"Tick-tick-tick..."
The light rain is falling, and the water is flowing along the long bluestone street.
Bai Zhou's eyes glanced at Miss Doctor, and his eyes stayed on the camera hanging on her chest.
It was an old film camera. The body was very square. Most of the black patent leather had peeled off, and the metal circle around the lens was polished to a shiny finish. The leather strap was broken and connected with a thin hemp rope. It looked a bit shabby, making people wonder whether such a camera could still take pictures. "Are you Doctor, or are you a photographer?"
Bai Zhou asked, his voice not loud, but he knew that the other party could hear him from half a street away.
"A...Doctor who likes to record life." Doctor raised his hand to fumble for the camera on his chest twice, then looked up at Bai Zhou.
"The new ones, us, will be enemies?"
Doctor tilted his head, and when his hair fell down, the unspeakable charm made Fang Xiaoxia breathe a little heavier.
. aal"
Fang Xiaoxia shrank his head, and while protecting Bai Zhou in front of him, his expression looked like he had seen a ghost.
Oh my god Fang Xiaoxia, why are you so down! Even when you are facing a woman, your heart beats wildly?
1 Bai Zhou is still watching you!
"Whether it's an enemy or a friend, it depends on you, right?" Bai Zhou's palm quietly grasped the handle of the knife, and Red-White Horse Saber appeared in his hand without knowing when.
"At the very least, turn off that damn charm on yourself first!"
As he spoke, Bai Zhou cursed secretly in his heart.
Although he looked calm and incomprehensible just now, in fact...
Even Fang Xiaoxia reacted when he saw the person coming, let alone Bai Zhou, a young and vigorous boy?
The mind is flooded with thoughts, which is obviously an abnormal reaction.
"Buzz!"
Fortunately, Bai Zhou has become accustomed to using [Soothing] when in doubt.
On Sea of Ignorance, the words [Soothing] shined brightly, and invisible ripples washed away, making Bai Zhou calm down.
The two sides exchanged moves quietly, starting from the first meeting half a street away, and the two sides had completed the first confrontation without anyone noticing. Master!
Quietly moving his steps to block the red-faced Fang Xiaoxia behind him, Bai Zhou had a gloomy expression. Looking at the indifferent woman who continued to release some strange charm, his eyes darkened:
"It seems that you are here with bad intentions!"
"... Tell me, is there a possibility?"
At the end of the long bluestone street, Miss Doctor was speechless for a moment, then looked at Bai Zhou seriously and spoke word by word:
"Are you the one who came?"
As she spoke, her voice was gentle and compassionate, and a certain kind of pure divinity appeared in her body.
But behind the divinity, the inexplicable magic that makes people addicted and imaginative is really impossible to ignore.
But Bai Zhou also feels that this kind of charm is similar to the immersive dream surrounding it.
It seemed that he had found the right person.
Bai Zhou is ready to take action.
Killing in the rain, this is what Bai Zhou is best at and often does.
But...
"Dr. Zhang?"
Sensing something unusual in the atmosphere, the owner of the apple stall looked up and his eyes immediately lit up.
Immediately afterwards, he picked out the biggest apple in his hand. The stingy uncle who had been haggling with Bai Zhou for just 10 cents for a long time now rubbed the big red apple hard on his apron and shouted in the middle of the street:
"Dr. Zhang! The apples we just brought in are crispy, take one and try it!"
With this voice shouting out, the long bluestone street that looked deserted under the drizzle seemed to suddenly come to life.
Lao Chen, the tofu seller, leaned out from behind the stall. He didn't even bother to wipe the tofu residue on his hands. He picked up a plate of hot tofu that had just come out of the pot and walked over. "Dr. Zhang, try this, you just ordered it and it's still hot!"
The aunt who made the fried lotus root box moved faster, picked up a piece of oil paper, wrapped four or five pieces of the freshly cooked lotus root box, and ran into the rain. "Xiao Zhang Xiao Zhang, have you had dinner? Add another dish!"
While he was talking, old ladies, grandfathers, aunts and uncles gathered around him in twos and threes.
Some were still holding unfinished celery in their hands, and some picked up something from the small bench in front of their house:
"Dr. Zhang, have you received the dates that Old Liu gave you yesterday? They are grown on my own tree. You can try this variety to see if it is sweet..." "Dr. Zhang, these are the radish strips I pickled. You said they were delicious last time, so I pickled another jar..."
"Dr. Zhang, it's raining. Don't stand outside. Come on, go to my house and sit down. The hand-rolling you just made..."
The voices of the villagers blended into one, and the dense crowd stood between Bai Zhou and Doctor.
