44: Chapter 47 Hammer, sickle, and you call this surgery?!

Beishan Hospital.

Upon receiving the news that the Fire God had awakened, Zheng Fei rushed over without stopping.

Bad news came pouring in like snowflakes.

The awakening of the ancient sword wielder, Li Li, was undoubtedly inspiring and good news.

However, after truly meeting him again face to face,

Zheng Fei could not help but furrow his brow imperceptibly.

The other party... was too arrogant!

Unlike the shy teenager he met the first time, when meeting Li Li again, the meticulous Zheng Fei could keenly sense a faint, seemingly non-existent arrogance emanating from him.

It could not be called arrogant and rude,

but it just had an indescribable haughtiness.

However, this was not the main point.

The top priority right now was still the Magic Dragon in the sky!

The terrifying infection continued to spread across Xijing, and Nightmare Entities had already become a common sight!

"You..."

"Do you have any understanding of the Magic Dragon?"

"What kind of existence is it? How to combat it? Is there a way to banish it?"

Zheng Fei pulled out his tablet, pointing at the shadow entrenched on the moon in the image.

He was not shooting blindly.

According to his speculation, Li Li was very likely to have had contact with the Magic Dragon.

The time he woke up... was simply too coincidental...

He did not wake up when the plague broke out.

He did not wake up during the crisis cleanup.

When the Magic Dragon descended and deprived everyone of sleep, he suddenly woke up.

It was hard not to suspect the possibility that he had been in contact with the Magic Dragon.

And Li Li's reaction

precisely proved this point.

"The Magic Dragon?"

On the youth's energetic face, there was a bit of dread and horror.

He let out a long sigh of relief

before continuing to speak, "What do you think the so-called Magic Dragon is?"

"A fire-breathing big crawler?"

"A greedy ghost who loves gold coins?"

"Or a monster covered in scales that is indestructible?"

"..."

Li Li shook his head and gave his answer, "It is the shepherd of nightmares, feeding on our nightmares, and is a conceptual integration of fear."

"The moment it descends, the people of our era have already lost the right to sleep!"

"Once asleep, there is a possibility of being infected by it. The power of shadows reflects from the moon onto the earth, and the entire Blue Star is covered by its domain. People who fall asleep will be haunted by nightmares, without the right to rest..."

"Consequently, the minds of humans and animals become distorted, and mapped onto the physical level, it means bodily distortion, degenerating into Nightmare Entities..."

"We are merely its food!"

Li Li said with certainty.

While in a coma,

he was similarly infected by the Magic Dragon.

It was precisely because of this contact that his tone was so certain.

Had the ancient sword not exerted its power in time to forcibly shatter the dream and wake him up,

perhaps he himself would have turned into this kind of distorted monster?

Thinking of this outcome, Li Li could not help but tighten his heart.

"As a Magic Dragon entrenched in shadows, it can only interfere with reality through dreams!"

"If you want to resist the Magic Dragon and not be affected by its power, there is only one way, and that is to stay awake!"

Li Li said resolutely.

This was also the solution he obtained from that existence with whom he concluded an alliance.

"Stay awake?"

Zheng Fei whispered softly. The method given by Li Li was almost identical to the content of Gear Science.

Without any new gains, he did not dwell on it much.

He just shook his head and changed the topic, "Do you know why Nightmare Entities broke out in Xijing?"

The infection of the Magic Dragon was unquestionable.

However, across the vast Blue Star, only Xijing had a large-scale outbreak.

Would it not be too bizarre?

Li Li sighed, walked slowly out of the room, and said, "Come over."

Zheng Fei and the others hurriedly followed.

"Look up at the sky, did you notice the torn gap?"

"The sky crack caused during the invasion of the Spacetime Worm led to the overall spatial instability of Xijing, making it very susceptible to abnormal phenomena. Therefore, the infection of the Magic Dragon has the greatest impact on Xijing..."

Li Li had another half sentence unsaid.

Therefore, he, the wielder of the ancient sword, formed a new alliance with that towering figure, an existence who claimed to be Zhurong.

His duty... was to patch the sky!

Just as his gaze slightly darkened and his expression became heavy,

"Roar—"

a muffled low roar sounded from afar.

It was a Nightmare Entity!

Another round of berserk activity had come!

"Hmm?"

Li Li's gaze turned cold.

Without waiting for Zheng Fei to speak, he took the initiative and rushed out.

His body was as agile as an ape.

With swift and agile movements, in just a few flashes, he arrived at the destination carrying the ancient sword.

Breaking into his field of vision was a group of bodily distorted monsters.

Some had limbs turned outward.

Some had white bones bursting out of their spines.

Some grew scales.

...

They were all monsters vastly different from humans.

Surrounding the crowd,

venting their tyranny and slaughter, quite a few people had already been injured.

Li Li pursed his lips, without hesitation, and decisively swung his sword.

Clang—

The ancient sword was unsheathed.

The sword body flowed with red light, resembling something cast from molten lava.

Waves of fire swept outward,

setting him off like the descent of the Fire God.

With the blessing of the ancient sword,

these hideous and ugly distorted entities were just a bunch of small fry to Li Li.

Boom!

Firelight flickered and blazing flames erupted.

In no time, he solved more than half of them.

Just as he was controlling the flames, slaughtering wildly, and clearing a certain street,

suddenly!

A pitch-black figure straightly broke into his field of vision.

Black clothes, black hat.

Silver bird-beak mask.

A mottled medal hung on his chest.

Constantly muttering 'plague' and 'infection' in a frantic tone, it made people unable to help but doubt his mental state.

——

"Who are you?" "What are you doing?!"

Li Li said in a deep voice.

When discovered, this guy dressed in bizarre clothes who did not look like a good person

was squatting beside a distorted entity, not knowing what he was doing.

Hum~

An invisible fluctuation flashed past.

Blazing flames began to emerge on the ancient sword.

Wary of the unknown, Li Li looked extremely guarded.

"Ya~"

"Do not get excited!"

"I am just a doctor."

A hoarse voice sounded from beneath the bird-beak mask.

"What can a doctor do? Of course, perform surgery~"

Holding a hammer in one hand and a sickle in the other, the Bird-beak Doctor said so.

The sharp-eyed Li Li could still see some residual minced meat and bone fragments on the hammer.

These were the marks produced by heavily hammering the body.

You call this surgery?

It is more like murder and dismemberment!

"Hey! Hey! Hey!"

"As a qualified gentleman, how can you look at an ancient nobleman with such suspicious eyes!"

"This is blasphemy! Blasphemy!"

Li Li's suspicious gaze made him jump up and down incessantly.

The sickle held in his right hand touched his chest.

The mottled medal made a metallic clashing sound.

"I!"

"My medical skills are top-notch in the world! There has never been a single bad review!"

The Bird-beak Doctor spoke with righteous indignation.

Hmm?

You ask if Li Li believes it?

Of course he... believes it!

Actually, he wanted to say he did not believe it, but the content projected by the Gear made him change his mind.

[Ghost Doctor]

[Category: Anomalous Creature]

[A healer wandering between life and death, accompanying plagues year-round, possessing medical skills worthy of being called a Ghost Doctor, rumored to be the emissary of the Three Brothers of Death, and an apostle under the seat of █ █ █ █]

[The King granted him the duty of healing, accompanying the plague, and spending his life preventing the arrival of the plague...]

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