There's a big problem with dreams in this world.

The doctor, under various pressures and living in a high-stress environment, heard the call from the forest at night.

Perhaps because he was born with stronger mental strength than the average person, the doctor did not contract an infectious disease, but his mental state gradually became somewhat abnormal.

He started having frequent headaches and would occasionally have hallucinations. He stopped taking care of the patients as seriously and started prescribing all sorts of strange remedies.

Rusty nails, sand, soil, mutated insects, cement, the patient's own flesh...

He wrote down all sorts of strange and unusual recipes, and when he was in a daze, he forcibly fed them to the patients in the basement.

During this time, Duda was punished by the village and confined to the basement because of his mother's situation, where he became the doctor's assistant.

After witnessing the doctor's inhumane treatment plan, Duda silently kept it in mind, planning to find an opportunity to tell the village chief and the hunting captain about it later in order to regain his standing in the village.

That same night, desperate to find his sister, the little boy, under the cover of darkness, used his limited mobility to crawl to his front door.

After finding nothing at home, he remembered that his sister had died.

He was later found by villagers who patrolled the village at night and was taken back to the basement.

The doctor, however, thought the little boy was trying to run away, so he called him a "bad boy" and increased the amount of "medication" he was given.

Unsurprisingly, under the doctor's "kind" care, the little boy's mental state completely collapsed not long afterward. Before he died, he wrote a small piece of paper and slipped it into the doctor's room.

This is the small note that Lu Qing found on the floor of the room when she first entered the illusion. It was indeed written by the little boy, but for some reason, it appeared in her room beforehand.

After the little boy's death, Duda finally found an opportunity to expose the doctor's actions, causing a huge uproar in the village.

The angry villagers originally wanted to beat the doctor to death, but they were stopped by the village chief, who was behind the tree god cult, because the doctor had a daughter at home who needed to be taken care of.

Although the villagers were very dissatisfied with this, they agreed out of respect for the village chief, but they would occasionally cause trouble at the doctor's house.

The immense guilt, the villagers' condemnation, and the pressure to survive after the village was cut off from supplies were almost overwhelming for the doctor.

This has made his mental state increasingly unstable.

Fortunately, Diana is willing to believe in him, and his mental state stabilizes considerably when he spends time with his family.

However, at this very moment, Diana fell ill with a serious lung disease, and the doctor had no medication at home that could treat her.

After trying many methods to no avail, he had no choice but to accept this reality in despair.

Then, the Tree God priests led the villagers to the doctor's house, looted all the last of his medicines, and forged a prescription that could cure infectious diseases.

Food scarcity, coupled with the torment of illness, caused Diana's health to deteriorate day by day. Finally, one night, Diana also heard the call from the depths of the forest; she had contracted a contagious disease...

Diana's lungs underwent a peculiar transformation, becoming a fibrous structure that allowed her to continue surviving even without breathing.

This might sound like a good thing, but the mutation showed no signs of ending and gradually spread from the lungs to other parts of the body over time.

According to the doctor's prediction, when the infectious disease reaches its later stages, Diana's body will completely transform into a true vegetative state.

The doctor didn't want Diana to die, but he didn't want her to become a vegetable due to the infectious disease even more. In despair and pain, the doctor went completely insane.

Contrary to what Diana recounted, she did not die from her illness, but was poisoned by the doctor after the doctor had given up hope.

"........"

"It's not over yet," the merchant said slowly, seeing Lu Qing's distressed expression.

Lu Qing glanced at the businessman who had spoken, then refocused her attention on the doctor and continued reading.

After poisoning Diana, the doctor placed her body in a large wooden box and treated it to prevent it from decomposing.

He then found the body of a wild man in the wild. After some simple treatment, he inserted tree roots and electrical wires that had sprouted from the corner of the house into the body, and then replaced the body's eyes with the knobs of a radio.

In this way, a device capable of receiving information inside the forest was completed. In addition to receiving radio information, this radio could occasionally receive information transmitted from tree roots.

It seems that the hallucinations the doctor experienced during his mental breakdown were not just simple hallucinations; he seemed to gain... knowledge from them.

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Chapter 370: The Train of Flesh and Blood

"Don't worry, my daughter, I will definitely cure you." The doctor said with a gentle look as he packed his luggage, glancing at Diana's body.

After studying the equipment at home for more than a month, the doctor began to consider leaving due to the poor quality of the equipment and the limited space.

He happened to know of a place where there was a train that had been abandoned for many years, and a huge garbage dump nearby.

If that train were still around, the room size problem would be solved. As for equipment, he could look in the junkyard near the train to see if there was anything usable.

His goal was to develop a drug that could cure Diana. That's right, in the doctor's eyes, Diana was just sick and asleep, not dead at all.

What he had to do was use the extra knowledge in his mind to cure Diana.

However, this process is not so simple to achieve. Although he has gained a lot of strange knowledge in his mind, it is just knowledge. His body is still just an ordinary human. Therefore, it is not an easy thing to cross a very long distance in the forest.

Apart from some essential food and tools, the doctor only carried the box containing Diana's body and relied on a small portable gas stove to move through the forest.

The hole that Lu Qing passed through the tree wall was indeed dug by hand. That's right, it was dug by the doctor. As for why the hole hasn't been filled in yet, it's because the doctor applied a drug to the wall that prevents tree roots from growing there.

Upon arriving at the abandoned train, the doctor reinforced all the train windows with wooden boards and installed an iron gate from the junkyard at the train's entrance.

