I opened a clinic in the Abyss World

This was somewhat different from the elven market Charlotte had imagined; it was more like a rural market day.

The elves are no longer the aloof and detached creatures they once were; they are now individuals standing on the ground, with their own emotions and desires, striving to live their lives.

Perhaps it was the red moon that appeared a thousand years ago, and the towering black city wall outside the city, that changed them.

But they are still trying to live their lives.

The ground was clean and tidy, and each stall was arranged neatly, even the slaughtered wild ducks were arranged according to size.

Perhaps this is what makes their attitudes different.

"Come over here, have a bowl of noodles first, then we'll find something else to eat." Lois pulled Charlotte along, walked straight to a noodle stall, found an empty seat, and said familiarly to the owner, "Two bowls of dry noodles, double the amount of fried sauce."

"Alright, Holy Maiden, please wait a moment," the boss replied.

The owner was a shrewish middle-aged man. His white apron was spotless, and the noodle stall was also clean. The noodles were handmade by him, and a large bowl of fried sauce next to him was already mostly used up, indicating that business must be good.

This shout attracted the attention of many elves.

  

Lois holds a unique and prestigious position among the elves, and is considered the future successor to the High Priestess.

Charlotte, sitting next to her, was even more unusual.

Humans are not common in the Elf Forest; most are merchant caravans from various places who leave after completing their transactions.

Apart from elves, other races are not allowed to buy property or reside in the Elf City long-term; this is also a regulation to protect the lower-class elves.

So, who is this young human sitting next to the saintess and eating with her?

Although curious, the elves did not crowd around them. Those whose eyes met Lois's would give her a slight bow, but most would quickly and politely look away and continue shopping or selling their goods.

Charlotte was initially worried that going out shopping with Lois would attract a lot of attention.

But the elves' sense of propriety surprised him; this way of getting along was indeed very comfortable.

The noodles arrived quickly, in two large bowls with plenty of noodles, a thick layer of double-portion fried sauce, sprinkled with green scallions, and drizzled with hot oil. The aroma was irresistible and looked quite appetizing.

"Thank you," Lois said with a smile, picking up a fork and starting to stir the noodles.

Charlotte picked up the fork, thought for a moment, then put it back. She took out a spare pair of chopsticks from her spatial ring and began stirring the noodles.

"You...you eat with tree branches?" Lois, who was stirring noodles with a fork, looked at Charlotte in surprise.

"These are chopsticks, simple tableware made of bamboo, but they are very practical and are the most important tableware in my hometown." Charlotte perfectly mixed the noodles and fried sauce in front of her, then picked up a chopstick, the noodles were covered with sauce and a lot of fried sauce, and fed it directly into her mouth.

The fried sauce is made with lean meat, but it's stir-fried with animal fat, making it very fragrant and not dry at all.

The sauce is perfectly seasoned, with a slight spiciness. After mixing it thoroughly, it coats the noodles, and the first bite is an explosion of flavor on the delicate palate.

The noodles are handmade, smooth on the outside and chewy on the inside, soft but not sticky, and become more fragrant the more you chew them.

This bowl of Zhajiangmian (noodles with soybean paste) is perfectly balanced; it's so delicious it'll bring tears to your eyes!

Charlotte, in particular, is so comforting now that her stomach is growling with hunger.

"Boss, make me another bowl of Zhajiangmian, double the amount of Zhajiang." After taking a bite of noodles, Charlotte looked at the boss and said, giving him a thumbs up: "Very authentic and delicious noodles."

"Okay, I'm cooking it for you." The boss was overjoyed to receive praise from the foreigners. He agreed and started pulling the ramen again.

"There's plenty of delicious food ahead. Are you sure you want to have two bowls of noodles to fill your stomach first?" Lois leaned closer and whispered a reminder.

"It's okay. I might have a bigger appetite than you think. I'll eat two bowls of noodles first to fill my stomach so I'll have the energy to go shopping later," Charlotte replied with a smile, then picked up a large mouthful of noodles and fed it to him, chewing it heartily with great relish.

"He's eating so heartily..." Lois watched Charlotte devour her noodles with chopsticks, then glanced at her own delicate little fork and felt her presence diminished considerably. She whispered, "Do you have any more chopsticks?"

