A Low Rank Female Goes Viral Across the Galaxy-Chapter 209: Go Home to Watch TV
The explosive debut of *The Legend of the Condor Heroes* stole a good deal of the spotlight from *Medicine God*.
However, some people were still paying close attention to the movie *Medicine God*.
Because they could truly, deeply relate to it.
*I’m so jealous of the country in the movie, even if it’s poor and behind the times.*
*My mother is a C-level female, and both of her partners are B-level. I’m a C-level Beastman male.*
*Although my family isn’t well-off, we could at least make a living through our own work.*
*But later, my younger brother and sister were born.*
*My brother is a Half-beastman, but my sister was born a pure human with a genetic disease.*
*Every month, she has to take three Body Building Potions to maintain her health, and she needs at least five sessions in a Medical Pod.*
*The most expensive part is the monthly Genetic Medicine. A single dose costs thirty thousand Star Coins. Without it, she will die.*
*I don’t have any complaints against our government; I know this price is already the hospital’s lowest selling price.*
*It just breaks my heart to think that she might not live to adulthood because we can’t afford her medicine...*
In the beginning, people didn’t actually discriminate against pure humans.
They were even seen as atavistic, lucky ones blessed with the genes of their ancestors.
Back then, pure humans were very popular.
But soon, a flaw was discovered: pure humans couldn’t survive in the current Interstellar age.
To live, they had to rely on long-term medication.
Families that weren’t wealthy were completely ruined.
Even wealthy families no longer favored such children after that.
Because even if they could afford the medicine, it was useless. The child was fated to die young, and if they got attached, they would inevitably have to mourn their own child’s death.
So, pure human infants came to be despised by everyone.
Females had it slightly better; there was a higher chance their families couldn’t bring themselves to abandon them.
Later, the government had to step in, introducing various support measures and regulations to prevent them from being abandoned by their families at birth.
They just had to survive until adulthood.
The government would prioritize providing jobs for pure humans and also offer subsidies for their medication.
If they were kicked out of their homes at that point, they could still survive. They wouldn’t live well, but they would live.
Some lucky ones were able to escape this predicament on their own, while those without the ability could only live aimlessly in this vast world.
That’s why even after seeing the movie *Medicine God*, those suffering from illness didn’t call for the medicine prices to be lowered.
They knew the Federation was already being as humane as it could be.
After all, weren’t all the pure humans born in the Empire exiled to the Federation?
At least the Federation was willing to recognize them as citizens and give them a place to call home.
But people can never be truly rational.
At best, they can only exercise restraint.
And so, clinging to a certain hope, many people were still quietly following *Medicine God*.
They even started considering the possibility of crowdfunding to hire someone to smuggle the medicine. If there weren’t truly any loopholes on the Empire’s side, someone might have already taken the risk.
Liang Wei was one of the people with this idea.
She wasn’t doing it for money, but for her mother.
Her mother was a pure human female who married her father, a C-level Beastman male, and then gave birth to her, a D-level female.
The probability of this was extremely low. In fact, while her mother was pregnant with her, her father had even considered arranging for an "accidental" miscarriage.
It was already a great struggle for him to support her mother; he simply couldn’t afford another child.
But her mother refused, begging him to let her keep the child. She said she could die after giving birth, leaving the chance to live for her child.
Out of affection, Liang Wei’s father relented.
In truth, it was also a gamble—he was betting the child would be a Half-beastman.
He never expected the result to be a Beastman female!
Albeit a D-level one.
To give her mother a more stable chance at survival, Liang Wei’s father immediately arranged a childhood engagement for her.
The other family was a union between a Half-beastman female and a low-level male. They had only one son, a C-level male cub.
It was uncertain if a male like that would even be able to find a partner after growing up.
So when Liang Wei’s father said they only had to give him five thousand Star Coins a month, and Liang Wei would marry their son after she came of age, they agreed.
Relying on aid from his future in-laws and government subsidies, Liang Wei’s father was able to support Liang Wei’s mother for so many years.
But now, his Riot Value was very high, and he could no longer work.
Her future partner’s family was in the same situation.
If this continued, her mother wouldn’t survive, and having just come of age, she didn’t want to lose her mother so soon.
So, she had the idea of replicating what Cheng Yong did.
’My Level isn’t high, but I’m still a Beastman female. If I sneak onto some remote planet in the Empire... and use my status as a female, could I buy the medicine cheaply?’
’Everyone in the Federation knows that the prices for the Imperial people’s own basic medicines have never been high.’
’But when sold to the Federation, the price is marked up tenfold.’
’It’s the same for the raw materials, which is why the medicine prices in the Federation can never come down.’
But then Liang Wei thought, ’Instead of trying to cheat the Empire, maybe I should go to the Myriad Races...’
’The Elf Clan of the Myriad Races has medicine, too.’
’But the Elf Clan doesn’t deal with outsiders either. You need connections.’
’I see now. There’s a reason the movie’s protagonist gets to be the protagonist.’
’No wonder the patients’ families couldn’t go to India to buy the medicine themselves; they had no way of bringing it back.’
Liang Wei was simply at a dead end.
Before this movie, she could only wait powerlessly each day for the inevitable to happen.
But this movie showed her that if you were willing to risk your life, perhaps there were other paths to take.
She knew it was wrong, but her desperation could no longer be restrained.
***
Jiang Qin was back at work today. The clock struck eight, and she was done for the day.
After she left, the bar instantly emptied out.
Staring at the empty bar, Zhu Yongkang was dumbfounded. "What’s going on? Usually, there are at least tens of thousands of customers left. Why did everyone leave today?"
’It wasn’t that everyone left; there were probably about fifty people remaining.’
’But... was this normal?’
’So everyone’s Star Coins are worthless these days, huh? Paying the entrance fee just to stay for an hour and then leave.’
A bar employee, however, had an inkling. He offered, "Maybe everyone rushed home to watch *The Legend of the Condor Heroes*?"
"Watch TV??"
The employee knew his manager was busy and had no time to keep up with entertainment news.
He quickly filled him in. "It’s Miss Jiang Qing’s new show. It airs every night at nine on Federation Channel 3."
"This... can’t they watch it here?"
’Since when could Light Computers be used to watch TV?’
The employee said, "They probably think it’s too noisy to concentrate on the show."
Zhu Yongkang: "..."
’How terrifying. Everyone became a series-follower behind my back.’
"Fine," Zhu Yongkang said helplessly.
The employee’s eyes lit up as he made a suggestion. "Manager, I actually have an idea. Why don’t we set up a big screen in the bar to show the series?"
"Look, it doesn’t look good for the bar to be this empty. We might as well use the show to keep people here."
"Besides, watching a show on a big screen is awesome, and you have so many people to watch and discuss it with."
"And when they talk a lot, they’ll get thirsty, and then they’ll buy our Inhibitors to drink."
’The main reason, of course, was that he wanted to watch it but had to work...’
