seeing that it was the attending physician for the three little ones, Ye Yumeng answered right away, and he didn’t avoid either the little snow ferret or Dong Qing.

But what Huai Yebai spoke about wasn’t related to the three little ones at all.

“Doctor Ye, regarding assisted feeding, another doctor in our core inpatient division is also very interested…”

This doctor was from the sixth floor and happened to be a friend of Huai Yebai’s. After hearing about the matter and the results it had achieved, she had asked Huai Yebai to help make the introduction.

“She also hopes you can help her patients eat. She’s already looking into the application procedure and just wanted to give you a heads-up in advance.”

Huai Yebai added, “Doctor Ye, this technique of yours should probably be developed into a dedicated treatment program, right? As an auxiliary therapy?”

He assumed Ye Yumeng had been specially recruited from caregiver to doctor precisely because of these two unique techniques: assisted feeding and the calming sachet.

Normally speaking, this would certainly be turned into a specialized rehabilitation project so that patients could all receive treatment through it.

Huai Yebai was only putting in a word early for his friend because he hoped they might get in line as soon as possible.

A miraculous rehabilitation method like Ye Yumeng’s was bound to become incredibly popular in the future. Once that happened, getting on the list would be much harder.

But clearly, the truth was a little different from what he had imagined.

Ye Yumeng was the attending physician in the top-floor ward and was now specifically responsible for treating Lu Nanzhou. The sanatorium would never create this kind of rehabilitation program around him.

And Ye Yumeng also knew his own limits. He had no intention of taking on too many private cases.

So he said, “I’ve already agreed with the activity center director that I’ll make time to go to the activity room around noon from now on.”

“I may not be able to go every day, but whenever I do go, I’ll assist ten patients. You can have her talk to Director Chen and sign up for the queue.”

Hearing Ye Yumeng say this, Huai Yebai was a bit surprised, but the goal had still been achieved, so he nodded.

“All right, I’ll let her know. Thanks for the trouble, Doctor Ye.”

“Not at all.”

Ye Yumeng ended the call, then lowered his head and saw that the little snow ferret was looking up at him with watery eyes.

“What’s wrong, Lele? Does your stomach hurt?”

Even though he had been talking to Huai Yebai just now, Ye Yumeng’s hands had never stopped, and he had already helped the little snow ferret digest and absorb the food.

Logically speaking, he shouldn’t be in pain.

But the little snow ferret shook his head. He chirped anxiously and flailed his little paws around. Since the voice machine had already been disconnected, no one knew what he was saying.

Dong Qing quickly translated for him.

“Lele is asking whether he has to line up in the activity room too.”

With a translator now present, the little snow ferret stopped gesturing and instead lightly tugged at Ye Yumeng’s sleeve, gazing up at him pitifully.

Ye Yumeng couldn’t help rubbing his little head and smiling faintly. “No, you and Xiaoyu don’t have to line up. I’ll help you two eat separately.”

That counted as a way of repaying the trust the two little ones had shown him. And besides…

“You only eat a couple of bites anyway, so it’s not troublesome.”

The little snow ferret, who had just started bouncing happily, froze on the spot.

Damn it!

Why was he already at his limit after only two bites? This was way too pathetic!

But after thinking about it for a moment, his eyes turned, and soon he was pleased again.

Bai Shuo was planning to head to the activity room later and proudly share the good news with all his little friends.

Even if he could only eat two bites a day, it was still way better than having to line up and only getting to eat real food once every few days!

After confirming the little snow ferret was fine, Ye Yumeng sent Dong Qing the link to the health Qi-Exercise video.

However, he did not recommend that the little snow ferret practice health Qi-Exercise in real life.

On the one hand, the little guy still couldn’t return to human form, so his movements would definitely be inaccurate. On the other hand, the little snow ferret’s body was still too fragile.

He was worse off than Zhang Zhuyu, and worse off than little Shan Lan too. The kitten might be congenitally weak, but at least he could eat normal food. Compared to him, the snow ferret’s condition was far more troublesome.

“It’s enough if he practices in virtual full-immersion space. At the beginning, don’t overdo it either. Once a day is enough,” Ye Yumeng instructed.

