How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH57

Chapter 57

“Are you signing up?”

Inside the activity room, the patients who knew each other well started asking one another.

Of course, some of them looked calm on the surface, but in reality, they were already staring at their nutritional meals and struggling inwardly.

Should they really compromise for just one bite of meat?

Probably the only one who didn’t need to wrestle with this was the little monkey, whose degeneration had gone so deep he had no idea what was happening at all.

Not eating meant not eating! He wouldn’t eat it even if he got beaten!

As for the little falcon, whose execution was absurdly strong, her motto was simple: if your heart is moved, act first.

Before going over to Chen Limin, she specifically had her robot caregiver bring her nutritional meal over.

Then, right in front of Chen Limin and Ye Yumeng, she directly drank down the nutrient solution.

“Old Chen, I want to sign up!”

Seeing how proactive the little falcon was, Chen Limin couldn’t help smiling.

Now that was someone who knew what was good!

“Alright, I’ll put your name down.” In a thoroughly tempting tone, he added, “You’ll be first in line tomorrow. You can be the first one to eat meat!”

“Yay!”

Molly also signed up her little turtle friend, then happily flew back to her bed.

She perched on the stand to rest. Flying around for that long had tired her out a bit, but mentally she was beyond excited.

“I can eat meat tomorrow too!”

“And I’ll be the first!”

Hearing her showing off, the other little animals in the room—who had originally still been hesitating—stopped caring about that.

There were only six slots per day. Now there were only four left. Fast hands got them, slow hands lost them!

They hurriedly started “private messaging” Chen Limin with their spiritual power.

Listening to the noisy clamoring in his ears, Chen Limin directly announced, “Whoever finishes today’s nutritional meal first can sign up first.”

“Old Chen, you’re ruthless!”

“Fine, I’ll eat!”

So the little animals hurriedly changed targets, all demanding their nutritional meals from the robot caregivers, terrified that if they were even a step too slow, someone else would beat them to it.

Ahhh, if they were any slower, they wouldn’t make tomorrow’s list!

Chen Limin was full of emotion watching them. He had been in charge of the activity room for so long, and he had never once seen the patients here so enthusiastic about eating!

He looked over at Ye Yumeng and gave him a thumbs-up. No wonder he had become a doctor—his brain really was quick.

Those who had already received assisted treatment today would still have to queue up again afterward. With Doctor Ye’s rules in place, was there any need to worry that this bunch of little troublemakers wouldn’t obediently eat anymore?

After all, Doctor Ye really could get them meat! Chen Limin had already started imagining his beautiful future.

Ye Yumeng smiled and prepared to leave.

He had treated eight cubs in one go, and he really was tired. His spiritual energy was nearly exhausted now, so he needed to hurry back and recover through cultivation.

Otherwise, if some sudden situation popped up later, he’d have nothing left to use.

“Since they just ate, sleep will help them recover. Don’t wake them,” Ye Yumeng reminded him.

Hearing this, Chen Limin was honestly very curious too.

If two professional doctors hadn’t been watching the whole time, and if the food hadn’t all been provided by the activity room itself, he would have suspected Ye Yumeng had used some sort of medicine on those degenerated patients.

Otherwise, how was it that aside from the little snow ferret and the flower silver mouse, everyone else had fallen asleep?

Especially the little squirrel—she had spiritual disorder, and she was famous for how hard it was for her to fall asleep. Yet now she was sleeping so soundly!

Chen Limin clicked his tongue in amazement, but he didn’t ask further.

No matter what, as long as it was good for the patients and harmless, he felt he could accept it.

After walking Ye Yumeng out of the activity room, Chen Limin was immediately surrounded by little animals who had wolfed down their nutritional meals.

“Don’t rush, line up one by one!”

“Even if you don’t make tomorrow’s list, you can still aim for the days after!”

Chen Limin was grinning so hard he couldn’t close his mouth. It felt like a peasant turning over and finally singing a song of freedom.

Watching this scene, Yan Xinglan had originally wanted to go talk to Ye Yumeng, but for the time being, he dismissed the thought.

Could this Doctor Ye really cure His Majesty?

