One person and one cat stood in the night, and suddenly they all became quiet. The dim lights on the side of the road stretched their dark shadows long and cast them on the road in the distance, making it almost impossible to see their original shapes.
Bohemia pushed her wind-blown hair behind her ears and involuntarily glanced at Lin Sanjiu in the distance.
The latter had just sat down next to the motionless figure of the puppet master. She rubbed her field pants first, then gently put her hand on his forehead and held it there for a few seconds. Then she lifted it up again.
With the other hand, he touched his forehead. Of course, dead people would not have fever, so Lin Sanjiu put down his hand with satisfaction and looked up towards where the man and the cat were.
Bohemia quickly turned her eyes away - for some reason, she didn't dare to meet Lin Sanjiu's eyes.
"Before we came to this world..." She pretended to rummage through things while whispering to Doctor Cat: "She just learned that a friend died. I don't know the specific situation. I just
Knowing that it seems to be the first friend she made after entering the apocalyptic world, the way of death is hard to accept..."
"...Did you suffer a big blow?"
Bohemia frowned and thought for a while.
"She... was very excited, very sad and angry at the time, and desperately wanted to kill the person who caused her friend's death to avenge him. Later, the person died." She also didn't know that Lu Yan was eventually killed by another personality.
, whether Lin Sanjiu succeeded in getting her revenge: "We were then transported to this world by the great flood... Oh, I will explain to you about the great flood in a moment. After coming here, she seemed very normal.
, she never even mentioned Lu Ze—her dead friend."
Doctor Cat was silent for a while. "Is there any other stimulation?"
"Yes. The great witch seems to be her friend too..." The more Bohemia thought about it, the colder her heart became: "The great witch is trapped. If we don't settle down, we won't be able to help her. Originally, the great witch was trapped.
Lin Sanjiu planned to go find her as soon as she came to the New World, but she didn't expect that one thing happened after another, and she still hasn't had the chance to go."
"Is she worried?"
Bohemia thought for a while and shook her head. Then she whispered as if to explain: "I think she should be worried, but she never showed it - maybe it's because we have no time these days.
The reason he cares about."
More details also emerged. She still remembered that Lin Sanjiu had a strange attitude toward a certain communication device in her hand for a while. He would take it out and put it back, and he would feel restless and confused when looking at it——
It seemed that she was both afraid of receiving communication from someone and even more afraid of not receiving it. But in the end, she said nothing. When she set off again, she was as determined as if she had no worries at all.
Could it be that he is also a friend in crisis? Then, there are four people...
Doctor Cat sighed lowly.
"When there are too many things accumulated, the more tightly you press the lid, the more it will explode." It said softly, "It would be better if she was willing to tell everything... I am worried that the reason why she will become abnormal
, it was caused by the accumulation of a series of blows.”
"Are you sure...the puppet master is really dead?"
"It can't be wrong." Doctor Cat shook his head, "Ordinary doctors may still need to check pupils, pulse and skin, but I am born with a unique ability to distinguish between life and death. I can tell whether someone is about to die at a glance from a distance.
, or is he already dead."
"You are indeed a doctor. So what should we do now?"
Unknowingly, Bohemia also became troubled - she had completely forgotten that if Lin Sanjiu was mentally ill a few years ago, it would have been good news rather than bad news for her; after all, it would have been good news for her.
For a person who has lost the ability to resist, she can use whatever means she wants to recover her losses.
"Let's take a look at the situation first."
With the intention of taking one step at a time, they returned to Lin Sanjiu. The latter was sitting cross-legged on the side of the road, with his messy short hair tied back casually; in the dim light of the moonlight and street lights,
Inside, her honey-colored skin was still glistening with sweat. It seemed that even she would find it difficult to carry someone so far.
Seeing that the two of them were back, she waved her hand and found an extra card in her hand. "I don't know if you need it. I still have some disinfectant in my card library."
"...Put it in my bag."
The cat doctor slowly took out the small stethoscope specially made for it. It took nearly ten minutes just to put on the white coat on his body. While stalling for time, he raised his ears high; Bohemia was in these ten minutes.
For several minutes, I didn't dare to look at the puppet master, I just asked insinuating questions.
"...He has always been so half-dead," Lin Sanjiu waved his hand, as if he had long been used to it: "But I found that as long as this person has a little bit of will to survive, his vitality is still very tenacious.
Yes. You see, I moved him around like this, and he didn’t tear his wounds, bleed to death, or anything like that. I think his condition is stable now."
"……ah?"
In a sense, it is indeed very stable.
"Well, it just didn't get worse. However," she suddenly turned to Hu Miaomiao and asked with a little hesitation: "His condition actually requires surgery, right? But if he doesn't have the conditions to do it rashly, I'm worried about an accident... Please
You continue to maintain his condition first, whatever you need, I will find a solution."
Even if she wasn't a doctor, she would have realized something was wrong while carrying the body; but she obviously didn't realize at all that the man lying on the roadside was already dead.
Cats basically don't cough - but Hu Miaomiao still tried hard to cough twice.
Bohemia opened her mouth, and was completely speechless for a moment. She and Xiaomao looked at each other, and both of them were hesitant to speak, for fear that they might accidentally say something and irritate her. They couldn't do it in front of her.
Lin Sanjiu met in person to discuss it, but ran out of excuses and walked away again. As a result, they all fell into a strange silence.