“Understood, Doctor Ye.”

Dong Qing no longer dared question him. Opening the webpage, he asked curiously, “Are all the people checking in for this practice patients from the sanatorium?”

He had noticed Medical Planet IP addresses there, which was why he asked.

The little snow ferret, now perched on Ye Yumeng’s shoulder, poked his head over curiously. Then in the comments, he suddenly spotted an icon that looked strangely familiar.

A memory that had been gradually fading ever since his regression surfaced in his mind.

That person seemed to be… one of his schoolmates from military academy?

Although Yaojin people were only considered legal adults at twenty-five, that was for ordinary civilians. Once someone entered military academy at eighteen and became a soldier, they had to be prepared to be sent to the front lines at any time.

And during the two years since Lu Nanzhou inherited the throne, it happened to be the period when the war between interstellar humanity and the zerg had reached its fiercest point.

So the cadets had been constantly deployed, unable to wait for the day the law officially declared them adults.

Take Bai Shuo himself, for example. Because of his spatial ability, he had been noticed by Lu Nanzhou at just eighteen and pulled straight into Blade Squad.

Many of his former schoolmates had also made illustrious military achievements over the past seven or eight years.

The schoolmate Bai Shuo had just remembered—Yin Hanhui—was one of them. He had heard that after the war ended, Yin Hanhui had not remained in the military, but had instead gone back to the academy as an instructor.

Was working at the academy that easy? Otherwise, how could Yin Hanhui possibly have the free time to learn Doctor Ye’s rehabilitation body technique?

Although Bai Shuo liked Ye Yumeng a lot, his first impression of health Qi-Exercise had actually been about the same as Jiang Quan’s.

This set of body techniques was basically all form and no substance. It looked more like calisthenics, and the exercise volume wasn’t high either. It certainly wouldn’t be useful in a fight, and was probably just suitable for ordinary people to get a little exercise.

So… he was probably remembering wrong, right? Matching profile pictures and IDs was incredibly common online.

“There really are sanatorium patients practicing. This set of health Qi-Exercise can strengthen the body, so it’s very useful.”

After giving that brief explanation, Ye Yumeng felt the little snow ferret tugging at his hair with a paw. Then the little fellow jumped down onto the table, puffed out his chest, and patted it with his paw.

Dong Qing translated in time: “Lele says he’ll practice seriously and check in properly, and you can inspect him anytime.”

Ye Yumeng laughed and reached out to rub the little fluffy head again.

“All right, then. Work hard.”

After that, Ye Yumeng left.

Bai Shuo watched him leave the ward with obvious reluctance. Although he had just eaten, he had already started missing tomorrow’s meat.

Watching the metal door slide shut, the little snow ferret drooped his head, but when he thought of something, he quickly perked back up again.

‘Dong Qing, I want to go to the activity room!’

He was already dying to go find his little friends!

But Dong Qing just shook his head. “You just promised Doctor Ye. No slacking.”

He patted Bai Shuo’s virtual holosim pod. Every Blade Squad member’s room was equipped with one, so there was no need to line up for a turn in the activity center.

“How about learning one round of health Qi-Exercise first?” Dong Qing suggested.

The little snow ferret puffed up his chest like a human.

Just one round a day, and it was such a simple body technique. Compared to the amount of training he used to do, this was nothing at all.

He nodded, lightly leaped into the virtual holosim pod, opened it, and jumped inside.

But after opening the link Dong Qing had sent him, Bai Shuo didn’t rush to start practicing. Instead, he clicked into the familiar-looking profile picture first.

Han Ye Qing Hui

Signature: Half dead but still alive. Do not disturb.

Bai Shuo blinked. It really was that guy Yin Hanhui!

Ignoring the signature completely, he opened a private chat. Since he could speak in StarNet space, he sent a whole string of voice messages in one breath.

Capital Star, Yaojin Ninth Military Academy.

Yin Hanhui was currently following orders from above to draft a new training plan for the cadets. Time was tight, the task was heavy, and there were less than twenty-four hours left before the deadline.

He had heard that this training plan adjustment involved three military academies, all of them among the worst-ranked schools on Capital Star.

