Chapter – 03
Ge Yanxia’s body stiffened.
Then she fell flat on her back, collapsing rigidly onto the ground.
Her body bounced a few times against the floor tiles before settling still.
*Pfftâ*
The next moment.
Two thick, viscous streams of dark red blood, like twin red fountains,
shot out of Ge Yanxia’s nostrils.
The young nurse’s eyes flew wide open at the sight.
Her face was full of bewilderment as she stared at the scene before her.
Just at that moment,
several doctors pushed through the door.
They saw Ge Yanxia lying on the floor, blood still gushing from her nose in steady spurts.
A collective *”What the hellâ”* escaped their lips.
Then they scrambled to lift her off the floor and rushed her out of the room for emergency treatment.
The nurse hurriedly grabbed a mop
and cleaned the bloodstains off the floor.
A moment later,
only Jiang Fu and Xu Chi remained in the VIP ward.
Xu Chi seemed not to have fully processed what just happened.
He looked at Jiang Fu lying on the bed and asked in a daze, “What happened to her?”
Jiang Fu shifted into a more comfortable position on the bed.
“Maybe… a sudden spike in blood pressure.”
Jiang Fu wasn’t sure either.
He had no idea what would happen if a person’s blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar suddenly shot up tenfold.
Probably wouldn’t kill her.
And even if it did, it didn’t matter.
Consider it payback for the original owner.
In his previous life,
he had been bedridden for three years.
Psychologically speaking, he was probably a little different from normal people.
Xu Chi let out a slow breath.
Then he looked at Jiang Fu, a mix of hope and cautious hesitation in his voice. “How are you feeling now?”
Jiang Fu was Xu Chi’s star pupil.
An eighteen-year-old martial artist!
Getting into a martial arts university was a sure thing.
He was destined to be Xu Chi’s lifelong pride.
A few days ago,
Xu Chi had received the news that Jiang Fu’s vital energy had been shattered and he had been sent to the hospital morgue.
It felt like the sky had fallen.
Looking at Xu Chi’s current cautious demeanor,
Jiang Fu couldn’t help but think of his parents from his previous life.
On the day he was diagnosed with ALS,
his parents wore the exact same expression.
Despair mingled with a faint, fragile hopeâ
hope that a miracle might still happen.
Thinking of his parents,
Jiang Fu let out a silent sigh.
The old him was already dead.
That was a release for Jiang Fu, and a release for his parents as well.
Now that he was in this world,
he was going to live properly.
And as for Xu Chi…
If it weren’t for Xu Chi, the current Jiang Fu would have already been taken away for cremation by Guo Fangdong and Ge Yanxia.
Jiang Fu looked at Xu Chi, a bright, radiant smile spreading across his face.
“Teacher, I’m completely fine now.”
Xu Chi thought of the “Wulian Fruit” Ge Yanxia had mentioned,
and finally let out a small breath of relief.
Then he said, “Good, goodâas long as you’re fine.”
“Rest up and recover well while you’re here. I still have classes to teach, so I’ll head back first.”
Jiang Fu: “Goodbye, Teacher.”
Xu Chi taught a senior-year homeroom class.
His schedule was packed.
He had only rushed over after getting the hospital’s call to confront Ge Yanxia,
and had paid all of Jiang Fu’s medical and ward fees in full.
Now that things were settled here, Xu Chi had to go back to teach.
Watching Xu Chi’s hurried retreating figure,
Jiang Fu pressed his lips together slightly.
Then,
he turned his gaze back to the system panel floating before him.
ăName: Jiang Fuă
ăGender: Maleă
ăAge: 18ă
ăLevel: 0ă
ăVital Energy Value: 50ă
ăLifespan: 100 daysă
ăAbility: Multiply by Ten (cannot be stacked)ă
ăAbility Usage Limit: Infiniteă
“Hm?”
“My lifespan actually increased to a hundred days?”
Jiang Fu pondered for a moment.
“It seems that how long I can live is tied to my Vital Energy Value.”
“But… a Vital Energy Value of fifty is the standard for a normal adult, yet I can only live for a hundred days.”
“And that’s a hundred days after the base lifespan was multiplied by ten.”
