“Miss Bai Tang, please stay in this room tonight. The floor and bedding have been tidied in advance, and fresh oil has been added to the lamp.”
“Mm. Thank you for Mr. Raymond’s hospitality.”
After a simple dinner, the Fallen Doctor quickly arranged a room for Bai Tang to rest in.
He displayed not the slightest trace of malice, so normal that it left Bai Tang astonished, and she could not help muttering inwardly:
Had she really overthought it? Did the other party hold no malice toward her after all?
“In that case, with nothing else to attend to, I will take my leave first. It is already late. Miss Bai Tang should rest early as well.”
The room door banged shut lightly.
Silence filled the room.
Bai Tang lay on her back on the large bed in boredom, her gaze quietly fixed on the ceiling that swayed faintly under the lamplight.
Something was wrong!
No matter how she thought about it, it was completely wrong!
The girl swished back into a sitting position and frowned.
For some reason she could always vaguely sense that something was off, an instinctive perception of danger.
Even if the Fallen Doctor had so far shown her no obvious malice, on a purely physiological, instinctive level Bai Tang simply did not want to stay in the same space as him.
During dinner, while talking with him across the long table, she had been able to faintly detect his hatred toward the other eerie residents of Undead Street.
He hated that they could not understand the medical arts he regarded as truth.
He hated that they had joined forces to impose the Earth-Binding Curse, wanting to imprison him in this castle forever until he died of old age.
“No good. I have to find a way to make my head clearer!”
With that, she fed herself a piece of dried frog meat, reached into the oversized pouch at her waist, pulled out two bottles of Spirit Recovery Potion, yanked out the stoppers, and downed them in one gulp.
Feeling her thinking gradually grow clear, Bai Tang finally understood why she instinctively loathed the Fallen Doctor.
The root cause was that the other party carried a kind of madness and obsession that said as long as it benefited the thing he believed in, even acts that exhausted all human ethics did not matter.
Whether it was the old kangaroo-legged eerie being or the other eerie beings who had appeared covered in countless suture marks, it was like a perverted doctor proudly displaying his masterpieces to outsiders.
Suddenly, at that moment, a faint noise sounded outside the room door.
Bai Tang’s spirits lifted.
She blew out the oil lamp at the bedside, closed her eyelids, and lay on the bed pretending to have already fallen into deep sleep, quietly waiting for the trouble that had come looking for her of its own accord.
Creeeak~
Three petite figures dragging ill-fitting pajamas sneakily slipped into the room where Bai Tang was, their movements furtive.
She secretly opened her eyes a narrow slit.
By the scarlet moonlight outside the window she could faintly make out their forms.
What left Bai Tang somewhat shocked and uncertain was that they were actually walking in a bizarre “playing train” fashion, the ones behind tugging the clothes of the ones in front.
There were clearly three figures, yet only one person’s footsteps!
When they were finally close enough, the Piercing Eye slowly surfaced information on the trio.
【Name: Eye, Mouth, Ear】
【Level: 12, 11, 11 (Fierce Ghost Rank)】
【Race: Ghost Dolls】
【Alignment: Chaotic Evil】
【Description: Creatures created by the Fallen Doctor through inhumane surgery. They lost their respective organs—eyes, or tongue, or ears—and he deceived their simple hearts by telling them that their things had been stolen by people outside the castle.】
【Supplementary Info 1: When separated they are extremely frail. When together their hearts and minds are linked.】
【Supplementary Info 2: They are not some unpardonably wicked eerie beings. They only want to get their own things back.】
【Supplementary Info 3: The things they lost were hidden by the Fallen Doctor in the operating room located underground.】
Right after that, Bai Tang felt the three petite figures already approaching the bed where she lay.
Eye, walking at the very front, signaled Mouth and Ear to act as stepping stools while she herself used her vision to climb onto the bed where Bai Tang was.
In the darkness, a pair of large eyes stared tightly at the sleeping Bai Tang, exceptionally bright.
A new guest had finally come, and it was even a human big sister!
Her eyes and ears were so pretty. She just didn’t know whether they had been stolen from the little sisters.
The little girl’s brows and eyes curved as she thought excitedly.
With that in mind, she reached out without the slightest hesitation to gouge out Bai Tang’s eyes.
Just as that fair little hand was about to touch Bai Tang’s eyes, Bai Tang swished her eyes open.
One blue pupil and one gray pupil were exceptionally bright in the pitch-black room, and in the next instant she reached out and seized the girl’s wrist.
Eye clearly had not expected Bai Tang to wake.
Her eyes flew wide in fright.
She wanted to cry out, yet her mouth was sewn shut with needle and thread and she could not even make the simplest “mmph” sound.
Bai Tang sat up, and the girl was lifted along with her.
Her tongue had been pulled out and her mouth sewn shut with needle and thread.
Even the deformity of having no ears needed strands of hair deliberately combed down as a cover.
Because only the eyes were left, she was called “Eye”?
Quietly looking at the girl, Bai Tang grew even more firm in the loathing she had felt toward the Fallen Doctor before.
Using the fact that he was a doctor to casually remodel weak creatures just to verify how to create even stronger, more terrifying beings… she really super hated that!
With the plan exposed, Eye originally thought she would be punished.
She timidly squeezed her eyes shut tight and silently waited for the beating that was about to fall on her.
What she waited for, however, was her head being rubbed.
That motion was a gentleness she had never felt before, and it instantly confirmed for her that she would not be beaten.
Big Sister is a good person!
She tentatively opened her eyes little by little and saw that Big Sister’s expression was very serious.
Her mouth moved as if she were saying something, but unfortunately Eye could not hear.
“I’ll take you to find the things you lost!”
Eye could not hear what Bai Tang said, but Ear, kneeling beside the bed, heard it crystal clear.
She suddenly stood up in excitement, and her forehead happened to knock right into the baffled Mouth.
Both of them tumbled to the floor.
“Ouch! Who bumped my head!” Mouth, who could neither see nor hear a thing, endured the pain and cried out in surprise.
Seeing that her two little sisters were far too embarrassing, Eye, who had been set on the bed by Bai Tang, flushed faintly red and covered her eyes in mortification.
She couldn’t bear to look!
Kids? Bai Tang was speechless. Why did these three look so dumb? Whose family…
Bai Tang simply watched silently from the side, waiting until the three little girls finished communicating in the most primitive way—by drawing characters on one another’s palms—and cooperation was finally reached.
The three of them would take Bai Tang to the castle’s hidden underground operating room, and Bai Tang would take them to find the things each of them had lost.
“Big Sister, come with us!” Mouth said.
Then the three little ones once again lined up like a train, tugging the corners of one another’s clothes and following tightly behind Eye, who served as the locomotive.
The only difference was that this time the little train had three cars.
“Big Sister, hurry and pull my clothes, otherwise you’ll get lost later!” Mouth, standing in the last position, still had not felt Bai Tang tug her clothes and reminded her with a straight face.