74 Black Dentist's Clinic (V)
◎ Tooth Fairy, oh Tooth Fairy…◎
Buzz buzz buzz——
The electric drill in Zhu Ning's hand rotated at high speed, like an electric saw. Wherever it went, the heads of the dentists would be cut off like wheat in the autumn harvest. Blood spurted out in an instant, filling the entire mouth.
By then, this person's mouth will be like a murder scene, with thirty dentists dying one after another and new dentists emerging from their teeth.
Then repeat, repeat, and repeat...
But Zhu Ning held the electric drill and did not move.
[Spirit value decreased by 5%]
The system's voice is sometimes a reminder; it is mechanical and emotionless, coldly reporting data.
Zhu Ning had been spiritually polluted without realizing it. From the moment she entered Yixue, her spiritual value dropped much faster than she had imagined.
What would happen if she really killed these tooth people? The patient's teeth were filled with tooth people, and the tooth people's teeth were filled with smaller tooth people.
The question is, how can Zhu Ning guarantee that she is not a tooth person? How can she guarantee that she is not living in another person's mouth?
How can she tell if she's in a tooth or a dentist's office? It's like an infinite nesting doll; you can't really tell if you're part of one or the other.
The doctor in the tomb post finally said that he had solved the problem. How did he solve it?
Electric drill.
Zhu Ning looked at the electric drill in his hand. It drilled at a very fast speed. It could penetrate strong teeth. It was very hard and fast, and had great lethality.
Is the electric drill the key to breaking the dental nesting doll? Zhu Ning's heart was already unstable, as if she was being pulled by some mysterious force.
Doctor, my tooth hurts.
This sentence was like a spell, urging her to solve the problem immediately.
If she drilled down with the electric drill, would the dental clinic be opened up? Would she look up and see an electric drill falling from the sky?
The underlying logic of the polluted area is to pollute you, make you become my kind, or kill you. Everything is in service of this underlying logic.
Zhu Ning closed her eyes. She could feel the pressure from all sides, Xu Mei's encouraging eyes, and the patients' eyes asking for help.
Doctor, my tooth hurts.
The patient was still urging her, and the easiest thing for her to do was to go with the flow, and going downhill was the easiest.
Buzz——
Zhu Ning turned off the electric drill and said, "Your teeth are very healthy."
The words were squeezed out of her throat, and each word was very difficult, as if some pressure was stopping her.
Xu Mei's smile froze for a moment, and the patient was also stunned. The thirty teeth in the patient's mouth stopped moving at the same time.
The first sentence you say is the most difficult. Once you start to resist mental pollution, the following sentences become less difficult and your mental value no longer decreases.
Zhu Ning faced thirty dentists. Their mouths were wide open, and Zhu Ning could see their teeth through the dentists, but he still lied with his eyes open, "Very healthy teeth."
Xu Mei: "Doctor, he's not normal..."
Zhu Ning glanced at Xu Mei and thought she was making a fuss. "Isn't this a normal tooth? No one lives in your mouth?"
Zhu Yao is a cardiac surgeon. Zhu Ning grew up with experts and knows too well how an authoritative chief physician speaks. You must be calmer than the patient and remain composed no matter what the circumstances, so that the patient will trust you.
Zhu Ning stunned Xu Meiwen. Her tone was too confident, as if everyone in the world should have a tooth guardian living in their teeth, and patients without tooth guardians were the odd ones out.
Xu Mei stood there, lost in thought. Shouldn't she have teeth in her mouth? Was she sick?
The dentist in the patient's mouth did not speak. They were silent for a moment, staring at Zhu Ning silently.
Zhu Ning took off his gloves and said, as skillfully as a doctor with ten years of experience, "Just keep brushing your teeth when you go back. Next one."
It's a pity that she didn't wait for the next one. The polluted area is intelligent and it won't use the same ineffective trick against you.
The patient left, and the restraints that had been used to tie people were scattered on the recliner. Xu Mei, who was standing opposite, kept staring at Zhu Ning. She had a smile on her face, but her eyes were filled with resentment.
She did nothing but stare at Zhu Ning.
Zhu Ning pretended not to see her expression. Based on her limited experience, if continued mental pollution was ineffective, the contaminated area would try every possible way to kill you next.
Xu Mei looked at her and thought about how to take action.
There were only her and Zhu Ning in the clinic. Zhu Ning was armed, and she didn't think Xu Mei would be her opponent, but she wasn't quite sure what Xu Mei would do. After all, this place was very weird.
