Chapter 3377: Miracle Doctor (Part 32)

The plan went wrong as expected. The little girl at the source of the dream was much more mature than they imagined; her mental age did not seem to stop at the year of her death, but had been growing with the years. So after Batman entered the dream twice, she noticed something was wrong and kicked all the members in this operating room out of the dream.

But it was also no surprise that the little girl couldn't do anything about the two of them. Apart from making them unable to enter the dream again, she really couldn't deal with this kind of rogue tactic.

And Batman and Shiler obviously didn't intend to give up. Just as they were researching new solutions, Seeing Natasha arrived.

Unlike Wanda, who was a harmless ordinary potion witch, Seeing Natasha was a battle witch, proficient in various offensive magic and curses, who had once successfully escaped from the hands of a Great Mage and left the other party with permanent injuries.

Despite this, she inherited some relatively important potion recipes, including the dream-entry potion.

After communicating with Batman and Shiler, they decided to brew this potion to forcibly enter the dream and overwrite the little girl's memory with their own memories.

They knew they could buy the medicinal materials for brewing the dream-entry potion from the Bear Caretaker, so Shiler and Batman tried to treat patients to earn money.

Contrary to Greed's assumption, they actually didn't see many patients at all; they only saw one in total, and it failed.

After Batman compared the complexity of the treatment, the probability of failure, and the ratio of income, he knew that this path was definitely not going to work. Treating patients to earn money was completely thankless and very inefficient.

After that one, they never saw any patients again. Under normal circumstances, Wood should have controlled the wooden monster to crawl out of the passage to deal with the lazy doctor.

But the main universe Batman was not so easy to deal with. Because he didn't intend to treat patients at all, he used the flames in the fireplace to re-forge most of the tools into protective equipment and built new doors for all places connected to the outside world.

In the process of processing the metal, Batman drew on modern forging techniques, trying the forging method of three-piece combination and twisting multi-layer Damascus, raising the strength of the already tough special brass metal to an unimaginable level.

The passage in front of the operating table, the small window above, and the door of the operating room were all welded with extremely sturdy and dense brass railings.

The consequence of doing this was that the wooden man who wanted to come over and show off his power hit a copper wall and iron barrier; he hit it seven or eight times, even hitting his own head crooked, but he couldn't hit the passage exit open, and could only return in a dejected manner.

The raven was even more unlucky; after finally struggling through the gaps in the railings, it stepped on a trap as soon as it landed. To get rid of the trap, it turned into a human form, and then was hit on the head by Seeing Natasha, fed the experimental version of the dream-entry potion by Shiler, and finally died miserably in Greed's hands.

The Bear Caretaker didn't fare any better. Batman and the others had no money but wanted to buy things, so they simply set traps in front of the door. As soon as the Bear Caretaker came over, he stepped into a trap; Batman took advantage of his lack of preparation to pull him directly into the operating room, Seeing Natasha locked the door, and the Bear Caretaker couldn't run away at all.

The Bear Caretaker was a bear-man with a bear head, slightly larger than a human, and also had sharp claws and teeth, but he obviously couldn't beat the well-prepared terrifying Batman. After being beaten up, he could only agree to get herbs for Batman and the others.

The room where Pride was located also had a dress code, but they never followed it. On the first day, the nurse rushed in, and just as she intended to attack Pride, Batman, who was hiding above the door, pounced and pinned her to the ground, using his physical advantage to suppress the nurse and beat her up as well.

Fundamentally, neither Batman nor Pride were doctors, and they never considered themselves doctors. They just treated this as an ordinary combat puzzle-solving dungeon.

All creatures entering the operating room were monsters they had to fight; although there were dialogue options to choose from, as long as they beat them all down, they could still get loot.

Since then, all the characters in the hospital stopped coming. They wore whatever they wanted, didn't see patients if they didn't want to, and bought whatever they wanted, completely following their own wishes.

And thanks to the raven's testing of the medicine, the research and development of the dream potion made great progress. It's just that to ensure the stability of the potion, they needed to use silver for experiments.

Because they were blacklisted by almost all the characters, they couldn't get more materials and had to prepare to go out and explore. The darkness in the corridor couldn't be passed through, so they had to take the passage.

It just so happened that at this time, Greed went out and burned the triage room. Pride was very familiar with Greed's voice; he heard the conversation between Greed and Wood and confirmed that they were in the same game, so he decided to go out himself to get some silver coins from Greed.

His goal at first was silver coins, but he knew very well that if he only asked for one silver coin, Greed might only give him a few copper coins. So he first asked for a gold coin and, as expected, obtained dozens of silver coins.

