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A scream from upstairs made Bai Miao quickly regain his composure and rush into the bedroom.

"Miss Hearst, what happened...?"

"puff!"

As soon as the door opened, Hearst threw a goose feather pillow at him, hitting Bai Miao in the face.

Bai Miao lifted the pillow and found Hearst curled up on the bed, holding the blanket in front of him, biting his red lips, his cheeks flushed.

"you you you……"

Hearst stammered, "Why was I naked in your bed? Dr. Moriarty...you, you shouldn't be like this..."

"Oh? So you weren't wearing any clothes?"

Bai Miao asked instinctively, then quickly explained, "Miss Hearst, you've misunderstood... Let me explain..."

It took Bai Miao a lot of persuasion to calm Hearst down.

After all, it's hard for anyone to stay calm when they wake up naked in another man's bed.

"I...Is my illness really cured? I was almost hunted down by Favre last night?"

Hearst lay frozen on the bed, feeling utterly surreal.

I was sleeping normally last night, so why did the weather suddenly change when I woke up?

I should have worn my pajamas to bed.

She kicked her feet to check if her legs were getting better, but worried that kicking up the blanket would expose her, so she quickly pressed her other hand on her legs and carefully observed Bai Miao's gaze.

Do you still feel bloodlust?

Bai Miao took out a bottle of blood, uncorked it, and shook it.

As Hearst gazed at the vial of blood, realizing that he truly had no desire for blood whatsoever, the pain of being abandoned by the world and the real feeling of returning to normalcy overwhelmed him.

My anemia has truly been cured.

Hearst buried his face in the blankets and began to sob softly.

"Thank you... Dr. Moriarty..."

"It's what a doctor should do. Putting that aside... what about your clothes? Why don't you have the maid bring you a new set?"

Hearst nodded: "That's the only way... Please help me get in touch with them... I'm really not available."

Bai Miao walked to the phone and called Hearst's home.

"Dr. Moriarty...do you know where Madam is? There's a hole in the roof of her house...has she been kidnapped?"

After the call was connected, the maid asked somewhat anxiously.

Bai Miao thought for a moment and replied, "Miss Hearst is at my house. Something did happen last night, but she is safe and well now. She just needs you to send over a brand new set of clothes."

"..."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and then the call was abruptly ended.

"?"

Soon, the maid delivered the new clothes, bowed to Bai Miao, and then hurriedly left.

Why does her attitude seem so ambiguous?

Bai Miao threw the clothes on the bed, closed the door, and waited in the living room.

"Squeak..."

About ten minutes later, Hearst pushed open the door and walked down the stairs step by step.

She walked very carefully with each step, and her eyes shone with light with every step.

She felt the solid touch coming from the soles of her feet, and the powerful support from her legs.

Upon approaching Bai Miao, Hearst bowed and said, "Dr. Moriarty, I have recovered. Thank you for your treatment during this time."

She lowered her head, nervously fidgeting with her fingers: "Dr. Moriarty... would you be willing to treat my family member?"

"The preparation of the medicine takes some time, but it is not troublesome."

Having successfully prepared it once before, Bai Miao didn't need much blood for subsequent preparations.

"Well, I'd like to go back to the snow mountain first to pick them up and bring them to Yar City, and then I'll introduce you to them when I have the chance..."

"Hmm... You're welcome anytime."

It would be impossible to travel to and from the snow-capped mountains in less than a month.

Hearst's trip back to his hometown means we'll probably never see him again until the next instance...

Hearst knew he shouldn't stay any longer; if he stayed any later, it would cause unnecessary misunderstandings if the other neighbors saw him leaving Dr. Moriarty's house so early in the morning.

"Well then, Dr. Moriarty, I'll go home and pack my things now. See you again in a while."

"Um...see you later."

Chapter 198 After the Breakthrough Progress, the Assassin Attacked

Hearst did not manage to pack his things and return to the snow mountain after returning home.

Because she still needs to find someone to fix her roof.

Fortunately, the other residents on Vic Street didn't pay attention to the Hearst family's rooftop, otherwise they would have been subjected to interviews and inquiries from reporters.

Three days later, Hearst looked at his repaired home and embarked on his journey to the snow-capped mountains.

