A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

"Random event? Accident?"

"Yes, doctor, the reason why I helped you is because when I was sent here, you were the first person I saw."

It doesn't matter whether it's a man, a woman, an old man, a child, or even a non-human being.The same goes for helping the Doctor, just because the first one I met was the Doctor.

"The first one I saw...are you some kind of nestling?"

"That's right, doctor, you still know about baby birds."

"Can you please stop praising me like a child? After all, I don't know anything."

Faced with Yabu's tone, which sounded like he was praising a child for being literate, the doctor scratched his hair in embarrassment, then grasped the key points in Yabu's words and asked:

"When you said 'when you were sent here.' What did you mean?"

"It means suddenly appearing here from somewhere else. Doctor, I was randomly sent here." For some reason, Yao Bu likes to add the phrase "doctor" to every sentence, probably because he feels that he is called this It can make the other party feel that he is conversing with her attentively.

"Forced?"

"It's my own wish, doctor, and that's why I'm here. Because I don't have my own goals, so I'm lazy and want to see how those who have ideals and pursuits find and realize themselves. Target, I’d like to be a part of it if I could.”

Yabu looked at the doctor seriously and explained the reason why he came here without any lies, "It may sound like a lunatic, but if I have any purpose, it is the only purpose."

"Then your journey was really not smooth. The first person you met was someone with amnesia like me."

Perhaps it was the truthful expression that allowed the doctor to vaguely feel or judge that Yabu was not malicious. She even started to joke about her own amnesia easily.

"How could this not go well? Maybe it's because of this that I was sent here." Yabu gently placed his hand on the doctor's thin shoulder, and stretched out a finger to point to his eyes. , looked at the doctor and said seriously, "Doctor, I just told you about my abilities, do you remember."

"Mark selected things."

"Yes, doctor, it's about marking the selected things." Yabu nodded approvingly at the doctor's brief and clear summary.

It is not difficult to understand, and the doctor has given a brief and accurate summary of it.

"When I came here, I used my ability to mark the people who needed help, and what I marked was you in the coffin. Maybe that's why I came here. If I can play any role in helping you, then It makes sense for me to be here.”

"Even for someone with amnesia like me?" The doctor's expression revealed a kind of unconfidence caused by the unfamiliarity of the environment.

I don't know my past, I have no memories related to myself, everything is weird and inconsistent, and my whole existence is like the dim environment around me that people don't want to touch.

Maybe your own existence, in the eyes of others, is like those strange machines, which only make people feel cold and uncomfortable.

"Why do you feel inferior because of amnesia, Doctor? You can think of it this way. You can be said to have no worries now. You are a newly born human being. You can make many choices, right? What kind of life do you want to choose? What kind of life do you want to live? What kind of wishes do you have?"

"...It's a very novel angle. Does this count as you comforting me?"

"The choice is yours, Doctor. If you care about your past, then this is a comfort. If you have let go of the amnesia and want to start a new life, then this is a blessing. But the point is , Amnesia does not mean that you are worse than others, Doctor, you can still do what you want to do."

He would not tell the doctor to let him go about the past, nor would he tell the doctor that it was a heinous crime to forget his past. These are not words that an outsider should say.

Whether those things are good or bad, or both, it is the Doctor's business to choose, and there is only one thing he can do.

——Help and protect the current Doctor.

"No matter what you choose, I will respect your ideas. If you need me to help you achieve your goals, I will try my best to help you. If you don't need my help, I will not be self-righteous and do something for you. What, of course, if you want to lie back, Doctor, I can operate the machine to let you lie back as long as I use the marking ability."

There is only one thing that Yabu wants to do from the beginning to the end, which is to help others achieve their goals, and help can only be done with the consent of others. If it is done in accordance with one's own wishes when others are unwilling, If you impose your ideas on others, it is not called help, but arrogant interference.

Therefore, from beginning to end, the choice rests with the Doctor.

"Of course, Doctor, if you can't think of it at the moment, you want to let me help you for the time being, and then change your choice after you have other ideas, that's okay. After all, finding your own goal is actually quite random. It is inevitable that things will sometimes change." Yabu put his hands on his knees, waiting for the doctor's comment.

"桠布......"

"What's the matter, Doctor?"

Faced with Yao Bu's truth from the bottom of his heart and the trusting look in his eyes, after much hesitation, the doctor, who had the power to choose, tightened his clothes and decided to tell Yao Bu about his flash of feelings. : "I have a feeling, I just feel... you may not be the person I want to wait for."

