76 Black Dentist (Part 7)
◎Is it him?◎
Xu Mei's neck was broken, with only a thin layer of skin remaining. The sharp bone fragments stood upright, like an open mouth full of fangs.
Zhu Ning's first reaction was to grab a gun. She had been secretly on guard against Xu Mei and thought she reacted quickly enough, but she didn't expect that this contaminated area was even stranger than she thought.
Bang bang bang!
After three shots, a normal human being would be smashed to pieces, and even the pollutants encountered before would be injured.
But the bullets did not penetrate her. Xu Mei's skin seemed to have formed a hard armor. Three bullets were fired in total, two fell to the ground, and one was embedded in her heart. Such a strong impact force only broke the surface skin.
It's no use, bullets are useless to her.
This was very abnormal, Zhu Ning immediately realized that violence could not solve this polluted area.
After being shot, Xu Mei lowered her head in a daze. Because her neck was broken, it would be more accurate to say that she was looking deeply into her chest with the severed head hanging on her chest.
She seemed to be adapting to this perspective. A normal person would not see their chest from this perspective. She was studying the bullet in her chest.
Zhu Ning took the opportunity to push open the door of the clinic and ran to the corridor. The dentist next door walked out of the clinic slowly with his hands covered in blood and holding an electric drill.
Zhu Ning took a look when he passed by the clinic. The patients tied up in the clinic were vomiting, spitting out a lot of teeth, like drunkards vomiting.
The crackling sound of teeth falling, the buzzing sound of the dentist's electric drill, and the footsteps of Xu Mei behind.
"Tooth Fairy, Tooth Fairy, if I give you my tooth, can you grant me one wish?"
The little girl's devout prayer.
The contaminated area suddenly revealed its true colors and began to hunt her.
Zhu Ning didn't even look back. She ran quickly, aiming for the door leading to the fifth floor. There was no keyhole, no key, and no crack in the door. Zhu Ning covered it with her hand.
System: [Unable to identify valid keyhole, unable to use the master/key item]
Zhu Ning: “…Damn!”
A master key is a key. No matter how versatile it is, it must have a keyhole to be used.
The footsteps behind her were getting closer and closer. Those indescribable things were approaching her. Zhu Ning didn't even look at them, she continued to run down.
The doctors and nurses on the second and third floors also stuck their heads out, their white coats covered in blood. Zhu Ning climbed down the stairs holding onto the handrail.
The genetic medicine is effective. Zhu Ning is much faster than a normal human.
She was able to distance herself from the group behind her, but this distance was not enough to save her life because she was still confused about this contaminated area and didn't know where to run.
The only entrance to the dentistry was the main door. Zhu Ning came in through the main door, and her plan of escape was also to run towards the main door.
She ran all the way to the lounge and should have opened the door and walked out directly, but she stopped.
Xu Mei was walking here with the dentist, but Zhu Ning stopped at this critical moment.
Zhu Ning looked at the mirror. There was a spiderweb-like crack in the upper right corner of the huge mirror. The crack widened, starting from the upper right corner and breaking open into an arm-length crack. Blood gushed out of the mirror.
This place... was beyond her comprehension.
This lounge has also changed. When Zhu Ning came in, there was only a row of white coats inside. Now there are a few casual uniforms hanging inside, which should be the clothes of those doctors.
Zhu Ning realized a problem: she had missed a clue. In fact, the most valuable place should be the lounge.
All doctors who enter the dental clinic will change their clothes here, put their personal belongings in the locker, and then go to work. Formal medical staff have their own dedicated lockers.
The poster of the grave post is a dentist, and his personal belongings should also be here.
Zhu Ning quickly locked the door of the lounge. There were no cabinets or heavy objects in the lounge to prop up the door, so Zhu Ning could only take down a clothes hanger to lock the door.
Although it seems useless, it is better than nothing.
Zhu Ning began to quickly look through the personal belongings of these medical staff. She found a woman's coat with a key inside. It was written (34, 12)
The key to Xu Mei's house.