Bai Miao has been busy these days. Karlens gave Bai Miao a token that allows him to move freely within the territory of the Healing Cult, enabling him to search for clues to solve his nightmare syndrome.

Bai Miao visited nearly half of the high-ranking members of the Healing Cult and observed their mental changes after they fell asleep.

It has been shown that when nightmares do not occur, a person's mental state after falling asleep will, to some extent, revert to that of a normal human being, but this reversion is not very drastic.

During a nightmare episode, the individual completely transforms into a human form.

When one falls asleep in the sun in the mortuary, this transformation is suppressed by half.

In other words, the nightmare syndrome begins when the spirit body transforms into a human.

The ways to die in nightmares may be bizarre and varied, but they all share a common thread: water.

Some people drown, others are impaled on popsicles, but drowning is the most common cause.

Bai Miao himself was one of the very few who died in a dream from an attack by an unknown liquid monster.

The manner of death doesn't seem to prove anything.

Bai Miao studied every single one of the various treatment methods tried by the Healing Cult.

Sister Atalina opted for a lobectomy to treat her nightmares, and the consequences... well, needless to say.

In addition, some people have tried taking strong sleeping pills or physically falling into a coma, but to no avail.

The nightmares will continue.

The process of reviewing the literature was not without its merits. At least one case was recorded where a priest named Hardy claimed that during a period of nightmare syndrome, he had a night without any nightmares.

But when he repeated all the actions of that night, the nightmares still occurred and did not disappear, so it was recorded as a coincidence.

The Healing Cult did observe Hardy afterward, but no matter how they studied him, they found nothing special about him.

They even went so far as to open Hardy's brain and study its structure.

But he is no different from an ordinary person.

Every high-ranking member of the healing cult who died from nightmare disorder left behind their brain as a research sample. Bai Miao had suggested that he wanted to obtain some samples for research, but was unexpectedly rejected by Karlrens.

Since Bai Miao is ultimately not a member of the Healing Cult, many people cannot accept allowing outsiders to study the brains of members of the Healing Cult, even for the sake of nightmare syndrome.

Karlrens naturally took this opportunity to invite Bai Miao to join the Healing Cult.

Bai Miao naturally refused.

"To easily resolve nightmares, one really needs to have a spiritual value of 100 or more..."

If Bai Miao does indeed live in Yar City, he can naturally wait until that time, but reaching 100 points of spiritual energy also means the completion of the mission objective, and he will be forced to leave the instance.

This way, you won't get either the dungeon exploration progress or the rewards inside the clock tower later.

Bai Miao's spiritual value has reached 90 points, and it is currently increasing by 1 point per day.

If the guess that 100 spirit points will complete the task is correct, then I have a maximum of 10 days left.

I don't have much time.

To make it easier to study nightmares, Bai Miao temporarily stayed in the territory of the Healing Cult, and Karllund thoughtfully provided him with a small house.

As for the clinic, Bai Miao has temporarily closed it, stating that he has been invited by the Healing Cult to conduct long-term outpatient visits.

In fact, after Bai Miao was photographed at the scene of Katie's death, although he successfully shifted the blame to the Healing Cult, many residents of Yar City no longer dared to seek treatment from Bai Miao.

They avoided the backlash from the media, but still couldn't prevent their business from declining.

However, Bai Miao no longer cares about business.

The original purpose of opening this ridiculous clinic was to attract the attention of the higher-ups in Yar City.

Now, he not only has a good relationship with the two big shots, Lecter and Favor, but has also become a highly regarded nightmare doctor within the Healing Cult.

There's not much point in trying to attract other people.

"We need to think of another way..."

Bai Miao turned his gaze to his items, arranging them in his backpack and displaying detailed information and levels.

"If I use the staff of compassion to heal, will it have any effect?"

"No, then why don't I just summon Ai Goto's spirit form and have her use the Staff of Benevolence to heal people?"

Among the four magical girls, Goto Ai is exceptionally skilled in healing, able to restore dozens of points of stamina to one or two hundred in a short time.

Their mental strength also recovered very quickly.

People suffering from nightmare disorder tend to have a decline in mental strength during nightmares. If they go without sleep for several days, they will have a mental breakdown within a cycle.

The mortuary provides a buffer, allowing the mind to recover even if one doesn't sleep well.