Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

"What, a lot of people have come?" The Doctor pushed aside the Extreme Realm and used a wooden stick to make the campfire in front of him burn even brighter.

The warmth from the flames dispelled the chill.

Magellan sat by the campfire, engrossed in tinkering with the instruments he carried, trying his best to record what he had seen and heard along the way.

Not wanting to disturb the dim-witted girl, Extreme lowered her voice and whispered in the Doctor's ear:

"Not many, maybe even negative for one person."

Seeing that the doctor didn't understand his witty remark, Extreme honestly explained:

"The messenger is dead, so the number of those who returned is reduced by one. The person who killed him is coming towards us... To be honest, the feeling he gives me is more like a snowfield spirit coming to life than a person, so it's a negative one coming."

The doctor took the terminal out of his pocket.

Extreme peered curiously and asked, "Are you about to contact your helpers?"

"No." The doctor pressed the stop recording button. "If a fight really breaks out later, I'll broadcast your words aloud to draw all the enemy's hatred to you, and then I'll take Magellan and run away as fast as I can."

Extreme Realm: "..."

Although he was tricked, Jijing instantly felt reassured.

The fact that the doctor could still joke around shows that the situation was still under his control.

As he was thinking this, the door of the wooden cabin in the camp where they were suddenly blown open by a strong wind. The chill instantly drove out the remaining warmth inside, asserting its ownership of this territory.

The campfire suddenly flickered, and the three people inside the house looked towards the door at the same time.

The one-eyed girl with white hair and golden eyes, Felin, was also looking at the three of them.

"Sister Simone!"

Magellan let out a joyful shout.

The cold wind instantly became much milder, and the campfire regained its vitality, with the flames leaping in the wind.

“Hello, Magellan.” Simone’s lips curled into a slight smile. “What are you doing here? Are these two your companions?”

Magellan put down his instruments and affectionately led Simone to the campfire:

“My respected teacher has gone missing, and I’m going to find him, but the road to Ursus is blocked, so I’m following the messenger’s directions and going around to get in from here.”

These two are the Doctor and Exusiai from Rhodes Island. They were also looking for their companions, so we traveled together.

The three PhDs looked each other over carefully and nodded to each other as a greeting.

Simone took the hot water cup from Magellan and, trusting him completely, took a sip.

Feeling a warmth welling up inside her, Simone smiled and said:

"You've come this far. Beyond this point lies the Wintertooth Mountains. It seems the person you're looking for has already entered the endless ice plains beyond the mountains."

Magellan guessed that Simone wanted to dissuade her, but she still firmly said, "I must find my teacher no matter what."

"I knew it. Now that we've met, how could I not help you?" Simone said helplessly.

"Hey hey hey~"

Magellan burst into a silly laugh.

After chuckling twice, Magellan noticed that no one else was laughing with him, so he quickly straightened his face and tried to appear serious.

She suddenly remembered something else: "Since we've met Sister Simona, that Ursus messenger..."

“Don’t worry about him anymore.” The Doctor glanced discreetly at the communicator on Simone’s shoulder. “Remember my suspicions about him before?”

"Ever since he said he was going out to find a signal to contact his companions, I've guessed he was already planning to abandon us and leave alone."

"Huh? Is that so?"

Magellan scratched his head, looking somewhat dejected.

Both Jijing and Simone were speechless.

Such a clumsy lie is unlikely to be believed by anyone other than this silly girl.

Simone clearly wasn't planning to linger; she had important things to do herself.

Simone finished the hot water in her cup in a few gulps and said frankly:

"For Magellan's sake, I can trust you two for the time being, but I hope you won't do anything that could cause misunderstandings on the way."

To reach the Endless Icefield from the Wintertooth Mountains, one must pass through the Sami's Northern Front, where the warriors are not very welcoming to outsiders.

"Thank you for reminding me." The doctor stood up and politely thanked him.

Simone simply responded with a faint sound. Compared to her undisguised closeness to Magellan, her attitude towards the Doctor and Extreme was noticeably colder.

Magellan stuck out his tongue at the doctor and his companion behind Simone's back, then clasped his hands together, asking them not to mind.

The Doctor and Extremis exchanged a glance and smiled at the same time.

They naturally wouldn't care about these things. It's just that Qi Yan isn't here; otherwise, they would have thrown Qi Yan out directly. Even the most aloof and icy beauty would have been melted by that guy's shameless spirit.

Unfortunately, Qi Yan wasn't there. They couldn't afford to lose face, and they dared not imitate Qi Yan's behavior, lest they be knocked into the snow by this ice beauty with her staff.

After the four left the camp and resumed their journey, Simone became noticeably less talkative.

Even though she was simply walking on the calm snow, she remained constantly vigilant, as if worried that some danger might suddenly appear out of nowhere.

Magellan, on the contrary, became the most relaxed member of the group. With her sister, who knew Sami well, leading the way, and two Rhodes Island bodyguards behind her, she was completely at ease, muttering to herself as she recorded everything she saw and heard with a recording device.

"This is Magellan. I have officially embarked on my journey into the ice field... The current temperature is minus thirty-one degrees Celsius."

"I am still unable to make contact with Director Mariam's expedition team, but I have met more companions along the way, and I believe that the journey ahead will bring new gains."

"Yes, even before we've entered the mountainous region, the temperature is already quite cold... Haha, the road will definitely be difficult to travel, but that's nothing compared to finding my teacher... Teacher, you said you'd wait for me up ahead? I'll definitely find you!"

Immersed in recording, Magellan did not notice that the three people accompanying her had stopped and were staring at her with furrowed brows as she talked to herself.

