Chapter 768

As the "SCP-049" file was unlocked, the "Plague Doctor" opened the box and saw the corpse lying quietly in the dry ice mist.

His enthusiasm clearly faded a bit, but he still nodded:

"Oh, 'Pestilence'! An animal infected with 'Pestilence'!"

Then, he looked at Bai Xuan and Herta at the door:

"Compared to research on human medicine, my attainments in the veterinary field are not high... however, I will do my best to treat the patient."

Listening to the "Plague Doctor's" words, Herta only felt that this creation of the "Three Brothers of Death" was incredibly weird.

What patient or not, what was lying there was clearly a cold corpse!

For a corpse, how can one talk about "treatment"?!

Knowing clearly that this was just a game, Herta still felt her heart pounding—fear of the unknown, like a snake, entangled her thinking, squeezing her reason.

Making her feel cold, but also making her feel a trace of excitement.

Bai Xuan raised his hand, placed it on Herta's shoulder, and squeezed it gently, letting her body relax slowly.

While doing so, he looked at the "Plague Doctor" calmly, with his habitual smile:

"It doesn't matter, the Foundation will try its best to meet your requirements—as long as these requirements do not cause harm to the Foundation."

"Harm? No, naturally not." The "Plague Doctor" shook his head, and the huge bird beak swayed with it.

"Allowing 'Pestilence' to exist is the greatest harm. Ah, 'Pestilence', yes, many people here have already succumbed to the 'Pestilence', but I am very close."

"You see, ridding the world of the threat of 'Pestilence' is my duty, and I have a premonition that before long, I will be able to find the cure to end all cures."

During the conversation, the "Plague Doctor" placed his hand on the goat corpse, stroking it gently, as if checking a patient's physical condition.

This would undoubtedly be no problem if it were a normal doctor-patient relationship, an embodiment of a doctor's dedicated treatment.

But when the doctor is fully armed, dressed in black, wearing an ominous bird-beak mask, and the patient is a cold goat corpse.

This operating room-style containment room became gloomy, weird, cold, and terrifying.

Herta's lips trembled slightly, only able to make a faint moan, as if her vocal cords were being strangled.

She moved sideways quietly, hiding behind Bai Xuan, suddenly missing the real world.

In reality, no matter what, she was an Emanator of the "Erudition" Aeon, not a Foundation researcher without any supernatural power.

When she no longer had power, she suddenly realized that in the eyes of ordinary people, Ruan Mei, who created and studied life at will, would be such a cold and ruthless existence.

It's just that, compared to the "Plague Doctor", Ruan Mei was undoubtedly more like a person, and her paranoia about "life" was easier to understand.

However, curiosity about academics ultimately overcame the instinctual fear.

"What exactly is 'Pestilence'?"

Hearing Herta's question, the "Plague Doctor" stopped his work, looked up, and was silent for a moment, making Herta feel that the other party's gaze towards her was a bit complex—like looking at a student who couldn't be taught no matter how much they were taught.

The "Plague Doctor" seemed to be thinking about something, and it took several seconds before he raised his hand, trying to grab something, and suddenly spoke:

"I don't know how to explain it, 'Pestilence' is clearly 'Pestilence'."

"It is so subtle, subtle to the point of being incredible, yet so intense to the point of being unimaginable, just like a steel needle poked into the eye, simply impossible to ignore."

"This world is full of 'Pestilence', very weak, yet extremely pungent, just like an unhindered festering wound, forming miasma, spreading outward, enough to be tasted!"

Herta fell into deep thought.

She was thinking about what the "Pestilence" that the "Plague Doctor" was certain existed actually was.

Is it "death"?

But on a corpse, would "death" still remain?

If it's not "death", then what could it be?

Seemingly realizing that the questioner in front of him couldn't understand what he was talking about either.

The "Plague Doctor" shook his head regretfully, his tone full of disappointment: