In a daze, Bai Zhou saw pictures emerging from the fog, flashing before his eyes like a revolving lantern...
A simple rental house, a small room with only a bed, a pair of tables and chairs, and a camera.
A young and beautiful girl is sitting in front of the mirror. She is so beautiful that she can seduce people with every frown and smile. She exudes a charming temperament from the bottom of her heart. Just sitting still makes people unable to take their eyes away.
But the girl looked sad, looked at herself in the mirror, and sighed.
The fingertips stopped at the camera on the table, but then passed by it. Maiden picked up the stethoscope on the table and hung it on his neck.
Go out.
Come to the hospital.
The small consulting room was already full of people.
But the way those people looked at her didn't look like they were looking at Doctor.
Just looking at a... good-looking woman.
Even if she is wearing a medical mask.
"Little girl, are you really Doctor?"
"You are so young and so handsome, what kind of disease can you treat?
"Doctor, doctor, do you have a boyfriend?"
The crowd is noisy.
She smiled and patiently explained one by one, explaining that she had graduated in a major and had been a doctor since she was a child. Although she was young, her professional ability was definitely not a problem. People smiled and nodded, but their eyes were still the same.
Some people even don't come here for treatment at all, but come here to see who the rumored humanoid Charm Demon is. To a large extent, this affects Maiden's ability to treat patients who really need it.
Gradually, there are fewer and fewer real patients, while more and more people come here specifically for bad things and minor illnesses.
People are willing to call her and would rather wait in line for a day than find another Doctor.
Colleagues have been affected, and the hospital has to expend extra energy every day to maintain order.
Facing inquiries from patients, harassment from busybodies, sarcastic remarks and exclusion from colleagues, secretly squinting looks from some colleagues, and even overt and covert hints from individual bosses...
It all makes Maiden extremely disturbed.
Is beauty a sin, or is it really so difficult to be a pure and simple Doctor in this world? Just seeing and treating patients, judging by medical skills, and establishing yourself based on medical ethics - isn't this what Doctor's profession is like?
But...
The reality is not like this.
Growing up in an environment where all Doctor's classmates were from the same school, Dr. Zhang's mind was full of medical science and pharmacology. He was like a little white flower growing deep in the valley, unable to understand the complexities of the human heart.
In fact, Dr. Zhang has known since he was a child that his body is somewhat special.
When he was three years old, Maiden unfortunately suffered from a terminal illness. His parents tried every means to cure him, but they were targeted by someone with malicious intentions. They mistakenly believed in Evil God, lost all their family wealth, and both passed away in an evil sacrifice.
Since then, she has become an orphan, but her terminal illness has miraculously improved.
Even if her body is abnormal, every move she makes is full of charm that makes people of the opposite sex and even the same sex have alluring thoughts.
Not long after, Authorities's people rescued her, saying that she was a victim of a mysterious incident, and the abnormality in her body was also the negative impact of the sacrifice. If she was discovered by a caring person and maliciously guided by some illegal religious groups, causing Maiden to embark on some extremely evil evil paths - that would be the natural seeds of evil, and life would be miserable.
Fortunately, Authorities accepted her, and Maiden was protected by Authorities from now on. As long as she becomes an extraordinary person in the future, she will have the opportunity to curb her own charm. However, she is just a child after all... Authorities gave her a chance to choose her future career.
Become a front-line combatant, or something else.
Maiden, who has been suffering from terminal illness since he was a child and witnessed his parents' family being destroyed because of it, made his choice almost without hesitation.
"I want to be Doctor... is that okay?"
Looking at the cautious hope on the little girl's face...
Later Bureau of Anomalous Investigation Director Qi, Qi Qianfeng who was the leader of the action team at that time Captain, pursed his lips softly and nodded seriously.
Under the recommendation of Qi Qianfeng and Authorities organizations, coupled with the talent in Mysticism brought to her by "side effects", Maiden got So she became a disciple of a well-established figure in the medical institution "Nowhere Medical Group", embarked on a certain medical-related Extraordinary Path, and specialized in medical skills. She embarked on the future she wanted to go to.
From that day on, Maiden secretly vowed that he must become a great Doctor and prevent people like him from appearing in this world again. After completing his studies, Maiden wanted to serve Tinghai, to do something to save her own Authorities organization, so she came to the Authorities organization and became the Associate Professor level director Doctor that countless people dream of.
Still... her experience in the fledgling world was not smooth.
Although she has been able to curb most of her charms with the help of secret skills that her teacher worked hard to find, troubles still keep coming. People only know the famous Miss Zhang.
No one knows who Dr. Zhang is.
The screen changes.
Still in that rental house.
The girl sat on the bed, hugged her knees and looked out the window.
That night, the moonlight outside the window was very bright.
"Let's change places." She said to herself, "Go to a more remote place and don't cause trouble to everyone anymore."
"Be pure...Doctor."
The screen changes again.
No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium, it's just much newer than the one Bai Zhou has seen.
She stood at the door, looked at the dilapidated old building, took a deep breath, and pushed the door open.
There were strange faces inside.
