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"Really? It seems to be the same as my initial assessment. The vascular erosion in your mind has caused your legs to lose sensation. If these blood vessels can be completely suppressed, then your legs will recover."

"Um... could you be a little gentler?"

"……it is good."

Bai Miao slightly relaxed his grip: "Give me some more time, and I should be able to find a way to cure the blood thirst syndrome."

"Dr. Moriarty...why are you doing all this?"

Bai Miao thought for a moment and replied, "A doctor's instinct, or perhaps something else entirely."

My curiosity about the cursed blood was one reason, and my desire to stay a few more days to recharge the Zero Hour Lock was another.

Of course, there's also the fact that Bai Miao believed he could do it.

If you see a possibility of completing a task, but instead of prioritizing it, you turn your attention to other clues that seem unfocused, then it feels a bit like haphazardly trying to solve a problem.

When Bai Miao first arrived in Yar City, he was disoriented and wandered around aimlessly. Now that Miss Hearst has made some clearer progress, he might as well seize the opportunity to resolve the issue completely.

Hearing Bai Miao's reply, Hearst lowered his gaze slightly: "Thank you, Dr. Moriarty. I'm very lucky to have met you."

"It's nothing. Being able to cure you is a great achievement for me."

After completing his treatment on Sunday morning, Bai Miao threw himself back into his research and development work, planning to create a dialysis membrane to separate the bloodworms from the blood cells.

While visual estimation allows Bai Miao to improve accuracy to 0.1m within a range of 1 meters, it is still somewhat insufficient when dealing with cells at the μm level.

So Bai Miao used mathematics as an aid and spent a day finally making a dialysis membrane that was barely usable.

Larger blood cells, such as red blood cells, are blocked on one side of the dialysis membrane, while bloodworms and other small residues of blood are on the other side.

Once removed from their blood environment, the bloodworms under the microscope become extremely aggressive. Not only do they move faster, but they also engage in fierce battles when they come into contact with each other, tearing and devouring one another.

Bai Miao had a sudden inspiration and took out Katie's blood and put the bloodworms in it.

As expected, the bloodworms quickly lost their activity and were then engulfed by the white blood cells in Katie's blood.

Katie's blood has insecticidal properties!

If bloodworms are likened to a type of germ, then Katie is like someone with antibodies.

What I need to do is extract antibodies from Katie's blood to kill the bloodworms.

The process of antibody preparation flashed through Bai Miao's mind, and he quickly chose a method that could quickly build a production line in the current environment.

"How did I go from being a doctor to a researcher...?"

Bai Miao rubbed his eyes. He hadn't slept for two days because of the cursed blood.

Fortunately, there has been a breakthrough.

Katie's remaining blood was insufficient for Bai Miao to extract antibodies; more blood was needed to obtain antibodies.

"I should go ask Katie for her opinion... Oh, I wonder if her shop is open yet."

Bai Miao planned to first retrieve the newspaper from the mailbox outside the door to see what had happened recently.

Unexpectedly, there was also a letter from Katie among them, which must have indicated that the matter of the shop had been settled.

Upon opening the letter, it indeed stated that they planned to open for business tomorrow, mainly selling violins and cellos.

Bai Miao hadn't expected Katie to develop in this direction.

After paying off the debt, Katie still had about 1 RMB in initial capital, which was more than enough for the initial operation of the store.

Even though a decent violin costs over 500 echoes, Katie still impulsively bought several.

In the letter, Bai Miao saw Katie's determination to open a shop.

In other words, it should be Katie's dream.

Driven by her dream, Katie opened stores at an extremely fast pace.

Bai Miao opened the newspaper again to learn about the major events that had occurred in Yar City in the past two days.

Putting aside all medical advancements, this was the first time Bai Miao had seen information about the Healing Cult appear in major newspapers.

The Healing Cult has recently been using newspapers to advertise job openings.

The requirement is that the person has no mental illness and is terminally ill.

Bai Miao felt that the most suitable candidate should be chosen from the slums.

There are many civilians waiting to die there, and if they are chosen by the Healing Cult, the reward will be much higher than that of ordinary doctors.

Oh, no quantity limit.

Bai Miao almost missed this additional information.

The Healing Cult wants all of them, as long as they meet the requirements.

There were also some comments in the newspapers, the vast majority of which were against it. They believed that the Healing Cult was trying to monopolize patient resources and hinder the development of Yar City. They hoped that the ethics review committee would intervene and stop the Healing Cult's actions.