Who is the doctor who wrote the tombstone? There are four clinics here, and he hasn't revealed his identity at all. Is he the owner of Little White Rabbit Oral Clinic? Or is he just an assistant doctor working here?
What happened at this dental clinic? How did it become contaminated?
The system allowed Zhu Ning to resolve her concerns about dentists. She didn't even know which dentist she should be her partner.
Unlike Zhu Ning who was slacking off, the doctors in other clinics were working diligently. The sound insulation was not that good, so Zhu Ning could hear the intermittent sounds of electric drills and screams coming from next door.
This polluted area must be very old. The computers in the office are designed in the era of Zhu Ning, which is incompatible with the current technological development.
It doesn’t even look as high-tech as the one I have at home.
The computer requires a login password. Zhu Ning tried several but failed. The level of this polluted area is very high. It seems that there are very few clues given. Try to hide your weaknesses as much as possible.
Zhu Ning opened the drawer of his desk, which was filled with folders. If he read through all the dozens of documents, he would probably spend his entire life here.
Zhu Ning flipped through the pages; they were all medical records. She pulled out one of the records, but the writing on it was completely incomprehensible to her. Doctors in the wasteland world always wrote like garbled text.
But she could understand the date, which was January 3, 2020 in the Gregorian calendar.
Had she discovered another ancient contaminated area? It was actually a contaminated area from sixty years ago.
She looked through a few more. The medical records were arranged chronologically, with the oldest at the bottom and the newest at the top. The one at the top was... the most recent?
New calendar year X month X day.
The case records show that this dental clinic, no, to be more precise, this clinic, served its last patient today, and it is still operating today!
The Ant Xue is not closed, and there is no federal cordon here. Theoretically, any human who wants to come in can come in directly.
How could anyone still come to such a strange dental clinic? Was that patient a real person?
Zhu Ning sorted out her thoughts. The humans she had met in the contaminated area before were very similar to NPCs, such as the staff and customers of the hot pot restaurant. Some of them must have died in the hot pot restaurant and then been infected and assimilated by the pollution source.
But this dental clinic is very strange because it is not closed, which means that anyone can enter and exit the place freely. People keep coming in, and new people will be contaminated.
What happens to ordinary people when they are polluted? Most people do not become sources of pollution, they only become pollutants.
It is common enough for ordinary people to become pollutants. They do not have such strong resentment, they just live like zombies.
But this extremely high-pressure wasteland world can easily become like the walking dead even if it is not polluted.
People in the slums cannot afford medical treatment. When they have toothache, they think of a mysterious dental clinic in Yixue, and then they walk in for unknown reasons and get treated for unknown reasons.
Contaminated area at work.
Some people come in as patients, so will some people come in and become doctors or medical staff?
If a dental clinic could operate on its own, would there be people looking for jobs? Unemployed nurses can't find jobs, but society demands that people have a job.
She thought there seemed to be a dental clinic in the community, so she went in with the mentality of giving it a try, and she became a formal dental clinic nurse.
So they didn't make a fuss when they saw Zhu Ning, and just treated her as a new doctor.
call--
Zhu Ning shuddered when she suddenly heard a faint breathing sound beside her ears. She was so engrossed in reading the case that she didn't pay attention to Xu Mei for a moment.
She felt Xu Mei breathing next to her ear.
It was still that strange frequency, completely different from that of a normal person. In the computer's reflection, she saw Xu Mei's shadow, her face right next to Zhu Ning's.
Xu Mei was still smiling, the arc of her smile didn't shift at all, and she maintained the same posture all the time.
Now her face was pressed against Zhu Ning's helmet, as close as sisters.
"Doctor?" Xu Mei called her.
[Spirit value decreased by 3%] The system reminded her again.
Zhu Ning's body stiffened, and she had already reached for the gun with one hand. She had ample firepower, multiple talents, and the ability to predict danger. If there was any danger, she would definitely be able to react thirty seconds in advance.
However, she couldn't completely guarantee that she would remain calm this time, because her mental level was visibly decreasing.
She didn't really want to shoot. Shooting after entering a contaminated area would be tantamount to declaring war. She knew very little about the dental clinic, and hadn't even found the source of the contamination. If she rashly provoked them, Zhu Ning would definitely be the one to die.
And as her mental value continued to drop, Zhu Ning began to waver. When her mental value dropped to 50%, she might not be able to control her mental state.
She doesn't have much time left, she'd better get out of this damn place as soon as possible.
