The office building of the hospital was silent in the deep night.
The only sound was the rustling of Liu Yuan flipping through files in the archives room.
Suddenly, Liu Yuan tilted her head slightly, put the file back in its place, and sneaked out quietly.
In the office corridor outside the archives room, the sound of light footsteps arose.
The footsteps grew closer and more muffled.
In the dark corridor, the lit archives room stood out prominently.
Creak—
The door of the archives room was pushed open.
A hired security guard stood at the doorway with his hand resting on the holster at his waist.
He glanced down at the door lock of the archives room and took out his gun.
Click!
He cocked the gun.
The mercenary tiptoed into the room.
Xifu City's Tianyu Hospital had existed for quite a while, so the archives room was quite large.
Row after row of filing cabinets extended from the entrance to the end, with potential hiding spots or other things between each row.
The hired gun checked row by row.
In the corridor outside the archives room, a man wearing combat fatigues with two gold stars embroidered on his shoulders stood pressed against the wall, gripping a sharp wolf's fang dagger.
He held his breath, listening intently to the movements inside the archives room.
Suddenly, the man sensed something strange behind his head, poof—
Click!
A mixture of red and white blood slowly dripped down the wall behind him.
......
"Ugh..."
Inside the hospital, a security guard nodded off while on patrol.
The night breeze blew, and he tightened his security uniform, feeling a bit cold.
"Tsk tsk, that girl looked pretty fine today..."
The guard glanced at the women's restroom and mumbled to himself.
Soon after, he reached the office building, tap, tap, tap—
He heard the crisp sound of high heels.
"Who's here so late?"
The guard turned to look, "Whew—"
"Quite a beauty!"
Liu Yuan strolled out of the office building, saw the guard at the entrance, and greeted him with a smile: "Sir, you haven't clocked out yet?"
The guard stared blankly for a moment, then hurriedly said, "Oh, oh! I'm on the night shift!"
Liu Yuan sighed, "Ah! I've been overworking badly these days, it's so stressful!"
The guard grinned, "But you all earn good money!"
Liu Yuan suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, "Sir, was there some commotion at the hospital earlier today? It sounded pretty noisy!"
"Heh, just another medical dispute! It happens every few days."
"Ah? How was it resolved in the end?"
"I don't know, I'm just a temp worker. We just guard the doors, while the hired guns from the security department handle disputes."
"Oh, I see. Well, I'll be going then, sir!"
"Take care!"
"Mmhmm!"
Watching Liu Yuan's swaying figure, the guard felt reluctant, "How did I not notice there were such beauties working at the hospital before?"
"She must be new, damn, those old dogs will harass her for sure!"
Then the guard looked up and saw the light on in the archives room on the third floor. He said suspiciously, "Someone's still working this late at night?"
A moment later, in the corridor on the third floor of the office building, the guard noticed the man leaning against the wall.
As soon as he saw this person, the guard smiled ingratiatingly and greeted him, "Hey! It's Brother Hu on duty today!"
However, the "Brother Hu" the guard addressed paid no heed and remained motionless, leaning against the wall.
The guard awkwardly shrugged it off. He sniffed and caught a faint whiff of a metallic, bloody smell in the air.
The guard didn't think much of it—it was common to smell blood in this hospital.
Sometimes, a rancid odor would even emanate from some corner, and upon investigation, a decomposing corpse would be found.
The guard peeked into the archives room and saw a hired gun standing still, leaning against a row of filing cabinets.
His posture was similar to the man outside.
The guard joked, "Hey, in the middle of the night, you two from the same department are really creative, leaning against opposite walls and competing in brooding!"
"The poses are practically identical, heh!"
As the guard turned to leave, he suddenly looked down and noticed a long streak of blood seeping out from the floor of the archives room.
"Oh shit?!"
The guard was so startled that he jumped back, and rushed to push the "Brother Hu" leaning against the wall in the corridor. But then...