Those faces looked at her, with curiosity, scrutiny, and... the same look in their eyes.
Dr. Zhang lowered his eyes.
The research direction of No. 27 Sanatorium is based on Black Box, which can make people fall into sweet dreams.
It is said that a certain powerful extraordinary person named "Nowhere Medical Group" discovered the seed of a Previous Civilization flower that can make people fall into dreams in the Reflection Ruins Realm, and brought it out of the Ruins Realm to cultivate it.
Later, I don't know what happened, but it bloomed and became the F-Class Black Box banned by the Special Management Department.
Later, people discovered that Black Box could be used for medical treatment to relieve mentally contaminated people from suffering, and even a research direction was developed specifically for this purpose.
No. 27 Humanitarian Care Sanatorium, as well as all the experimental institutions and researchers within No. 27, are all serving this purpose.
As the director Doctor who came by air to take charge of this sanatorium, if Dr. Zhang can achieve certain research results in this area... he can be directly promoted to a full professor-level physician, return to "Nowhere Medical Group", and directly become a senior executive there.
However, the process of researching Black Box was not smooth sailing.
With the advancement of research, and before relevant drugs to relieve pain have been developed, people have discovered that the research on Black Box will affect the researcher's body, such as radiation, hair loss, obesity, and the appearance of the body will undergo ugly changes that people cannot bear.
At first it was just a slight bloating, but later the symptoms became more obvious and even more serious.
Facing the hesitant researchers, Dr. Zhang smiled.
Ugly... what does it matter?
Gradually, she, the "newcomer" who just arrived, became the one who has studied Black Box for the longest time and is the best at using Black Box to treat people's diseases.
One day, she stood in front of the mirror and looked at herself in the mirror, which was slowly deforming.
That incredibly beautiful girl is disappearing little by little.
She just looked at herself like this for a long time, and then a smile appeared on her lips.
I felt relieved, as if I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"That's good."
She said to herself:
"In this way, those troublesome trivial matters are gone."
"Boss, colleagues, patients - everyone."
"From now on, everyone will only remember me as Doctor."
On this day, Dr. Zhang became Monster...
Not Monster.
Until this day, Dr. Zhang became "Dr. Zhang".
The facts turned out to be exactly as Dr. Zhang expected.
Dr. Zhang, who became Monster, is finally no longer troubled by trivial matters.
People no longer look down upon her age, nor make things difficult for her with their leering eyes.
People who hear her story will be in awe of her, and patients who don't know her story will unconditionally obey Doctor's authority when they see her appearance.
Doctor became pure Doctor, and she also had more time to devote to medical research.
Everyone is happy.
Only very occasionally, Miss Doctor, who has become Monster, will come to No. 27 Sanatorium's yard at four o'clock in the morning when spring comes and pick some small white flowers planted in the yard.
Make a garland and put it on your head.
Nie Niannian, who doesn't love stinky little girls?
It's just that she puts a garland on herself, doesn't dare to look in the mirror, and never lets others see it.
The last turn of the screen.
Inside the dream of Evening City.
The vegetable seller Aunt Zhang, the driver Convenience Store Uncle Xiang, the candied haws seller Old Man Niu, the shoe repairman Uncle Chen... the familiar faces have their eyes closed, sleeping in their own happiness.
And Dr. Zhang is like a towering tree rooted in a dream.
The vines growing from her body connect every sleeping person, maintaining their mental stability and suppressing the pain that is about to arise.
Only in dreams can Dr. Zhang regain her original appearance as a little girl, good-looking and beautiful, but without having to worry about affecting others. "That's it."
She looked at those sleeping faces, and the smiles curled up at the corners of her mouth showed relief, exhaustion, and a little bit of reluctance.
"How long will the last days last?"
"Wait for that person to come."
She spoke softly, her worried voice very soft, like singing a cradle song to lull herself to sleep:
"Even if it's Savior from Tinghai... can he succeed me and cure them?"
"Click"
It was as if the complete and beautiful mirror was broken, and all the pictures turned into fragments and disappeared before Bai Zhou's eyes.
"It turns out...
It was only then that Bai Zhou finally fully understood why people had so many positive reviews about No. 27 Sanatorium in the past, but since two years ago, people began to be very secretive about this place and did not even want to recall the process of treatment.
It's like it's hard to put into words, it's very disgusting.
Why does Ms. Doctor, who likes to record life and take photos of recovering patients and herself, show that the last photo taken in her camera was two years ago?
Because two years ago, Dr. Zhang made his own choice and became Monster during the research.
One by one has become pure Doctor.
Since then, Dr. Zhang has never looked in the mirror or taken a photo, but he carefully carries the camera with him.
[If you think of me again, don't always remember what I looked like when I was Monster.]
Thinking of the last words Miss Doctor left for Bai Zhou, Bai Zhou blinked her eyes and stood on the messy ground, somewhat silent. Then, there was a "click"
The digital camera on Monster's body fell to the ground.
"Buzz buzz!"
Half of the orangutan Red Light awns on those Last Will fragments were pulled out and landed on the camera;
The other half was hanging in the air again, and then flew towards the operating room where Dr. Zhang was busy just now.
