Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

Thinking back to Kal'tsit's speculation just now, "The reason why the doctor lost his memory was most likely caused by Theresa herself"...

"..."

Kal'tsit took a deep breath and returned to her emotionless state: "Doctor, please come here."

The doctor in the distance couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

As if he knew that this day would come sooner or later, the doctor said nothing, but just let go of Amiya who was riding on her neck.

Amiya is an NPC, not a real person, so as soon as I put her down and let go, I watched Amiya walk away with a pop-up window saying "Amiya (automatically finding the way...)" on her face.

The doctor... came over, sat down, and spoke directly: "I killed the man."

"... ..., Doctor, please don't play the trick of leniency for those who confess and severity for those who resist. I'm not asking you to plead guilty. And I think you should... well, you probably can't beat Theresa."

And Doctor, is your personality too cheerful?

Is it really like Lu Shang said, that you have gone crazy having fun here?

"Because this is a dream." The doctor said, "At least it's a good dream, isn't it, Kal'tsit?"

033. You are not a doctor...you are a prophet?

Pre-civilization and present civilization.

Past and future.

The road was paved with the blood of billions of compatriots from previous civilizations, and the current civilization is thriving and growing like a young sprout.

The expectations and responsibilities of our compatriots, the end and destruction of civilization.

One person lives and the other dies.

This is a trolley problem with no choice.

If she chooses the previous civilization, the current civilization will be destroyed; if she chooses the current civilization, the previous civilization will be destroyed by her own hands.

Doctor, she——

"No, absolutely not."

The doctor denied it.

"There is no trolley problem. There is no such thing as a trolley problem."

"Whether it's the old civilization or the current civilization, from the very beginning, the two civilizations have only had to deal with one thing - Him."

After His coming, everything was annihilated, and there was no longer any "Him" in any civilization.

"Whether it is the previous civilization or the current civilization, when 'He' comes, both civilizations will cease to exist."

"Both civilizations should only care about one thing: how to deal with Him?"

"So why? Why do we have to create the trolley problem between the previous civilization and the current civilization? From the beginning, this is a single track, and what is coming is not a trolley, but a steamroller. Everything that stands in the way of "Him" will be crushed."

"Remember? Ama-10, Kal'tsit, I told you that Originium is a gift to future civilizations. It is a surprise and hope, not mineral sickness and raging natural disasters."

"The development of the Originium Project is not entirely what I imagined."

"So why is that? When I saw Theresa show me the ability to "internalize the reversal of the universe", which is the reverse technology of turning Originium into flowers, I should be happy and joyful at that moment, because it means that a new path is opening up to me. "

"But in the end, I rejected this path and was shaken by the ability that Theresa showed. For the sake of civilization, Theresa had to die."

"So, why is this? Kal'tsit."

Because this is the stamp of thought.

The few backup plans left by the previous civilization: The Preserver, the Deep Blue Tree, the Fulcrum of Heaven, and...all failed.

In the end, only the Originium path was left.

When the doctor was awakened, the only thing she could do was to find Originium.

This is an open conspiracy.

So when Theresa showed the technology to reverse the Originium, the Thought Seal would only allow the Doctor to do one thing: kill her.

Eliminate any possibility that may affect the Originium Project.

But isn't Originium a carrier of memory? Originium should be a gift to modern civilization.

Then why, when the person from modern civilization took the gift and opened it, the doctor's first reaction was to kill her?

If Originium is not a gift...

What exactly is the so-called Originium Project?

"... ..., you are not a doctor..."

Kal'tsit's pupils almost shrank into vertical pupils, and she even seemed to sit up straight.

She moved the corners of her mouth and said tentatively, word by word: "Are you... a prophet?"

"It's me, Kal'tsit." The Doctor smiled and waved at Kal'tsit.

"..."

Kal'tsit turned her head sharply and looked at Lu Shang.

The doctor's personality, which was created under the influence of the thought stamp, was directly eliminated after entering the dream world, allowing the prophet's personality to return...?

Is it possible to do something like this...?

Lu Shang, who was holding Kal'tsit in his arms, could naturally feel clearly that when Kal'tsit realized that she was facing not a doctor but a prophet, she instantly became well-behaved.

One could even say that he was a little reserved and nervous.

After all, to Kal'tsit, the Doctor's personality means to her, "Who are you? Why are you wearing my mother's skin? Do you believe me, I will pull off your hood?"

But her attitude towards the prophet's personality is... well, no attitude.

Because the prophet’s personality is really her mother.

Although Lu Shang noticed Kal'tsit's obedience, he also wanted to pat her on the back and say something like "Relax, relax your body, you're squeezing... oh no, your body is too tense."

But looking at the current atmosphere, Lu Shang just pretended to watch the show.

"I only realized this after I first traveled to this dream world."

