After the first customer left, the healing station returned to its usual deserted state. Eryi, bored, cast a basic healing spell on herself. It was a good opportunity to brush up on her proficiency with her full mana. After learning how to cast a healing spell, she would occasionally cast it on herself whenever her mana was full.
This also allows for more practice with the formula, preventing failures at crucial moments. It also reduces mana overflow. Watching his mana gradually recover brings an inexplicable sense of satisfaction to Eryi. Using skills on oneself also increases skill proficiency, though proficiency is only one-third of that achieved when using them on customers, requiring only three uses to increase proficiency a bit. Even a small amount of money counts.
The character's status at this time
Eryi
Mana: 81/101
Meditation increases the upper limit of magic power very slowly, and it has only increased a little in the past few days.
Skill Status: Primary Healing Lv1 (18/50)
At the outset, Eryi planned to collect three crystal cores, or 15 healing coins, per skill. After all, if he relied solely on natural healing, he could only use his skills about 60 times a day at best, and he needed to accumulate 1 million energy points to teleport back to his original plane, which was far from enough.
Later, I realized no one was coming, so of course, my life was the most important thing. If I could charge a lower price, as long as I could stay open, I could survive day by day. The current price is 5 healing coins per use. I can break bones in one go.
As her customer base increased, or her skills improved, she could reduce her discounts based on business performance. Having experienced various discount schemes on Earth, Eryi hadn't yet mastered the essentials, but she did have a basic understanding of the business practices.
At that moment, a figure appeared in Eryi's sight. She quickly put on her standard business smile and waved, hoping to welcome her second customer. As the person approached, and she realized it was Yang Yiwei, a returning customer who had been away for several hours, her smile widened. Based on the brief conversation she had had with him earlier, Eryi guessed that he must have a family member or friend who was seriously injured and needed medical treatment.
Sure enough, he not only came alone, but also carried one on his back and followed a bunch of them.
However, when Eryi looked closely, his smile gradually froze.
A dozen zombies with blue-green skin covered with purple cracks followed Yang Yiwei with stiff steps, which reminded her of the stench she smelled on the first day she was teleported to this plane by the system.
It was Eryi's first time to see such a humanoid creature up close, and he felt unsure.
Although the system had assured Eryi of the absolute defensive capabilities of the treatment station, and no zombies had approached it in the past few days, at most they'd only seen a glimpse from a distance, she still wasn't sure what would happen if the zombies confronted her head-on.
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Yang Yiwei was now in a state of embarrassment. He had originally thought that as long as he didn't run into any elite zombies, he wouldn't have been in trouble. Unexpectedly, he encountered a group of zombies lingering near the hospital. If there were only three or five of them, he could have used his supernatural powers to fight them off, but with so many people on his back, it was difficult to use his powers.
Remembering the white-clad woman at the treatment station's promise to keep the wounded safe, he bravely rushed to the station. He figured if she could help him look after the unconscious Xia Chen, he could just use the terrain to evade some of the zombies and then use his supernatural powers to deal with the ones he couldn't. He just hoped she wouldn't mind him leading the zombies over, considering he could handle them alone.
After approaching the treatment station, Yang Yiwei saw the woman in white waving at him. He felt relieved because the other party didn't seem to care that he attracted so many zombies.
Yang Yiwei quickened his pace as he approached the treatment station. The half-closed door opened from the inside to welcome him in. When he placed Xia Chen on the sofa in the reception room and turned to lead the zombies elsewhere, he found that they seemed to have lost their target and had already turned and left at a slow pace.
At this time, the woman in white in the treatment station seemed to be used to it and looked calm.
She stepped forward to check Xia Chen's injuries and said, "Your friend is in very bad condition. I need to use healing spells at least four times to heal him."
"Okay." Yang Yiwei took out four first-level crystal cores and handed them to Eryi in confusion. He couldn't understand why the zombies had clearly arrived at the door, but not only did they not come in, but also did not linger around and left directly.
After a chant, a faint white light enveloped Xia Chen, and the injuries on his body began to slowly change.
"Now you can get an extra 20% bonus when you top up. Do you want to top up?"
"I'll charge." Yang Yiwei quickly took out the only seven crystal cores left in his pocket and handed them to Eryi.
He went over the incident of the zombies leaving on their own a thousand times in his mind.
He must have discovered some extraordinary official organization.
From the moment Yang Yiwei entered the door, Eryi opened the status panel of the injured person on his back.
Xia Chen [First-level Wood Elementalist]
[Serious injury][Coma][Broken bone][Internal injury]
HP 18% Fatigue 98/100
After releasing the primary healing technique, his health began to slowly rise, and the [Severely Injured][Fracture] status began to flash.