"Is this...?"
Bai Zhou picked up the old and almost faded digital camera on the ground, and immediately thought of the previous [Alpaca Lollipop] and [59 Point Paper Airplane].
Is this the "gift" Miss Doctor gave her when she left?
Last Will's faint Red Light flickered on the old camera, a strange power acted on it, and a certain piece of knowledge poured into the depths of Bai Zhou's mind.
[Old Camera That Records Life]
[A relic left by a girl who loves taking pictures. This is her most cherished treasure. Now this camera has gained some strange power - it can help the holder see existence that is difficult for ordinary people to detect.]
[Friendly reminder from Ms. Doctor, use it to take pictures around you, you may get unexpected results?]
["Come on, smile and talk about eggplant!"]
Bai Zhou's fingertips rubbed the almost faded camera head of the camera. He lowered his head and stayed silent, looking at the camera for a while.
His expression was hidden in the dark shadows, and no one could see it clearly.
Suddenly, he remembered that half of Last Will's power had flown to the operating room, so he turned around and walked quickly towards the operating room. The lights in the operating room were still the same, light white, hazy, neither too bright nor dim.
Just right, the lighting is as gentle as Miss Doctor.
Dr. Zhang was standing here just now, with his back to the door, shaking his two bloated arms, and he didn't know what he was busy with...
Bai Zhou's eyes immediately fell on the surgery.
"... This is it." Bai Zhou was both surprised and enlightened.
There was a white garland lying there. In the picture Bai Zhou saw, Maiden liked to weave such garlands and wear them on his head, but he also secretly picked flowers at midnight.
The moment his fingertips touched the garland, the knowledge attached to it also poured into Bai Zhou's mind.
[Daydream Wreath]
[A special garland made of Previous Civilization mysterious flowers that can make people fall into Daydream, and woven with the firm belief of Ms. Doctor.]
[The psychedelic flowers are supposed to induce people to sink, but they are used by doctors to cut off real nightmares.]
[The wearer can temporarily obtain the precious pure heart of a doctor, inherit all the medical skills of a certain Miss Doctor, and receive the blessing and help of Miss Doctor,]
"Is this...?"
Bai Zhou's expression suddenly froze, and then he listened attentively, as if he heard something that no one else could hear.
While picking up the garland, he heard the familiar and beautiful voice of Maiden. At some point, he recited the oath tenderly and crisply. "I will perform my medical skills with a pure and sacred heart."
[I will take the patient's health and life as my top priority and treat everyone equally.]
[I will do no harm, administer no poison, and seduce no one to sin.]
[I will strictly guard the secrets entrusted to me, keep my mouth shut, and will not violate humanity due to threats.]
[I solemnly and independently swear the above oath with my personality, praying that fate will grant me the supreme glory of life and medical skills!] That childish, but constantly reverberating oath was heard by Bai Zhou.
Bai Zhou heard Miss Doctor's vows echoing in his ears.
In a trance, there are bright stars flowing in front of my eyes, and there are countless Doctor's voices that match the vows of Dr. Zhang.
<Hippocrates Oath>.
Unknowingly, Bai Zhou's chest seemed to be filled with some strange feeling.
Obviously I got two new props, but Bai Zhou didn't feel very happy for some reason, and I didn't do much research on the purpose of the props. "Buzz..."
Suddenly.
The white garland on her hand seemed to light up.
Bai Zhou turned to look at the camera on his left hand and suddenly turned around.
Feeling blessed, he raised the bulky digital camera in his hand towards the corridor outside the door.
He said:
"Eggplant~"
"" sound
The picture on the camera freezes.
In the camera screen, in the middle of the messy corridor, there is a familiar Maiden standing there, with a wreath on his head, a bright smile showing white teeth, and his eyebrows crescent.
Behind her, there are all the people of Evening City who were protected and healed by her.
Aunt Zhang, Uncle Xiang, Old Man Niu, Uncle Chen...
Everyone was there, smiling and crowding Dr. Zhang in a white coat in the middle.
A group photo.
The girl who looked like a little white flower was smiling brightly above her, and she raised her hand to make a V-sign to Bai Zhou who was taking the photo.
"So, you are here."
Bai Zhou looked at the frozen picture on the screen, then looked up at the corridor in reality, but only saw an empty corridor.
"Well, good night, Miss Doctor." Bai Zhou whispered softly, looking down at the digital camera carefully held in his hand.
"Are you so afraid that I will only remember your appearance later? You still leave a photo for me..."
Bai Zhou muttered casually, "I can't forget it."
On the old digital camera, the screen is full of bright smiles, which is in sharp contrast to the empty and dead reality.
Only the light above my head remains the same.
In the small operating room, the wattage of the ceiling light is not high, it is not too bright so it is not dazzling, and it does not look cold so it attracts people to get closer. Just like a patient and gentle Miss Doctor, or there are more people who quietly engage in this profession.
They are like the lights here, they were like this in the past and they are on tonight.
And it will still be lit like this tomorrow.