amaotonovel Chapter 3387 Miraculous Doctor (31)
Chapter 3387 Miraculous Doctor (31)
Chapter 3387 Miraculous Doctor (Thirty-one)
The flames burned the wood in the fireplace, making a slight sound. The light shone on the walnut floor, reflecting a red color thicker than blood. The flames and shadows danced intertwinedly, and the shadows were dim, as if a lively song and dance drama was being performed on the ground in front.
There were some noisy sounds coming from behind the wall, but the room seemed even quieter. A black-haired man in a black robe was lying on a recliner by the fireplace, half closing his eyes to rest.
Another figure was using a dropper to drip potion onto several silver coins lined up on the table. The surface of the silver coins that came into contact with the liquid began to gradually change color, emitting sparse green smoke and a slight hissing sound.
His gloved fingers pushed a few of the silver coins aside. He leaned over, his gray eyes scanning the row of coins in front of him. After a while, he stood up, tilted his head, picked up two of them, wiped them clean with the towel beside him, and put them aside. He put the rest on the brass tray.
He took off his monocle and walked to the recliner on the other side of the fireplace and sat down. The black-haired man was startled, and he opened his eyes slightly, his blue eyes reflecting the flickering firelight of the fireplace, and looked towards the other side.
"How is it, Doctor?" asked the black-haired man.
"I think the concentration needs to be adjusted." A silver coin was handed over.
Touching the corrosion marks on the silver coin with his fingers, he said, "It seems that we should add more Moon Frost Powder to neutralize the corrosion and ensure that the efficacy of the medicine can be maximized."
“Want to try making another batch?”
"I think so. If nothing unexpected happens, this will be the last batch. In addition, although I thought that there might be another you in the other group of players, they would make such a big noise that it might have some impact on our plan, Dr. Schiller."
"We should be thankful." Schiller, leaning back on the recliner, crossed his fingers on his abdomen, staring at the flames of the fireplace and said, "We met the one who is relatively easy to deal with under such conditions."
"Really? This is easy to deal with?" Another figure walked to the table, placed the flask on the flask rack, and began to process the materials next to it.
"Yes." Schiller nodded and said, "Greed's state seems to be stable. This may be because he performed well in the previous game. This time he just found a random copy to relax, so he won't want to make any big moves."
"I'm afraid Mr. Wooden Man wouldn't think so."
"Wood must have done something." Schiller tapped the back of his hand lightly with his fingers and said in a sleepy voice, "I guess it has something to do with money."
"So, it's his own bad luck?"
"I think so, but he is lucky. Because greed only wants money. Now that he has taken all of Wood's savings, I think he won't care too much about him."
"Do you think there's anything to be gained from that raven?"
"Of course, and I'm afraid he's already been exploited. I saw the bird when I went out, and he looked no more greedy than he did at me. This proves that he has suffered a loss."
"I guess they are better developed than us. You said he has a professional doctor on his team."
“Very professional,” Schiller replied. “The best neurosurgeon in the world, and possibly the best surgeon.”
“I kind of want to get to know him.”
"You have seen him before." Schiller said, "Stephen Strange, also known as the Sorcerer Supreme."
"So it was him. An extreme human supremacist."
"It sounds like you don't think highly of him."
"I had no idea he was such a good surgeon. This will improve my opinion of him significantly."
"Do you want to be teammates with him?"
"I often become friends with mages."
"Because you can learn about and beware of magic through them. But the magic of another universe is completely different from ours. The key lies not in the magicians, but in the demons behind them."
"An analogy to angels and demons?"
"They are more difficult to deal with than angels and demons. They are more like intelligent energy entities wandering in the universe. Some of the powerful ones can have their own dimensions. They are called Dimension Lords. They are invincible in their own dimensions."
"So how do we enter their dimension?"
"They are the dimensions themselves. If they don't agree, then no one can enter. And they are usually part of the rules of the universe. As long as the universe exists, they can't be completely killed."
Batman frowned and said, "And their mages there make deals with such beings. What bargaining chips do they have?"
"Earth is special to the Demons. Thanks to the efforts of many generations of Supreme Sorcerers, they have the means to protect Earth. The Demons must sign a contract with them before they can allow their representatives to operate on Earth."
"That sounds very dangerous."
"It's actually not safe. The wizards in that universe put most of their energy into protecting the Earth."
"That's admirable."
"Yes, that's true of most other universes. But don't admire the one where Greedy is."
"why?"
"Because their contractual methods are too modern."
Batman glanced back at Schiller and said, "Modernization?"
"Not a deed, but a contract. Not an equal exchange, but a membership club, a trust, and a futures."
Batman paused, and said, "That does sound modern enough. Are humans better off for it?"
"Perhaps. But those demon gods are not stupid. They want the winner to take all, so they naturally agree with this approach."
"But they don't have to choose humans."
"No." Schiller shook his head and said, "The previous Supreme Sorcerer was too powerful. If they choose to help the aliens and invade the earth, they will get nothing."
