Rhodes Island does not exist.

"db001 requests permission to access the terminal".

"Key identification confirmed, db001, permissions granted to the Senate. What are your requirements?"

"Turn on the lights on the third floor for me."

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Thank you segment.

Thanks to hop666 for the chaotic blades, thank you.

Chapter 62, Section Sixty-One: Look at the good deeds you've done.

How much time had passed after he drank the seawater? The doctor couldn't remember.

He only vaguely felt his body slip out of his consciousness, and then, like a god of war, he wielded a pickaxe and slaughtered his way through the corridor.

When he finally came to his senses from that madness at the border, there was nothing left alive in the third-floor corridor.

"The medicine wasn't this effective when I drank seawater last time..."

The doctor rubbed his temples, feeling as if he had just woken from a dream from which he almost never woke up.

The last time I drank seawater was from a slug's nest on the eighth floor.

The doctor was deeply disturbed by the terrifying aura spreading around him, and in order to get rid of the relentless monster, he had no choice but to drink seawater.

But he remembers very clearly that the feeling after drinking seawater was different from when he drank seawater earlier.

To put it simply, the seawater back then was like a hot drink on a winter's day, while the seawater just now was like a barrel of gasoline in an engine.

It was still burning gasoline.

In terms of intensity, they are not even in the same dimension.

"I can't remember anything that happened, and I don't know when the lights were fixed." The doctor shook his head, glanced at the doors on the third floor and the end of the corridor, and then gasped.

He noticed that even the lights in the previously dimly lit control room had been turned on.

"So, you can gain electrical skills after going crazy?" He was speechless.

Then he looked up and found himself standing in the doorway of room number one.

"So it ended up here." He turned around. "I wonder what's in room number one—"

The action of turning around froze on the spot.

He remained frozen in a state of brief stillness, his upper body rotating while his lower body remained stationary.

It was because he saw a magnificent scene inside the room.

"What are these...?"

He muttered to himself, having never imagined such a scene before.

-

That was a row of large characters.

But those words were not simply written with a pen or ink.

Just as a child builds a castle with blocks, those words are constructed by arranging many objects in specific positions.

And all these objects were limbs from those strange creatures.

Forearm, upper arm, whole arm, calf, thigh... These straight parts form the strokes and branches of characters, transforming them from meaningless elements into information full of meaning.

"No wonder the strange creatures that died in the corridor were all in such a miserable state, like human stumps. So they were used for this purpose..." The doctor was shocked, but not too panicked.

Ultimately, all of this was done by himself; it was the message that his madness conveyed to the still-rational him.

So, what is that crazy version of myself trying to convey?

The doctor stepped closer to the strange characters, trying to make out the appearance of each character and the message conveyed by their combination.

Then, he recognized the first word.

【Don't】.

Following this word "别" is a phrase.

【believe】.

Put together, it means "Don't believe it".

So, who should you not trust?

The doctor continued to look to the right of the text, piecing together the strokes to make out the shape of the last two characters.

【nun】.

Put together, it means "Don't trust nuns."

So who is the nun?

The answer to this question is obvious.

In Rhodes Island, throughout the Doctor's entire career, he has only known one nun.

Ghost Shark.

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The doctor's mind was in complete chaos.

The sudden influx of information made him eager to figure out many things.

For example, why were those corpses arranged that way? Why did that sentence appear? And what did you do besides killing those monsters after drinking the seawater?

Ultimately, why did I become like that after drinking seawater?

I didn't have such a strong reaction the first time I drank it, so why do I not remember anything after drinking it the second time?

In short, whatever the case, calm down first.

The doctor sat on an operating table, his expression grave as he observed the body language displayed in the room.

Those were the words I was telling myself.

Let's take stock of what we did during that crazy period.

They slaughtered all the monsters on the third floor, found the exit to the second floor, repaired the energy supply system on the third floor, and then displayed these five words.

So, what is the purpose of doing these things?

Leaving aside the act of finding an exit, the remaining three things are probably all connected.

The purpose of slaughtering the monsters was to collect their limbs, while repairing the supply system was to allow the self to see these arranged words upon waking up. As for the purpose of arranging the words, it was clearly to convey this dangerous message to the self.

So, where did this information come from?

Unclear.

