The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 118 Harmony Between Patients and Doctors

"Hahaha, I don't want your eyes. They're no different from my own... Oh no, they are, after all, Mr. Strange, your eyes are a bit special."

"Is that so? You shouldn't be able to tell anything now, otherwise, wouldn't I have wasted my time as the executioner on the plastic surgery table?"

As a teenager, the city lord casually picked up a sharp scalpel and heated it over an alcohol lamp.

As he examined the blade, he pointed to his left eye with his other finger.

Through the reflection in the open glass, Li Can could see the smiling expression on his face, as if he was in a good mood.

From the current point in time, Xiao Guai has already adjusted his mindset and identity.

Li Can stared intently at Xiao Guai's brown pupils. Based on the previous scene and what Xiao Qi had said so far, he was able to roughly deduce the cause of the matter.

The little monster was abandoned at birth and became an orphan, but miraculously survived to childhood.

It is currently unknown who raised him during this period.

Or perhaps Li Can's guess was a bit bolder.

He believes there are at least two other possibilities regarding the monster's origins:

One possibility is that it was born from chaos, a product between perfect humans and defective ones, like the appearance of Sun Wukong, the stone monkey. Although that's a bit far-fetched, it's not impossible.

Secondly, the little monster may have been born to a perfect person and a defective one as his parents. Due to various reasons, both parents were disgusted by his appearance after birth and abandoned him, but secretly they still helped him live.

Li Can stopped his wandering thoughts and continued to deduce further.

During his childhood, he was unclear about his racial identity. Because he had yin-yang pupils, he was not welcomed and was ostracized in the realm of perfect people, and he was still rejected when he returned to the territory of defective people.

The first scene of 【Mirror of the Past】, which features flashbacks, is the first time Xiao Guai clearly sees how much of an anomaly he is in this world.

In the second act, he successfully shifted his identity, not only helping himself to hide but also helping people like Xiaoqi who had needs.

[But aren't perfect people always high-status? If they're perfect, why would they need to undergo surgery to turn themselves into defective products...?] Li Can pondered the difference in eye color.

Nowadays, you can't see the eyes of the once perfect man in the lower city at all.

In the first act, Huang Xiaoqi, the only perfect character who appears on screen, seems to have her eye color deliberately blurred in the city lord's memories, resulting in Li Can having almost no recollection of her.

It seemed ordinary and unremarkable, just like any other place.

Aside from these flashback scenes, Lee Chan also discovered something else that was quite interesting.

It seems that as long as the little monster is in a dormant state, its text-based chat can still connect with other people in the outside world...

For example, just now when Xiao Guai was asleep, I almost had a brainwave exchange with Xiao Qi.

He was both excited and somewhat doubtful of himself. It was like a dream—to be able to communicate in real time with humans from a past time through the memories left behind by the city lord? This was even more unbelievable than the appearance of the stone monkey.

However, since he was able to travel ten years to the wasteland of Earth to run dungeons and engage in life-or-death games to save the planet, Li Can had long since become indifferent to these unconventional things.

He plans to try again at another opportunity to see if he can reconnect with the outside world.

If he succeeds, he can use this to awaken Yang Mo and the other two people inside the city.

What he can confirm right now is that it's completely impossible to get the city lord to fall asleep or faint again as long as he's conscious. He has to find a way to make him fall asleep or faint again.

And he also had to make sure that there were other people around him before that, people he could command and ask for help from.

We also need to be quick; we need to finish before the second act ends.

As long as he can wake up Yang Mo and the other two, and they tell him all the clues he has collected and analyzed, he estimates that he will have no problem answering the questions at the end.

As for whether they will continue to sleep in the third act, that is not a question he is considering now.

When that time came, Li Can planned to use the same trick again.

There are always more solutions than problems, aren't there?

[On one hand, you have to make someone fall asleep, and on the other hand, you have to make them wake up quickly...] Li Can muttered to himself as he planned the next move. He watched as the little monster used a scalpel to dig directly into Xiao Qi's face, and his exclamation stopped abruptly.

The scene was extremely bloody and violent.

Xiao Guai did not administer any anesthesia to her cosmetic surgery clients, and the work environment was dusty and completely unsterile.

The only thing that looked somewhat professional was disinfecting the knife beforehand.

Amazingly, Li Can watched as the little monster removed a pair of old eyeballs along with eyelid tissue and placed them in a basin of water.

After sewing and patching up the new parts that Xiaoqi had brought, she didn't utter a single cry of pain.

It was as if the knife wasn't piercing her flesh, but rather the surface of her clothes.

It was as easy as if I had just gone to a tailor shop.

"Alright, what do you think?" Xiao Guai took out a handheld bronze mirror clipped to his waist and handed it to Xiao Qi.

The girl took the mirror and placed it in front of her face. Because the stitches had not yet fully healed, the skin was peeling back, and blood mixed with tissue fluid dripped down from time to time, splashing into a small puddle on her clothes.

Her lips curled up, and although it was quite difficult for her to open and close her eyes, she still nodded happily. "Mr. Weird's skills are very good, and this time it was a great success. I can finally wear my new eyes and make friends with everyone."

Li Can's inner monologue at that moment was simply speechless.

Or you could say, can you open your eyes and take a good look at yourself? How can someone who looks neither human nor ghost be considered attractive?

Or perhaps this style was popular in the old eerie labyrinthine cities, a peculiar kind of atmosphere.

What kind of friend is worth risking your life for? What kind of good person could they be?

Aren't you afraid that tetanus could kill someone?

Thinking of dead people... Li Can paused for a moment. He almost forgot that they were perfect people with a resistance a hundred times better than defective products. Viruses and bacteria that defective products might not be able to withstand were simply not worth their attention.

This is the confidence of a perfect person; they don't even need anesthesia for surgery.

Practicing medicine does not require a medical license.

The patient and doctor were in harmony and both were satisfied with their choice.

If they've gone around in circles like this, then they really don't care. Even if they let loose like this, they'd still be considered part of the restrained and conservative faction.

Li Can's gaze lingered on the handheld bronze mirror for a long time, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed.

The familiar color scheme and floral entwining pattern, except this one has an extra handle at the bottom, while the one I just received from the gashapon case was round and plump.

[So at this time, the prototype of the Mirror of Past Lives had already appeared. It seems that the old city lord was not only a doctor, but also a good craftsman...]

"I'm glad you're satisfied. Here's the bill for this surgery. Please check and pay." Xiao Guai took out a pen from the drawer, scribbled something on a piece of white paper, and handed it to Xiao Qi.