Don't Pick Up Wild People on the Roadside (Part 7)
"Why are you suddenly scary?"
The doctor met their gazes. The eyes were extremely lifelike, but the eyeballs without eyelids were exposed to the air, with bloodshot eyes and a vicissitudes of life. After staring at each other for a long time, he felt like he was being seen through.
Yun Qing huddled behind Jiang Yuanshi, poking his head out to express his dissatisfaction with the doctor: "What's this about eating or not? Stop scaring me! I haven't seen any in the Lower City. The Upper City has so much supplies, why would they eat people?"
Jiang Yuanshi stood there stiffly, glanced at Yun Qing, and sighed silently in his heart.
It seems that the identity is true, he is really a self-destructive player.
If Jiang Yuanshi remembered correctly, there was only one C-star character mentioned in the original text, Mu Changkong's marriage partner, who eventually died tragically after having his gland replaced.
And it's not even named in the synopsis.
All the main characters were gathered at once.
But the opponent's system is Z01. Even if Yun Qing is willful, according to the various restrictions when doing tasks bound to Z01, it is impossible for him to appear now unless he is not controlled by the plot.
It's impossible that the main gods would relax the requirements just because Z01 is difficult to kill, right?
What does it matter if he works so hard? Is it because his life is miserable?
"You're lucky, kid. If you'd sneaked uptown dressed like this, even if you revealed your identity, they'd still do everything they could to dig out your glands and eat them. It's a specialty of the uptown area; even the nobles might fight tooth and nail to get a bite," the doctor said with a touch of nostalgia. "Before you die, they'll guide your pheromones to their peak strength, then remove them intact when the glands are at their most active. At that point, the glands are not only at their largest but also at their most elastic."
The doctor withdrew his hand and used the scalpel to cut the package. The sound of the plastic bag rubbing together with the cold voice of the robot gave people goose bumps.
Yun Qing was shivering in the back, and Jiang Yuanshi was already starting to feel hungry.
How is it that this horror story also has a touch of deliciousness?
Yun Qing touched his neck and asked, "Even if what you said is true, what about the lower city? The lower city shouldn't be dangerous. People don't even have food to eat. Don't they eat people?"
The doctor sneered, "Eating people? You mean people with living flesh? How many intact, living people can you find in the downtown area? Everyone's missing limbs and has metal prostheses. Some people's internal structures are machines. The wounds connecting the machines have long been marinated in oil. Eating them is worse than eating their parts."
A complete person?
Yun Qing looked up subconsciously.
Jiang Yuan, who was still suffering from hunger and hadn't reacted yet, said:?
Doctor: "Forget about him. A living person with glandular disease is even scarier than an assembled human. There's a chance of infection if you eat them. If they don't starve to death, they'll be contaminated first. If you're lucky, their glands will fail and they'll become useless. Then they'll be worse than a substandard robot."
That's good, it has the virus and no one comes near it.
Jiang Yuanshi asked, "How do you treat glandular diseases?"
The doctor glanced at him and sighed, "There's no cure unless you find a perfectly compatible Alpha and have him use pheromones to condition you. Ideally, a lifelong mark."
Jiang Yuanshi: "You just said I have an infectious disease. Wouldn't it be possible to get infected if a marked Alpha bites my glands?"
The doctor snorted. "Yes, of course. So even if you find a suitable A, whether or not they're willing to sacrifice their own level to you is another matter. Temporary markings are only temporary. For those high-level A's, it's just a minor cold. But once it's a lifelong mark, then you're both connected. Glandular diseases don't care about the level of contact."
In the original novel, Mu Changkong did not mark Jiang Yuan for a long time. Maybe the other party had recovered his memory at that time, or even earlier. Then the resistance in the lower city was futile from the beginning. It would be a miracle if the biggest boss could succeed in it.
But Jiang Yuanshi didn't understand. Mu Changkong, who had recovered his memory, had been with Jiang Yuan for so long, which could be said to be waiting for the opportunity to suppress the lower city area, but what did the other party mean by the so-called recovery of his memory with Jiang Yuan afterwards?
Why do you love me so much?
Can the contrast between a person having memory and not having memory really be that great?
It's acting.
Jiang Yuanshi didn't understand.
"Is there no other way? Why does this glandular disease make it seem like you're forced to find a partner?" Yun Qing couldn't help but ask the doctor when she saw Jiang Yuan was hesitant to speak.
The doctor said, "Any other way? Yes, there is, but..."
Yun Qing: "But what? Why do you always like to leave things unsaid?"
The doctor ripped open the cloth wrapping and used a robotic arm to manipulate the patient. "I'm not going to keep you in suspense, but I'm telling you, there are two other options. One is to find a scapegoat and remove a fresh gland to replace it on the spot. The success rate is 80%. The other is to create an artificial gland, but after all these years, the success rate is 100%, and the survival rate is 0."
"..." Yun Qing was choked by the previous method, but she didn't give up and asked, "Why can't artificial glands be created?"
"You kid, you don't read any news." The doctor sighed. "Artificial glands are also created by extracting human glandular tissue. Unlike those made by modifying a person's internal metal, glands can't use prosthetics. Artificial glands must match the person to avoid rejection and survive. This is a strict requirement. For the genes extracted from artificial glands to successfully adapt, they must be modified from the person's glandular tissue."
