A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

"Your blessing is really strange."

After seeing the little bear walking for some distance, the doctor suddenly patted his back and asked. Yabu, who was suddenly patted, also shook his whole body as if he had been suddenly ganked. He looked back and looked at who knows when. The doctor appeared behind him.

"Ah... don't scare me, doctor, why did you come here suddenly?" After complaining a little, Yabu reached out and handed the money he just begged to the doctor, and said happily, "Look, Doctor, we have enough money, we should have enough for a meal."

The doctor reached out and took the money handed over by Yabu. She opened her palms and looked at the things that Yabu had obtained in exchange for pleasing others. She felt inexplicably sour in her heart.

"Is this what you said, a way to make money?" The doctor looked up and seemed to be staring at Yabu, but the hood made it difficult to see the expression on her face.

"Well, I'll give it a thumbs up for now, but in fact, this is a pretty efficient doctor. I used my ability to mark people who can get money if I ask for it, so I should still be able to earn a lot in one day, at least to support us. It shouldn’t matter when it comes to eating.”

Of course, it might not be enough. After all, I have to support the food expenses for two people, but I can eat less. After all, I have no health problems.

But the doctor couldn't do it. Her body was too weak. Yabu planned to gradually increase the doctor's food intake to solve her possible malnutrition problem.

The ability to cut off contact does not solve problems such as malnutrition, weakness, and anemia. In the final analysis, these problems are essentially caused by the lack of something. The function of cutting off contact itself can also be understood abstractly as separation. There are only problems caused by extra things like blood vessel blockage, cancer cells or viruses.

But what is not there is nothing. What Yabu can do is to remove things that are harmful to the body. He cannot add something out of nothing.

As for directly severing the connection between the concept of weakness and the doctor, Yabu couldn't do such an exaggerated thing.

So in the end, you still have to eat well.

"How about we go get some food, Doctor? It's a little late, and it's almost time for dinner."

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There was an uncomfortable feeling that made the doctor want to say something. She didn't want Yabu to do so, but after thinking about it, she found that she didn't seem to have the ability to say it.

After all, as Yabu said, this can indeed be said to be the most convenient and fastest way for them to make money.

but......

"Zhao Bu, can you not use this method of making money?"

"..." After hearing the doctor's words, Yabu was stunned for a moment. After blinking and thinking for a moment, he seemed to understand what the doctor meant. He smiled while waving his hands and said to the doctor, "Ah, that. .....It's okay, Doctor, I can go by myself, because only I can mark it, Doctor, you don't need to get involved..."

"That's not what I meant!" The doctor was afraid that Yabu would continue to misunderstand him, so he quickly raised his voice to interrupt Yabu's words. After the other party's voice quieted down, he repeated in a slightly lower voice, "That's not what I meant, Yabu." cloth."

The doctor can naturally understand that Yabu's method is currently the easiest for the two gangsters. Everything he does is to make her better. She will not make money because of Yabu. The way she behaved was strange, and she felt that this person who had always been kind to her was a very embarrassing guy, so she felt disgusted with him and wanted to draw a clear line with him.

Maybe it would be best to tell Yabu directly why she didn't want him to do that, but she was a little embarrassed to say why directly, so she had to pretend to be rational and list various reasons, like stacking armor, to strengthen her point of view. .

"This won't last long, and the reproducibility is very low. And if you look around, you won't see anyone begging on the street. Maybe this kind of situation doesn't exist here or it's rare. If you want a lot, It will attract the attention of people around here. In addition, if you can ask for money every time, it may arouse even more curiosity. We are a gangster, and it may not be a good thing if people pay attention to us... ..”

Motivated by Yabu's instinctive fear of the profession of teacher at that moment, he did not dare to move and looked at the doctor who looked like a teacher, with his hands folded in front of him, and from time to time he would He nodded to show that he was listening carefully.

"so......"

Ah, I should have said enough... Let's express what's on our mind in a concluding tone.

"I don't want you to do that..."

After all, the doctor just doesn't want to see Yabu smiling like that to please other people.

Anyway, I just don’t want to.

"Hmm...ah." Yabu nodded confusedly after listening to the doctor's words. He felt that what the doctor said made sense.

In short, just do what the doctor says, it sounds reasonable.

"So Doctor, are you hungry now?"

"I've said so much and you still have to say, are you hungry? Of course I..."

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"Boss, that burrito of hers doesn't want to be spicy."

"The thing they sell is called shawarma, and I clearly said it should be more spicy!" The doctor tugged at the cloth that lied about military information.

