Chapter 37: Super Self-Healing Ability

Chapter 37: Superhuman Healing Ability

Jian Suiyu, Wu Chong, and Jie Chen were dumped unceremoniously by Aunt Chen. "No one is allowed in without my permission.

You three go do the mess hall duty!"

The three stood outside the treatment room, looking at each other blankly.

Wu Chong, "Now what?"

Jian Suiyu, "My mom used to be a combat medic for the unit. She only switched to food safety after she was too old for field missions.

With her here, there’s nothing to worry about. Let’s go."

As they turned to leave, they noticed Jie Chen standing motionless.

Jian Suiyu arched a brow, "What? Determined to stand guard like a guardian statue?"

A rare look of confusion flickered in Jie Chen’s eyes. "I want to ask Wu Yue a few questions when she wakes up."

Jian Suiyu chuckled—a rare occurrence—and threw an arm around Jie Chen. "Come on, I doubt Wu Yue would want to see you the moment she opens her eyes.

Better to come wash napa cabbage with me than be an eyesore in front of her."

Wu Chong chimed in, "Yeah, yeah! Who’d want to see their attacker first thing after waking up?!"

Jie Chen glanced back at the occupied treatment pod, sent Wu Chong flying with a kick, and followed Jian Suiyu away.

Inside the pod, Aunt Chen was monitoring Wu Yue’s recovery data in real-time, adjusting treatment parameters as needed.

At first, everything was normal. But as time passed, she noticed Wu Yue’s innate healing rate far exceeded the pod’s projected curve.

Originally, 70% tissue regeneration would take a full 24 hours. Yet, just one hour in, the pod showed Wu Yue had already regenerated 30%.

In less than three hours, Wu Yue would complete what should have taken 24.

Aunt Chen’s eyes widened in disbelief.

In other words, Wu Yue’s healing ability was twelve times that of a normal person!!

And as her repair index dropped, the rate accelerated further. The actual total regeneration time took only two hours!!

Aunt Chen realized her earlier conclusion had been premature—

Wu Yue’s healing ability was actually twelve times that of a normal person!!

What kind of physical constitution could produce such superhuman parameters?!

Even Jie Chen, renowned as a master of physical conditioning, and Shen Que, Blaze’s captain, only reached five times the norm. Yet Wu Yue was twelve times!!

What did a 12x regeneration rate mean? Cancer cells would be killed before they could divide. Even a severed artery wouldn’t be fatal.

Such unprecedented healing made her mankind's hope for survival in the apocalypse!!

If this were Chen Ou’s old lab team, they’d have been salivating over such a subject...

Chen Ou immediately shut down that line of thinking. She had long left that hellish lab.

The people there were callous and cruel, viewing all life as disposable. They conducted human experimentation—even her son Jian Suiyu, with his exceptional intelligence, had nearly become one of their human subjects.

Chen Ou had to flee for Jian Suiyu's safety and had been living in hiding all these years.

Chen Ou knew the lab's methods all too well—they would stop at nothing to create the ultimate humanoid weapon capable of surviving the apocalypse.

The entire lab served the upper echelons, treating us survivors’ lives as worthless.

Wu Yue's physical capabilities must never be revealed to anyone, or she would be in grave danger!!

Not even her own son, Suiyu, or anyone else in the team could know!

Fewer people knowing means more safety!

Chen Ou quickly cut off the med-pod's cloud-sharing function, erased all of Wu Yue's recent data, and manually input fake data to make everything appear normal.

After that, she stationed herself inside the pod.

For a full 24 hours, she barred everyone from coming near.

....

When the pod door opened, Wu Yue slowly opened her eyes and blinked at Auntie Chen’s tense face.

"Am I in heaven now?

I must be in heaven, otherwise how could I see such a beautiful angel auntie?"

Teased like this, Auntie Chen flushed. "You’re such a charmer! Your words are dripping with honey!"

Seeing Wu Yue's mischievous smile, Auntie Chen vowed no one would ever find out about Wu Yue’s uniqueness!

Wu Yue was Suiyu’s lifesaver and had always helped people in the base. She had to protect her!!

Wu Yue sat up in the med-pod and stretched with a groan. "How long was I asleep?"

Auntie Chen, "24 hours."

Wu Yue's eyes widened. "What... 24 hours?! That long?!"

Auntie Chen snapped, "And you dare call it long?! How could you do something so reckless?!

Jie Chen is notoriously ruthless—he's killed countless people out there, and you *dared* confront him?!

You really have no fear of death!"

Wu Yue knew she had gone too far this time. She ducked her head, saying nothing, letting Auntie Chen scold her.

Her scolding faltered at Wu Yue’s puppy-eyed look, and she sighed deeply.

"Fine, fine. Go back to your room and rest for the day."

Wu Yue asked cautiously, "So... I don’t have to attend Richard Lawrence’s mental conditioning today?"

Auntie Chen, "Suiyu said Richard ran into unexpected trouble on his way back and is delayed indefinitely."

Wu Yue perked up. "Best news all day!"

Auntie Chen, "...Hm?"

Wu Yue switched to a solemn pout. "I mean... that’s so tragic!"

*Sooo* tragic. *grins*

Seeing Wu Yue so lively, Aunt Chen tapped her forehead with a finger. "You! Who would’ve thought you’d turn out to be such a live wire!"

Wu Yue froze for a moment. Huh? Back in Shadows, she had always been dull and uninteresting.

Now that she was in Blaze, surrounded by kindness, she could finally show her true self.

Wait—

Wu Yue suddenly realized—

Richard Lawrence had encountered a "small situation" on his way back to the base. A situation serious enough to delay Richard!

Could it be…

The mutated beast rampage in Frozen Rift Canyon!!

Wu Yue quickly turned to Aunt Chen. "Aunt Chen, do you know which direction Richard was coming from this time?"

Aunt Chen thought for a moment. "Probably the east. I remember him saying he was heading to a vampire dungeon."

That’s it!

Everything lines up!!

In her past life, Richard Lawrence had encountered the mutated beast rampage in Frozen Rift Canyon while returning from the east.

Richard excelled in mental attacks, but these mutated beasts were pure physical tanks, covered in frost-covered spikes that made them extremely difficult to deal with.

After three exhausting days of battle, he finally forced the beasts back into Frozen Rift Canyon.

It was then that Shadows suddenly appeared, using sheer numbers to steal the rewards of Richard's victory. The beasts’ brains contained pure, impurity-free mental energy cores—highly valuable for replenishing mental energy.

To obtain the cores, Shadows slaughtered the mutated beasts indiscriminately, triggering a secondary mutation that fused them into one colossal beast.

The monstrous beast went berserk in a nearby refugee camp. Shadows not only allowed it to massacre civilians but even used refugees as bait to lure and kill it.

Countless lives were lost. As a priest, Richard couldn’t stand idly by. In the end, he struck a demonic pact, becoming a vampire to slay the beast.

Not only did they show no gratitude or remorse, the Shadows openly blamed Richard for causing the disaster. They claimed the dead refugees were his victims, drained of blood, and even mobilized forces to hunt him.

In the end, Richard was left bloodied and broken, forced to flee in disgrace.

Thus, the priest who had once traveled the land spreading divine grace, who acted as God's mercy made flesh, ultimately fell before the protagonists' destined victory.

The meticulous, once elegant and noble priest—

Was reduced to

A wretched rat, doomed to forever dwell in darkness.