Ninth Needle

[Urban Ghost Stories·Civilized Surgery·Visual Wonders] My name is Chen Yan and I am a doctor. I picked up a black needle that turns people to stone. It tells me: the human body is a miniature city, the city is an enlarged organ, and civilization is the ultimate life form that can get sick. My patients are very special: car accident victims parasitized by "memory of death", ancient neighborhoods suffering from "historical depression", entire cities infected with "collective hysteria virus"... I use this needle to treat them at the expense of my body. Heal one person and his index finger will turn to stone; heal a city and half of his body will turn to stone. Qin Jiuzhen warned me: "The ninth needle cures civilization, and those who hold the needle will become stone statues." Shen Qingyue used data to monitor me: "Your entropy value is approaching the inhuman critical point." But I can't stop. For I can see that the abscess of civilization's disease is spreading. If no one holds the needle, the entire world will be "petrified"—fallen into eternal, dreamless stasis. "Doctors heal people, saints heal the world. But I am just a lunatic who wants to cure a disease when I see it." ——Chen Yan [Reading Tips] This book is set in a science fiction setting, integrating medicine, suspense and civilizational speculation. Please experience it.