Interstellar Super Doctor

Chapter 50 Part 1 Brain death

Hearing that, Xiào Mu looked at Leo and inexplicably felt a little embarrassed. At this moment, his terminal vibrated. It is a call from Zhao Meng.

Upon connected, Zhao Meng’s voice sounded vaguely excited, “Xiao Mu, a guide just contacted our company. The sample medicine will be delivered to the company in about half an hour. Where are you? I’ll send it to you later.”

According to Delish’s procedure, any guide who intends to sell their medicine on consignment needs to courier a sample of their work to the company. After the company determines the efficacy of the medicine, they will set the price. If the other party agrees with the price, the medicine will be officially put into the store for sale.

“No need,” Xiào Mu glanced at Leo, secretly sighing that the call came in time. He got up and said, “I will go back to the company immediately.”

Leo’s expression looked calm and he doesn’t look like he suffered any shock. Instead, Leo even secretly felt delighted because of Xiào Mu’s reaction. He sent Xiào Mu to the office building and left in his aircraft after Xiào Mu entered the building.

Not long after Xiào Mu arrived at the company, the sample medicine arrived. Xiào Mu took the medicine in his hand and immediately detected the effect: [Instantly recovered 500 spiritual power, with an interval of two hours between use.]

“Recover 500 points, the price is 2,000 star coins.” Xiào Mu stood by Zhao Meng’s desk and said.

Zhao Meng relayed Xiào Mu’s words to the other party. After a while, Zhao Meng raised his head, “Xiao Mu, he wants to ask about medicine-making.”

As Zhao Meng said that, he expanded his virtual screen and the conversation between him and the other party is immediately shown in front of Xiào Mu. Xiào Mu read it and said, “Let him record the process of his medicine-making and send it over.”

Zhao Meng passed the message to the other party. When he looked at Xiào Mu, his eyes lit up slightly, “Hawke has recently increased his spiritual filaments. Also, he is going to try to use spiritual power to make medicine.”

Xiào Mu smiled and said, “Hawke has studied about medicine before, so he learned much faster than guides who only recently came into contact with medicine-making at the Golden Tower.”

When Zhao Meng heard the words, he also smiled. His terminal vibrated, and the other party’s video is transferred over. He clicked on it and watched the video with Xiào Mu. After the video is finished, Xiào Mu pointed out the other party’s shortcomings. When he finished speaking, Zhao Meng had already typed out what he said without missing a word and sent it to the other party. The other party replied with a ‘thank you’. There is no further response after that.

Xiào Mu watched the video again. The other party used a common basic medicine formula, which is completely different from the materials he used for medicine-making. Xiào Mu began to consider that if he got the free time, he will study the formula. If he can improve the system’s prescription and the existing formula in the empire, maybe there will be unexpected discoveries.

Since Zhao Meng’s side didn’t need his help anymore, Xiào Mu went to the outside hall and checked the appointments for sentinels’ spiritual treatment. Looking at the progress of his system skills, Xiào Mu is not satisfied with it. Treating 20 people per day is too slow. He thought for a while and asked Xiaojin to send a message to the sentinels whose appointment is in later days, and asked to advance their appointment time. If the person is not free at that time, then the person can follow their original appointment time. From now onwards, Xiào Mu will increase from 20 people to 50 people every day according to the original schedule. In fact, treating 20 people a day is an exaggeration, let alone 50 people. But today he has already caused a sensation online. ‘When there are too many lice, he is not afraid of the itching anymore’. No point worrying too much about other things, becoming stronger is the priority. After importing the information to Xiaojin, Xiào Mu thought for a moment and contacted the construction company. He wanted to install an air purification system plus an odor isolation system for his company. In this way, he can use his free time to make medicine in the office at any time, which will save time.

At 3.00 pm, Xiào Mu returned to his apartment and went directly to the medicine-making room to do research. Not long after, Ah Da called him at the door and said someone came to visit. The person here is Bach, the grandson of the 4th Army major general. Bach is a sentinel with a spiritual power only at Level C. He directly indicated his intention and wanted Xiào Mu to help him break through. After he finished speaking, people from the 3rd Army also came to visit. Then, people from the 6th, 7th, and 8th Army arrived, all with the same purpose.