"Are you sure you want to learn to use chopsticks here? It will take some time to master it," Charlotte asked in a low voice, looking at her.

"It's alright, they're all very nice and won't laugh at me," Lois said nonchalantly, without any hint of saintly concern.

Lois surprised Charlotte with her genuine appearance. She had thought that a saintess with a divine status would maintain a certain mystique in front of her people, but Lois seemed like a simple, innocent girl next door.

"Here, I'll teach you how to hold chopsticks." Charlotte took out another pair of chopsticks and handed them to Lois, and began to patiently teach her how to hold the chopsticks, as well as how to master the way and techniques of exerting force.

"Oh! It really works great, much more convenient than a fork."

Lois learned quickly, holding the chopsticks, successfully picking up the noodles, and then feeding them into her mouth.

Seeing the happy smile on her face, Charlotte also smiled. Elves are indeed a famously intelligent race; they quickly mastered how to use chopsticks.

After finishing two bowls of noodles, the nagging hunger finally subsided.

"Boss, how much?" Charlotte stood up and took out her money pouch.

"Three bowls of noodles, that'll cost thirty copper coins in total," the shopkeeper replied with a smile.

The price really surprised Charlotte.

A bowl of noodles with double the amount of fried sauce only costs ten copper coins, which is even cheaper than the Abyss.

"Thank you, boss! The noodles are delicious, I'll definitely come again." Lois had already stuffed three silver coins into the boss's hand, then smiled and said to Charlotte, "Let's go, let's go get some burritos up ahead, super crispy and super delicious big burritos!"

Charlotte put away her purse and followed with a smile.

Lois led Charlotte through the crowd, then precisely located the delicacies hidden among thousands of stalls, sharing them with Charlotte like precious jewels.

How should I put this feeling...

It felt like traveling with your girlfriend, strolling around and eating, in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

[Ding! New mission issued: Trainee Recruitment Plan! Please recruit at least 4 medical trainees within three days! Reward for completion: One copy of the textbook "Surgical Procedures"!]

Just then, the system's voice suddenly rang in his mind.

Charlotte was taken aback for a moment, then her face lit up with joy.

A textbook on surgical procedures! Isn't this exactly what he needs right now?!

Before he transmigrated, he was just a veterinarian with good performance and a full range of veterinary knowledge, but he was far from being a qualified surgeon.

When he decided to recruit students, he was already struggling with how to write a textbook to make the teaching more professional and systematic.

This was an incredibly difficult task for Charlotte, who had relatively little knowledge of surgical procedures.

That's great! As long as he can recruit four students, the system will give him a textbook as a bonus.

It's not just about making it easier to teach students; he himself also needs a profound retraining.

Having textbooks doesn't mean everything is fine. To teach an excellent surgeon, one must first thoroughly understand the textbook and achieve success in practice before one can teach students well.

After all, he is not only a teacher of theoretical instruction, but also a mentor for residency training.

All teaching must be predicated on the premise that this surgery can be implemented in the world.

"belch……"

Lois covered her mouth, giving an awkward but polite smile. "Oh no, I'm stuffed!"

"I'm full too." Charlotte finished the last bite of golden soft bread in her hand. She had eaten no less than ten kinds of elven specialties, and the portions were all very generous, which filled her very hungry stomach.

"Then, shall I take you to recruit students? Shall we start at the Elf Medical Academy?" Lois said, looking at him.

"No, I plan to continue browsing the Cloud Market. I won't be recruiting medical students," Charlotte said with a smile and a shake of her head.

Lois looked at him, puzzled. "Why? The elves who can enter the medical school all have good talent for medicine. Wouldn't it be easier to select and train them?"

Charlotte explained, "They already have a bright future ahead of them, becoming doctors who heal patients with their healing techniques. They can reap respect, honor, and a lot of money. But learning to perform surgery with me would be hard work, the income wouldn't be very high, and they might even face a lot of skepticism."

For children who have been labeled geniuses since childhood and enjoy numerous accolades, this can lead to a huge sense of disillusionment. They're tired, and I'm tired too.

Lois seemed thoughtful, then asked, "So what kind of students are you planning to find?"

Charlotte didn't reply to her, but he stopped and looked at the elven girl standing in front of the fish stall to his left. Beside her was a large wooden barrel filled with water and fish.