The answer to this crucial question is clearly unclear.

Could it be that after going crazy, I accidentally found information related to the Ghost Shark on the third floor?

No, that shouldn't be the case.

After all, in Rhodes Island, they can't even utter the name Specter, so how could they possibly have any information related to her?

To be honest, I don't really trust Specter.

From the moment he learned that she had been hiding things from him and that he couldn't mention her name on Rhodes Island, the Doctor had already planted a seed of suspicion in his heart.

Perhaps his madness was simply an amplification of this emotion.

This is the only way the doctor can understand and infer it.

Otherwise, what else could he think of? There wasn't even a direction to guide his thinking.

"It seems that this round of thinking can only go so far."

The doctor sighed, stepped down from the operating table, and turned his gaze to the wide crack in the right wall.

Within that crack lies the path to the lower level.

This is clearly not a normal door; it's more like a secret passage created by forcibly splitting the wall.

If it were the normal person, they probably wouldn't have had a chance to find the passage to the second floor. So, in any case, the Doctor should probably thank himself for his decision to drink the seawater.

But now, looking back, he suddenly realized something.

It seems that even the act of drinking seawater was not voluntary on my part.

At that time, due to a power outage caused by a circuit breaker, the entire third floor was plunged into darkness. But strangely, I did not feel any instinctive fear as darkness descended. Instead, I became even calmer.

In that calm moment, he seemed to hear someone whispering to him.

The whispers were indistinct and the words were incomprehensible, but one thing was certain: immediately after the whispers ended, the person reached for the seawater and drank it all in one gulp.

What happened next was awakening.

Chapter 63, Part 62: Deep Sea Tales, Part 1

The stairs leading to the second floor were narrow, cramped, and extremely dark.

If he hadn't been walking while touching the wall, the doctor felt he might have just rolled down the wall.

Although the place was narrow and dark, for some reason the doctor felt quite at ease.

It was as if his intuition told him that this place was absolutely safe.

"It's the main gate."

A sliver of light peeked through the two half-closed doors, and the staircase ended there.

"The next floor down is the first floor."

The doctor slowly squatted down in front of the gate and then tapped the ground with his knuckles.

The sound is dull.

If the exit is on the first floor, then he is undoubtedly standing in the place closest to the exit.

"If only there were one more flight of stairs leading down," he exclaimed from the bottom of his heart.

"If only it were xxxx"—that's something almost every human would say. But for the professor, it's not just a simple statement.

That was a vow made so close at hand.

"squeak--"

However, he was also well aware that making too many vows would not benefit his journey, so after sighing, he immediately stood up and pushed open the door in front of him without the slightest hesitation.

-

One night in Rhodes Island before the Chernobog incident.

"Doctor, have you heard of a place called Agor?"

Amiya held a cup of coffee, the steam rising from her face and giving her a blush.

"I learned a little bit about Terran when I was studying Terran geography and Terran folklore." The Doctor sat upright at his desk, staring intently at the terminal screen amidst the clatter of the keyboard, occasionally glancing at Amiya's location.

"Is it a chaotic place?" Amiya asked curiously. "I heard Dr. Kal'tsit mention that place before, but no matter how much I begged her, she wouldn't tell me anything more."

"Let's put aside whether it's chaotic or not... If Kal'tsit is unwilling to tell you something, it must be for your own good," the Doctor said. "She's always been very sensitive to matters of propriety."

"And what about you, Doctor?" Amiya asked. "Do you also think this is something I shouldn't know?"

"call……"

Hearing Amiya's question, the Doctor couldn't help but use the casters of his ergonomic chair to push himself away from his desk, and then stretched out his arms and yawned.

“First, Amiya.” The Doctor placed his right hand on his neck, cracking his knuckles a couple of times. “What is your current status on Rhodes Island?”

“I am now… well, the commander of Rhodes Island.” Amiya took a sip of coffee.

“Very good.” The doctor nodded. “Who appointed you as commander?”

“It’s you, Dr. Warfarin and Dr. Kal’tsit.” Amiya’s expression became slightly serious.

“What does this mean?” the doctor asked.

"It means that I, Warfarin, and Kal'tsit all approve of you." Before Amiya could finish thinking about how to answer, the Doctor revealed the answer himself.