Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

That's why he was wondering whether he should go and play with the Doctor.

"But as usual, I'll just be the old man in the monitoring room for a while."

After dinner, Lu Shang returned to his room.

Pull out a chair, sit at the table, look up, and you can see the countless surveillance screens hanging on the wall at a glance.

Displayed on the screen are the dormitory scenes of each NPC.

It does satisfy my voyeurism.

But after watching it for a long time, I found that every NPC had the same repetitive plot every day, and after a month, I got bored of it.

I can only say that it's a good thing that every time I go back to the game, it seems that only Lu Shang's room will not be returned. Otherwise, the first thing I do every day when I wake up is to walk around the streets and place cameras in every NPC's dormitory, and then hang screens on the wall one by one...

Not to mention a month, Lu Shang would probably get annoyed after a few days.

However, no matter how annoying these surveillance screens are, they now have new uses.

He took out two hundred-sided dice, shook them, and gently tossed them onto the table.

Originally, Lu Shang was supposed to go to the dormitory of the NPC with the number corresponding to the number rolled on the two dice to play tonight.

But the Hundred-Sided Dice had already stopped, but Lu Shang didn't even look at it. Instead, he was frowning and looking at the surveillance screen with the number B003 written on it.

That's Kal'tsit's dormitory room.

After a month, Lu Shang had already figured out the daily movements of each NPC.

but:

"Why is Kal'tsit up now?"

Lu Shang looked a little serious: "At this time... shouldn't Kal'tsit have gone to bed long ago? It has been like this for the past month... so why is it different today?"

It can't be that the NPC is alive?

002. Kal'tsit is also a cat, and her fur will stand up when she is frightened.

slam-la-

Kal'tsit closed the toilet lid and walked out of the bathroom.

She stopped in front of the sink, washed her hands first, then scooped up some water and patted her cheeks.

After regaining consciousness, Kal'tsit raised her head and looked at her reflection in the mirror.

"Seems a little... strange?"

Kelsey muttered to herself.

Indeed, her current behavior is just a normal way for ordinary people to get up at night.

But she is not an ordinary person, she is like a sophisticated machine.

So this feeling of incongruity, like a small bug suddenly appearing in a normally running program, immediately caught her attention.

"I remember I had just finished an operation, dragged my exhausted body back to the dormitory, and fell asleep as soon as I touched the pillow... This is how it should be."

"And the time now is 0:01 in the morning."

"But I remember clearly that I went to bed at exactly 0:0. Did I only sleep for one minute? That's unlikely."

Kal'tsit had only heard of quantum reading, but had never heard of quantum sleeping.

After all, it's impossible that she slept for a whole day and night and it's already the early morning of the next day, right?

If that's the case, Theresa and the Doctor would probably go crazy.

"..."

Well, Theresa is probably the only one who is anxious.

As for the Doctor...

Kal'tsit always felt that the Doctor seemed to be becoming more and more crazy recently.

"Huh...almost there."

Kal'tsit was indeed very smart, and she realized something was wrong almost instantly.

But no matter how sophisticated the machine is, it still takes some time to start up and calculate.

As a last resort, Kal'tsit had no choice but to look at her reflection in the mirror and let her wild thoughts run wildly, in an effort to get her dormant brain functioning again as quickly as possible.

Soon, Kal'tsit discovered the bug and looked towards the lower left corner of the mirror.

That's where her shoulders were.

"The Originium crystal on my shoulder... is gone?"

Kal'tsit's pupils shrank into vertical pupils in an instant.

This is completely dark under the light.

Having lived with the infection for so many years, we have long been accustomed to it. Who would have thought that after just a good night's sleep, the oripathy would inexplicably disappear?

"what happened?"

Kal'tsit reached out and touched her shoulder almost immediately.

But all I touched was the warm and smooth skin.

"Really disappeared?"

"impossible..."

"If you forcibly remove the Originium crystals on the body's surface, it will only leave a blood hole that cannot be healed."

"Moreover, the Originium crystals will grow again very quickly, so it is impossible for them to heal so perfectly."

"Unless... it's accompanied by oripathy—"

Thinking of this, Kal'tsit checked her body again.

She was a doctor, so she came to a conclusion quickly.

"The oripathy is gone..."

"This is even more impossible."

If she draws a tube of blood now and then has it tested, the result will definitely be 0, a completely pure 0.

But this is impossible.

She is not an Agor. Besides, even if she is an Agor, she can still be infected with mineral sickness by replacing the blood in her entire body with liquid Originium.

Not to mention the situation on the land of Terra. The air is filled with Originium dust particles. Every breath you take will cause the value to jump up by a few points. It is impossible to achieve a completely pure 0.

"Psychic Originium Technique? Made me hallucinate?"

"The power of the giant beast? I am actually just a consciousness now?"

"Or... am I dreaming?"

Kal'tsit kept thinking about the possibilities.

The first two cannot be verified for the time being, but if it's a dream...

Kal'tsit reached out and pinched herself.

“… …, it hurts…”

Not dreaming.

Because it hurts... No, it hurts too much.

Why does it hurt so much?

How could she, who could remain calm even when hit by a sword, be as delicate and tender as a little girl and cry out in pain just by being pinched by a fingernail?

Wait...?

Like a little girl...?

Thinking of this, Kal'tsit no longer cared about the strange situation and whispered, "Mon3tr."

The "Mon9tr" that was supposed to attach to her spine and tear open her flesh and blood to transform into a nearly 3-meter-long monster——

Unfortunately, there is no response at this time.

"..."

Not so good.

The oripathy was inexplicably cured, and the healing was so perfect that it was as if it had never existed.

As a result, Kal'tsit lost all her power. Even "Mon3tr" disappeared. At this moment, Kal'tsit was as weak as a powerless little girl.

Bad. Very bad.

Kal'tsit's first reaction was not to be happy about her recovery from oripathy, but to be worried about the ongoing civil war in Kazdel.

She knew very well how annoying she was in the eyes of the Sarkaz.

There are many people who want to eat her flesh and bones.

Unfortunately, she is now extremely weak and has no power to resist.

If those people knew about her...

Wait? Has everyone become as weak as her? Or... just her?

"The room was fine...the placement and location of things were exactly as I remembered."

"The environment... the temperature... the composition of the air, all are fine."

"No, there seems to be no Originium dust particles in the air?"

"It's as if this world has never had settings like 'Originium' and 'Ore Disease'."

"So it's not just me, but everyone is the same?"

Oh, right! Theresa! If everyone is the same, then how is Theresa now?

Ding dong.

Kal'tsit was just about to take action when a sound like a phone call suddenly rang out, interrupting her thoughts precisely.

"who...?"

Kal'tsit turned her head instantly, following the voice, and her eyes finally fell on... a communication device beside her bed.

... ... ...

... ...

...

"Who else could it be? Of course it's me, your dear Lu Shang."

Indeed, Kal'tsit was very perceptive. She sensed something was wrong the moment she came into this world.

But who makes me better?

Lu Shang had already arrived at the door of Kal'tsit's dormitory.

And through the surveillance footage on the mobile phone, she could clearly see that Kal'tsit was hiding in the house at the moment, and her whole body was tense like a frightened cat, with her eyes shrunk into vertical pupils and staring at the mobile phone beside her bed.

003.Here's Johnny!

"Dream?"

"In other words, this world is actually divided into the surface world and the inner world? Or it could be the normal world and the dream world."

"In the normal world, this Kal'tsit fell asleep, and then her consciousness traveled to the dream world where I am?"

Through the surveillance, Lu Shang naturally heard all of Kal'tsit's previous mumblings.