white night syndrome

Chapter 57. 052. "Scavenger"

Seeing the man in front of him turn into scorched dust and the little sparks extinguished, Li Ming felt a sense of sadness in his heart.

He knelt down and stretched out his parched right hand, regardless of the heat of the dust, the breeze came from nowhere after touching it, and the black dust between Li Ming's fingers was blown away, just like life, it was as fragile.

Li Ming glanced at the smoke and dust piled on the ground on the other side, his eyes filled with coldness.

"It's time to end it, too."

Li Mingru thinks that although there are still many secrets buried in this laboratory, his mind at this moment has not been put on these "unsolved mysteries" at all.

Holding a trace of black dust on his fingertips, Li Ming stood up slowly, the lights in the room were flickering, he naturally raised his head, took a deep breath, was he trying to calm down his confusion, or was he saying goodbye to the past in his heart? ,unknown.

Just when Li Ming was about to turn around and start investigating the nutrition room, he was startled by a figure who appeared behind him at an unknown time.

Li Ming didn't show obvious fright, he just took a few steps back instinctively, with the last heel close to the wall, staring at the uninvited guest vigilantly.

At the same time, a sense of doubt arose in my heart. I remember that when the radish locked him in at the beginning, he clearly said that the door of this so-called "refuge" needs a key to open. If there is no key, then anyone There is no way to open it by force.

Who is this guy in front of him?
How did he open the door?
But having said that, he should have realized that this is a closed space, and the breeze blowing off his fingertips just now should indicate that the door has been opened. It took him so long to see someone standing behind him.

Does this person walk without footsteps?
"I guessed that there must be someone here." The visitor was wearing a flat suit, with his hands behind his back, and his expression was full of unknown smiles, "I learned about the situation from Heimu, your name is Li Ming, yes Bar?"

Li Ming showed vigilance, nodded slightly, and at the same time guessed the identity of the person in front of him in his heart.

He said "black wood" just now?Could it be the friend of the strange doctor?But why... broke into the white dream of seeing a doctor?
The visitor didn't mind Li Ming's indifference, his smile widened, and while he was looking up and down at the young man, there was mockery in his eyes.

"When Kuroki talked about you, he described how tall you are, and said that you are the most talented person among this group of patients with White Night Syndrome. Now it seems that you are no different from ordinary people. disappointment."

Having said that, the visitor stuck out his tongue and licked his lower lip, his eyes seemed to be observing a prey, which always gave people a sense of discomfort.

"By the way, I forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Shiratori, my first name is Asahi, and I am the "clearer" of the hospital. "

"Scavenger"?
Literally understood, clearing up refers to some organizations clearing out certain people or groups who are regarded as improper, and adding a "person" can be understood as a person who specializes in doing this kind of thing.

But if you combine these three words together, it seems that there are similar occupations throughout history. After a large-scale trial, these people were executed, and those who wielded the blades were called "cleaners" exist.

Then, substituting the setting of White Night Syndrome into these three words, and adding the unconcealable excitement for the patients in the man who called himself "Shiratori Asahi" just now, is this guy here to eliminate them patients? of?

Thinking of this, Li Xing felt nervous, he looked around unnaturally, clutching the dagger tightly, and prepared to take the opportunity to leave here.

Anyway, the door has been opened, and his main purpose now is to pour those experimental liquids into the plant greenhouse according to Jiang Wenli's last words before his death. Although some bad things have been released, the purpose of escape can be achieved in the end.

"Bah!"

Seeing Bai Niaoqian's expression of indifference, Li Ming quickly held the handle of the dagger upside down, and rushed towards the gate as fast as he could, while slashing the dagger across Bai Niao's smooth suit.

The suit was cut open, and because Li Ming didn't use much force, the dagger tip just made a small cut on Shiratori's arm, and a stream of blood seeped out.

Originally thought that when the dagger touches blood, it can trigger spontaneous combustion, and then let this so-called "cleaner" bid farewell to this world.

However, the facts did not develop as Li Ming wanted at all, the blood just flowed down slowly, and there was no trace of burning flames at the place where the dagger touched, not even a single spark was seen.

This guy.
Jiang Wenli said that the dagger can spontaneously ignite when it comes into contact with human blood, but the man in front of him didn't burn, so does it mean that this guy is not human at all? !

"Mr. Li, you said that at your age, when you are holding a dagger that can easily hurt people, don't you know not to point the dagger at other people?"

Shiratori's face was a little ugly, and his tone was annoyed. He looked at his suit with a bit of distress, and sighed.

Then, a scene that surprised Li Ming even more appeared——

Shiratori just stretched out his white and slender fingers to wipe the torn suit, and the suit was soon intact, and the tiny bloodstain also closed and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, not even leaving a scar.

It is not human beings with such a high-speed self-healing ability.

Combining these two situations, Li Ming could only think of the word "monster", which made him, a materialist, even more panicked, and his pace accelerated, wanting to leave here in a shorter time.

I can't afford it, but can't I hide it?

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp finger snapping sound from behind, just when Li Ming was feeling puzzled, the thick iron door in front of him was opened, leaving a gap that could pass through a person, and it returned to its original shape in the blink of an eye.

It was not tightly closed due to the movement of the iron door, but more like it appeared out of thin air, just like when placing blocks in "Minecraft" in the creative mode, the blocks appeared out of thin air, which made Li Ming a little unbelievable what he saw just now everything of.

"Mr. Li, if you are anxious to leave here, you can tell me, but you don't want to say hello. In this case, I always feel that you stay away from me because you hate me."

Shiratori's voice was getting closer, and the young man turned his head to look. At this time, he was stretching out his white and slender right hand and making a somewhat weird gesture. Although he couldn't understand it, it always made people feel "elegant".

