Ji Yijun looked up at the lights in the operating room, but there was still no light. All unnecessary equipment was powered off so that the extremely limited power of the small generator could be used in more valuable places.
In front of the door of the operating room, he always forgot that he was in this damned alien world. In a trance, he thought he was back to the cold night when his grandmother left him when he was eight years old. He was still wandering in front of the door of the operating room, but with a completely different mood. At that time, fear and sadness seemed to cover the whole world, but now he was immersed in deep regret.
Ji Yijun lowered his head, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and kicked a small stone on the ground with his toes. He moved slowly and lightly, as if he was afraid of disturbing the doctor in the operating room. From that night on, whenever he was absent-minded, he would do this, as if an inconspicuous stone could absorb all his negative emotions.
Garcia curled up in his chair and fell asleep. The tense atmosphere along the way had exhausted the energy of this half-grown child. Ji Yijun was annoyed to find that he didn't even have anyone to complain to. He kicked the stone hard in anger, and the stone flew to the entrance of the corridor, bounced a few times, and fell down.
"Oh, who is so wicked?" A female voice came from downstairs.
Ji Yijun quickly looked towards the corridor entrance and saw Ye Zi, wearing training clothes, walking up.
"I knew it was your doing!" Ye Zi walked towards Ji Yijun aggressively.
Ji Yijun's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly and nervously explained: "How do you know? This, this is really a misunderstanding. I just wanted to make a joke. I didn't expect it to turn out like this."
"Huh? Are you apologizing?"
"Yeah, not only did I apologize, I regretted it so much."
"Is it really that serious?" Ye Zi circled around him in amazement, then said with certainty: "If you are not having a seizure, you must have done something very bad!"
"Hey? I...what are you talking about?"
"Kicking rocks. What is this you're talking about?"
"I... I was also talking about kicking stones."
"Hmph, go to hell. You're the kind of person whose mood is clearly written on your face every day, and you still want to lie to me? Tell me the truth, what evil thing have you done?" Ye Zi grabbed Ji Yijun's collar and asked.
Ten minutes later, Ji Yijun was exposed by Ye Zi for three times and finally confessed the situation honestly. Ye Zi stared at him for a long time and finally said, "Good boy, you are really brave! What a brave idiot. Zhang Hong, that bastard, is disgusting to everyone. Du Mei, who is in the same group with him, is the third oldest in our dormitory. If you complain about this bastard, you can't stop talking for three days and three nights. But you are too stupid to instruct outsiders to beat him up."
Ji Yijun looked at her with a depressed look on his face and asked, "What would you do? Would you let him be so proud and make things difficult for us every day?"
"Of course not! If it were me, I would..." She moved closer to Ji Yijun and smashed her right fist on her left palm: "I will definitely beat him myself, with a mask on, and hit him with a club!"
Ji Yijun: “…”
At this time, the door of the operating room opened and a nurse ran out in a hurry. Ji Yijun quickly stopped in front of her and asked, "Doctor, doctor! How is it? Is the patient saved?"
"The situation is very critical, don't block the way. It's clearly the correct blood type, but a hemolytic reaction has occurred. I have to ask other doctors to come for a consultation." The nurse pushed Ji Yijun away and hurried upstairs.
“How could this happen! This, this…” Ji Yijun’s face turned pale as he stared at Ye Zi in a daze, unable to speak.
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Li Jia was sitting in his own shop. No one tied him up, but he couldn't move. A dozen big men were guarding him with axes and sticks. They looked at him unkindly, some were dull and firm, some were ignorant and cunning.
However, these people at least took a step back and agreed to let Hong Lifeng send Zhang Hong to school.
Now, he was the only one here, surrounded by people, but isolated and helpless. Although these natives had a bad attitude, they would not do anything to him for the time being. Everything depended on Enrique's situation. Li Jia did not blame them. He knew that banding together to face the outside world was the way for these remote villagers to survive. For these people who were weak in any way, it was their instinct to attack the outside world in groups. This was the case when they resisted taxes, and it was the same now.
The room was so quiet that you could hear the sound of breathing. This silence was like the calm surface of the sea, but beneath the water, there was actually a turbulent undercurrent.
Li Jia's eyes swept over a slightly fat middle-aged man. He was the one who had been stirring up trouble in the crowd. Li Jia recognized the people standing around him. They were all shop owners in the town. They looked at him with unfriendly eyes, but also a little fearful. Li Jia's threats seemed to make them uneasy. He said to the middle-aged man, "Has our shop affected your business?"
The middle-aged man looked at him warily, and then said, "That's right. You outsiders have taken our jobs. We don't have magicians to support us, and we don't have magical goods. Our lives are much worse than before."