"I see." Batman nodded and said, "That conversation was too brief, and I didn't know enough about it. I didn't expect there was such a connection."
"Changing the form can indeed solve some problems, but in the end it all comes down to fists." Schiller slowly closed his eyes and said, "But if the demon god of their universe cannot leave this universe, the magician over there will not be able to provide you with any help."
"I never put my hope in magic." Batman also leaned over and began to arrange the silver coins according to the degree of corrosion. His focused gaze made his blue eyes look even deeper.
Schiller's consciousness had just entered the dream when he suddenly woke up. He sighed, sat up from the recliner and said, "No, the dream world is still refusing me to enter. It seems that we can only rely on potions."
"I think our previous actions were a bit reckless." Batman stopped what he was doing, thinking and reflecting, "Using your ability to decompile the memories in the dream would have been a good idea, but this lady is a bit too alert."
"I originally assumed that the dream controller was just a seven or eight-year-old girl with an imperfect mind. I wanted to take a gamble that maybe she didn't have such a strong control over her memory. Since I wasn't completely sure, it was normal to lose the bet."
Batman continued to focus on the task at hand. Schiller began to recall the series of plans they had taken since they arrived here.
All I can say is that compared to Arrogance, the series of actions taken by Greedy can be considered conservative, and he is really enjoying the fun of the game.
On the first day after entering the game, Schiller and Batman both entered the dream. But unlike Greed and Strange who chose to temporarily ignore the dream and focus on reality, the Prideful team discussed the dream in detail.
The plot of the dream was too short, so they chose to dream again, and like Greed, they lost some insignificant parts. But neither Batman nor Pride cared. In their view, using nails or teeth to exchange clues was normal.
The game does not allow repeated dreams to force the plot forward. After having a dream, you will not feel sleepy for a long time, and you can't fall asleep no matter how you lie down.
But Batman and Pride are not ordinary people. After a discussion, the two of them came up with a plan, which was for Pride to hypnotize Batman and actively explore the dream.
In the field of psychology, there is a therapy called sleep therapy. Some psychologists can control the patient's sleep with the cooperation of the patient, including controlling the length of sleep, the depth of sleep, and even part of the dream content. Schiller adopted this method.
They bypassed the restrictions of the game and used another method to enter the dream, forcibly advancing the dream plot of the little girl, trying to figure out what was going on.
As expected, the little girl has her nails and teeth pulled out, and just as he is about to have his tongue cut out, Schiller awakens Batman from the outside to prevent these injuries from happening to him.
In order to continue to advance the dream exploration, before the next dream, Schiller gave Batman a psychological hint that he would no longer possess the little girl and observe from the first person perspective, but instead possess the group of villains who attacked the little girl and observe the little girl from the third person perspective.
There was really nothing special about the little girl. She was just an ordinary girl of seven or eight years old. Apart from the strong hatred in her eyes, there was nothing special about her.
They cut off her tongue, drove spikes into her body, and finally tied her to a wooden rack and roasted her over a flame, roasting her to death, just like the little girl in Silent Hill.
Batman thought it was a cult ritual. However, Schiller observed that the little girl looked very weak and seemed to have lost too much blood. He guessed that the cultists had drawn her blood and then sacrificed her in a special way.
They watched the entire process in third person and indeed did not suffer any damage. However, this successfully created a bug, where after the plot animation was finished, a new round of identical animations began.
It was at this time that Schiller came up with a bold plan.
Because when dreaming, the default mode is the first person. If there is no intervention, then Batman will play the role of the little girl.
Batman was able to see everything the little girl experienced and turned it into his own memory, which he recounted to Schiller after leaving the dream.
And if the dream is an infinite loop, then the memory of the little girl can be reversely influenced by compiling Batman's memory.
For example, if Schiller changed the memory of everything Batman experienced in his dream to a little girl living with her family all the time but unfortunately died in an accident, then Batman would enter the dream with such a memory.
Then when he sees the tragic experience of the little girl, he will have doubts and start to constantly recall his own memories in his mind, which is similar to "I remember that I clearly did not experience these, I have always lived with my family, this is just a nightmare."
Perhaps some people have had this experience: they had some bad experiences when they were young, such as witnessing some tragic situations, being injured in an accident, or encountering misfortunes that left them with psychological trauma.
When I grew up, I learned about this incident, but I couldn't remember any details. In addition to the brain deliberately forgetting some traumatic memories, it was also because the adults around me deliberately covered it up.
If you ask, they will definitely say no. Children's mental development is not perfect, and they lack judgment. They are easy to believe what others say and distort their own memories. If people around them say it too much, they will naturally believe it.
Schiller is betting that Batman's willpower is much stronger than that of a little girl of seven or eight years old. As long as he uses his own memory and repeatedly emphasizes that this past does not exist, the little girl may also be influenced by him and shaken by her traumatic memory.
Once she wavered and felt that what she had experienced was just an ordinary nightmare one night, the whole thing would be fundamentally resolved.
(End of this chapter)