The guard seemed to hear the sound of something springing, snap!
A splatter of blood hit his face, and immediately after, Brother Hu collapsed to the ground.
It was only then that the guard noticed the long streak of red and white blood dripping down the wall where Brother Hu had been leaning.
At the spot where Brother Hu's head had rested against the wall, a bloodstained plastic bubble tea straw protruded straight through from the other side.
The guard finally realized that the springing sound he had heard earlier came from that half-exposed plastic straw on the wall.
The next second, the guard felt his legs go weak.
He practically squatted down and made his way into the archives room, peering towards the spot on the wall where Brother Hu had been leaning.
A dark hole in the wall.
The guard was dumbfounded, "The wall is so thick, and the straw is so short, and it's plastic... how did it get inserted like that..."
He then turned to look at the hired gun in the archives room, and the manner of death made sense.
A bubble tea straw of the same type had pierced straight through the man's brow and into the metal filing cabinet behind him.
The guard swallowed hard, trembling as he took out his phone and dialed a number.
"Hello?"
"Director Liu, there are more casualties in your department, come take them away quickly..."
......
At the Donglai Hotel in Xifu City.
In the room, Liu Yuan organized her thoughts and then called Lu Yuan.
"Boss, this deal is a big one, I need some backup."
Lu Yuan's calm voice came through the receiver, "How much?"
"A decent amount, around two hundred thousand."
"Didn't you say you'd give me a discount?"
"Yeah, even with the discount, it's two hundred thousand."
"You're really letting yourself go, huh? Did you forget you're a medical professional?"
Liu Yuan hurriedly explained, "Boss, listen to me!"
"You don't know how despicable this hospital is!"
"The doctors at this hospital have been selling normal people's organs to Ability users at exorbitant prices!"
"The entire hospital, from doctors to nurses, from procurement to storage to distribution, each step is clearly divided, and no one's hands are clean!"
"This whole operation has become systematized!"
"And none of the people involved in medical disputes have ever made it out of this hospital alive!"
Liu Yuan said, and the line went silent for a moment.
After a while...
"Liu Yuan..."
"Yes, boss?"
"You've got some nerve, who are you implying something about here?"
"Looks like you've been unhappy with me for a while now."
Liu Yuan: "..."
"Boss, let me explain—"
Beep!
The line had been hung up.
Looking out the window, Liu Yuan felt the night breeze of Xifu City...
was rather chilly.
......
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
't think I'm that capable, I'm just trying my best to stay alive. I've been kind all my life, never did anything bad, yet worldly suffering spared me not one bit. The human world is a nice place, but I won't come back in my next life. A kind young man, who wanted to just get by singing, but through repeated deceits and betrayals, has gone down an irredeemable path.
y came from. The chests contained supplies, currency, class-change scrolls, skills, talents… and even godhood! The laws of the world were completely rewritten. This became a world where everyone gambled with their fate! Some people, despite having nothing, opened a divine artifact and rose to the top, eventually ruling the world. Others went bankrupt, opened nothing but worthless junk, and leaped from skyscrapers in despair. Lin Ye arrived in this world from another reality, utterly bewildered. “What is going on? Why is everyone a gambling addict?!” “Opening chests? No way. I refuse to gamble. I’ll start with myself!” Until— On his first chest, he obtained a Mythic Talent: Void Incarnation! He could become completely intangible, pass through all things, and reduce everything to nothingness! … On his fiftieth chest, he obtained a Mythic Weapon: Blade of Karma! With a single slash, karma shattered, twisting the universe and overturning the myriad phenomena of creation! … On his ninety-ninth chest, he obtained a Mythic Divine Treasure: Primordial Purple Energy! It could split open the heavens and earth, create all things, and evolve countless worlds with a single thought! Lin Ye: “Now that I think about it… shouldn’t someone have told me that every chest is guaranteed to contain something Mythic?!”
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