"We have also brought a better life to the people around us. Look, the umbrella you are holding as a crutch is our product. Many more people are using our thermos, washbasins and mirrors." Li Jia said in a calm tone.
"What does that have to do with me? Before you came, my store could make seven or eight silver coins a month, but this month I only made three." The middle-aged man said angrily.
Li Jia suddenly realized that they had focused their main energy on how to feed their own people, and had not carefully thought about the impact of the various measures taken by the school on the local people. This conflict might be an accident, but some dissatisfaction might have been brewing long ago. If Ji Yijun had not been impulsive, he would have exploded at another time, and perhaps by then, there would be greater trouble. He thought for a while and said, "I don't think we need to go against each other. If you follow my work, you can make more money. Maybe you can make more than one gold coin a month."
The faces of several people changed dramatically. One gold coin a month could undoubtedly allow a person to live a "superior" life in a small town. One gold coin meant that one could eat white bread and milk every day, have fish and meat for every meal, and buy new clothes for the whole family from time to time. When the other men around heard this, they also became agitated. They all stared at Li Jia curiously, wanting to hear what he would say. The shopkeepers were even more tickled. They came to Li Jia and asked one after another: "Sir, is what you said true? How did you do it?"
“Let me ask you first, are the things we sell good things?”
The middle-aged man touched the umbrella in his hand and agreed: "Of course, otherwise how could it be so crowded that it would be difficult for us to do business?"
Li Jia pointed in the direction of the school outside the window: "Do you see the black smoke?"
"Ah! Isn't that the devil's breath?" a big man said bluntly.
The middle-aged man kicked him and said to Li Jia in a flattering tone, "Please don't listen to these ignorant people's nonsense. We are ignorant and really don't know what the magician is doing."
Li Jia nodded and said, "That is actually the source of wealth created for us by the magician. All those wonderful products you have seen are produced there. We are different from those small workshops. In the future, we will have more goods than you can imagine, even more than we can sell ourselves. At this time, if you join us and sell them to other villages and towns, will you still not make money?"
"Really, is it really possible?"
For a moment, everyone's eyes lit up.
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"Where are we going?" Ji Yijun asked Ye Zi in front of him while running on the way to school.
"Go find someone who can save you." Ye Zi replied without turning his head.
"Aren't all the doctors in the hospital holding a meeting? Who else can we go to? I am solely responsible for my actions. I will go to Principal Guo, Wang Jiyuan, and my father to admit my mistakes. If I can't be saved, forget it! At worst, they can banish me to the mountains and forests."
Ye Zi stopped when he heard this, stared at Ji Yijun and said angrily: "Ji Yijun, are you still a man? Do you have any sense of responsibility?"
"Why not? I was the one who ordered the beating. I admitted all the charges. Do you have no sense of responsibility?"
Ye Zi kicked Ji Yijun on the calf, causing Ji Yijun to hug his leg and groan in pain.
"You say 'If you can't save him, forget it' again?"
"Save..., save..., okay, okay, I surrender." Seeing Ye Zi raising his legs again, Ji Yijun decisively backed down.
"Humph, you deserve a beating."
Ji Yijun limped after Ye Zi and ran all the way up to the fifth floor of the Chemistry Building. She rushed into each room and finally dragged out a pretty girl with a ponytail from a laboratory.
"This is Wu Jingrong, the youngest in our dormitory." Ye Zi introduced her hurriedly. Then he pulled her arm and asked, "Where's Morey? Take me there."
"Who is this?" Wu Jingrong looked at Ji Yijun who was rubbing his legs, then looked at Ye Zi who was panting, and asked in confusion.
"It's not important." Ye Zi waved his hand. "Anyway, take me to see Morey."
"Can this Morey... really help us?" Ji Yijun asked, "Isn't he the alchemist? What does he have to do with saving people? Besides, isn't alchemist a synonym for charlatan?"
"Hey, you cripple, who are you? Don't talk about Mr. Morey like that." Wu Jingrong, who was leading the way, jumped up like a cat with its fur standing on end. "Mr. Morey is a genius. He learns things very quickly and has many ideas. He is now the researcher with the most achievements here."
"Wow, big sister, you are so protective of a native, are you in love with him at first sight? You really have a strong taste."
"You... bastard!" Wu Jingrong lifted up her white coat and prepared to kick him on the other calf.
"Okay, shut up! Human lives are at stake!" Ye Zi glared at the two of them, then said to Ji Yijun, "Although the doctors don't know why there is a hemolytic reaction, Morey may know. He is an alchemist and knows how to prepare potions. When we invited him to dinner last time, we heard him talk about blood power and blood transformation. I wonder if it is this so-called blood that has an effect. In any case, I have to ask!"