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Chapter 117, Chapter 116: Deep Sea Tales - The Skills of Doctor Fifty

"My main profession is not as a doctor, but as a researcher of Originium and natural disasters."

The doctor began to speak.

Skadi remained silent, listening attentively.

"Do you remember something you said before?" the Doctor asked Skadi.

“What?” Skadi asked.

“Cognitive filters,” the doctor said. “You say the more insane a person becomes, the more distorted the things they see become due to cognitive filters.”

Skadi nodded.

"In other words, those who are on the verge of madness have simply had their perception of things distorted, not that they have mental problems," the doctor explained. "So, if that's the case, why can't we use this phenomenon in reverse?"

“Using it in reverse… what are you talking about?” Skadi frowned slightly.

“I’m telling you the answer to the question I just asked, the answer to why I wasn’t influenced by the cardinal,” the Doctor began. “Because these two things are essentially the same.”

After saying that, the Doctor opened the hidden compartment of his box in front of Skadi, exposing the eerie amber-colored Originium to the air.

“Hey.” Skadi glanced at the Doctor.

“Don’t worry, this alone won’t cause the spread of Oripathy.” The doctor shook his head. “And I won’t let you come into contact with it, so there’s nothing to be afraid of.”

“Okay, you’re the expert, I trust you, so what?” Skadi asked.

"Could you help me bring over those body parts from over there?" The doctor pointed to the mangled bodies of those who had died at Skadi's hands.

"What do you need this for?" Skadi frowned.

Despite having countless doubts in her mind, Skadi did as instructed.

"Come."

Skadi clapped her hands as she tossed a piece of corpse dripping with blue blood in front of the Doctor.

"Just treat this as a small experiment." The doctor took a syringe out of the box, then broke the tip and dripped a few drops of the amber liquid inside onto the body parts.

Skadi remained silent while the doctor performed these actions, simply watching from the sidelines.

At first, the liquid dripped into the body parts simply sank in without any reaction. But about five seconds later, the dead body parts suddenly began to emit thick white smoke, accompanied by a sizzling sound like hot oil splattering in a pan.

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—"

The body parts trembled, like fatty meat in a frying pan.

“What is this?” Skadi asked.

“They were still in a state of madness before they died, so even after death, the things that drive people to madness are still preserved in their blood. Look.” The doctor bent down and dipped his finger into a drop of blood from the body part.

Crackling.

The blood droplets left the body, danced wildly on the doctor's fingers, and then evaporated into invisible droplets.

"What I dripped in is an experimental drug I made before, used to treat Oripathy." The doctor looked up, casually took a white roll of paper from the box and put it in his mouth, then rummaged through some corner of the box and found a silver lighter, which he then lit.

"call……"

Pale white smoke billowed from the doctor's mouth, like clouds floating on the sea at dusk.

"I'm sorry," the doctor said with a slightly apologetic smile. "Although this action is a bit abrupt, it's not actually a cigarette, but an inhaled medication that can be used to stay alert."

“It’s alright, almost no one smokes in Iberia, so nobody cares about it,” Skadi said nonchalantly. “I just hope you can continue.”

“Then I’ll continue.” The doctor took another puff of his medicinal smoke and began, “The main ingredient of the experimental drug is pure Originium. That’s right, although it’s used to treat Oripathy, its main ingredient is Originium.”

"Because its function is to neutralize blood toxins in the patient's body," the doctor said. "Therefore, it has a relatively good inhibitory effect on orthokeratology, which is essentially a blood disease."

"Can it only be suppressed and not cured?" Skadi asked.

"No," the doctor shook his head. "Because although this stuff can neutralize the toxins in the blood, it cannot eliminate the lesions of Oripathy itself, so it will continue to produce toxins."

"So, you neutralized the madness in their blood? With this kind of drug?" Skadi thought for a moment, but still couldn't figure it out. "But this drug is injectable. How did you do that?"

“As I mentioned before, the main ingredient of the medicine is pure Originium.” The doctor, wearing gloves, took a piece of pure Originium from a hidden compartment in the box he had just opened. “And I wasn’t affected when I was in contact with the Cardinal. Combined with Iberia’s high-pressure policy towards infected people, I’ve come to a conclusion.”

"Originium, as a substance, may be able to directly suppress or interfere with the whispers and rampant spread of the deep sea."

