The doctor

Hmm! He really is a doctor with plenty of medical ethics.

That was what Lu Xiao thought to himself.

Liuguang, however, was on the verge of tears.

Clutching his severed hand, he said in a trembling voice.

"I have complete faith in your diagnosis, but there are still a lot of things I need to do."

"Could you reattach my hand first, and I'll come back for treatment when I have time?"

The prison doctor nodded.

"Come with me first."

Then he looked at Lu Xiao again.

"My friend, I look forward to your visit."

As the prison doctor left, the members of the reception team left as well.

The radio on Dart crackled to life.

"Dart! Have you reached the base?"

Dart hurriedly picked up his radio and answered.

"We've arrived safely."

Heavy breathing came from the other end of the radio.

"What is the containment target's condition?"

Dart glanced at Lu Xiao, who looked like an inquisitive child, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

"The target's condition... seems pretty good."

In a room flooded with white light.

Lu Xiao lay on an operating table.

Tubes were inserted all over his body.

The surrounding equipment emitted a succession of noisy beeps.

An old man in a white coat was swearing furiously.

"Who stitched this wound? If I ever see him, I'll shove his head up his ass!"

He pointed at a hideous scar on Lu Xiao's chest.

"This goddamn suturing technique."

He paused after speaking, seemingly trying to calm himself.

"In all my years, this is the first time I've seen someone stitch a wound to look like fucking hemorrhoids."

"Doctor! Please calm down! Your heart rate is rising rapidly!"

The doctor took several deep breaths, trying hard to compose himself.

"Sorry, I lost my composure! I didn't frighten you, did I?"

He forced a kindly smile as he looked at Lu Xiao on the operating table.

Lu Xiao grinned and was just about to speak.

The doctor hurriedly pulled over a white cloth and covered his face.

"Uh..."

"Couldn't you have cleaned him up before bringing him here?"

"Doctor... you were the one who wanted him brought here immediately..."

Someone muttered timidly.

Lu Xiao was in a very good mood.

Hearing human voices again after three years felt incredibly comforting.

Then he thought of that kindly doctor with his abundant medical ethics again.

Soon.

A staff member in a white coat stepped forward to clean Lu Xiao's body.

Lu Xiao obligingly rolled over, exposing his back.

After all, a scrub started with the back.

The staff member looked at Lu Xiao's exposed back and immediately sucked in a breath.

Even without the clotted, filthy blood on it, the hideous wounds covering his entire back left him at a loss as to where to start.

The doctor's voice rang out.

"Well, go on and scrub him."

The staff member spoke rather helplessly.

"Doctor, you'd better take a look yourself."

Hearing this, the doctor stepped forward, his brow slowly furrowing when he saw Lu Xiao's back.

After pondering for a moment, he said something no one present had expected.

"It seems we should hire a bathhouse scrubber for our friend first."

"..."

Several hours later.

The bathhouse scrubber walked out looking thoroughly refreshed.

"Whew! Thirty years in the business, and I've never had such a satisfying scrub."

When the doctor saw the bathhouse scrubber come out, he instructed the assistant beside him.

"Take him for an F-Class Memory Erasure."

The bathhouse scrubber did not refuse. He had been told about this as soon as he arrived.

He gripped the doctor's hand tightly and said excitedly.

"Boss, if you ever get another opportunity like this, please be sure to contact me again."

The doctor nodded with a kindly smile.

Then the staff members returned to the room.

The filth all over Lu Xiao's body had now been scrubbed completely away, revealing his original skin color.

The doctor looked kindly at Lu Xiao and asked.

"My friend, how do you feel now?"

Lu Xiao waved his arm.

"I've never felt so light in my life."

The doctor nodded and adjusted his monocle.

"Then please cooperate with us on a little research next."

Lu Xiao grinned. This time, his smile did not frighten anyone.

"Do you need tissue slices?"

"There's nothing else on me, so you must want my flesh and blood, right?"

"No need to go to all that trouble!"

As he spoke, he swept his gaze around.

He casually picked up a scalpel beside the operating table.

Squish!

The scalpel plunged into his chest.

He still wore a smile, holding a piece of bloody flesh in his hand.

"Just tell me where else you need cut. I'll do it myself."

The staff: "..."

Even the doctor's facial muscles twitched involuntarily.

Lu Xiao set the flesh in his hand aside, then looked at the cotton thread beside him used for suturing.

He picked up the cotton thread and began stitching himself up.

As he sewed, he spoke.

"Honestly, I couldn't be happier to see you."

"Three years. Do you know how I spent those three years?"

"Sure enough, humans really should live with other humans."

He chattered on without letting his hands slow down at all.

"If there's anything you want to ask, go ahead."

"I'll tell you everything I know, without holding anything back."

"If there's anything else you want to study, please be sure to tell me. I'll cooperate."

As he spoke, Lu Xiao finished stitching up the wound on his chest.

At the end, he even carefully tied the thread into an elegant bow.

The doctor stared at the second bulging... "hemorrhoid" on Lu Xiao's chest.

For a moment, he forgot what he had originally meant to say.

The staff beside him had long since been stunned with fear.

Hey, how exactly can you do something so bizarre while chatting and laughing so casually?

Are you really still human?

Of course, they did not dare say any of this aloud.

After all, everything the young man before them did seemed so bizarre.

The doctor straightened his monocle, then gave a kindly smile.

He reached out, picked up the bloody piece of flesh, and handed it to a staff member beside him.

"Take this for testing."

After giving that instruction, he looked at Lu Xiao again, his expression benevolent.

"According to our observations, you only recently appeared on the outskirts of the Dark Prison?"

Lu Xiao froze for a moment.

"By the Dark Prison, you mean that hellhole where I spent three years?"

The doctor nodded in earnest.

"That's right. According to the creatures we've contained, they call that place 'Prison.'"

"And because it's shrouded in darkness year-round, we call it the 'Dark Prison.'"

"Before this, we had never found human life on the outskirts of the Dark Prison."

"One day ago, our field team found you near the 'Gate.'"