"Huh? Of course I'm not a doctor. There won't be anyone waiting for me in this world."

Yabu himself also knew that if the world was compared to a game, then the Doctor probably had a plot just for her waiting for her. She just got mixed up in this plot because of her sudden appearance. Originally, the Doctor would have been ignored by others. Someone woke him up, but now he was cut off in advance.

"So, the choice is yours, doctor. I am an outsider. You can reject me. It doesn't matter."

There were no questions or negative emotions. From the beginning to the end, Yabu left the choice to the doctor herself.

"...The choice is mine." Faced with Yabu's answer that would not cause any pressure, the doctor lowered his head and tightened some of his clothes, smiled with some relief, and He jokingly asked Yabu, "If I say now that I'm going to lie down and go to bed, please leave first, will you feel sad?"

"...No." Yabu was unusually stuck for a while before he answered.

"Really?"

"Really...well, maybe a little bit."

Seeing that Yabu's formulaic answer gradually turned into some distracted self-doubt under his own questioning, the doctor suddenly had the sinful idea of ​​teasing him and making him look a little frustrated, which would be fun.

She stood up and came to Yabu's side. She bent down and put her hands on Yabu's shoulders. At the same time, she controlled her expression. She looked at him as if she was ready to reject Yabu after thinking about it. After the bewildered little gesture of rubbing his hands came into view, the doctor changed the expression on his face and slowly said:

"Then let's go. Anyway, let's get out of here first."

"......Um?"

"What's wrong, I don't want to lie in that cold coffin anymore, and I also have a goal for the time being, which is to find my past." The doctor slowly pushed up his sleeves that were too long and stretched out his skinny hands. Stretching out in front of Yabu, "Can you help me with such a goal?"

Yabu is not the person he wants to wait for.

But if you have to choose, between lying in a cold coffin waiting for a feeling that you don't know when it will come, and someone standing in front of you now who is kind to you and willing to put clothes on you. If you have to make a choice...

Isn’t it obvious to choose which one?

"Of course, doctor." Yabu came to his senses and happily reached out to hold the doctor's hand.

Rather, this is exactly what I set out to do.

"Wow, your hands are so cold. Are you really not cold?"

"No, it's just that my hands are cold. Doctor, you don't need to take off your clothes. Just put them on first."

Looking at Yabu who bent down and tightened the clothes a little, the doctor no longer pushed back. She slowly rolled up her overly long sleeves to expose her hands, and then silently grasped Yabu tightly. hands, trying to keep him warm with your own hands.

"Doctor? You'll catch a cold."

"It's just a hand. I'm not that fragile yet. Let's go quickly. Maybe it won't be so cold when we leave here."

"…Thanks, Doctor."

Thank you for your trust in me. I will do my best to take care of you and help you.

Until you don't need me anymore.

...............

Chapter 5 Bad karma follows you like a shadow

It was not difficult to get out of the dim core area. After all, markers could be used to point out a way out safely and without being discovered. After spending some time, Yabu and the doctor returned. modern civilized society.

Well, modern civilized society, even a bit Moscow style.

It is completely disconnected from the medieval stagnation and the use of swords and magic in the different world that Yabu presupposed for the different world.

Well, it can’t be said that it is completely unconnected. After all, there are some very... otherworldly things here.

——Orcs.

It does not refer to the ferocious green-skinned orcs who look like they can eat several children alive at a meal, but they refer to cute species that have animal characteristics but also human characteristics.

It can be said that it is a cute category that accounts for a large proportion of your otherworld attributes.

If it is used in a different world game, then there will probably be a beast girl in the protagonist's team. Generally speaking, they are positioned as lively-looking characters, but the number of such characters will not account for a lot. Generally speaking, Still quite rare.

Yes, generally speaking, it should be quite rare.

But in this different world, it turns out, it turns out...

"Cool, bro."

There are really many orcs in this other world, or rather there are not that many anymore. Looking at the men, women, old and young, they all have some animal characteristics. It should be said that they are the aboriginal people here.

This is indeed a different world, and the missing Two-dimensional concentration has been made up for.

"Doctor." "Ya Bu."

The two stood side by side in a deserted corner. After observing the pedestrians on the street for a while, Yabu and the doctor looked at each other at the same time, and asked each other something in unison.

"You speak first."

"You go first... ah, okay, let me talk first." The doctor, who was a little slower than Yabu, had to take the lead in asking her own question. She gestured up and down with her hand to Yabu and asked, "Do you have them?" That kind of, is, um..."

