In the car, Lin Muci quickly asked the system.
“How many more points do I need to upgrade my medical skills?”
The system immediately calculated for her.
“The original price is one thousand points, and I applied for an 80% discount from the main system, so it’s now eight hundred points.”
“You earned one thousand points from Ling Qianhe. Five hundred for the medical skill system, two hundred for the acting space. Ten points for the beauty pill, ten points for Uncle Li’s information, fifteen points on the cruise ship, and five points for making your images appear on the screen on the fourth public stage.”
“There are two hundred and sixty left.”
“Ms. Lin Cuiping’s filial piety value is 100%, and with her changing her life trajectory, that’s two hundred points.”
“Your maternal grandfather, one hundred points.”
“Yang Weiyang successfully debuted, one hundred points.”
“You earned fifty points from the red carpet mission.”
“Exposing fake TCM practitioners, one hundred points.”
“Ah, that’s enough! This way, I’ll release a temporary mission for you. After you complete it, I’ll let you upgrade your medical skill system to level two.”
The system quickly presented a mission.
It appeared on Lin Muci’s retina.
Lin Muci only glanced at it and almost laughed at the system in anger.
“What kind of dogshit mission is this? Are you kidding me?”
The system was very serious.
“This is the easiest mission I could find in the mission database!”
Lin Muci took a deep breath.
This was a choose-one-of-two mission.
【Mission One. Successfully make Ling Qianhe cry three times in front of the host. Current progress 0/3. Note: Acting, playing murder mystery games, recording variety shows, etc., do not count.】
Lin Muci rolled her eyes and looked at the next option.
【Obtain cruise ship clues from Zhou Yuan’an’s mother. Upon success, the medical skill system will be upgraded to level two.】
This mission was actually doable.
However, regarding the cruise ship clues, was it the cruise ship she was thinking of?
“Cruise ship…? Clues…?”
“Is it the cruise ship I’m thinking of?”
The system’s voice was exceptionally cheerful.
“Yes. It’s the cruise ship where Ling Qianhe hid when he was a child, and his mother also died on that cruise ship!”
But Lin Muci was very puzzled.
“But how would Zhou Yuan’an’s mother know about the cruise ship? Isn’t she just a housewife? She shouldn’t have any connection to that cruise ship.”
Lin Muci couldn’t figure it out, while the system coughed.
“Ahem, host, you’ll know if you keep reading. This matter is indeed not that simple, well, the water is very deep behind it…”
However, the second mission was much better than the first one.
And Lin Muci was already planning to go to Zhou Yuan’an’s house, so she chose the second mission.
The first mission quickly disappeared from Lin Muci’s sight, and after a moment of thought, she asked the system.
“So—”
“Will the first mission reappear?”
“Won’t you make me continue this mission later?”
The system coughed.
“It’s hard to say.”
Lin Muci frowned tightly.
Hearing the system say that, her expression became a little displeased.
Zhou Yuan’an arrived by bicycle, and he was still sweating on his forehead. Lin Muci took him to find Uncle Li.
She borrowed a cotton jacket from Uncle Li for him to wear. In this cold winter, she was afraid he would catch a cold.
He initially refused to wear it, but Lin Muci directly asked him.
“If you fall sick, who will take care of your mother?”
Zhou Yuan’an sniffled and then hastily put on the jacket. His voice sounded hoarse.
“Xiao Ci, I’ve been boiling medicine for her every day as you said, and her condition was very good. But suddenly, overnight, she started coughing up blood. I rushed to find you…”
Uncle Li drove quickly.
After Lin Muci got out of the car with Zhou Yuan’an, she rushed to Zhou Yuan’an’s home. As soon as she pushed open the door, she could smell a rusty smell of blood. She squatted down and began to give Zhou Yuan’an’s mother acupuncture with silver needles.
The silver needles penetrated the woman’s body.
Her fingers trembled slightly, and she uttered a few unintelligible, pained murmurs.
Lin Muci took her pulse, her expression serious.
“Did she eat something she shouldn’t have?”
Zhou Yuan’an was on the verge of tears.
“Mom said Dad brought her a very peculiar tropical fruit called ‘Yinyuan Guo’ when he worked on the ship. Dad said it sounded like ‘Yinyuan’ which means marriage. She missed Dad, so I went to buy some Yinyuan Guo…”
Lin Muci didn’t blame him. She gently explained to him.
“There is a principle of mutual generation and restraint between some Chinese medicines and some foods.”
“Yinyuan Guo is a tropical fruit, very cold and yin. The Chinese medicine your mother was taking will react with this fruit, changing the medicinal properties of the Chinese medicine. That’s why your mother’s stable condition suddenly worsened, and her sudden spitting of blood is also related to this—”
Lin Muci sighed, then said.
“Don’t blame yourself too much, I can save her.”
She slowly inserted the needles.
The Baizhilin Pharmacy had a special inherited acupuncture technique called the “Nine Revolutions Life Return Acupuncture”.
However, it required a great deal of energy to succeed.
Lin Muci held the silver needles. Even though it was the depths of winter, fine beads of sweat broke out on her forehead.
She stared at the woman in front of her, then slowly inserted the needles into her acupoints.
About two hours passed.
Lin Muci wiped the sweat from her forehead.
“Done. I’ll wait for her to wake up. I’ll write a prescription, have Uncle Li get the medicine, and you go and boil it.”
Zhou Yuan’an, who was already feeling guilty and on the verge of tears, immediately nodded in agreement and rushed out to get the medicine.
Lin Muci watched his retreating figure. She held the woman’s hand, but then heard her voice, like a breaking whisper.
“Run quickly…”
“Run away… run away from that cruise ship…”
Lin Muci was stunned.
She held her hand and gently asked her.
“What?”
The system was even more anxious than her.
“Hurry up and ask her. This is a key clue involving a major world secret!”
“Host, saving Zhou Yuan’an’s mother is absolutely worth it!”
“If his mother dies, this clue will be broken.”
“This clue involves the secret of the world’s origin. Following this thread will definitely yield rich rewards.”
Lin Muci had long since become immune to the system’s grand promises.
She just wanted to know where Ling Qianhe’s mother’s urn was.
She wanted to snatch back his mother’s urn from Mrs. Ling for Ling Qianhe.
She also wanted to cure Ling Qianhe’s illness.
The system chuckled foolishly.
“That’s also fine. You can definitely do it anyway. Hey, Zhou Yuan’an’s mother seems to be awake!”
Lin Muci immediately looked up at the woman. The woman’s face was pale, her lips were tightly pressed together, and her voice was trembling.
“Is… is it you who saved me?”