mtl008 Chapter 3400 Miraculous Doctor (44)
Chapter 3400 Miraculous Doctor (44)
Chapter 3400 Miraculous Doctor (Forty-four)
When Schiller rushed to the entrance, Loki, who was on night duty, was listening to the noise at the entrance. He pointed to the operating room where Stark was and said, "That's where the accident must have happened. Did some equipment explode again?"
"This is not the kind of noise that a device exploding would make." Schiller looked at Manny seriously. Manny shook her head at him.
Soon, a figure floating in the air came out from another pipe. Henry floated in front of everyone and said, "You have caused a big disaster. You have opened the cage of the big guy below."
He obviously knew a lot and chose to hide the truth, but Schiller didn't have time to bother with him. He had to ensure the safety of Batman and Stark first, because these two were the most likely investors to buy the hospital. Secondly, he had to protect the hospital. If it was demolished by something, his plan would be ruined.
At this time, Thor waved away the others and said, "I'll go over and take a look at the situation first. I'll call you if there's no danger."
When Thor entered the tunnel, Natasha and Arkham Batman also arrived. Natasha looked into the tunnel, shook her head and said, "You should have waited for us to come. That big guy may not be able to adapt to such a complex terrain. After all, he used to be able to fly..."
"It's okay. Thor often falls into gravity traps because he doesn't look at the road. He is experienced in this area."
"Are you sure he fell in because he didn't look at the road?" Schiller looked at Loki with some doubt. But Loki looked away.
Soon, Thor's voice came from the other end. He said, "Half of the operating room has collapsed, but there is no problem with the footing. You can come over now."
Several people slid along the passage. After landing, Schiller looked at the huge pit in surprise. The parts of the drilling rig were scattered all over the place, as if they were smashed apart by something. Batman and Stark were nowhere to be seen.
Schiller turned to look at the rack of mechas that had been placed across the passage and found that it was gone. He breathed a sigh of relief, which meant that Stark went down wearing his equipment, proving that they were well prepared.
"What the hell are they doing?" Schiller couldn't help but complain again. "After discovering something unusual, they didn't call for help. Instead, they had to go down and explore on their own. Batman actually followed Tony in making trouble."
Natasha walked to the edge of the pit, half-knelt down, reached out and picked up a little powder, and then said: "This stuff looks similar to the slag we encountered deep in the mine, and it is much wetter than the surface. This proves that something came out of the ground. The two of them may have been taken down."
Schiller's heart was in suspense again. He glanced at Arkham Batman, who said, "I can go down with Natasha to take a look."
After that, he took out the grappling hook, gloves and gun. Natasha waved her hand and cast a slow descent spell on herself. The two of them went down the pit together.
Schiller remembered what they had said before, that there was a passage at the bottom of the mine that pointed to the hospital. It seemed that the correct route should be to explore the mine first and find the way to the underground of the hospital on that road.
As a result, they have dug through it because of excessive mining. Whatever is underneath, it should be as unexpected as them.
It's not that Schiller and the others don't want to go down, the key is that they are all ordinary people now. Let alone fighting monsters, it's hard for him and Strange to jump to the bottom of the deep pit without getting hurt, so it's better not to cause trouble.
Schiller had no interest in fighting, and he wanted to solve the problem from another direction. He returned to the hospital lobby along the corridor, sat at the counter and asked Manny, "What's under the ground?"
"another me."
It wasn't a very unexpected answer. Schiller thought that the little girl in front of him had some resentment, but not much, and overall she looked quite rational. The scene and the state of the mummy he created in his dream seemed more like he hoped someone could understand the truth.
But if things were as he said, many years ago, various forces sacrificed a little girl in an extremely evil way in order to exploit underground magical energy, then her resentment must be very terrifying and not so easy to deal with.
"What's going on?" Schiller asked.
"They took my blood," Manny said.
"I already know this." Schiller nodded. He already knew it the night he had a long conversation with Manny. The way the group of people shared the energy through this little girl was to let her absorb the magic power, and then they drew her blood and made it into medicine to drink. So the little girl in the dream showed a weakness due to excessive blood loss.
"They don't just want one energy source, they want all of them," Manny said.
"They want your special physique?" Schiller asked with a frown. He had guessed this before. After all, if one had a physique that could directly contact the magic energy source, then all the magic energy sources in the world would be in his pocket.
Manny nodded and said, "They asked me questions, they tortured me. I didn't know what to do."
Schiller thought for a moment and said, "So they pulled out your teeth and nails to torture you. And because you didn't know what was going on and couldn't answer them, they got angry and cut off your tongue."
Manny nodded.
"They sacrificed me," Manny said, "in the hope that I would become the new source."
