The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 949 - 928: Derivative Virus

Chapter 949: Chapter 928: Derivative Virus

The three doctors looked at each other and smiled, agreeing to Doctor Tao’s question as he took his seat and asked with a chuckle, "Why isn’t Young Doctor Zhou here for lunch?"

Young Manager Zheng smiled and said, "I did invite her, but it seems Doctor Zhou Junior was in a hurry to get home. After she finished seeing her patients and it was lunchtime, I had someone send lunch out to her."

He paused and then continued, "But just as Young Doctor Zhou left, she ran into Old Madam Dou. The old lady brought her a basin of plants with a chip broken off, claiming it was the very thing causing Lady Dou to keep getting a rash."

Shopkeeper Zheng nodded.

Manbao had just left the pharmacy when she encountered Old Madam Dou. Originally, she had been waiting for a while without seeing her and thought it would be okay to check the next day, as there were two people at home waiting for her help with their studies, so she decided to pack up and head home.

But just as she walked out the door, she ran into Old Madam Dou.

Old Madam Dou approached her, holding a basin of healthy-looking plants in surprise, "Did Young Doctor Zhou leave so soon?"

Manbao nodded, "I only hold a clinic for half a day. Is this the plant you mentioned?"

Old Madam Dou nodded, "I asked around, and yes, this is it. Isn’t this the allium paepalanthoides commonly seen by the river? It looks like garlic, but it isn’t edible. I heard eating it can be deadly."

Old Madam Dou said, "I had never seen it before either, I only found out after asking around. This plant started growing by the river in the last couple of years. Because it resembles garlic and has pretty flowers, people started calling it allium paepalanthoides."

Inside Manbao’s head, Keke was actively beeping. Manbao squatted down to take a closer look; it did resemble garlic quite closely.

Manbao asked, "Can you give me this plant? How much would you like for it?"

"Oh dear, this nuisance, why would I want money for it? Young Doctor Zhou can have it; otherwise, I’m just going to throw it away."

Manbao nodded, accepting the plant, but still she took out a medicine pouch from her basket to give to Old Madam Dou, "This is a medicine pouch I made. Take it back for Zhu’er and let her keep it beside her bed. It can ward off mosquitoes. She needs fresh air for her rash and should avoid irritation from clothing as much as possible."

And in the hot days of Great Xia, there were lots of mosquitoes, especially at night during sleep, so having this would be very convenient.

"How can I accept this?" Old Madam Dou took it with both hands, moving eagerly to help her carry it to the cart, "Young Doctor Zhou, let me help you take it to the cart. By the way, what do you need this plant for?"

Manbao replied with a serious expression, "I want to study it."

It was for research.

Keke told Manbao, "This is called a daffodil, and it produces very beautiful flowers."

It showed her images, and upon seeing them, Manbao understood, "This picture seems to have been taken from paper. Don’t you have this plant in the future?"

"No, it is recorded in ancient human books as one of the ten famous flowers, very beautiful. In the future, people can only see it in pictures," Keke explained. "However, according to information in the Encyclopedia Pavilion, it is not difficult to cultivate."

"Why did it go extinct, then?"

"Research has shown that the more prolific a species once was, the more likely it is to mutate and go extinct in the end. It’s hard to preserve the original genes."

Manbao was puzzled, "Why preserve the original genes? Didn’t Teacher Mo say that usually the ones that survive are the best, and the ones that disappear are the ones that were weeded out?"

"That’s a question for the humans," Keke responded. "Some believe that our technology has reached its utmost bottleneck, and with its advancement, species in their world are disappearing or weakening for a variety of reasons—detection of illegal transmission, temporarily blocking, temporarily blocking..."

Suddenly, there was silence in Manbao’s mind.

"Keke?"

Keke didn’t respond to her.

Manbao’s eyes widened in surprise, and she couldn’t help but call out, "Keke?"

Daji heard the sound and immediately turned back to open the curtain, "Miss Man, what’s the matter?"

Manbao’s face was full of concern, but when she saw Daji, she said nothing and shook her head, "It’s, it’s nothing, let’s go home."

Daji’s gaze swept around inside the cart, finding nothing amiss. He sat back down with furrowed brows but pricked up his ears, listening carefully to the sounds inside the cart.

Manbao clenched her fist and stuffed it into her mouth, blinking as she mentally called out to Keke nonstop.

But Keke made no sound at all. Manbao was full of worry and didn’t know what could have happened to Keke.

However, since the thing was inside her head, she couldn’t exactly cut open her own brain to look for it, could she?

Moreover, Keke had mentioned that it was only the size of a nanometer. Although she didn’t know exactly how big a nanometer was, it was definitely smaller than a grain of rice. So finding something like that inside her brain...

Manbao imagined Imperial Doctor Fan holding a scalpel and prying open her head, then rummaging through her brain for something as small as a grain of rice...

Manbao shivered and told herself that even if she managed to find Keke, she wouldn’t know how to fix it. Keke had said it was self-repairing, so it might be better to leave it in her brain. At least that way, she could hear if it made any noise.

But now she couldn’t hear anything at all...

With a troubled face, Manbao returned to Changqing Alley.

Bai Shan had just finished a phase of his studies. He was stretching his waist in the yard to rest his brain. Seeing Manbao with a face full of worry, he stopped and ran over to ask, "Are you faced with an incurable disease, or is it just the heat?"

"Neither." Manbao wanted to speak but then hesitated, remembering what Keke had said about not telling a second person its business. She gulped her words back down.

Seeing her just opening and closing her mouth without speaking, Bai Shan curiously asked, "Have you gotten into trouble? Why the secrecy?"

Manbao thought hard in her mind. She didn’t dare ask Teacher Mo, afraid he was too clever and would notice. Nor did she dare ask Bai Erlang, because of his big mouth. If she asked him, he’d probably spread her words all over the courtyard the moment she turned her back.

Manbao looked at Bai Shan and thought for a moment, then pulled him to the side, "I want to ask you a question, but you mustn’t tell anyone else."

Bai Shan nodded, "Ask."

Manbao looked at him and then turned away, "Never mind, I’ll think about it myself."

Having said that, she turned and walked away with her basket on her back.

Bai Shan: ...

Daji brought in a pot of daffodils, "Miss Man, your flowers."

Manbao turned around to embrace the flowers.

She took the flowers back to her room, placed them on the table, put down the basket, and then stared intently at them, incessantly murmuring in her mind: "Record, record..."

There was no sound in her head.

Manbao looked at the flowers in distress, then suddenly remembered something. Her eyes widened slightly. If Keke was missing, what about the things she had stored in the system?

What about her silver?

Just as she thought this, Manbao saw the contents of the system. She blinked, entered the system, took out a silver ingot, and called out, "Keke..."

Keke was silent.

Unable to restrain herself any longer, Manbao put her hands on her hips, looked up, and shouted, "Keke—"

A line of text appeared in the center of the system, "System 0531 has developed a virus program, which is now being scanned and exterminated. It will remain silent temporarily. The recording function is suspended for the time being. The marketplace and system space are open as usual. Please, the host of system 0531, take care of yourself."

Manbao was taken aback for a moment, "How could Keke have a virus? Could it be a mistake?"

Three words floated in the middle - No mistake!

Then, no matter how much Manbao called out, there was no further response from the system.

Only then did Manbao start to contemplate the items within the system.

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