Xiào Mu had a headache and directly refused, “Everyone has a different tolerance to pain. One might get killed by the pain in just a few minutes, which is very dangerous.”

However, those who came said that they didn’t mind. Bach looked fearless and full of the desire to become stronger, “I can hold on. I have watched the live broadcast. With your help, there will never be a problem.”

Xiào Mu frowned, “That is just good luck. Spiritual power is the same as physical strength. As long as you train hard, you can become stronger. The strength you obtained by breaking through using shortcuts is not as good as those who trained hard.”

Bach’s eyes opened widely as he said, “I don’t care. You said it so simply but do you know how much time it takes to break through a level with training? I can’t wait for that so please help me. As long as you agree, the reward is up to your request.”

“Me too, any requests are acceptable.” The rest of the people in the living room hurriedly spoke, looking at Xiào Mu expectantly.

Xiào Mu’s face darkened slightly and he rejected, “I can’t give my promise. The process is very dangerous. I can’t guarantee the safety of the person who wants to break through. Please leave.”

“I don’t care. I won’t go back as long as you don’t agree. Or I can just take medicine in front of you. Then you will have to help when I am about to die.” Bach raised his chin stubbornly.

Xiào Mu hated being threatened the most. He said with a cold face, “It’s none of my business if you want to die, but please do it somewhere away from here and don’t dirty my place.”

The other people didn’t say anything, they just looked at Bach in silence. As long as Xiào Mu loosen his stand, their goal would be easy to achieve.

Bach’s nostril flared twice, “You!” Just then, an intermediate low-grade healing pill appeared in his hand. Bach swallowed it and said, “My grandfather is a general of the 4th Army. I think you won’t dare to let me die, AHH…” Before Bach finished speaking, he cried out painfully and fell to the ground from the sofa, holding his head.

Just when Leo entered the hall, he heard Bach’s threatening words. He knew what had happened when he saw the situation and walked to Xiào Mu’s side with a cold expression. Xiào Mu glared at Bach, he felt particularly angry, and his breathing became heavy with the emotional change.

Leo coldly watched Bach rolling on the ground, and then looked at Xiào Mu comfortingly, “Don’t be afraid, it has nothing to do with you.”

Leo’s voice is steady and Xiào Mu glanced at him. Calming down, Xiào Mu responded in a low voice, “En.”

Xiào Mu looked at Bach’s red and blue bars and couldn’t help but sneer. Bach’s spiritual power was at 6500/6500. But Bach took the pill to restore 3,000 spiritual power. In short, to suddenly increase his spiritual power to more than 9,000 points, Bach is simply seeking death.

Leo looked at Bach coldly and motioned to Ah Da, “Throw him out, and make sure to throw far away.”

“Major General Leo,” a major general of the 7th Army said suddenly. “That’s not good. If old General Bach knew about this, I’m afraid the 4th Army will get into conflict with the 1st Army.”

“Conflict?” Leo sneered. “I can’t ask for more!” At least, they can save time from making more trouble as an excuse (to seek conflict).

A major general of the 8th Army stopped Ah Da, “Don’t be stupid. You are the guard assigned to the god-level guide but Bach did not endanger his(XM) safety. If Bach is thrown out by you and something happens, you have to pay full responsibility.”

Ah Da’s face looked fierce as he replied, “Military orders are absolute.”

Ah Da is about to stretch out his hand when Xiào Mu said, “Ah Da, don’t move him.”

Suddenly, everyone’s eyes fell on Xiào Mu. The rest of the army group had their eyes shone slightly. Xiào Mu is about to give in!

Xiào Mu looked at Bach blankly and waited for Bach’s spiritual power to almost drop to 0. Then he used Pin Hold skill, and then said to the others, “Raise a barrier on yourself.”

