SMGFB 01

Chapter _ 01

【Brains Checked In, Happiness Multiplied by Ten】

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Bincheng.

Ninth District People’s Hospital.

A shrill, piercing roar echoed through the hospital corridors.

It went on and on.

“I told you to send him to the morgue! Why did you put him in a ward? And a VIP ward, no less!”

“Is your hospital trying to scam me or what!”

Ge Yanxia was short, fat, and bloated, squeezed into a tight black dress.

Her spittle nearly flew into the doctor’s face opposite her.

The doctor hurriedly explained, “Please, family member of the patient, calm down! Jiang Fu is—”

“Calm down?! How can I be calm?!”

Ge Yanxia rudely cut the doctor off.

“No matter who he is, his vital energy has been scattered! He’s as good as dead!”

“With injuries like his, he’s better off dead and reincarnated early!”

The doctor smiled bitterly. “Even if his vital energy is scattered, it’s not necessarily incurable.”

“As long as there’s a Vital Energy Pill, the patient can continue to live…”

Ge Yanxia’s bull-like eyes widened. “A Vital Energy Pill?! Do you know how much that costs?!”

“Do you think money grows on trees in my house?!”

“I’m just the little bastard’s aunt by marriage, not his real mother!”

“Hurry up and transfer him to a regular ward—no, wait! Hurry up and discharge him!”

As she spoke.

Ge Yanxia kicked the timid, cowering man beside her.

“Guo Fangdong! This is all your fault! You just had to bring that little bastard home back then!”

“He’s cost our family how much money over the years!”

“I thought that once he became a martial artist, he could help the family out!”

“But look! He just went out to the wilds to pick a few fruits for Xiaofeng, and he ends up beaten like a dead dog!”

Guo Fangdong was dressed in a suit and tie, with gold-rimmed glasses perched on his nose.

Faced with his domineering wife, he instinctively shrank back.

He mumbled, “But, back then, if we hadn’t brought Jiang Fu home, his parents’ inheritance and pension wouldn’t have come to our family. And Xiaofeng’s training resources were also thanks to Jiang Fu—”

At the words ‘inheritance,’ ‘pension,’ and ‘training resources,’

A flicker of guilt passed through Ge Yanxia’s eyes.

Then, her two chunky calves gave a little hop.

Her fat body dropped with a thud onto the floor.

A faint, almost imperceptible ‘rumble’ seemed to echo through the hospital corridor.

“I don’t want to hear it! I don’t want to hear it!”

“Facts aside! That little bastard is still in the wrong!”

“Anyway, he’s already eighteen! Whether he lives or dies has nothing to do with me!!”

“Don’t even think about making me pay his medical bills!”

…

Inside the ward.

Jiang Fu lay stiffly on the clean white hospital bed.

Feeling that familiar weakness and powerlessness in his body.

His eyes were filled with utter despair.

“So… I finally managed to die on my own, and now I’ve transmigrated into a paralytic?”

In his previous life,

Jiang Fu had been an ALS patient.

He’d lain completely paralyzed in bed for three whole years before finally succumbing.

But he never expected that when he opened his eyes again,

he would have transmigrated to another world, another hospital bed… and into the body of another paralytic!

At this moment,

a faint aura of death seemed to emanate from every part of Jiang Fu’s body.

Ding!

[Detected that the host has ten days of life remaining.]

[Multiply by Ten System loading…]

Hearing this voice,

Jiang Fu’s dead-fish eyes moved slightly.

“What the hell?”

“Ten days left to live?”

“Does that mean I’m not a paralytic, but I’m about to die?”

System: [System detects that the host’s vital energy has been scattered and the host is severely injured, hence the inability to move.]

Jiang Fu: “That’s… wonderful!”

In an instant.

A spark of life reignited in Jiang Fu’s eyes.

System: […]

This host seemed a little… different.

[Multiply by Ten System loading complete!]

[Host: Jiang Fu]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 18]

[Level: 0]

[Vital Energy Value: 7]

[Lifespan: 10 days]

[Ability: Multiply by Ten]

[Ability Limited Uses: 1]

Jiang Fu stared at the light screen floating before him, which looked like a phone display.

He was momentarily stunned. “Multiply by ten? What does that mean?”

System: [This system is the Multiply by Ten System. It can multiply anything by ten!]

[But the host only has one chance to use the multiplication!]

[After completing one multiplication, the system will immediately detach.]

[System detects that the host has ten days of life remaining.]

[It is recommended to multiply your lifespan by ten, so the host can gain one hundred days of life.]

Jiang Fu looked skeptical. “Really? Anything can be multiplied by ten?”

System: [I am a system. I do not lie.]

Jiang Fu pondered for a moment.

Then—

“Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten…”

At this moment, although Jiang Fu’s body was weak.

His mouth moved very quickly.

Like chanting a mantra, a long string of “multiply by ten” tumbled out in the blink of an eye.

System: [???]

System: [Host, you only have one chance to multiply.]

Jiang Fu: “Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten…”

System: [Wait, host, what did you multiply by ten?!]

Jiang Fu: “Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten…”

Jiang Fu did not respond.

He just kept multiplying by ten.

A moment later.

System: [!!!]

[WHAT THE HELL, YOU’RE EXPLOITING A BUG HERE!!!]

[STOP!!]

Jiang Fu: “Multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten, multiply by ten…”

At this moment.

The system’s originally cold, mechanical voice turned shrill: [Activating function restriction ability!]

[Restricting Multiply by Ten ability—stacking is not allowed!]

Jiang Fu quickly shut his mouth.

Then he looked at the system panel floating before him.

He was very satisfied with his handiwork.

