95: The dark cloud covering the city, the curse of the germs - Black Curse

Ignoring the gazes of others, Jiang Yuan frowned when he saw the exhaustion on Tao Chunru's face.

"Mom, your complexion doesn't look too good. Didn't you take the tonic I bought for you?"

"Mom has been a bit too busy lately, so I forgot."

"That won't do."

Jiang Yuan retrieved a life crystal from the Void Realm and crushed it in front of Tao Chunru.

A rich and fresh light-green Aura of life merged into Tao Chunru's body, instantly dispelling all her exhaustion.

Her stamina and Mental Energy were restored to their optimal state, and even the wrinkles on her face faded a little, making her look instantly much younger.

"Wh-What is this?" Mo Jie could hardly believe it.

She had never seen any healing spells or potions have such an astonishing effect!

Li Mengzhu, who was well-informed, crossed her arms and said,

"This is a life crystal, which generally only drops from hidden dungeons."

"Moreover, this one is of the intermediate Rank, and a single one is probably worth over five million."

"F-Five million?!" Mo Jie and the other nurses widened their eyes.

No matter how hard they worked, their annual salary was less than two hundred thousand.

Jiang Yuan casually spent an amount of money that would take them more than twenty years to earn.

"You child, even if you have money, you shouldn't waste it like this." Tao Chunru said, feeling a bit distressed, but her face was filled with even more pride.

"It's fine. I picked up hundreds of these things in the dungeon."

Jiang Yuan's casual remark shocked everyone dumbfounded once again.

Even Li Mengzhu was stunned.

Hundreds is way too many, right?!

Did you go to take the College Entrance Examination or to restock goods?

Mo Jie and the other nurses, who were about the same age as Tao Chunru, looked at Tao Chunru with eyes full of envy and jealousy, their tones exceptionally sour.

"Xiao Tao—no, Sister Tao, you are truly blessed this time."

"I really envy you for giving birth to such a good child. Unlike me, I don't know what kind of sin I committed in my past life to give birth to that useless thing in my family."

"When you get rich, don't forget us old colleagues..."

As for the young nurse, she came to Jiang Yuan with flushed cheeks and watery eyes, saying, "I-I'm Jiang Ying. Can-Can you give me your autograph?"

"Of course. Thank you for taking care of my mom usually."

"No, no. Rather, I received more care from Sister Tao..."

After getting Jiang Yuan's autograph, she became even more excited and thrilled, her legs beneath her nurse's uniform involuntarily crossing and rubbing against each other.

"Um... May I ask if you are free tonight?"

Li Mengzhu leaned close to Jiang Yuan and teased, "She seems quite interested in you. I feel like she's the type of contrast-charming person who wears black stockings beneath her nurse's uniform. How is it? Do you like this type?"

Jiang Yuan had black lines running down his forehead: "..."

"Boom!"

Suddenly, a loud noise came from outside, and the wall was blasted open into a large hole, eliciting shrill and terrified screams from the nurses and patients.

Li Mengzhu and Jiang Yuan looked over.

They saw a plump Martial Artist of the great shield class, whose Qi was thick and robust, frantically choking a doctor by the neck and lifting him into mid-air, holding a severed arm in his other hand.

His eyes were bloodred, and he roared with a struggling expression:

"I already said I feel terrible, so uncomfortable I could die! Why is nobody coming to manage me?!"

"Isn't your hospital meant for saving people?"

The doctor struggled to make a sound: "B-But our examinations showed you are completely normal, and there are no problems..."

"Nonsense! I can clearly feel it—I can feel something gnawing on my internal organs and my skin, and it constantly feels like something is about to crawl out. I can feel it very clearly...!"

The man roared loudly, and his expression of pain didn't look like it was faked.

"That's why I said you should go see mental..."

"Ahhhhhh!!"

Seeing that the man was about to tear the doctor in half in public,

Li Mengzhu made her move.

Everyone only saw a silver flash pass by, and the doctor who was about to be killed vanished from his hands.

Before the fat patient could react, his entire body heavily smashed onto the ground.

Li Mengzhu's slender right leg stepped onto his back, her gaze cold and sharp.

A formidable Aura suppressed the fat man's entire body, rendering him completely unable to move a fraction of an inch.