Zhu Ning took out the coats of several more people. They should all live in Yixue. Their keys looked exactly the same, with the room numbers engraved on them in the same font. Were they issued uniformly?
There are nine keys in total. The one who lives closest is Xu Mei, and the one who lives farthest away is in Building 7.
Suddenly, Zhu Ning froze while trying to reach into his pocket. Clothes pockets are generally not very deep, and a normal-sized pocket can only accommodate two hands at most.
Zhu Ning's fingers touched something cold and soft, like a human finger. Did she touch a handful of fingers?
Zhu Ning froze for a moment, but the hand moved instead, holding Zhu Ning's hand in reverse. There was something... holding her.
I tried to reach into her palm, but it felt cold, like a dead person's hand.
Zhu Ning was holding a men's leather jacket, which was a bit old. The cuffs and collar were worn to varying degrees, and there was something clearly moving in the pocket, and there was a hand inside.
[Spirit value decreased by 1%]
Zhu Ning took a deep breath. She did not panic, but slowly pulled out her hand. She did not take out her other hand, but took out a black medicine box.
Was that just her hallucination? Or was there really something shaking her hand?
There were no words on the medicine box. It was a flat square box that looked very much like a matchbox. Could this be the black dream?
The footsteps were getting closer and closer. She could feel someone stopped at the door, and Xu Mei's sharp nails were scratching the door.
Zhu Ning trapped himself in a cage, and there was not even an escape route.
It has just been proven that firearms are ineffective against Xu Mei. Perhaps the Pigman's guillotine is more useful, but the Pigman's guillotine is Class C. Can it deal with Class B pollutants?
She couldn't panic at this time. She looked up at the cabinet where she found the black jacket. There was a yellowed label on it with a person's name on it.
Gao Zijian, the owner of the black leather jacket.
The things in the cabinet were simple: a leather jacket and a book with the words "Tooth Fairy" written on the cover.
Fairy tales? It's not uncommon to find fairy tales in dental clinics. After all, many children need to be soothed, and they're a great place to read while waiting.
But Zhu Ning thought of the little girl in the toilet.
Buzz buzz buzz——
The dentist outside was already drilling, and they were about to open the door. Zhu Ning quickly flipped through the entire book. It must have been read so often that it was almost torn to pieces.
The paintings in it are very childlike. Eighty percent of the books for children are pictures, with almost no lines.
The little girl in the book is wearing a pink dress. She lost a tooth today and is crying loudly, with two lines of tears flowing like faucets.
Her mother comforted her by saying that losing a tooth was a good thing and asked her to hide the tooth under her pillow so that the Tooth Fairy could fulfill one of her wishes.
The little girl lay on the pink princess bed, put the tooth under the pillow, and made a wish to the Tooth Fairy very devoutly, hoping that she could be resurrected.
The Tooth Fairy granted her wish.
On the last page, a little hand stretched out from a cartoon grave, and then the little girl smiled happily beside the tombstone.
"I'm alive, thank you Tooth Fairy."
So the little girl was dead when she first appeared?
The images are all cartoon-like, with bright colors and lively tones, but they can send a chill down one's spine.
It's a bit like an adult Gothic fairy tale, and is definitely not for normal children. Is this the wish of the little girl in the toilet?
This leather jacket obviously belongs to a man. What is his relationship with that little girl?
Zhu Ning took the fairy tale book and medicine box and prepared to go to a safer place to study further.
There was a pile of pollutants outside that were about to kill him. The door of the lounge had been opened a crack, and seven or eight arms were stretching in. For a moment, the crack in the door was full of hands.
This door can only hold open for five more seconds at most.
"Doctor," came Xu Mei's voice, "Where are you, doctor?"
Bang!
The next second, the door was forced open, and Xu Mei was lying on all fours like a spider, with her neck facing the lounge.
Teeth sprouted from her neck, and she also had another tongue.