The doctor didn't care about Kal'tsit's restraint. She just smiled and looked around: "So at that moment, I understood everything and took the initiative to find Lu Shang."

Then your mother and I had a very sincere exchange of views.

To be precise, I am sincere and your mother is dead.

Okay, just kidding.

Lu Shang didn't say this out loud, but the doctor was still talking to himself: "I'm actually quite happy because I found out that Lu Shang is also a human being. Maybe he is my only fellow countryman left in this world... Oh, to use your words, Kal'tsit, he should be the only fellow countryman on this earth."

Kelsey: “…”

There is no need to correct the wording in this way.

"Thanks to this, Lu Shang's attitude towards me is quite good, but sometimes he can be quite mean. Ah... Should I thank you for blocking my chat box and deliberately letting you, Kal'tsit, touch me, but you sternly rejected him?"

Kelsey: “?”

Stuck in your dialog box? Touching you?

when?

Wait...could this be the first time I met you, Doctor, in this dream world, and saw you, Popka, the snake box, and Ceob, those three little ones, running past me with "Aho!"?

Were you already a real person at that time? !

"Yes." The doctor nodded.

Kelsey: “…”

Kal'tsit suddenly stopped talking and didn't even want to look at the doctor.

But the hand that was squeezing Lu Shang's shoulder harder and harder forced Lu Shang to speak up: "No? It was your mother who was watching you, Kal'tsit, being so socially frustrated the whole time. Kal'tsit, why did you take it out on me instead of scolding your mother?"

"you shut up."

Kal'tsit took a deep breath, feeling that she had the intention to kill at this moment.

But in the end she held it back.

So even though her expression was a little fierce, when Kal'tsit turned to look at the Doctor and spoke again, her tone was still obedient: "Huh... So, Doctor, you... No, should I call you a prophet?"

It’s actually okay to call her mom.

But the Doctor is not that naughty after all. She hasn't lost her memory or her mind yet: "Just call me Doctor. After all, when you wake up from your dream, you will still meet the Doctor in the real world."

To put it simply, she was worried that Kal'tsit would get used to shouting in the dream world, and when she returned to the real world, she would say "prophet" in front of the doctor over there, and then Precious might pop her head out from behind her.

034. Doctor: Kal’tsit, please sit down. Why don’t you sit down?

"Although I feel sorry for you, Kal'tsit, but when you were still drinking coffee in the real world, Lu Shang had already taken me to the memory room."

"There, Lu Shang played the plot of Born After the Night for me... well, although most of it was pantomime."

No, it's not even a pantomime to be exact.

Because there is no NPC named Theresa in the dream world, and the doctor himself occupies the body of an NPC, it is naturally impossible for her to go up and act.

This leads to a plot involving the simultaneous presence of Theresa and the Doctor... Unfortunately, you can't even hear the dialogue, let alone the people.

But even if Theresa and the Doctor are not here, we still have Amiya and Kal'tsit.

So through those few words and with the help of Lu Shang's "Want to know the plot? Please ask me", the doctor was still able to deduce the general plot.

"So, if you, Kal'tsit, really want to change the plot, then you can't count on the "Doctor" in the real world. No, in other words, Kal'tsit, you have to stop the "Doctor"."

"Stop the Doctor...?"

Unlike the Doctor's personality that was shaped by his thoughts, Kal'tsit has absolute trust in the Doctor's prophet personality.

So Kal'tsit didn't ask at all, but directly said: "That is to say... even if you are a prophet, you still can't get rid of the influence of the ideological stamp after returning to the real world?"

"It looks like it is." The doctor nodded. "Remember? Kal'tsit, when you woke me up and explained to me the progress of the Originium of the current civilization for the first time, I expressed doubts and confusion, but now... can you still see that I am skeptical about Originium?"

"..."

No, now in the real world, the doctors have basically decided to go the Originium route and run at it head on.

Kal'tsit was silent for a while before she spoke again: "Stop the doctor? But... is this really a good idea?"

If the person in front of her now was the doctor's personality with a stamp of thought, then Kal'tsit would definitely have no scruples.

Stop you?

Okay, I'll put you back into the sarcophagus when I get back.

But facing the prophet, her mother...

Kal'tsit felt it necessary to ask for clarification.

After all, the stamp of thought...

The doctor didn't say who gave her this ideological stamp.

Are they pre-civilized people?

Is it Precious?

Or...the Doctor herself?

If it is the doctor's own ideological stamp... then the responsibility and duty to face the previous civilization... and how to cross "Him"...

"No, that's why I want you, Kal'tsit, to stop the Doctor."

The doctor gently spread his hands and said, "If you, Kal'tsit, changed the plot and let Theresa survive successfully... then it would contradict what Lu Shang said, "Theresa died, so there is no NPC of her in the dream world", so -"

Will the dream world also change accordingly?

If nothing changes, that's fine, it's just an attempt anyway.