Xiào Mu’s spiritual filaments reached out but he didn’t bother with the filaments that exploded due to Bach’s excess spiritual powers, nor the filaments that suddenly appeared and withered. Instead, he simply straightened out those filaments that got tangled into a ball. Before long, Bach gradually calmed down. His uniform shirt is completely soaked with sweat, and his pants got crumpled by his movement when he was in pain; looking particularly haggard. Bach got up from the ground, and the major general of the 7th Army couldn’t help asking, “How is it?”

Bach closed his eyes and felt for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes. His eyes turned red and he glared at Xiào Mu, “How is this happening? Why am I still at Level C?” He is clearly C-rank at first!

Xiào Mu: “You should feel thankful that you are still alive and didn’t drop straight to Level E.”

Xiào Mu knew in his heart that Bach’s biggest problem is he tried to jump too much ahead, which his original spiritual filaments are forced to grow and exploded a lot, resulting in irreversible damage to his original spiritual power. In fact, Bach only dropped from 6,500 to 5,500 points, which is already very lucky. But Xiào Mu won’t tell them that. If the truth is told, someone will definitely do the same thing as Bach, but calculate the value better next time.

“No, it’s impossible,” Bach’s eyeballs bulged, “Did you deliberately not help me?”

Xiào Mu coldly said, “I start to regret not letting you die deliberately.”

Bach thought of his reduced spiritual power. He is originally the weakest among the grandchildren generation of the army generals. But now, he ended up even further behind the others. Bach shook his head in despair, “I don’t believe it!”

Bach moved to grab Xiào Mu’s arm, but Leo stepped forward to stop him. Leo pushed him back and Bach staggered a few steps then hit the wall.

Xiào Mu ignored Bach and looked at the others, “I already said that breakthrough is very dangerous, the chance of success is very low, and the more likely result is death and irreversible damage to spiritual power.” He helplessly said, “The medicine is sold publicly. If there is no danger, why do I need to specially come out with a measuring device for testing? Doesn’t that look like I have too much free time in my hand?”

Some people in the army groups felt very reasonable when they heard the words. Although they were very agitated with the thought of breaking through, getting a downgrade is a more serious blow to them than death, and they did not dare to try it lightly. Some people’s expressions changed a little, as they doubted that Xiào Mu didn’t try to help at all. But that thought made them even more afraid to speak. Xiào Mu’s attitude is very obvious and he didn’t want to help. If Xiào Mu can really control the result, then there is almost only 1 result from trying the stunt again, and that is downgrading. At that time, they won’t be able to blame anyone. After all, Xiào Mu would be considered saving their life. In the end, the people from various armies stood up and said goodbye. Bach looked at Xiào Mu unwillingly and left angrily.

Xiào Mu sighed lightly and leaned back on the sofa. He asked Leo, “Say, do you think there will be anyone else who wants to try that again?”

Leo: “No. No sentinel can afford a downgrade.”

Xiào Mu smiled and said, “That’s great.” Then he helplessly added, “I thought it would take at least a few days before someone came to the door, but I didn’t expect them to be so fast.” When Xiào Mu knew that the process of him helping b to break through was broadcast live, he knew that this would happen.

Leo smiled sarcastically, “It’s nothing more than weakling worrying about being left behind.”

Xiào Mu looked at Leo curiously and asked, “Have, have you ever thought of doing the same?”

Leo raised his eyebrows, “Do I need to break through? Level only determines the starting line. Training is the root of becoming stronger. Even with people with a higher level than me, I have the confidence to defeat them.”

Leo has no expressions on his defined face, his eyes are focused, and he looked confident. Xiào Mu looked at Leo and had to admit that he is an excellent sentinel. Xiào Mu smiled and said, “If everyone thought the same as you, these things wouldn’t happen.”

Leo: “If you don’t like it, just refuse them from coming in.”

Xiào Mu spread his hands, “They are all military officials, so it’s hard to refuse them.”

“There is nothing wrong with it, as long as you like it.” Leo didn’t care about those minor matters.

In his heart, Xiào Mu thought it must be because of his family background that this person can do whatever he wanted without hesitation! Then he thought about what happened after Leo’s confession and felt his heart moved slightly. Leo has restrained himself a lot in front of him(XM).

