The two men in black took the jade pendant and didn’t linger; they turned and went downstairs right away.

Ethan Brooks saw how decisive they were, and recalling their sharp gazes from earlier, he even began to secretly suspect that the jade pendant might really be hiding some big secret. After all, those two didn’t look like fools at all—they seemed quite clever.

Ethan Bruce’s incoming call interrupted Ethan Brooks’s thoughts.

“Divine Book, Divine Book! I’ve sent those two fat sheep away…”

“Very good! Pack up all the valuables right now, we’re getting ready to run tonight!” On the other end of the line, Ethan Bruce responded excitedly, “And another thing! Call me Dad! Stop with the ‘Divine Book’ nonsense!”

“Don’t you always say you’re a book that no one can see through? In this world, besides a divine book, what else can people not understand?” Ethan Brooks retorted out of habit while packing his suitcase, naturally missing the reaction of the two men in black after they left.

“Boss, we got it.” The tall man in black spoke quietly into his Bluetooth earpiece as he quickly walked toward a black sedan parked by the roadside. “We’ve tested it—the jade contains immense energy, and the material is indeed moon jade, which can only be found on the moon. The owner was a fool, unaware of its true value. We bought it for just three hundred thousand.”

The place Ethan Brooks was most familiar with, besides home and school, was the city’s top-tier hospital right in front of him.

Ever since he could remember, Ethan Brooks had been a regular at this hospital—so regular that there were few doctors he didn’t know, and few who didn’t know him.

“Doctor Chang, I’m here for a follow-up.”

Ethan Brooks sat down familiarly. Across from him sat forty-two-year-old doctor Scott Clark, a man with a big secret—one that only Scott Clark himself knew, and no one else.

Scott Clark placed his middle and index fingers on Ethan Brooks’s pulse, looking as if he was taking it seriously. But his eyes had already seen through Ethan Brooks’s heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. Next to his two shriveled, useless kidneys hung an adult kidney—an organ his father, Ethan Bruce, had had removed and transplanted to save his life.

This kidney currently seemed to function well, but after all, it was a kidney that had been used for many years and was transplanted; it was still far less effective than a naturally one’s own.

Scott Clark sighed inwardly: This kidney probably has about ten years left? After ten years… what will become of this child?

X-ray vision—that was Scott Clark’s secret. About three years ago, not long after the moon fell to earth, he gained this ability. And as time passed, his power of vision grew stronger, which greatly helped him in diagnosing and treating patients.

However, with such a special ability, Scott Clark dared not tell anyone. There had been people who, after the moon’s fall, also gained special abilities. Thinking they were ill, they came to the hospital for treatment, only to be taken away by strange organizations not long after.

Experiments? Lab rats? Using special abilities to shine in special positions?

Scott Clark didn’t know which outcome it was, but whichever it was, none felt as fulfilling as using his powers to heal people every day.

“Huh?” Scott Clark suddenly noticed a stream of energy circulating inside Ethan Brooks’s body. It moved irregularly, but every time it passed through the kidney—the one belonging to Ethan Bruce—that kidney would gain a bit more vitality. Even the two damaged kidneys seemed to come alive when the energy passed through.

“Little Six, have you been practicing qigong lately?”

Scott Clark asked because, in the past two years, he’d occasionally seen people with a stream of energy inside them when treating patients—those who practiced qigong. But their energy always centered on the dantian and circulated regularly throughout the body, unlike Ethan Brooks’s, which wandered aimlessly like a rootless duckweed.

Ethan Brooks was left with a head full of question marks. Qigong? Did Doctor Chang get tricked by his old man? Is there really such a thing as qigong in this world? Could his dad’s occupational habit of fooling people have gotten so bad he’s even trying to trick doctors? Has the old man lost his mind? Did he forget his son’s life is still in this doctor’s hands?

“Qigong? I’ve never practiced it!” Ethan Brooks’s survival instinct kicked in at that moment, and he quickly waved his hands. “Doctor Chang, please don’t listen to my dad’s nonsense. You’re a doctor—you should believe in science, not qigong or metaphysics!”

Metaphysics? Scott Clark gave a bitter smile and shook his head. Then what does that make his own x-ray vision? But since he hadn’t learned it, then it must be… Wait? The energy is fading. At this rate, by this time tomorrow, it’ll be gone.

Scott Clark thought to himself: What a pity. If this energy stayed, even if those two damaged kidneys couldn’t be repaired, at least the one from Ethan Bruce could last a few more years.

Chapter Three: Boy’s Urine Ingeniously Breaks the Five Immortals’ Spell

“Doctor Chang, is there anything wrong with my kidney?”

“Huh? Oh, it’s fine.” Scott Clark’s musings were interrupted by Ethan Brooks.

“Okay, then I’ll be off. Please don’t believe my dad’s qigong nonsense.”

After making sure he was fine, Ethan Brooks slipped away at once, afraid the doctor would ask more strange questions.