With her long tongue licking down her throat, Xu Mei was ready to hunt, her limbs clawing at the ground excitedly.
But she was stunned to find that the lounge was empty, with no one inside.
Everything was turned over, everyone's personal belongings were scattered all over the place, and the mirror was bleeding.
Suddenly, Xu Mei saw the white coat hanging behind her move, as if someone was swaying beside her.
Xu Mei slowly approached like a monster patrolling its territory, and the cross-section of her broken neck looked extremely terrifying.
She originally went for the white coat, but she passed by the mirror and saw herself in the mirror.
Xu Mei was quickly attracted by her own reflection. She was wearing a pink nurse's uniform, kneeling on all fours, with her head lowered, her eyes reversed, and her open neck forming another mouth.
Now she had two mouths. She moved closer to the mirror, and the hot air from her breath formed a white mist on the mirror. This new mouth could actually breathe out hot air.
Xu Mei was so engrossed in watching that she didn't notice something slowly moving behind her.
Zhu Ning used the system item, consuming 10 health points in exchange for five minutes of invisibility.
Song Zhizhang found out that Lin Xiaofeng's special ability also worked on her. The clothes on her body could not be seen by others, and the fairy tale book and medicine box in her hand could not be seen by others.
She could easily control the invisibility of anything that touched her skin. Zhu Ning thanked Song Zhizhang inwardly, for his summary, which allowed her to use props without having to learn them.
There were several doctors guarding the door, and the electric drills in their hands were buzzing, making her exit process extremely slow.
Zhu Ning held her breath and moved slowly, carefully avoiding debris. Wait, she felt that something was wrong with her toes.
The blood flowing from the mirror had reached the ground and she stepped on the blood.
I was careless.
She knew the invisible man's weakness too well. If she moved her feet at this moment, she would leave a clear bloody footprint on the ground.
She would immediately reveal her position.
Two minutes.
The system panel showed that the invisibility would expire in two minutes, and there were three dentists in front of Zhu Ning.
She could only move forward and take a gamble. She was still invisible, so even if they saw the bloody footprints, they wouldn't be able to immediately react to where Zhu Ning was.
And pollutants may not have this wisdom.
There was a dentist who was too close to her. He was not tall, only 1.6 meters tall, and there were only 20 centimeters between them. Zhu Ning could even hear the dentist's breathing.
Zhu Ning walked past him cautiously.
There were two bloody footprints on the floor, but he didn't notice them. It seems that the pollutant's intelligence is really not very high.
After passing the last dentist, Zhu Ning successfully approached the lounge door.
Just the last meter.
Suddenly, Zhu Ning froze.
A pair of eyes hung down at the entrance of the lounge, and a little girl was hanging upside down on the door frame.
Zhu Ning happened to meet her eyes.
This little girl was really scary no matter how many times he saw her. Zhu Ning imagined her clinging to the ceiling like a spider.
One minute left on the countdown, the system panel reminded her.
The little girl's eyes were empty. Didn't she see her?
The little girl's bangs hung down, and Zhu Ning lowered his body to avoid her bangs.
In the last thirty seconds, Zhu Ning bypassed layers of obstacles and stepped out of the lounge door.
Snap——
The sound of the dental clinic door opening was very crisp. Xu Mei suddenly turned her head, and the dentists also turned their heads in unison.
But at this time Zhu Ning had already opened the door.
run!
Zhu Ning started running the moment his invisibility function failed.
The corridor of the dental clinic was still the same as when I came in, very dark, and the floor was covered with yellow teeth.
Walking on it was like walking on a gravel road. She ran to the end of the corridor and looked back. Neither Xu Mei nor the dentist had caught up with her.
They just stood at the door of the dentist's office, looking at him with a gloomy face, as if watching Zhu Ning leave.
They can't leave the dentist?
No, it should be that it is not yet time to get off work, they are still working.
Xu Mei really wants to become a full-time employee, and she has to perform well to get this formal job.