Chapter 50 Part 2 Brain death

Just as Xiào Mu is thinking about it, his terminal suddenly vibrated. It is a message from Ren. He is a little surprised and opened the message. After that, Xiào Mu looked slightly stunned.

“Xiào Mu, I need your help. Please come to the apartment. Don’t let Leo know.”

“What’s the matter?” Leo realized that Xiào Mu’s expression looked wrong, and thought he saw there is a hint of helplessness.

Xiào Mu recovered to his sense and closed his terminal quickly, worried about being seen by Leo. His heart sank slightly because considering Ren’s attitude, something big must have happened. Xiào Mu replied, “It’s nothing.”

When Xiào Mu is thinking about how to let Leo leave naturally, Leo received a call from someone. Frowning, he then hung up and said to Xiào Mu, “I have to leave now. Contact me if something happened.”

The communication arrives so timely that Xiào Mu suspected that Ren did something. He forced a smile and said, “En.”

When Leo left, Xiào Mu found that his guards almost looked down at the same time at their terminal. After reading it, Ah Da looked at Xiào Mu and asked seriously, “When will we leave?”

Xiào Mu: “Now.”

On the aircraft, Xiào Mu couldn’t help but whisper, “What instruction did you just receive?”

Ah Da: “First-class secret, and it is strictly forbidden to spread it outside.”

Xiào Mu’s expression becomes thoughtful and he asked, “Do you also need to keep it secret from Leo?”

Ah Da: “En.”

Xiào Mu suspects that Leo is the one person who they really need to keep secret from. After all, this is the feeling Ren gave him from his message. Soon, their aircraft landed in Louis’s apartment and Xiào Mu walked into the living room. When Xiào Mu saw Ren, his heart tightened. Ren’s face looked haggard, his eyes are red, and his body is full of sadness.

As soon as Ren saw Xiào Mu, he quickly greeted Xiào Mu and calmed his mind. He asked Ah Da and the others to stay outside the door and took Xiào Mu to his bedroom. At the door, he paused before opening the door. A person is lying on the bed in the bedroom, and various medical instruments are placed around the bed. At the end of the bed is a display device. In front of the display device stands a middle-aged doctor, who is the famous spiritual power expert in the empire, Qiao.

Xiào Mu had a bad feeling about this. He stepped forward, clenching his fists heavily, and saw Louis lying on the bed. No wonder Ren’s expression looked so bad. Qiao looked very serious and turned his head to look at Xiào Mu to explain, “Lieutenant General Louis suffered a strong mental attack on his mind. At the critical moment, his mind entered a suspended animation state. However, this state is very dangerous and may cause him to be brain death at any time.”

As Qiao said that, he looked at Ren who has a pale face, “Marshal, you need to rest.”

Ren shook his head and solemnly said to Xiào Mu, “I have to depend on you, please tell me whatever you need.” He paused, “Don’t be under too much pressure, just do your best.”

Xiào Mu nodded, “I will try my best.”

Walking to the left side of the bed, Xiào Mu looked at Louis and frowned. At this moment, Louis’s red bar has almost turned entirely black. It’s a black color that makes people feel very uncomfortable, and the edges of the bar seem to be foggy. Only about 1/20 of the length of the red bar is in dark red. The remaining value of Louis’s spiritual power is 1, and it keeps flickering. Xiào Mu suspects that when the red bar turned black, Louis will be dead. He immediately used Pin Hold skill on Louis. The buff icon is displayed under the red and blue bars. However, after 15 seconds, the remaining value of the bars has not changed at all. His skill seems like a drop of water falling into the sea, no effect can be seen. He used Pin Hold in a row, but still no effect.

Xiào Mu turned his head to Ren and said, “Marshal, I need the sentinels with Level AA and above around the apartment to raise a spiritual barrier around them.” He knows that many of Ren’s guards are high-level sentinels. If they got attracted by their high match rate, the sentinels will affect him during spiritual treatment.

