The Ultimate Evolution
chapter-878

Seeing the respectful attitude of the boss of his boss towards this woman, the doctor didn't dare to offend her in the slightest. He immediately replied.

"The patient had a very weird body constitution. He seems to have no immunity towards diseases at all. As soon as the bacteria enters his body, it spread rapidly. In my 37 years of practice this is the fastest I've ever seen a pneumonia spread. If it wasn't for the result of tests showing that everything else is normal with him, I would actually suspect that he's a late-stage AIDS patient."

Zi contemplated for a moment before asking.

"If that's the case....is his life in danger?"

The doctor hesitated, but still answered firmly.

"It is! What we're doing now is to delay the deterioration of his illness as much as possible. Please note that we're merely delaying it, there is no sign showing that he's getting any better. If this continues, just like a person who is about to fall into the abyss, there will always be a time when he breaks through that critical line. The good news is that he is still some distance away from that irreversible tipping point."

Sheyan was drenched in sweat. He felt as if there were more than a dozen rakes going over his chest, and the violent coughing fits even made him vomit. Then, the nightmare imprint sent him some notifications:

[The A-virus has detected the invasion of pneumococcus into the host's body]

[The A-virus has activated the phagocytosis, replication, and improvement mode]

[Because the phagocytosis, replication, and improvement were all done on the digitized body of the contestant, during these processes, the pneumococcus in your body will be somewhat strengthened. The symptoms on your body will be more severe.]

[The A-virus has injected a catalytic code into the pneumococcus. The host's symptoms are expected to reach their climax in an estimated time of 30 minutes. That will be the most critical period for the host, and also the most life-threatening period. The period will last for 800 minutes....]

[Data disorder. Data error. Recalculating.]

[Your 'Stronghold' innate ability is triggered. All abnormal statuses on you are weakened by 25%.]

[The climax period of your symptoms will last for 600 minutes. Your life may be threatened during this stage. Please make the relevant emergency preparations.]

[.....]

In the next six hundred minutes, Sheyan did not make any noise. He displayed an amazing willpower. But because gripped with too much strength, he tore a total seven bedsheets and blankets. Zi didn't take a rest either. She silently kept him company.

During this period, both Mogensha and Reef returned to the real world and gave Sheyan a call. When they heard Zi answering his phone, even the honest Reef showed a tawdry expression.... Despite his condition, Sheyan clenched his teeth and personally answered the phone. He was definitely not born with such strong willpower; it was the training from the life-and-death experiences in the nightmare realm!

Finally, Sheyan's torture ended. A soon as the replication of the A-virus was completed, his strong digitized body swept clean the disease that was running amok in his body. Sheyan sat up on the bed and exhaled a long breath. His whole body felt extremely light!

[A-virus replication has been successful!]

[You have successfully activated the rank 3 branch ability: 'Common pneumonia'!]

[Rank 3 branch disease : 'Common pneumonia' lvl 2 (+1 bonus from the Twilight Elf's Illumination)]

[This ability will only be effective on enemies who were infected with the bronchitis disease. The area of effect is equivalent to the rank 1 ability - 'Influenza'.]

[When enemies who already have bronchitis are infected by pneumonia, the infection period is 40 seconds.]

[Effect: Significantly strengthen all symptoms.]

[Sneezing effect evolved into intermittent chest pain: There is a certain chance of the enemy experiencing extreme chest pain for 3 seconds. During this period, the enemy's movement speed will drop by 80%. They will be unable to attack and will sustain 50 points of damage.]

[Shivering effect evolved into high fever: The enemy will sustain a high fever. Their MP consumption will double.]

[Headache effect evolved into hallucination: There is a chance of the enemy suffering a hallucination. The next attack will miss.]

['Violent Coughing' has been strengthened: During the period of violent coughing, the enemy will be rendered immobile; incapable of attacking or casting abilities for 3 seconds (up from 2 seconds). Every time the enemy experiences 'Violent Coughing', it induces a 50-point blood loss damage over 3 seconds (originally 150-point blood loss damage over 15s after 3 times of 'Violent Coughing').]

[New effect of 'Violent Coughing': When the enemy is suffering from 'Violent Coughing', there is a certain chance of spitting out sticky phlegm. The foul-smelling sticky phlegm contains a huge amount of bacteria. It will instantly cause 100 points of damage to the surrounding enemies and lower their evasion by 3%.]