Lin Sanjiu's eyes turned and began to wonder: "Doctor Cat?"
"Ah, ah." It was too late for Hu Miaomiao to pretend not to understand what others were saying. She scratched her head with her hind legs for a long time and said hesitantly: "I, let me think about it, maybe... not necessarily."
Bohemia lowered her head and stared at the road for a while, but suddenly an idea came to her - she quietly stretched out her toes and pressed hard on the white line on the ground. As expected, it shook its head and screamed in pain again, which shocked several people's minds.
There was a buzzing sound. While Lin Sanjiu was rubbing her temples, she used her consciousness to pull the white line off the ground, turning it back into a mess of dirty colors; when it
When floating in mid-air, it seems as if someone has painted a patch of the scenery.
"What do you call it when you're fine?" She pretended to be angry, rolled it around, turned her back to Lin Sanjiu, and scolded it: "Shut up!"
Chaos really shut up - this was not because of the order, but because Bohemia was wrapping her own voice with consciousness and quietly sending it into the chaos.
"Since your voice can ring directly in people's brains...can you only convey your voice to specific people so that others cannot hear it?"
The blurry and chaotic colors curved up and down, and then Bohemia heard its answer: "Yes, it just takes a little more effort."
She glanced out of the corner of her eye and found that neither Dr. Cat nor Lin Sanjiu heard this sentence.
"That's great," she said, half threatening and half tempting, "I have a plan... If you help me well, I will let you go."
...Bohemia's plan is simple.
Their biggest problem right now is that they dare not directly tell Lin Sanjiu that the puppet master is dead, for fear of irritating her mental state even more. If they can stage a scene in which "the doctor rescues her urgently, but is ultimately unable to save her life", maybe this
The process can help her accept the reality a little bit. What's more, this time she doesn't have to face the news of "The Puppet Master is dead" alone. After all, she still has Bohemia and Doctor Cat by her side.
There are risks in doing so, but they seem to have no choice.
Hu Maomiao was not a psychiatrist. Regarding Lin Sanjiu's mental state, she was as at a loss as Bohemia. After listening to the chaotic retelling, after thinking for a while, she secretly looked towards Bohemia.
Nodding - obviously, it also intends to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor.
Under Lin Sanjiu's eager gaze, Mao Mao stood next to the belly of the corpse and pretended to inspect it for a while.
"He is in danger and must be operated on immediately," it said, stretching out the tips of its claws and even disinfecting them one by one carefully. "You have to be mentally prepared, the operation may not be successful."
Lin Sanjiu became nervous when she heard this, stood up and took two steps away, taking a long breath. She lowered her head and stared at the road firmly, as if she did not dare to watch the operation process.
Bohemia also turned her head to one side, unwilling to see the scene of heartbreaking; the chaos bound by her consciousness floated up and down in the air, as if she felt the atmosphere was heavy, and it was rare to be quiet.
Come down.
The feared puppet master in the past has now died silently on an unknown road, like a tired wild dog that has reached its end... Even though Bohemia and the puppet master are not related,
She still felt an inexplicable sadness from the bottom of her heart.
When the surgical scissors rustled through the skin, the sour sound seemed to scratch all the way into her bones; on the dim, lonely night on the road, she couldn't help but tremble a few times.
"sorry,"
I don't know how long it took, but Doctor Cat finally spoke, every word showing great care: "It's because of my poor medical skills... You, please forgive me."
Even though she had agreed to say this, Bohemia's heart still trembled slightly. She raised her eyes and found that Lin Sanjiu's figure seemed to have been frozen suddenly - her straight body was so stiff and rigid that she fell down.
It's like it can be broken into pieces.
For a long time, she didn't say a word, and even her breathing suddenly stopped.
"Yes, really," when he spoke again, it was as if he hadn't spoken for a long time. Lin Sanjiu's throat was dry and hoarse, and he had to clear his throat before he could continue: "...I don't know how.
It's your fault, he was... already in an endangered state. Can I see him?"
As she spoke, she had already approached the figure on the roadside step by step.
"...Okay, I've already stitched it up." Doctor Cat lowered his head, took two steps back, walked around the body, and stood opposite Lin Sanjiu with Bohemia who had just walked over. The latter "clucked"
He knelt down and stared at the corpse in a daze. No one spoke for a while, only the chaos was still floating slightly within the constraints of Bohemia's consciousness.
Should we give her some buffering time now...?
Bohemia looked at the drooped head and thought to herself.
After a while, Lin Sanjiu moved. Under the gaze of one person and one cat, she slowly raised her hands and stretched out to the chest wrapped in black leather. Even her fingertips were trembling slightly; it was as if the two of them were touching each other.
There seemed to be a frightening gap between her and several seconds passed, but she still couldn't really touch the puppet master's chest.
She remembered the puppet master's black leather suit, each one being weirder than the last...
Looking at the two people lying and sitting on the roadside, an unrelated thought came to Bohemia's mind. Subconsciously, she turned her head and looked at the puppet master's face. His face was covered by messy black hair.
Most of it is gone, and only the bloodless pale skin between the hair can be barely seen——
At this moment, Lin Sanjiu pressed his hands firmly on the puppet master's chest. The next second, the black leather and the body wrapped in it exploded unexpectedly.