And the new orders from above were incredibly strange. All cadets were to train using a body technique no one had ever heard of before—health Qi-Exercise.

Not only that, but they had to practice for more than two hours a day, and continue doing so for two whole months.

When Yin Hanhui had first received the order, he had nearly exploded. This meant that all the training plans he’d been using up until now would have to be scrapped and completely redone.

And the worst part was, this was two hours a day, not two minutes. Whether two hours was enough volume, whether the workload needed increasing or decreasing at other times—it all had to be factored into the training plan.

The key issue was that this body technique had absolutely no relevant data attached to it!

And from the tone of the people above, it sounded very likely that their three bottom-ranked military academies were being used as test sites for this new technique.

If the results turned out good, then fine. But if not… then the cadets’ entire two months of training would basically have been wasted.

They already couldn’t compete with the higher-ranked military academies in terms of student quality. If they now became experimental subjects too, and the results weren’t ideal, the gap would only widen…

Unfortunately, Yin Hanhui was only an instructor, and he had only been in the job a little over a year. He had no right to refuse.

What made it even more infuriating was that his superiors had only given him two days. Within those two days, he had to submit a plan that at least looked reasonable on the surface.

Yin Hanhui hadn’t even had time to complain, much less think about whether those three bottom-ranked schools were being deliberately targeted.

Everything would have to wait until after he finished this damned plan!

At that critical moment, his light brain suddenly started beeping with a string of incoming message alerts.

Yin Hanhui assumed something urgent had happened. But when he opened it—

[Friend “Bai Shuo” sent you 12 voice messages]!

Yin Hanhui: “…”

Looking at the long string of voice-message bubbles, he honestly didn’t have the courage to open them, and he didn’t even want to convert them to text.

He had just been about to ask the chat assistant to summarize them when his eyes landed on the sender’s name—

Bai Shuo.

Yin Hanhui froze.

It was a name that had not appeared in a very long time. Ever since His Majesty had led Blade Squad in the final battle against the zerg and secured ultimate victory…

That team, which had once achieved such tremendous fame, had barely appeared in public at all afterward.

They had kept such a low profile that people couldn’t help but worry—worry that they had suffered losses in the final battle, that they had fallen in the terrifying planetary explosion…

And now that familiar name had lit up again.

Yin Hanhui’s hand trembled slightly. In the end, he couldn’t help opening the first voice message.

“Xiao Huihui, are you really this free during working hours? Sneaking onto StarNet—caught you, didn’t I!”

Yin Hanhui smiled. That familiar feeling—it was definitely Bai Shuo.

So he was still alive, and from the sound of it, not doing too badly?

If it was Bai Shuo, then the middle messages weren’t necessary. Yin Hanhui skipped straight to the last voice message.

“Ah, never mind, I’m not talking to you anymore. Dong Qing is making me go practice health Qi-Exercise.”

Yin Hanhui froze. Bai Shuo… was also practicing health Qi-Exercise?

For Bai Shuo, health Qi-Exercise really wasn’t difficult.

Although the breakdown video lasted a full two hours, he didn’t have that much patience to watch it all. He simply followed along once at normal speed and declared himself done.

Afterward, he immediately had Dong Qing take him to the activity room.

The atmosphere in the activity room was as quiet as ever.

The little animals were chatting on and off through spiritual power, including the members of Blade Squad.

“Why’s Bai Shuo so late today?” the little bear cub asked worriedly.

“I think he said he was waiting for little Caregiver Ye to come feed him something delicious.”

At the mention of “little Caregiver Ye,” the little bear cub and the little fox in the bed next to him exchanged a glance, both looking slightly awkward.

They both remembered the day little Caregiver Ye had stroked their heads and they had instantly fallen asleep.

Honestly, it was kind of embarrassing.

Still, they had discussed it privately and both believed it might be little Caregiver Ye’s special ability. As long as he touched their heads, they could temporarily forget the pain in their bodies and get a peaceful sleep.

That might very well be the reason he had been transferred to the top-floor ward, to His Majesty’s side.