"I am Li Mengzhu, captain of the 3rd squad of the Patrol Division. You are suspected of attempted murder, violating Article 5 of the Martial Artist laws prohibiting attacks on ordinary people. You are under arrest."

The fat man seemed to have regained a bit of his sanity, and he begged bitterly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't want to kill anyone, nor did I want to resort to violence. I-I don't know what's going on either, I just felt way too uncomfortable..."

"Please, please save me..."

He lowered his head and took huge, heavy breaths, his chest heaving at an abnormal speed.

Amidst the terrified gazes of the surrounding people, a large mouthful of blood spewed out, almost staining a wall blood-red.

"Pfft!"

The nurse who was accidentally splashed reacted, her pupils sharply shrinking as she let out a piercing scream.

"Ah—!"

Jiang Yuan also keenly perceived that after the fat man spat out that mouthful of blood, his entire body's Qi instantly decayed to the extreme.

"It's the same as the previous patient."

Tao Chunru walked to Jiang Yuan's side with a worried gaze. "That patient also checked out completely normal, but also said they felt extremely uncomfortable. Healing skills and potions were useless, and they died very quickly in the end."

The young nurse said, "Compared to that auntie, his deterioration rate is even faster... Could this really be some kind of unknown infectious disease?"

Jiang Yuan's expression slightly condensed as he released his Mental Energy to inspect carefully, penetrating the fat Martial Artist's body like an X-ray scan.

Still no abnormalities were found.

Truly strange.

"N-Not good, the patient in Room 749 is also vomiting blood."

"Room 832 as well."

"Room 648 too..."

It was as if it were a chain reaction.

Patients deteriorated one after another.

In the lobby, some patients who were waiting in line for examinations all developed symptoms similar to the fat Martial Artist, wailing as they collapsed to the ground, crying out in severe pain and discomfort.

The hospital instantly fell into complete chaos.

Even if several doctors activated the healing formation—which required consuming a large amount of crystals to turn on—it had no effect on them.

"It really is some kind of unknown disease. If it were an injury, it should have been cured long ago," Tao Chunru said.

"Calm down, everyone calm down!"

A director of the hospital appeared.

He was a Tier 5 class-transferred physician and the person with the highest Rank in this hospital besides the director.

"Winds of Healing."

As he used his skill, streaks of light-green restorative wind passed through the bodies of one patient after another, but it was still useless.

With no other choice, he could only use another skill,

"Winds of Pacification."

The wind carrying anesthetic and sedative effects blew past, which finally allowed the patients to gradually calm down.

The nurses finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After finishing a phone call, Li Mengzhu furrowed her brows even deeper.

Jiang Yuan asked, "What is it?"

Li Mengzhu: "I just asked my subordinates. Similar situations have occurred in other hospitals. Patients in all hospitals collectively felt excruciating pain just now, as if it were coordinated. This cannot be a coincidence; someone behind the scenes might be manipulating everything. The higher-ups have also realized the severity of the situation and ordered me to begin investigating right now."

She looked at the young nurse. "When did the first patient appear? Could you tell me everything from start to finish?"

The nurses nodded.

Jiang Yuan looked at Tao Chunru. "Mom, let's go back."

Tao Chunru was taken aback and said, "What are you talking about? Haven't you seen the current situation? If I leave, manpower will be even more insufficient."

"It's useless for you to stay either. If it's an unknown illness caused by an unknown plague, then this is no longer something nurses can handle," Jiang Yuan said in a solemn tone. "Instead, it's a major disaster that will involve millions of people across several cities!"

The torrential rain in the sky was still falling, lightning roared, and the waters of the Posa River surged wildly.

A doctor wearing a crow mask stood by the riverbank, and eerie yellow-black substances flowed down his feet into the river water.

"To be able to integrate the flesh and blood of an Abyss monster, the curse of the Yin Lord, and diseases all into one, I truly am a Genius. Unfortunately, the effect on mid-to-high-Rank transferred Martial Artists is too poor, and the lethality is insufficient."

"Those fools are only noticing it now; it's already too late. The heavy rain will scatter the cursed pathogens flowing into the river all over the city. Millions of people already have my cursed pathogens inside their bodies."

"This is a curse, and it is also a blessing—my lifelong masterpiece as a plague Great Master."

He whispered.

"Its name is—"

"Black Curse."