Chapter 218: Hope

Chapter 218: Hope

Lin’s mother was a doctor herself. Their family ran a small clinic. Lin’s father had long been laid off and never found another job, only helping Lin’s mother with household chores at home. Originally, with this clinic, the Lin family lived quite comfortably. But once Lin’s mother fell ill, not only was the clinic abandoned, but they also had to sell their house and ended up deep in debt.

Lin’s father had no idea what to do next or how to repay the money they owed.

After seeing that Lin Yin had calmed down a bit in Lü Yang’s arms, Lin’s father called her aside. The father and daughter talked about something—no one knew what—but Lin Yin shook her head and started crying again. Lin’s father also began to cry. Lü Yang thought about going over to comfort them, but he felt they might have wanted to talk privately, so he decided it was better not to approach.

Suddenly, Lü Yang remembered something. He closed his eyes, opened the Eerie Computer screen in his vision, and studied all the Eerie Cards, hoping to find one that could save Lin’s mother.

All the Eerie Cards, like the Healing Card, mostly targeted the Mystic Scholars themselves and rarely worked on others.

It was so frustrating!

He had all these extraordinary abilities, but when he really needed to use them, they were useless!

Soul Attach Card…

That’s right, the Soul Attach Card! It allowed him to attach his soul to another person. If he could attach his soul to Lin’s mother and then use a Healing Card on himself, wouldn’t that save her?

Just like before, when his soul was inside Lin Yin and the Mysterious Domain enhanced her charm, it actually enhanced Lin Yin.

He had to try it!

While Lin’s father and Lin Yin were still talking, Lü Yang walked to the area outside the ICU, as close as he could get to Lin’s mother’s monitoring room. He closed his eyes and attempted to use the Soul Attach Card.

The Soul Attach Card had a certain range of use. The higher the level of the Mystic Scholar, the larger the effective range. When Lü Yang tried to use the Soul Attach Card, many standing, walking, and lying human-shaped light shadows appeared within a certain area around him. Now, Lü Yang only needed to lock onto the light shadow representing Lin’s mother.

These light shadows vaguely showed their figures and appearances. Lü Yang easily locked onto Lin’s mother’s body. At the same time, the Eerie Computer provided Lin’s mother’s name for confirmation.

Lü Yang’s heart raced. If this worked, it would be the first time he had used his identity as a Mystic Scholar to directly save a dying person—and one who was so important to Lin Yin.

Although the Soul Attach Card was a very powerful card that could even save him from death in a Mysterious Domain, Lü Yang did not hesitate to use it. Compared to a human life, what was one Eerie Card worth?

If he could save Lin’s mother, Lü Yang would no longer feel he owed Lin Yin anything.

The human-shaped light shadow where Lin’s mother lay was very dim. When Lü Yang locked onto her and confirmed he wanted to use the Soul Attach Card, a prompt sounded in his mind…

“The target has died. The True Body soul has completely dissipated. Unable to use the Soul Attach Card.”

“Damn!”

Lü Yang cursed loudly and tried a few more times, but the result was the same.

Clearly, the Mysterious Domain determined that Lin’s mother was completely dead. Without the True Body soul, an external soul had no foundation to attach to. It seemed an external soul had to attach to the True Body soul for the Soul Attach Card to work.

Lin’s mother was truly dead!

Lü Yang deeply regretted it. If he had thought of this method before the surgery, attached his soul to Lin’s mother, and forcibly used a Healing Card, maybe he could have prevented her death!

But now, it was too late.

What a pity…

Were there any other ways? Like entering the Mysterious Domain to search for her soul?

But he didn’t have the corresponding card, and the opening of the Mysterious Domain was completely uncontrollable…

What could he possibly do?

When Lü Yang opened his eyes, he found someone next to him. The female doctor who had been sitting on the empty bed in Lin’s mother’s room earlier had somehow walked over and was looking at Lü Yang, as if waiting for him to speak first.

“Who are you?” Lü Yang frowned. This female doctor was very strange—he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

The female doctor touched her ears, then her mouth, and waved her hand at Lü Yang.

“Deaf and mute?” Lü Yang found it even more peculiar.

But wait… how could a deaf-mute be a doctor?

The female doctor pointed at Lin’s mother in the room, then at herself, and mouthed words to Lü Yang.

“Are you saying she’s dead?”

The female doctor shook her head, looking very anxious. Just as Lü Yang was about to ask her something else, she quickly pointed toward Lin Yin and Lin’s father. Lü Yang looked over and saw Lin Yin and her father walking back toward him. When Lü Yang turned back, the female doctor had vanished again.

Had he entered the Mysterious Domain? What was going on with this female doctor? What did she want to tell him?

