Arknights: Studying medicine can't save Terra

The doctor swung his fist forcefully.

The moment he finished speaking, Isamara, who was sneaking away in an inconspicuous corner of the ice field, felt a tremendous force strike her from beneath her feet.

The entire Originium vein seemed to come alive, transforming into an arm that gripped Isamara and hurled her fiercely at Qi Yan in the sky.

The strong wind tousled Isamara's long white hair, and for the first time, a clear look of astonishment and panic appeared on her usually expressionless face.

Qi Yan turned his head and looked over, raising his hand in a gesture of respect towards Isamara who was flying towards him:

"Get out of my Titi's body, Isamara."

Upon hearing this familiar threat, Isamara immediately recalled an experience from the past.

He was sleeping inside Skadi when he was inexplicably awakened by someone. After a disagreement, the newly born god slapped him.

Realizing he couldn't defeat it, he immediately retreated back to sleep, and the other party didn't bother him.

Isamara thought the matter was over, but to her surprise, the other party reappeared in an even stronger form not long after.

Qi Yan held Isamara captive from a distance, his dark eyes devoid of any emotion.

"Aren't you going to come out?"

“I have long been one with Skadi; ​​I am her, and she is me.”

"If you don't listen, then go to the south to find my true form."

"Original body?!"

Isamara was so shocked that her heart skipped a beat.

Such a powerful being was actually just an avatar?

Unfortunately, Qi Yan had no intention of continuing the nonsense. He controlled Isamara's body, spun around, and flung her away.

Isamara gritted her teeth, trying to resist the force, only to find that her resistance was so ridiculous in the face of Qi Yan's power, like a small insect trying to stop a wheel from crushing it.

Her vision blurred backward, and her body shot up like an arrow, hurtling straight south.

But soon, she found herself crashing into a barrier.

"Barrier layer..."

Without any chance to react, Isamara, swept up by Qi Yan's power, smashed through the barrier layer.

Despite it being daytime, Isamara saw a pitch-black starry sky, the twinkling stars brighter and clearer than anywhere else on Terra.

"Answer……"

Isamara tried to reach out her arms to the starlight.

But her flying body did not stop.

On this day, all living beings on Terra saw a shooting star streak across the sky from north to south.

Kazdel, the Sarkaz who had gathered in the open area because of the earthquake all looked up.

"What a dazzling shooting star! It's so bright that you can see it clearly even in broad daylight."

"I've heard you can make a wish upon a shooting star, so let's not waste it!"

“You’re right. I wish that natural disasters would never happen again. That earthquake just now caused my roof to collapse.”

Iberia, Carmen, and the others stared in disbelief as Qi Yan leaped out of the sea, creating a towering column of water, and pulled out his crimson gold to send the incoming meteor flying back the way it came.

"Damn it, Isamara, the sea doesn't welcome you!"

As Qi Yan fell, he pointed in the direction Isamara had flown and shouted, "If you don't obediently come out of my Titi's body, we'll beat you like a ping-pong ball until you behave!"

Isamara, who was sent flying backwards: "..."

She felt incredulous.

Neither smashing through the barrier layer of this planet nor flying across the north and south could withstand the immense power her body could bear.

However, in the hands of the two Qi Yans, apart from feeling a sharp pain in her head from being struck by the red gold, she was not injured at all.

"What exactly is this being?"

Isamara watched the starlight rushing past her eyes, her obsession with finding answers gone, replaced by a deep sense of bewilderment.

"Maybe... you should just behave and listen to me."

A sigh trailed off into the thin, barrier-like air.

Skadi opened her eyes in a daze.

The dazzling starlight she had never seen before transformed into a magnificent, endless meteor shower in her eyes as it rushed past.

Liboli's voice roamed among the stars for the first time, but it was uttered by someone outside their race.

In Kazdel, a Sarkaz leaps up, gathers his strength, and slaps his companion who is making a wish hard on the head.

"Idiot! Wishes don't come true if you say them out loud... *Sarkaz curse*, the meteor really did come back!"

To the astonishment of the Sarkaz, the meteor that had been flying south returned to the north along a similar trajectory.

Chapter 1123 Oath

Skadi woke up groggily, flew groggily, landed groggily, and finally bumped into someone's arms groggily.

She looked up at the person who caught her.

That face was familiar, yet completely different from usual.

“Qi Yan?” Skadi asked hesitantly.

"wake up?"

Once Qi Yan was certain that Isamara had calmed down, he lifted Skadi above his head and said, "Let's go outside the ice field."

Amid Skadi's sudden, startled cry, she was thrown out again.

Watching Skadi disappear into the distance, Qi Yan turned his gaze back to the figure of the Icefield Search Doctor.

The cratered ice field was eerily silent; there was no trace of the doctor.

Qi Yan's gaze wandered, looking all the way to the northern horizon, even beyond the ice plains.

He saw a ring-shaped mechanical structure taller than the mountains. Beneath this colossal stargate, the Doctor and Surtr appeared as tiny as ants.

Qi Yan realized that the doctor must be plotting something there, but he was not worried at all. He strolled over there unhurriedly in the sky.

At the foot of the massive ring-shaped stargate, Surtr and the Doctor were teleported there by Ananna.

Surtr didn't have time to be shocked by the magnificent creation before him; his first thought was to notice the two beings confronting each other beside the stargate.

