I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 591 Stubborn Disease
"Don't say anything. Can you cure my disease?"

"Yes..." the doctor answered affirmatively, but there seemed to be a hint of sadness in his words.

"There is no time to lose. Let's treat him now." The straw creature crawled directly to the doctor's side, found a chair, and sat down.

The doctor hesitated for a moment, then gently placed his hand on the straw creature.

A faint healing power flowed along the skinny arm to the body of the straw creature. The healing power was different from the one Mo Ling had seen before. It seemed a little dim and messy, just like a novice.

"Your healing skills are really poor." The straw creature complained helplessly.

"I just started learning this late, and it took me a long time to master it. Don't be too demanding..."

Under Mo Ling's surprised gaze, the dim white light slowly entered the body of the straw creature, but the straw creature actually began to shrink. Its originally plump and soft body seemed to have leaked air, and wrinkles like an old man's appeared on its smooth skin.

Is this a cure? Isn't this poisoning?

As Mo Ling was thinking, the straw creature also noticed the changes in his body, but he seemed to have expected it and said weakly: "It's so ugly."

"You're almost dying. What difference does it make whether you're ugly or not?" the doctor said as he continued to output his healing power.

Hearing this, the straw creature fell silent.

He seemed unable to accept such a result, and asked with a glimmer of hope: "Is it possible that I won't die?"

"It's impossible. If you cure the disease, you will die. This is absolute." The doctor said mercilessly: "Desire is the essence of your existence. The moment you treat desire as a disease, you will kill yourself if you cure the disease..."

"Maybe your medical skills are too poor..." The straw creature complained in a low voice, but the doctor still heard it.

The doctor knocked on the straw creature's head helplessly, and the two looked at each other in silence.

"I'm so tired..." As the desire gradually subsided, the straw creature suddenly became exhausted.

"I have collected a lot of knowledge, but I have never used it. I found that I have been deciphering various question marks without carefully reading the content behind the question marks."

"I know a lot of delicious food. I know how it tastes and how it's prepared, but I've never eaten it."

“I know a lot of beautiful buildings, I know how they were built, I know what they were used for, but I have never lived in one.”

"I know many beautiful places, beautiful seas of clouds, blue shallow bays. I have seen the beauty of those places in the memories of other creatures, but I have never been there in person."

“I know a lot of magnificent history, but I am not an eyewitness to that history. I just stand beside the long river of time, watching those living creatures turn into dead words.”

"I know about those technologies that are like taboos, but because I know too much and am afraid of the unknown, I have never really used these technologies."

"I know the location, capabilities, and costs of various relics, but I never dare to use them."

"I seem to have gained a lot... and missed a lot..."

"Tell me, have I never truly understood the meaning of 'knowledge'?" The straw creature suddenly stretched out a tentacle, grabbed the doctor's arm, and asked.

The healer didn't answer him, but gently placed his hand on his tentacle.

However, when the doctor's arm touched the tentacle, the tentacle slowly became transparent, then turned into tiny particles and drifted away with the wind.

And those particles are actually in the shape of question marks.

The little question marks floated and disappeared... The straw creature looked at the question marks and whispered softly:

"Who am I? The Eternally Thirsty."

"Where does it come from? From the desires of living beings in the deep sea."

"Where to go? To collect all knowledge and satisfy all the desire for knowledge."

The doctor looked at the dissipating smoke and then at the straw creatures.

"What are you reading?"

"I'm reading the question mark on my body." The straw creature answered in a low voice. At this time, he was already breathing very hard, and his voice became weaker and weaker. The sound like tearing paper also became unusually soft.

"I'm about to disappear." The straw creature said lightly, and his body began to slowly become transparent, and then gradually turned into drifting smoke. Those little question marks drilled out of his body and floated into the unknown.

The doctor did not stop his healing, the light on his hands continued to flicker.

The straw creature wanted to say something again, but his voice had become chaotic and vague. Faintly, one could hear some confession and regret, but all of this quickly disappeared.

After the last flash of light, the last bit of the straw creature's body turned into smoke and dust, floating in the huge library.

The doctor remained in a daze for a long time, with his arms outstretched.

The dim light kept flickering, and I don't know what it was thinking.

After a while, the doctor came back to his senses and tried to grab the non-existent smoke in front of him, but he caught nothing. He could only put his hands down in a daze and sat in front of the table in a daze.

Mo Ling sat in the middle of the reading table, and the doctor sat at one end of the table. Neither of them spoke.

Mo Ling didn't know the doctor's identity and didn't act rashly. The doctor still seemed to be unable to see Mo Ling. Just like that, the library fell into silence.

Finally, after a while, the doctor looked at the uninvited reader.

"Are you here for revenge?" He seemed to have guessed Mo Ling's purpose at once.

"Yes, for my friend." Mo Ling replied, remembering what happened to the doctors on the Huasheng Islands.

In any case, the doctors on the Huasheng Islands can be considered his friends.

"Many Avengers came here before, but we sent them away, except for one from the Lobster Clan, who almost killed us all..." the doctor said nostalgically.

"But, at that time, I was not like this."

As he spoke, the doctor pushed away the chair and slowly stood up.

Mo Ling could see clearly then that this doctor's body was not like that of a normal doctor. His body was covered with messy medicines, which were stuck on his body like patches, making him look like a tattered doll.

Not only that, the doctor's lower body is also covered with tentacles that wriggle like the straw creature, and each tentacle is hollow, just like a straw.

Mo Ling immediately understood that this "doctor" might not be a real doctor. He might be in cahoots with the straw creature, or he might be a puppet controlled by the straw creature.

"But why did he want to 'kill' the straw creatures?"

(End of this chapter)