The doctor had stayed up in the operating room for three days and three nights, not to save one patient, but to perform continuous operations on more than ten different patients in one go.
Even though the doctor was very skilled, after all, he had been working continuously for seventy-two hours with no more than five hours of rest during the period. His mental and physical strength had reached the limit.
No matter how different he was, his body could no longer allow him to continue like this.
There was no way, a particularly serious accident happened nearby. If he had moved slower and rested for a while, it might have saved a life!
Seeing that after the last patient was cured, he could finally go home to reunite with his wife and children and rest for a while, but suddenly he felt dizzy and fainted next to the operating table... The doctor cured seventeen patients in one go, but collapsed again.
own body.
It was unknown which patient carried the pathogen. When the doctor's body was weakened to the limit after staying up all night, the virus invaded the doctor's immune system with almost no hindrance, causing him to contract severe pneumonia.
I originally thought I could take a short rest, but the doctor didn't expect that I would lie down directly on the hospital bed. What's more, I didn't expect that my condition worsened so much that it didn't take long for me to be pushed into intensive care...
The doctor could have survived, but he not only overtaxed his body but also seriously overtaxed his spirit.
Therefore, after falling ill, he was always drowsy and confused, and he did not wake up even when he had difficulty breathing and had to be intubated.
He seemed to be trapped in an endless nightmare, with the earnest and sad calls of his wife and children surrounding his ears but still unable to open his eyes.
He tried his best to open his eyes and could only try his best to put on a smile, hoping to bring them at least some comfort.
Suddenly, he felt a shock all over his body and the scene in front of him was infinitely higher.
He seemed to have passed through the hospital wall in one fell swoop and was high in the sky overlooking the earth.
He seemed to understand something, and the anxiety and unwillingness in his heart began to be withdrawn little by little, and he looked at the red sun that had just risen in the east with a slowly becoming calmer mentality.
His consciousness entered a cold, numb and chaotic state of mind. For a moment, the pure black and white of the past and present seemed to be in front of his eyes, and the vastness of the sky and the earth, and the dust of the day, seemed to be in his heart.
Joy, anger, joy, and sadness are all experienced in this body, and then gradually fade away and become a feeling of the next day.
In the midst of hesitation, everything is silent and darkness comes, and the doctor's will is unknown...
…
Su Li had a nightmare. He was confused and had no idea how an eight-year-old Taoist boy could dream of becoming an unlucky middle-aged man.
But that feeling was so real that he almost felt like he was that good-natured but honest doctor with special talents.
This made him a little confused about the current situation, and he almost asked the three questions of life: "Who am I, where am I, and what am I going to do?"
"Young man, it seems that you have experienced your first life. How do you feel?" An old voice suddenly came from the worn ring in Su Li's hand, as if it was a kind old grandfather.
"Oh, it's quite real." Su Li came back to his senses and remembered that he had accidentally activated the soul hidden in the ring, and then the old man in the ring said that he would let him experience three lives to create the Tao
Come from the heart...
However, I don’t know why, but I was very excited and longing for an old man to suddenly emerge from the broken ring I picked up casually.
After experiencing that 'first life', Su Li felt that the 'plot' was so cliche... He clearly remembered reading many novels with similar plots in the 'first life'.
"It seems to have worked. Your mind is obviously much calmer now than before." The old man in the ring said in a voice that seemed to be gratifying.
"Well, thank you, grandpa. I haven't asked how I should call you yet?" Su Li calmed himself down for a moment, but the interweaving of memories in the previous dream still made him a little dazed.
"Just call me Chi Lao, what do you think? Can we continue?" Chi Lao seemed to be urging Su Li to dream of his second life with some urgency.
Before experiencing the 'first life dream', Su Li, who was just a Taoist boy who had never seen much of the world, would have probably agreed.
But now he calmly thought about his current situation and urgent matters, then slowly shook his head and said:
"No, my current condition is not very good. The experience in my first life has already made me gain a lot. At least I have to wait until I can fully digest the gains."
"And the most important thing for me right now is that a master from the inner sect will come tomorrow to select a companion for the tribulation of the mortal world. This is a very important opportunity for me that I must seize, so I have to adjust my state and prepare well.
"
Regarding Su Li, who suddenly became very assertive, Chi Lao in the ring was silent for a moment, and then he seemed to be unwilling and a little confused and said:
"That's fine, you need to sort out the harvest by yourself first... I was a little tired from casting spells on you just now, so don't bother me if you have nothing to do today."
Speaking of the broken ring, Su Li suddenly fell silent. Su Li had no idea that Chi Lao inside the ring was muttering to himself in a suspicious mood: What went wrong?
The eight-year-old Taoist boy looked at the broken ring in his hand hesitantly, his originally simple thoughts now becoming more profound.
The middle-aged uncle's life experience made him a little wary of such a sudden U-turn...
After all, in his previous life in the dream world, he had received many fraudulent calls.
With such eagerness to give out benefits, is Chi Lao also a liar?
Su Li was thinking about very rude things in his little mind. Of course, he soon also thought about how he could become the companion of the inner disciple who was traveling tomorrow.
He was sent to the mountains to work as a Taoist boy since he was a child so that he could deduct taxes for his family. From the age of five, he learned to do various chores on this famous Tianli Mountain in China.
The people who work as Taoists here are actually young people with average qualifications who have been tested. They can practice but generally won't have much future, but after all, this is an opportunity to become an 'immortal', isn't it?
Before the age of twelve, Taoist boys usually only arrange chores, which can also be said to hone their minds.
Only when you are twelve years old will you be taught a basic Qi training and breathing method. If you have achieved success, you can transfer to the outside world to learn martial arts at the age of sixteen.
Then when he is about thirty years old, he will either continue to find a job in the sect or return to his hometown to find his own way.
Basically, this is the fate of all Taoist boys.
But if you can become an inner disciple's travel companion, it is one of the few opportunities to escape this fate!
If he could please the inner disciples, he would benefit a lot just by getting guidance on his cultivation.
And if he really has the right temperament and the inner disciple is willing to speak for him, then he can definitely enter the mountain gate to practice together as that disciple's attendant...
For the Taoist boys, this is considered as a way to get ahead in the inner world!
Of course, for the young Taoist boy Su Li, if he wants to be selected by the inner disciples, his biggest competitor at this time is not the other Taoist boys who usually like to oppose him...
But those nasty little Taoist nuns!
Because according to past experience, no matter whether the inner disciple is male or female, he always likes to find a beautiful and lovely little Taoist nun as his companion...
Damn it, he has now regarded those gentle and lovely little nuns as his biggest enemies in life.