Manny's way of speaking was too concise, so Schiller could only guess and then asked him: "Did they sacrifice you because of your special physique? What is the benefit of doing so?"
"I can absorb energy."
"Yes, I know... You mean, you can absorb not only the energy of the magic energy head, but also other things?"
Manny nodded.
Schiller gradually understood. He said, "They want you to absorb souls, so they created the plague. The energy in the souls of all the people who died here will be absorbed by you who have become a monster, and then they will extract this energy in another way."
Manny shook her head again and said, "No."
"No extraction?" Schiller fell into deep thought. He said, "Are they breeding monsters? What do they want to do with the you underground?"
"War," said Manny.
Schiller was a little confused. Why were these people thinking about fighting?
He thought there must be some historical origins here, so he went to find Loki again. Loki and Wanda were comforting the patient together. After hearing Schiller's question, he thought about it and said:
"It may be because the Duchy of Westchester is a buffer zone between the two empires. The reason it exists is because the two sides do not want to border each other. But if the two sides want to start a war, the first to be eliminated will be the Duchy of Westchester."
"From what I know, both empires have powerful war machines. The technologically inclined empire has the Steam Throne, the magically inclined empire has the Forbidden Spell, and Westchester has nothing."
"So that thing underground was made by the nobles of Westchester for self-protection? If they had the ability, would they be so vulnerable?"
Schiller thought about it and felt that something was wrong. This thing might not have been made by the Duchy of Westchester, but might be a trap buried here by one of the two empires.
This would effectively prevent the other side from launching a surprise attack on Westchester and catching them off guard in a blitzkrieg.
If this explanation is too complicated, it can probably be compared to burying a trap underground in Poland that could explode at any time in order to prevent a blitzkrieg on Poland, thus interrupting the opponent's offensive rhythm.
Schiller didn't care which party set the trap, he only knew that the trap was set under his hospital. If anything happened, his assets would be the first to suffer.
"Eradicate! Must eradicate!"
But there is still no sign of mission completion. It seems that he and Strange must figure out for themselves how the plague broke out.
Schiller found Strange again and found that he could still be patient enough to perform the surgery. It can only be said that surgeons are not completely without merit. Even if the sky falls, it will not delay their surgery.
"I think we need to go down there," Schiller said. "It seems that the mission won't be completed until we face the source of the plague. And there's that unknown choice. Only after we make it can we complete the mission."
Strange completed the movements of his hands slowly, and then said: "First of all, I don't know magic. Secondly, you don't have a symbiote. Are you sure the two of us can successfully pass it?"
"We have to try anyway." Schiller shrugged and said, "After all, we chose a copy with limited abilities, so it shouldn't be too difficult. If it doesn't work, we can ask them for help."
Strange wiped his hands clean, packed up his tools, and said, "When are you planning on leaving?"
"Right now. Everything is ready. If I'm lucky, I might even run into Batman."
Strange nodded, and went to the original operating room with Schiller, where he met Pride.
"Batman left it for me." Pride handed Schiller a metal box with a button on the back. He said, "This thing seems to be able to contact him. If there is any problem, just press it."
"You're so kind?" Schiller narrowed his eyes at him and said, "Is this a bomb?"
"Don't do that." After saying that, Arrogant was about to put the box away, but Schiller snatched it away.
He waved his hand and said, "If we make it through, we probably won't come up again. I'll leave the key to the drawer with the money and the key to the main door to the lucky winner. Remember to send me a message after you make it through."
After saying that, Schiller brought a coil of rope from the side. He and Strange could only take this rather troublesome way to go down.
Neither of them was good at rappelling, but luckily Natasha and Arkham Batman had left a light source at the bottom when they went down. They could see that the pit was not that deep, probably only a few meters, so they slowly descended by grabbing the rope.
After Schiller landed, he felt the ground was uneven and guessed that it must have been blown up by something. Strange almost twisted his foot when he fell down, and he couldn't help complaining, "It's really inconvenient without magic."
"Yeah, it's a pity that witches can't have males." Schiller shook his head and said.
The two men walked forward one after the other holding torches. There was obviously a man-made mine tunnel underneath, and it looked quite old, which reminded Schiller of the underground cave in the previous copy of Faraines.
"Did you know that I participated in a dice-throwing copy before?" Schiller's voice echoed in the empty mine.
"what?"
"That game is quite interesting. Most of the plots were written by us, and then merged together by the God of Story. The exploration and combat methods of the game are all rolled by dice, which is very random..."
Schiller talked about their experience in this dungeon, especially the agent's sharp shot. Schiller's complaints broke the oppressive atmosphere in the mine. Soon, a faint light appeared in front of the road.