"Repairing depleted vitality requires high-grade extraordinary medicinal ingredients. You won't find that kind of thing in the lower levels."
The doctor said this.
Xu Zhi understood that this was bait the other party had set for her—a hook intended to reel her in.
She felt like a little fish being coveted by others. Many people stood watching from the shore, trying to fish her into their own pockets. Perhaps it would not stop with this doctor; she might encounter plenty more "bait" afterward. But that did not mean it was good stuff. After all, weren't most fish that got hooked eventually eaten?
Still, Xu Zhi did not think she was merely a "little fish."
"Then, Doctor, what should I do?" Xu Zhi looked at the doctor with a helpless expression.
The doctor seemed somewhat troubled. "Your identity is questionable, so there's no way to use the usual channels to enter the upper levels for treatment."
She seemed hesitant. Though Xu Zhi looked nervous and helpless on the surface, inwardly, she urged her on with interest: Go on. State your conditions, and those of whoever stands behind you.
"But it's not as though there's no solution."
That's it, Xu Zhi thought. Wasn't that the sentence she had been waiting for?
"What solution?" she asked innocently.
The doctor did not continue. She merely looked at Xu Zhi meaningfully. "That isn't something we can decide right now. Everything depends on the results below."
"For now, let's continue discussing your physical condition."
Well, this bait had been cast pretty deep!
But did she mean the results of the investigation into the murderer and the blade by those people from the upper levels?
"Your eyes are very beautiful."
The doctor suddenly said this. Almost instinctively, several hairs on Xu Zhi's back stood on end. Without