"I really don't understand why every time I enter a white dream and appear next to the patient to show my identity, someone wants to attack me. I'm very wronged, okay?"

"I'm just a cleaner for cleaning up the collapsed white dream world. At best, I can be said to be the lowest occupation in the hospital. Why do you patients treat me like this?"

When Shiratori said this, his aggrieved eyes turned to the young man in front of him.

Li Ming finally realized what the word that had been circling in his mind was. Seeing this guy's appearance, he always gave people the illusion of being "sissy", and he was not elegant at all. It was disgusting to see this guy too much. , rather than comfortable.

Staring at the strange man in front of him, Li Ming took a step back subconsciously, while thinking about how to get rid of this sissy's control, while thinking about what this guy said just now.

"The cleaner who cleans the collapsed white dream world"?
In other words, his appearance in the white dream world indicated that the white dream he was in was on the verge of collapse.

And he is just the lowest-level profession used to deal with these white dreams?

Li Ming frowned, no matter how he thought about it, he felt something was wrong.

"Stop talking nonsense, your self-healing ability is so fast, and you have the ability to make an iron door appear out of thin air to block the exit with just a snap of your fingers, no matter how you think about it, it's not something you can believe in!"

In order to express his inner emotions and thoughts, Li Ming had to write on the white paper he carried with him, and then showed it to the man who was looking at him with great interest.

"Don't keep talking to me like you know me very well, it's obviously the first time we've met, would normal people try to get close to the person they met for the first time?!"

"Oh, I didn't expect you to have such an impression of me. It's really sad."

Shiratori spread her hands, her face full of helplessness.

"However, Mr. Li, you don't have to worry about your NG being triggered by my side, but your NG will be temporarily "nullified" by the professional "clearer" of the hospital. "

"Although language NG is a kind of NG that can basically be regarded as unsolvable, I feel sorry for you when you think that you always need to communicate with other people in words."

Li Ming was stunned for a moment, his brows were furrowed tightly. In this daydream, due to the special environmental influence, he became more and more confused about his NG count, and he didn't react for a while.

He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Li Ming is still hesitating, because he has never heard of the profession of "Scavenger", and after meeting this strange man, he also has doubts about his ability, and he doesn't know who to trust.

But Bai Niaoqian is indeed right about his NG, that is, the language category, as he said, the language category is basically unsolvable, as long as he pays a little attention, he can live for a long time.

This type of NG is different from the physical NG of coriander, which is easier to trigger, so the general hunter like Watanabe Naoji is more willing to trigger these physical NG patients for high efficiency.

But when it comes to "coriander", Li Ming vaguely feels that something is wrong, he seems to remember that the girl who was framed by Naotsu Watanabe's disguise at the ramen restaurant before seems to have the surname "Takeshita".

Then, based on the experimental records seen in this white dream world, the junior high school student Takeshita who combined with the iron holly tree, are they two brothers and sisters?

It turns out that in the whole daydream, every detail is buried with the foreshadowing of reality.

Li Ming nodded in self-concern, he should have thought of it earlier, and at the same time, he regretted that he didn't investigate all the experimental records about Dr. Mitarai in the desk drawer in the old room. Detail of White Nights Syndrome.

Isn't this what he and Jiang Wenkan have been investigating at the beginning?

Back to Shiratori Qiangami in front of him, he was right about his NG, but there was no way to prove that he was a professional of the hospital
Even if, even if he was indeed the purger sent by the hospital to clean up the collapsed white dreams, but according to the urine nature of the hospital, it is not ruled out that some hunters were mixed in.

Because there have been such examples before -

After being told to fill in the registration of wishes and identity information, some hospital staff will wait at the door, and then chat with the new patient and get his NG by routine.

Is Shiratori Qian in front of me the same kind of person?

"Hey, Mr. Li, if you stand there in a daze again, your fellow patients will have no time."

Shiratori's voice is eager, but it is only with such emotion in his words. Looking at all his actions, he is the one who is not in a hurry or in a hurry.

"I also know what you are thinking. This is the suspicious nature of private detectives like you. It is obviously just a simple trust that can be solved, but it has to be so complicated."

"Your behavior reminds me of a colleague of mine who is just as suspicious as you." Shiratori paused, "Forget it, it's okay if you don't believe me, then you can continue to use your [-] You can’t even recognize the correct Japanese grammar to communicate with other people.”

Saying this, Shiratori rolled up his sleeves and glanced at the dark gold watch on his right wrist.

"It's really hard to understand the brain circuits of you people. A simple matter has to be delayed for such a long time. There are still two hours left for this purge. I don't have time to spend here with you."

After the words were finished, Shiratori adjusted her clothes, whistled and wobbled to the side of the heavy iron gate, and then put her right hand on the iron gate.

In Li Ming's vision, the heavy iron gate disintegrated into tiny iron particles, which suddenly disintegrated and fell to the ground.

"You bastard!"

In this short ten minutes, Li Ming was almost stunned by the appearance and behavior of the white bird in front of him, he almost shouted out of his mouth.

After hearing Li Ming's voice, Bai Niaoqian's body froze slightly, and then slowly turned his head, with an obvious smile on his face.

"What, Mr. Li? Are you finally willing to trust me? Let me just say that my low-level occupation in the hospital is the most kind existence to patients like you."

The corner of Shiratori's mouth raised slightly, and then stretched out his right hand towards the young man in front of him.

"What are you waiting for? Let's go and save your so-called white dream patient teammates. And, let me, the clearer, clean up the mess messed up by you patients."

"Hey, when will I be able to get promoted and become those "scavengers", as long as someone touches the body parts of those people, they will lose their lifespan and be affected badly"

The sound of Shiratori muttering to himself disappeared as the iron door closed tightly behind him.

　Good
　　
　
(End of this chapter)