Arknights, but all characters are NPCs?

131. Ghost Shark: Burn Your Dreams

"Ghost Shark...?"

W stroked his chin and tilted his head.

She always felt...she seemed to have seen this name somewhere?

Yes, I have seen it, not heard of it.

"It was Dr. Kelsey who called her Ghost Shark."

The medical operator seemed to have misunderstood something and waved his hands repeatedly: "I heard that Doctor Kal'tsit was out for a while, and then she picked up that Agor man. Ah... should I use the word "picked up"? "

The medical operator seemed unsure.

Finally, he simply waved his hand again, and the medical operator said, "Anyway, that Agor seemed to be in a bad mental state. When she was checking in, no matter what she was asked, she answered irrelevant questions. In the end, it was Dr. Kal'tsit who helped her fill out the form, and the code name she filled in was "Ghost Shark."

This is not something worth hiding, not to mention that given the relationship between W, Kal'tsit and His Highness, it would be okay to tell her.

However, after explaining, seeing that W still looked thoughtful, the medical operator took her leave for the time being, after all, she was also busy.

After the medical operator left, some time passed before W suddenly clapped his hands as if he had suddenly realized something:

"Fuck! I just remembered it!"

"I saw it in a dream!"

Because that bastard Lu Shang seemed to like white-haired people very much. In the dream, that bastard Lu Shang even specially dragged over a bunch of white-haired NPCs and asked W to stand over and form some kind of white-haired team.

And one of the white-haired ones is the ghost shark.

Because the ghost shark also has its own characteristics. What is it called... Guiming Ghost Shark?

So much so that W remembers it very clearly.

So the situation now is...

That bastard Lu Shang likes white-haired cats, so Kal'tsit picked up a white-haired cat?

"Kelsey?!" W deliberately shouted loudly: "Kelsey, are you really going to be a pimp?!"

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"The condition... has temporarily stabilized."

After being transferred from the emergency room to the general ward, Kal'tsit relaxed for a while as she looked at the Ghost Shark lying quietly on the bed.

Unlike W, who either punched people or was punched in the dream world, Kal'tsit still did a lot of serious work.

She knew the general plot of the Haisi Destruction if line, she knew that Skadi was the key, she knew that Skadi was still wandering the earth as a bounty hunter, and she also knew that she could use the ghost shark to fish Skadi out.

It is difficult to find a person in a vast crowd, but it is easy to catch a fish with bait - except for fishermen.

Knowing the plot in advance, he rescued the ghost shark in advance.

So although Ghost Shark's mental state is not very good now, it is much better than the state in the future when it was like eating mushrooms and watching little people dancing.

And even if it really comes to that, it doesn’t matter, after all—

"I know you are not asleep, Ghost Shark, or Deep Sea Hunter, Laurentina. The detection equipment is not for show."

Kal'tsit reached out and took out a booklet she had written called "Rules of the Dream World" and placed it next to Ghost Shark's pillow: "Remember to read it when you have time. It should be very useful to you."

Yes, before pushing Ghost Shark into the operating room, when Ghost Shark was still awake, Kal'tsit had already briefly described the dream world to Ghost Shark.

The reason is, firstly, because of Lu Shang's speculation, at least two of the three conditions must be met in order to enter a dream.

Now Ghost Shark has met both conditions of "knowing about the dream world and will enter the dream" and "carrying a tragic color and wanting to escape from reality".

Therefore, whether this speculation is true depends on whether the ghost shark will enter the dream next.

The second reason is——

"Kelsey?! Kelsey, are you really going to be a pimp?!"

W's loud voice came from outside the ward door and reached Kal'tsit's ears.

This made Kal'tsit nod subconsciously. Yes, the second reason was that she, as a brothel owner, should do some work -

Kelsey: "..."

What a brothel owner.

I was almost led astray.

Kal'tsit frowned with a headache.

But W outside the ward ignored it and continued shouting loudly.

This made Kal'tsit certain that when Lu Shang was talking about the rules and speculations on how to enter dreams, W must have been absent-minded.

So Kal'tsit's face suddenly darkened and she turned and left the ward.

I could even vaguely hear Kal'tsit's voice fading away: "W, please keep quiet in the ward. I remember this kind of thing. I taught you at the beginning—"

Until the door of the ward closed automatically, blocking out all sounds from the outside world, the Ghost Shark, who was lying quietly on the bed, opened his eyes directly as Kal'tsit had said before.

There was no fanaticism, no excitement, and no unnecessary emotions in those beautiful scarlet eyes.

In Ghost Shark's eyes there was only the dead silence like a dry pool of water. She turned her head quietly and looked at the booklet placed beside her pillow.

He reached out and picked it up, flipping through a few pages casually, then seemed to have lost interest and closed it again.

Just looking at the big words on the cover of the booklet, Ghost Shark was not interested in the word "rules", but instead became interested in the word "dream" in the dream world.