He recalled his grandfather’s warning. If His Majesty really could recover, then what the lion clan had been doing in secret really wouldn’t be much different from courting death…

As for the two doctors, after confirming that the six little animals really were only sleeping, and that all their data was steadily improving, they also took their leave.

They returned to their respective offices, and after a while, both of them headed—without prior arrangement—to the medical discussion room.

This was where the doctors of the Core Inpatient Division usually gathered to exchange ideas. At the moment, quite a few doctors who had finished lunch were already waiting there.

“So you two actually met that Ye Yumeng?”

“Is he really as young as people in the group say? Becoming a doctor while still underage—can that be trusted?”

News about this “youngest doctor on Medical Planet” had already begun spreading through the sanatorium, and more and more people were learning Ye Yumeng’s name.

Naturally, quite a bit of controversy had sprung up over both the speed of his promotion and his age.

Of course, what more people really cared about was his technique.

“So how did the assisted feeding go?”

“Yeah. Is that special medical art of his really as miraculous as Huai Yebai said?”

Shang Baiqi and Li Ke exchanged a glance, then shared the records and data they had collected with the people present.

After everyone looked through their records, they couldn’t help being shocked.

“The results are actually this good?”

“He really just rubbed their stomachs? Could I try it too…”

Of course, there were still voices of doubt.

“Then why was it that after receiving assisted feeding, all those patients fell asleep one after another? Was there some kind of special medicine in the food?”

At that, Shang Baiqi hurriedly stepped up to explain, “No. We were watching the whole time, and the food was all provided by the activity room. We personally fed it to the patients.”

Li Ke also nodded. “There’s surveillance footage too, and he just got promoted. He wouldn’t go so far as to do something against the rules.”

After all, his duty was only to assist with feeding. Making the patients sleep wasn’t even part of his work scope. There was no need for him to do something so unnecessary.

“Wow, that’s really unbelievable!”

“So the Xihe Federation actually has this kind of technique? I’ve never heard of it before… If I’d known earlier, I would’ve taken leave to go watch.”

Quite a few doctors sighed regretfully, then couldn’t help turning to the only two eyewitnesses to ask for more details.

“What exactly did he do? Some kind of massage? Did you two learn anything?”

“Hurry up and tell us exactly what he did!”

Faced with the crowd’s barrage of questions, Shang Baiqi and Li Ke looked at each other again. After hesitating for a moment, it was Li Ke who spoke first.

“He started like this… then like this, like this… then like this… and finally like this!”

As he talked, he gestured with both hands in a series of bizarre poses. It looked incredibly strange, leaving everyone completely baffled.

What was “like this” and “like that”? Which “this” was which?!

They turned to look at Shang Baiqi, only to discover that she too was standing to the side, recalling and mimicking the hand movements. The two of them looked completely possessed.

This was way too weird, wasn’t it?!

Unfortunately, none of them had permission to access the activity room surveillance footage…

Just then, someone received a message from Chen Limin. Although Chen Limin was taking sign-ups from the patients, the actual decision-making power still lay with the attending doctors.

Whether a patient should receive assisted feeding treatment required the attending doctor’s judgment and signature of approval.

The people who received the message looked at each other, then looked at the information provided by the “possessed duo,” and all began to hesitate.

How about… giving it a try?

Carrying that question in mind, they gradually left. Soon, only a few scattered people remained in the discussion room.

“How about we invite Doctor Ye over for a proper exchange?”

After all, Shang Baiqi and Li Ke really didn’t seem reliable at all! No one could tell what they were gesturing!

But before they could reach any conclusion, Huai Yebai walked in from outside looking dazed.

He sat down in the chair nearest the door and had the robot caregiver pour him a glass of water.

Seeing how absent-minded he looked, everyone naturally became curious.

Shang Baiqi also stopped moving and turned to ask, “What happened? Did the surgery not go smoothly?”

Huai Yebai shook his head and said distractedly, “No, today’s surgery went very smoothly.”

“Then why do you look like that?”

Everyone looked at him curiously.

Huai Yebai took a deep breath, then said, “Do you all remember Shi Hanyu in Room 501? The little lamb.”

“Yeah. What happened to her?”

Because they exchanged information often, everyone had some general knowledge of one another’s patients, and they all more or less knew about Shi Hanyu’s condition.