“It seems there’s something else wrong with my body.”
Jiang Fu furrowed his brow.
Just then,
the young nurse from earlier pushed the door open and came in, her face full of incredulity.
Jiang Fu couldn’t help but ask, “Nurse sister, how’s that fat woman doing?”
The nurse was taken aback. “F-fat woman… isn’t she your aunt?”
Jiang Fu pursed his lips and didn’t respond.
The young nurse also realized her slip and let out an awkward chuckle.
“No idea what happened, but her blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar suddenly spiked to an unimaginable degree.”
“If she weren’t a martial artist, she’d probably be dead by now.”
Jiang Fu frowned slightly.
Ge Yanxia was a martial artist?
There was no mention of that in the original owner’s memories.
But soon, he figured it out.
The couple, Ge Yanxia and Guo Fangdong, had essentially swindled the original owner’s family out of everything.
With the wealth and resources left behind by the original owner’s parents,
even two pigs could have been turned into martial artists!
However,
the original owner became a martial artist at eighteen.
To outsiders, it looked like they had poured all those resources into him.
And now,
with Jiang Fu injured and near death, they couldn’t even be bothered to put up a facade anymore.
They’d dropped all pretense and shown their true colors.
The young nurse looked at Jiang Fu’s expression and gave another awkward laugh.
“Those uncle and aunt of yours are nothing compared to your teacher.”
“To save you, Teacher Xu spent over a hundred thousand in total.”
“But that couple? They didn’t lift a finger and wanted to send you straight to the morgue.”
Jiang Fu’s heart trembled.
Although Xu Chi was a homeroom teacher for senior year,
he was still just an ordinary person.
In a world like thisâone of spirit energy resurgence, practically a post-apocalyptic eraâ
ordinary people were at the very bottom of society.
Over a hundred thousand… that was probably his entire life savings.
Jiang Fu took a deep breath. “What exactly were my injuries?”
At that moment,
the young nurse was observing the instruments by Jiang Fu’s bedside.
Hearing his question, she replied casually, “Your vital energy was shattered, knocking you down from martial artist to ordinary person.”
“But you must have eaten a spirit fruitâyour vital energy has recovered… so there’s still hope for you to become a martial artist again.”
Having said that,
the nurse’s eyes were fixed intently on the instruments in front of her.
“But there’s one strange thingâyour vital energy has clearly recovered to normal levels for an adult.”
“But your overall physical condition is still very poor. It’s a contradictory presentation.”
Jiang Fu was startled.
Then it immediately clicked.
Multiply by tenâ
it only applied to vital energy.
It could slightly affect lifespan,
but the rest of his bodily functions hadn’t been multiplied accordingly.
So right now, Jiang Fu was still in critical condition.
“So, I can temporarily multiply my physique by ten as well…”
In an instant,
Jiang Fu found the root of the problem.
The system panel floating before him had been misleading him,
making him instinctively apply the multiplication to the values displayed on it.
But just now,
Jiang Fu had been able to multiply Ge Yanxia’s blood pressure, blood lipids, and blood sugar by ten.
So he could do the same to his own bodily functions!
However,
the earlier logic still heldâ
the larger the base, the greater the returns from multiplying by ten.
So it would still only be a temporary multiplication.
The young nurse had no idea what Jiang Fu was thinking.
She hesitated and said, “Right now, all the doctors in the hospital are busy treating Ge Yanxia.”
“She’s a martial artist, so she has privileges, so…”
Jiang Fu waved his hand. “It’s fine, don’t worry about me.”
He also wanted to see
whether the things he’d multiplied
could be nullified through other means.
For exampleâ
whether the hospital had the ability to bring down multiplied blood pressure.
If they actually could bring it down,
Jiang Fu wanted to try
whether he could multiply it again.
That shouldn’t count as stacking, should it?
As for the original owner’s family assets,
after all these years, they’d probably been laundered and transferred through various means by that couple.
Getting them back would likely be very difficult.
If that’s the case,
why not do to them what they did to the original owner?
If Ge Yanxia, Guo Fangdong, their child, and all their relatives on that side died off,
then their property would still become inheritanceâ
and as the nephew, Jiang Fu would be the one to inherit it.
