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Chapter 273 - 192: The Divine Doctor Cures All Diseases

Chapter 273: Chapter 192: The Divine Doctor Cures All Diseases

Several days later, the Sixteen Star Summit took place as scheduled, after overcoming various hardships.

Before today, Mingyuan’s exposure to politics had been limited to high school textbooks, most of which had little relevance to current affairs.

Now assembled in this venue were the universe’s most significant politicians, whose proposals determined here could potentially influence the future structure of the universe.

Beyond the council members, Mingyuan also saw many familiar faces in the venue.

For example, the reporter Owl from the "Peace Dove Press" arrived at the venue before dawn; in fact, all the reputable media had made their appearances at the Gear Hotel.

This was the 17th Sixteen Star Summit, which, due to "Flesh Curse" and "Cosmic Pirates" incidents, attracted considerable attention.

The delegation from the Shanqi Commerce Association attended as witnesses; as per the Summit’s tradition, the Shanqi Commerce Association, secured as the third-party force to counterbalance the Universe Company, would follow every day of the conference in full.

Mingyuan also spotted Garoya among the crowd, still with delicate makeup and dressed appropriately, checking into the Gear Hotel amidst the crowd but blatantly avoiding Mingyuan’s greeting as if dodging the plague.

The tense atmosphere enveloped the entire hotel, and even Earth Wolf Twelve, who was usually fond of bars, had conscientiously started to manage the security work.

In his words, this was the most sensitive time; knowing that the Chamber of Commerce was about to cast dissenting votes, desperate measures might be taken to create an accident to intimidate the council before the final day arrived.

Earth Wolf Twelve understood the tactics of the Chamber of Commerce; they were even more radical than the company.

The previous spaceship accident was a direct order issued by the high ranks of the Chamber of Commerce to the fanatical fighters at the Eastern Battlefront.

Until the summit concluded, he remained in charge of the Gear Hotel’s security; however, his work focus had shifted, and Earth Wolf Twelve decided to fulfill his duty to ensure the safety of all council members, which he knew would greatly annoy the Chamber of Commerce.

Mingyuan, as the doctor aboard the Ranger, also heeded the signs and, along with medical personnel from other planets, formed a health team for the duration of the summit. They were responsible not just for the health of the council members but also for ensuring food safety and other issues.

After all, just a few days ago, a council member had found metal parts in their lunch, which resulted in several lost teeth.

Skilled in the Resurrection fighting style, he was elected as the leader of the Medical Health Team.

This was a significant title.

With this title, he could secure the position of a chief physician in any major hospital on any planet.

The whole morning Mingyuan had not had a moment of rest; starting with leading a team to inspect the kitchen ingredients early on, and then facing various patients. According to the summit’s rules, council members’ entourage could also enjoy free medical services at the Gear Hotel.

Without realizing it, noon arrived, and after sending away a ship worker tormented by oral ulcers, Mingyuan finally stretched lazily.

He always felt that something was slightly off.

The Medical Health Team had become his own specialist outpatient clinic. All morning, patients specifically requesting him had filled the entire corridor, suffering from a strange array of diseases. There were common ones like oral ulcers, conditions from prolonged interstellar travel such as travel syndrome, serious cases like late-stage cancer, and even illnesses specific to certain planets similar to "the Red Death."

This left Duan Mingyuan feeling inconceivably puzzled, he couldn’t understand why so many people, on the brink of death, still persisted in coming to attend the Sixteen Star Summit with their broken bodies and unwavering wills.

"Was the Medical Health Team from the previous sessions this busy?"

Duan Mingyuan asked the young doctor sitting next to him, occupying the same two seats, yet only one person had approached him the entire morning.

"No, not at all."

The young doctor had already become numb.

In fact, it was normal to only have a scattered few patients in the morning.

After all, this was the solemn Sixteen Star Summit venue, not a public hospital for the whole city. Normally, unless it was an acute illness, people would bear with their conditions; who would come to trouble the Summit’s Medical Health Team for something as trivial as a mouth ulcer?

If word of this got out, one would likely be ridiculed as effeminate.

However, when Duan Mingyuan nonchalantly cured a case of "Dehydration Syndrome," the young doctor realized that things might not be as simple as he had imagined.

"Dehydration Syndrome" is a unique illness to Sea Silver Star, ranked among the "Top Ten Puzzling Diseases of the Universe" alongside diseases like "Red Death". A person afflicted with Dehydration Syndrome would have their body fluids evaporate at an increasingly rapid rate. At first, it started with thirst; a few days later mild dehydration symptoms would appear. When the condition worsened to this stage, normal fluid intake could no longer maintain bodily functions, necessitating medical interventions such as injections.

But those could only barely sustain the patient’s vital signs. Whether it was just a few days or a month, the patient’s condition would enter the next stage. Their body would turn into a steamer, with injected and ingested fluids rapidly depleting, and ultimately, without exception, the patient would become a dried corpse.

