He's in Marvel, working behind the scenes.

"The operating room is inside." The woman introduced herself as she led the way inside. "My name is Tamayo, and I'm an unlicensed doctor. You've come here to treat this gentleman, haven't you?"

"...Did he tell you what happened?"

Tony paused for a moment, then pointed at Gu Qing and asked.

“The poisoning is quite obvious, sir. If I couldn’t see it, I wouldn’t need to treat patients,” Tamayo said, shaking her head. Her voice remained gentle throughout, giving a warm feeling.

Hearing this, Tony was filled with hope for the trip again.

"We've arrived at the operating room."

Stepping into a dark little house, Tamayo seemed unaffected as she entered, turned on the light, and the interior was revealed.

Tony and Happy couldn't help but gasp, stunned once again.

The room wasn't big, about forty square meters, but it felt very spacious.

There was a bed in the middle, which appeared to be an operating table. It was stained dark red with blood and had bits of meat or similar residue on it.

What stunned Tony and Happy wasn't the creepy-looking hospital bed, but rather the things arranged around the walls...

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Even If You're No Longer Human, Do You Still Want to Live?

This room...

In the center was a blood-stained operating table, next to which was an old shelf and a searchlight, the shelf filled with bloodstained surgical instruments.

Around the house, long cabinets were placed against the walls, and on the cabinets were many large transparent jars, each containing a human organ... eyes, brain, heart, lungs... At a glance, it seemed that they could just gather enough to make up a person.

"The autopsy has just been completed."

Upon seeing this, Tony and Happy simultaneously recalled Tamayo's words before they entered, and a chill ran through them. Looking at Tamayo again, she was no longer the stunning beauty they remembered; she was clearly a demon in human skin.

"We just finished the autopsy and haven't had time to clean up yet, please don't mind," Tamayo said softly. Her gentle voice startled Tony and Happy, bringing them back to reality from their reverie.

They looked at Tamayo, still the gentle and virtuous woman, her beauty now eerily striking against the backdrop of blood. Looking around, while the atmosphere remained horrifying, the nausea and fear of being in a horror movie were gone.

They looked at each other, and saw a hint of doubt in each other's eyes.

Am I just too timid?

"What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

Seeing that the two had not responded for a long time, Gu Qing couldn't help but ask.

"No, no problem."

Tony replied instinctively.

He immediately changed his mind after replying, correcting himself: "No, there's a big problem. If I decide to receive treatment later, it absolutely cannot be here; it must be in a well-equipped and clean environment."

"I probably won't need any tools!"

After Tamayo finished speaking, seeing Tony looking over with a puzzled expression, she immediately explained, "Mr. Tony's situation is very special."

"You have shrapnel embedded in your heart. The device in your chest needs to absorb the shrapnel and prevent it from going any further, but that device is constantly producing toxins that are eroding your body."

To solve the problem, either remove the shrapnel or improve the device to prevent it from producing toxins.

Otherwise, even if the poison is neutralized, the person will continue to be poisoned.

"..."

Tony stared at Tamayo in disbelief, his mouth agape for a long moment before he finally asked, "How did you know about my physical condition?"

"Tony, is this true?"

When Tony admitted it, Happy looked at him in disbelief.

“I’ll tell you later.” Tony glanced at him, then looked at Tamayo. “How do you know about my condition? I’ve never told anyone about my health except for Ethan, who’s already dead. There’s no way anyone else could know. How do you know so much?”

Ethan is the guy who installed an electromagnet in Tony's chest in the Middle East, saving his life.

But he died while fleeing the terrorists' hideout, so he had no chance to tell anyone else, and Tony himself never mentioned his situation to anyone.

So it's impossible for anyone to know.

Looking at Tony, who was staring intently at her, Tamayo smiled slightly and said, "Smell and hear."

"what?"

"Your blood has the rusty smell of metal, and the sound of your blood hitting metal plates when it flows through your veins is like your blood has been corroded by some element, producing an indescribable stench that even corrosive animals would not want to taste."

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"..."

Tony stared at Tamayo with his mouth agape in disbelief.

He had never seen such an amazing person.

So much information can be perceived with just the nose and ears.

and many more?

Rotten smell?

As if remembering something, Tony raised his arm and sniffed intensely at the tip of his nose, then lifted his collar and continued sniffing.

