39: Chapter 39 Evolution? Or Mutation!

Zhang Yuanping's recent perception of Su Ye could no longer be described simply with the word "satisfied."

This young man was clever, quick-witted, and had definitely put in an immense amount of hard work! His medical knowledge was terrifyingly solid.

In the beginning, Zhang Yuanping only thought Su Ye was the studious, top-student type, but after truly mentoring Su Ye for these past few days, he realized this guy was a monster!

His progress was too fast.

So fast it was somewhat absurd.

Sometimes, just as a patient finished speaking and Zhang Yuanping was still organizing his thoughts, Su Ye would already have his own judgment. There were even a few times when Su Ye casually mentioned an idea that sent a shock through Zhang Yuanping's heart.

"How did I overlook this point?"

This thought had appeared far too frequently over the past few days.

What made Zhang Yuanping most uncomfortable was that the points Su Ye raised were often the key factors.

This was quite something.

After practicing medicine for so many years, could he actually be enlightened by a few words from a Standardized Resident Trainee?

This often gave Zhang Yuanping a subtle sense of embarrassment.

Mentoring a Standardized Resident Trainee...

Was the pressure supposed to be this high?

Was this the trouble that came with mentoring a genius?

Sometimes, sitting in the consultation room, Zhang Yuanping would look up at the calm Su Ye beside him and couldn't help but cheer himself on in his heart.

Zhang Yuanping, you have to stay steady.

You've practiced medicine for so many years; you can hold your own!

...

As for Su Ye, his life had become extremely regular.

Work during the day.

Cultivate at night, absorbing spiritual energy and contemplating the intricacies of the Breathing Technique and Inch Power.

Besides that, he would set aside time to pull out and read textbooks on various subjects.

Anatomy, pathology, Department of Neurology, imaging, emergency medicine, and even some obscure sub-specialty materials—as long as he felt they were useful, he would pull them from the shelf and scan through them rapidly.

The current Su Ye only needed three minutes to read an extremely thick book.

And it wasn't just a simple flip-through or a cursory glance.

He recorded, understood, and mastered all the content within.

Once those words entered his eyes, it was as if they were directly imprinted into his mind. Chapter structures, knowledge frameworks, key details, and logical connections were all automatically organized with perfect clarity.

Su Ye's brain no longer resembled a normal human's; it was more like a massive library that could be accessed at any moment.

To call him a "walking medical encyclopedia" was not an exaggeration at all.

However, Su Ye remained quite restrained.

He was always very clear in his heart that the strength of true medical giants lay not just in memory and understanding, but in their pioneering of the medical frontier, their insight into the essence of diseases, and their exploration and creation in unknown fields.

He was currently just consuming the accumulation of his predecessors faster and more thoroughly.

"Although I've used a cheat on this medical path, I am still far from the end."

Su Ye reminded himself of this over and over in his mind.

What he truly lacked in medicine now was actually only one thing.

Clinical experience.

As for knowledge, by relying on his Water-element Golden Core and Mental Energy, he had forcibly pushed it to a level that was almost cheating.

But patients are living beings.

People are not textbooks.

Moreover, as time passed, the thread-like spiritual energy in the sky was subtly changing human bodies, and strange cases in the hospital were becoming more frequent.

Many things could no longer be solved simply by relying on accumulated knowledge; he had to constantly interact, judge, and distinguish to see the line more clearly at the edge of illness and the "extraordinary."

But ultimately...

Having a cheat really made a difference.

At the very least, he had already stepped one foot into a place that others would take ten years to reach.

...

He finished work as usual today.

Carrying his backpack, Su Ye walked back along the street.

As the sky darkened, streetlights lit up one by one, slicing the city into overlapping fragments of warm yellow and dim shadows. The crowds were like weaving threads and the traffic was ceaseless; the sounds of horns, footsteps, and music from shops blended together to form a most ordinary evening in Jiang City.

But in Su Ye's mind, he was still thinking about several cases he had seen in the hospital today.

Among them was a young man who left a particularly deep impression.

On the surface, it was just a common nervous system issue—localized twitching, muscle stiffness, and occasional brief loss of control—but when Su Ye actually came into contact with him, he vaguely felt that the change was already somewhat inexplicable.

This young man's condition was somewhere between the extraordinary and a normal illness.

It was as if one foot had already stepped over the threshold while the other remained outside.

This gave Su Ye his first clear sense of crisis.

The great fog from a while ago might have truly had a significant impact on this world.

It was just that this impact was still lurking in the shadows.

Those without talent...

Were also continuously evolving.

However, without a super-talent carrier like a 'Golden Core,' their 'evolution' became exceptionally dangerous.

Like Wang Ming, with crystals in his kidneys and the manifestation of talent, he was walking a path of "Awakening" with distinct characteristics.

But the evolution of ordinary people was a rougher, more chaotic, and more irrational evolution.

Some people's strength suddenly increased, so much so that they couldn't control it themselves; some had mysterious nerve spasms, as if a set of unfamiliar reaction circuits had appeared in their bodies.

Others could generate a large amount of static electricity just by reaching out, with sparks dancing at their fingertips as if the air itself was being rubbed into electrical flashes.

This was not a complete state of being extraordinary.

It was more like all living beings were instinctively undergoing some disorganized transformation after the tide of spiritual energy pressed down.

Some would die in this transformation.

Some would be ruined.

And some would use it to soar to the heavens in a single bound.

This was an era slowly spiraling out of control.

And Su Ye was one of the few who had already realized this in advance.

Hmm?

Su Ye suddenly frowned.

Something was wrong.

In this instant, Su Ye keenly captured an extremely faint sense of danger.

Like thorns on his back.

His footsteps didn't stop, and his expression didn't change.

But his Water-type Mental Power suddenly spread out in the next moment, like an invisible tide, diffusing toward the surroundings.

Lock on.

Locate.

Capture.

A second later, Su Ye's gaze narrowed slightly.

His mind locked onto a stray cat next to a trash can by the roadside.

The cat was huge with disheveled fur, and its silhouette actually looked somewhat like a Maine Coon. Its shoulders and back were highly arched, its limbs were long, and its fangs reflected a bit of cold, forest-white light under the dim yellow streetlamp.

It was standing by the trash can, back arched, letting out a low hiss at Su Ye.

That sound didn't resemble a cat.

It was more like some wild beast backed into a corner.

Su Ye's gaze slowly darkened.

This cat...

An Evolved Creature?

It looks more like a Mutated Creature!