A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

"No, no, little one, of course we are different."

It was clear that the words had not been finished yet, but the doctor seemed to already know what Elena wanted to say. She looked at Elena with a hint of amusement and pride, stretched out her hands and pressed down gently, interrupting Ai. Lun Na's words signaled the other party to be quiet.

"You asked him for help, and he accepted it. He chose you. And I chose to accept his help. I chose him. We are different. Do you understand? You are just being sympathized with. That’s all.”

"..."

"If you don't believe it, you can ask Yabu if he took the initiative to make the request to me." The doctor seemed to be sure of victory, lowering his head and cleaning his nails.

The fact is just as the doctor thought. Ellena would naturally not ask Yabu such a question, and she didn't need to ask. After all, she could tell whether others were lying, and there was no noise of lies from the beginning to the end of the doctor's body. .

Not a word is a lie, and there is not even a trace of cover-up required.

Except for some details such as tone and circumstances, the meaning may be slightly biased.

This is different from when Yabu wanted to deceive Ellena before. The doctor is not telling people the truth just to deceive. She has no idea of ​​deceiving. When she said these words, Ellena couldn't hear a single noise at all. After all, the doctor She thinks so herself.

But the problem is that the meaning of words will be different if they lack situations and scenes to be told.

This is the same as asking someone on the street if you have eaten or asking the bath master in a bathhouse if you have eaten. The results in different scenarios are also different. In the former, you may get a friendly reply, but in the latter, you may get a friendly reply. Gotta shed some skin.

"Really..." Elena's mood and expression were even more depressed, but as if she was already used to being depressed, this emotion was swallowed up immediately by her.

No matter what, the person called Doctor in front of me may indeed be more special to Mr. Yabu.

so what......

"I admit, it may seem that I have ulterior motives, but the fact that I care about Mr. Yabu is indeed my sincerity without any falsehood. It's just that I can show it better this way, because I hope I can be noticed. After all, in the Before that, I was just a stranger. I had no other thoughts. As long as I could stay with Mr. Yabu, I was satisfied. This is the only thing I thought about."

By clarifying her own purpose, acknowledging the other person's ideas, and taking retreat to make progress, Elena is telling the doctor that her only request is to stay by Yabu's side, and she will not compete with the doctor. What, I hope the doctor won't stop her.

"Why do you think you can make demands of me?"

"Because you are still willing to communicate with me."

Since she is still willing to continue the conversation, it means...

"Okay, it's okay to ask, but I need you to tell me something, something that only people like you have."

What do you have in yourself that the other person needs?

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Chapter 55 Doctor is such a nice person, what bad intentions can he have?

"This request to stay here is fine, but I need you to tell me something."

"I don't understand. I'm just a useless refugee, worse than a slave. What value do you have in me?"

"A homeless person who is useless and is worse than a slave?" The doctor looked up and down at Elena, who was sitting upright, and repeated the other person's words, as if he had read some joke, and chuckled softly. , "You can deceive Yabu just by saying this."

"..."

"Refugees don't know so much, and they don't have the same feelings or temperament as you do? But whatever, maybe you are indeed a refugee now, so that's what you say." The doctor shrugged indifferently. She shrugged, not intending to find out more about Elena's past, "But it has nothing to do with what I want."

"What do you want?"

Elena was really a little confused. The person in front of her, who was called a doctor by Zhe Bu, even if she didn't talk about his face and just looked at the weird "voice" emanating from his body, Elena could be 100% sure that he was here. I have never met the other person before, and this person named Doctor must not know me at all.

So what does she want to get from a stranger, something that can even make her willing to accept the conditions of staying with Yabu.

"What I want is not an item, but information you should know." The doctor took out the small book given to him by Yabu from his pocket, opened a new page, and took a pen with him. Passed it to Elena.

"You were once helped by Yanbu, and when you asked him for help, you should have drawn some kind of pattern. I need you to tell me that pattern and draw it in this notebook."

But seeing the pen and paper handed over by the doctor, Elena did not take it immediately. Instead, she looked at the doctor nervously and asked: "That pattern...do you know what it is? I'm here I tried to draw several times after that, but Mr. Yabu never came again."

"Oh, it's normal. I just wanted to help you. The reason why I haven't been here since is because that thing only has one chance."

...Well, it's not that Mr. Yabu doesn't want to see him.

The problems that had been bothering Elena for a long time and made her think wildly were finally solved. The burden of worry and anxiety was lifted, and she breathed a long sigh of relief in her heart.

It's not that he doesn't want to see her, but that thing only has one chance.

and many more......

Only one chance?

Then why did the other party...

