Chapter 3362

After sending away the ore disease patient, Schiller pulls the lever, and a female dog-headed person covered in vines falls out of the passage. The two move her to the operating table next to them, and Schiller injects the prepared anesthetic.

Strange pulls the lever again; this time the patient doesn't fall as fast, and after waiting for about a minute or so, another black-skinned man falls down, with iconic black spots on his chest.

At this time, Schiller has just finished injecting the anesthetic for the woman, and the two move this man to the operating table next to them. Schiller starts to examine the man to determine the type of his Black Death plague, while Strange goes to remove the vines on the woman.

Schiller performs eye and oral examinations and draws blood, then says: "Scar plague of the Black Death day plague, and he also carries the spherical tentacle virus."

Schiller presses the man's slightly bulging abdominal cavity again and says: "It might have spread to the internal organs, there is slight fluid in the abdominal cavity, and a biopsy is needed."

Strange puts on his monocle, raises his eyelids slightly, and says: "Draw the abdominal fluid first, then deal with the ulceration of the epidermis; I'll cut later."

Schiller replaces the needle of the syringe and slowly draws out the fluid in the man's abdomen. Although the man has a high fever, he is still conscious, muttering something in his mouth.

The fluid is drawn out, and Schiller starts to clean the scars on the man's skin, while Strange has already removed most of the vines growing out of the lungs on that side. The two switch positions; Strange cuts on this side, and Schiller sutures on that side.

After the suturing is almost done, Schiller pulls the lever again. Another patient falls down this time. Schiller just wants to walk over to check the situation when he finds that the red-haired woman lying on the operating table has a surprisingly familiar face.

Seeing Schiller stop, Strange turns his head to look at him and immediately recognizes the new patient lying on the operating table—Scarlet Witch Wanda.

He hurriedly puts down what he is doing and comes to the side of the operating table. And Wanda wakes up immediately, looking at the two doctors on the left and right with some vigilance.

"Oh, my god, how is it the two of you?!" Wanda widens her eyes in surprise, looks left and right, and says, "Isn't this a two-player dungeon? How come there are other players?"

Schiller and Strange look at each other. Both of them are wearing masks; how did Wanda recognize them?

Schiller just wants to speak, when Wanda seems to be a bit unbelievable, wanting to confirm, and directly points at Schiller's mask, and the mask flies out with a "whoosh."

"It's really you?! Doctor! I thought I was hallucinating." Wanda says, covering her mouth in shock, "How could the two of you be here?"

Schiller walks over somewhat helplessly to pick up the mask and says: "I also want to ask this question, how did you get here? And how could you recognize the two of us through the mask?"

"I'm a witch."

"I know you are the Scarlet Witch, I mean..."

"I'm a witch!" Wanda emphasizes again, "I'm also a witch in this world! A witch who can use magic, do you understand?"

Schiller opens his mouth, just wanting to say something, when Wanda seems to understand, and she says: "Oh, I see. It seems this game will turn you into a person with the same profession as yourself in a strange world. The two of you are doctors, so you became doctors. I am the Scarlet Witch, so I became a magic witch."

"But we saw Tony before." Strange says, "Can you guess what his profession is?"

"What? It wouldn't be a mecha master, right?"

"He's a detective."

Wanda is dumbfounded.

"But it seems to make sense, after all, he is very smart." Wanda says. She pauses for a moment and seems to think of something, then says: "Wait, he wouldn't be that great detective Poirot who was recently arrested and imprisoned, right?"

"Have you heard of him?"

"Of course. Westchester has been making a lot of noise recently; I heard he was involved in a mysterious murder case. Many of his fans don't believe he is the murderer, but the police and judges all think he is guilty."

"What about you? What is your identity?"

"A civilian witch in the East District of Westchester."

"Witches are divided into civilians and nobles?"

Scarlet Witch waves her hand and says: "This world is different. Witch is a race, just like mutants. Either you are born a witch, or you can never be one. Of course, there will be rich people and poor people."

"Then how did you get here?"

"I came to find Jarvis." Wanda says, "He is a worker in the East District and also my husband. He was sent to Magic Pivot Town a week ago to maintain the energy pipeline system here. He should have returned home a week ago, but there has been no news. I can only come to find him."

"Then why did you enter the operating room?"

"Someone said they saw him here." Wanda says, "Judging from the photos at home, one of his legs and one of his arms are mechanical prosthetics. I asked at the train station, and they said he seemed to have come in this direction."

"But there's no need to enter the operating room, right?"

Wanda sighs and says: "Don't mention it. The outside is very chaotic now. People from the police station are catching people everywhere. They seem to have mistaken me for another witch, chasing me all the way, and I had no choice but to hide in the hospital."

"What does the outside look like now?" Schiller asks, "I mean outside the operating room."

"Very chaotic." Scarlet Witch frowns and says, "The waiting room is full of blood; it looks like several people just died. A group of people are fighting to enter the operating room, and a guy who looks like a puppet is sitting at the door collecting money."