"No." Although the doctor didn't express it, Yabu still understood what the doctor wanted to ask, "I don't have those furry ears or tail, what about you, doctor?"

"I..." The doctor tried to touch the top of his head and behind him. After looking down at his appearance carefully, he replied: "I probably don't have one either."

It's pretty good. It seems that I and Yabu are of the same race and have more topics in common.

This is what the doctor thought after learning this information.

What Yabu was thinking about was...

"Hiss... aren't we in danger, doctor? We won't be treated as aliens and studied for research." Only then did Yabu remember that there might be exclusivity between races, and hurriedly pulled the doctor to a place where there were fewer people. He shrank down and pulled up the hood of the clothes he was wearing on the doctor, covering the doctor's head.

"By the way, doctor, you were stored in a coffin before. Could it be that you were captured and kept as a rare species?"

"I don't know why I'm in that coffin, but we shouldn't be in the danger you think. After all, we've been standing here for so long. If we were, we should have come long ago." The doctor stretched out his hand to lift the hood. After lifting it a little, the cloth was pulled down a little too far, and my eyes were covered.

"But you don't have the ability to see marks. Just to be on the safe side, you should try to see them. We can't rule out the possibility you mentioned. Well...first of all, you should try to check the two of us. Is it safe to be seen by others on this land?"

"it is good."

Mark.

Following the doctor's instructions, Yabu activated his ability while giving the corresponding filtering conditions in his mind. However, this time Yabu did not read out the name of the ability, probably because the doctor was standing right next to him and he was embarrassed. Read it out.

"Doctor, why this land?" While looking around for feedback from the survey marks, Yabu was not idle and curiously asked the doctor about his doubts.

"what?"

"That's why you use 'this land' instead of 'in the world'."

Normally, don’t we always use words like “in this world”?What a strange saying in this land.

It sounds pretty fun though.

"I don't know... I just said it casually."

Obviously he didn't feel anything strange when he said it, but as soon as the point was highlighted, the doctor began to feel that it was strange to speak like that, and he pulled his hood down a little embarrassedly.

"Oh↗, okay, doctor, the result of the marking is that on this, big - land..."

"Stop saying that, please don't imitate what I said."

Even though he had seen the doctor visibly feeling ashamed, Yabu was still very mean-spirited and deliberately slowed down his already slow speech a lot, and emphatically lengthened the tail tone, making the doctor's whole voice now... Everyone's scalp was numb, and they were pulling their hoods down tightly, as if they wanted to wrap themselves up into a rice dumpling and bury them back in the coffin.

"Well... in short, even if we are directly seen, we will not be in danger, and we will not be regarded as a strange species." Seeing that the doctor was almost shrinking into a ball in embarrassment, Yabu did not continue. The doctor was amused, and he honestly told the doctor the result of the mark feedback. He bent down and poked the doctor's hood, "Doctor? Are you listening? Can you hear me? What should I do next?"

"I know, I know, I can hear you."

After gently pushing away Yabu's hand that poked her, the doctor pulled up the hood a little, revealing her gray-black eyes and looking at Yabu. She probably finally calmed down, holding her forehead and thinking. After a moment, he opened his mouth and said to Yabu:

"It will not be regarded as a special species. There are two possibilities for this feedback. The first is that there may be racial characteristics that are not obvious and look like us. The second is that... races like us do not Rare."

The best possibility is probably the second one, which means that there are still other ethnic groups in this world that Doctor and Yabu can integrate into.

And if we can find someone of the same race, the doctor's past may also be traceable.

"Zhaobu, use the mark to try to find out if there is anyone else of the same race as us."

"Okay." After receiving the next step of instructions, Yabu made a ok gesture to the doctor and began to look around.

Looking at Yabu who immediately started using markers to collect the required information after receiving his request, the doctor felt a strange sense of déjà vu for some reason.

"It's like a search engine." The doctor muttered quietly.

If I could use his ability in war, it would be extremely convenient just thinking about it. As long as I use it properly, it can bring huge advantages like cheating.

There are many things you can do, such as...

"Doctor? What's wrong?" Because he didn't hear what the doctor was saying clearly, Yabu bent down and lowered his head, and softly called out to the distracted doctor.

"what......"

The doctor who came back to his senses took a deep breath, as if he had just woken up and felt a headache, and pressed his forehead and temple hard with his right hand.

What am I thinking......

"Doctor, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"