The girl was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a pretty face. She wore coarse cloth clothes and a smooth black leather apron. Her hair was tied up with a thin, soft rattan, and she held a gleaming fish-killing knife in her right hand.

A customer stood in front of the wooden barrel, looked at it, and pointed at it.

The girl reached into the bucket with her left hand and came out with a five-pound fish in her hand. After confirming with the customer, she slammed the fish onto the cutting board. Before the fish could struggle, the back of the knife struck the fish's head with a sharp crack. With a soft sound of the fish bones breaking, the fish died instantly.

He flipped the fish-killing knife in his hand, and scales the size of fingernails flew out, falling precisely into the wooden bucket containing fish scales next to him.

Gut the fish, the sharp knife gliding smoothly through its belly. Remove the contents of the fish, rinse it twice with clean water, inside and out, and wash the cutting board as well, before starting to fillet the fish.

The fish meat is sliced ​​into thin slices, the fish bones are cut into even pieces, and the fish head is divided into four pieces. Then, they are neatly placed into the small wicker baskets brought by the customers.

After rinsing the cutting board and knife with water, splashing some water from the bucket of fish to wash her hands, and drying them on the towel beside her, she smiled and reached out to take the money from the customer.

From the moment the customer selects the fish to the moment the service is completed and the customer receives payment, the entire process takes no more than two minutes.

It's so smooth and relaxing.

Moreover, after the fish was killed, not a single fish scale or blood was splattered on my apron, and the cutting board and stall were spotless, with all the fish scales collected in the bucket.

Lois glanced at Charlotte, then at the girl who had started killing fish again, and fell into deep thought.

Could it be... that this is what Charlotte is looking for?

Charlotte stood aside and watched the girl kill fish for an hour.

He killed a total of twenty-eight fish with skillful technique and superb knife skills. Most importantly, he remained calm and composed, unmoved by anything else while killing the fish.

Who would have thought that this seemingly harmless elf girl could kill an eight-pound fish in just two minutes?

"You want to choose her?" Lois finally couldn't help but ask. That woman's way of killing fish was so cool, like a butcher. It was hard for her to associate her with a doctor. But Charlotte had been standing here staring at her for an hour, obviously very interested. The Cloud Market was about to close.

"I plan to get to know her better first. Her knife skills are good, and her hands are very steady. She's very calm when she's killing fish. If she were to learn surgery, she should be able to pick it up quickly." Charlotte nodded. He had already noticed that there were only a few scattered customers left, and the vendors were all starting to pack up.

"I see..." Lois suddenly realized that this was what Charlotte saw in her eyes.

"Wait a moment, I'll go talk to her." Charlotte walked towards the girl's fish stall first.

The girl, who was tidying up her things, heard someone approach her stall and casually asked, "Which fish do you need?"

"I'm not buying fish. I've been watching you over there for a while and I'd like to get to know you," Charlotte said with a smile.

The girl instinctively gripped the fish-killing knife, then looked up and was taken aback. A male human? He didn't have pointed ears, but his demeanor was no less impressive than that of the nobles living in the city center.

"I'm too busy to make friends," the girl said coldly, her eyes full of wariness.

Charlotte glanced at the fish-killing knife clutched tightly in her hand, which gleamed coldly, and laughed, "Do I look that much like a bad guy? You don't seem to trust strangers very much."

The girl looked at him and said in a cold voice, "I've been killing fish at the Cloud Market for six years. My heart is as cold as my knife. If you're not buying fish, then leave. I'm closing up shop."

Charlotte hadn't expected the girl to be so aloof, so she went straight to the point: "I'm actually a doctor. I just saw that your knife skills are quite good, and your hands are very steady. I'd like to recruit you as a medical apprentice. I wonder if you'd be interested?"

The girl was taken aback, then looked at Charlotte again, suppressing her anger as she sneered, "Do you think all the elves living on the outskirts of the elven city are stupid? I'm not even a magician, and you want to take me on as a doctor's apprentice? Besides, you don't even look like a doctor."

Do I look that much like a bad guy? Charlotte hadn't expected the girl's reaction to be so strong, and for a moment she doubted whether there was something wrong with her image. She quickly explained, "You might have misunderstood. I come from the Abyss, and I am indeed a doctor, not a fraud..."

"Let's go, before I decide to take you to the police station." The girl nailed the knife to the cutting board and began packing her things.

