The Prison Doctor looked down at Lu Xiao.
"I forgive you, my friend!"
"So, will you study medicine under me?"
Lu Xiao nodded.
"My friend! Once I've dealt with my own curse, I'll definitely study medicine under you!"
The Prison Doctor nodded and stopped dwelling on the matter.
"Oh, right! Do you know exactly how to use the Bone Spur Ivan gave you?"
At that, Lu Xiao nodded and said,
"I stuck it into my thigh. It worked very well!"
The Prison Doctor nodded with a smile.
"When you feel you're in danger, try sticking it into your heart. You might get an unexpected surprise!"
Hearing that, Lu Xiao's eyes lit up.
He immediately took out the Bone Spur, eager to give it a try.
At the sight, the Prison Doctor's shrill voice filled with alarm.
"Lu! Promise me you won't try it recklessly!"
Although Lu Xiao was still curious about what that surprise might be after hearing this,
he was someone who followed medical advice, so he decisively gave up.
"Understood, Mr. Prison Doctor! I'll wait until I'm in danger to try it!"
Only after hearing Lu Xiao's words did the Prison Doctor breathe a sigh of relief.
"Lu! You really are a madman!"
Lu Xiao said very seriously,
"Mr. Prison Doctor, I never doubt your diagnoses, but I'm really not a madman!"
The Prison Doctor: "..."
As soon as Lu Xiao returned to his containment room, the Doctor's voice came from all around it.
"292, someone will take you on a containment mission in half an hour!"
At the Doctor's words, a look of delighted surprise appeared on Lu Xiao's face.
"A mission already, when I've only just returned?"
At that moment, Lu Xiao wished he could spend every moment in the real world.
He gathered his things and waited for a staff member to pick him up.
In truth, the only thing he needed to prepare was that Bone Spur.
He placed the Bone Spur against his chest, as close to his heart as possible.
This was to avoid being caught unprepared again if he encountered another weird entity like the String Puppet.
Lu Xiao trusted the Prison Doctor unconditionally, except when the Prison Doctor said he was a madman.
Sure enough, a researcher in a white coat soon rang his doorbell.
Lu Xiao followed the staff member to an elevator.
The staff member took out an earpiece and handed it to Lu Xiao.
"292, this is an Accessibility Communicator. You need to wear it at all times!"
Lu Xiao took the earpiece and put it on.
The researcher then took out a watch.
"This is a Prison Warden System Carrier. It has a full range of functions. The Doctor will tell you exactly how to use it!"
Lu Xiao took the watch and put it straight on before looking at the researcher.
"Why is it just me?"
The researcher shook his head.
"The Doctor arranged it!"
Hearing that, Lu Xiao no longer felt like asking further.
Only after personally seeing Lu Xiao put on the watch did the staff member turn toward the access control system beside the elevator.
[Iris verification successful!] [Identity: Class C researcher Li Haiqun!] [Thank you for your contribution to humanity!]
A series of synthesized system announcements came from the access control system.
The elevator doors slowly opened.
Li Haiqun looked at Lu Xiao.
"Take the elevator up. Someone will meet you!"
Lu Xiao nodded, then stepped into the elevator.
The elevator went all the way up.
When its doors opened again, he had arrived at an underground parking garage.
Lu Xiao stepped out of the elevator and looked around.
The entire garage was empty, with only an ambulance parked a short distance away.
The words "Magic City No. 1 Psychiatric Hospital" were printed on its side.
Just then, the ambulance's headlights came on, and the Doctor's voice sounded in Lu Xiao's ear.
"292, get into that ambulance!"
Lu Xiao opened the front passenger door.
A scruffy, middle-aged man sat in the driver's seat.
With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, he squinted one eye as he sized up Lu Xiao.
"Sequence 292? I've read your file!"
Lu Xiao gave him a friendly smile.
"Hello, my name is Lu Xiao!"
The middle-aged man spoke as he started the vehicle.
"My code name is Devil, but you can call me Dante!"
Lu Xiao nodded.
"Mr. Dante!"
Dante turned to look at Lu Xiao in some surprise.
"I didn't expect you to be so polite! You're nothing like a human who's lived in the Dark Prison!"
Lu Xiao did not respond to that remark, asking instead,
"Mr. Dante, what's our mission this time?"
Dante rested one hand on the steering wheel, holding his cigarette in the other as he casually flicked off the ash.
The ash drifted down beside Lu Xiao's hand.
Rather than answer Lu Xiao's question first, he introduced himself.
"Let me introduce myself first!"
"I'm a Sacrificial One in the Prison Keeper Organization. You can think of me as cannon fodder sent to die!"
"We Sacrificial Ones are different from those grunts!"
"Sacrificial Ones mainly take part in containing Weird Creatures that bear malice toward humans!"
"Monsters, for instance, or some supernatural creatures!"
He took a deep drag on his cigarette.
"Usually, our containment targets are ghosts!"
As he spoke, he opened the armrest compartment beside him, took out a handgun, and handed it to Lu Xiao.
"The bullets in this gun contain mercury. They can do a tiny bit of damage to those Weird Creatures!"
As the two talked, the ambulance had already driven out of the parking garage.
Dante greeted the garage's security guard before turning to Lu Xiao.
"Oh, right, do you mind if I smoke?"
Lu Xiao shook his head to show that he did not.
Dante lit another cigarette.
"If you do, you'll just have to put up with it for a while!"
Since Lu Xiao had gotten into the vehicle, Dante had already smoked two cigarettes in succession.
He had smoked them back to back without any break in between.
Lu Xiao frowned.
"Mr. Dante, I don't think smoking like that is good for your health!"
Dante shrugged.
"I'm just cannon fodder. What does being healthy matter to me?"
Lu Xiao shook his head and said very earnestly,
"I have a friend called the Prison Doctor!"
"You could ask him to examine you. I suspect there's something wrong with your lungs!"
Dante took a deep drag, then said carelessly,
"The Prison Doctor, huh! He's examined me before!"
"He said I had lung cancer and only needed a minor operation to make a full recovery!"
Lu Xiao nodded in firm agreement.
"Mr. Prison Doctor's medical skills are absolutely reliable. So, did you have that minor operation?"
Dante grinned.
"I asked him what kind of operation it was. Guess what that guy said?"
"He told me it was surgery to remove my lung lobes!"
Seemingly amused by his own words, Dante laughed loudly.
Lu Xiao, however, said with a completely serious expression,
"There was nothing wrong with Mr. Prison Doctor's diagnosis!"
"Just now, I personally watched Mr. Prison Doctor operate on a patient with kidney deficiency!"
"That lucky patient will never be troubled by kidney deficiency again!"
Hearing Lu Xiao spout nonsense with such a straight face, Dante could not stop the corners of his mouth from twitching.
"No wonder you get along with that guy!"
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