Chapter 863: Shi Ruizhi’s Daily Life After Discharge
“The physical examination report has come out, and the data shows there’s no significant change, so you can be discharged. I’ve already registered you,” Yue said as she handed over a report.
“We can just register like this and leave?” Shi Ruizhi took the report instinctively, surprised by how easy it was.
“After all, this is the Medical Room of Witch Academy! If it weren’t for the fact that Senior is indeed special, even heavily injured people could just undergo a treatment package and leave the Medical Room; even death can be resolved with a resurrection spell. What complicated procedures could there be in the Medical Room?”
“Medical Room… I almost forgot this is the Medical Room…” Shi Ruizhi seemed to recall some memories.
Those seemed to be back from her school days. Before entering the Extraordinary Academy, most of those academy Medical Rooms were just places to fill numbers. If someone really got sick, they would contact their parents to take them to the hospital; who would seriously get heavily injured at school and stay hospitalized in the Medical Room?
However, the uniqueness of Witch Academy has indeed created such a characteristic.
As Shi Ruizhi left the Medical Room and stood at the door, she suddenly felt a bit dazed.
“What… should I do next?”
“How about going home first? That is, the dormitory, or the student villa. Maybe your roommate is there!” Yue suggested.
“Then… where is my dormitory?”
“Well… you can check that information through your phone or the Knowledge Seed.”
“Where is my phone? And… what is the Knowledge Seed?” Shi Ruizhi asked, feeling a bit of a glimmer of memory, but she really couldn’t quite recall.
“As for the phone… it might be in your Storage Equipment. You can look for it in your private storage. As for the Knowledge Seed… it’s that tree in your head; it has sprouted from a seed into a tree. Let me teach you how to operate it.”
After some lessons from Yue, Shi Ruizhi quickly got the hang of it, feeling a sense of familiarity as if it had just been a matter of time.
As she kept interacting with familiar things, she increasingly felt that her memories were gradually “reviving,” which filled her with hope for her unknown life.
This is a kind of self-expansion anchored in memory.
Even people who don’t have amnesia occasionally feel this way, as if doing things they’ve never done before, and yet have a strange illusion that they have done them.
Memory… is truly a fascinating thing.
After teaching Shi Ruizhi how to use the Knowledge Seed and look through the Storage Equipment, she found many items within, including but not limited to a phone, a flying license, and a broom…
Shi Ruizhi was shocked to learn that the broom was a flying tool, but she quickly accepted this setting, as the stereotype of witches holding brooms is ingrained in the Main World. Moreover, when she held the broom, her body instinctively prepared for flying.
After just a little trial, Shi Ruizhi regained her flying skills. It must be said that the value of the flying license was genuinely high, as she hadn’t even returned it to the instructor despite her amnesia.
“Next, you can directly use the Knowledge Seed to navigate. Open the navigation view, and your field of vision will feel like playing a game with various prompts. Even if you forget all the theoretical knowledge of the flying license, it will remind you how to act in various situations at any time.”
“Ah? Oh… Shi Ruizhi found these actions very novel, like a child who had just mastered flying.
However, her demeanor seemed somewhat eager yet instinctively restrained.
After all, she had assumed the identity of a ninth-grade senior, and being close to thirty, she couldn’t quite make reckless attempts.
Thus, she abided by the rules and hurriedly flew back.
Yet, on the way back, Shi Ruizhi still had many questions needing answers.
“Yue, I want to ask, what exactly was the experiment that caused my coma?”
“It was an experimental test for self-generated magic power on a small scale.”
“What is self-generated magic power?”
“It is a very special physical talent…”
Yue explained in detail to Shi Ruizhi, reinforcing concepts like spellbooks and magic sources, before introducing self-generated magic power.
“So, senior, you now count as a powerful preparatory witch who possesses self-generated magic power!”
“I have it too? Wait, did I fail the experiment or something?” Shi Ruizhi asked with some confusion.
“Well, originally you did indeed fail. However, at the first moment after the failure, a mentor sent you to the Medical Room. The principal and Teaching Assistant Sister Xiao Xi also arrived immediately.”
“After stabilizing you, Sister Xiao Xi helped complete the subsequent procedures of the experiment and structured your magic power. If you want to continue, I can help you complete the perfection ceremony, so you can fully master the self-generated magic power talent.”
“This way, you will have a faster magic recovery rate than other students!”
“Moreover, if you master the magic source condensation technique, you could even have a capped magic source of over ten thousand!”
“So, in a sense, I gained something from this misfortune? Although I lost my memory… sigh…” Shi Ruizhi expressed some lamentation.
“Senior, there’s no need to sigh. Although such things are hard to avoid, it means you have a better foundation than others!”
“That kind of statement is just self-comfort, right…” Shi Ruizhi didn’t seem overly happy hearing that, but she suddenly seemed to think of something, “Wait, something seems off!”
“Did senior think of something again?” Yue asked.
“What exactly happened to me during the experiment? Earlier you said at the Medical Room door that heavy injuries can be treated with a spell, and death can be resurrected… so what happened to me? It can’t be… my situation was worse than death, right? That’s impossible!”
“It is possible! Your situation is rather complex; it injures your essence of life. Injuries to the essence of life cannot be repaired even with a resurrection spell because they deal with the soul material level, not the physical body.”
“Is… that so?”
“Yes, you can tentatively say it that way; being injured at the essence of life is what led to your memory loss.”
“Then this experiment is too dangerous, isn’t it? One slip could injure the essence of life? If the essence of life perished, wouldn’t even the resurrection spell be useless?” Shi Ruizhi instinctively shuddered at the thought.
