Chapter 129: Generous Rewards for Starting the Job

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully joining the Northwest Military District Hospital. Special rewards: 800 points, several treasure-level medical books from both Chinese and Western medicine spanning five thousand years, and one Memory Pill.]

Almost as soon as Gu Jianing officially became a doctor at the military hospital, the system’s voice rang out in her mind.

Gu Jianing was stunned. “System, I thought I only got rewards for treating patients or having children. How come I’m getting such generous rewards just for starting this job?”

[Host, I’m not just a simple childbearing system…]

As the system explained, Gu Jianing recalled that when she first bound with the system, it had said that besides detecting her strong desire to have a child, it also sensed her wish to become a doctor, to heal more people, and to help more infertile couples have children.

That was why the childbearing system had chosen her.

That was also why she had such a miraculous Divine Doctor’s Space.

[Not all childbearing systems are the same, and not all of them come with a Divine Doctor’s Space.]

According to the system, it was considered a high-level childbearing system, and its requirements for binding were much stricter.

[Host, I believe you’ll do great and become a divine doctor.]

Gu Jianing: Well, thank you so much for your confidence.

Still, these generous rewards were a pleasant surprise.

The 800 points were self-explanatory—she’d spent so long saving up just over 900, and now with this 800, her total shot up to over 1,700. Not bad at all.

As for the books and the Memory Pill, they were exactly what she needed right now.

But when she saw the mountain-like pile of books in her space, Gu Jianing felt a headache coming on. How long would it take to read all these?

Still, she knew she needed them.

Although she’d attended a vocational school before, it was for nursing, so honestly, she was better suited to being a nurse.

The training course had taught her a lot, but it was only a little over two months long.

As for studying in the system space, she had to bind with a patient first, and the learning was targeted—she’d only become proficient in certain areas, not comprehensive.

But now that she was a doctor in the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, she’d be facing all kinds of patients. It was best to master all aspects of medical skills so that no matter what kind of patient she encountered, she could treat them without being at a loss or having to waste time learning in the space.

Without hesitation, Gu Jianing swallowed the Memory Pill and immediately started reading in the Divine Doctor’s Space.

Of course, reading was best done in the space, where time flowed differently and was much more efficient.

If anyone else had been there, they would have seen Gu Jianing flipping rapidly through thick, brick-like books.

She skimmed each page quickly, and the contents were instantly memorized, even if she wasn’t trying too hard. Everything was stored in her mind, ready to be recalled whenever she needed it.

She finished a book in just a few minutes.

The mountain of books was steadily shrinking.

If anyone saw the titles of these books, they would have been shocked.

Qing Nang Jing, Qian Jin Fang, Shennong’s Classic of Materia Medica… many lost classics of both Chinese and Western medicine were among them, their value beyond measure.

Gu Jianing knew how precious these books were. She’d even thought about donating them.

If these books were made public, they could help train many skilled doctors and greatly advance the country’s medical standards.

But in the end, this idea didn’t work out.

The system said that, for now, only she could read these books. She couldn’t even take them out of the system to read, let alone show them to others or donate them.

Of course, it wasn’t entirely impossible—unless Gu Jianing became a divine doctor.

Once she had fully mastered and internalized the contents of these books, and they were no longer useful to her, she could do whatever she wanted with them.

Gu Jianing’s reaction: …

Become a divine doctor? That sounded like a long road ahead.

Maybe it was because of the heavy snow, or maybe the TCM department was just that quiet, but that day, not a single patient came in.

Gu Jianing was more than happy with that. After all, what do doctors hope for most? No patients, of course.

No patients meant no one was sick.

And isn’t that a good thing?

With time on her hands, Gu Jianing entered her space to read. There were so many books, but to be a good doctor, she had to finish them as soon as possible. Even if she couldn’t fully digest them right away, just having them memorized and ready to use when needed was already excellent.

So, for the next two days, it looked like Gu Jianing was just sitting in her office reading a medical book, but in reality, her soul was in her space, frantically reading.

Fortunately, time flowed differently in the space, giving her plenty of time.

After two days, Gu Jianing finally had all those mountain-like books memorized, though it would still take time and practice to fully absorb and apply the knowledge.

On the third day, Gu Jianing went to work with her umbrella as usual.

But seeing the torrential rain, she frowned. It had been raining for too long, and often heavily. Luckily, her yard in the family compound was on high ground, so there was no flooding for now.

But she’d heard from Sister Shu Wan that things were bad in the apartment buildings of the compound.

Those buildings were on lower ground. The higher floors were fine, but the lower ones—especially the first floor—were practically flooded. People were complaining bitterly.

Only now did they realize that apartment buildings weren’t all that great; single-story houses with yards on higher ground were much better.

When Gu Jianing entered the TCM department, she saw the other two doctors, Zhou and Lu, also frowning at the rain.

“If this rain keeps up, it’ll be a disaster.”

“Yeah, I’m worried about landslides.”

Gu Jianing silently agreed. There were quite a few mountains around here, and many villages were built at their base. If a landslide happened…

She frowned deeply. Nature’s power was unpredictable, and humans were so small in comparison.

She could only hope nothing would happen.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go as she wished.

That night, in the early hours, Gu Jianing was woken by a commotion outside.

Other families in the compound also opened their windows or doors, only to see many soldiers and military dogs mobilizing."