Chapter 72 The director and the doctor stared at each other for a few minutes before the doctor came to his senses.
The director and the doctor stared at each other blankly for a few minutes before the doctor finally came to his senses.
It seems that makes sense. For Burger King, she had never met the director before. Everything here was generated based on her memories, so it's normal that the director doesn't have a physical body.
But this place can't really be called a memory because you can interact with this thing that may or may not be Burger King, it's really like a world.
He regained his composure and began to focus entirely on Burger King.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" the doctor said.
"What can I do? Maybe I can steal something by passing it around." Burger King said casually.
"Where's your dog?" The doctor was a little curious, since her dog had also come in.
"...I don't know what you're talking about." Burger King immediately became wary. "Pay up as soon as possible."
"..." The doctor looked coldly at Burger King, "Let me guess if it's in the hands of those people."
"..." Burger King's silence speaks volumes.
"It was you, wasn't it? You told those people outside about me, all for that dog." The doctor pressed closer.
She began to retreat step by step until she had nowhere left to go, her eyes darting away with guilt.
But if given another chance, she would still do it. "I'm just an ordinary, powerless healing ability user. I have absolutely no idea what the dog you're talking about is."
"Pah!" The doctor dropped the pretense. "You're lying! You're a healer, but you're not stupid at all. This plan is something those old fogies couldn't have come up with. You were the one who suggested it to them to atone for your crimes. Saving that dog is nothing if it only costs me one person, right?"
This statement clearly hit Burger King's sore spot: "I didn't mean to sacrifice you. I... I just wanted to fool those old fogies. If they think my method works, they might consider that I'm even more useful in saving the baby."
The doctor looked at her with a hint of sarcasm. "You knew perfectly well it was impossible, didn't you? They only knew you were more useful, so they'd keep you on a tighter leash with that dog."
She remained silent, unsure of what to say or why these plans, which existed only in her mind, would be known to him.
"I am a powerful superhuman, so you only intend to befriend me? Such a great favor as saving a life, a righteous person like the Gu Poison Master will certainly repay the favor. Even if he can't leave here directly, he will pay an even greater price to get that dog back to your side, right?" As he spoke, the doctor couldn't help but get angry, and his voice became even louder.
"What can I do? What can I do? I don't want to lie to you! The baby is my family, I have to save it!" Burger King looked stubbornly at the doctor.
The doctor clicked his tongue. "You really went to a lot of trouble, even designing a personality that I like to get close to me." The doctor really hated being deceived, especially after being deceived by her.
"You can leave now. You know everything anyway, so you're no longer of any use," Burger King said coldly, as she turned to leave.
The doctor stopped her, "What about your dog? Are you just going to give up on it?"
The Burger King turned around, and only then did the doctor notice the tears in her eyes. "What can I do? I have to think of something else; he's my only family!"
The doctor's heart clenched, and he cursed himself for being so weak, muttering "little liar" under his breath. He looked up and said, "I never said I wouldn't help you. I can help you save your dog, but you have to find something for me."
Burger King opened his eyes in surprise, his eyes sparkling as he said, "Okay."
"You agreed before I even said what it was? Aren't you afraid of being scammed?"
"I'll agree to anything, even my life. I can't find anyone else to help me. I've been here for too long and have never left. Only you... only you can help me." Her eyes were firm, and there were some emotions that the doctor couldn't understand.
Suddenly she laughed again. "And I don't think you're a bad person."
The doctor couldn't help but look away. He had previously mocked him for having a kind face, but they had only met once before. If he didn't have a kind face, why did he trust him so much?
Before the doctor could say anything more, he found himself leaving his body and becoming a spirit. The director walked over and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "I didn't expect you to be so smart. You guessed so right."
"It's not that I guessed right, it's that she told me herself after I saved them." The doctor twitched his lips. He wasn't one of those scheming monsters.
However, she was surprisingly sincere at the time and didn't continue lying.
He couldn't help but find the interaction between "himself" and her that followed somewhat irritating.
Was I really that stupid before?
After Burger King healed the doctor in the cave, she helped him find an escape route, and the two escaped unexpectedly smoothly.
It wasn't really surprising. She devised all the plans and was able to time the rescue perfectly. Everything else was just a minor matter.
The doctor back then was so young and naive; he didn't see anything wrong at all, and when the time came, he eagerly handed over the money.