Zhu Ning took a deep breath and finally left the strange dental clinic. It was the same place where she came in, on the 35th floor of Building 34.
That's where she entered the dentist's office.
However, the employee's wristband and the secondary brain had no internet connection, and there were twitching black lines in the background, while the background color of the polluted area was still there.
This means that this is still a polluted area.
She still couldn't contact the outside world, and she couldn't leave the polluted area unless she found the source of the pollution.
Her mental level dropped by 34% in total. So far, Zhu Ning hasn't had any hallucinations, but she feels a little dizzy.
Her temples were throbbing, and her mood was obviously unstable. Her chest felt stuffy, as if a heavy stone was pressing on it.
It has to be resolved quickly.
She planned to go to the safe passage to study the black medicine box. There seemed to be liquid medicine in it, and there was a sound of water when it was gently shaken. Zhu Ning was stunned when she opened the door of the passage.
The fire escape was empty when she entered.
There are a few people scattered up there now. They should be homeless people. They are dirty, but they are not holding a bottle of wine in their hands, but a syringe.
The homeless man had taken off his pants and there was a needle stuck in his thigh.
Drug addict.
The other person raised his head in a trance, as if he was in some kind of hallucination. His reaction speed was very slow and he had a silly smile on his face.
When he grinned, he showed a few teeth, which were black and yellow, and some of them had been corroded and were only half the size of normal teeth.
"Doctor," the other person smiled even more after seeing Zhu Ning, "Doctor!"
Zhu Ning was still wearing his white coat, so in his eyes he was still a doctor.
He suddenly grabbed Zhu Ning's feet as if he was holding a life-saving straw. Zhu Ning endured the nausea and did not dodge.
The homeless man drooled as he laughed, "Doctor, I have a toothache. Please give me some medicine. I have a toothache."
Toothache. Zhu Ning frowned because of these two words.
She had heard these two words too many times.
Doctor, I have a toothache.
This sentence is repeated throughout the polluted area.
At that moment, she suddenly understood what was happening in this polluted area.
Zhu Ning took out a black medicine box from the pocket of his white coat and asked calmly, "Is this what you want?"
The homeless man's eyes lit up when he saw this. He wanted to pounce on Zhu Ning, but was tripped by his pants.
There was no writing on the pill box, but the homeless man could recognize it at a glance, as he must have used it many times.
Sure enough, the dentist's office was selling this stuff.
Black dreams may be a hallucinogen.
Drugs are sometimes also a kind of medicine. In Zhu Ning's era, some patients with advanced cancer would take some to relieve pain.
There should be some in the wasteland world as well. Judging from the gap between the rich and the poor in the wasteland world, the upper class people don’t care much about the lives of the lower class people, so it should be even more prevalent.
One of the aftereffects of black dreams is tooth decay, and their teeth will slowly fall out.
Late at night, all patients who take Black Dream will suffer from toothache.
Patients with toothaches need medical treatment, but they cannot afford expensive medical cabins, so they choose to go to dental clinics hidden in the slums.
The dentist may have treated the patient seriously at first, but later he found that it was only treating the symptoms and not the root cause.
Patients' teeth would continue to rot, and they would keep coming back for treatment, in an endless cycle, until they died or had no more money to pay for treatment.
His profession became unfulfilling, and he would never be able to heal these people.
He may also be wondering whether these people still need treatment?
Defective products are at the bottom of society. After being exploited layer by layer, the last place they turn for help is the dentist.
While dentists were not a lifesaver and there was no hospice, he discovered the chain of this business.
As long as the black dream exists, you can make money.
The dentist is still on the last level and he can take another bite.
He in turn trafficked in black dreams.
The pitch-black door on the fifth floor that cannot be opened should be the medicine room. In fact, there has been a clue for a long time. Hei Meng's medicine box looks exactly the same as the door on the fifth floor. The door on the fifth floor is an enlarged medicine box.