Those hands stretched forward with objects in hand, and lifted them up in dense clusters: a bowl of ribs, a handful of dates, half a jar of pickled radishes, and several steamed buns, some of which were wet by the rain.
The crowd just surrounded Dr. Zhang in the middle, and those who didn't know it thought that Dr. Zhang could get discounted eggs here.
Dr. Zhang stood in the middle of the crowd, his hands stuffed with things.
Everything happened naturally, and no one was surprised. It was like the people on this street were accustomed to thinking of her for any good thing, and someone would stuff something into her hand every day.
"Bai Zhou, this is what you said...Evening City people are mostly cold and selfish?"
Fang Xiaoxia huddled behind Bai Zhou and looked carefully, blinking twice unconsciously, "I think everyone seems to be very honest..." Bai Zhou snorted coldly, "This person must have charmed everyone - to exploit the people in this way, this is no longer an ordinary evil person!"
"Evening City can't produce another Grand Elder Zhao. The golden body named Zhao has fallen. Do we need to erect another statue of a goddess named Zhang?" Bai Zhou turned to Fang Xiaoxia and whispered, "We must strike hard!!"
Fang Xiaoxia nodded repeatedly, but his eyes were filled with doubts. "But why do you speak with a lowered voice? Don't you dare to be heard by those fanatical villagers?"
Bai Zhou:..."
This is what I said.
After finally going back to my hometown, I can't afford to be beaten with rotten eggs by my fellow villagers.
"But then again." Fang Xiaoxia asked again, "Then Dr. Zhang charms these people... is it just to exploit a few eggs, a few fried lotus root boxes, and a few dates?"
"Isn't this a bit..." Fang Xiaoxia hesitated to speak.
"A bit miserable?" Bai Zhou blinked.
Fang Xiaoxia nodded.
Really miserable.
Bai Zhou thinks so too.
So before Fang Xiaoxia opened his mouth, Bai Zhou had quietly put away Red-White Horse Saber.
Of course, there is a more important reason.
Everyone gathered around Dr. Zhang, and Bai Zhou was worried about hurting everyone in Evening City.
Evening City is false, but everyone in Evening City is real.
We all had a sweet dream together, and the sweet dreams gathered together to form this Evening City, and the people inside it are the spirit of the people of Evening City. The saber of Bai Zhou has always been Since arriving here, Trojan Horse has been buzzing non-stop, as if smelling the scent of prey. This handle is accurate to Spirit-Name Secret Treasure, and its elemental attribute is [Spirit], which is perfect for showing off its skills in such an environment.
No one knows that Bai Zhou carries such a valuable treasure, which gives Bai Zhou the confidence to walk here.
But in the same way, he can threaten the existence of Dr. Zhang and also hurt everyone at Evening City.
With one slash, the person here was hit. In reality, the corresponding person may never wake up again...
"It's not simple..." Bai Zhou looked at the humanoid Charm Demon in the white coat with a faint look in his eyes.
Will Adventurer meet Charm Demon on the road of adventure??
When Charm Demon does not use this charm to seduce men, but uses it to win the love of the people, and maybe give a passionate speech without any trouble, what should Adventurer do?
"The inherently evil woman Doctor actually uses Ordinary people as her human shields!" Bai Zhou felt troubled.
There is no doubt that this person should be Doctor, the chief physician in charge of No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium, the woman who has a complicated expression whenever the high-ranking and mysterious Doctor Jiu is mentioned.
[The situation there is a bit complicated, the chief physician there is Doctor.]
[Your fellow villagers are all there, so maybe you have asked other people about the situation there? I think they don't have any good reviews.] Bai Zhou remembered what Doctor Jiu said.
[But...]
[Sometimes, your ears can deceive you, and so can your eyes.]
What does it mean?
Doctor Jiu thought that Bai Zhou had asked someone about No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium in advance, so he said these extra words.
But in fact, because Doctor Jiu said these things, before leaving Special Management Department, Bai Zhou, who had completed the resignation procedures for Fang Xiaoxia, specifically asked people from the Special Management Department to inquire about things here.
Because of the rescue of Tinghai and Western Federation's appearance in the communication, Bai Zhou's inquiries went quite smoothly... At least everyone is willing to talk to Bai Zhou. But no matter what Whether it was Elder Song's secretary or some Special Management Department elite who had returned from a field trip, when they heard Bai Zhou mentioning the recuperation on the 27th, their expressions became very strange, even a little frightened.
[Is it actually No. 27? However, if the Evening City victim lives there now...]]
[I don't really want to recall the past communication with that Doctor, because it was really not a good experience - believe me, any man will feel so.]