"You didn't give him a gold coin, did you?"

"Where would I have so much money? I just used a little trick to deceive his eyes and drilled into the passage in the chaos. I didn't expect to come to you two."

Wanda sighs and says: "Now the police chasing me are probably already in the hospital, but I hope they won't search here."

"Don't worry, they won't." Schiller says, "The inside of the hospital is completely closed; no one can come in now."

"That's good. But I can't easily go out now either." Wanda shakes her head and says, "The witches in this world are really too weak. I have been consuming too much magic power before, and now I can't use any decent magic; I'm afraid I have to rest for a while. Can you take me in? I can help out or something."

"We are just short of people, ma'am." Schiller smiles and says, "If you can be a nurse, that would be even better."

"I was helping out in a clinic in Westchester before I came here." Wanda jumps off the bed, rolls up her sleeves, and says, "Although I can't use offensive magic, cleaning magic is no problem; I can also help clean up."

After speaking, she stretches out a finger and waves it lightly, a faint light flashes, and the area around the operating table is cleaned up; all the fine wood chips that fell from the wooden monster before are gone.

Schiller sighs and says: "I shouldn't have held any hope for my luck; how come I'm working overtime when I come here?"

"If the outside world really exists, then our previous inferences might be wrong." Strange says.

"No." Schiller denies, "Human imagination is very strong. Although they are in a cage, their thinking can extend very far, and their imagination space is boundless. Based on the bits and pieces they learned from others, they can completely imagine a vast world."

"What are you talking about?" Wanda asks.

Schiller tells her the inferences he and Strange made. Wanda freezes, then taps her other hand lightly and says: "I said why the terrain of the East District of Westchester is so much like the East District of London."

She looks at the two people and says: "You should know that Charles is British; he often tells us about things in England, recommends British cafes and jewelry halls to us, as well as Thames river cruises and Greenwich Park."

"Later, when Jarvis and I went to Europe for our honeymoon, we went to check in at those places he mentioned. There are several buildings there that have been around for a long time, probably built in the mid-19th century."

"After I came to this world, I felt that it was familiar here. The river next to the East District is also particularly familiar. You said so, and I have some impression; it is very like the East District of London."

"But shouldn't we be in the Middle Ages now?" Schiller frowns slightly, "The situation now looks too much like the background of the Black Death plague outbreak in Europe."

"Middle Ages? No, not the Middle Ages." Wanda shakes her head and says, "Didn't you just hear what I said? I came by train. Where would there be trains in the Middle Ages? It's clearly the Victorian era now, it's already the 19th century."

Schiller and Strange look at each other; they realize a problem, which is that the plague outbreak situation misled their judgment, making them think the era background was medieval England.

All the medical books here are written in Latin, so they have no way to judge the era through the changes in English wording. And these diseases with magical colors and even more magical treatment methods make it impossible to judge the degree of medical development.

"If this is the medical level of the 19th century, then I can only mourn for the people of this world." Strange shakes his head and says.

At this time, Strange remembers what he saw in the dream. The group of people who captured and tortured him were very surprised that he was a witch. Now it seems that this might not be the background of the witch-hunting movement, but just that they didn't expect the race of this little girl he played was a witch.

Strange carefully recalls the expressions of these people and finds that their fear was indeed greater than their anger. This can also be understood, because after all, the witches in this world can really use magic, even if they have been caught, they might give them a surprise, so they retreated one after another.

"Then the plague might also be this situation. The large-scale plague that broke out in Magic Pivot Town now does not correspond to the background of the European Black Death, but just a plague broke out."

"But I still insist on my previous speculation." Schiller says, "We definitely didn't see those two children in the dream for no reason. We would have such dreams, it must be that they want us to know something. This might be the root cause of the current situation we are encountering."

Strange thinks for a while and says: "This might indeed not be the conscious world, but being unable to leave the ward, and these strange patients and the anomalies outside, must have something to do with those two children."

Wanda asks curiously: "What children?"

Schiller simply tells her about the dreams they both experienced. But he regrets it a bit after saying it, because Wanda just became a mother not long ago and is most unable to listen to such things.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Wanda "whoosh" stood up, started pacing in the ward, and said angrily: "They actually dared to treat two children like this! Don't let me catch them, otherwise I'll make them look good!"

"Alright, ma'am, calm down." Schiller thinks for a while and says, "Although this might not be the complete conscious world, the abuse suffered by those two children and their resentment might have partially transformed this world, leading to the outbreak of the plague."

"This speculation is more reliable." Strange says, "We might be in the transformed inner world now. Here, the actions of everyone who has abused the children will be restricted, such as us, the nurse, the bear orderly, and other people in the hospital who can't get out."

"No." Schiller suddenly says, "A plague is breaking out outside, then we can't get out, isn't that a good thing?"

(End of chapter)