[This branch ability can exist simultaneously with some other disease-type branch abilities.]

[Please make haste to invest achievement points to strengthen this branch ability in order to unlock subsequent higher tiers in the innate skill tree!]

Sheyan was currently accumulating achievement points to promote himself to Lieutenant Colonel. He was quite satisfied with the abilities of 'Pneumonia', so he did not spend his achievement points to strengthen it. He could already predict that the next tier in the talent tree should be the ultimate ability - 'Atypical pneumonia'! When the 'Atypical pneumonia' emerged, it would definitely cause major changes to the previous abilities. To be honest, Sheyan really looked forward to this ability.

All the doctors were stunned. Five minutes ago, Sheyan was still struggling for his life, and yet he's now leaping down from his bed agilely and nonchalantly putting on his clothes.

The nurse nearest to Sheyan stopped him out of her professional attitude and stammered in shock.

"Sir, considering your wellbeing...."

Sheyan politely but resolutely pushed away her hand and smiled at her.

"I'm fine now, thank you."

The nurse could only look at the attending doctor with a pleading gaze. Sheyan seemed to know what they were thinking, and told them.

"I'll never be your guinea pig so you guys can just forget about that idea. Zi, I need you to take me to a nice meal. Then we can sit down and discuss about the board meeting next Monday."

Zi, who had her arms crossed in front of her chest, asked hesitantly.

"The board meeting....do you have any good ideas?"

Sheyan grabbed a pack of biscuits lying at the side and gulped the biscuits down in large mouthfuls while he walked with Zi to her car. Only after she started the engine did he say.

"I don't believe for a second that you don't know about the idea I have in mind. You're just unwilling to do it."

Zi merely stared at Sheyan without saying anything.

Sheyan persuaded.

"I know why you're hesitating, but you're used to being in power. Can you really live a carefree life?"

This sentence spoke deep into Zi's heart. She looked up at Sheyan.

"You mean…."

Senyan smiled and swallowed the last bit of biscuits.

"I really hate people who steal my car and force me to take a taxi. What's the name of that bald director? I suggest we pay him a visit."

"Sir Balagan," said Zi emotionlessly. "He's won't be easy to handle. More importantly, he's a very careful person. I could even feel the presence of someone similar to us among his bodyguards."

"I'll need his address. Um...do you think we should call Mogensha over?" asked Sheyan. Then, he smiled at Zi and said, "Actually, I feel like I can take on the world with just you by my side. Just like the time we went against the Skull Party and Glory Party."

Zi could feel an indescribable emotion in his voice. She blushed and turned her head to the side in silence. After a while, she slowly said.

"We should go eat first."

Sheyan was always swift and decisive when he acted. After stuffing himself, he called Reef to asked him to come over. The palace Reef stayed in was only 2 hours away from London by train. During their conversation, Reef lowered his voice and reminded Sheyan.

"Boss, do you like Melody more or Zi more? Sometimes, you have to make a choice."

Sheyan had contemplated this matter for a long time. He simply said.

"I won't let either of them go. At most, I'll get dual-citizenship and join the UAE where it's legal to have four wives."

Reef: "...but will they be happy with this?"

Sheyan said disdainfully.

"How would you know that they won't be happy? Ancient China practiced polygamy and yet we didn't see the collapse of society or women suffering all the time. The civilization stood for 5,000 years. Even after the implementation of the monogamy system, there are still many women who choose to be mistresses."

Reef was dumbfounded by Sheyan's answer. He could only shake his head and sigh.

The board meeting of the E.S. financial group scheduled for Monday did not take place after all.

That's because 2 important members of the board were absent. They may very well remain absent forever.

Sir Balagan, who held 11.7% of the shares, had caught a severe case of pneumonia and was currently being treated in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The best case scenario estimated by the doctors was for him to live until the end of this winter. No one seemed to have asked what the worst case scenario was, but the news still spread.

Mr. Leo, who held 8.3% of the shares, met with a serious accident. He would spend a long time in the ICU.

Even if the meeting was held, without the two core members of the opposition faction, the other directors weren't Zi's match. There was no longer any point to the board meeting.