Not only had she remained unconscious, but her survival probability had also been dropping a little every so often.

Different bad premonitions rose in everyone’s hearts. But before anyone could put on a sorrowful expression, Huai Yebai’s answer rang out in the room.

“She just woke up.”

Ye Yumeng returned to the top-floor ward.

The spiritual energy in the room next door had already been completely used up, so he didn’t go back there and instead went directly into the little rabbit’s room.

After telling Mo Yin to guard outside the room, Ye Yumeng took out the lunch he had brought back from the activity room—

Because the little animals had eaten only meat, the two lunchboxes stuffed full of spirit-plant dishes had ended up benefiting Ye Yumeng instead.

They were probably custom-made, so the ingredients used all came from plant kings.

Ye Yumeng happily finished eating, then used all the remaining spiritual power he had left to cast Minor Rejuvenation on the little rabbit. Only after watching him fall asleep did he sit down cross-legged and begin cultivating.

By the time he opened his eyes again, nearly three hours had passed.

His eyes were shining with rippling light. As the glow gradually drew inward, his whole temperament became even more calm and gentle, yet still brimming with vitality.

Twice today, he had completely exhausted his spiritual power, then rapidly recovered it through eating spirit fruits and spirit plants—and he had actually gained a small breakthrough!

His spiritual capacity had successfully risen to 125 wisps of spiritual qi, and his natural recovery speed had also increased.

His cultivation had finally advanced again!

Delighted, Ye Yumeng jumped to his feet. He eagerly brought up his communicator, just about to share the good news with Lu Qi, when he noticed a missed call.

Shi Yichun.

He blinked. Could something have gone wrong with the spirit-plant procurement?

Ye Yumeng called back.

Very quickly, Shi Yichun’s weathered, world-worn face appeared on the screen. His eyes were red, as if he had just had a huge crying fit, and there were still traces of it on his face.

And yet, the way he looked at Ye Yumeng was unbelievably bright.

Ye Yumeng quickly understood why.

“Doctor Ye, Hanyu just woke up!” Shi Yichun said, overjoyed as he shared the good news.

Ye Yumeng froze.

Then he heard him continue, “Hanyu opened her eyes, and she even called me Dad.”

Not through spiritual communication, and not with the help of a voice machine—she had truly used her own voice to call him Dad!

Although Shi Yichun hadn’t managed to get back in time because he had gone out to buy flowers, and had only heard that “Dad” through the surveillance feed, that alone was already an immense comfort to him.

If the attending doctor and the caregiver hadn’t repeatedly confirmed to him that he was not hallucinating, Shi Yichun really would have thought he had developed some sort of delusion.

“Doctor Ye, thank you! I truly don’t know how I’m supposed to repay you!”

Shi Yichun knew very clearly that the person who had brought such a huge change to his daughter was this ridiculously young Doctor Ye.

“Before, I was shallow and short-sighted.”

With apology and lingering fear in his voice, he said, “You should be shining in the field of medicine. As for planting—leave that to us old men!”

He had actually believed before that Doctor Ye working in medicine was a waste of talent. It was absolute nonsense!

Doctor Ye was clearly a genius in medicine. To possess such incredible methods at such a young age—his future achievements would be unimaginable!

And Ye Yumeng had now recovered his senses as well.

He had expected Shi Hanyu would wake up eventually. After all, hers had merely been a soul-separation case. Once the soul returned fully to the body, waking up would naturally follow.

He just hadn’t expected it to happen so fast. It was probably because the little lamb’s will to live was so strong that the moment there was even a tiny bit of help, she latched onto it firmly.

This really was wonderful news, and it made Ye Yumeng feel deeply encouraged.

She was probably the first patient among all those he had treated to show such obvious progress!

“Uncle Shi, congratulations, congratulations.” He smiled and said, “I actually went to see Hanyu today. Caregiver Ji said you were out… You haven’t gone back yet?”

Only now did Ye Yumeng notice the environment behind Shi Yichun.

Shi Yichun nodded.

“Hanyu was awake for a few minutes, then she fell asleep again.”

When he got the news, he had naturally rushed back immediately, watching his daughter’s condition through the surveillance feed the whole way from inside the car.

