Chapter 863: Shi Ruizhi's Discharge Routine
Chapter 863: Shi Ruizhi's Discharge Routine
“The physical examination reports have all come out. From the data, there don't seem to be any major changes. You can be discharged now; I've already handled the registration for you.”
Yue spoke as she handed over a report.
“We can just leave after registering like this?”
Shi Ruizhi instinctively took the physical examination report.
She had not expected it to be so convenient.
“After all, this is the Witch Academy's infirmary. If it weren't for the fact that your injuries truly were special, Senior, even if someone arrived heavily injured, it would just be a Healing spell package and they could walk out of the infirmary themselves. Even death could be met with a Resurrection Spell. What kind of troublesome procedures could an infirmary have?”
“Infirmary... I almost forgot this is an infirmary...”
Shi Ruizhi seemed to recall some images.
Those seemed to be images of going to school in the past.
Before entering a Transcendent academy, the infirmaries of those academies... were actually mostly places just to make up numbers.
If one really got sick, they would directly contact parents to be sent to a hospital.
What sane person would be heavily injured at school and hospitalized in an infirmary?
However, the uniqueness of the Witch Academy had indeed shaped such a characteristic.
Shi Ruizhi left the infirmary and stood at the entrance, suddenly feeling a bit lost.
“I... what should I do next?”
“How about going home first? Namely the dorm, or the student villa. Perhaps your roommates are still there too!”
Yue spoke to offer a suggestion.
“Then... where is my dorm?”
“Um... for that question, you can query your personal information through your phone or your Seed of Knowledge.”
“Where is my phone? And... what is a Seed of Knowledge?”
Shi Ruizhi inquired.
Although she felt she had some impression of them, she truly could not quite recall.
“As for the phone... it might be in your storage equipment; you can rummage through your private belongings to see. As for the Seed of Knowledge... it's that tree in your head. It has already sprouted from a seed into a tree. Let me teach you how to operate it.”
After a round of teaching from Yue, Shi Ruizhi quickly got the hang of it.
It was the kind of feeling where, after becoming rusty, she became familiar with it as soon as she started.
As she continuously came into contact with familiar things, she increasingly felt her memories were gradually “reviving.”
This made her even more full of hope for her unknown life.
This was a type of self-expansion by anchoring memories.
Even people who haven't lost their memory occasionally have this feeling, as if they are doing something they haven't done before, yet the illusion that they have done it inexplicably appears in their minds.
Memory... truly is a miraculous thing.
After teaching Shi Ruizhi how to use the Seed of Knowledge and the storage equipment, Shi Ruizhi found many things within her storage equipment, including but not limited to her phone, flying license, and broom...
Shi Ruizhi was extremely shocked upon learning that this broom was a flight tool, but she quickly accepted this setting.
After all, a witch with a broom was considered a stereotype for people of the Main World.
Furthermore, when she held the broom, her body instinctively prepared for a flying posture.
With just a slight attempt, Shi Ruizhi regained her flying skills.
It had to be said that the weight of passing this flying license was truly high; even with amnesia, she hadn't returned the skills to the coach.
“Next, you can use the Seed of Knowledge directly for navigation. Open the navigation vision, and your field of vision will have various prompts just like playing a game. Even if you've forgotten all the theoretical knowledge of the flying license, it will remind you what to do in various situations at any time.”
“Ah? Oh...”
Shi Ruizhi found all these actions very novel, like a child who had just mastered flight.
However, her behavior appeared both somewhat eager and somewhat instinctively restrained.
After all, she had already stepped into her identity as a 9th year senior, and her age was nearing thirty.
She couldn't bring herself to make those kinds of wanton attempts.
So she had no choice but to fly back at a constant speed very obediently.
However, on the way back, Shi Ruizhi still had many doubts that needed someone to answer for her.
“Yue, I want to ask, exactly what was that experiment that caused me to fall into a coma?”
“It was the small-scale promotion test experiment for Self-generating Magic Power.”
“What is Self-generating Magic Power?”
“It is a very special body talent……”
Yue explained it very detailedly for Shi Ruizhi, incidentally even reinforcing concepts like spellbooks and Magic Power Sources for her, before introducing Self-generating Magic Power.
“So you are now considered a powerful Reserve Witch possessing Self-generating Magic Power, Senior.”
“I have it too? Wait, didn't I fail the experiment?”
Shi Ruizhi inquired in confusion.
