"Drip, drip."

The scanner's yellow warning light lit up, emitting a red line of light that reflected on Zhang Yuanqing's forehead.

The machine emitted an electronic sound:

[Drip, drip, beginning diagnosis of illness as...]

Zhang Yuanqing held his breath, eagerly awaiting the omniscient medical machine to provide an answer.

However, the electronic sound suddenly stopped, and after a few seconds, it resumed:

[Drip, drip, beginning diagnosis of illness as...]

[Drip, drip, beginning diagnosis of illness as...]

[Drip, drip, beginning diagnosis of illness as...]

The electronic sound repeated continuously, cycling back to the beginning each time it was about to state the illness, over and over again.

"Hmm?" The female doctor maintained her scanning gesture, glanced at the mainframe, then at the T-shaped device in her hand, looking puzzled.

Zhang Yuanqing felt even more bewildered, a bit disappointed and anxious, like when you make plans with your girlfriend to have a heart-to-heart talk at a hotel, and just when everything is ready, she says she got her period. Even though he didn't have a girlfriend, that was the feeling.

"Is the machine broken?" Jiang Jingwei walked over to the cylindrical machine and, without hesitation, kicked it twice.

"Jingwei, don't kick it randomly!"

Li Dongze was surprised, thinking to himself that this was a high-level item, purchased at a high price from the Musician Family at the Songhai Branch. Auxiliary items were not as durable as combat items, and damage was common.

"When there's a problem with the appliances at home, I just kick them a few times."

Jingwei kicked it "clank, clank" again. The female doctor couldn't bear it and sternly said, "You!"

[System rebooting]

The detector emitted an electronic sound, the screen suddenly went black, then lit up again as the reboot began.

Jiang Jingwei smiled, "See, a few kicks and it's fixed."

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Teng Yuan pushed up his glasses and said lightly, "It's okay, if it's broken, the organization has an obligation to reimburse you."

Li Dongze looked helpless.

Guan Ya glanced at Yuanshi Tianzun and said with a smile, "I'm more curious about what's wrong with your body."

Zhang Yuanqing forced a smile and said, "It might be Scorpio Syndrome, or Obsession with Black Nylon Silk on the hind legs of female humans." Was this a coincidence? The machine just happened to malfunction?

He glanced at his companions, and they all looked indifferent, probably thinking it was just a trivial malfunction. Only Wang Tai furrowed his brow.

"This isn't right," he scratched his head, walked up to the detector, knocked and tinkered with it, then opened the screen's operating interface and studied it carefully. As a future blacksmith, Wang Tai had a high level of expertise in item research.

He fiddled with it for a long time and said, "It's not malfunctioning, and with the level of this item, it shouldn't malfunction. You may not know, but the items of the Musician profession are the most durable, and this item has self-repair capabilities."

Huh? Both Guan Ya and Li Dongze, as scouts, frowned and looked at Yuanshi, only to find that he was also puzzled.

At this point, the detector finished rebooting, and the female doctor said, "Although I don't know the reason, it seems to be fine now."

With that, she raised the scanner again and aimed it at Zhang Yuanqing's forehead. Seeing this, everyone stopped talking and silently watched.

The yellow light of the scanner lit up, and the electronic sound rang out again:

[Drip, drip, beginning diagnosis of illness as drip, please do not simultaneously...]

The voice suddenly stuttered.

"It seems like there's still a problem, let me try again."

The female doctor frowned, set down the scanner, waited a few seconds, then raised it again to aim at Zhang Yuanqing's forehead.

The yellow light lit up, and the electronic sound came through:

[Drip, drip, no illness detected, your body is well maintained, diagnosis complete!]

The female doctor let out a sigh of relief, smiled, and said, "No problem, your body is very healthy, please continue to maintain it."

"Oh, oh!" Zhang Yuanqing stood up, looked around at his teammates, and said with a smile, "It looks like I'm very healthy too."

Guan Ya and Li Dongze exchanged a glance and smiled in agreement.

Wang Tai furrowed his brow, "This doesn't seem right, I still feel like this item was behaving strangely today. Doctor, can I stay here to study it?"

The female doctor said sternly, "No, this item is very valuable and not something that can be dismantled and studied casually."

"Alright," Wang Tai reluctantly gave up.

The group left the examination room, and Li Dongze led the team towards the staircase, saying, "The stewards are waiting for us on the second floor, and Captain Fu Bai is there too. The next step is to check our mental state. In previous years, there was only one mental assessment, but this year they've added a lie detector test."

He was speaking to Yuanshi, the only newcomer in the team.

But Zhang Yuanqing couldn't focus at all, his mind was filled with the repeated voice of the detector:

The first result of the scan was enough to show that it had detected an illness in me, and I do indeed have an illness, so there's no possibility of a malfunction. But why didn't it give a diagnosis?

Is it unable to diagnose, or is there another reason? As for the second time, the key is in the four words "please do not simultaneously," which indicates that after the reboot, the detector had already identified my problem and was about to give a hint.