[In fact, No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium was one of the most popular institutions in Authorities at the beginning, and everyone was willing to go there... But later, it was changed to Doctor, so, um...]
They either don't know No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium, and everyone who knows it will show fear and horror. They say, Doctor of No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium...
It's Monster.
Monster?
Bai Zhou Looking at the woman who was both divine and demonic, and who was enthusiastically surrounded by Evening City people, she had to admit that this was indeed a Monster, even more difficult to attack than any ferocious and ferocious Monster.
But...
To be honest, Bai Zhou feels that the more this happens, the more unreasonable she gets those comments.
No one wants to come to No. 27 for treatment? I don't want to recall the past interactions with him. Any man would feel this way?
Bai Zhou Why do you think... it should be the other way around?
What exactly went wrong?
Bai Zhou is keenly aware that the contradiction may be the "complexity" mentioned by Doctor Jiu.
Dr. Zhang finally walked out of the crowd. The little white flower-like girl waved to Protagonist from afar, "I know you have doubts about many things, but..."
The sound suddenly stopped amid the noise, and Miss Doctor's expression suddenly changed.
"Buzz!!!" A distorted soft sound came from nearby.
Immediately afterwards, Bai Zhou saw gray, dark and strange light spots emerging from everyone who was surrounding Miss Doctor. There was something vaguely moving slowly in each light spot.
"This is...?" Bai Zhou and Fang Xiaoxia looked at each other.
"Clatter..."
These spots of light rose up.
Thousands of light spots were like hundreds of heavy bubbles rising into the sky, slowly floating towards the sky.
They rose higher and higher, gathered more and more densely, and began to devour each other, merge and then twist over the long street.
The gray spots gradually turned into continuous colors in the light rain in the sky, as if a rainbow appeared above the head.
But this rainbow is actually a huge, constantly writhing shadow, with chaotic, mutually exclusive colors that have to be squeezed together pouring out from the depths of that huge shadow.
Distorted and chaotic colorful tones of faint blue, rotten green, moldy purple, and fishy red lingered in the rainy sky, much like the colorful stripes on an old TV set when the signal collapsed.
Abnormalities hidden in daily life may not always break out without warning at any time.
Bai Zhou saw a similar situation once with Aunt Zhang.
But compared to Aunt Zhang at that time, these things are much more dangerous and terrifying now.
even
Among the wriggling and twisted colors Phantom, there is an extremely huge shadow of Monster, which is gradually solidifying.
It was a huge green monster with bumps all over its body, its face covered with a pale strip of cloth, with a big word written on it in bright red traditional Chinese characters ""...
[Pain]!
This Monster is so huge, one hand is about the same size as this street, and its translucent body almost fills half of the sky of Evening City. It is like a bitter melon that has been magnified countless times, with uneven bumps on its surface and a rotten green fluorescent light all over its body.
That Monster opened its mouth and let out an inaudible roar.
All the spots, all the colors, all the distortions exploded at the same time at that moment!
The heavy rain came in an instant, and the fluorescent green Monster that filled the entire sky began to reach out towards the people on this bluestone street. "Everyone, run!" Dr. Zhang let out a sharp the Scream, and then started to flee with everyone.
Bai Zhou was soon surprised to find that although some of the faces of the fleeing Evening City villagers showed panic and inexplicable pain and sadness, there was no confusion at all. Instead, they followed Dr. Zhang in an orderly manner.
They seemed to have been used to it for a long time and didn't think it was weird at all.
Just like... just like regular resident activities, as if this is not an abnormality, but a part of daily life. Perhaps, Aunt Zhang turned a blind eye to the abnormality before, because of the same principle?
When passing by Bai Zhou, Dr. Zhang took a special look at Bai Zhou and Fang Xiaoxia, and called them both, "Follow me too!" "You Evening City..." Is there still Bitter Melon King?" Fang Xiaoxia stared blankly at the sky, feeling that the image of Monster looked very much like the larger version of Bitter Melon King - although it might be more appropriate to call it Pain Melon King.
But the way it appears is the same as the weird and colorful opening theme of the early Ultraman, with a huge translucent figure falling from the sky in the twisted and wriggling colorful light and shadow, full of weird and weird style.
"I have lived in Evening City for eighteen years, and I have only seen Crow wielding Flowing Fire Long Saber to split the stars and slash the moon. I have never seen this thing with a godly head and a grimace!" "But now..."
Bai Zhou muttered, turned around, grabbed Fang Xiaoxia's sleeve, and walked away.
"Stop Cucumber King Apple Princess, go away, go away!"
Such a big Monster is extremely powerful. It looks scary, but it is actually quite scary.
