Xie Qi inherited a hospital.
The hospital was located on a mountain in the suburbs, dilapidated and old. It rested during the day and operated at night, and came with a cat, a dog, and a gent...
The one who came in was Xie Qi?
Pandora waved her hand, and the shadow puppet retreated into the shadows. The office door closed by itself without warning, and the things on the table moved by themselves, and the empty tray flew in front of him.
With a series of ding-ding-ding sounds, ten rings fell into the plate. The rings were as bright red as blood. Pandora felt the power rising rapidly in her body. She frowned and looked up to find Xie Qi sitting there without moving.
"What's wrong?" Pandora raised her eyebrows and looked at him with a half-smile. "A few days ago, you were angry because I didn't cooperate with the treatment. Why are you refusing to treat me today when I came here on my own initiative?"
Xie Qi: "..." He wanted to treat it, but he didn't know how.
He had only a vague understanding of the medications used for common human diseases, let alone non-human ones, and he had no idea what disease Pandora had.
Pandora was already getting impatient. She tapped the wheelchair armrest with her knuckles and urged, "Hurry and take out the astrolabe."
Pandora had been receiving treatment from Xie Qi since her first day in this world. The hospital's patients were divided into two categories: humans and non-humans. Pandora naturally belonged to the non-human group, but she was also very different from them.
They are in different dimensions.
The non-human patients in this hospital come from different time and space, all of which are worlds created by You Tiandao, while Pandora comes from a world created by humans, a derivative comic, in which he is the villain.
Pandora's origin world is Hebrew mythology, a world constructed by a vast faith, integrated into the divine realm governed by the Heavenly Dao, belonging to the highest plane of existence. In that origin world, there already existed a Pandora, a goddess holding a magic box.
All Pandores that appear in other worlds lower than the original world will be the by-products of that goddess. After the story ends, they will eventually be integrated into the body of the goddess Pandora and become nutrients to nourish her.
This should have been the ending, but the author who created that derivative world did not finish the story. Everyone in that derivative world was like a puppet, carrying out the story plot over and over again, with no beginning or end.
One day, the Heavenly Dao was conducting a routine self-inspection and discovered this useless world. It prepared to shut it down and then replenish the vitality of this world to another world to maintain their operation.
This is its duty and what it has to do. It creates life every moment, and it also destroys life every moment.
Heaven is unfair, treating all things as straw dogs. Pandora knew that her world was just the unfortunate one to be destroyed, not that Heaven had deliberately targeted it.
Pandora was fortunate in her misfortune. She broke free from the world's constraints and achieved her awakening. Heaven offered her two paths: return to her original world and merge with the goddess Pandora, or find a new derivative world with Pandora, replace her "self" there, and return to her original world to merge with the goddess Pandora at the end of the story.
Pandora chose neither. He didn't want to merge with Pandora, the goddess of the original world. He just wanted to replace her!
This is why Pandora, having escaped from that world, possessed only divine power but no divine nature. Divine nature is unique, and Pandora's divine nature resides only in the goddess of the original world. A body without divine nature, once it leaves the confines of the Heavenly Dao, will be ravaged by divine power.
So he came to this world, looking for a glimmer of hope.
After a long period of treatment, Pandora finally reached a turning point. Feeling that the deterioration of his body was slowly stopping and even getting better, he thought that from then on he no longer had to worry about disappearing.
But after such a short time, the collapse started again. He tried many ways but could not stop this collapse from inside out. Obviously, his "illness" had relapsed.
Since the relapse of his illness, Pandora gave up on himself and refused to cooperate with treatment for a while. It was not until all ten rings on his fingers turned red that he took the initiative to come to the hospital.
If I were still in the original derivative world, if I were still like a puppet and had never awakened, perhaps I would not be struggling to live like I am now.
I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light. Although this sentence is not very appropriate to describe himself, it cleverly fits his state of mind.
He will definitely try all possibilities. Even if he cannot possess godhood, he must have the strength to gain the upper hand in the fusion with the goddess.
Pandora thought so.
Xie Qi didn't know what he was thinking and was still immersed in the problem.
What is an astrolabe? One that shows the twelve zodiac signs? Xie Qi was bewildered.
But he soon knew what it was.
Xie Qi belatedly noticed the unusual atmosphere in the room, but his body had already reacted before that. His temperature was rising, and something was about to burst out.
The room suddenly darkened, and a huge object emerged, with planets moving, star tracks intersecting, and a dark and gorgeous universe that attracted people's attention at first glance.
This was the astrolabe, a tool for exploring the past and predicting the future. Xie Qi had never seen this thing before, but he instinctively knew what it was and what it did.
The moment the star disk appeared, Pandora felt her power being devoured, and the speed of the planets on the star disk increased visibly.
According to the usual treatment habits, the treatment will stop when the divine power in Pandora's body is absorbed to only two-fifths.
However, this time it was time to stop, but the astrolabe had not been put away. Pandora quickly realized something was wrong, "Wait... wait!"
Xie Qi was admiring the appearance of the star disk, feeling that the universe was vast and boundless, when he was startled by the sudden voice.
"Put it away quickly—"
Before Pandora could finish his words, 80% of his power was taken away. With a "bang", the silver-haired man sitting in the wheelchair disappeared, replaced by a square black dot.
The box was purple-black in color, covered with strange patterns and things that looked like spells. The box was tightly closed, and each side of the lid was inlaid with a gem that was obviously worth a lot of money.
Xie Qi and the box in the wheelchair looked at each other and fell into silence.
Xie Qi: "..." It turns out it really is a box spirit.
The box spirit Pandora was so angry that she jumped up "bang bang bang", making a huge noise on the wheelchair.
"What's wrong with you today? How can you be so rude!" The box spirit couldn't speak, but screamed in his heart. If he hadn't lost his sight, he would have rushed over and knocked the culprit over.
Fortunately, the personality of the horoscope is similar to that of its owner, leaving him with this 20% of life-saving power, otherwise he would have been directly sucked dry.
Pandora was thinking when she suddenly felt someone force the door open from the outside. A familiar voice with a hint of laughter said, "It seems like you guys are having a lot of fun?"
Pandora was startled: Is it Xie Qi who came in?
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I'm tired from working and feel sleepy every day...