Kreson kept leaping around the stargate with eerie flashes, seemingly trying to rush into the stargate and leave, but Anma's four hooves left a series of footprints near the stargate, forming a barrier that prevented Kreson from finding the stargate's coordinates.

"Doctor, can this thing help us fight back against Qi Yan?" Surtr asked suspiciously.

"Not yet."

The doctor answered with such confidence that Surtr almost couldn't process it.

She shook her head vigorously, and her long red hair bloomed in the sea of ​​flowers on the icy plain, like another, more splendid flower.

“Doctor, I really don’t understand now.” Surtr shook the jumbled thoughts out of his mind and went straight to the point. “I don’t think Qi Yan is going to kill that lady I can’t see. He might just want to deal with the Originium that lady represents.”

Isn't this a good thing for us?

The professor crouched down and used his finger to write a long string of complex formulas on the snow, while simultaneously multitasking:

“Originium is different from Sea Child or Demon. According to the White-haired Dog’s description, Sea Child is clearly a kind of tool, but it has a high degree of intelligence and biological nature.”

Therefore, we have many options for dealing with the Sealings. Whether we take the genocide route or the symbiotic route, as long as the outcome is beneficial to Terra, it is acceptable.

As for demons, these beings are inherently in absolute opposition to living beings, and the white-haired dog's violent suppression is the most effective means.

But Originium is different; it's already deeply intertwined with Terra. Terra can no longer exist without Originium; otherwise, it would be like a wooden house having a large portion of its supporting structure removed, becoming shaky and on the verge of collapse.

“Then let’s go and explain this to Qi Yan, and make the sense of it.” Surtr looked distressed. “I’m really afraid that Qi Yan won’t hold back and will slap me to death.”

The professor paused for a moment as he wrote the formula on the snow.

He looked up, but instead of looking at Surtr, he stared intently at Precyth beside him.

The professor continued calculating his formula, head down, and said self-deprecatingly:

"Because this time I am truly betraying them, I am on the side of Precyth."

Initially, when I realized the white-haired dog's idea, I supported him. As long as we put Precys's consciousness to sleep, we could stop her from secretly pushing forward the so-called Originium Project and buy Terra time to develop.

But... I'm sorry, when things really came to this point, I couldn't help but waver in my decision. Whether I want to admit it or not, I'm really not even as capable as a teenager.

"PhD……"

Surtr was taken aback.

After the last formula was derived, the professor withdrew his hand, carefully examined it, and slowly stood up to look into the distance.

At the edge of the sky, the black-haired figure walked slowly, like a supreme ruler, calmly watching a traitor's self-destruction.

“Precyth,” the doctor said softly.

“I’m here,” Priscilla responded gently.

After a brief silence between them, the doctor spoke again:

"I have lost my memory. I have long forgotten what we went through together. All I have left for you is a sense of familiarity."

I don't know what I said to you back then, or what motivated you to continue taking action.

Precys took the doctor's hand and carefully wiped the snow off his fingers.

Even as Qi Yan drew ever closer, her eyes remained fixed solely on the Doctor.

"Just as the girl beside you said, Qi Yan doesn't intend to kill me. He's just standing on Terra's side to completely resolve the trouble I represent."

I still don't want to part with you again, but I can wait. I believe that in the end, it will always be me by your side.

"I believe our connection will transcend time and space, even if the oceans boil, the atmosphere disappears, even if our satellites fall one after another into the vortex of gravity..."

The doctor suddenly murmured a few words.

A glint seemed to flash in Precy's eyes. In the instant the Doctor paused, she unhesitatingly continued with that past vow:

Even if our sun expands viciously, mercilessly devouring its children until all is silent.

We will meet again, at the end of that civilization adorned with darkness and starlight, we will meet again, surely.

I will wait until that day, I will definitely wait until that day. Wait for me, you must wait for me.

Precys felt her hand, which was clasped with the Doctor's, tighten as the Doctor took the initiative and gripped her hand firmly.

“I never expected that I would be the one who doesn’t want to let go now,” the doctor chuckled. “I have to do this; it’s the only way I can protect you.”

If we let the white-haired dog's plan continue, we'll never see each other again. There's no need to argue or deceive ourselves. That dog's ability to do whatever he wants is too domineering; even he himself is hesitant to use it.

I won't accept this, and I won't give up!

"But we..."

Precys's expression was more complex than ever before, a mixture of emotion, resentment, and a reluctance to face something.

The doctor held onto Precy's hand, his grip tightening as if he feared the girl would disappear before his eyes if he let go.

He asked, "But we have no chance of defeating him, do we?"

Precys remained silent.

The doctor chuckled and said, "You, you were so confident before that you could definitely do it if it were me, but now you've already forgotten about it?"

“I’m not…” Precys said with a hint of grievance.

She was, of course, willing to trust the doctor unconditionally.

But the two were facing a completely unreasonable being.

Precys could sense that if Qi Yan wanted, he could use his ability to command himself to fall into a deep sleep, just as he had done before.

She didn't understand why Qi Yan didn't do that directly.

Perhaps, as the doctor said, Qi Yan was also somewhat wary of that overly domineering ability and was unwilling to use it easily.

It's also possible that... Qi Yan is giving the doctor a chance, a chance to prove himself.