Ren: “It’s okay, I have installed a quantum isolator in my bedroom, and I will go out temporarily.”

Xiào Mu nodded, Ren went out and closed the door. Qiao stood in front of the display and said, “If the situation is not right, I will remind you.”

Xiào Mu made a sound of acknowledgment. Then he stretched his spiritual filaments and entered Louis’s spiritual state. Although Louis is an ordinary person, his spiritual power is not weak. When Xiào Mu saw his current spiritual state, he couldn’t help gritting his teeth. Generally, one’s spiritual state is constructed by spiritual filaments. Under normal circumstances, the filaments will be glowing with white light and appear full of vitality, but Louis’s spiritual state is dark, with only a few gray filaments in the center. Xiào Mu released all his filaments and wrapped them around those dark filaments. Then he transmitted his spiritual power over until the system reminded him that his spiritual power is less than 20%.

Louis’ spiritual state is still black, but the dark shade looked fainter and faded. Xiào Mu’s heart is slightly relaxed; at least something has changed. He retracted his filaments and checked the condition of Louis’s red bar. The remaining value is still 1, but the length of the black color was reduced by about 1/20, and the dark red color increased accordingly. According to this calculation, Xiào Mu needs to do 18 more spiritual treatments to restore the entire bar to dark red. However, the color would be dark red, not the normal red color.

“How is it?” Qiao asked hurriedly upon seeing Xiào Mu move.

Xiào Mu answered, “I can help but it takes time,” he looked at the display and asked, “has the display changed?”

Qiao shook his head, “No, but the situation earlier was Louis getting progressively worse. It’s a good thing that it stopped.”

Xiào Mu’s expression slightly relaxed. He took an intermediate low-grade healing pill to restore 3,000 spiritual power and kept using Pin Hold on himself. After his spiritual power became full, Xiào Mu went to treat Louis again. After repeating this 3 times, and Xiào Mu’s mind felt sluggish, he stopped the treatment.

Xiào Mu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The effectiveness of all his tries is the same. If this treatment continues, Xiào Mu just has to repeat the process 3 times a day for about 6 days and the red bar will turn dark red. Only for these days, he probably has no way to make more medicine, and he can barely treat 50 appointments. Xiào Mu rubbed his forehead, “I will come again tomorrow.”

Qiao looked at the display screen, his eyes gleaming when he raised his head, “Can I use a quantum instrument to observe your treatment process?” He paused and hurriedly added, “Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone about it.”

Xiào Mu thought for a while, “Sure.” He didn’t do anything special anyway. He just connected their filaments together to transmit his spiritual power.

Getting the approval, Qiao is full of joy, “I’ll let someone bring the equipment over.”

Xiào Mu smiled and walked out of the room tiredly. Ren was leaning against the wall. He turned his head when he heard the noise, and his voice trembled with an imperceptible tremor, “Can, can he be saved?”

Xiào Mu sighed in admiration regarding Ren’s feeling for Louis, and smiled comfortingly, “Marshal, don’t worry. He can be saved, but it takes time. I will temporarily suspend my medicine-making, and shorten the treatment time of my appointments as much as possible. Then, I will come here every day.”

Hearing that, Ren became stunned. He lowered his head abruptly and pinched the bridge of his nose. It took a long time before he recovered his composure. Ren stood up straight and seriously said to Xiào Mu, “Thank you!”

Xiào Mu said, “Marshal, you are too polite. I am also very happy to be able to help.” He hesitated for a moment, but still asked, “Will you keep hiding it from Major General Leo?”

Ren sighed, “I probably can’t keep it under wraps for long.”

Ren felt fortunate in his heart. If Louis cannot be saved, he had to tell Leo immediately. On the other hand, if Louis can recover quickly, he will keep this hidden. Although Louis is saved now, the treatment takes time so he can’t keep it from Leo for so long.

Xiào Mu puzzledly asked, “Leo must be very worried about Lieutenant General Louis too, so why didn’t you tell him?”