Magellan, carrying the recording equipment, trudged through the thick snow, seemingly oblivious to the three doctors and their companions, and continued walking forward.

At the same time, she was chatting animatedly with an unseen 'teacher'.

A flicker of panic crossed Extreme's eyes. She instinctively tried to grab the dazed Magellan, but Simone forcibly held her wrist.

“It’s my fault,” Simone frowned. “I didn’t even notice when that thing appeared. We can’t interrupt Magellan now.”

"What can we do? We can't just let her be captivated, can we?"

Extremely anxious, even in the freezing cold, a fine layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He took off his winter gloves and prepared to use his authority.

Simone bent down, searching for something in the snow, and comforted her:

"While I prepare some things, do not make any rash moves."

The doctor rested his chin on his hand and pondered:

"Rumor has it that the witches of Sami have the ability to fight against things in the Ice Plains. I thought this would require a lot of preparation beforehand, but judging from your attitude, the key point is actually the identity of the witch itself?"

"Huh? Doctor, why did you suddenly bring up witches?"

Magellan, who had shown no reaction to Simone and Extremis's words, turned around and spoke directly after the Doctor spoke.

Simone, who had just dug a clump of mud out of the snow, looked up in astonishment.

Chapter 941 Doctor: Very good, you've successfully captured my attention.

Magellan shook his head, somewhat dazed, but his eyes were clear, showing no sign of being misled.

Holding a recording device in her hand, she noticed that the doctor was just looking at her without saying anything, and then looked at Simone in confusion.

"Why are you picking up mud?" Magellan asked innocently.

Simone: "..."

“Magellan, give me your recording equipment,” the doctor said, reaching out his hand.

Magellan, without a second thought, handed the instrument to the doctor, then watched helplessly as the doctor interrupted the recording and played it back from the beginning in front of everyone.

Magellan's voice came through the recording equipment. The first half was normal, but when the recording continued until Magellan started asking and answering his own questions, the sound immediately became distorted, and in the end it turned into a mess of loud and jarring electronic noise.

"What happened? My instruments are broken?" Magellan exclaimed.

"You have no recollection of what just happened?" the doctor asked, gripping the recording device.

Upon hearing the doctor's question, Magellan paused, then his face gradually turned pale, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead at a visible speed.

"I think I just... heard the teacher's voice?"

Magellan looked around in alarm.

Simone quickly interrupted, "Don't overthink it, calm down, you didn't encounter anything!"

But her cries had no effect. Magellan trembled uncontrollably and muttered to himself:

"Why are there so many shadows all around us? Teachers? And the members of the research team? What are you all doing here?"

Magellan.

The doctor calmly said, "There is nothing in front of you except us beside you."

To Simone's disbelief, Magellan actually broke free from that strange state, his breathing somewhat disordered as he looked around for something, but he was clearly no longer confused.

"The doctor said softly."

Ji Jing immediately understood, raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and an invisible wave spread outwards from him.

White snowflakes surged and churned, but one strange patch of snow remained quietly still, as if the space there had been stripped away by some entity, completely independent of this land.

"Don't look!" Simone immediately warned.

But long before she could speak, the doctor had already walked over to the strange patch of snow, squatted down, and examined it closely.

Shock gradually spread across Simone's beautiful face, her small mouth agape in disbelief as she watched the strange snow melt into water bit by bit under the doctor's gaze.

"Do not speculate, do not look directly at, do not listen."

The doctor muttered to himself about the intelligence he had learned from Rhodes Island's database, and combined it with his own experiences, gradually summarizing a characteristic: "But once it is actually observed, it will collapse in some unpredictable direction... No, this direction of collapse may not be completely uncontrollable."

Perhaps the Sami rituals are a means of guiding the direction of collapse, but the Sami people haven't been able to establish a scientific data model. Could this data model then be summarized into a formula?

While pondering, the doctor took out a vial of sanity potion from his pocket and drank it all in one gulp.

He licked his lips, his tone unusually excited:

"Interesting. Apart from the white dog's thought process, there are very few things on this land that I can't figure out the patterns of."

Simone was so shocked that she was almost unable to speak.

In fact, the contaminated snow was not large, and once she found it, she could remove it given some time.

But no one ever told her that those things could be eliminated by staring at them!

The doctor's actions undoubtedly dealt a devastating blow to Simone's understanding of what she had grown up with.

"Who...are you?"

Once Simone finally regained her ability to speak, she immediately asked the question that had been bothering her.

"Me?" The Doctor turned around, looking at Simone with a smile, and said, "The Doctor of Rhodes Island, the evil spirit of the Tower of Babel, Amiya's guardian, and... the greatest nemesis of the white-haired dog!"

Simone stiffly turned to look at Magellan.

In contrast to Simone's shock, Magellan remained much calmer, sharing quietly:

"It's understandable what he does; since he appeared on this land and in the eyes of the world, he has never made a mistake."

As one of Rhodes Island's two most prominent figures, the Doctor may not be as dazzling as Qi Yan, but anyone who has interacted with him understands that his abilities are definitely no less than Qi Yan's.

"Qi Yan...who is that?"

For the first time, Simone realized how disconnected she was from this land.

Magellan wrinkled his nose, struggling to find the right words:

"All you need to know is that if Qi Yan were here, that strange piece of snow would probably already be in his stomach."

"I testify, it's true!"

The doctor and Extreme echoed in unison.

Qi Yan was resting his head on the car window, enjoying the breeze with his tongue sticking out, when he suddenly sneezed without warning.

Chen, sitting in the passenger seat, immediately turned around and started laughing: