Chapter 3387 The Magical Doctor (31)
The flames burned the firewood in the fireplace and made a slight sound. The light shone on the walnut floor, reflecting a red thicker than blood. The fire and shadows intertwined and danced, as if a lively musical play was staged on the ground in front.
There was a noise behind the wall, but it made the room even quieter. A black-haired man in a black robe lay on the recliner by the fireplace, resting with his eyes half-squinted.
Another figure was using a dropper to drip potion on several silver coins lined up on the table. The surface of the silver coins that touched the liquid began to gradually change color, sparse blue smoke came out, and a slight hissing sound was made.
His fingers wearing gloves pushed a few of the silver coins away. He bent down and his gray pupils swept across the row of coins in front of him. After a while, he stood up, tilted his head, picked up two of them, wiped them clean with the towel next to them, and put them aside. The rest was received by him in a brass tray.
Taking off the monocle glasses from his eye sockets, he walked to the recliner on the other side of the fireplace and sat down. The black-haired man was alarmed. He opened his eyes slightly, and his blue eyes reflected the beating firelight of the fireplace, looking towards the other side.
"How? Doctor?" asked the black-haired man.
"I think the concentration needs to be adjusted further." A silver coin was handed over.
His fingers stroked the corrosive marks on the silver coins, and he said: "It seems that more moon cream powder should be added to neutralize the corrosion and ensure that the efficacy of the medicine can be maximized."
"Do you want to try another batch?"
"I think it's possible. If nothing unexpected happens, this will be the last batch. Also, although I think of another group of players, they will make such a big noise and may have some impact on our plans, Dr. Schiller."
"We should be glad." Schiller, leaning on the recliner, crossed his fingers on his belly and stared at the flames of the fireplace. "We met the one that was relatively easy to deal with under such conditions."
"Is that so? This is easy to deal with?" Another figure walked to the table, placed the flask on the flask rack, and began to process the materials next to it.
"Yes." Schiller nodded and said, "The greed looks stable, which is probably because he performed well in previous games. This time he just found a copy to relax, so he wouldn't want to make any big noise."
"Mr. Wood Man probably won't think so."
"Wood must have done something." Schiller pointed his fingers gently on the back of his hand and said in a somewhat sleepy voice, "I guess it should be related to money."
"So, is he unlucky?"
"I think so, but he's lucky. Because greed just wants money, he has taken away all of Wood's savings, and I don't think he's too concerned about him."
"Do you think that raven has oil and water to squeeze?"
"Of course, and he probably has already squeezed it. When I went out, I saw the bird. His greedy face was not much better than when I looked at me. This proves that he had suffered a loss."
"I guess they should develop better than us. You said there is a professional doctor in his team."
"Very professional," Schiller replied, "the best neurosurgeon in the world, and may also be the best surgeon."
"I want to know him a little."
"You've seen him," Schiller said. "Steven Strange, another identity is the Supreme Mage."
"It turned out to be him. The extreme human supremacist."
"It sounds like you don't think of him very much."
"I don't know that he is such a good surgeon. This will significantly improve my evaluation of him."
"Do you want to be teammates with him?"
“I often become friends with mages.”
"Because you can learn and beware of magic through them. But the magic in another universe is completely different from us. The key is not the magicians, but the demons behind them."
"Analogy of angels and demons?"
"It's harder than angels and demons. It's more like wise energy bodies wandering in the universe. Some of the powerful ones can have their own dimensions. They are called dimension lords, and they are invincible in their own dimensions."
“How do you get into their dimension?”
"They are the dimensions themselves, and if they don't agree, no one can get in. And they are usually part of the rules of the universe. As long as the universe still exists, they cannot be completely killed."
Batman frowned and said, "And the mages there are dealing with such existences. What bargaining chips do they have?"
"The earth is special to the demon gods. With the efforts of many generations of supreme mages, they have the means to protect the earth. The demon gods must make contracts with them in order for their spokespersons to move on the earth."
“Sounds very dangerous.”
"It's not actually safe. The mages of that universe devote most of their energy to protecting the earth."
"This is admirable."
"Yes, most other universes do. But don't admire the universe where greed is."
"Why?"
“Because their contracting method has been too modern.”
Batman looked back at Schiller and said, "Modernization?"
"It's not a contract, it's a contract. It's not an equivalent exchange, but a member club, trust and futures."
Batman's hand paused, saying: "It sounds like modern enough, has humans become more favorable for this?"
"Maybe. But those demons are not stupid either. If they want the winner to take all, they naturally agree with this method more."
"But they can also not choose humans."
"No." Schiller shook his head and said, "The previous supreme mage is too strong. If they choose to help aliens and invade the earth, they will get nothing."
"So that's it." Batman nodded and said, "That conversation was too short. I didn't know enough. I didn't expect there would be such a source."
