The hooked-nosed... Doctor Zōti's request
Go through this door, and you'll find yourself in a bookstore warehouse. The Zōti Doctor with a hooked nose that Uraraka Shige is looking for is sitting amidst a crater of books, engrossed in a book called "XX Anatomy Method".
Uraraka Shige hesitated for a moment, unsure of the consequences if he Zōti the Doctor's reading.
Ultimately, however, his unwillingness to waste time waiting in vain prevailed.
He finally spoke up, interrupting the Zōti Doctor's reading interest.
"Doctor. Zōti, I've already been to that office building and obtained this booklet from there."
Uraraka Shige so that the Doctor Zōti see it more clearly.
To his surprise, the hook-nosed, Zōti Doctor didn't even bother to look up, as if he already knew this.
"They're still the same old thing... inflexible, and the initiation ceremony still starts with memorizing the rules..."
Doctor. Zōti calmly placed a bookmark in the spot he was currently looking at, then slowly closed the book before looking at Uraraka Shige.
"As for this booklet... I don't need to read it. After all, I was once one of their people, working for them."
He looked at Uraraka Shige and said something that surprised Uraraka Shige, then offered her Uraraka Shige advice:
"As for you... you'd better memorize these rules as they say, so that you won't be assigned to any dangerous positions."
He stared into Uraraka Shige's eyes, which gradually became deep and intense.
"Our collaboration is far from over, so you'll need to put in a lot of effort."
Uraraka Shige quietly watched this Zōti Doctor put on airs, acting superior as if he were the mastermind behind everything, without interrupting him.
After saying this, Doctor. Zōti looked at Uraraka Shige's quiet appearance and seemed to find it somewhat boring, so he simply stood up.
"You passed this test, at least in this respect..."
Zōti the Doctor stood up, he glanced at the booklet in Uraraka Shige's hand, and his expression seemed to darken further.
"... At least in this respect, you are an honest person. This forms the basic condition for our formal cooperation."
He seemed somewhat proud of this.
"I never like working with those dishonest people."
Uraraka Shige remained silent, letting the Zōti Doctor comment on her.
He felt that the Zōti Doctor's attitude was somewhat different now than when he had encountered him outside the door before.
However, he didn't take it seriously, since most people are adaptable and fickle beings.
"Snort!"
The Zōti Doctor suddenly let out a cold snort.
When Uraraka Shige his gaze, which had wandered to the side at some point, back to the Zōti Doctor, he found that the Zōti Doctor was staring at him with a very dissatisfied look.
When Doctor. Zōti saw that Uraraka Shige had turned his gaze back to him, his expression softened slightly. He then waved to Uraraka Shige follow him, and then walked to a small, secluded space separated by a wall of books.
Uraraka Shige naturally followed closely behind him.
Doctor Zōti fumbled around in the cramped space for a moment, then suddenly lifted up a hidden door from the ground. It was made of cement, steel bars, and bluestone slabs, and was about one and a half meters long and wide.
It turned out there was a tunnel leading to an unknown underground place, which amazed Uraraka Shige.
This was the first time he had ever seen such an authentic and genuine authentic place, even considering both his lifetimes.
Although the approximately two-meter-high metal ladder at the top of the tunnel makes it resemble a cellar, slightly lowering its perceived quality and sophistication...
After the Doctor Zōti the hidden door, he looked back at Uraraka Shige and gave him a brief reminder.
"Keep up, there's something you'll need down here. Remember to hold on tight to the right handrail."
He then flipped over and began to climb down the metal ladder, his leather gloves creaking as he did so.
Uraraka Shige continued to follow closely behind.
From above, the tunnel appeared somewhat dim. However, when Uraraka Shige descended about two meters down the ladder and began to walk down the stone steps, he discovered that the tunnel was not dim at all, but completely pitch black.
If it weren't for the stone handrail next to the stairs, Uraraka Shige would probably have tripped and fallen hard on his first step onto those stone steps.
No wonder the Doctor with the hooked Zōti had repeatedly reminded him to stay close.
In the darkness, people always lose their sense of time, as well as their awareness of themselves and their surroundings, to some extent; this was also true for Uraraka Shige.
After completely entering the darkness of the tunnel, Uraraka Shige initially only counted the number of steps she took down, but soon lost track of how many steps she had taken or how long it had been, and began to have her mind wander to random thoughts.
He didn't even know where it started, but the path beneath his feet had become flat. He only knew that the journey down this tunnel must have taken more than ten minutes.
It wasn't until Uraraka Shige saw the light emanating from a corner not far away that the wild thoughts churning in his mind finally calmed down.
He continued following the Zōti Doctor, passing through the corner. Next, a transparent glass door came into view, and behind it, a conspicuous operating table, creating Secret Room that looked like an operating room.
The Doctor Zōti open the glass door and went to a rectangular sterilizer next to the operating table. He put on another layer of sterilized disposable gloves over his leather gloves before taking out a sealed glass container from the sterilizer. It looked like a common capacitor magnified dozens of times, with two small protrusions at each end and filled with a semi-transparent light green liquid.
Then the Doctor Zōti around, holding the container, and said very seriously to Uraraka Shige:
"Once you know what's going on there, I need you to bring me back some fresh 'goods' in this container. In return, I'll tell you some things about that office building... This is how we further our cooperation."