She gently rubbed it with her fingertips until the word "dream" ignited on its own without fire. The rolled-up scraps of paper flew into the air and twisted into words she could not understand.

Ghost Shark didn't know if this was her hallucination, because there should be no fire in the ward, and the burning flames gently licked her fingertips, but she didn't feel a trace of heat.

But...

Looking up at the fire that illuminated the entire ward, Ghost Shark's eyes, which were like a pool of stagnant water, were gently rippling.

"Look... it's light..."

The ghost shark grinned, and the words that came out of its mouth were as fanatical as when Prometheus stole fire.

How dazzling and how warm.

She's grasping, she's frantic, she—

Under the firelight, she saw a cat-headed doctor coming to her with crisp footsteps, crushing the flames, and then snatching the booklet from her hand.

"It seems I have to take back what I said before. Your mental state is worse than I thought, Ghost Shark."

"Tsk, tsk, what is this called? A biting dog doesn't bark?"

"......, W, if you don't know how to use words, you don't have to use them,"

Ah...the light went out.

The ghost shark returned to its state of being like a pool of stagnant water.

She ignored the whispers in her ears and the cat-headed doctor beside her.

The ghost shark simply curled up and bit its nails, as if this would allow it to embrace the warm fire again, having a rare, lucid and peaceful dream.

132. Mr. Shark, I am your attending physician Lu Shang. Please cooperate with me in the examination.

"Mother Kai, you are finally willing to do some work."

"I've already told you that I'm not a brothel owner. Can you please stop calling me that?"

"But it's true that you brought the ghost shark here, Mom Kai?"

"That's her own fault... Never mind. I don't want to talk to you."

"Hey, Mommy Kai, don't go. We still have a show to perform later."

"I'm neither your accomplice nor an actor, so why should I help you? And - could you please stop changing my clothes secretly? I'm a doctor, not a nurse."

"But the nurse's uniform is pretty. Okay, okay, I can help you, Mommy Kai, change the color of the nurse's uniform to white, okay?"

"I've already said it's not about the color."

very noisy...

The ghost shark slowly opened its eyes and looked at the white ceiling.

It seemed to be the voice of the cat-headed doctor... There was also an unfamiliar male voice. The two of them were whispering nearby, which made Ghost Shark annoyed.

But just as she was about to get up, pick up the chainsaw, transform herself into a happy saw-maker, and have a good chat with the two about life—

"Oops?" Ghost Shark finally realized something was wrong: "Am I awake?"

She remembered that she was born in Agor under the dome and that when she was young she should have become a sculptor.

She remembered that she had become a deep-sea hunter and, together with other compatriots, had torn open the flesh and blood barrier formed by the sea heirs and launched the final attack on their god.

She remembered how she had survived by chance, and escaped to the land exhausted, but was captured by the Deep Sea Church. In front of the white, weeping statue, she was cut open, healed, cut open again, and healed again.

She remembered the cat-headed doctor who brought a monster named Mon3tr, stepping on blood and flesh to rescue her.

She recalled that she was placed on a ship called Rhodes Island, and said frankly that her mental state was extremely bad.

Yes, that's how it should be.

Even at this moment, Ghost Shark can clearly recall that she was having an attack...ah, should that be called an attack, right?

Ghost Shark couldn't help but sneer.

She should have been dead silent, but underneath that silence there should have been madness hidden.

But why is she awake now?

Look up and look around.

I found that this was still the same ward, and she was still lying on the bed, wearing a thin hospital gown.

So what happened?

Da da da.

With steady footsteps, a man in a white coat walked into her ward.

Oops... a man I don’t know.

The ghost shark blinked its eyes but still lay motionless on the hospital bed.

She looked at the man in front of her curiously, wanting to know what this man would do to her.

She is not some of the foolish people in her tribe who cannot hide things in her heart.

She was very curious, wondering whether she would bite the man, then spit it out because she thought it tasted bad, or bite the man's neck directly.

But nothing.

"The patient is Ghost Shark, right? Or should I call you Laurentina? Forget it, Shark Shark is more catchy."

The man came to her bedside, holding a chart and looking at it seriously for a long time: "I am your attending physician, Lu Shang. Next, I will ask you some questions about your condition. Ms. Shasha, please cooperate with me."

"Shark?"

Ghost Shark blinked his eyes again and couldn't help laughing: "This name is quite cute, I like it very much. So... um, Doctor Lu Shang, right? Can I call you that?"

"Of course, Shark, you are much smarter than that old cat."

Under Lu Shang's teasing, Kal'tsit, wearing a nurse's uniform, walked up with a dark face and handed Lu Shang a mask.

This made Lu Shang pause for a moment, and then he clapped his hands: "Oh, I forgot, I forgot, you have to act the whole set, you are worthy of being Kai's mother."

"Ah."

I don't know which guy was teasing me just now.

Kal'tsit sneered and didn't say anything.

After Lu Shang took the mask and put it on, he pointed at Kal'tsit beside him and said to Ghost Shark: "This is my assistant, Kal'tsit..."