Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

When asked by the doctor, Elchi gently shook his head while holding his teacup.

Her eyes were lowered, and she said vaguely, "I didn't see any prophecy about her."

"Perhaps we need to focus on the present moment more than on prophecy."

Simone interrupted the conversation: "Doctor, you are our captain. Should we stay here without worry, or should we stop briefly and leave before Ms. Kalesa returns?"

"How are your injuries?" the doctor asked in return.

"It's not really an injury, just a side effect of overusing Originium Arts," Simone assured. "I'll be more careful when I use it from now on, but it won't affect the team's schedule."

"Let's stay here. Don't push yourself too hard. The deeper we go into the ice field, the more trouble we'll encounter."

The doctor stretched and poured the tea into his mask.

Then he smacked his lips and exclaimed:

"It tastes pretty good. Calesa's tea-making skills are quite good. She can actually brew such delicious tea in this freezing weather."

Seeing that even the doctor had tested the poison on himself, Jijing was completely relieved and picked up the teacup again to bring it to his lips.

But this action aggravated his injury again, causing his arm to tremble and spill the tea in the cup onto his pants.

"As expected of you, Extreme, you even do laundry before drinking tea." The Doctor immediately launched into sarcasm. "A person of taste does things with such care... Hey, what are you doing?!"

Seeing that Extreme was about to take off his pants, the Doctor was so frightened that he leaned back in shock.

The other three girls in the room simultaneously narrowed their eyes, watching Ji Jing, who was about to act indecently, with a dangerous gaze.

"Uh... cough cough, it's an accident, I'll go behind the screen."

Extreme blushed deeply and fled into the room as if escaping behind a large screen.

The Doctor's taunts continued, but Exusiai had no intention of fighting the Doctor in this disadvantageous situation. She hid behind the screen and humbly asked the skeletal behemoth for a clean pair of pants.

Just as he was about to change, he was suddenly drawn to a fleeting shadow in the corner of his eye.

"what?"

Extreme's inner alarm bells rang loudly, and he squeezed his legs together, covered his crotch, and cautiously moved closer.

But there was nothing there except a wooden cabinet.

"Something's wrong, something's very wrong!"

Thinking back to the sadistic attitude that Kalesa had displayed when they first met, Jijing felt increasingly uncertain and fearful.

He deduced from the surveillance footage that it was a locked-room imprisonment play, and his hand had already subconsciously reached out and placed on the cabinet door.

Taking a deep breath, Ji Jing suddenly exerted his strength and opened the cabinet door.

Light shone into the dimly lit cabinet, and the contents inside made Ji Jing jump backward as if struck by lightning.

Unfortunately, he forgot that he was hiding behind the screen. When he jumped, his back hit the screen directly, and he and the screen flipped over.

A chaotic commotion erupted inside the room; the screen collapsed with a loud crash, knocking over many other pieces of furniture in the process.

"what happened?"

The doctor and the others were so frightened by this scene that they stood up.

Extreme Jing pointed nervously at the cabinet and said:

"There were many long, white shrouds inside!"

Elchi: "..."

"Let me take a look." Upon hearing this, the doctor prepared to step forward to examine the situation.

As soon as he took a step, he was stopped by Erqi raising his hand.

Under the doctor's questioning gaze, Elki hesitated to speak:

"This is quite normal; it's a racial preference of the Carrion King's Court. Let's not rummage through things and restore them to their original state as soon as possible."

The doctor was completely confused and scratched his head, then spoke in Li Boli's voice.

After getting up from the ground, Jijing looked at Elqi, then at the cabinet, and finally, he gradually made a connection to something from the arrangement of the screen.

Ji Jing blushed again.

"How come you all seem to understand?" The doctor was even more confused.

Magellan, being a Liberi, was able to keep up with the pace for once and couldn't help but pat the Doctor on the shoulder, feeling both embarrassed and excited.

She helped the professor sit back in his chair and casually remarked:

"What else could it be but a girl's underwear!"

PhD:"……"

Elchi: "..."

Extreme Realm: "..."

Simone: "...Something feels off."

As Simone sensed the change, Elchi also noticed that something within the house was gradually awakening.

"Oh no! The commotion that Extreme Realm just caused was too great, and this house has awakened!" Elqi immediately stood up. "Everyone, quickly escape outside!"

As she spoke, she grabbed the doctor by the collar, hoisted him onto her shoulder, and rushed toward the door.

Simone grabbed the dumbfounded Magellan and followed closely behind.

"Wait for me!"

Even without understanding the situation, Jijing let go of the screen she hadn't been holding onto and turned around to run away.

But the screen he had just propped up swayed and collapsed again, pressing down on the extreme situation.

"You better behave yourself!" Ji Jing casually pushed the screen aside.

Then, to his horror, the screen began to twist and deform. The firewood that made up the screen seemed to have come back to life and began to grow and evolve, eventually transforming into a bizarre creature resembling a canine beast.

Extreme Realm's eyes widened.

