CHAPTER 278: CHAPTER 238: DOCTOR: YOUR GENES ARE QUITE INTERESTING.

The doctor’s residence lived up to his title. As Li Zheng stepped inside, he almost believed he had entered a clinic of the future.

White walls, white lighting, silver-white floors, a white reception desk, and white uniforms hanging on a white coat rack.

The dominant color was white, symbolizing cleanliness, purity, hygiene, and health.

No one was at the reception desk, but a conspicuous red button sat on the counter, next to large, bold text: In case of need, please ring the bell promptly.

This was a language Li Zheng had never seen before, resembling tadpoles, but it was automatically translated by the terminal.

On one side of the wall, there was an opaque "glass door," which Li Zheng guessed was where the doctor was.

But since the other party left this button, it indicated that they didn’t like being disturbed by shouting.

He obediently went forward and pressed the button.

As the button sank below the countertop, the reception desk emitted a beam that sketched an indifferent middle-aged man wearing a white coat and gold-rimmed glasses in mid-air.

Li Zheng was surprised to find that this person looked no different from any Earth human, with no distinct features!

The middle-aged man spoke a string of ancient syllables that Li Zheng did not understand; it sounded much like what the terrifying figure he encountered recently had spoken.

Seeing that Li Zheng didn’t respond, the middle-aged man touched his ear, and only then did Li Zheng notice that he was wearing an earplug-like device, similar to one Zi Shu also wore.

At the time, he hadn’t paid attention, but now he thought that perhaps he was able to communicate with them seamlessly thanks to this tool.

As for why it could translate in real-time, it should be thanks to Luo Aiman.

Li Zheng had only conducted a language-related transaction with Luo Aiman, and this black market merchant seemingly spread the Chinese language after that.

The middle-aged man tapped the earplug at a certain frequency for a long time, then spoke again, "A new... customer? Patient? This language is really interesting. Although the pronunciation is a bit peculiar, it’s very simple and can convey meaning directly. Perhaps we can promote this language in the Outer City as the official language..."

He spoke to himself for a while, then asked Li Zheng, "What do you need? Wait, I can sense a trace of a card on you; who introduced you?"

"I was introduced by Miss Zi Shu, here to treat a disease that affects mental faculties and to transport the medical bed you modified there." Li Zheng answered somewhat stiffly, with little Sakura trembling behind him.

The doctor nodded, "It seems the blacksmith hasn’t forged that item yet; otherwise, Zi Shu should have delivered it for me. Place the medical bed at that door, then... hmm, a handiwork of ancient technology, no big deal."

The middle-aged man’s figure pointed to the opaque door, indicating that Li Zheng could hand it over there.

Once he placed the gigantic medical bed down, the door opened a slit.

The next second, the medical bed vanished where it stood, leaving only a metal bracelet behind.

The doctor pointed to that bracelet and said, "Wear it on your right hand. It can help you balance the negative emotional influence of ancient technology."

"Balance?" Li Zheng bent down to pick up the bracelet, a bit surprised, "Can’t it be cured?"

"Cure? Why cure it? It’s not a bad thing," the doctor glanced at Li Zheng’s still grasped right hand, "The bone is slightly out of place? Since you helped transport the equipment, I’ll treat such a minor injury for free."

Saying so, he snapped his fingers.

In the next second, Li Zheng felt an inexplicable force acting on his right hand.

With a few crisp sounds, his joints returned to normal.

He tried opening and moving his hand and found nothing was wrong, and it didn’t hurt at all, as if he had never been injured.

Having his right hand healed so effortlessly, Li Zheng seemed even more restrained.

If a snap of the fingers could fix bones, it could also take them apart.

He didn’t want to accidentally annoy the doctor and end up being dismantled into pieces and thrown into the heap of junk outside.

However, the doctor’s capability aligned with Li Zheng’s expectations of the doctor.

Even that terrifying existence came to seek treatment here, and for good reason.

The middle-aged man looked Li Zheng up and down, suddenly saying, "Your genes are quite interesting too. I see traces of Alfonso’s research in them."

"Leave me a tube of blood as half the payment for the balancer."

Without giving him a chance to protest, the doctor snapped his fingers again. A small needle aperture appeared abruptly on Li Zheng’s wrist, and blood seemed to be drawn by something nonexistent, automatically flowing out of the needle hole, forming a floating blood mass in mid-air.

The doctor’s methods seemed highly mysterious, even eerie to Li Zheng.

Blood poured continuously from his body, and the growing blood mass was right before his eyes, yet he couldn’t smell even a trace of blood.

It was as if an invisible layer enveloped the blood mass, preventing the scent from dispersing.

"That should be enough." After extracting about 400cc, the doctor snapped his fingers again, making the needle aperture and blood mass vanish.

If it wasn’t for the slight dizziness Li Zheng felt, he’d almost think the scene was an illusion.

Everything happened too suddenly; from snapping the finger to completing the blood draw, not even two seconds had passed. He didn’t even manage to mention giving the doctor some Genetic Potion for research before it was over.

But since the blood had been drawn, Li Zheng didn’t bring up the potion issue; the effect should be about the same anyway.

"Wait!" Li Zheng suddenly noticed the doctor’s emphasis, "It’s only half the payment? And only to balance this emotion?"

"Miss Zi Shu told me you could cure it here, so I came all this way!"

This doctor was too self-centered, wasn’t he?

From beginning to end, he just talked to himself, completely disregarding the patient’s opinion!

It’s just a balancer. I haven’t agreed to this treatment method, and you’ve already started charging?

"Didn’t I say it doesn’t need to be eradicated?" the doctor said expressionlessly, "Just a trivial ancient technology trick, and it still has the function of helping you hone your spiritual power, so why eradicate it?"

"Huh? Hone spiritual... eh?" Li Zheng was stunned; why was Zi Shu saying something completely different from the doctor?

Wasn’t it said that this negative emotion was dangerous, capable of destroying one’s consciousness, leaving only a killing instinct?

Such a dangerous thing, yet the doctor talked as if it wasn’t harmful and even extremely beneficial to the victim?

The doctor said indifferently, "If you hadn’t met me, this thing indeed might slowly transform you into a beast, becoming a madman driven only by slaughter."

"But now that you’ve met me, the situation is completely different. As a doctor, I will, of course, choose the treatment plan most beneficial to the patient."

"If you’re still worried and want to eradicate it, I can also adjust the plan to meet your request."

"But before that, I must warn you that tools for honing spiritual power are scarce; this ancient technology is one, and it’s the easiest way for you to access right now."

"Miss this opportunity, and you might need to go to the Outer City to elevate your spiritual power in the future."

"Because you helped transport the medical bed, I’m telling you this much. For others, they’d be thrown out long ago."

"I’ll ask you one last time: are you sure you want to eradicate it?"