A man in a black trench coat stood in the reception hall, surveying the clinic before him.
Originally, after receiving the message from headquarters halfway, he didn't want to come in.
But since he had already come, he thought he might as well take a look.
The news that the medical staff of Xifu City's Tianyu Hospital were slaughtered by a sudden outbreak of a minor Spirit Storm was truly horrifying.
But thinking about it, a slight smile appeared on the man's face.
After this, Xifu City's Tianyu Hospital would need to be rebuilt, and wouldn't they have to rely on people like himself to help them find new doctors?
Though the clinic before him wasn't very big and looked quite shabby.
The reception hall's door was broken and not repaired, and outside hung an unsightly, clumsy-looking scarecrow.
But none of that mattered, as long as there was a doctor or nurse in this clinic, he could introduce them to Tianyu Hospital and earn a commission.
At that moment, the night nurse Lin Youyou came over, "Hello, how can I help you?"
Seeing Lin Youyou's beautiful face, the man's eyes lit up.
He didn't expect to find such a pretty nurse at this rundown little clinic.
With this nurse alone, his trip wasn't a waste!
"Hello, my throat is a bit uncomfortable."
Lin Youyou smiled, "This is a surgical clinic, but the doctor can take a look at such symptoms. Please come with me."
With that, Lin Youyou led the man to Lu Yuan's consultation room.
"Please wait a moment, the doctor will be here shortly."
"No problem, take your time!"
Lin Youyou smiled and left after indicating.
Suddenly, the man was alone in the consultation room.
It was already past 10 PM, and the entire clinic was quiet.
In Lu Yuan's consultation room, only the clock ticking on the wall made any sound.
The man turned to look behind him; the consultation room door was open, pitch-black outside.
Looking back at the pale light inside the consultation room, suddenly, the man felt a chill.
He began hoping the doctor at this small clinic would come soon.
However, listening closely, there was not a single sound besides the ticking clock - not even footsteps.
This extreme silence made the man's discomfort grow slightly.
He began examining the room in front of him, trying to make time pass quicker.
In front was a desk with some file folders, a cup, a surgical knife with only the handle, an opened bag of milk bread, and...a doll facing away from him.
Seeing the doll, the man frowned.
"How could a doctor's desk have such a thing?"
"Small town doctors really aren't very professional..."
"And milk bread? My god, what adult man would like eating that stuff? Could it be a female doctor?"
Thinking this, the man suddenly felt a bit of anticipation.
But listening closely, there was still no sound from outside.
This made the man indignant, "Not a shred of professionalism!"
"Even if I'm not really here as a patient, you should at least greet me!"
"Hmph!"
Muttering to himself, the man felt a bit hungry, so he looked around and, seeing no one, quietly ate one of the milk breads on the desk.
"I'll just have one, they probably won't notice..."
As he spoke, the one bread was already in his stomach.
But...the man still felt a bit hungry.
So he ate a second one.
Eating while constantly looking around.
The man was ready to put the bread back at the first sound of footsteps.
Suddenly, the man stopped chewing.
Just then, out of the corner of his eye, he saw something move in front of him.
Right in front of him.
In that instant, the man felt chills all over.
He examined the room before him again; on the desk in front were still those same items, nothing seeming to have changed.
Besides the desk, there were a few iron cabinets in the room, contents unknown.
The man shook his head, feeling he was being a bit too sensitive.
The two breads finished, he turned to look behind again and took out a third...
Clap!
Suddenly, the man heard an eerie sound.
His third bread not yet eaten, he cautiously looked around.
The room still had those same items, nothing seeming to have changed, but somehow...
The man felt something on the desk seemed to have changed slightly, but he couldn't pinpoint exactly what.
The third bread consumed, his stomach felt a bit better.
He put the bag of breads back where it was.
Then the man noticed that the doll previously facing away was now turned sideways towards him.
The man sneered, seeming to scorn this toy that shouldn't be there.
Outside the consultation room was still silent, so the man leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes to rest.
Clap!
He had just closed his eyes for a few seconds when he heard that eerie sound again.
This time the man was so startled he almost leapt out of the chair.
For some reason, he felt like that sound contained a hint of grievance and killing intent.
Looking around in a panic, the man still saw no changes, except for—
The doll on the desk in front.
This time, it was facing him directly.
In a daze, the man froze.
"Did I...move this thing?"
"I don't think so..."
"Why does this doll's expression look so angry?"
Looking at the doll's furious expression, the man felt a chill down his spine. He picked up the doll and turned it around again.
Not seeing its face, the man felt much more at ease.
He continued resting with his eyes closed.
This time, no eerie "clap" sounded.
Only what seemed like the sound of something crawling.
The man was fed up; he opened his eyes again, determined to find the source of whatever was causing mischief!
But then, "Hiss—"
The man saw that the doll he had just turned around was now slowly crawling towards him!
"Dammit, a moving doll, you sick freak!"
The man cursed as he grabbed the doll to put it back, but then...
He saw the doll's little face slowly break into an evil smile directed at him.
In certain situations, a smile can be more frightening than anger.