The doctor laid out his conclusions before Skadi through the clouds.

"But just by placing it in a box, it can instantly affect so many hybrids?" Skadi frowned, feeling that something was amiss.

“No.” The doctor shook his head. “Of course, that wouldn’t have been enough, so I used my Originium Arts.”

“This is the first time I’ve heard of this. I didn’t think you were a sorcerer.” Skadi’s tone changed slightly.

“I’m not a sorcerer,” the doctor shrugged. “Because my Originium Arts are different from those of sorcerers. I can’t project energy into external forms to destroy or repair anything, nor can I directly cause objects to deform.”

"So what can your Originium Arts do?"

"Pharmaceutical manufacturing." The doctor smiled slightly. "As I've mentioned before, I'm a doctor."

"Pharmaceuticals...?"

"Specifically, I can analyze the essence of an object and obtain its specific data, thereby determining the proportion of the medicine to be added and the dosage of the medicine," the doctor replied.

"It sounds like a very subtle Originium Arts technique. It's not exactly powerful, but it's certainly not useless either." Skadi stared at the Doctor. "But what does this have to do with those hybrids?"

"Well, I can't do that with just my Originium Arts, because the main character is my staff."

"A staff?" Skadi asked, puzzled.

The doctor didn't speak, but simply reached out and pointed to the black leather suitcase beside him.

"This box contains my staff, which is also one of my tools for crafting medicine. I think you should be very clear about the role of the staff in Originium Arts," the Doctor said.

“Amplification.” Skadi seemed to realize something. “So you just amplified Originium Arts with your staff and then analyzed all the hybrids present?”

"That's true, but it's not just that."

"Jingle, clang, clang."

Countless empty syringes fell from the hidden opening in the box, scattering all over the ground.

Chapter 118, Chapter 117: Deep Sea Chronicles - The Night of Prophecy 51

Skadi truly hadn't expected how much the Doctor had accomplished during the time she and the Doctor were in their initial conversation.

First of all, she only knew that it was a box, and that the box was the doctor's staff, but she did not know that the box itself was a pharmaceutical and medical instrument.

During the journey, the Doctor can directly use the pharmaceutical function inherent in the box, combined with his Originium Arts and the amplification effect of the staff, to make some simple medicines.

The prepared drugs are stored in glass tubes and placed in grooves inside the box.

This groove was not only used to store medicine, but also served as a magazine.

This brings us to the medical use of the suitcase – the nebulizer.

During his travels to remote areas of Ursus, the doctor discovered that the infected residents there not only suffered severe persecution, but were also completely unaware of their condition and even refused the medication offered to them free of charge.

Therefore, wanting to force them to accept treatment even if they refuse, the doctor developed the function of a nebulizer for his suitcase.

Those glass tubes placed in the grooves are the ammunition for the atomizer.

During the time the two had been chatting, the doctor used the opportunity to first analyze the blood of all the Agors present, then dispersed the medicine from the box into the alley in a mist-like manner, and waited for it to spread.

He thoroughly analyzed the composition of the blood of all the mixed-race Agors standing around them at that time, found a neutral balance point, and then adjusted the dilution ratio of the nebulizer.

To Skadi, the act sounded incredibly sophisticated, not to mention that the Doctor actually executed it perfectly.

"No wonder you suddenly collapsed to the ground as if your spinal cord had been drained."

Skadi now fully understood what had just happened.

"I have to thank that gray-haired woman from before," the doctor waved his hand. "If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have thought of taking seawater as a souvenir."

"She asked you to fill a bottle with seawater as a souvenir?" Skadi asked.

“Hmm.” The doctor nodded. “But later I analyzed the composition of that seawater and separated some substances that I had never seen before.”

"A substance I've never seen before?"

"I suspected that the substance might be the cause of hallucinations in the Agorians, so I added it to the nebulizer medication this time," the doctor said. "Now it seems that my guess was probably correct."

"Is that why they suddenly kneel down and worship you?" Skadi seemed to understand.

"I simply neutralized the madness factor in their bodies. I didn't know what would happen. To be honest, it was all improvised," the doctor said with a wry smile. "After all, I initially thought they could return to a normal, conversational state. I didn't expect it to turn out like this. It seems that the source that transformed them never intended for them to return to normal."

“But you don’t look like you’re improvising.” Skadi frowned as she recalled the scene of the Doctor’s divine intervention.