“Mhm. Originally, you indeed failed, Senior. However, at the first moment after the failure, a mentor sent you to the infirmary. The Academy Head and the Teaching Assistant, Big Sis Xiao Han, also arrived immediately.”
“After stabilizing your condition, Big Sis Xiao Han also helped complete the subsequent flow of the experiment, helping you structure your own magic power. If you still want to continue, I can help you complete the Refining Ritual, and then you can completely master the Self-generating Magic Power body talent.”
“This way, you can possess a faster magic recovery efficiency than other students! If you master the Magic Power Source condensation technique again, you can even possess Magic Power Sources exceeding the ten thousand limit!”
“In other words... in a certain sense, I've actually gained a blessing in disguise? Although I lost my memory for it... sigh...”
Shi Ruizhi spoke with some sentiment.
“You don't need to sigh, Senior. Although such things are hard to avoid, this way, you also have a better foundation than others!”
“That kind of saying can only comfort oneself...”
Shi Ruizhi didn't feel too happy upon hearing this, but she seemed to suddenly think of something.
“Wait, something seems not quite right!”
“Did you think of something again, Senior?”
Yue inquired.
“Exactly what happened to me during the experiment? Earlier at the infirmary entrance, you said heavy injuries were just a Healing spell and death could be resurrected... Then what happened to me? It couldn't be... that my situation was more serious than death? How is that possible?”
“It is possible. Your situation was relatively complex; your life essence was injured. Injuries to the life essence cannot be repaired even with a Resurrection Spell, because it is an injury on the soul-substance level rather than the physical one.”
“Is... that so?”
“Mhm, it can barely be put that way. Precisely because your life essence was injured, it led to your memory loss.”
“Then this experiment is far too dangerous, isn't it? A single mistake actually injured the life essence? If the life essence perishes, can even a Resurrection Spell not save one?”
At the thought of this, Shi Ruizhi instinctively shuddered.
“Yes.”
“Hiss... truly terrifying. Then was there anyone else in this experiment... Oh wait, I remember... I was the only casualty?”
Shi Ruizhi recalled the conversation in the infirmary, which instantly made her feel her luck was truly terrible!
“Yes, truly sorry. We will definitely investigate the cause. Although I don't know much about the current progress, I heard it might have been an external factor that caused the experiment failure... After all, that's what the Academy Head said personally; perhaps there is some concrete evidence. Senior, could it be that some enemy of yours wanted to harm you secretly?”
“Ah? An enemy of mine? Secretly harming me?”
Shi Ruizhi's eyes widened in disbelief.
“Ah, no, no... that's just my guess! Don't take it to heart! Anyway... regardless, this accident happened at the experimental grounds, and Big Sis Xiao Han will definitely take full responsibility for it!”
“Phew... scared me to death. I thought that was really the case.”
Shi Ruizhi spoke somewhat theatrically, but beneath her slightly exaggerated tone was her truest emotion hidden.
She had only lost her memory, not her brain, and her mind turned very flexibly.
From the time she woke up and kept probing the situation, this matter clearly had something fishy about it.
Could it be... she really had a mortal enemy in the academy who wanted her life...
Whether it was the fact that she was the only one out of over a hundred people in the experiment to have a problem, or some so-called essence damage—all of it was like a dream.
But the things she knew were still too few.
If this truly was a conspiracy she was unaware of, could she really return to a peaceful daily life?
She followed the Seed of Knowledge Yue taught her to interface with the academy network.
She flew very slowly—on one hand to be steady, and on the other because she was somewhat distractedly browsing posts online.
After all... it was because of an experimental accident, so online... there should be reports too, right?
And as soon as she opened the posts, she found at the very beginning of the home page's trending topics that the wave of discussion related to Self-generating Magic Power on the academy network was still there.
And she was the only victim of this experiment.
“Forbidden means... illegal experiment……”
Watching those very eye-catching post titles, Shi Ruizhi also increasingly found that the matter seemed even more complex than she had expected.
The replies below were also a shouting match between two sides, to the point that she didn't know who to believe.
This truly was a joke... as the only victim, she didn't even know whose words were the truth.
Time passed quickly.
Shi Ruizhi flew and wandered along, drifting through the sky, and finally arrived at the destination under the navigation vision.
“This is the place, right?”
Shi Ruizhi asked with some uncertainty.
“Personal registration information usually doesn't go wrong. Senior, try using your room card to see if it can open; you'll know then.”
Yue spoke.
“True.”
Shi Ruizhi nodded and took the room card out of her storage equipment, then gave it a light swipe.
Subsequently, the door to this dorm villa opened.
“It's open...”
Shi Ruizhi also felt a sense of familiarity.
She held the room card between two fingers and then opened the door with one hand.
After opening it, at the entryway were slightly messy shoes, and the air was filled with a scent unique to girls as well as a mixed odor of cosmetics and perfume.
This smell was a bit pungent to the newly returned Shi Ruizhi; even the infirmary didn't smell this strong.
However... her body seemed to adapt to this smell faster than she did.
When she arrived at the living room……
“Um... why are you back so soon? You... uh... AAAAAHHHHH!”
The girl had originally been lying somewhat lazily on the sofa, using her Seed of Knowledge to scroll through the academy network and browse various posts.
Occasionally, she would click on some “miraculous” links, and after watching them, she would continue scrolling to the next one with a red face, feeling satisfied and acting as if nothing had happened.
But this girl first froze for a second after seeing Shi Ruizhi, and then let out a terrified scream!
“Shi... Shi Ruizhi! You! You you you! How did you come back!”
“Why can't I come back?”
Shi Ruizhi spoke somewhat hesitantly.
The girl before her eyes looked somewhat familiar.
If no accidents occurred, she should be her roommate.
But looking at her now, she felt the other party seemed to have a severe illness.
***
After temporarily resolving the matter of Shi Ruizhi's awakening, I also returned to my laboratory.
This laboratory was a lab specifically and specially approved for me again by Academy Head Mei.
It was similarly in the experimental area, and moreover, it was a lab in a very special location.
Although the equipment in this lab wasn't the top-tier, its rating for resisting experimental accidents was the highest.
Furthermore, it possessed a one-key restart function for the highest experimental accidents.
Regarding this... no witch felt I didn't deserve this lab.
After all, just thinking that the Dream Calamity that encompassed more than half the world in the Expansion Realm was caused by me as the fuse was enough to know how high my trouble-making ability was!
Currently, the fact that the main cause of the Dream Calamity was me had not spread, or rather had been blocked.
Therefore, most Transcendent Witches only knew I was the fuse for this Dream Calamity.
Actually, there was no problem putting it that way, only that I wasn't just the fuse, but also the powder keg itself... it just wasn't said in full.
As for the laboratory originally researching Self-generating Magic Power, it was currently called to a halt along with the experiment at the training ground.
The Academy Head also had the witches fully take over the laboratory.
Even up to now, none of it looked like it was going to resume the experimental progress.
However... the fact that Yi Rui's team couldn't continue researching Self-generating Magic Power didn't mean there were no other ways.
This accident in the Self-generating Magic Power experiment could not block the Academy Head's determination to promote it.
So this naturally required some other backup plans to ensure Self-generating Magic Power could be accepted in another way.
After all, this technique itself was used on those Reserve Witches; the witches naturally needed to rarely consider the students' perspectives.
So... in the end, it was taken over by Transcendent mentors, who claimed to have completed further refinement of the technique based on this technique.
And after guaranteeing that no more problems would occur, they would continue the promotion.
This backup plan was a method that had to be used to deal with this accident if the outcome couldn't be quieted down.
In essence, this was nothing.
But... if it truly were promoted in this way, it would be equivalent to completely obliterating all the efforts of Yi Rui and her team, and pushing the glory to those mentors.
In the end... they would even have to take the blame.
This was an outcome no one wanted to see.
From a macro perspective, with the Main World acting as the “birthplace” of this technique, it would dominate the glory accompanying this technique.
Even if the witch race's records of deeds wouldn't be distorted because of such things, the true creators would not receive even a bit of benefit from the superficial glory.
However... Academy Head Mei also stated that if it truly came to that... she would represent the academy and the truth to give us corresponding benefits as compensation.
As for glory, I naturally didn't see it as that important, but I felt Yi Rui and the others needed it very much.
As the Self-generating Magic Power experiment was taken over by mentors, Yi Rui and the others also acted as the guides for this technique, helping the witches quickly become familiar with it.
After all... the experimental process they participated in throughout, and the massive amount of practical experience, were the most precious things.
So... Yi Rui and the others also experienced the joy of reversing the natural order, as Teaching Assistants and students teaching Transcendent mentors techniques.