The dentist became a drug dealer.
He sold black dreams as a painkiller.
The little girl was most likely his patient. She must be a low-level person living in the slums. Her parents were not around and her family had no money. She was at the age of changing teeth and her teeth hurt a lot.
She may have come to the doctor initially for a simple toothache, but the dentist prescribed her a black dream.
"The toothache will go away after eating it."
Soon the little girl developed sequelae, but she still had no choice but to come to the dentist again, who prescribed her more "painkillers."
Zhu Ning saw the little girl's ending. She died and became a member of the polluted area.
The dentist keeps reading "The Tooth Fairy" over and over again. Why? Out of guilt for the little girl?
No, why not an appreciation?
He looked at the fairy tale book as if admiring his own work, until the book was torn to pieces.
Every time he changed his clothes for work, he would think of the little girl when he saw the fairy tale book. When the bottom line is constantly broken, it is no longer a stain.
It is a medal of spiritual reward.
Perhaps in the dentist's mind, he is liberating these patients and he is a kind and upright person.
He gave them happiness.
The dentist even... fulfilled the little girl's wish, and the little girl who made a wish in the toilet was really "resurrected".
Zhu Ning has never felt that the pollution sources are that bad when he enters the polluted area. The fishman who works overtime is crushed by the last straw. Wang Ming from the hot pot restaurant is a victim of continuous mental pollution. Huang Yaruo is forced to become the mother of the experimental subject. The mermaid is a victim of the performance props. Lin Xiaofeng has been trained to be a transparent person since a very early age.
They are all ordinary people, but they are trapped in their own resentment and cannot let go.
So are there any pollution sources that are inherently bad?
Before they become sources of pollution, they lack the emotions that humans should have and are naturally emotionally indifferent. What will happen if such people become sources of pollution?
He would not be afraid even if he knew there was someone in his teeth, and he would take the tooth person's existence for granted.
He might treat the dentist as a patient.
He was not panicked when he found himself being polluted. To him, there was no difference between being a source of pollution or being a human being.
He would be more suitable to be a source of pollution than a normal person. He would not isolate himself, but would open up the polluted area and absorb more people, such as Xu Mei.
He offered Xu Mei a job.
Zhu Ning felt that she had been on the wrong path all along and that her thinking was wrong.
She had been frightened since she entered the dentist's office. The other party seemed to enjoy watching Zhu Ning's mental state decline. He was looking forward to the moment of mental collapse.
Someone like him would definitely be observing him secretly. He might have already appeared, but Zhu Ning didn't notice it at all.
Her attention was drawn to trivial matters. She noticed Xu Mei, the dentist among the patients, the little girl in the bathroom, and the mirror in the lounge.
But she hadn't noticed the other guy, the...dentist.
Zhu Ning remembered that there was always a male doctor in the clinic next door, and she had pushed the door open and taken a look.
The dentist's hands were covered in blood and he looked at her indifferently while wearing a mask.
When Xu Mei chased to the lounge, Zhu Ning passed by a short dentist and she heard the other's breathing.
He had a name tag hanging on his chest that read Gao Zijian.
Is it him?
He was hidden among many dentists, making it difficult to notice him for a while.
Looking back, the dentist's breathing rate is completely different from Xu Mei's. Xu Mei's breathing rate is very strange and slower than that of ordinary people.
But the dentist's breathing rate was normal. He might have noticed Zhu Ning's bloody footprints at that time, but he let Zhu Ning leave.
Zhu Ning looked back at the dentist's office. That was the place she had just escaped from after wasting her life. The monsters inside could not be dealt with by guns and were more terrifying than any Zhu Ning had encountered before.
The black dental clinic was hidden deep in the corridor. There was no one at the door, and the dentist was still waiting for her to come back.
Zhu Ning could imagine the other person's leisurely look, like a cat waiting for a mouse.
He knew Zhu Ning would definitely go back.
If Zhu Ning wants to kill the source of pollution, he must go back.
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