As if she understood something, Elena raised her head with tightened pupils and looked at the doctor along the notebook handed over by the doctor, her eyes full of wariness and repulsion.

"You..." Elena clasped her hands together and had no intention of reaching out to take the notebook handed to her by the doctor. Instead, she stared into the doctor's eyes. After a while, she slowly said a question. .

“What happens if help is not completed?”

"Of course I have to come back. Otherwise, Yabu can come back just by pressing a certain button. Yabu has already considered this situation."

"What if Mr. Yabu can't press it?"

"What are you thinking about? Why can't you press it?" The doctor probably knew that there was no need to talk about this matter, but he still wanted to try again and shook the notebook at Elena, motioning for her to draw quickly. on that pattern.

"What if?"

"No ifs."

"Lies...it turns out to be like this..."

The two of them were not talking, just looking at each other quietly. Elena did not take the doctor's notebook. The doctor also symbolically shook the notebook at Ellena a few times, then put it away without saying a word. Come back.

"...Hey, it's really troublesome. Did you guess it so quickly?" The doctor sighed with regret, with a hint of annoyance in his voice, "Can't children ask less about adults' affairs? As long as Just tell me no, I won’t break my promise, and your request will be met.”

"I won't tell you what the pattern is." Elena refused to the doctor without any explanation.

Looking at the slender and fragile doctor in front of her, who seemed to be broken if touched, Elena felt extremely afraid of him, as if there was some spine-chilling monster buried under that fragile appearance, but now it was disguised as Just sitting there looking like a human being.

No... It seems that it was only at this moment that Elena realized what the weird submelody beneath the main melody she heard represented. There was something filthy and dark buried deep under the other person's calm appearance. Ideas only quietly leaked out from the cracks when Yabu was not here now.

"Really, then your request..."

"Are you sure you want to find a way to drive me away? Mr. Yabu needs me. The threads used to mend bones are my origin stone skills. Whether it is regular inspections or removal of stitches, she needs to do it herself."

"..."

I don't know if it was because of the mention of Yabu, but the weird "sound" that gradually began to be harsh around me seemed to be suddenly pushed back.

After a while, the "voice" returned to its previous indistinct appearance, hidden under other sounds.

"Okay, for the sake of Yabu, I have to suffer a bit this time. I will have to get more from him in the future." The doctor stood up and stretched his waist, as if He seemed to be a changed person, putting on the familiar shell of Yabu again, and his whole person exuded a feeling of laziness due to fatigue.

"Then you can stay. After all, you are still useful to me and to Yan Bu for the time being. If you want to change your mind, you can come and tell me the pattern at any time."

"I won't tell you. Your idea is basically forcing Mr. Yabu. I suggest you give up this idea."

And... temporarily?Mr. Yabu needs more than just mending his bones. Now and in the future, as long as Mr. Yabu's problem of losing his sense of pain is not solved, he will always be able to help Mr. Yabu.

"Forced? Do you think I will harm him? Ha..."

I'm so embarrassed to say it. It's obvious that the person he helped like you is constantly eating his life and swallowing his flesh and blood. The poisons in his body now have nothing to do with you. It's obviously you who caused him... ....

"Ha...forget it, if you say yes, then that's it." The doctor didn't want to waste any more time talking to Elena. If he had the time, he might as well go and see how Yabu was doing now.

It seems that she doesn't know yet, it doesn't matter, she doesn't need to say it now.

Sooner or later, the doctor will let Ellena know, and what the doctor has to do now is to wait for the most valuable moment to elicit that emotion.

"The exchange we just had was very harmonious and pleasant. Is that okay?"

The doctor, who had his hand on the doorknob, suddenly looked back at Elena, with a kind smile on his face like a big sister who is friendly to children.

"......certainly."

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Chapter 56 Model family of three

It is now January 1096, 7.

Seven days have passed since the day when Yabu was almost made into a handicraft.

If the doctor had agreed with him that he would have to wait at least a week after using the pendant before using it again, the time now would be enough.

But having said that, if you think about the current situation, you will know that it has become like this after just one visit. The one-week time limit mentioned before is basically in vain for the doctor, and it is definitely not true. It might work.

And the fact is indeed the case. During these seven days, let alone using the pendant, Yabu was not even allowed to take a step out of the house. He was as if he was in isolation. He was ordered by the doctor to be placed under house arrest at home. , he spent the whole day doing nothing but eating and sleeping. If he hadn't been allowed to go into the kitchen to cook, Yan Bu might not have taken more than a hundred steps every day.

It's hard to imagine that the doctor wouldn't even let him get off the bed if Elena hadn't helped him sew his bones.

Speaking of Elena, the window that she had previously broken after attacking with her fists has now been repaired, and at the suggestion of Yabu and the doctor, she also moved into this house.

Because according to Elena herself, those threads are her Origin Stone skills and need to be checked regularly, and she will also need to do things like removing the stitches herself. She must stay with Yabu to prevent anything from happening. Accident.

But it's actually fake.

The above is what Ellena said to the doctor. In fact, she could not follow Yabu at all. No matter what the threads were, nothing would happen if she left them alone. Even when the bones have grown and need to be removed, those threads will decompose on their own. Lose.

When she communicated with Yabu privately, she confessed to Yabu that those threads used to mend Yabu's bones would not be a problem even if she left, but those threads that could sense vibrations instead of Yabu's pain would require her to pass them every time. Use Source Stone skills to charge it for a period of time, otherwise it will become ineffective.

But in fact, this is also false.

Those wires that sense vibrations will not cause problems even if she leaves, and do not need to be charged at all. Every once in a while, Elena goes to charge Yabu, which is just her showmanship, and that's it every once in a while. Just pretend to touch the cloth for a while.

She said this just to make Yabu unable to live without her, and at the same time, she used Yabu's idea that he didn't want the doctor to find out that he had no pain, so that Yabu could take the initiative to find a way to help her stay here, and through the superficial relationship between the two of them, Shared secrets to bring them closer together.

So what kind of counterattack will the deceived Yabu have?Ah, he has the ability to mark. How could he be deceived? He must have known it long ago...

...Oh, Teacher Dabu was eaten by Elena alone.

Except for a few glances at the beginning to see if the child was going to do something bad for insurance purposes, there was basically no mark placed on Elena.

After all, apart from taking a few glances at the child to see if he would do bad things, he never doubted that a child would think about so many other things.

Yabu thought that Elena, who would not do bad things, was a good child with a kind heart. He also carefully cleaned and tidied up a room for her alone, laid out suitable bedding, and decorated some things that he thought the children might like. Children's wallpapers and night lights, as well as daily necessities that can't be faulted.

When she saw that Yao Bu had allocated a room for her alone, Elena did not show as much fondness for the room as Yao Bu had imagined. She even tactfully expressed to Yao Bu that there was no need to spend money to prepare it for her separately. Room or something like that.

These words made Yabu directly identify him as a good boy who was kind-hearted and also considerate and thrifty and could manage the family.

In this way, everything is harmonious, just like a family of three. Outsiders would probably think that this is a model family with no faults.

The doctor spends most of his time at home, occasionally going out to buy some things.Elena has a very low sense of presence. Except for certain times such as eating, she will only appear suddenly when Yabu shouts into the room.As for Yabu, he has entered old age early, and his only entertainment items may be cooking, watching TV, and having access to computers from other worlds, which are somewhat new things.

They just stayed together peacefully in a strange balance, calmly following the time rolling forward to the present day, July 7nd.

It was close to one o'clock in the afternoon, and everything was as usual. After the three of them sat together and finished eating, Elena went somewhere unknown, and the doctor went back to her room to write something.

As for Yabu, he also placed one portion of the cut fruit at Elena's place as usual, and then walked to the doctor's room with the other portion.

Looking at the various books and papers piled up on the doctor's desk, they are full of things that Yabu can understand individually but cannot be recognized at all when put together.

"Is it still the formula you mentioned before?"

"kindness."

According to the doctor, these are all questions about the formula related to the self-replication speed of the Origin Stone and the energy increase. She said that she had seen similar questions in some books, although those books gave relatively complete answers. , but the doctor said she felt there was still room for improvement.

And the most important thing is that she feels familiar with it, so she plans to refine the formula and see if she can contact the authors of those books, maybe she can learn something.

"I should be able to perfect it in a few days. Then I will send the letter out and see the effect." The doctor started to clean up the messy desktop and said in a joking tone: "But this is just for fun."

It's true that she just tried it with the mentality of killing time. She doesn't want to come into contact with her past yet.

Although there is a feeling of familiarity, there is too much knowledge that feels familiar. It cannot be that I was the original author of these formulas before amnesia, and the person who published them happened to be an acquaintance of mine.

Yabu, who was holding the plate, did not start to tidy it up, but waited for the doctor to tidy it up himself, because he knew that although this kind of things looked messy, this was the environment that the other party was familiar with, and each piece of paper might have been placed in a specific place. , if you take care of yourself, you may be doing a disservice.

The doctor was obviously already aware of Yabu's thoughts. After seeing Yabu come in, she started to cooperate and clear up the messy things on the table to make some room for Yabu. , allowing him to put the plate full of fruit on the table.

"So, Yabu, what do you want to see me for today?"

"Well...that's right, can I..."