Li Yao was so surprised that his chopsticks almost fell to the ground.
A ten percent chance of waking up did not seem high, but they were talking about Cultivators who had been in a coma for twenty years or even longer!
As a Yuanying Cultivator, Li Yao knew very well how dreadful mental derangement, brain collapse, and coma could be for Cultivators.
It was a completely different concept from the coma of ordinary people.
For example, if the soul of an ordinary person was running inside their brain, it would be like a shuttle rushing on a regular city highway at a speed of fifty kilometers per hour.
Then, the soul of a Cultivator would be like a super shuttle rushing in a stone belt at three to five times the speed of sound!
If both of them were in a car accident, which one would be more miserable and broken, fifty kilometers per hour or supersonic?
Therefore, there was still a chance that ordinary people could wake up after they fell into a coma. But if a Cultivator was mentally deranged and became a vegetable, the odds of waking up in the past were less than one percent.
It meant that, in Lei Yuqin's hands, the odds of a Cultivator waking up from the vegetative state and even regaining the ability to train were ten times higher!
Li Yao could totally imagine how much the Cultivators were eager to go to Lei Yuqin's hospital. If it were him, he would certainly inform his family and disciples before he was engaged in a highly dangerous training that could possibly lead to mental derangement. Should anything go wrong, he would certainly inform his family and disciples that he must be sent to Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital for treatment.
As he expected, Long Yangjun said, "After waking up quite a few high-level Cultivators who had hibernated for decades in a row, Lei Yuqin's fame soared, and Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital became the best place in the entire Federation for the treatment of 'Spiritual Nexus Sudden Death Syndrome'.
"This is a private hospital. Lei Yuqin's fees are extremely high. Even so, the patients from every part of the Federation cannot be stopped. Some of them are sent here by their family for treatment. Most of them are vegetative patients who live in the 'Deep Maintenance Treatment Center' for a long time. The number of patients has increased from dozens to hundreds at the beginning to tens of thousands right now."
Li Yao finished all the noodles and sipped the noodle soup. He covered his thoughtful face with the noodle bowl. "Tens of thousands of vegetative people?"
"Yes. Most of them were high-level Cultivators who were very rich. Before they fell into a coma, they were all elites in their own fields, especially the specialists in crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus. Those who were good at swimming were the best at the virtual world. Therefore, the chances of accidents were also the highest."
Long Yangjun said, "Their families, the enterprises behind them, and the sects behind them have provided tremendous fees for the treatment, allowing the scale of the 'Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital' to expand nonstop. Right now, it has occupied more than half of the space in District 109. It is said that the pulse radiations and spiritual waves of the outside world must be absolutely blocked during the treatment. Therefore, the 'Deep Sustenance Treatment Center' is a fully-enclosed structure. Generally speaking, only the family members of the patients and the academic delegation are received. It is barely possible for other people to enter."
"The ten thousand vegetative patients are all high-level Cultivators. Most of them are specialists in crystal processors and the Spiritual Nexus?"
Li Yao felt that the whole thing was getting weirder and weirder. Also, it vaguely coincided with Professor Mo Xuan's' virtual life 'project that they had speculated. "Are the other areas of the Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital accessible freely? It is a hospital after all. If a patient is sent to the hospital, they can't turn them away, can they? "
"Well, they will be turned away," Long Yangjun explained.
"Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital is a research-type hospital. It does not have an outpatient area. Most of the patients in the hospital are the severe patients who have been treated in various hospitals across the Federation for a while but have no treatment at all. Eventually, they are transferred to this place.
"Of course, some of the wealthy Cultivators reach out to Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital on a daily basis and send their brainwaves and brain scans to establish a complete database of their brain. After paying a certain fee, they become 'reserved members' of the hospital. Once they are mentally deranged and fall into a coma, they will be directly sent to this place after simple treatment in the local hospital.
"For Cultivators, the odds of them being mentally deranged are still quite high. Therefore, despite the high cost of maintaining the 'brain health database' every year, many high-level Cultivators who are rich still make an appointment in case anything goes wrong!
"If you are not a reserved member of the hospital, do not have a record of long-term treatment in the major hospitals of the Federation, and do not have the contact of the local brain specialists, it is barely possible for you to be transferred to Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital, much less accept patients who just show up.
"Besides …"
Pausing for a moment, Long Yangjun said, "I read the introduction on their official website. According to them, a large-scale upgrade of the medical system has been carried out in the past three days and is not open to the public for now.
"For the sake of the health of the patients in the hospital, even the reserved members, the patients who have been transferred to other hospitals, and the family members of the vegetative patients who come to visit are not allowed to enter the hospital for the next three days."