Lü Yang looked at the people coming and going in the hospital. The sky outside wasn’t completely dark yet, so it didn’t seem like he was in the Mysterious Domain.

It was like seeing a ghost in broad daylight!

Could it be because he had advanced to an Intermediate Gui User that he could now see death, even see ghosts during the day?

Judging by the doctor’s clothing, she should have been a doctor at this hospital. How had she become a daytime ghost? Why did she seek him out? What did she want to say?

“Yangyang, come have a meal with us,” Lin’s father said as he approached.

“Okay,” Lü Yang nodded. He hadn’t eaten properly at noon and was really very hungry now.

The three of them went to a small restaurant near the hospital, found a spot, and sat down. Lin’s father ordered three dishes and asked Lü Yang if he wanted to drink. Lü Yang declined; this wasn’t the right time for alcohol.

“Let’s have a little, just beer. After all, this is our first meeting,” Lin’s father insisted and asked the server to bring two bottles of beer.

Lin Yin had stopped crying. Her eyes were red, her expression blank, and she sat motionless and silent.

…

After drinking half a bottle of beer with Lin’s father, he gradually opened up. At first, he talked about how well-behaved and filial Lin Yin was, but later he brought up Lin’s mother’s condition.

“Brain stem death. I consulted the doctors and even called some acquaintances back home. They all said… it’s equivalent to being dead. Keeping her in the ICU is just a waste of money…”

Hearing her father’s words, Lin Yin lay her head on the table and cried again.

“To be honest, to treat her illness, I’ve already sold our house and transferred the clinic to someone else. Now I only have five thousand yuan left. Since she’s like this, there’s not much point keeping her in the ICU—it costs over eight thousand yuan a day…”

“Don’t worry about the money. I’ll raise whatever amount is needed,” Lü Yang comforted Lin’s father.

Money wasn’t really a problem for Lü Yang now. If necessary, he could use the Money Card to convert the dollars he got from Chen Yonggui into Eerie Points. He could consider it borrowing from Sister Mei for now. Under no circumstances should they stop the ICU treatment.

Once they stopped, there would be no hope at all.

Even if there was only a one in ten thousand or one in a hundred thousand chance, they couldn’t give up.

If things got really desperate, he could even rob a bank and then launder the money—after all, that money was printed by the government through inflation, taken from ordinary people. Hospitals also took money from the people; handing money from the bank to the hospital would be like the hospital robbing the bank.

“Yangyang, I know you mean well, but… we can’t…”

“Uncle, don’t say anymore. We’re family. Saying those things would make us seem like strangers. No amount of money is a problem for me, as long as we can save Mom…” After saying this, Lü Yang suddenly felt his words weren’t quite right… Lin Yin might misunderstand…

Ah… but seeing her like this, he couldn’t just ignore her…

“But… no matter how much money we spend, it’s wasted… useless…” Lin’s father sighed. Lin Yin had just told him the truth: Lü Yang was just a worker, not from a wealthy family, and hadn’t saved much. The card swipe earlier had emptied his account completely.

“Even if it’s wasted, we have to spend it. Remember, as long as she’s still here, we can’t give up! A miracle will happen!” Lü Yang stopped Lin’s father again.

Lin Yin, who had been crying with her head on the table, looked up. She felt she was only now truly getting to know Lü Yang and understanding what kind of person he was. She felt ashamed of her previous opinions of him…

True feelings are revealed in times of hardship. There are many things in this world that money can’t buy.

…

On their way back to the hospital after the meal, Lin Yin pulled Lü Yang aside, deliberately putting distance between them and her father ahead.

“If it really doesn’t work, you can borrow some money from Xiao Hui first. I’ll write you an IOU and pay you back later,” Lin Yin said to Lü Yang. She knew Lü Yang’s financial situation well and that he was usually very frugal. Just his old mobile phone and the instant noodle packets all over his room said it all.

Sixty thousand yuan might be just a meal for a rich kid or Liu Hui, but Lin Yin knew that this sixty thousand was all of Lü Yang’s savings over the years. Yet when he took it out, he didn’t hesitate at all.

“Trust me, I can get the money. Don’t worry about that. No matter what happens between us in the future, from now on, your father is my father, and your mother is my mother,” Lü Yang waved his hand at Lin Yin.

Lin Yin looked at Lü Yang and started crying again. Lü Yang had no choice but to hold her and pat her back gently.

“I’m sorry… You’re a good person. About the photos… I shouldn’t have blamed you…” Lin Yin said between sobs.

“Uh… that matter really was my fault… I really didn’t post them online or make copies…” Lü Yang felt awkward. Yinyin, could you please not bring that up again?

“I believe you.”

“Yinyin, don’t cry. I’ll do everything I can to save your mother,” Lü Yang assured Lin Yin.