A moment later, he glared at Tamayo and questioned, "Why don't I smell any stench? Are you kidding me?"

"That's how you see it, that's it."

Zhu Shi shook her head slightly, ignoring him, went inside to fetch water, and began cleaning on her own.

Tony knew he had offended the other person with his foul mouth, so he apologized and said, "Okay, it seems I was being paranoid. So, do you have a way to solve my problem?"

"Yes, but it's very difficult!"

How difficult is it?

"The shrapnel in your heart is very deep," Tamayo said, wiping the blood from the operating table. "If it goes any deeper, your heart will stop beating; if you remove even a little, it will cause a cardiovascular rupture, leading to massive bleeding and death within seconds. Current medical technology simply cannot repair a cardiovascular system in those few seconds, especially since you have more than one shrapnel in your heart."

“I know my own body best. I don’t need you to explain it to me. Just tell me what to do,” Tony said, somewhat irritably.

This matter had troubled him for a long time. He dared not let the people around him know, afraid that they would worry. He lived alone, bearing the threat of death at any moment, living in constant fear.

He'd had enough.

Tamayo glanced back at him, then continued wiping the operating table, saying as she did so, "I said before that this situation could be changed by improving the device in your chest, but I know nothing about these high-tech things, and you obviously can't do that either."

Therefore, the only way to remove the shrapnel is through medical means.

Even I couldn't repair multiple ruptured blood vessels in a dozen seconds; normal methods simply wouldn't work.

"Normal methods?"

Tony noticed Tamayo's choice of words, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "If normal methods don't work, then abnormal methods will?"

"Yes."

Tamayo stood up, threw the towel into the basin, and turned to look directly at Tony. "Do you have a reason to want to live even if you're no longer human?"

"No longer human?"

Tony and Happy stared blankly at Tamayo, somewhat puzzled.

Tamayo turned around, washed the red-stained towel clean, and then looked at the bright red water, saying, "I don't have the ability to repair multiple damaged blood vessels in a dozen seconds, and there is no such doctor in this world. So the only option is to give patients stronger vitality so that they can live on even with damaged blood vessels."

"...You mean body modification?"

Tony and Happy still didn't understand what Tamayo meant, and could only try to interpret it in their own way.

"Body modification?" Tamayo paused for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh. "Come to think of it, demons are indeed a form of body modification, aren't they!"

"ghost?"

“A creature that evolved from a human,” Tamayo explained to the two. “A thousand years ago, a person who was too weak to get out of bed was transformed into a demon through medicine. From then on, he possessed immortality and a life and power that surpassed that of humans. If you don’t mind becoming a demon, I can turn you into one.”

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Yes, I am the Ghost

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Hearing the prompt in his mind, and seeing Tony and Happy staring in disbelief, Gu Qing smiled with satisfaction.

Tony is a genius with a high opinion of himself, and he rarely changes his mind about what he believes in.

But he is a scientist and believes in science.

Before all the various monsters and demons from Marvel came out, he wouldn't have believed you if you talked to him about "ghosts."

However, Gu Qing first introduced him to a highly skilled doctor under the guise of treatment, a doctor who could handle even his own problems, thus subtly enhancing Tamayo's authority.

Then, he would demonstrate his superhuman sensitivity to blood to confirm that he possessed abilities beyond ordinary people, and finally reveal the existence of "ghosts" from a scientific perspective.

After layers of foreshadowing, even Tony had no doubts and directly believed in the existence of the "ghost".

After all, it's hard to believe in supernatural things, but it's not so unbelievable that someone could become a "ghost" through drug modification.

As for Happy... he's already starting to imagine all sorts of cliché plots from Chinese online novels, so let's not talk about it.

But Tony, true to his nature, quickly came to his senses and realized the unspoken meaning behind Tamayo's words.

"An immortal life, superhuman strength..." Tony asked, puzzled, "This kind of change seems like a dream come true, so why are you asking me that?"

Upon hearing this, Happy realized what was happening.

Yes!

Immortality is a long-cherished wish that many emperors have sought but could not obtain. If it could be obtained simply by transcending human common sense, then surely no one would refuse it!

Moreover, was this kind of medicine developed a thousand years ago?

Those modern medical scientists who can't even completely cure cancer are utterly useless!

There must be a reason for this.