"You're the supervillain here, all right?!"
Ryan was completely speechless and couldn't help scolding, "Enough! Men bleed, they don't cry! What are you crying for? Isn't your daughter still alive? And even if she dies, I can pull her back from Hell!"
"I can save her, so stop crying!"
"Huh?" Sandman choked back tears, looking up at Ryan. "Can... can you really save my daughter?"
Ryan didn't bother answering. He threw Sandman straight into the hospital room on the other side of the web portal, pulled out a large black leather suitcase, and tossed it through as well.
Sandman was somewhat dazed, but he still opened the large black leather suitcase that had landed at his feet.
The moment he opened it, Sandman's face turned completely green!
It was turned green by the reflection of all the Dollars packed inside the suitcase!
"So... so much money! With this, I can pay for my daughter's treatment!"
Sandman held the suitcase with trembling hands.
"What are you rambling about? That's not money for your daughter's treatment, it's your signing bonus and relocation fee!"
"As for your daughter's treatment, it doesn't need to be so complicated!"
Saying that, Ryan tossed a top-tier regenerative serum in front of Sandman and said calmly, "After injecting this into your daughter, the disease factors in her body will be replaced by newly born healthy factors, and she'll be cured."
"Huh? It's that simple?" Sandman found it hard to believe.
"What else? Did you think I'd have to destroy the World first just to save your daughter?" Ryan said evenly.
Beep, beep, beep, beep——
Just then, overwhelmed with emotion at seeing the father she hadn't seen in years, the monitors beside Sandman's daughter began flashing red, sounding a loud, dangerous alarm.
Sandman's daughter rolled her eyes back and collapsed onto the bed, twitching.
Seeing this, Sandman knew his daughter's condition was flaring up.
Disregarding everything else, he hurriedly injected the regenerative serum into his daughter's body.
He didn't know if she would survive after the injection, but if he didn't inject her right now, she would die immediately!
And naturally, a top-tier regenerative serum acted with top-tier speed.
After injecting the regenerative serum, the twitching of Sandman's daughter's body gradually calmed down, and her face regained its healthy color at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Daddy!"
In the end, Sandman's daughter sat up from the bed, suddenly bounded up, and threw herself into Sandman's arms—looking nothing like the critically ill patient she had been just moments ago!
Holding his daughter, Sandman broke down in tears again.
This guy really is a crybaby...
Ryan watched, somewhat speechless.
But thinking about it, before his mutation, Sandman was just an ordinary person—as ordinary as could be.
So Ryan understood.
Soon, hurried footsteps came from outside the hospital room, and the door was pushed open.
"Shalan!"
A woman and a Doctor hurried inside.
The woman looked even older than Sandman remembered, but Sandman recognized her as his wife at a glance.
The woman looked at Sandman with a mix of shock and joy, covering her mouth: "OMG! You're alive, you're alive..."
Sandman opened his mouth, wanting to tell his wife he was sorry, but he had said those words to her far too many times already.
"I'm sorry" was nowhere near enough to express his guilt.
But the woman quickly noticed the opened suitcase on the floor. Seeing the stacks of green bills inside, her expression changed sharply: "Did you go do illegal things again?"
"You bastard! It's because you always try to take the wrong shortcuts that you got that innocent old man killed! That's why you got thrown in prison! That's why you turned into that hideous monster! And now you're still walking down a path of crime—do you want to kill your own daughter too?!"
Facing his wife's reproaches, Sandman looked completely helpless, not knowing how to explain, so he could only look toward the web portal.
Following Sandman's gaze, the woman and the Doctor watching the drama finally noticed a red web-patterned portal on the wall beside the entrance door.
On the other side of the portal stood a tall man in a silver-gray battle suit, alongside a man wearing a red cloak.
Seeing that they had been spotted, Strange simply stepped through the portal and extended a hand to the Doctor:
"Hello, I am Dr. Stephen Strange. Although I might not exist in this Universe, as a fellow medical professional, I need to inform you that this little girl needs to be 'transferred' now~"
"Uh, hello, I'm Dan." The Doctor paused, shook his hand, but then immediately refused solemnly:
"But that's impossible. Shalan's condition is extremely critical right now. Her life is sustained entirely by hospital equipment and her own strong willpower. She can't handle a transfer process at all!"
The woman also stepped in front of her daughter: "Dr. Dan is right! Shalan is only alive today thanks to the free treatment Dr. Dan applied for us. We can't afford a transfer anyway, nor will we use dirty money stolen by William for medical care!"
"You're quite responsible~" Strange remarked, looking at Dan with some surprise upon hearing that.
At least this guy had much more of a conscience than he did back when he was practicing medicine.
Back then, Strange could only say he did his best, but for patients he believed he couldn't save, he wouldn't waste time on them at all.
"Alright, stop wasting time."
At this moment, Ryan also stepped through the web portal and strode toward Dan.
The moment he entered, the atmospheric pressure in the hospital room seemed to drop by two levels.
"Wh-What are you going to do? Don't do anything reckless, this is a hospital!"
Dan swallowed hard, his legs trembling slightly, but he forced himself not to run away.
Ryan raised his hand, and Dan squeezed his eyes shut.
Thud——
Feeling no pain, only a heavy object dropped into his hands.
Dan opened his eyes, almost blinded by a dazzling golden glow.
A palm-sized gold brick was resting quietly in his hands.
Ryan patted his shoulder and said calmly, "I like the pure kindness in you. This is my gift to you."
"Also, your kindness doesn't need deception to help others. Don't make up things that aren't true. For example, the hospital's 'free treatment'—it was money you paid out of your own pocket!"
"H-How do you know that?" Dan was even more shocked by Ryan's words than by receiving the gold brick.
Ryan glanced at him without answering.
For an ordinary person, even if he mentioned the Mind Stone, they probably wouldn't understand.
So why waste his breath?
"Let's go. Time to head to your new home."
Ryan clenched his left hand, and a blue glow lit up around Sandman, his wife, and his daughter. Under Dan's watchful eyes, the three vanished instantly.
"Huh? How did they disappear..."
Dan instinctively turned around to ask Ryan.
But when he turned, there was no one left in the room—only himself.
The tall man who had just appeared and his red-cloaked fellow Doctor were gone.
If not for the heavy gold brick he was still holding in his hands, Dan would have thought he was dreaming!
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