“Believe me, it was really improvised.” The professor waved his hand. “I learned those lines from the Cathedral of Afterglow. They recite them morning and night. And scriptures are essentially a Lateran specialty, so I read some of them during my extracurricular reading sessions.”

“But you’ve imitated it way too well. I feel like you’re even more devout than some bishops,” Skadi retorted.

“That might mean I do have the potential to convert to religion.” The doctor shrugged and took the cigarette from his mouth. “Also, as I mentioned before, this cigarette is a medicinal one. The reason I suddenly took it out to smoke was to prevent us from being affected by the atomized medicine that was just spread, since that medicine contains seawater extract.”

“It doesn’t matter to me.” Skadi stood in the dissipating smoke, her expression as calm as ever.

"It's always good to be cautious; better safe than sorry." The doctor shook his head. "Since there are preventative measures, don't be too stingy, lest you regret it later."

“Cautious?” Skadi pondered for a moment, her red eyes narrowing slightly. “Then I have a question.”

"what?"

"If your potion fails and has no effect whatsoever, would you still remain so calm in the face of Agor's attack?"

Skadi recalled the scene when the four hybrids launched a surprise attack on the doctor and asked.

"Skadi."

The doctor's gaze fell on her face, which was hidden in the shadows.

"When you wielded your greatsword and charged at those Agor hybrids, did you have even the slightest worry in your heart? When your blade sliced ​​through their skin, cut through their fat, and pierced through their flesh and bones, did you worry that your strike wouldn't be fatal?"

“Countless years have passed since I first wielded my weapon.” Skadi shook her head, answering the doctor’s question almost instantly. “Therefore, my experience and intuition give me no reason to worry.”

“Then I’m the same,” the Doctor replied to Skadi’s question with Skadi’s answer. “Because I’ve been through this too many times, so I’m not worried about failing.”

“Perhaps you need to fail once,” Skadi hummed softly.

The sound was barely audible, but the doctor could still hear it.

"Perhaps." The Doctor nodded, not denying Skadi's point of view, "but not now, not here, and not on my path to achieving my ideals."

“I know I will fail eventually. No one’s life is without failure.” The doctor collected the glass tubes on the ground and put them back in the box. Then he picked up the box and said, “But at least, in this part of my life, while I still have enough strength to prevent failure from coming, I will not let it touch a hair on my head.”

“Ah.” Skadi smoothed her long silver hair that had been tossed behind her back. “But if you could really do that, then when your failure in life comes, it will definitely be an unstoppable catastrophe, the sum of all the failures you have accumulated in your life so far.”

“Then let it come,” the doctor said firmly. “Because by then, I believe I will have the ability and determination to stand up to failure.”

"And if you are unable to overcome that failure, then let me offer you some... small help."

Skadi slung the greatsword back over her shoulder and left a message for the Doctor.

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Thank you segment.

Thank you Nan Yuan Hui Wujiao Hao for the razor blade and monthly pass, thank you.

Chapter 119, Chapter 118: Deep Sea Tales - Fifty-Two Paradises to the Left

Iberia remains peaceful.

Or rather, utter silence.

The frenzied shouts of the mixed-race army that had just rushed out of here seemed to have no effect on the sleep quality of the city's residents. The city was still pitch black, as if everything was still asleep.

"And even the streetlights were all turned off."

Walking along the narrow path leading to the Cathedral of Afterglow by the moonlight, the doctor observed the surrounding scenery and said.

“It was the Night Watchmen who extinguished it; they planned it all along,” Skadi said, glancing at the Doctor with her eyes that shone even in the darkness. “What, are you afraid of the dark? Or are you night-blind?”

"Neither," the doctor shook his head. "I just simply don't like this atmosphere; it gives me the feeling that I could be ambushed at any moment."

“Then you can rest assured.” Skadi turned her gaze back to the front. “There’s no one around here except for the residents sleeping in their homes. As a Deepsea Hunter, I’m very sensitive to scents, especially in the dead of night like this. I can hear even if someone’s house is leaking water.”

"Then your special skill should be very useful for checking for leaks in water pipes," the doctor said in a rather unserious manner.

“I don’t know.” Skadi shook her head. “I was just using a metaphor, but I’ve never thought about such a thing.”

She seemed quite serious about the doctor's rather unserious remark.