The moment he saw the other person, although the Red-White Horse Saber in his arms kept buzzing, in Bai Zhou's personal feeling, this Monster seemed to be Evening City itself, or even the dream itself, invincible.
Life and Death Intuition frantically sent an early warning to Bai Zhou. Without knowing the truth of the other party, Bai Zhou, who is cautious by nature, would naturally not take action rashly. It just so happened that Miss Doctor, who had mixed reviews in the Special Management Department, was organizing the people to escape in an orderly manner.
Mixed in the surging crowd, Bai Zhou wanted to see where she would take everyone to escape.
And...
So, this Miss Doctor is protecting everyone now?
Why?
Bai Zhou was puzzled and pulled Fang Xiaoxia to follow the crowd.
In just a few steps and just one turn, Dr. Zhang took everyone to their destination.
A small white building, five or six stories high, with pale tiles pasted on it, it looked like it had been built for several years.
A small hospital.
This is a building that should never appear in Wan City in Bai Zhou's memory. There has never been such a building in Wan City. The hospital opened by the black robes is black with an inverted red cross on it.
But Bai Zhou had seen This Building again.
In other words, this is the small white building hidden behind the iron gate of No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium that Bai Zhou and Fang Xiaoxia have seen in reality.
At this moment, it appears here, Great Door open.
"Quick, go in and take the medicine!" Dr. Zhang greeted everyone, "It won't hurt after taking the medicine... The monster will be beaten away after taking the medicine!" Everyone filed in, and Monster "rumbling" came behind them, making the ground tremble.
But it's also strange that when approaching the door of the hospital, some barrier seemed to be triggered, and the huge fluorescent green Monster stopped naturally. "Orbit, orbit,..." The footsteps shook the earth, Monster lingered outside the door. In the increasingly rapid rainstorm, the shadow cast by Monster enveloped the outline of the entire hospital.
"The medicine is coming, the medicine is coming!"
"Drink it while it's hot!"
Miss Doctor walked out of it carrying two bowls of dark paste. She felt extremely miserable at first sight, or in other words, no one knew what these things were.
But people rushed over and grabbed the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
"Don't grab it, don't grab it, one bowl per person, the rest is still cooking, it will be ready soon, it will be ready soon!" Doctor's crisp voice echoed in the crowded crowd.
The crowd that was noisy just now suddenly became much quieter. Under the command of Doctor, they lined up to receive the dark paste liquid.
Strangely enough, as people poured bowls of this inexplicable thing into their stomachs, the monster wandering outside the hospital door screamed in pain in the heavy rain, and a few pieces of it disappeared out of thin air.
"Ho! Ho! Ho!"
More and more places on the monster's body became hollow, and transparent holes appeared out of thin air, as if the components that made it up disappeared. "Medicine..." Bai Zhou looked at the black paste that Dr. Zhang was busy with. The bitter smell could be clearly smelled from such a distance, but everyone at Evening City was very enthusiastic about it, as if they had lost their sense of taste.
"Is this Doctor really protecting everyone...?"
Bai Zhou frowned, confused.
"What is the Monster outside the door? What is this medicine?"
Cautiously and vigilantly, he looked at Dr. Zhang, who was busy in the crowd, so busy that his feet did not touch the floor. Bai Zhou knew that the other party had no time to pay attention to him now.
But this is also an opportunity for Bai Zhou.
Taking advantage of this gap, Bai Zhou also started moving.
He began to investigate this small hospital.
Many facilities are obviously old, but overall they are clean. There are squeaky iron beds and white bedding that is almost rotten. Amidst the smell of disinfectant, Bai Zhou walked through the deep corridors and passed empty wards, but could not find anything unusual. Until one day.
Bai Zhou found an office.
This seems to be Dr. Zhang's office. Bai Zhou's attention was first attracted by the bright red banners hanging on the wall.
[Benevolence and benevolence, skillful rejuvenation]
[Treating diseases and saving lives is a great kindness]
[Twenty years of leg ailment, once cured, Dr. Zhang will be a living Bodhisattva!]
...]
The three walls were densely covered with banners, and on the remaining wall, Doctor, who claimed to like to record life, hung a series of photos on the wall with hanging wire, which looked very spectacular.
Bai Zhou took a few glances and found that these so-called "recorded lives" were basically photos of Dr. Zhang and the patients.
There was an old lady with gray hair sitting on the hospital bed, and Dr. Zhang squatted in front of her, holding a bowl of white porridge in her hands. Both of them smiled at the camera. There was an old man wearing a brand-new Chinese tunic suit, and Dr. Zhang held the handle of Wheelchair, bending down to speak in his ear. The old man smiled until his eyes narrowed into slits.