Although they really wanted to experience it again, once they thought about how little Caregiver Ye was now with His Majesty, who clearly needed him more, they were too embarrassed to say anything.

What’s more, Hu Yùnsh?ng hadn’t exactly been very friendly toward little Caregiver Ye before. Even though he’d never had the chance to show that bad attitude to his face, he still felt conflicted inside.

He wanted it, but couldn’t bring himself to ask.

But if that was the case…

Didn’t that mean His Majesty was getting his head stroked by little Caregiver Ye every day?

The moment that thought occurred to them, the two little ones exchanged another look, each suddenly looking a little suspicious.

They seemed to have accidentally discovered one of His Majesty’s secrets!

Meanwhile, the spiritual “group chat” continued.

“Do you think Bai Shuo is telling the truth? Did he really get actual food from little Caregiver Ye?”

No one could answer that question, because none of them had seen it for themselves.

“From what Bai Shuo said, it sounds like little Caregiver Ye got transferred into being a specially recruited doctor. We should probably change what we call him, right? And he was transferred to the top-floor ward too…”

The meaning behind that was obvious, and everyone understood it without saying anything out loud… well, not everyone.

“Then what? He got transferred to the top-floor ward—what’s the problem with that?”

A puzzled voice suddenly joined the “group chat.”

It belonged to the puppy Jiang Yufei. His original form was a Moon Gray Wolf, and after regressing into juvenile form, his intelligence was declining more and more with each passing day.

“Why’d you all stop talking?”

The puppy let out a few whimpering sounds, sounding anxious.

Only the lion-cat Yan Wangshu, who was lying in the bed next to him with his eyes closed in rest, opened his blue-and-gold heterochromatic eyes and looked over to explain.

Receiving a private message from his companion and being given special tutoring, the little puppy finally understood what was going on.

“Ohhh, the top-floor ward is where the boss is! So he probably got transferred to the boss’s side!”

The little puppy wagged his tail. “Then he must be pretty capable, right? Hu Yùnsh?ng and dumb-bear fell asleep the moment he touched their heads before!”

“Probably,” the lion-cat replied.

The little puppy lay on his bed, his damp eyes full of longing. “Little Moon, I want someone to pat my head too…”

The lion-cat glanced at him. Then the palm-shaped doll lying open beside the bed floated unsteadily through the air, drifted over above the little puppy’s head, and lightly patted the top of it.

The little puppy’s tail wagged even harder.

Only then did the lion-cat close his eyes and settle back down again.

At that moment, another hesitant voice sounded.

“If… I’m just saying if… what Bai Shuo said is true, then what do you all think?”

“What is there to think?”

“I mean… meat…”

At the mention of meat, several of them couldn’t help swallowing reflexively.

“But he called us pets before!” grumbled the little honey badger Gu Xingdong, who was sunning himself on the windowsill.

“He didn’t mean it on purpose… He’s from the Xihe Federation, and they don’t have beast forms…”

“But it was still a basic common-sense mistake! That proves he didn’t take his work to heart, otherwise he would have looked into this in advance!”

That argument did make some sense.

“But he already apologized…”

“If he apologizes, I have to forgive him? Hmph!”

The little honey badger lay on the cushion, grumbling and making his displeasure very clear. He was obviously still extremely bothered by being called a “pet.”

“Guys, I’m here!”

At that moment, even before he actually entered the activity room, the little snow ferret had already joined the “group chat” with his spiritual power.

“Guess what good news I brought you all!”

The Blade Squad fighters all instantly perked up. What good news?

“Bai Shuo, did you eat meat again today?”

“Of course I did!”

At that point Dong Qing finally carried the little snow ferret into the activity room.

The moment he came through the door, the ferret could hardly wait. He leaped out of Dong Qing’s arms and deftly bounded up onto the little puppy’s bed.

The little puppy scooted aside to make room so the snow ferret could sprawl there next to him.

“Doctor Ye is coming to the activity room!” the little snow ferret announced excitedly.

“He got transferred back?” the little bear cub’s eyes lit up.

“No. He’s coming back to help us eat! There are ten slots every day, so hurry up and go register with Old Man Chen.”