Ren explained, “Do you remember when Greene disappeared? We have always known that there is a transition point there, but even after moving inside for 10 minutes, we still can’t find an exit. We speculated from Greene’s experience that there must be an exit there, so Louis is trying again. This time, about half an hour after entering the jump point, he was attacked.” He paused before saying, “Except for Louis, no one knows what happened, but he is very likely to be close to the exit. Obviously there is a huge danger there. If Leo knew about it, he would definitely go there to check it out personally… 20 years ago, both Leo’s father and dad disappeared in there.”

That information caused Xiào Mu to be stunned. When he read about Leo’s information online, he had seen photos of Leo’s parents. The two were a strong sentinel-guide combination. His father was an army general while his dad is a guide with Level A spiritual power. He had never seen or heard anyone mention Leo’s parents, so he thought they were stationed elsewhere.

Sighing, Ren continued, “At that time, Leo was super agitated. He went around searching frantically and fell into a mental mania. It took a long time for him to be completely healed. After that, Louis took over the search and did not allow Leo to intervene.”

Xiào Mu understood what happened now. Thinking about Leo’s temperament, Xiào Mu also felt a little anxious and asked, “What to do now? The situation there is unknown. If Leo went to check, it will be very dangerous for him.”

Ren replied, “After you two came back from Planet Ba, I have ordered the research of instruments to resist the spiritual power attack, but time is too tight, and there is no progress at the moment. Without enough preparation, I will not let Leo take the risk.” He thought for a while and said, “I need you to help me persuade him.”

“Me?” Xiào Mu is startled.

Ren showed a smile, “I know what’s on that kid’s mind. I have never seen him care about a person so much, and even restrained his nature a lot. You can persuade him.”

Xiào Mu’s face turned red, Ren asked again, “Can you help?”

Xiào Mu embarrassedly replied, “I’ll try.” He is not sure whether he could persuade Leo, but just as what Ren said, Leo will rush forward recklessly, which is too dangerous.

…

Leo got inexplicably called out by Lyle for something important, but in the end, there weren’t any important matters. Lyle simply called him out because he said it has been a long time since them brothers went to relax together. Fearing that Leo would not agree, Lyle made an excuse. Hearing that, Leo’s expression turned ugly, but he gave face and didn’t leave on the spot. Hence, Leo got dragged by Lyle to play ball one-on-one, but the more he played, the more he found something is wrong. Lyle frequently zones out during the game.

“Go back to the nursery school to practice skills before you play with me again,” Leo sneered. Spinning the ball on his fingertips, he flipping his wrist and tossed the ball aside. “Say, what do you want to ask for help? It’s not your style to beat about the bush.”

Lyle reluctantly curved his mouth and said, “I’m fine, why do I need your help?”

Leo looked at Lyle suspiciously. Suddenly thought of something, he contacted Ah Da. Ah Da replied saying that Xiào Mu is still in his apartment. Then he asked if anyone is visiting Xiào Mu, but Ah Da said no.

“Did you get someone from the 2nd Army to ask Xiào Mu to help break through?”

Lyle’s mouth twitched, “No, I’m not interested.”

Leo didn’t believe it. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Lyle had deliberately distracted him away so as to let others take the opportunity to find Xiào Mu. So he warned Lyle, “He doesn’t like it, and no one can force him.”

Lyle raised his hand, “I know you treasure him, who dares to force him?!” Lyle picked up the ball and said, “Go on.”

Leo’s terminal vibrated. Leo waved his hand, connected the call. Then, his expression became more and more ugly. After hanging up, he turned to look sharply at Lyle.

Lyle got taken aback. He blinked and acted innocent, “What’s the matter?”

Leo didn’t answer. He summoned Ying directly and drove the mecha to the apartment. Lyle hurriedly sent a message to Ren, “Marshal, the secret seems to be exposed.”

Ren calmly replied, “I just told him.”

Lyle: “…”

There is no good person in the Arnold family!

Even though Lyle thought this way, he hurried to Louis’s apartment as well. His expression became more and more serious. Since the Marshal decided to tell Leo about the secret, does that means Lieutenant General Louis cannot be saved?