39: Chapter 41 A Childhood Dream, Letting the Paper Kite of Hope Take Flight!

The Han River!

The mighty, surging current separated the people on both banks.

From certain narrower sections of the river basin,

one could even gaze far into the distance

and see the fluffy white smoke continuously rising above Xijing.

Dense and countless!

Resembling a scene endowed with life, it made the hair stand on end involuntarily.

Meanwhile, on the other side,

there were endless lights and kites being released.

This was the spontaneous prayer of the masses, and of course, it also included helping their companions in the disaster-stricken area.

The Han River was not in its flood season, so the water flow was relatively calm.

Unable to make close contact, many people took an alternative approach, adopting water transportation and letting the river serve as a porter of nature to deliver supplies to their compatriots on the opposite bank.

Massive fleets of material trucks from all over were also gathering here.

There were The Authorities, collectives, and individuals.

All of them were interpreting with their actions what it meant for help to come from all sides when one place was in trouble!

And Su Xiu?

He was also quietly standing by the Han River,

gazing at the flowing water ahead with its unceasing sound of waves,

looking just like one of the countless masses.

"Is..."

"about to begin?"

Su Xiu, blending in with the ordinary world, murmured softly.

An inexplicable look flashed in his eyes.

In his previous life,

when the Spacetime Worm brazenly broke into the world, smashed through the overlapping regions, stretched out three ring paths, turned Xijing into ruins, and made it a rampaging paradise for the races under its command,

the divine toxin

naturally appeared as well.

The destruction it brought could be called a human disaster.

The sharp decline of the Xijing population by ninety percent and its transformation into a doomsday wasteland were inextricably linked to this.

Su Xiu was, of course, no stranger to this.

Divine toxin and the pervasive aura of death were both rare sequence carriers; naturally, he would not turn a blind eye to them.

If used properly, it could even help him catch a glimpse of the mighty power of the supreme divinity.

The endlessly dark future prevented him from stopping his steps.

Gazing afar at the Han River, Su Xiu had already heard the echo of the mechanical voice.

[006 Treatment Medal triggered massive emotional fluctuations, Emotion Points +23712]

[Emotion Points +32198]

[Emotion Points +18402]

[...]

The data continuously jumped on the editor.

That is right, the mysterious medal that appeared in the epidemic area was a sequence anomaly he had written.

It was both for the epidemic and to use the power of the epidemic to forge a special sequence item.

[Silver Octagonal Medal]

[Glass Marble]

[First-Aid Bandage]

[Used Syringe]

[...]

After a series of miscellaneous materials served as sequence carriers, combined with the text written by Su Xiu,

this special prop was finally forged into shape.

[006 Treatment Medal]

[Grade: Unknown]

[Ability: Differentiation, Treatment]

[A mysterious medal. When encountering crises, righteous people will emerge one after another to treat injuries and pains. This pain is not limited to injuries in the ordinary sense...]

[Flaw: Each activation of treatment will consume the gem. Once the gem is exhausted, the medal will lose its effect.]

[Project Rating: Unknown]

[Current Status: Deployed]

[...]

The countless physicians differentiated from 006 walked through various districts and counties of Xijing, doing their utmost to rescue patients.

This was the effort made by Su Xiu.

His profound gaze looked afar at the Han River, as if he could pierce through the surging river water and see the disaster area on the opposite bank.

Right at this moment,

Swish—

a sound of piercing through the air rang beside his ear.

His body instinct was faster than the brain reaction.

Stretching his right hand backward, Dimensional Sealing erupted instantly.

Invisible lines outlined and formed in mid-air, turning into an airspace-prohibiting domain. After forcibly shrinking the thing in the airspace and capturing it into his hand, he came back to his senses.

"A kite?"

Su Xiu raised his head with a hint of astonishment.

His gaze fell upon the contents imprisoned by the rune, and he soon realized that he seemed to have made a blunder.

It was not a crisis, but a Paper Kite released by someone.

He hurriedly canceled his ability,

releasing the imprisoned space to restore its size to normal.

Fortunately, the commotion was very small.

The people around were all busy with their own affairs and did not notice this minor change.

"Big brother~"

"Did you pick up my kite!"

A childish voice rang out.

Lowering his head, he found a cute little child looking up to make eye contact with him.

Their height barely reached the waistline of Su Xiu.

Wearing a red Klee hat and stepping on light blue suede boots, exposing white slouch socks.

Carrying a pink messenger bag with a bow pinned on it.

Her childish face was filled with innocence, and her watery big eyes looked at the kite in the hand of Su Xiu.

"Making a wish..."

"Hoping all illnesses disappear and the sky returns to sunshine?"

Su Xiu raised the kite. On the back made of rice paper, a few small characters were crookedly written.

The childish strokes showed at a glance that they came from the hand of a child.

"Hey!"

"This is a Paper Kite to pray for blessings for Daddy."

"Mommy said, as long as the Paper Kite flies into the sky and the deity hears the innermost thoughts of Ke'er, they will take action, expel these evil qi, and beat away the bad guy virus!"

"That way, Daddy can come back from Jianghan District."

"Now that the Paper Kite has fallen down and the deity cannot see the words on it, will they not take action!"

"Then what about Daddy, wuwu..."

As she spoke,

tears began to pool in the watery big eyes of the young girl.

Her soft voice also became choked with sobs.

Just as she was about to burst into tears,

the gentle palm of Su Xiu

took the lead in stroking her soft hair and could not help pinching her little face.

His cold tone softened a bit,

"Do not worry!"

"The deity has already heard the innermost thoughts of Ke'er~"

"Everything will get better!"

Su Xiu broke into a smile.

His calm tone, however, made it impossible for anyone to harbor doubts.

As if it were an absolute truth!

As his words fell,

Su Xiu, who had been gazing afar at the Han River, also withdrew his gaze.

Having watched the fire from across the bank by the Han River for so long,

it was also time for it to end.

——

Just as Su Xiu whispered in his heart,

on the other side!

Xijing, facing across the bank,

Zheng Fei finally searched through the city sky-eye surveillance and locked onto the locations of several physicians.

He hurriedly took people and drove there.

Not even hesitating to risk infection, he also dragged a patient with mild-to-moderate symptoms in the car.

However, the news he received

plunged his heart into the abyss.

"Sorry, sir, it is a pity that we cannot help you treat this kind of disease."

"I am sorry!"

The physician wearing a white lab coat had a somewhat dejected expression,

and said with a hint of awkwardness.

"No, it will not work?!"

With the answer rejected and hope dashed, the hanging heart of Zheng Fei finally died.

The approach he placed high hopes on

met with this kind of reply.

Even with his mindset, he could not help feeling depressed.

After all, he still could not manage to remain expressionless even if Mount Tai collapsed before him.

Forcibly suppressing the ripples in his heart,

he braced himself and spoke.

"What is wrong? Are these illnesses anything different?"

Zheng Fei looked anxiously at the physician.

Conventional scientific research found it hard to make breakthroughs in a short time; supernatural power was already his only hope at present!

And these physicians before him,

whether they were anomalous phenomena or extraordinary powers, were the only supernatural power he could contact.

Zheng Fei, of course, was not willing to give up just like that.

"I am truly sorry."

The physician silently shook his head, and his awkward expression became even more obvious.

"I..."

"cannot save them."

"Um..."

"All we can do is curb the spread of the virus inside his body."

Among the physicians of various appearances,

a grey-haired man carrying a medicine chest stepped out.