Li Yao immediately bulged his eyes. "Not open to the public for the next three days?"
"To be more exact, it was yesterday, today, and tomorrow," Long Yangjun said.
Li Yao drank up the soup. "The final battle between the Xing Yao Federation and the Black Wind Fleet will begin at any moment, and Professor Mo Xuan's' Tinder Plan 'will be launched for the first time tomorrow. Yet, Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital has been closed for three days. What kind of system upgrade is it doing? Even if it's a coincidence, it can't be a coincidence! That must be our professor's nest! We have to find a way to get to District 109! "
Hundred Flowers City, a metropolis floating in space, was made of hundreds of ball-shaped space towns. Every ball-shaped space station dozens of kilometers in diameter was a district. The districts were all connected by tubes that extended in all directions, but they were also very complicated.
They were now in District 07, the central business district of Hundred Flowers City, which was the densest place in the city. District 109, where Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital was located, was at the edge of the city and required two shuttle buses to reach it.
However, the shuttle bus stations had very rigorous security measures.
The two of them were planning the route when they heard noises around them. They looked around, only to discover that all the customers were looking at the news light beam on the ceiling in the corner.
All the major media outlets in Hundred Flowers City were broadcasting an urgent piece of news.
In order to cope with the large-scale invasion of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the garrison of Hundred Flowers City, together with the local police and the militia, were conducting a massive military drill. The drill included the 'anti-air attack' section. During the drill, Hundred Flowers City would enter the level-two alert state. All the citizens were asked to stay indoors and not wander on the streets. Also, reduce the use of vehicles.
The departments concerned would temporarily close the channels between certain districts. The security level in the transportation hubs and the main stations would be increased, too, and every citizen would be examined more closely. This was part of the drill. Please forgive us.
The drill would be over in eight hours. Everything would be back to normal by then.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other. Neither of them seemed to be in a good mood.
Wiping their mouths, they stood up and walked out of the restaurant one after the other, only to see that a lot of Union Army troops had been added to the street and were interrogating suspicious persons.
Mechanical noises were echoing somewhere in the sky, too. Part of the channels leading from this district to the neighboring districts must have been closed.
Although it was not enough to completely block all the channels leading out of the downtown area, the freedom of the routes they could choose was significantly reduced for the two of them.
Also, every major channel had been blocked. If they intended to disguise themselves as ordinary people and avoid all the eyes and ears so that they could reach Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital without alarming anyone, it would take them much longer.
"We are in trouble now."
Long Yangjun looked at the Union Army troops who were setting up checkpoints on the street not far away.
"I don't think so."
Li Yao's eyes were glittering. "Although we will spend more time on the road, it may be easier for us to find out the truth about Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital with the help of the Union Army!"
"Oh?"
Long Yangjun raised her eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"It's very simple. Professor Mo Xuan may have controlled the leadership of the military, the Secret Sword Bureau, and the relevant departments of Hundred Flowers City with all kinds of secret techniques, but it is impossible for him to control every bottom-level soldier, right?"
Li Yao said. "Those bottom-level soldiers, as well as the middle- and low-level officers who are commanding them, are still loyal to the Federation. They are on our side, except that they have been misled by wrong orders."
Long Yangjun frowned. "But you can't explain it clearly right now. Also, you can't attack them in the downtown area, either."
"I didn't say that I would attack them in the downtown area, but it will be different in Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital."
Li Yao smiled. "If Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital is really Professor Mo Xuan's nest, and he is indeed carrying out certain unknown, stealthy plans in there, those plans must not be exposed to most people.
"According to the official website of Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital, it has been closed to the public for three days. It is the best proof that certain 'changes' that cannot be seen by outsiders must have taken place in Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital at this moment.
"Right now, our greatest advantage is that my professor hasn't guessed that we are going to Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital yet. He still thinks that our target is the Tinder Base!
"If we can lead the deceived Union Army to Deep Blue Super Brain Hospital and see what Professor Mo Xuan is up to exactly, what do you think my dear professor will look like?"
…
Three hours later …
In District 109 of Hundred Flowers City …
This was a famous medical area, where several well-known private specialized hospitals in the federation were located. The air was fresh, and the environment was elegant. The combination of the Great Illusionary Land and the artificial environment created a half-real, half-fake scenery of beautiful mountains and clear waters, as well as the fragrance of flowers. It made people feel as if they were in the real world.
In the middle of the wilderness, a few small white buildings were hidden and melted into the beautiful environment. However, they were just the tip of the iceberg. The buildings of a larger scale, including the 'Deep Sustenance Treatment Center' that maintained the vitality of tens of thousands of vegetative patients and a few research centers for brain diseases, were all hidden 'below the ground', or rather, deep inside the spherical space.
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