But then it suddenly stuttered.

Please do not simultaneously what? What was it trying to say?

The more Zhang Yuanqing thought about it, the heavier he felt, and the more he felt that something was wrong.

Various doubts flashed through his mind, and in the end, he traced it back to the root of the illness - how did this headache come about?The headache struck suddenly one day when he was still in high school. One night, the pain was so intense that blood gushed from his nostrils, and his aunt and cousin rushed him to the hospital. After a full day of tests with every imaginable device, the doctors declared him healthy with no issues. At the time, his family didn't think much of it and advised him to rest well. It wasn't until the second attack, which was even more severe, that Zhang Yuanqing was hospitalized. Upon hearing the news, his mother finally put her work aside and devoted a bit of her attention to her son, taking him to various major hospitals, yet no cause for his illness was found. Then one day, his mother brought back a miracle drug from abroad. It was strange enough that no cause could be found, but even stranger that she didn't take me abroad for examinations, yet she could bring back a miracle drug. Thinking about it now, it's even more bizarre...

What's even more bizarre is that even the spiritual realm artifacts couldn't detect the cause of the illness!!!

Could this be an ordinary illness?

As Zhang Yuanqing pondered, the group arrived on the second floor. Compared to the spacious lobby on the first floor, this area was much smaller. With over twenty medical examiners and an almost equal number of security personnel, the place was crowded and bustling. Wang Tai's expression turned sour, feeling constrained and repelled.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing had an idea and smiled, "Brother Wang Tai, I remember there's a restroom on the first floor. Shall we go relieve ourselves?"

Wang Tai nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes."

Immediately, the two of them went downstairs and entered the restroom on the first floor.

Zhang Yuanqing pushed open each toilet stall to make sure no one was around, then went to the urinal. While taking out the Seastabilizing Needle, he casually remarked, "That detector is quite amazing, isn't it? Is it of the Saint level?"

"Um!" Wang Tai focused on his business.

Zhang Yuanqing continued, "Such a high-level artifact should have self-awareness. My rule-based artifact has its own thoughts."

"Oh, it does," Wang Tai said. "It has self-awareness and exists in the form of artificial intelligence."

So it does have self-awareness. It changed its statement earlier, not wanting to reveal my illness. Zhang Yuanqing felt a mix of emotions. After finishing up, the two returned to the second floor. During the long wait, one by one, the official practitioners completed their mental assessments. Most passed, while a few were marked for needing some mental guidance.

For instance, some Fire Masters were diagnosed with severe mania due to their excessive temper.

Some Wood Spirits had excessive sexual desires and needed mental guidance along with medication to control hormone secretion.

Some Scouts had developed voyeuristic tendencies...

Finally, it was the second team's turn. The mental state of the second team's members was worrisome. Li Dongze had severe OCD, Guan Ya was a germaphobe and pessimistic, Jiang Jingwei was manic and irritable, and Teng Yuan was pessimistic and suffered from moderate depression.

Lastly, Wang Tai, diagnosed with moderate autism, walked out of the consulting room and looked towards Zhang Yuanqing sitting on the bench, saying, "It's your turn."

Zhang Yuanqing immediately entered the consulting room and saw a middle-aged doctor in a white coat sitting behind the desk.

"Please take a seat!" The middle-aged doctor gestured for him to sit down and smiled, "You must be the Primordial Heavenly Venerate, indeed a person of talent and a young hero. My name is Sun, I'm an official in the Chaomen District, a Scout by profession, a level 5 Saint, and also a Ph.D. in psychology.

"I'm going to conduct a mental assessment on you now, just a few simple questions."

His smile was warm, and his gaze was profound, as if he could see through one's heart. A mental health doctor of the official level, damn, this was much sharper than Guan Ya's section chief.

Zhang Yuanqing took his seat and said, "Okay." Dr. Sun smiled, "Don't be nervous. I might ask some personal questions next, but there's no surveillance or eavesdropping here. No one but me will know, and I have my professional ethics; I won't expose your privacy."

"Primordial Heavenly Venerate, 21 years old, a local from Songhai, from a wealthy family with cars, father deceased, never had a girlfriend, special talent is 20cm." Zhang Yuanqing sincerely said, "Please make sure to expose this."

Dr. Sun was taken aback and stared deeply, "You seem a bit nervous, instinctively saying strange things to lighten the mood. Like I said, don't be constrained, we're friends."

Zhang Yuanqing took a deep breath, knowing that it was pointless to joke around in front of a Saint-level Scout, and said seriously, "I was just joking, let's begin."

Dr. Sun nodded and asked, "Do you like watching action movies? I mean the romantic kind of action movies. If you do, which categories do you focus on, domestic or foreign? What age range of actors do you prefer? Do you fast-forward when watching? After watching, do you look for a girlfriend or tissue?"

Zhang Yuanqing was stunned by the barrage of questions, thinking to himself, have you installed surveillance in my house?

How could you ask with such precision? Hitting the nail on the head every time?