Later, he built a "radio" inside the train that was exactly the same as the one in his home to receive information from the tree roots, and at the same time established contact with the scientists on the other side of the tree wall.

The two would occasionally trade goods, and the merchant was responsible for transporting the goods.

After charging a fee, the merchant would help the scientist deliver the items to the doctor, which made the doctor's research plan much smoother.

Later, the doctor unexpectedly learned from the information received from the tree roots via the "radio" how to make a potion that would allow ordinary humans to maintain their sanity while possessing the same power as mutated creatures.

That's right, this potion is the flesh and blood potion.

Upon receiving the medicine, the doctor's first thought was not to use it to strengthen himself, but to use it to revive Diana.

However, the flesh and blood potion has no effect on the dead, so doctors can only modify the original formula of the flesh and blood potion.

He absorbed the knowledge from the illusion with great eagerness and used it in his experiments.

However, acquiring knowledge always comes at a price. As the hallucinations intensified, the doctor became increasingly unable to maintain focus during experiments.

A wavering arose in his heart. He couldn't help but think that Diana was already dead, killed by him, and that the dead could not be brought back to life.

He started having nightmares, dreaming that Diana was looking at him with resentment and cursing him.

Sometimes, he would hear the sound of tree roots growing underground, where his love, his Diana, resided.

"Yes, she's right beside me, my beloved, my daughter. She's always been there watching over me..."

The doctor sat in a chair in the laboratory, looking dazed, staring blankly at the sky, lost in thought.

And it was at this moment that an accident occurred.

Under the constant hallucinations, the doctor forgot to light the gas stove inside the train, which attracted the attention of a monster covered in jet-black bird feathers.

The banshee, summoning her retinue, broke through the train's security. Under the terrifying shrieks of the adult banshee, the doctor instantly lost all ability to resist.

His chest was pierced by a bird's beak, and his flesh was being gnawed away piece by piece. At the end of the scene, the doctor held the half-finished medicine he had made in his hand and plunged it into his own neck.

And then, that was it...

Before Lu Qing could say anything, a feeling of dizziness and lightheadedness filled her entire body, and she immediately lost consciousness after closing her eyes.

.......

When Lu Qing regained consciousness, she found herself back in reality.

The moment she opened her eyes, she saw countless bright red tentacles wrapping around her from the writhing train wall. Just as she was about to swing her knife to cut off the tentacles, an ominous premonition rose in her heart.

Without a moment to think, she quickly took a step back, dodging the arm that emerged from under her feet.

This is inside the monster's body; you could be attacked from any direction!

Thinking this, Lu Qing immediately started running at high speed inside the train. She swung her knife to cut off the tentacles that tried to approach her while running towards the train's exit.

She didn't know if the exit was still open, but trying was better than not trying at all. What if it worked?

"Tsk."

Lu Qing sensed danger on the ground in front of her and quickly stopped, dodging the arm that had emerged in anticipation of her movements.

Continuing forward, he kicked open the door covered in blood and flesh, and immediately stepped on a bunch of wriggling white mushrooms, which released a strong, pungent odor.

"Cough, cough cough cough......."

Lu Qing couldn't help but cover her nose and cough, tears streaming uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.

The next moment, countless blood-red tentacles rushed towards her. With her eyes blurred by the tear-inducing poisonous mist, Lu Qing had no choice but to use the Nightmare series skill, [Third Eye].

Suddenly, her vision opened up, and Lu Qing felt as if she had gained a god's-eye view, able to see all the tentacles centered on her.

Gripping the black iron dagger tightly in one hand, Lu Qing took out the carving knife at the same time and cut off all the tentacles that approached her as easily as chopping melons and vegetables. Then she closed her eyes and ran forward.

The fleshy walls writhed and then opened up small holes, from which a highly corrosive acidic liquid gushed out!

There was so much liquid that there was no room to dodge. Lu Qing had a sudden idea and quickly crouched down, using the silvery-gray evening breeze to wrap herself up.

The dark green acidic liquid sprayed onto the silvery-gray evening breeze, yet it left not a trace!

While silently thanking her mother, Lu Qing quickly stood up and rushed into the next room.

"call!"

As soon as she entered the room, a fierce punch struck Lu Qing's face. Fortunately, she reacted quickly, bending her waist backward and using her hands to support herself as she jumped backward to dodge the blow.

Looking at the creature that attacked him, he saw its exposed, blood-red muscles, its body covered in countless eyes, and the spores hanging on its back that were constantly spewing poisonous mist.

If it weren't for the unusual receding hairline and bald patches on the other person's head, Lu Qing would never have guessed that this was a doctor!

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Chapter 371: The Pus of Man

Countless tentacles grew from the train walls. The pale green poisonous mist that filled the room had no effect on Lu Qing, which made her marvel at the correctness of her choice of the [Advanced Poison Resistance] skill.

After severing all the tentacles that tried to approach her, Lu Qing stomped her legs and charged towards the mutated doctor.

The skill "Third Eye" is very helpful to her when activated, but the side effects after the skill ends are also very serious.

Although Lu Qing didn't know exactly how chaotic the spatial sense would be, as mentioned in the side effects of the [Third Eye] skill, she was certain that it would definitely not be a good thing.

Even a slight disruption to spatial awareness can have a significant impact on combat, so she must end the battle before her [Third Eye] skill expires!

"Roar!"