Chapter 5: Emergency Room Anomaly

“Quick, the patient’s blood pressure is dropping. Prepare H1NP, inject 30 milliliters!”

The assistant waiting nearby immediately picked up a syringe and began drawing liquid from a transparent medicine bottle.

On the instruments beside the operating table, various indicators on the screen were rapidly and constantly changing. These seemingly chaotic lines and data together formed the signs of human vitality.

At this moment, the lines representing Lin Mu’s vital signs were gradually becoming disorganized, far less regular than those of a normal person.

As various data fluctuated violently up and down, the heartbeat line representing the characteristics of life was gradually weakening.

“Heart rate has dropped to 15 beats per minute. Prepare the defibrillator.”

A nurse nearby immediately brought over the defibrillator. After charging it, she rubbed the paddles together twice and stood by ready for orders.

In less than a minute, the curve on the electrocardiogram had completely flatlined, and the heart rate displayed the glaring red number “0”.

The prepared defibrillator was immediately pressed against Lin Mu’s chest. With a sudden jolt of his body, his heart rate abruptly recovered to over a dozen beats per minute.

However, as soon as the defibrillator stopped, this value would immediately drop, eventually stopping again at “0”.

After several attempts, the lead surgeon shook his head helplessly, removed his mask, and said, “The patient has completely lost all vital signs. From a medical perspective, he is dead.”

After two consecutive hours of surgical rescue, Zhou Shiyun’s face looked somewhat pale, and a layer of fine sweat beads had formed on her forehead.

After standing still for a moment, her pale lips moved slightly as she said softly, “Go inform the patient’s family.”

Taking one last look at Lin Mu, Zhou Shiyun sighed, removed her gloves and mask, and left the emergency room with unsteady steps.

The other doctors and nurses then tidied up the operating table, covered Lin Mu with a white sheet, turned off the lights, and left one after another. Lin Mu’s body would remain here until the hospital issued a death certificate.

Time passed slowly. In the middle of the night, only two emergency lights were on in the emergency room, casting dim, eerie shadows around.

Just then, the lights in the emergency room suddenly began flickering without warning, and faint blue-white electric sparks flashed on the control panels of various medical instruments.

Less than two minutes after the anomaly started, a weak gray vortex appeared, and suddenly a strong wind swept through the entire emergency room, sending papers flying everywhere.

The white sheet covering Lin Mu was torn off by the strong wind and flew into a corner, revealing Lin Mu’s pale face.

At that moment, a black spiral hole suddenly appeared in the air above the operating table where Lin Mu lay, accompanied by a faint sound of thunder.

Immediately after, a stream of light shot out of the hole and disappeared directly into Lin Mu’s body below. At the same time, a thin purple arc of light was expelled from the spiral hole.

Just as the stream of light disappeared, the strange phenomena in the emergency room vanished in an instant.

If not for the toppled instruments and scattered papers everywhere, the emergency room would have been so quiet it seemed as if nothing had happened.

In the dim room, only the purple light arc remained, floating quietly above Lin Mu’s body, constantly twisting and changing shape.

This purple light arc seemed to have been chasing the previous stream of light, but it was just a moment too late, as the stream of light had already vanished into Lin Mu’s body.

After pausing in the air for a while without finding its target, the purple light arc began to slowly dissipate, with strands of purple smoke continuously evaporating from it.

As the purple smoke drifted away, the light arc kept shrinking. Just as the last wisp of smoke floated off and the light arc was about to disappear completely, a phantom-like giant hand suddenly emerged from within Lin Mu’s body.

This hand seemed to be only a shadow, without any physical form, but it firmly trapped the wisp of purple smoke in its palm before retracting back into Lin Mu’s body.

One second later.

Lin Mu’s body suddenly levitated, abruptly hovering in the air above the operating table. Beneath his pale skin, faint purple lines rapidly coursed in all directions.

As a black misty gas condensed on his left hand, an ancient-looking Ring slowly appeared on Lin Mu’s index finger.

In the dim operating room, the sight of a corpse floating in mid-air would likely drive anyone who saw it insane.

As those purple lines gradually faded beneath Lin Mu’s skin, his originally pale, bloodless skin slowly became rosy. Even in the extremely quiet operating room, a faint drumming sound could be heard.

Upon closer listening, one would realize this wasn’t an actual drum but the sound of a heartbeat coming from within Lin Mu’s body.

Accompanied by increasingly rapid and strong heartbeat sounds, Lin Mu’s body began to twitch and tremble slowly, with wave-like undulations even appearing beneath his skin.

Amidst a series of bone-chilling cracking sounds, Lin Mu’s body actually began to slowly stretch, and subtle changes appeared on his face. His originally soft features were gradually becoming more angular and masculine.