Upon learning that Greed wanted to become a triage nurse, Pride had a new idea. So after he came back, he discussed it with Seeing Natasha and let Seeing Natasha go out to block Wood's new puppet.

The plot progress on Pride's side was a bit ahead of Greed's side. He roughly figured out what the little girl wanted to do.

If nothing went wrong, the little girl was not kidnapped by cultists, but might have been deceived by them.

At that time, a plague might have broken out, and the little girl went to the hospital, thinking she would get treatment, but was taken away by cultists and tortured to death. So after becoming an evil spirit, her resentment shrouded this hospital.

Every designated year, she would cause a plague in the town, making people suffer from various painful diseases and come to seek medical treatment, and then get a group of quacks who couldn't treat patients at all to treat these patients randomly, letting them feel the pain she felt back then.

And the reason for showing her dream to the doctors was to let them understand the evil deeds these people had committed, letting the doctors actively torture the patients to satisfy the evil spirit's desire for revenge.

The encounters in the dream would be projected onto reality, also to let this group of doctors who were forced to do the job experience her pain personally and use this method to force them to do as she said.

Things like pulling nails, pulling teeth, and cutting off tongues all belonged to the early intimidation phase, letting this group of doctors know that this place was not completely safe and that other forces were dominating here, triggering their fear.

And if nothing went wrong, as the plot progressed, the evil spirit would definitely appear. Because after all, the hints in the dream were too shallow, and she would always have to stand up and explain what happened back then.

The evil spirit would tell these doctors about her pain and innocence, and say that she was the one who protected the doctors, letting them not get infected with the plague, but they had to torture the patients to avenge her.

And under the urging of sympathy, fear, and survival psychology, these people who were not professional doctors to begin with would definitely satisfy the evil spirit's wish and play the role of executioner well.

This is actually very typical PUA; a closed environment, pain and pressure, and a little bit of sweetness are enough to tame most people.

This trick was enough to deal with ordinary people, but it was a bit lacking against Shiler. Although his action of reverse-compiling the little girl's dream did not succeed, it obviously made the evil spirit at a loss.

And another person who was beyond the evil spirit's plan was Greed. He directly burned Wood and became the triage nurse himself. This was definitely not what the evil spirit wanted to see.

Because Wood was a greedy villain, he would exploit these patients to the extreme, making them experience the pain of losing all their wealth before losing their lives.

But in Pride's view, Greed wouldn't do that. Although he was also greedy for money, the money in the game couldn't be taken out. What he wanted most was for the game to be successfully cleared, so he couldn't let the little girl get her wish so early. He would probably try his best to treat these patients.

Compared to Batman and Shiler, who seemed to have no threat as long as they were kicked out of the dream, Greed, who was jumping the most, was obviously more troublesome. If he became a triage nurse, the evil spirit would definitely have to find a way to deal with him, which would reduce the attention placed on Pride's side.

And once the dream potion they were brewing finished testing, they could take this opportunity to take advantage of the situation and go head-to-head with the little girl in the dream.

In short, it was to use Greed's outrageous behavior to attract the evil spirit's attention, while they secretly developed behind the scenes and then won in one blow.

Pride was right; Shiler was doing a much better job as a triage nurse than Wood.

There were more than 100 doctors in the hospital, two in each group, about 50 or so wards. That whole wall had about 50 or so passages.

However, not everyone thrown here could quickly figure out the rules and complete the treatment tasks. And for doctors who didn't complete them, Wood's response was one word—kill.

So now there were only 60 or so people left, and the wards that could receive patients were reduced to about 30.

The remaining people basically understood the rules, and most had the ability to complete basic treatments. Although the cure rate was indeed a bit low, everyone was not a professional doctor, and being able to do this step was truly not bad.

Modern hospitals have high cure rates because basically every doctor needs to undergo at least 5 years of study, 1-2 years of training, and then accumulate experience in several years of clinical operation to become a relatively good, stable screw in the hospital.

Top doctors like Strange, besides spending most of their lives studying and practicing, also need top talent and cannot have any accidents. The cost of training is unimaginably high.

And throwing a group of ordinary people who have nothing to do with medical care into a closed ward, throwing them two books, and wanting them to treat patients. It can only be said that this evil spirit knows how to torture people, not only torturing patients but also torturing doctors.

And there are various rules that are fatal to ordinary people. Being able to survive in this situation and even cure one or two is, in Shiler's view, a pretty good talent for this group of people.

In this situation, Shiler felt he should give them some small help. So he would try to put cases into operating rooms with healing experience to improve the success rate.

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