"The change in form can indeed solve some problems, but in the end it will still be attributed to fists." Schiller slowly closed his eyes and said, "But if the demons in their universe cannot leave this universe, the mages over there will be no way to provide you with any help."
"I never hope for magic." Batman also leaned down and began to arrange silver coins according to the degree of corrosion. His focused gaze made the blue eyes look deeper.
As soon as Schiller's consciousness entered his dream, he suddenly woke up. He sighed lightly, sat up from the recliner and said, "No, the dream world is still rejecting my entry. It seems that we can only rely on potions."
"I think our previous actions were a bit reckless." Batman stopped the action, thought and reflected, "Using your ability to decompile memories in dreams was a good idea, but this lady was a little too alert."
"I was originally supposed to assume that the controller of the dream is just a little girl of seven or eight years old, and her mind is not perfect. If you want to take a bet, maybe her ability to control memory is not that strong. Since you are not sure, it is normal to lose the bet."
Batman continued to bow his head and focus on the work in his hands. Schiller began to recall a series of plans they had taken after they came here.
It can only be said that compared to arrogance, the series of actions performed by greed are conservative, and they are really enjoying the fun of the game.
On the first day after entering the game, Schiller and Batman both entered the dream. But unlike Greed and Strange's choice to temporarily ignore the dream focus and reality, the team of Arrogance started a detailed discussion on the dream.
The plot of dreaming once was too short, and they chose to dream again, just like greed and they lost some irrelevant parts. But neither Batman nor arrogance were concerned. In their opinion, it was normal to use nails or teeth to change clues.
The game originally did not allow repeated dreams to force the plot. After having a dream, you will not be sleepy for a long time and you will not be able to sleep even if you lie down.
But Batman and Naughty are not mortals. After some discussion, they made a plan, which was to hypnotize Batman with Naughty and take the initiative to explore the dream.
In the psychology community, there is a therapy called sleep therapy. Some psychologists can control the patient's sleep with the cooperation of the patient, including controlling the length of sleep, the depth of sleep, and even some of the dream content. This is how Schiller adopts.
They bypassed the game's restrictions and entered the dream with another method, forcibly advancing the dream plot of the little girl, trying to figure out what was going on.
Unsurprisingly, the little girl was pulled out of her nails and teeth, and just as he was about to be cut off his tongue, Schiller awakened Batman from the outside to prevent these injuries from taking care of him.
In order to continue to advance the exploration of dreams, Schiller gave Batman a psychological hint before the next time he fell in love with Batman, so that he no longer possessed the little girl's first view, but possessed the group of evil people who attacked the little girl, and used the third person to observe the little girl.
The little girl is really nothing special. She is just a very ordinary girl of seven or eight years old. Apart from the very strong hatred in her eyes, she can't see any clues.
They cut off her tongue and stabbed her long spikes into her body. Finally, they tied her to a wooden rack and placed it on the surface of the flame to roast her to death, just like the little girl in the Silent Hill.
Batman thought it was a cult ceremony. However, Schiller observed that the little girl seemed very weak and looked a little sign of excessive blood loss. He guessed that the cultists drew her blood and sacrificed her in a special way.
They watched the whole process in a third person form, but they did not suffer any harm. But this successfully created a bug. After the plot and animations were all played, a new round of exactly the same animation began.
At this moment, Schiller proposed a bold plan.
Because when you fall in love with a dream, the default mode is the first person. If you don't intervene, then Batman will play the little girl.
Batman can see everything the little girl has experienced and turn it into her own memories, and tell Schiller after leaving her dream.
If the dream is infinitely looped, then the little girl's memory can be reversely affected by compiling Batman's memory.
For example, if Schiller changed the memories left by Batman in his dream to the little girl who has been living with her family all the time and died unfortunately in an accident, then Batman would enter the dream with such memories.
Then when he saw the little girl's tragic experience, he would question it and start to constantly recall the memories he had in his mind, which was similar to "I remember that I had never encountered these things and had been living with my family all the time. It was just a nightmare."
Perhaps some people have had such experiences. When they were young, they experienced some bad experiences, such as witnessing some tragic situations, being hurt by accidents, and suffering misfortune and leaving psychological trauma.
When I grew up, I knew that there was something like this, but I didn’t remember any details at all. In addition to the brain deliberately forgetting some traumatic memories, it was also because the adults around me were deliberately covering it up.
As long as you ask, you will definitely say that there is no. Children's mental development is not sound, lack of judgment, and it is easy to believe others' words and distort their memories. If the people around them say too much, they will naturally believe it.
Schiller was betting that Batman's willpower is far stronger than a little girl of seven or eight years old. As long as he uses his memory and repeatedly emphasizes that this past does not exist, the little girl may be influenced by him and shaken his traumatic memory.
Chapter completed!