The reason why it is listed in the "Top Ten Puzzling Diseases of the Universe" is that there is no medicine for this affliction. Even the researchers from Sea Silver Star who coined the term "Dehydration Syndrome" ultimately died of severe dehydration.

And then something outrageous happened.

Duan Mingyuan simply inquired about the symptoms of "Dehydration Syndrome" from the patient and their lifestyle before the onset of the disease, then casually cured them.

He did not perform surgical treatment, nor did he give the patient any medication. He simply told the patient "That’s about it, you can go now," and then the individual, who had been in the late stages of Dehydration Syndrome, cheerfully walked out.

Yes, as observed by the young doctor, this was Duan Mingyuan’s medical method, which could roughly be summarized in three steps.

The first step was to ask about the patient’s symptoms.

The second step was to inquire about the patient’s lifestyle before falling ill.

The third step was to proclaim that the patient’s condition was cured and that they could leave.

From something as minor as a mouth ulcer to the late stages of Dehydration Syndrome, all could be "cured with one click".

The young doctor’s outlook on life had crumbled. At his young age, he became a medical practitioner accompanying the council members, having exerted efforts beyond what ordinary people could imagine. Even in his sleep, he meditated on various difficult diseases and pathological knowledge, often dreaming of performing surgeries on patients.

He was ambitious and firmly believed that his name would be among the top physicians of the universe in the future. However, after witnessing Duan Mingyuan’s method of curing diseases, the young doctor couldn’t help but doubt whether his more than twenty years of hard work had been a complete waste of time.

This Blue Star ship doctor could resolve severe cases in one morning that they had been unable to solve for over a decade.

Duan Mingyuan still wanted to ask something, but the young doctor stood up and headed toward the door in a daze, almost tripping over the door frame on his way out and nearly falling flat on the floor.

Before the morning meeting ended, he welcomed his last patient.

It was a young fox, only 19 years old, who claimed to be a staff member of the Blue Star emissary group.

The little fox sat down neatly across from Duan Mingyuan with legs together, hands resting on her knees, and occasionally stealing glances at Duan Mingyuan.

"Doctor, I think I’m sick,"

said the little fox.

"What are the symptoms?"

Duan Mingyuan held his forehead, but out of professional ethics, he still asked.

"I have a beloved person,"

the little fox started explaining the background of the sickness, knowing that understanding the background could be more conducive to eradicating the illness, "Recently, my beloved has been too busy with work to spend time with me. They leave early in the morning and don’t return until late, and by the time they get back, they are too tired to talk much before needing to sleep."

"What I mean is, where do you feel uncomfortable?"

"My chest, here."

The little fox pointed to the region of her heart, "It hurts here after he leaves in the morning, but it seems to feel a bit better now. You really are a miracle doctor; just sitting here for a while has made me feel much better."

"Are there any other symptoms?"

"My tail as well."

"What’s wrong with your tail?"

"I haven’t been taking proper care of it these past few days, so the fur is a bit dry and split."

The little fox lifted her fiery red bushy tail and began picking at the dry fur, "Doctor, I know what sickness this is and that it needs treatment."

"What sickness is it?"

"Lovesickness. I’ve heard that you are a miracle doctor who can cure all kinds of diseases, so you must be able to cure lovesickness too,"

she felt it should also be listed in the "Top Ten Most Puzzling Diseases of the Universe."

Upon hearing this, Duan Mingyuan glanced at the time.

The morning meeting had ended, and it was now time for the board members to eat. According to the schedule, they had a three-hour lunch break.

This last patient suffering from lovesickness opened her arms to him, looking at him with hopeful eyes.

As a doctor, Duan Mingyuan knew that lovesickness was a very special illness, its treatment differing from that of other diseases.

He stood up and walked over to the little fox.

He bent down and picked her up around the waist, but the little fox didn’t show any signs of being in severe pain. Instead, she chuckled "giggled" with laughter.

Her tail naturally curled around his waist, and her two pointed ears on her head fluttered.

She also carried a scent of roses.

...

The scene was fully observed by Earth Wolf Twelve, who had just finished his work, and the tall, burly woman standing by his side.

A miracle doctor had come to the Medical Health Team for this summit, reputed to cure all kinds of diseases.

This news had spread far and wide, and the commander of the Eastern Battlefront, having heard that Earth Wolf Twelve knew this miracle doctor, hoped the latter would take her to see what was going on.

Now she had seen it.

But the scene before her was vastly different from what she had imagined.

"What are they doing?"

asked the big, burly woman.

"Don’t ask me,"

Earth Wolf Twelve lit a cigar, his expression grave.

However, his gravity didn’t last long, as the woman beside him, after staring at Duan Mingyuan’s back for a while, suddenly had an epiphany.

She suddenly turned towards Earth Wolf Twelve and, to his shock, bent down and copied the gesture, lifting the Interstellar Cowboy in a princess carry with her arms clad in powered armor.

"You fucking asshole!"

Earth Wolf Twelve’s curses echoed down the corridor for a long time, "Put me down now!"