“Yes.”
“Hey… that’s really terrifying. So, was this experiment associated with something else… oh no, I remember… I was a real casualty?” Shi Ruizhi recalled the conversation in the Medical Room, instantly feeling her luck was genuinely poor!
“Yes, I’m really sorry. We will definitely investigate the cause. Though I don’t quite understand the current progress, I heard it might be an external factor causing the experiment failure… after all, this was stated by the principal, so there might be some specific evidence. Senior, could it be that someone who is your enemy wanted to harm you?”
“Ah? My enemy? Harm me?” Shi Ruizhi widened her eyes in disbelief.
“Ah, no, no… that’s just my guess! Please don’t take it to heart! In any case, regardless of what happens, the accident occurred at the experimental site, and Sister Xiao Han will definitely take full responsibility for it!”
“Whoa… you scared me. I thought it really was like that.” Shi Ruizhi exaggerated slightly, but beneath her exaggerated tone lay her true emotions.
She might have lost her memory but wasn’t foolish, and her mind was quite quick. From the moment she woke up, continually probing into the situation made it clear that something was off.
Could it be… she truly had a deadly rival at the academy who wanted her life…
Whether it was a hundred-person experiment with her being the only one with issues or any talk of essence damage, it all felt like a dream.
But she still knew too little.
If this was truly a conspiracy she was unaware of, would she really be able to return to her peaceful daily life?
Using the Knowledge Seed as Yue taught her to connect to the academy network, she flew slowly; partly to stabilize, partly because she was nervously browsing posts online.
After all… she had gone through an experimental accident, so there should be reports online, right?
As soon as she opened a post, she found the trending topics on the homepage discussing the related issues of her magic power were still ongoing.
And she was the only victim of this experiment.
“Taboo methods… illegal experiments…”
Shi Ruizhi gazed at those eye-catching post titles and increasingly realized things seemed more complicated than she had anticipated.
The comments below were also full of insults from both sides, leaving her uncertain about whom to believe.
This was truly a joke… as the only victim, she didn’t even know who was telling the truth.
Time passed quickly. Shi Ruizhi wobbled in the sky and eventually arrived at her destination under the navigation view.
“Is this it?” Shi Ruizhi asked, uncertain.
“Personal registration information typically wouldn’t be wrong. Senior, try using the room card to see if it opens; that should tell you!” Yue suggested.
“Right.” Shi Ruizhi nodded, took out the room card from her Storage Equipment, and swiped it gently. The door to the dorm villa opened just like that.
“It opened…” Shi Ruizhi felt a familiar sensation; she pinched the room card between two fingers and opened the door with one hand.
Upon opening, the entrance was slightly messy with shoes, and the air was filled with a distinct fragrance peculiar to girls mixed with cosmetics and perfume.
This smell was overwhelming for Shi Ruizhi, who had just returned; even the Medical Room didn’t have such a strong odor.
However… her body seemed to adapt to this smell faster than her mind. Upon reaching the living room…
“Um… why are you back so quickly? You… uh… ah ah ah ah ah!”
The girl, who had been lazily lying on the sofa and browsing the academy’s forum with Knowledge, occasionally clicking on some “wonderful” links, would end up slightly blushing and satisfied, nonchalantly brushing through the next post.
But this girl froze for a second upon seeing Shi Ruizhi, then let out a terrified scream!
“Shi… Shi Ruizhi! You! You you you! How are you back?!”
“Why can’t I come back?” Shi Ruizhi responded hesitantly.
This girl looked somewhat familiar; she should be her roommate.
But right now, she seemed to be seriously ill.
……
After temporarily resolving the situation of Shi Ruizhi waking up, I returned to my laboratory.
This laboratory was one that Principal Mei specifically approved for me, located in the experimental zone, and it was quite a unique lab.
Although the equipment in this laboratory wasn’t top-tier, its resistance level for experimental accidents was the highest, and it also had the feature for a one-click restart in case of the worst experimental accidents.
No witch felt I was unworthy of this laboratory.
After all, just thinking about how the dream disasters encompassed most of the world in the Expanding Realm, and realizing I was the trigger for that, showed how high my ability to cause trouble was!
Currently, the main cause of the dream disaster was me, a piece of information not yet spread or rather kept under wraps. Most extraordinary witches only knew that I was the trigger for this dream disaster.
To say so isn’t entirely incorrect; however, I wasn’t just a trigger—I was also a powder keg in and of myself… that’s just not fully stated.
As for the laboratory originally researching self-generated magic power, it has now been suspended along with the experiments at the training ground.
The principal also had all witches take over the laboratory, and up until now, everything seemed to be at a standstill with no apparent return to the experimental progress.
However… just because Yi Xin and her team could not continue the research on self-generated magic power didn’t mean there weren’t other ways.
The incident during the self-generated magic power experiment couldn’t hinder the principal’s determination to promote it.
Thus, alternative plans were needed to ensure that self-generated magic power could be accepted through another method.
After all, this technique was meant for those preparatory witches, so of course, witches needed to seriously consider the perceptions of the students.
In the end, the experimental project was taken over by extraordinary mentors, who claimed that this technique had a foundational basis that completed further enhancements.
They promised that no problems would occur again and continued the promotion.
This alternative plan was meant to address the current incident if things couldn’t settle down.
Essentially, there was nothing different.
However… if this is truly the way of promotion, it would essentially obliterate all the efforts made by Yi Xin and her team and shift the honor to those mentors.
In the end… they would still carry the blame.