There was also a little girl with two braids and a lollipop in her hand. Dr. Zhang held her on his knees, both of them looking at the camera with scissor hands.
There was a little boy lying on the hospital bed with a bandage on his head. Dr. Zhang was sitting by the bed and telling him a story. The photo was frozen in the moment when she opened the storybook.
There is also a photo of a woman holding a pennant with Dr. Zhang. The pennant has the words "Miao Hand Rejuvenation" written on it.
These photos look like they were taken a few years ago, and many of them are yellowed and old.
But in every photo, without exception, the people in it are all smiling happily.
The patient's smile seemed to come from the heart, while Dr. Zhang's smile was even brighter, like a child receiving a gift.
In the photo, Ms. Doctor, wearing a white coat, stands with these recovered patients, smiling brightly and gesticulating towards the camera, which makes people inexplicably think of pure white flowers.
While thinking about whether these photos and the banners had any deep meaning, Bai Zhou secretly searched everywhere.
"Is this...?"
His gaze suddenly froze. There were many file folders in the drawer, and the one buried at the bottom caught his eye. <Medical Records of Victims of the Evening City Incident>!
"This is it!"
Bai Zhou was refreshed.
Found you!
"Clatter..."
Looking around, the office door was locked and everything was quiet.
After confirming that there was no surveillance above his head, Bai Zhou opened the medical record.
The notes on the medical record were written very hastily. It was obviously the popular character Eastern Federation, but it took a long time to identify it Bai Zhou.
1.
The effect of Black Box was surprisingly good. Elder Chen slept for three hours. When I woke up, I cried so much that I dreamed about going to the market when I was young.
But Old Wang refused to wake up, and after forcibly cutting off his connection with Black Box, Old Wang rolled on the ground holding his head, saying it was too painful outside... It seemed that the previous encounters and brainwashing had done too much damage to him.
2.
Everyone's dependence on Black Box has become more and more serious. Once they leave the dreamland, they are either in unbearable pain, or in a trance, or even kneel down and beg me just to enter the dreamland.
If this continues... can they really be cured?
Maybe, I should try something else.
3.
The effect of Black Box has weakened. Aunt Zhang woke up after only two hours of sleep yesterday. She kept crying after waking up. She said that the Corner Street in her dream was getting blurry.
I must find other treatments. They entrusted their lives to me, and as their main treatment Doctor, I must cure them. But... my experiments have always failed.
4.
Assistant Xiao Zhou suddenly said that he might have a way to stimulate and improve the treatment effect of Black Box. I don't know if his method is effective, but I can only give it a try now.
The situation was urgent. In less than a day after they were rescued, several patients were on the verge of death in pain and about to lose their vital signs. 5.
Old Zhao connected to the upgraded Black Box... His body was twitching, but the corner of his mouth was smiling.
After disconnecting, he said that the Evening City in the dream was exactly the same as the real one, and all the details were correct. He seemed much more mentally stable. One by one, we succeeded!!
6.
No... it doesn't seem right.
More and more people are starting to sleep for a long time, but I haven't started Black Box at all.
Their spirits spontaneously connected to Black Box, their dreams began to connect, and everyone was immersed in Evening City in the dream.
They don't want to be awakened, they don't want to be in pain anymore, they would rather stay asleep.
But...
If they sleep for too long, they will never wake up.
Xiao Zhou said that this is their own choice.
What should I do?!
7.
I should try to wake them up. No matter how good Evening City is, it is still unrealistic.
If they are not awakened, they will completely die in their sleep - including the dream itself.
Lu,
... Maybe Xiao Zhou is right.
It hurts so much outside.
Let them stay.
Let them stay there forever.
9.
No, I still have to save them. I will never give up on any of my patients.
I think I need to go to their dreams in person to wake them up!
But before I fall asleep, maybe I should...
The subsequent notes ended abruptly, or in other words, the person who recorded the medical records did not write at all.
"Hua La;..."
Unknowingly, Bai Zhou turned to the last page of the file.
Here, completely different from Juan Xiu's handwriting before, a line of small scarlet characters with dancing dragons and phoenixes appeared at the end of the file folder. This string of small scarlet characters squirmed.
It's Last Will.
"This is...!"
But when Bai Zhou saw the content of Last Will clearly, his eyes suddenly became particularly sharp.
[Quietly, the cultivation of Gu King began in the depths of this deserted wilderness. All we have to do is wait for the people from above to come.] [There is no doubt that this is a successful experiment, and I will be rewarded for it.]
[One by one Raven sings the praises of the quiet time, the day Blood Moon returns to the earth!]