85: The whole world needs him

America, The Pentagon.

Secretary of Defense John was comfortably leaning back in his leather office chair, holding a steaming cup of Blue Mountain coffee, enjoying the rare afternoon sun.

The office door was suddenly pushed open without warning.

His assistant, Jack, stumbled in, his tie askew and his forehead covered in sweat.

John’s brows furrowed. He put down his coffee cup, his movements unhurried but conveying displeasure.

“Jack, I recall my order was that until I finish this coffee, even if aliens attack Earth, they’d still have to queue up outside and register first.”

Jack was panting heavily, completely ignoring his superior’s dry humor. He slammed a document onto the table with such force that the papers scattered.

“Report, sir! Area 52! It’s an urgent, top-level report from Area 52!”

John’s movements stopped.

He picked up the document, and with just a glance at the title, his entire demeanor changed.

“Speak.”

Only one word, yet it seemed to lower the temperature in the office by several degrees.

“South America, Amazon Basin, three minutes ago.”

Jack’s voice was slightly distorted by tension.

“We detected an… an incalculable energy response.”

John looked up.

“Nuclear test? Is it the Dragon Country or the Polar Bear Country?”

“Neither, sir!”

Jack shook his head vigorously.

“No radiation, no known weapon characteristics! But its peak value… in just a few seconds, it surpassed all the upper limits of our existing instruments!”

Jack swallowed hard, speaking with difficulty.

“Sir, in our energy Rank definition, the highest is ‘God-Rank’, used to describe a theoretically possible unknown power, capable of instantly destroying a small country.”

John’s fingertips tapped lightly on the desktop.

“So?”

“That energy… has already surpassed our definition of ‘God-Rank’.”

Jack was almost in tears.

“Our scientists say this means… our imagination of ‘God’ is still too limited.”

The office was silent.

John slowly stood up, walked to the large floor-to-ceiling window, and gazed into the distance.

He said nothing, but Jack could feel an immense pressure emanating from his superior.

After a long while, John finally spoke.

“Immediately convene an emergency meeting of the highest security Rank.”

“Contact the presidential hotline and tell him we may need to re-evaluate the world’s danger Rank.”

“And…”

John turned around and said, word by word.

“I want to know which bastard in the Amazon just pressed the fast-forward button on the apocalypse.”

...Meanwhile, in the Dragon Country.

National Biomedical Research Center.

In a laboratory protected by the highest level of security measures, Academician Wei Zhong, a doyen of the Dragon Country’s medical community nearing seventy, was staring intently at a test report on the computer screen.

His student, Mu Xin, who was also the director of the oncology department at the Provincial People’s Hospital, stood respectfully beside him, not daring to breathe loudly.

“Xiao Xin, look at this again.”

Wei Zhong pointed with a finger that trembled slightly from excitement at the dizzyingly complex molecular structure diagram on the screen.

“Tell me, what do you see?”

Mu Xin stepped forward, adjusted her glasses, and examined it carefully.

“Teacher, its basic components are all very common medicinal herbs: ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Angelica sinensis… But their molecular structures have been reconfigured in a way we completely cannot comprehend.”

“This does not belong to any known pharmacological category; it…”

“It’s not science!”

Wei Zhong abruptly interrupted her, his voice filled with an almost frenzied excitement.

“You call this science? This is theology! This is creation!”

He switched to another report, which was Gao Haoming’s medical record.

“Advanced liver cancer, cancer cells have spread throughout the body, vital signs could disappear at any moment! But after taking this pill? Look! See for yourself!”

Wei Zhong pointed at the curves on the report that had returned to normal values.

“The cancer cells were not killed; they were… reversed! From a dead, damaged state, they were forcibly reversed back to a healthy state! This is reversing the life process at a cellular level!”

“This is a method only God possesses! Something only the Creator God can do!”

Mu Xin was startled by her teacher’s excitement and said softly.

“Teacher, the patient’s daughter said this pill was obtained from a ‘Divine Doctor’.”

“Divine Doctor?”

Wei Zhong was first taken aback when he heard these two words, then let out a bitter, self-mocking laugh.

“Divine Doctor? No, no, no, this is not a Divine Doctor, this is a God walking among humans!”

He suddenly turned around, grabbing Mu Xin’s shoulders with such force that she felt pain.

“My research, the papers I published, the medical knowledge I spent my entire life building… in front of this pill, they are all dog Qi! Worthless!”

Wei Zhong’s eyes were bloodshot, burning with a flame Mu Xin had never seen before.

It was the devotion of a scholar, a yearning for higher knowledge.

“Xiao Xin, contact them! Immediately! Right now!”

“I want to see him! I don’t care who he is, I don’t care where he is! Even if it’s the ends of the earth, I will go!”

Mu Xin was terrified by her teacher’s appearance.

“Teacher, please calm down, the other party is very mysterious, maybe…”

“I can’t calm down!”

Wei Zhong roared.

“In front of true truth, how can you expect me to calm down? All my life I’ve prided myself as an authority in the medical field, but today I realize I’m not even fit to carry this ‘Divine Doctor’s’ shoes!”

“I’m going on a pilgrimage! Do you understand? Not a visit, a pilgrimage!”

He released Mu Xin and paced anxiously around the laboratory.

“Call! Call the Gao family immediately! Ask them where this Divine Doctor is! Tell them the Dragon Country’s medical community, no, the entire world’s medical community, needs him!”

Seeing her teacher almost falling into a state of madness, Mu Xin dared not hesitate any longer.

With trembling hands, she pulled out her phone from her pocket and found the Gao family’s phone number.

Under Wei Zhong’s expectant and urging gaze, she pressed the dial button.