After the caregiver repeatedly confirmed that his daughter had only fallen asleep again and had not slipped back into a coma, his rationality gradually returned.

After a long inner struggle, Shi Yichun had ultimately turned the car around and gone back to the flower market.

His daughter was in the Royal Sanatorium. Not only did she have professional staff looking after her, but now there was also Doctor Ye, whose medical skill was astonishing. Shi Yichun trusted that.

And right now, the more important thing was completing the task Doctor Ye had entrusted to him.

With Doctor Ye’s capabilities, he would never have fixated on plant kings for no reason. Since he valued them this much, that meant plant kings were important.

So he couldn’t afford to waste any more time.

He had to find and bring back more plant kings as quickly as possible. Only then could more patients be helped.

He had to finish this task as quickly as possible so he could go back and be reunited with his daughter.

In Shi Yichun’s eyes, this was the only way he could repay Doctor Ye, and the only thing he was capable of doing right now.

Not only was he going to do it—he was going to do it beautifully!

“Doctor Ye, I’m entrusting Hanyu to you!”

Hearing Shi Yichun’s decision, Ye Yumeng’s heart was full of admiration and emotion. As expected of someone carrying merit-light!

Faced with his trust at this moment, there was naturally no reason for Ye Yumeng to refuse.

He nodded and said, “Uncle Shi, don’t worry. Leave Hanyu to me. I’ll take good care of her.”

As long as she was awake, everything afterward would be much simpler.

So Shi Yichun ended the call.

He raised his head and looked at the bright blue sky, as though he could see his departed wife and two sons. For the first time when thinking of them, he wore a joyful smile.

Hanyu had found hope. You can rest in peace now too.

He took a deep breath, then threw himself back into the work of collecting plant kings.

Because of Shi Yichun’s message, after confirming that the little rabbit’s condition was stable, Ye Yumeng left for Shi Hanyu’s room.

When he got there, he unexpectedly ran into Huai Yebai.

“Doctor Ye!” He was visibly excited too.

Because Shi Hanyu had suddenly awakened, Huai Yebai had been investigating the reason behind her improving condition when he discovered a clue—

There had been a major fluctuation in her data, and it had happened on the day Doctor Ye visited her before.

At the time, he had specifically checked it, but hadn’t connected it to Ye Yumeng.

And after Shi Hanyu put on the calming sachet, all her indicators had clearly continued improving. Huai Yebai had noticed that too.

Because the calming sachet had worked so well on Zhang Zhuyu, Huai Yebai had half-pretended not to see it and decided to wait and see what the final outcome would be.

But he had never imagined the calming sachet would be this effective on Shi Hanyu!

After being unconscious for nearly three years, she had actually woken up just like that!

There were quite a few patients in the Royal Sanatorium like her—those who had fallen unconscious after being injured in the war against the insects. If so, wouldn’t calming sachets also have the same effect on them?

Before Ye Yumeng had arrived at Shi Hanyu’s room, Huai Yebai had just been preparing to leave—he had intended to go find Director Lei and demand a calming sachet.

Before other people discovered just how useful the calming sachet was, he had to find a way to get one as soon as possible.

This was absolutely a major breakthrough in medical history!

And now, seeing the person who had brought the miracle, he naturally found it impossible to restrain his excitement. He was so enthusiastic that Ye Yumeng found it a bit hard to handle.

So…

“I just gave Director Lei three calming sachets.”

With that one sentence, he sent Huai Yebai on his way. The man instantly looked full of fighting spirit, his eyes nearly shooting fire.

The moment Ye Yumeng finished speaking, Huai Yebai immediately said goodbye and vanished like a wisp of smoke.

He was so fast. Who knew what kind of beast bloodline he had…

Ye Yumeng came to the bedside and first used qi-reading to check the little lamb’s condition.

That phantom figure had now completely returned to her body, so she was probably only truly asleep now.

Because her soul had long been detached, her body had been unable to eat and could only survive on nutritional supplements. Now she was still wrapped in thick earth-yellow qi, showing severe malnourishment.

But that was a small problem. As long as her consciousness fully recovered, she could slowly be nursed back.