"Wait, if he's sick, wouldn't the tissue extracted be diseased?"
Doctor: "So that's the problem. Who would remove a piece of their gland if they're healthy? Those who are sick are born with the disease. Alphas and Omegas with glandular diseases are mostly born with it, and a small number of them develop it later in life. So there's nothing we can do."
Yun Qing was speechless: "Doesn't that mean certain death?"
Doctor: "Not necessarily. Glandular diseases mainly cause pheromones to become disordered, run wild, and eventually dry up and die, just like a balloon without air. If you pump some air into it when it's exhausted, it will work."
Yun Qing: "You really think people are balloons, and you're still trying to punch them in."
Doctor: “So it’s just a hypothesis.”
“…”
“Hey!”
?
Jiang Yuanshi's thoughts were called back by Yun Qing's action of pulling the corner of his clothes. Yun Qing whispered, "Do you have any ideas? I can't think of anything to ask."
Jiang Yuanshi also replied in a low voice: "Yes, there is, but I don't think it will work."
"Who cares if he can do it or not? Just ask and it's over."
Well, Jiang Yuanshi looked up and asked the doctor who was busy over there: "If the gland is removed, how long can I live?"
The doctor paused, his neck cracking again. He turned his head and stared at Jiang Yuan with a warning, "The gland is like a second sex, and it's also like another heart. How long do you think you can live without it?"
Jiang Yuanshi said calmly, "You also said it was another heart, but people already have one, right? I don't ask for a long life, I just want to be able to live one day without the constraints of pain."
Doctor: "Even just for a few days?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Even if it's only for one day."
The doctor and Jiang Yuanshi looked at each other for a long time, and finally turned their heads away.
"Bang!" The scalpel was thrown into the iron plate.
"Five years, five years at most. That's the longest time recorded in medical records."
"Thanks, that's quite long."
Yun Qing looked up at the man named "Jiang Yuan" and felt that he had become extremely unfamiliar at this moment. In stark contrast to his previous calm and aloof appearance, his face was full of determination and stubbornness, his tone was optimistic and full of... vitality.
It's like a different person.
Yun Qing felt an inexplicable fear. He tugged at Jiang Yuan's clothes. Jiang Yuan lowered his head again, "Huh? What's wrong?"
There was no big change in the tone, and the eyes were indifferent. Did it change back to normal?
Is it an illusion?
Yun Qing took back his hand and said as if it was nothing, "Sorry, it was just a coincidence."
Jiang Yuan said "Oh" and turned back to watch the doctor operate.
After being silent for a long time, Z01 took the initiative to ask Yun Qing: "What did you want to ask him just now?"
Yun Qing shuddered, then breathed a sigh of relief when she realized it was the system in her head. "Please, don't speak so suddenly, you scared me. You were always slow to respond when I called you before, so why are you so proactive now?"
Z01: "I'm sorry to disturb you. But you clearly had something to say."
Yun Qing: "So what? I forgot while I was thinking. I can't just tell you the truth. It would make me look stupid."
Z01: …
Yun Qing: "But didn't you feel like he was a different person just now? It was like he was possessed by something."
Z01 said ruthlessly, "No, it's probably an illusion caused by the stress you felt after being threatened by the doctor."
Yun Qing was stunned by what he said and murmured, "Really..."
Z01: "Does this have any impact on you?"
Yun Qing said gloomily, "Nothing, I just feel a little lost. It's so strange, I don't know why."
Z01 didn't say anything else, just repeated what he had just said, which directly annoyed Yun Qing. "Please shut up, I didn't even beg B33 to come to me, now I beg you, don't scold me, Master, how could your ex tolerate you?"
Z01: …
"What’s wrong with you?"
Yun Qing covered his ears and met the young man's gaze. After staring into his eyes for a moment, he spoke, "Someone is chanting in my head."
"...I see." Jiang Yuanshi understood and consoled him, "You'll get used to it. If you listen to it too much, it'll become like background music."
Yun Qing frowned: "What a hard life you lived in the past."
Jiang Yuanshi: "..."
Z01: .
"Oh!" Suddenly a cold mechanical voice with a wavy sound rang out. The two looked and saw that the doctor's head was almost buried in the package.
Jiang Yuanshi asked, "Excuse me, what happened?"
The doctor looked up, his face bloodshot, and sighed, "How come this Alpha is missing two teeth? They're right on the right side of the canines. Isn't that the end? Such a grudge! Just neuter him!"
“…………”
Jiang Yuanshi and Yun Qing looked at each other subconsciously. Both were shocked. They seemed to remember something and turned their heads back at the same time, pretending nothing had happened.
The doctor kept muttering, "This requires dentures, which will cost extra money! By the way, do you have the money?"
Jiang Yuanshi, who had just arrived in this world: I don’t know, I just got here.
He asked Yun Qing if he had any. Yun Qing took out a handful of strange-looking things with a confused look on his face and quietly asked Jiang Yuan:
"What does money look like?"
Jiang Yuanshi: ...
B33 and Z01 who were watching silently: ………
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