Developing Superpowers in Another World

Chapter 190 – Xu Bingli

 

Tu Ran hadn’t completely lost her composure yet and managed to stop herself just outside the meeting room.

The meeting room was fully enclosed, so she couldn’t see what was happening inside.

She stood outside waiting, glancing down at the time. It was six o’clock.

By seven, she needed to be back in the Pandalin District.

She had already wasted a lot of time going back and forth between the administrative building and the medical department two or three times.

If she used [Teleportation], it would take her less than three minutes to cover the distance between the administrative building and the medical department.

But the Federation was filled with Zero’s eyes. Any abnormal behavior would expose the fact that she had an inner core, and the people behind Zero would deal with her just like they had with Xi Chunzhi.

She couldn’t underestimate those hidden behind Zero.

At six twenty, the meeting ended, and the doors to the meeting room opened automatically.

Xu Bingli emerged, surrounded by a group of people asking him questions about medical knowledge.

Xu Bingli patiently answered each person’s queries.

Suddenly, Tu Ran stepped forward, blocking their path.

Xu Bingli looked up and froze for a barely noticeable moment.

Perhaps that was guilt.

He knew that Tu Ran and Xi Chunzhi were friends.

Now, seeing Tu Ran, who shouldn’t have been here, standing before him with such intensity, he couldn’t help but think she had discovered something.

“This pioneer, please don’t block the way,” one of the doctors in a white coat who had come out with Xu Bingli shouted.

Tu Ran ignored him and kept her gaze fixed on Xu Bingli.

“Dr. Xu, my friend Xi Chunzhi, do you remember her?”

Xu Bingli’s heart sank, but he didn’t show it on his face. He bowed his head slightly, pretending to think for a moment, then looked up again with a gentle voice. “Yes, I remember. Is there something wrong?”

If Tu Ran hadn’t accessed the guard’s memory, she might have been fooled by his act.

He was putting on quite a performance.

So, she decided to show him just how good her acting could be.

With her eyes drooping, she adopted a worried and frantic expression. “She’s come down with an illness and has been in a coma ever since. I want to ask Dr. Xu to take a look at her.”

Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at Xu Bingli, portraying the helplessness of someone desperately seeking medical help.

Xu Bingli quietly sighed in relief.

“Dr. Xu isn’t your personal doctor. He has many patients to see every day. You can’t just expect him to drop everything and attend to your needs!” The doctor beside him interjected again, glaring at Tu Ran with the expression of someone who had seen many like her—people who pestered Dr. Xu just because he seemed approachable.

Tu Ran’s expression instantly shifted, and she coldly glanced at the man, her voice low and firm. “Is your last name Xu?”

“No,” he stammered, taken aback by her sudden change in demeanor.

“Then can you keep your mouth shut?”

The man opened his mouth to retort but hesitated, clearly intimidated.

Xu Bingli stepped forward, shielding the doctor behind him.

“He’s right,” Xu Bingli said, meeting Tu Ran’s gaze. His face remained gentle, but his tone left no room for argument. “Xi Chunzhi is under the care of another doctor. It’s not appropriate for me to intervene.”

“But that doctor can’t save her!” Tu Ran suddenly raised her voice, sounding almost hysterical, her tone full of raw emotion.

The people who hadn’t yet left the meeting room were drawn by the commotion, turning to look at the scene at the door. Even those passing by in the hallway stopped to see the woman bold enough to confront Xu Bingli.

This was exactly the effect Tu Ran wanted—the more attention she attracted, the harder it would be for Xu Bingli to refuse.

She put on a show of desperation, her eyes bloodshot as if truly at her wit’s end.

“She’s been in a coma for over half a month. The medical bills are four thousand Federal coins a day, and yet they still haven’t cured her! They haven’t even found the cause of her illness! How much longer do they intend to keep her like this? Do they think four thousand a day isn’t expensive?”

Tu Ran continued to rally the onlookers around her. “Four thousand Federal coins a day—that’s nearly a month’s salary! You tell me, how is an ordinary pioneer like me supposed to keep up with that? In just two more days, my friend will be kicked out because we can’t afford the outrageous medical bills!”

She wiped her face, feigning helplessness. “I’ve spent all my savings, and yet the illness still hasn’t been cured. You tell me, what else can I do but seek help from the renowned Dr. Xu? I really have no other options.”

Her act was convincing, and the surrounding crowd began to show sympathy. The cost was indeed steep—thankfully, she was a pioneer and had managed to last this long. For them, five days of such expenses would have been unbearable.

Many people turned their gaze toward Xu Bingli, some even urging him to at least take a look, arguing that they couldn’t let two young women’s money go to waste.

Xu Bingli struggled to maintain his composure. He knew exactly why Xi Chunzhi was in a coma.

But he couldn’t do anything about it.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to wake her up—it was that he couldn’t allow her to wake up.

Her body held immense value to many departments within the Federation. The Research Institute, the Medical Department, the newly established Genetic Modification Research Institute—they all wanted her body for their research.

Samples like hers were incredibly rare, making each one highly coveted.

Even the person who had ingested the lizard inner core and gained superhuman hearing within a hundred meters, despite already being a major general, was still taken to the Research Institute for experimental studies, albeit with his life being safeguarded.

As for Xi Chunzhi, merely a junior pioneer, she had originally been slated for outright termination—to be erased from this world entirely and confined forever in an underground laboratory.

However, after a series of evaluations, Zero determined that Xi Chunzhi’s only friend, Tu Ran, posed a significant risk due to her unpredictable nature.

Tu Ran had garnered considerable fame among the pioneers, known for her exceptional abilities and deep bond with Xi Chunzhi.

A comprehensive analysis of her personality, behavior patterns, and antisocial tendencies resulted in a calculated danger level of 82%.

Such a high figure prompted the higher-ups to carefully consider the situation, ultimately deciding to eliminate Tu Ran, the primary threat.

Once Tu Ran was dealt with, Xi Chunzhi would be quietly transferred to the laboratory.

This world would lose both Tu Ran and Xi Chunzhi simultaneously.

For now, Xi Chunzhi was merely a tool to temporarily placate Tu Ran.

The powers above were already planning how to discreetly eliminate Tu Ran without raising any alarms.

Xu Bingli knew his current task was to calm Tu Ran’s emotions.

“Lead the way, Miss Tu. I’ll take a look,” he said.

Whether he could actually help didn’t matter. The goal was to dispel her suspicions.

It wouldn’t be long before the higher-ups made their move.

…

Tu Ran led Xu Bingli into the elevator, and they arrived at the floor where Xi Chunzhi was being kept.

Upon entering the room, Xu Bingli immediately noticed the other patient sharing the ward with Xi Chunzhi.

His brow furrowed as he approached to examine the situation. He turned to the head nurse behind him and asked, “Who authorized placing another patient in this ward?”

“It was Dr. Xie Xinyu,” the head nurse replied. “Dr. Xie mentioned that Yang Hao’s symptoms were similar to Xi Chunzhi’s, so they were placed together for comparison.”

 

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