After the "doctor" left, the doctor also completely transformed into a spirit.
They saw her being taken away shortly after she watched him leave.
They could only move with her, and they also discovered that they could only move about 50 meters around her. After the doctor lost her body, they could no longer move anything.
The Burger King's eyes now show no emotion whatsoever, completely unlike her lively demeanor in front of the doctor. Of course, the doctor isn't sure which one is the real her either.
The doctor, having entered their "lair," began looking around, wondering where the divine essence might be.
A sudden "smack" startled the doctor awake. He turned his head and saw Burger King clutching his face, collapsed to the ground. His pupils contracted, and he instinctively looked at the director, only to see the director staring blankly at Burger King without saying a word.
"It seems your plan was useless; you couldn't even stop one person, and they still ran away. I've been taking good care of that dog you raised. Our base feeds you and gives you water, and I even help you take care of that dog. But what about you? You need to understand that if you and that dog are no longer of any use, I don't mind turning them into fertilizer. Do you understand?" An old man who looked like he was about to die said in an extremely sinister tone.
"Yes..." Burger King felt a bit ironic; didn't they realize how shameless they were to say that? She had healing abilities, and countless bases would practically worship her. Now, these old geezers were draining her abilities every day just to prolong their own lives, and they'd even imprisoned the baby.
It's also her fault for letting others discover her ulterior motives; it's just a pity that the baby was implicated.
The doctor felt a bit suffocated just looking at this person; his management skills were truly atrocious. The methods of winning people over—coercion and enticement—had all been reduced to coercion.
Soon after Burger King helped the old man use up his last bit of superpower, the old man touched him. Then, Burger King stumbled back to his residence.
She lay in bed, tending to her wound, murmuring, "It's okay, it's okay, it'll be quick..."
After the doctor recovered from his previous injury, he forgot the pain and came back to see the girl again.
"Hey! Hey!" the doctor called out quietly from the top of the wall. In an instant, the girl's eyes lit up. "You've come to find me?"
"Hmm~" The doctor said with a hint of pride, "Yes, it's too easy to get in here."
"Did you bring your money?" The girl's blunt question left the doctor speechless.
"...Talking about money hurts feelings. I'll help you escape, consider it repaying this favor, okay? Favors from a Gu poison master aren't so easy to repay." This was the original conversation between the doctor and the girl.
This was originally part of the girl's plan. She knew very well that the doctor was raising money for his brother, and the fact that he was planning to steal money proved how desperate he was for money. The reason she said those things was to make him willingly help him.
As the doctor moved closer and closer, the doctor next to him was sucked in. He gripped the body he had regained control of and said, "I told you, if you help me find that thing, I will help you."
Upon hearing this, the girl's face stiffened, and she turned her head without hesitation, ignoring him.
"What are you doing?" The girl asked, struggling to arrange her medicinal herbs.
Wherever she went, the doctor blocked her way. The girl angrily said, "You lied to me. You're not him at all. I don't need your approval. He already agreed." While helping the doctor escape, she discovered that the doctor seemed completely unaware that she had orchestrated the whole thing.
The doctor wasn't surprised; the girl could tell that his behavior was already quite obvious.
"That's not how it works. He is me, and I am him. My promise and his promise are two different things," the doctor said nonchalantly.
"Dual personality?" The girl hesitated.
"That's one way to think about it."
"That has nothing to do with me. You're smarter than him. You saw through me, but he didn't, and he has much more time to control his body than you do. Move aside, I need to dry the herbs." The girl waved her hand impatiently.
The doctor stood right in front of him and said, "What, you want to back out? You should know that if I tamper with your body even slightly while I'm in control, you won't be able to escape."
"I never intended to go back on my word. I can't beat you, but I'll go back and do what I promised. Don't bother me now."
The doctor looked around and asked, "Why are you sun-drying so many Datura flowers?"
The girl paused for a moment, then asked, "You know him?"
The doctor nodded indifferently. Not only did he recognize her, but he was also the director's personal physician.
"This herb looks similar to a type of wild vegetable that can be eaten outside, but it's not the same. It's a drug that can make people drowsy." The doctor repeated exactly what the girl had told him.
"It's rare. I thought nobody in the world knew about traditional Chinese medicine," the girl said wistfully.
What does "this world" mean? Does she also know that this world is fake?
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