"What's wrong?" Zhu Ning asked as calmly as possible.
"Doctor, there's something growing on your neck." Xu Mei said with a smile.
Something grew?
Zhu Ning subconsciously touched her neck. Because Xu Mei was on her right side, she felt her left side. She felt a bulge, a hard foreign object that felt strange.
What is this?
Xu Mei: "Do you want to go check it out? It might scare the patient. The restroom is at the end of the corridor."
There was no mirror in the clinic, so Zhu Ning stood up and said, "I'll go take a look. A patient is calling me."
She hadn't forgotten her identity yet. Zhu Ning had already stood up, but Xu Mei remained bent over, motionless in the same position. Facing the computer screen that was off, she smiled and said, "Okay."
Who is she talking to?
Zhu Ning was too lazy to visit her. She walked out of the clinic. The doors of the other three clinics were closed. The sounds of work could still be heard from inside. A male dentist was asking about the patient's condition.
At least now she doesn't have to stay in the same space with Xu Mei. She can take the opportunity to observe the structure of this dental clinic and maybe find other clues.
There was indeed a bathroom at the end of the corridor, and Zhu Ning planned to take a look at what he had grown.
The restrooms were divided into men's and women's. Zhu Ning went to the women's restroom, where there were only two toilet stalls. She quickly checked and found no one was inside.
Zhu Ning locked the bathroom door and made sure it was safe before looking at her neck in the mirror. She was stunned.
She has a... tooth in her neck?
To be precise, it grew on her protective suit, with a back molar growing on it, and even pink gums.
At that moment, her first reaction was to take off the protective suit and throw it away.
No wonder Prometheus wanted to upgrade her protective suit. This time her protective suit was very close to metal. If it was made of the relatively soft fabric in the past, would the tooth take root in the skin?
There was no contact with the skin, but it was scary enough. How could a tooth grow on the protective suit?
If Zhu Ning continues to stay here, she will definitely be assimilated by the polluted area. Will she end up with a body full of teeth?
Zhu Ning tried to pull it out, but it was completely impossible. It was like it was impossible for a human to pull out a tooth with bare hands. She needed professional extraction tools.
Go to the clinic and extract the tooth yourself later?
She imagined the scene, herself using pliers to pull out a tooth growing on her neck. If the extraction was not successful, she would need to cut the gums and break the tooth before pulling it out. Would the area bleed after the tooth was extracted?
Will she feel any pain? How should she treat her gums?
Even though the tooth extraction hadn't started yet, she already felt contaminated just by imagining the scene.
[Spirit value decreased by 5%]
Her spirit value was decreasing faster and faster, and it had dropped by 26% since she entered.
Calm down, Zhu Ning, calm down, don't panic.
She looked at the mirror and saw herself wearing a black helmet. This was a Class B contaminated area and she came in alone.
It's very difficult, and you have to be mentally prepared for this. It's just a tooth, a bit gross, but there's no sign of it breaking through the protective suit.
The protective suit fits tightly, so as long as she always ensures that the suit is airtight, everything should be fine.
Bobcat can enter the S-level contaminated area alone, and Zhu Ning can do it too. She remembers her data collection report and can enter the A-level contaminated area and recover smoothly.
There's no need to make a fuss, this is normal, she kept giving herself psychological hints.
boom--
Suddenly, the sound of a flushing toilet came from behind Zhu Ning. Is there anyone in the bathroom?
Zhu Ning froze, feeling very strange. She had clearly checked before coming in, and there was no one here.
And she locked the bathroom door, so both toilets should be empty.
Zhu Ning took a look in the mirror and saw that the door of one of the toilets was red, while the other was green, which meant that someone was using the toilet.
She had just flushed the toilet. When did she come in? Why didn't Zhu Ning know?
Or was she already in the bathroom, but Zhu Ning didn't see her just now?
"Tooth Fairy..." someone began to speak. It was the voice of a little girl, who, judging from the tone of her voice, was probably only five or six years old.
There's a child here? It's common to see children in dentist offices, but it's unusual to see them here.
Zhu Ning looked at the bottom of the door through the mirror. The bathroom door was not fully closed, and he could see the feet of the person inside.
She saw a pair of pink leather shoes with bows, matched with a pair of white socks with ruffles. The other person was sitting on an inappropriate toilet with his feet dangling in the air, swaying back and forth.
"Tooth Fairy, Tooth Fairy," the little girl said in a childlike voice, "I offer my tooth to you. Can you grant me one wish?"
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Modified the description of spirit value
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