At that, the little snow ferret puffed up proudly. “Zhang Xiaoyu and I don’t even have to sign up or wait in line. He’ll bring us good food every day.”

“His name is Zhang Zhuyu,” the panda cub corrected him, then asked curiously, “Why don’t you two have to line up?”

“Because… because Doctor Ye likes the two of us!”

the little snow ferret declared shamelessly.

“The two of us… especially me, I’m extremely likable, right?”

The spiritual group chat instantly filled with a chorus of jeers.

At that moment, the door to the activity room suddenly opened, and a clear, lively chirping sound followed right behind it.

“Chirp chirp! Chirp chirp chirp!”

A round little mountain sparrow flew in, making a full loop around the room to announce his arrival, and then landed on top of the panda cub’s head.

“Chirp chirp chirp!”

He bounced around on the panda cub’s head, chirping noisily without pause.

‘You ran into little Caregiver Ye again yesterday?’

The little sparrow chirped back in response.

Then he flew to the lion-cat’s bedside, lightly pecked his nose, and the moment the lion-cat opened his eyes, fluttered away again.

“Chirp chirp chirp!”

The once-quiet activity room suddenly became lively and noisy with his arrival. One bird alone seemed to make as much noise as several birds.

Behind the little mountain sparrow, Du Zhenghang walked in.

He glanced at his mischievous younger brother but didn’t bother controlling him. Instead, he headed toward the corner.

“Caw caw—”

A little peregrine falcon flew over and landed on Du Zhenghang’s shoulder.

“Sister Molly.”

Du Zhenghang turned and greeted her softly. The little peregrine gave a response call, then flapped away again.

Molly’s injuries were lighter than Guang Ye’s. Although she also bore burns on her body, at least she could still fly.

It was just that in terms of speed, she could never return to what she had once been, and now even the little mountain sparrow was faster than she was.

Du Zhenghang sat down beside Guang Ye’s bed.

“Brother Yu…”

Guang Ye lifted his eyelids to glance at him, then shut them again.

Du Zhenghang hesitated over how to start, but in the end he still gathered his courage and cautiously asked, “Your caregiver… is his surname Ye?”

After returning yesterday, he had gone to the Medical Planet website intending to apply to have Ye Yumeng assigned as his younger brother’s exclusive caregiver. But then…

His application had actually been rejected?!

Du Zhenghang was never going to forget the look in Caregiver Wang’s eyes at that moment… especially after he had boasted so confidently, only to be slapped in the face that fast.

So he wasn’t ready to give up so easily.

Within this Royal Sanatorium, when it came to patient rank higher than theirs, the only one Du Zhenghang could think of was the Peacock King Guang Ye.

King-rank was the highest honorary title, and under normal circumstances, it was only awarded after retirement. Yet Guang Ye, the Peacock King, was the only one in the past several hundred years to receive that title while still serving in active military command.

But then, just as he was in his prime, he withered in the final battle against the zerg. Anyone who knew the truth couldn’t help sighing over it—

That honor might have been a curse too.

Because he belonged to the bird clans, and because Du Weiyu was also in the core inpatient division of the Royal Sanatorium, Du Zhenghang knew about the injuries Guang Ye and Molly had suffered.

As for the other members of Blade Squad, he wasn’t familiar with them, so he hadn’t recognized them at all. He had simply assumed they were Guang Ye’s fellow patients.

As for Emperor Lu Nanzhou, he knew nothing.

So when he found out his own rank wasn’t high enough, the first person he thought of was Guang Ye.

Guang Ye opened his eyes again and looked at him oddly.

At that very moment, Ye Yumeng had already returned to the top-floor ward.

“Doctor Ye.” Mo Yin rose and walked toward him.

“Did something happen?” Ye Yumeng instinctively looked toward the little rabbit on the bed.

Mo Yin shook his head. “It’s the Yan family. They’ve fulfilled their promise.”

He took out a tablet and held it out in front of Ye Yumeng. After a few operations, a light screen lit up, and the house Yan Xinglan had promised appeared in midair.

A mansion as magnificent as a castle, an enormous garden filled with flowers and greenery, and even an artificial lake and a landing pad…

Ye Yumeng’s eyes widened.