This was a trick Zhang Baobao learned from Lu Yuan.
"Oh my god!!"
In that instant, the man dropped the doll as if electrocuted, knocking over the chair behind him as he frantically ran out!
Charging into the dark hallway outside the consultation room, the man didn't care about anything, just desperately sprinting forward!
He even ran past the reception hall he came through, all the way to the end of the hallway!
Suddenly, the man stopped.
Because he smelled the scent of formaldehyde wafting from the dark room at the end of the hall!
In a panic, the man turned around only to immediately see the pale light from the consultation room he had just run out of!
In that light, a doll was slowly crawling out, head turned to look at him with a creepy smile!
The man was utterly terrified!
"Is anyone there?!" he shouted.
Suddenly, a door near him opened and Lin Youyou stood there asking, "Is there a problem, sir?"
As soon as Lin Youyou came into view, the man pointed at the examination room and shouted, "There's a doll over there, a moving doll!"
"Really?" Lin Youyou went over and took a look, then turned back to the man and said, "I don't see anything."
"You don't?" The man was dumbfounded. Was he just seeing things?
No, regardless of whether he was confused or not, he couldn't stay in this eerie clinic any longer!
The next second, the man suddenly pulled out a handgun and yelled at Lin Youyou, "Get me out of here!"
Lin Youyou raised her hands in a panic, "Please calm down! Okay! I'll get you out right now!"
After saying that, Lin Youyou headed towards the reception hall, with the man following behind her.
As they got closer and closer to the examination room on the other side, and as the white light from the room shone brighter, the man's heartbeat quickened.
Lin Youyou turned and entered the reception hall, and the man sped up to keep up with her.
The two arrived at the plaza in front of the clinic building.
At that moment, the man turned and looked at the scarecrow he had seen earlier, feeling like it was staring right back at him.
"This place is damn creepy! Let's get out of here! To my car!"
The man pressed the gun against the back of Lin Youyou's neck as he spoke.
"Okay, okay, I'll do as you say!"
Looking at Lin Youyou, the man felt much more reassured.
This nurse that the Tianyu Hospital had recommended could only fetch three thousand, but if sold to the red-light district of the Western Capital, with her beautiful looks, the starting price would be thirty thousand!
When they reached the car, the man went ahead and opened the trunk.
"Mmmmph! Mmmmph!"
From inside the trunk came the muffled sounds of someone bound and gagged - there was already a woman tied up and with her mouth stuffed shut inside.
Lin Youyou asked, "Do... Do I have to get in too? This seems a bit cramped, doesn't it?"
The man snapped viciously, "Shut up!"
He gestured with the gun in his hand to emphasize his words.
Left with no choice, Lin Youyou climbed into the trunk, and even helpfully closed the lid behind her.
Seeing how obedient Lin Youyou was being, the man was momentarily dumbfounded.
He felt that things were going a bit too smoothly tonight.
But there was no time to think about it further. The man got into the car and drove off.
Sitting in the driver's seat, he felt something poking into the back of his neck from the rear seat.
So he leaned back forcefully, and it seemed like he pushed something back into place, because the discomfort went away.
Taking a deep breath, the man drove out of the gates of the Medical Academy. At that moment, he glanced into the rearview mirror.
A young doctor, dressed in a white coat and wearing black-framed glasses, with a scholarly demeanor, was sitting calmly in the back seat of his car.
He was now looking back at the man through the rearview mirror, not saying a word, like a quiet, handsome man.
The man tried to speak but found it difficult. He reached up and felt his throat, only to find the sharp tip of a scalpel and blood gushing from his neck.
"A minute ago, this scalpel was just stuck in your seat."
"You were the one who kept pushing it deeper into yourself, bit by bit. Don't blame me."
"I was merely trying to ease your pain out of kindness..."
"No need to thank me, what can I say? I'm a doctor who cares about my patients."
"Well..."
The man: "..."
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rowess are unmatched, commanding a million-strong army! Yet, the Emperor wants to depose him for the sake of a false prince? Hold on, are you throwing me into some female-oriented romance plot? How can I tolerate this? With a grand wave of his hand—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! Slander the Emperor? Very well, all of you shall die! ... The False Prince: "Although I am not the biological son, Father and Mother love me more. The throne should be mine!" The Female Lead: "Qin Xiao, you are the Emperor, and I am a commoner. If you wish to marry me, you must abdicate. Otherwise, you will never have me!" The Empress: "After we divorce, you must give me half the empire!" The Transmigrator Consort: "You worthless Emperor, why should I kneel to you? All men are equal—I advise you to be kind!" The Great General: "The enemy general is my childhood sweetheart. For her sake, I willingly abandon the frontier defenses!" The Retired Emperor: "Although Yu'er was adopted, I prefer him. Qin Xiao, you should abdicate and let him become Emperor!" ... Very well! So this is how you want to play? Facing this twisted world of female-oriented tropes, Qin Xiao grins and raises his hand to unleash—the Nine Clan Extraction Technique! I am the Emperor. Why would I bother reasoning with you? Seal the gates! Leave none alive!
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