Ye Yumeng formed a hand seal, and a warming art fell onto the little lamb. Now that her soul had returned to its place, she no longer needed Minor Rejuvenation to keep her alive.

And since his calming sachet had already proven effective, even if someone saw him performing techniques now, they probably wouldn’t think he was some kind of freak anymore, right?

For example, Ji Jing was standing right there watching him. Although she looked like she wanted to say something, at least she didn’t stop him.

Still, later on, he really would need to practice casting techniques without hand seals. This kind of spell would likely be used often.

Very quickly, Ye Yumeng withdrew his hands.

The moment he lowered his head, he met a pair of bright black eyes. The little lamb had no one knew when already woken up and was looking at him curiously.

Ye Yumeng paused, just as he was wondering how to introduce himself, when he saw the little lamb’s eyes curve slightly, and she gave him a soft, sweet smile.

“Baa~”

She let out a tiny sound. Her voice was small, sweet, and especially adorable.

Faced with such a little life, it was genuinely hard not to like her.

Ye Yumeng smiled too and gently asked, “Do you recognize me?”

“Mm!”

This time, she answered with a stronger little “mm,” though to both Ye Yumeng and Ji Jing, it still sounded very quiet.

“And what about her?” Ye Yumeng pointed toward Ji Jing.

The little lamb gave another “baa.”

Probably because she had gone too long without using human language. The moment she tried saying anything more complicated, she turned back into baa-ing noises.

But it was very cute all the same!

Ye Yumeng reached out and patted the little lamb’s head. She didn’t resist, only looked at him with wide curious eyes.

“Sleep a little longer. You need proper rest before you’ll have the strength to play.”

Under Ye Yumeng’s soothing touch, the little lamb slowly closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep.

Seeing that, Ji Jing couldn’t help letting out a sigh of relief.

She had been afraid that if the little lamb woke up again, she would start looking for her father. Fortunately Doctor Ye was here and had coaxed her back to sleep.

Even though he looked so young, he really did have some skill!

After walking Ye Yumeng out, Ji Jing returned to the bedside. Out of boredom, she opened the medical staff group again.

There wasn’t much happening in the big Royal Sanatorium group, but in the general public discussion group for Medical Planet, people were actually talking about this Doctor Ye too.

His reputation had really spread throughout the planet in just a single day.

But that was understandable. After all, he was Medical Planet’s first “underage” doctor, and he had completed an unbelievable leap from caregiver to doctor in only one month.

There were definitely quite a few people whose minds had broken because of that.

They didn’t dare say much in the staff groups, but in a giant public chat group like Medical Planet’s public exchange channel, many anonymous users were enthusiastically voicing their opinions.

Seeing some of the skeptical comments, Ji Jing frowned and couldn’t help typing into the group.

PleaseCallMeMissQingqing: I will forever support Doctor Ye!

Naturally, Mo Yin had been paying attention to all the discussions about Ye Yumeng spreading through Medical Planet’s various chat groups.

He simply believed that it was better to channel than to block outright.

When they first hired Ye Yumeng as a specially recruited doctor, they had already considered that this kind of situation might happen, and current developments were still within expectations.

He hadn’t rushed to suppress every skeptical voice. He only deleted the comments that were extremely vulgar or obviously malicious.

Not only were those speaker IDs muted, the people behind them were also noted down for closer monitoring in the future.

Overall, public opinion was still under control.

He would keep the situation restrained and make sure these people wouldn’t affect Doctor Ye.

What was gratifying, however, was that besides the voices of doubt, there were also quite a few people speaking up in Doctor Ye’s defense.

Gold would shine eventually. Even without appearing under the identity of His Majesty’s attending physician, Doctor Ye’s own ability would be enough to shut those doubters up.

However…

Mo Yin glanced again at several posts coming from East District IPs. Although they hadn’t revealed anything directly, they still made him frown slightly.

When Doctor Ye had been undergoing his trial assessment earlier, because time had been tight and they had wanted to avoid leaking word, they had not used Royal Sanatorium patients. That had now become a hidden risk.

Xiang Hongfu, Zhuo Yuquan, Lu Feiguang, and the assistants who had participated in that surgery…

It would be better to transfer them all into the Royal Sanatorium. That way they would be easier to control.

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