Memories belonging to the original owner surfaced in his mind, clearly telling him that this wasn’t just a house at all—it was an estate!

“T-the annual management fees and property fees for something like this must be huge too, right?”

Ye Yumeng stammered.

He remembered that property fees in the Xihe Federation were calculated by square meter. It should probably be similar in the Yaojin Empire…

But Mo Yin only smiled faintly.

“You don’t need to worry about that. My employer will cover it for you. All the equipment and maintenance staff on the estate will also be handled by my employer.”

He added, “You only need to focus on doing your best to treat the young master. You don’t need to worry about anything else.”

Ye Yumeng couldn’t help sighing in admiration.

The boss really was generous!

“Take a look. If there’s no problem, just sign below,” Mo Yin said.

“Can you send it to me first? I’ll look it over later.”

“Of course.”

The moment he received the file, Ye Yumeng immediately forwarded it to Lu Qi. He knew that contracts and things like that were always full of traps.

He himself couldn’t understand them, of course—but Lu Qi definitely could!

After forwarding the contract, Ye Yumeng also took the opportunity to mention that Lei Qi wanted authorization to experiment with the calming sachet.

Knowing Lu Qi would need time to respond, after sending the message Ye Yumeng closed the chat window and opened the live feed of the estate instead.

Mo Yin had told him that he could open it anytime he wanted, and could even send commands to control the camera, looking wherever he wished.

So great!

He suddenly felt much more motivated about work.

He watched with relish for a while, then finally closed the feed and went back to work.

He turned on some soothing music on his light brain so the room didn’t feel quite so quiet, then just as he was about to head toward the windowsill, his light brain vibrated again.

[Gan Gan Gan Xiaoyang]: @Yezi Meng, why aren’t you coming to the experiment? Several medical luminaries are involved. I heard all the Xihe caregivers were invited.

It was a message from their little group chat.

[Jingyun Doesn’t Want Yun]: Yeah, how come I didn’t see you, Yezi? Even Gao Hui and the others are here, and they’re so pumped they practically want to float into the sky!

An experiment? Medical luminaries?

Ye Yumeng thought of the experimental study Director Lei had invited him to before. So had it finally begun now?

He wondered what the results would be like. He was also curious whether Gan Xiaoyang and the others would be able to resist the patients’ spiritual and bloodline surges.

Still, with several medical luminaries overseeing things, their safety should be guaranteed.

Seeing Gan Xiaoyang and the others continuing to ask in the group, Ye Yumeng replied.

[Yezi Meng]: Mm, I can’t get away. I heard the project’s bonus is pretty generous though, so good luck, everyone ??(??????????)????

[Gan Gan Gan Xiaoyang]: That’s such a shame!

[Jingyun Doesn’t Want Yun]: Once we get the bonus, we’re taking you out for a huge feast ?? ( ?? ) ??

[Yezi Meng]: ????? ??????

[Yezi Meng]: Sounds good, sounds good!

After chatting with them for a few lines, Ye Yumeng smiled and closed the group chat, then walked over to the windowsill and picked up the red-leaf lotus resting in the corner.

There were three spirit plants total in the little rabbit’s room, and another two in the neighboring Ward 006.

That room had already more or less become Ye Yumeng’s private space. Probably because no one was constantly watching it, the surveillance camera in 006 had been tampered with by Lu Qi and still hadn’t been discovered, which relaxed Ye Yumeng a lot.

So he planned to stay there more or less permanently now, only occasionally going back to his dorm when needed.

“Doctor Ye, is there some problem with this red-leaf lotus?” Mo Yin asked.

Although the spirit plants had all been brought in by Ye Yumeng, it was Mo Yin who usually took care of them, and he had gotten rather attached to the pots of greenery.

Ye Yumeng shook his head. “Nothing wrong. I just want to study it a bit.”

Earlier, he had already considered using the red-leaf lotus to treat the little rabbit. At the time, however, he’d decided to first let the rabbit’s body get used to the spiritual energy the lotus released.

Now that some time had passed and the little rabbit had shown no adverse reaction, it was finally time for the next step in the test.

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