The next second, he was hit in the chest by the rocket headbutt of the dog-beast, and his body rolled like a gourd as it chased after the doctor and the others.

"It's a Corruption-Chasing Beast!"

Elki said nervously, "Don't fight head-on, run!"

"Extreme, did you hear me? Hurry up!" The Doctor kept urging Elchi on his shoulder.

Extreme got up from the ground covered in dust and dirt, and without bothering to argue with the doctor, it practically sprinted forward on all fours.

But the house wasn't going to let him go.

The wooden floor cracked, the walls and ceiling twisted, and the table and chairs where the people had just rested by the fireplace also changed.

In his desperate gaze, the wooden hut he was in transformed into four withered branches, and the furniture inside turned into even more decay-seeking beasts.

Four withered branches swayed and split open inch by inch from the middle, from which four burly figures emerged.

Completely ignoring the escaped doctor and his companions, all the strange entities that the wooden house had transformed into clearly surrounded the Extreme Realm.

"No, please let me explain, it's all a misunderstanding... Oh dear!"

The cries of seagulls echoed across the snowy plains once again.

Chapter 1016 Kalesa: Where's my house?!

Ancient Sarkaz folk songs echoed across the ice fields.

Carissa carried a full basket of vegetables as she walked home.

"Rhodes Island, Doctor, hehe, I didn't expect to meet you so soon."

Calesa stopped humming a folk song, seemingly in a good mood: "It seems that Rhodes Island has discovered the changes deep within Sami, and that you have come here personally to deal with it, which means that they have realized the hidden dangers here."

While I can't offer much practical help, I can at least resupply you. One of my experimental projects is nearing completion; if you're still here, I'll give it to you.

Calessa, calculating how many Originium Ingots she had left, decided to give them all to the Doctor.

"Doctor, you are someone who shoulders a great mission. I hope you can recognize the path ahead."

Talking to herself, Kaleza emerged from the woods.

Further on, after crossing that low hillside, she would be home.

"However, to be honest, the Doctor's current team is still somewhat lacking in strength."

Calesa bent down to steady a cabbage that was about to fall from the basket, muttering, "That Liboli has the aura of a giant beast about him. I wonder how far he's willing to go."

In this icy wasteland, even giant beasts cannot change the outcome on their own. I remember not long ago noticing another red-haired Sarkaz girl passing by, and the greatsword in her hand also possessed the aura of a giant beast.

"Give the doctor some directions so he can meet that Sarkaz girl; perhaps he'll get more help that way."

Having made up her mind, Kaleza's steps became even lighter.

White snowflakes clung to her black high heels, only to be shaken off as Karisa's delicate feet stepped into the snow, before being covered by new snowflakes.

The low hillside gradually lowered under Calessa's footsteps.

Kaleisa saw that her home... was gone.

"Where is my house?!"

The full basket of vegetables fell into the snow. The beautiful scavenger lady opened her mouth slightly, looking at the empty space where her little wooden house used to be, with only a mess on the ground.

The doctor and his companions had long since disappeared.

Flames burned on the snow.

The flames walked on the snow.

The flames guided the way through the snow.

The wind seemed to have stopped being so cold and biting, and the snowflakes it carried fell onto the red-haired Sarkaz girl's horns, instantly melting into water and evaporating rapidly.

The girl wore a thin black dress, with her coat casually draped over her arms, leaving her fair and smooth shoulders exposed to the icy environment.

But the girl did not feel the slightest bit of cold.

On the contrary, the surging heat from the fiery red greatsword in her hand, which was several feet taller than her own men, made her feel intensely hot.

"Tsk, this feeling of disgust is getting stronger and stronger."

With a hint of sarcasm, the girl seemed to be looking at the greatsword in her hand, or perhaps talking to herself: "Surtr, you're becoming restless. It seems my path is correct; I'm getting closer to you."

The flames leaping on the snow instantly intensified.

The girl's purple eyes narrowed slightly, her expression carrying an arrogant disdain for all things.

She knows what she is speaking to, but her attitude will not change in the slightest.

"I know where I should go, I don't need your guidance."

The flames flickered, seemingly filled with anger, but eventually they gradually died out.

The girl's delicate little shoes stepped on the snow that had just been ignited by flames, and the cute black bow decoration on the heel trembled slightly.

She bent down and dusted off her black over-the-knee socks, removing the water droplets formed from the melting snowflakes.

"It's really troublesome."

The girl muttered a complaint under her breath and continued on her way.

She comes from Rhodes Island and has come to this icy wasteland to search for her lost memories. Along the way, she has encountered many people and events, and has also glimpsed many stories about Surtr's past.

But those weren't her.

Those were just agents, one after another, chosen by a behemoth called Surtur, who shared similar experiences with her.

Her memories and past are still a blank sheet of paper, even emptier than the vast expanse of white snow around her.

However, the girl was not in a hurry; she knew she was getting closer to the truth.

Her eyes saw a pothole.

"Is this right here?"

The girl reached the edge of the pit, raised her greatsword, and swung it downwards.

Heat waves surged, and ice and snow melted.