After collecting Yang Yiwei's 11 crystal cores and exchanging them for 55 energy points, Eryi saw this returning customer sitting in a chair, lost in thought. His eyes were dark blue, his lips were chapped, and his face was pale. He opened his status panel.
Yang Yiwei [First-level Earth-type Psychic]
HP 86% Fatigue 82/100
Both sets of data are slowly recovering. Consider letting him try out the treatment bed.
It's worth noting that if fatigue exceeds 50 due to excessive physical activity or overuse of supernatural powers, it will slowly recover while you're still. Even without using furniture with recovery functions, sleeping will also restore fatigue. Recovery speed varies depending on the character's actual condition and physical fitness.
After the second round of primary treatment, Xia Chen's complexion began to improve. The psychic's self-healing properties began to take effect, and his health increased from 18% to 62%. The [Broken Bones] status disappeared, and the [Severe Injury] and [Internal Injury] status began to flicker.
After four primary healing spells, Xia Chen's health was full and his wounds were completely healed. His [Fainted] state hadn't disappeared yet, probably due to his high fatigue level, which was now 95/100.
Yang Yiwei felt relieved when he saw that Xia Chen had recovered well, and began to look around the treatment station.
Aside from Eryi, who was in charge of treatment, he didn't sense any other living beings. He had no idea how the owner of this place was keeping the zombies away.
The room was spotless, the air clean and fresh, odorless. Even the incandescent light seemed to carry a healing aura, as if the apocalypse had never begun. If his phone hadn't been smashed to pieces while battling zombies a week ago, he would have even considered asking for the Wi-Fi password, borrowing an outlet, and a charging cable.
"Hello, I haven't introduced myself yet." After using four primary treatments, Eryi's magic meter was depleted and he began to work. "I am Eryi, the healer here."
"You just used 11 first-level crystal cores to recharge. One first-level crystal core is worth 5 healing coins. Your first recharge will give you 20% healing coins. After the recharge, your account will have 66 healing coins. The healing spell you just used costs 5 healing coins each time. You used it four times in total, so 20 healing coins were deducted. You now have 46 healing coins left in your account."
The cost of treating a near-fatal injury was much lower than he had imagined. Yang Yiwei nodded to show that he understood.
"Your friend is still in a coma, mainly because his fatigue value is too high. This station also provides fatigue recovery services. It only costs 11 treatment coins for one hour to break the coma." Eryi plans to sell a one-hour basic treatment bed service, tentatively priced at 11.
Normally, the coma will end when the fatigue value drops below 80. Even if Eryi doesn't use the system's built-in fatigue recovery furniture, he can still recover 10 fatigue points per hour when he falls asleep.
A psychic's recovery ability is much higher than that of an average person. In the worst-case scenario, his fatigue recovery rate wouldn't be slower than Eryi's. Using the treatment bed to reduce his fatigue level to 70 within an hour wouldn't be a big deal; he could recover with a good night's sleep. Eryi wasn't sure if the other party would be willing to use this service.
Yang Yiwei had a different idea. Finding a safe place to rest in a post-apocalyptic world surrounded by zombies was incredibly rare. While he could take Xia Chen back home to rest, it was already evening, and zombie activity would be more frequent at night. Taking an unconscious person with him wasn't safe. He also knew he was in a very bad state after the day's ordeal. Another accident could mean the end of both of them.
Considering that he had attracted quite a few zombies when he arrived, although he hadn't caused any trouble for them, and considering that this place was most likely an official organization, he felt it was too embarrassing to have them keep him here and rest without paying for his treatment.
"Okay, then I'll buy one hour of service."
Eryi pushed open the door of the medical room and said, "Just put your friend on this bed." She couldn't move a big man weighing more than 100 pounds.
Yang Yiwei obediently placed Xia Chen on the treatment bed, and a line of words popped up in front of him.
[Basic treatment bed charge: 2.2 treatment coins per 10 minutes, 10 minutes free after 50 minutes. Do you confirm use?]
It’s worthy of being an official company, it has such advanced technology.
After selecting the option of giving 10 minutes free of charge for 50 minutes, click [Confirm]
Yang Yiwei sat down on the chair next to him, and a dialog box popped up again.
[Nursing chair fee: 1 treatment coin per 10 minutes, 10 minutes free after 50 minutes. Confirm use]
After clicking [No], Yang Yiwei returned to the reception room.
It was getting late, and zombies were more active at night, so generally no one would go out. Eryi felt a little awkward being in the same room with someone he barely knew, and since the other person's crystal cores had already been fully charged, there wasn't much else to do.
After thinking for a while, she said, "It's not safe outside at night. You'd better leave tomorrow." Then Eryi returned to her personal space to wash and tidy up.
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