"Well... Doctor, you are not in good health. I will wait until you feel better before eating spicy food. If you want to eat it later, I can come over and buy it for you, okay?"

"......Oh."

Chapter 7 Illiteracy

Do you want to get rich?Do you want to get rich overnight?Do you want to have assets worth over [-] million right away?

and you......

Ah, then you kid has a pretty good idea, don’t think about it again next time.

"How could there be something like what you said? The money comes quickly and the quantity is large, and it's a job that can be done by a gangster like us now." The doctor took a small mouthful of the barbecue burrito bought by Yanbu in his right hand. While stuffing it, his left hand did not forget to pull Yabu's arm and follow him.

It feels like a child going shopping with an adult.

"But I just tried to use the marker to check, and it did mark a few for me, and one of them is quite close to us. It's not far anyway. Let's go and have a look. And doctor, please eat slowly. Chew more often, eating like this right after you wake up may not be good for your health, and don’t eat too much and eat less frequently.”

"understood......"

Well, it doesn’t look like adults and children going shopping at all. It looks more like a grandma taking her granddaughter out to play.

After taking out the paper towel he asked for from the burrito seller and handing it to the doctor to signal her to wipe her mouth, Yabu pointed at the marked position in his field of vision and said to the doctor: "It's almost here, it's here. It’s not too late to see what it is.”

Come here, just take a look.

But there is no need to worry about whether there will be danger. Yanbu also knows that this kind of "it's all here" thought is often the beginning of a series of bad things, so when walking towards the mark, he took a look at it with the mark. I went there after getting feedback on whether there would be any danger.

Just act with the belief that a doctor will never be in any danger.

Cheating is used to seek stability. How can I say it? You can flow as you please.

The two followed Yabu's mark and searched around the streets. The doctor always held Yabu's hand and followed him.

She couldn't explain why she always grabbed Yabu's hand unconsciously. Maybe it was because when she woke up, it was these hands that gave her a sense of security and made her instinctively approach him.

Or... the doctor always feels that there is a sense of detachment in Yabu's existence, a feeling of not belonging here that forms a wall around him, making people always feel that his existence is not real at all. It can be as fleeting as a child's fantasy at any moment.

This feeling of not belonging here is not even brought about by that place, but a... a more illusory distance.

Perhaps the goal set at the beginning was the kite string that fixed him here. The doctor always subconsciously wanted to hold on tighter, whether it was the physical level or the mental level.

"Doctor? If I did something wrong, would you give me a chance to apologize? Are you going to pin my finger, Doctor?"

"Ah, no...it's okay. I was just a little distracted. I subconsciously held on tighter to prevent me from falling because I didn't look at the road."

"How about we go have a good meal first, Doctor? Is it because you are hungry? Doctor, you seem to be easily distracted."

"Maybe, probably, maybe." The doctor said something that even she found strange. In order to prevent herself from continuing to talk nonsense, she immediately tried to change the topic elsewhere, looked at Yao Bu and asked, "Let's not mention those things for now. Let’s go take a look at the marked thing you mentioned.”

"Already here, right in here, Doctor."

While speaking, Yabu stretched out his hand that was not held by the doctor and pointed in front of them. Seeing this, the doctor curiously turned his sight to the direction that Yabu pointed.

It was a shop with a somewhat small store. To be more precise, it was a small bookstore.

"...?"

That's it?

"Let me ask, Yabu, what you said before is that the money comes quickly and the quantity is large, and we can still make it, right?"

"hold head high."

"Are you sure it's here?"

The doctor opened his mouth as if he wanted to make a sharp comment, but after thinking about it for a while, he could only express his confusion by waving his fingers at the small bookstore in the air.

Although the words "own gold house" and similar words in books are still common in various places, it is a metaphor. You can't tell the difference between fiction and reality. Are you really ready to go there to dig for gold?

But there is another possibility. For example, this small shop is some kind of awesome secret place. You can take orders or enter various underground venues by giving some abstract passwords.

"Don't worry, doctor, don't worry." Yabu squinted at the location where the mark existed, and said to the doctor, "The mark seems to be a book. Anyway, let's go in and take a look. It's safe. It’s no problem, Doctor.”

Of course, you are not going in there to dig for gold. Since the mark marks a certain book, you can still guess some possibilities.

For example, that book has a clear way to make money, or that book can bring wealth.

......hiss.

Anyway, take a look first.

They walked directly into the small bookstore. The boss sitting at the front desk leaned on the table and didn't say anything to the two of them. After all, it was not a large library. You had to get a corresponding permit to enter and exit. The two gangsters went in directly to read. As long as they don't look weird like a thief, the boss can't tell who they are.

