Chapter 163: Universal Medicine! Elder Zhu
As soon as Su Ning heard the voice, she immediately turned her head, her gaze locking onto the group from the shelter in the distance.
She saw those people busily preparing to treat the residents who had already been parasitized.
This scene piqued her interest.
“They need people with healing-type talents?” Su Ning silently contemplated.
Suddenly, she remembered something important.
Before leaving Shelter No. 6, she had taken a woman with her—Wang Qian.
Her talent was a unique ability called [Universal Medicine], which allowed her to create all kinds of medical drugs.
Now, that ability might come in handy.
Su Ning remembered she had handed Wang Qian over to Huahua, and in the end, she obtained a Skill Fruit from her.
That Skill Fruit contained Wang Qian’s [Universal Medicine] talent.
Su Ning quickly opened her backpack and began to search.
Finally, she found the precious Skill Fruit.
It lay there quietly, glowing faintly.
[Universal Medicine Skill Fruit]: After consumption, grants the Universal Medicine skill!
Universal Medicine: Based on your own talents and understanding of various skills, you can craft certain types of medicine.
Su Ning ate the Skill Fruit on the spot, acquiring the Universal Medicine skill.
She also updated her disguised identity with a new persona:
Pharmacist – Su Lingling
She walked up to the person calling out for medical support.
“Hello, I have a talent with similar effects. Let me help.”
The person was overjoyed:
“Really? Then hurry over!”
Without even verifying her credentials, he grabbed her and rushed off.
Su Ning quickly followed and was led into a clean treatment room.
“Everyone! I found another player with a healing-type talent. Do you think she can help?”
Zhang Fenghua looked toward Su Ning. Inside the room, over a dozen people stood tense and serious.
To Su Ning’s surprise, she spotted an old acquaintance—Nan Sheng.
Nan Sheng also glanced over. At first sight of Su Ning, she felt an odd sense of familiarity, but couldn’t place where it came from.
But this wasn’t the time to dwell on it—everyone was facing a dire situation.
Su Ning’s arrival didn’t attract much attention, only a few people gave her a brief glance.
Someone was explaining the difficulty:
“Captain Zhang, I can perform the surgery, but we’re critically short on anesthetics. If we want to remove the parasites from inside the infected people, we must…”
She trailed off, but everyone knew the implication:
To get the parasites out, they’d have to cut people open.
In these conditions, surgery would be extremely dangerous.
When they mentioned the lack of anesthetics, Zhang Fenghua turned to the medical staff from Shelter No. 6:
“How much anesthetic do we have left?”
The medics looked grim.
“Not much. The explosion’s epicenter was at the hospital. Most of our supplies were destroyed.”
Hearing this, everyone fell into awkward silence.
Zhang Fenghua punched the wall in frustration—a visible crack formed.
“How are we supposed to operate without medicine?!”
Su Ning looked over at him:
[Player: Zhang Fenghua]
Talent: Energy Absorption – Can absorb and store external energy.
Skills: Energy Burst, Energy Shield
Su Ning scanned his data and thought:
“No wonder that punch cracked the wall. That talent can store energy and unleash it all at once—powerful stuff.”
Zhang Fenghua looked troubled.
Was he just supposed to give up on all this?
Were the parasitized residents really just waiting to die?
Everyone stayed quiet.
After all, they couldn’t just cut people open without anesthetic, right?
Su Ning had already tested her newly acquired [Universal Medicine] skill and knew what kinds of drugs she could create.
Seeing everyone so distressed, she stepped forward:
“If anesthetics are the issue, then my ability might solve the problem.”
Her words immediately grabbed everyone’s attention.
“You have a solution?” Zhang Fenghua was elated. If they had medicine, they could proceed with treatment.
Su Ning nodded and explained her disguised identity’s “ability”:
“I can craft special types of medicine. I believe I can produce anesthetic drugs!”
She then picked up several empty syringes from around the room. Under everyone’s stunned gaze, the empty syringes filled with a pale yellow liquid, as if by magic.
Using [Universal Medicine], Su Ning was now able to produce several kinds of drugs:
- Healing Drug – Created by combining her Self-Healing talent with Universal Medicine. It could rapidly heal injuries.
- Antidote – Derived from her Toxic Scavenger experiences. It could counteract poisons.
- Paralytic Agent – A derivative of the poisonous paralyzing agents she had encountered.
Su Ning discovered that Universal Medicine could draw from her existing talents or skills to craft specific medicines.
This skill had incredible potential.
In fact, Su Ning even realized she could, using the Zombie Virus from Toxic Scavenger, create a drug that could infect someone and turn them into a zombie—or even the antidote to cure it.
This discovery shocked Su Ning.
“I didn’t expect this talent to be so powerful.”
It made her wonder:
“How did someone as useless as Wang Qian waste such a god-tier ability?”
“There’s no such thing as a useless talent—only a useless person!” Su Ning thought coldly.
There was just one downside—without containers, she couldn’t generate the medicines. That was the limitation of the skill.
Everyone stared at the syringes in Su Ning’s hands in awe.
Nan Sheng, still confused, walked over politely since she hadn’t recognized Su Ning’s true identity:
“Can I take a look at the drug?”
She wasn’t doubting her, but the color looked quite strange.
Su Ning smiled and handed it over.
Her smile made Nan Sheng pause again. Something about this woman’s presence felt oddly familiar.
But her attention soon shifted back to the paralytic agent in the syringe.
Others also gathered around to observe.
Seeing this, Su Ning took out a few more syringes and began making additional batches, instructing the medical team to begin testing.
Then, a white-haired elderly man grabbed a syringe, and without hesitation, jabbed it into his young teammate’s arm.
Teammate: “???”
Right as the poor guy tried to say something, his eyes rolled back and he fainted on the spot.
The old man—Zhu Sheng—nodded sagely:
“Hmm… The effect is quite good. This is some solid stuff!”
Everyone around him was speechless… and immediately took several steps back from him in unison.
Su Ning turned to look at him:
[Player: Zhu Sheng]
Talent: Magic Hands – Extremely fast hand speed
Skills: Focus – Greatly increases observational abilities when used
Zhu Sheng was a doctor from Shelter No. 5. Despite his white hair and obvious age, he was highly curious about new things.
People his age usually gave up being players, but not Zhu Sheng.
He chose to become a player, using his talents to save more lives.
Even Zhang Fenghua couldn’t do anything about Elder Zhu.
After all, his reputation and experience spoke for themselves—and they needed him for the upcoming surgeries.
“Elder Zhu, please try to restrain yourself…” Zhang Fenghua said helplessly.
But thanks to Elder Zhu’s bold “test” (and the poor victim’s reaction), Su Ning’s newly crafted drug was clearly effective.
Zhu Sheng turned to Su Ning:
“Excellent. Now that we have what we need, let’s prepare for the surgery!”
