Matrix Survival: I Get A Random Chest Every Day-Chapter 764 - 529: I Have a Friend

"After all, we're acquaintances, and Yakumo has been very helpful to me since I arrived in the Outer City. I heard that her sister, who is seriously injured and in a coma, has been receiving treatment here, so I thought I'd come over to see if there's anything I can help with."

Li Zheng explained casually. He was never someone ungrateful. Yakumo kindly showed him around, noticed his health issues, and even brought him over for a medical examination.

Although Yakumo's main intention was the commission fee, Li Zheng made three hundred thousand just now by selling some stuff casually. Compared to that, the twenty White Crystal Coins examination fee seemed like a joke.

To say Yakumo didn't negotiate to have the doctor waive his examination fee would be something Li Zheng didn't believe.

This is also the main reason why he didn't insist on reclaiming the three thousand three hundred White Crystal Coins that Yakumo secretly pocketed earlier.

"It's rare for you to have such a thought." The doctor said seriously, "Then come with me."

Li Zheng then followed the doctor through the side door where he had undergone the health examination before.

Upon arriving, the doctor stopped and asked Li Zheng to step aside a bit. He gently pressed beside the door, and a light screen lit up.

Switching languages, the doctor spoke a string of commands to the small figure on the screen.

Immediately after, Li Zheng felt a slight vibration beneath his feet, shocking him greatly.

"This... this big space is actually an elevator?!"

So it turns out that during his medical exam earlier, he was actually operating inside an elevator!

But speaking of which, it must have cost a lot to build such a large elevator in the Outer City, right?

Not to mention all the medical equipment with different functions, each labeled as "priceless" in the old Prelles' information display.

The doctor's terrifying financial power is simply astonishing.

"What's wrong? Are you surprised?"

During the wait, the doctor chuckled, "Simple treatments can be done upstairs; the patients down here have currently incurable difficult diseases, and they generally need a quiet environment, to avoid unnecessary trouble."

Thunk!

While speaking, there was a slight pause beneath his feet as the elevator stopped.

"Here we are."

The doctor didn't hurry to open the door but warned Li Zheng and Kota, "Once you go in, no loud noises, understand?"

"Understood!" Both Li Zheng and Kota nodded together.

Only then did the doctor open the door. The scene behind the door had completely changed, revealing a long, deep corridor.

Every so often along the corridor were large metal doors. The design wasn't intricate; the giant dial outside revealed that it was controlled by ancient machinery.

"The patients I take here mostly have the same symptoms. The cause of the disease is not yet clear but is suspected to be related to the ultimate catastrophe."

The doctor kept his voice low as he introduced this to Li Zheng while leading them further inside.

"These patients have a common feature: when brought here, they appeared normal, but no matter what external stimulus, they wouldn't wake up.

So I can only use the Life Support System to keep their bodies alive, keeping them from dying of thirst or hunger."

Arriving at a ward, the doctor opened an observation window for Li Zheng to look inside.

The ward was about eighty square meters. Except for a medical bed, almost all the space was taken up by other equipment.

The largest piece of equipment had a transparent vessel, filled with a swirling liquid like a nutrient solution.

From the doctor's description, Li Zheng thought these patients were similar to vegetative states on Earth.

However, upon seeing it firsthand, the Prelis' Eye's prompt revealed a different story.

[Name: Unknown

Race: Unknown

Strength: Unknown

Gender: Unknown

Status: Sub-healthy (Organs have slight damage due to prolonged lack of proper feeding)

Description: Beneath the seemingly normal facade hides an unknown secret. You think they're 'vegetative'?

Then you're wrong, vegetative patients can still maintain weak brainwaves, some even respond to external stimuli.

But these, it's as if they are dead, receiving no brainwaves at all, yet their bodies bizarrely maintain physiological functions.]

"This is the initial state. Besides maintaining bodily functions, no treatment methods have been applied."

The doctor closed the observation window, taking Li Zheng to another ward.

"This one had preliminary treatment, but something went wrong, resulting in this."

Li Zheng opened the observation window, inside the ward sat a sturdy being with the head of a jackal wolfman, behaving like a newborn infant, only crawling on the empty ground, mouth opening and closing, saying something unintelligible.

"Is this... intellectual regression?" Li Zheng frowned.

The Prelis' Eye displayed: [State detection in progress...]

After a moment, the information refreshed: [Target strength too high, detection failed!]

This indicated that the jackal wolfman in the ward originally had strength on par with Yakumo's level, and if not equal, not far off.

"Kind of, but not exactly." The doctor closed the observation window, lamenting, "This guy was an old friend of mine; I watched him climb from the bottom all the way up, eventually securing a public office among several major races.

At that time, his strength was already ranked ninety-seventh in the 902 district. Unexpectedly, after completing a terminal mission, he soon fell into an unconscious state, and now he's turned into this ghostly form."