There were not many people in the bookstore. After following the mark and walking a certain distance deeper, only Doctor and Yabu were left around.

"Doctor, this is the one." Yabu stopped, pointed to a certain book on the bookshelf, and said to the doctor.

"what book?"

The book was on the top shelf. The doctor tried to stand on tiptoes and stretched her arms upwards to take down the book. She didn't want to trouble Yabu to help with such a trivial matter, but Yabu on the side tried to prevent it. When the doctor bumped into him, he took out the book without saying anything and handed it to the doctor's hand.

"Doctor, take a look, this is the book marked as one that can make money."

"Oh...ahem...?!"

"What's wrong, doctor? Did you choke on the ash?"

Thinking that the doctor was choked by the dust on the book, Yabu quickly reached out to cover the doctor's mouth and nose, and at the same time patted the book a few times with his other hand.

But the doctor's cough was not actually due to choking, but because he was frightened after seeing the name on the cover of the book.

The other words on the cover of the book didn't matter. The doctor didn't know much about it, but the doctor still knew what the two big words in the title meant.

"criminal law"

"Wait...wait a minute, you must have picked up the wrong one, Yabu."

"That's it, doctor."

"Oh, I understand, you are joking, right?" The doctor laughed, thinking of a reason for Yabu.

"?"

"...You're kidding, right?"

He lowered his head and glanced at the name on the cover of the book handed over by Yabu, and then looked up at Yabu's expectant eyes. The doctor's brain fell into a brief shutdown. After looking at Yabu with dull eyes for a moment, It just started moving again as if it had been restarted.

After looking around in a panic and confirming that there was nothing around looking at this place, the doctor looked at Yabu and spoke softly in a suppressed voice: "...Wait a minute, do we really want to do this? No, there is no turning back, Yabu, although we need money very much, but...but you can't..."

"What's wrong with this book? Is it something bad?"

"What's wrong, Yabu, you..." The doctor looked at Yabu with an expression that didn't look like he was about to commit a crime, but simply filled with confusion. She immediately thought of something, and paused to think about it. He looked at Yabu's previous behavior.

Obviously you can just say the name of the book after seeing it, but you point to the book and say nothing.

After getting the book, I didn't read it immediately, but handed it to myself to read.

"...You're not, um, not very familiar with these words, are you?"

It was very tactfully revealed that Yabu was illiterate.

Between the two options that Yabu was actually an innocent criminal who didn't care about the law, and that the other party was actually illiterate, the doctor thought about it for a while before choosing a slightly more serious one. By.

"Well, I don't understand."

"How come you can't understand this?" The doctor held the book in front of Yabu and pointed at the big words on the cover for Yabu to read carefully.

"Hmm... Karopai Beihouyi? Is this the mathematical symbol Π, Doctor?"

"Criminal Law, Penalty, Law, Zhabu, do you really not understand?"

"...I don't know why you think so highly of me, Doctor. I think I can understand it, but I'm really sorry that I failed to live up to your expectations by not knowing the language."

That was Russian, and Yabu was just a person who loved porcelain. He might be able to speak English, but Russian was a bit too difficult for him.

"How is it possible that you can't understand? No matter what, you shouldn't be unable to understand. You have spoken Gaulish before, and when you talked to the passerby and the burrito seller, you used Ursus and Yan Guoyu, you..." The doctor put the book aside and pointed out other languages ​​​​that Yabu had spoken one by one. But before she could finish speaking, her mind gave another idea based on the current situation. One possible answer.

"The language you hear and speak comes with some degree of translation?"

"Maybe?"

As for the benefits of classic time travellers, except for a light novel written by a hardcore giant named "Introduction to Different World Languages" for the protagonist to learn a language, basically all time travel books come with oral translations.

After all, through this simple way, the characters can communicate with the locals as soon as they come up, directly avoiding the possibility of the embarrassment of despicable foreigners who can't even beg for food.

"The words you speak will be the native language of the other party. In some specific languages, it will become the original text. Just like Yanguo. But because this is not your knowledge, you can listen and speak like a normal person. . But when it comes to reading and writing words, you can’t recognize them. Is that so? Is this your ability?”

"Doctor, actually I don't know too much."

"Then it seems to be what I thought. There was actually a pause at the end of each sentence I just said, and then I used different language from the previous sentence, but you didn't notice the strangeness at all."

"...Doctor, have you really lost your memory?"

Before Yabu himself could figure out what his situation was, the doctor had already thoroughly understood Yabu's abilities as if he were directly scrolling through someone else's status bar.