What exactly triggered this healing cult...?

Why was Atalina's situation such a huge blow to them?

Bai Miao hadn't forgotten that Atalina had taken her skull ornament with her, and he wondered if Favre had taken it as a trophy after she was killed.

If it hadn't been taken, Bai Miao would definitely have gone to the Healing Cult to get it back.

But recently Bai Miao really hasn't had time to heal the sect.

There are many factors to consider when going to such an organization; you can't just go whenever you want unless they actively invite you.

They also rarely go out outside the western urban area.

The ethics review committee could not ignore this matter and demanded that the Healing Cult provide specific details explaining why so many patients were needed.

The Healing Cult naturally didn't reveal any information, but they did back down, limiting the number of participants to fifty.

The ethics review committee did not continue to make things difficult, but instead added an extra condition: the fifty people could not have the same disease and had to be evenly distributed.

Using the newspaper as a tool, the two major powers in Yar City began negotiations and finally reached an agreement.

It can be said that they openly used the fact that they wanted to experiment on people as a bargaining chip.

These patients, unfortunately, did not have extra money to buy newspapers.

Many people learned about this news by borrowing newspapers from others at their workplaces.

The news that the Healing Cult needed to select fifty people spread like wildfire throughout the slums.

Everyone was preparing for the day when the Healing Cult would arrive.

They didn't know what the Healing Cult wanted to do, but at that moment, the Healing Cult was hope for them.

Fifty people with different ailments mean that everyone has an equal opportunity; it all depends on how well they perform in front of the healing cult.

The date chosen by the Healing Cult is in 3 days.

After collecting all the letters and newspapers, Bai Miao began to do something even more important.

Dr. Lecter kept reminding me that I needed to do a psychoanalysis.

This is the first and most important step in manipulating one's own mind.

Chapter 190 The Spiritual Body of the Self

Bai Miao hasn't asked what would happen if he did psychoanalysis on himself, but it certainly wouldn't be easy.

After much deliberation, Bai Miao knocked on Dr. Lecter's door.

At the very least, Lecter should take full responsibility for this, right? He can't just do it himself and then wash his hands of the matter.

"Hello, Dr. Moriarty, how can I help you?"

Lecter maintained a smile throughout, as if Bai Miao's arrival was just a routine neighborhood visit.

"Dr. Lecter... what should I be careful about when doing psychoanalysis on myself?"

"It seems you've already made up your mind."

Lecter simply smiled slightly: "What you need to prepare is a full-length mirror. You need to reflect your whole body in the mirror, and then treat the person in the mirror as someone else, just like you would when you do psychoanalysis on someone else."

"Of course, if you feel something is wrong, you can break the mirror, which can interrupt the psychoanalysis process."

"Okay, I understand. Thanks for reminding me."

Bai Miao had a full-length mirror at home, and he did initially intend to use it to conduct psychoanalysis on himself.

But Lecter revealed a method for cutting losses in time.

Back home, Bai Miao stood in front of the mirror, hesitating whether he should take off all his clothes first.

If you don't take off your clothes, you might not be able to detect any changes in your body immediately.

After thinking it over, Bai Miao obediently stripped naked and stood in front of the mirror.

This was the first time he had seen the body in its entirety.

Although he was somewhat thin, his complexion was rosy thanks to the good food and drink he had been eating and drinking these past few days.

"Phew...psychoanalysis, I guess..."

Bai Miao stared at his unfamiliar reflection in the mirror and began his psychoanalysis.

My mental energy was dropping rapidly like water, and the outline of my vision was gradually becoming blurred.

In the mirror, Bai Miao saw an endless darkness suddenly surging out behind him.

It was as if the black mist would soon engulf him.

My head started to throb with pain, and the pressure inside my eyes kept increasing.

If this continues, my head might explode.

Bai Miao knelt in front of the mirror, gritting his teeth and persevering while his mental energy was locked by the Abyss's Howl.

But in the end, Bai Miao discovered that even if he locked his mind, he would still faint under the immense pressure.

The stimulation of one's own psychoanalysis cannot be offset by locking oneself in a psyche.

So Bai Miao struggled to hold the Moon's Essence in his hand. The pure white light dispelled the mist in the mirror, and Bai Miao felt that he could persevere again.

The cost is that the durability of Moonflower is rapidly decreasing at a rate of 1 point per second.