Looking at the knife with its tail trembling slightly, Charlotte's smile was tinged with bitterness. She hadn't expected that the first person she made contact with would be such a tough nut to crack.

But upon closer reflection, it seems that there isn't much difference between him walking straight up to her and saying he wants to take her on as a medical apprentice, and him grabbing someone on the street and starting to sell her the Tathagata Palm technique.

Moreover, this girl was extremely vigilant and her mind was indeed very calm.

Lois, standing to the side, watched this scene and couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle. The elven girl was indeed not so naive as she thought; she couldn't be fooled by just a few words.

Seeing Charlotte's discomfiture and being mistaken for a bad guy, she couldn't bear to watch any longer and quickly walked over.

When the fishmonger girl saw someone else coming, she thought it was Charlotte's accomplice and instinctively reached for her knife. But when she saw it was Lois, she quickly stopped and bowed respectfully.

"Hello, this is my friend, Dr. Charlotte. He's not a bad person," Lois introduced Charlotte with a smile, then asked, "What's your name?"

"A friend?" The girl glanced at Charlotte, somewhat surprised that he was actually a doctor. Then she looked at Lois and said, "Replying to the Holy Maiden, my name is Lina."

Lois continued, "Lina, I heard your conversation earlier. Dr. Charlotte wasn't lying. He came to the Elf City at the invitation of the High Priest to select students, and I accompanied him to find suitable candidates. Those selected will follow him to the Abyss Medical Hall to study and will have the opportunity to become physicians in the future."

Lina's face showed surprise. The high priest had invited her, and the saintess was accompanying her. Could this young man in front of her really be a very skilled doctor?

In the elf's mind, the High Priestess held a supreme position, and she no longer doubted Charlotte's identity.

Being a doctor is such a prestigious profession. The status, position, and income are all things that people aspire to. And now, this opportunity has been presented to her.

However, she didn't show excessive excitement at being chosen. After a moment's hesitation, she asked, "Where...is the Abyss?"

"Beside Calva, six thousand miles away," Lois replied.

"I apologize for my previous recklessness," Lina said, bowing slightly to Charlotte in apology.

"It's alright, I was being presumptuous. Your caution was justified." Charlotte waved her hand dismissively, it seemed the first student had been successfully recruited.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I cannot leave the Elf Forest, so please choose someone else," Lina said apologetically, a hint of regret in her eyes, but her tone was very firm.

Charlotte could tell that she was tempted, but there were more important things that required her to stay in the Elf City.

"Can you tell me why you insist on staying in the Elf Forest?" Charlotte asked.

Lina hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "My parents died six years ago on the night of the red moon. Besides me, I have a younger brother and a younger sister. They are still young, and without me, it would be difficult for them to survive in the Elf City."

Starting with selling fish, with a younger brother and sister—all the essentials are there!

In order to prevent this young girl from going astray, Charlotte decided that he had to win her over.

"I see. Would you mind taking us to your house? Perhaps we can come up with a better solution?" Charlotte said gently.

"That's right, we can help solve any problems you may have," Lois added.

Lina looked at the two of them in silence for a while, then nodded.

With Charlotte's help, the fish stall was quickly packed up.

There were two small fish left in the wooden bucket. Lina transferred them to a smaller bucket, slung the basket full of various utensils over her shoulder, picked up the bucket, and led Charlotte and the others away from Cloud Market.

Lina and her companions lived outside Cloud Market, closer to the area near Ironwood Wall.

Charlotte thought she lived near the market, but it turned out to be a half-hour walk.

"Let me carry the fish for you," Charlotte offered again.

"Thank you, but no need, it'll only get your hands dirty. We'll be there soon." Lina declined Charlotte's offer and quickened her pace.

Charlotte looked up, and the ironwood city wall was already close at hand, casting a dark, oppressive shadow.

Lina lived on the outermost edge of the Elf City, close to the Ironwood City Wall.

There are twenty or thirty wooden houses on a single tree here. They are not very big and are scattered on the trees, which are two or three hundred meters high, like bird nests, which looks a bit messy.

Lina walked along a path straight toward a large tree.

Two little elves sat at the door of the wooden house at the very bottom of the tree. Their eyes lit up when they saw Lina, and they exclaimed with delight, "Sister! Sister's back!"