[Name: Jiang Fu]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 18]

[Level: 0]

[Vital Energy Value: 7]

[Lifespan: 10 days]

[Ability: Multiply by Ten (Stacking not allowed)]

[Ability Limited Uses: Positive Infinity]

The system felt like the sky had fallen.

[I told you to multiply by ten, not to multiply the limited uses of “multiply by ten” by ten!]

Positive infinity!

Positive infinity!!

Positive infinity!!!

Just how many times did he multiply it to exploit such an overpowered bug!!!

The system was on the verge of a breakdown.

After a long while.

The system’s voice rang out again, somewhat cautiously: [Host, is there anything else you’d like to multiply by ten?]

Jiang Fu: “What?”

System: [For example, multiplying the “multiply by ten” ability itself by ten, turning it into “multiply by a hundred” or something.]

Jiang Fu’s gaze was pure, and he said with a look of remorse: “I’d better not.”

“Everything just now was my fault. I’m sorry.”

“System, come out here for a second. I want to apologize to you in person!”

The system gave a humph.

The next instant.

A blue ball of light, about the size of a fist, appeared before Jiang Fu.

System: [If you multiply the “multiply by ten” ability by ten and let the system evolve into a “multiply by a hundred” system, then I’ll forgive you!]

Jiang Fu stared at the little ball of light in front of him: “Multiply by ten!”

System: [???]

System: [!!!]

[WHAT THE HELL! HOST, YOU HAVE NO HONOR!!!]

Ten systems let out piercing shrieks simultaneously.

Jiang Fu asked with an innocent look: “The ‘multiply by ten’ ability can’t be used in stacks…”

“But now there are ten systems. Does that mean I can stack it ten times?”

“And also… if I really did what you said and multiplied ‘multiply by ten’ by ten to turn it into a ‘multiply by a hundred’ system, would the limited uses reset back to the initial one?”

Add to that the restriction against stacking.

At most, the number of uses could be multiplied by a hundred!

Jiang Fu could clearly tell the difference between a hundred uses of “multiply by a hundred” and an infinite number of uses of “multiply by ten.”

What a sinister system!

System: [¥%#¥T#%#¥%!!!]

System: [This opportunist is too cunning! He didn’t fall for it! Run!]

[Emergency detachment! Emergency detachment!]

Zooooom—

The next moment.

Ten little balls of light transformed into ten blue beams.

And vanished completely.

“Gone?”

Jiang Fu was stunned. “System? System? Are you still there?”

Silence all around.

In the hospital room, aside from the sounds of the monitoring equipment, there was no other noise.

In the end.

Jiang Fu had no choice but to reach a conclusion.

…The system really did run away.

“The system ran away, but does the infinite ‘multiply by ten’ ability still work?”

The moment the thought arose,

the system panel reappeared before Jiang Fu.

[Name: Jiang Fu]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 18]

[Level: 0]

[Vital Energy Value: 7]

[Lifespan: 10 days]

[Ability: Multiply by Ten (Stacking not allowed)]

[Ability Limited Uses: Positive Infinity]

Jiang Fu finally let out a sigh of relief.

“Good. The system ran off, but the ‘multiply by ten’ ability is still here.”

“Hm? Wait, no!”

“Behind this system panel… it looks like there’s a double image.”

“Could it be that after I multiplied the system by ten, the system panel also became ten of them?”

Jiang Fu’s eyes darted around.

Trying to find a way to open the other nine system panels.

But the other nine panels remained hidden behind the first one.

Refusing to come out.

Jiang Fu could only give up.

“Let me test out the ‘multiply by ten’ ability first.”

Thinking this,

Jiang Fu turned his head with difficulty and looked toward the bedside table beside him.

On the bedside table,

there was a bottle of water and an orange.

Jiang Fu’s gaze fell on the orange, and he said tentatively: “Multiply by ten?”

The moment the words left his mouth,

the single orange,

suddenly turned into ten identical oranges.

The bedside table wasn’t very big.

Among the nine extra oranges, a few rolled off and fell to the floor.

Jiang Fu’s eyes lit up.

His heart couldn’t help but thump wildly.

“It really multiplied by ten!”

“Oh, right. Before the system escaped, it seemed to have added a restriction.”

“Can’t be used in stacks?”

Thinking of this,

he tried to apply ‘multiply by ten’ again to the oranges on the bedside table—the ones that had already been multiplied.

The oranges didn’t respond.

“So this is what ‘can’t be stacked’ means.”

“An item that has already been multiplied by ten cannot be multiplied again.”

Jiang Fu frowned, thinking hard.

“It seems that multiplying the system by ten didn’t break the stacking restriction…”

“No, wait. There are nine other panels behind the system panel. If I find a way to bring out those other nine panels, can I continue stacking the multiplication?”

“Ah, I’ll study that slowly later.”

“Also, can I add a time limit to the multiplication?”

“For example, after being multiplied by ten for a certain period, the multiplication effect automatically dispels…”

Thinking this way,

Jiang Fu’s gaze fell on the mineral water bottle next to the orange.

He tried again: “Multiply by ten… one second?”

The moment the words left his mouth,

the single bottle of water instantly turned into ten.

A few bottles fell off the bedside table onto the floor.

But after one second,

the extra bottles of water disappeared.

Leaving only the original one.

“Multiply by ten, one second!”

The moment the words left his mouth,

the remaining water bottle once again turned into ten.

After one second, the other nine vanished simultaneously.

In an instant,

Jiang Fu’s eyes grew brilliantly bright.

“You really can add a time limit to the multiplication!”

Just as Jiang Fu was brimming with excitement,

he suddenly felt his vision go black, and a wave of dizziness washed over his head.

“Oh no!”

“I forgot that I’m not a paralytic right now—I’m about to die!”

This was the last thought in Jiang Fu’s mind,

before he blacked out.