Someone in Honkai: Star Rail, a Healer

It was just like college students rushing to an 8 AM class, or office workers returning to work after a holiday.

Even if Pepe showed up, they'd still get slapped twice!

Pepe: ?

Scolding aside, Lin Nai wouldn't just leave them be.

It was just that his expression was displeased.

His actions, however, were still very swift.

If he could make this group of troublesome individuals suffer a little less, he would. He could always scold them again after they'd recovered.

Receiving a resentful glance from Lin Nai, some of the staff lying on the hospital beds couldn't help but look away sheepishly.

These were all staff members injured during experiments.

And they were quite seriously injured.

As for why the medical department needed his help...

Having stayed in the Black Tower space station for so many years, he might not be considered a researcher.

But... Lin Nai could barely be called a medical staff member who was 'powerless to even truss a chicken.'

Thanks to the system.

Lin Nai had once refreshed a healing skill.

After showing off a little to the Black Tower, he was brought over to help.

The noble reason given was that the space station didn't support idlers.

No, wait.

Wasn't his 'job' to be researched by you, the Black Tower?

Did he need to take on extra part-time work?!

Complaining inwardly, Lin Nai didn't refuse the job.

He was just unhappy with the Black Tower's style of squeezing him dry, feeling rather like they were using him and then discarding him without a second thought.

But Lin Nai was still very proactive about helping people.

This power could be used to heal people, which was pretty good.

Moreover, Lin Nai was quite idle in the medical bay.

As everyone knew.

The medical bay housed the pride of the entire space station's medical facilities.

It was a place that boasted of being able to save anyone as long as they had a breath left.

So, the medical bay only ever called Lin Nai for help in emergencies or when they were completely overwhelmed.

The medical bay did indeed have the best facilities.

But the staff's research was always accompanied by unpredictable risks, leading to the medical bay being constantly overcrowded.

For example, this time, one medical staff member had fainted.

But because of just this one staff member, the medical bay was completely overwhelmed.

This led to the scene earlier at the office door, where a group of medical staff carried Lin Nai over, with Asta watching with an OMO expression.

"So, what were you guys experimenting on that got you blown up this time?" Lin Nai retracted his gaze, his tone impatient.

He had planned to go back and take a nap.

Did they know how much damage the actions of a bunch of burly men rushing at a ten-year-old could cause!

Speaking of which, this guy was an old acquaintance.

He'd been here quite a bit, and Lin Nai had seen him even when he came to help occasionally.

He was practically a regular at the medical department.

The staff member being treated chuckled sheepishly, "It's about dreams..."

"Dreams?"

"Yes, because there's never enough time in reality, so we wanted to utilize our sleeping time too!"

The staff member said earnestly, "Staying up late in reality can lead to mental fatigue, physical exhaustion, and errors in experiments."

"The final results could be explosions, injuries, wasted resources, and a whole series of other issues."

"So?"

"So, we created the Dream Consciousness Machine! Uh... although we can't conduct experiments in dreams at this stage, it should be fine for reviewing past knowledge or something similar."

"Oh~"

Hearing this, Lin Nai roughly understood.

It was a machine that allowed people to maintain consciousness in their dreams, and even control their dreams.

The goal... is to compete?

Heh.

These scientists from the Black Tower space station are truly terrifying.

"But why can't I do experiments in my dreams?" Lin Nai asked curiously.

The staff member explained, "Lin Nai, when you're fully aware that you're in a dream, most of what you think can be realized, do you understand?"

"This leads to a situation where, if we can control our dreams and conduct research within them, the experiments will only develop in the direction we think or hope they will. Then, all the results will be wrong."

"Unless we can overcome this difficulty..."

"I see."

Lin Nai had an expression of "I vaguely understand."

Oh.

He really understood.

It was easy to understand.

Unlike that magenta-colored guy who babbled nonsense and didn't understand anything in reality.

"By the way, when you talk about controlling dreams, can it only be used for studying?"

"Yes, it can only be used for studying! Everything else is no good! It's completely useless!"

The staff member proudly raised their head.

As expected.

Scientists are truly terrifying.

Rather than a dream-controlling machine, it's more like a machine that forces you to study in your dreams, isn't it?

It directly limits other possibilities.

The machine they made probably ensures 100% lucid dreaming, but you can only study in the dream...

But can that really be considered sleeping?

Wait.

Speaking of which, does looking at adult comics count as studying?

Thinking of this, Lin Nai asked the staff member in front of him.

The staff member froze, a question mark appearing on their head. Angrily, they slammed the table and shouted, "Lin Nai, are you lucid? If you're not lucid, go ask Ms. Black Tower to introduce you to a fiancée."

"How can looking at that kind of thing be considered studying!"

"Why wouldn't it be? For example, for the poses, you should approach it with a desire for knowledge! What filthy thoughts!"

"???"

Hearing Lin Nai's serious counter-question, the staff member stared blankly, their brain trembling.

Was... was he the one with the filthy thoughts?

The staff member was completely stunned.

For a moment, they didn't know if they were wrong, or if Lin Nai was wrong, or if the world was wrong.

In the end, only one sentence could summarize it...

Staff member: "My mother gave birth to me!"

Without paying further attention to this guy whose CPU had burned out, Lin Nai continued to treat the next person.

Just kidding.

He had a long line here.

He had to finish quickly.

Some staff members were still feeling unwell; getting them better sooner would allow them to do whatever they needed to do.

He really hoped they would be more careful.

The less they suffered, the less work the medical pods would have to do.

But thinking about it still made him unhappy.

Since that was the case.

Lin Nai took out his phone and pondered for a few seconds while looking at his contacts.

Then, he ignored the three voice messages, each 60 seconds long, sent by a certain short person.

He sent a message to the other party.

Lin Nai: You there? Explode Gold Coins?

Silver Wolf: ???

Silver Wolf: You?****************!!!

Chapter 12: Black Tower: I Know You're in a Hurry...

Three days later.

Black Tower's office.

Lin Nai was once again at the mercy of the Black Tower (meaning a physical examination).

It felt like he'd had more physicals this week than in the entire previous month.

The Black Tower didn't give him physicals on a strict weekly basis.

Sometimes it was once a month, sometimes every two weeks, and sometimes it was weekly.

However, this week, due to those bizarre dreams, this was a follow-up examination.

But how to put it.

The Black Tower always came up empty-handed.

Lin Nai didn't know how she managed to keep it up all these years, especially since she hadn't found anything different about his body at all.

Of course.

It was probably also because he had basically shown the Black Tower his abilities.

For example, healing, the Guillotine, or some other peculiar little skills.

This was likely what kept the Black Tower persistent and interested.

She wanted to know how, despite all tests showing him as a normal person, strange little skills would manifest every so often.

For example, the clover that could be planted in the ground and blow objects away in the air; the Black Tower had studied it for a long time back then, though they hadn't figured anything out.

"Even though his strength and everything else is changing, every check-up shows him as a normal person? His blood also yields nothing."

The Black Tower frowned, completely unable to understand why, after all these years, the situation remained the same.