Ark, they don't revolve around you

Ark, they are not around you to spread blood

【brief introduction】

They don't all revolve around you.

When Zhuang Ning understood this truth, he suddenly felt tired.

The system asked him to save the world, so he tried his best to do it, but after saving the world, he didn't care what those people thought.

——I have done what I should do, and now we have no relationship.

When he was about to pass through the star gate to go home, the doctor turned around and said this to the girls who were chasing him.

Chapter 1 You don't have to revolve around me

[You have initially developed a special medicine for mineral disease, and you are one step closer to returning home.]

[Reward: No sleep, sleep is the last thing you need]

Zhuang Ning was stunned for a moment when he saw the reward, and the corners of his mouth under the mask rarely curled up.

Although the system's rewards are sometimes really confusing, at least there is one that makes people feel useful.

Zhuang Ning is a time traveler who has been in Terra for four years. The person he traveled to is the Doctor, the most special existence in the entire Arknights.

The positioning is ridiculously high, and he is nowhere to be seen in the plot. Zhuang Ning also read the plot before traveling through time and complained that there are too few plots about the doctor. How many years has Xia Huo not seen the doctor?

But if it really was a time travel, Zhuang Ning could understand it - he didn't have time to care about those trivial matters.

Zhuang Ning opened the panel expressionlessly, and the only thing he could see appeared on the screen. There were many tasks, which could be roughly divided into three modules.

The nations of Terra.

starry sky.

Pre-civilization.

There are a number of tasks under these three areas, and you'll get rewards for completing each one, but the only problem is that they're extremely difficult.

The sea belongs to the previous civilization, the evil demons belong to the starry sky, and the mineral disease is more special, that is, it belongs to the various countries of Terra and also belongs to the previous civilization.

Zhuang Ning looked up and saw the final gray dot, which included the completion of the final mission and the reward for completing it. He had to pacify the sea, defeat the evil demons, unite the countries, and sweep the starry sky before he could reap the rewards.

It is also his goal.

Come back home.

Now, after spending four years, Zhuang Ning has finally extracted a medicine from his own body that can initially cure mineralogy, and is one step closer to returning home.

Zhuang Ning looked through the tasks again. There were completion marks for alienating the Casimir Business Association, controlling Londinium, and establishing the nation of Kazdel... These were all the results of his hard work.

Zhuang Ning came to the corridor and planned to go to the kitchen to make a cup of black tea. It was late at night and there were not many people around, so he did not walk fast.

Until someone put a hand on his shoulder.

Zhuang Ning looked back and saw a pair of deep blue eyes. The owners of the eyes were smiling, which was quite cute.

"Mastema?"

"I'm back, Doctor." The fallen angel smiled, "Did you miss me?"

Zhuang Ning was silent for a moment and nodded slightly.

He and Mostima knew each other a long time ago, and the girl was introduced to the island by Penguin Logistics.

"I don't need family, friendship, or love." She once said this when they met, but later she habitually came to the island to find Zhuang Ning. The doctor has always been a good listener. He brewed a pot of black tea, prepared snacks, and listened carefully to Mostima's narration of Terra's strange stories.

Those are fascinating stories.

But everything came to an abrupt end a year ago. Mostima had not appeared in Rhodes Island for a whole year, and Zhuang Ning almost forgot about her.

He thought to himself that a long time had indeed passed.

Rhode Island, in the reception room, mist was rising, and Zhuang Ning handed her the black tea.

Mostima took it with a faint smile on her face. At first, it was a perfunctory smile on her face, but now it was sincere.

But Zhuang Ning didn't laugh.

He forgot how long it had been since he last laughed.

"Doctor, aren't you going to take off your mask?" Mostima felt a little awkward.

The Doctor would wear a hooded mask in formal situations, but would always take it off in private.

Zhuang Ning hesitated for a moment: "Is it unnecessary?"

"But don't you feel too bored?"

Zhuang Ning finally took off his mask, but he did not feel refreshed. Instead, he felt a little cold. He forced a smile on his face, as if it was deliberately adjusted and calculated, not from the heart.

Like a machine.

Mostima was stunned for a moment. She was very familiar with this expression. She had the same expression at first. It was her repeated conversations with the Doctor that made her face look more sincere.

A year later, she felt pressured when facing the doctor again.

It seemed as if there was an inexplicable barrier between the two of them.

"Doctor." Mostima's mouth was dry. "Do you want to listen to me?"

"Go ahead...if you like."

He was just as frugal with words as ever, but what was more in his tone was not expectation, but... well-hidden indifference.

Mostima began to speak. She was always talkative in the past. After all, she had accumulated a lot of interesting stories this year and wanted to tell them to the Doctor.

But Mostima's voice couldn't help but lower. She was always perceptive. Although the doctor was listening, he was a little absent-minded and didn't care much.

In this year, although Mostima would not come to Rhodes Island, he was the messenger of disaster after all, and learned about the great deeds done by the doctor through other channels.

Resolving the Londinium crisis and supporting the establishment of a nation in Kazdel.

Are you too busy and tired? That's why you don't want to listen

It can't be because of something I said carelessly a year ago, right?

Mostima stopped talking, and a potion was handed to her.

"It's a very good story." The doctor said in a cold tone.

"……PhD?"

"I have a commission." Zhuang Ning said in a purely businesslike manner, "This is a special medicine for oripathy. I hope you can give it to His Holiness the Pope."

Mostima bit her lip, not because of the special effects of the oripathy - although it was indeed an incredible achievement.

She was more bothered by Zhuang Ning's attitude, which was as if he was facing a stranger. It was a world of difference from a year ago, but long-standing habit made Mostima accept it.

Then Zhuang Ning stood up and walked past her in such a hurry that he looked like a ghost.

Mastema stretched out her hand, subconsciously trying to keep him, but she couldn't speak.

Just watched him go away.

She felt like something was wrong with her and she felt like she was abandoned.

Many times, things on the journey were not so good, but when she thought about having him to talk to after the journey, she would feel happy. Mostima thought it would be the same this time.

She covered her chest, a little flustered.

Why do you feel so uneasy? What happened to that person?

Mastema closed her eyes.

a year ago.

"Mastema." The tired man asked casually, "Can you take me with you?"

"Ok?"

"Anywhere is fine, let's take a look." His face was so serious.

Mostima looked embarrassed: "Doctor, I am a messenger from all nations, and I go to the most dangerous places."

"I'm not afraid. You're so powerful, you should be able to protect me, right?"

"Then the other operators will definitely stop us." She refused subconsciously.

Ever since her teammates betrayed her, Mastema didn't like being with others.

Of course, the person in front of her could do it, but she still felt subconsciously afraid.

"Really?" Hearing this, the man seemed a little disappointed, but the disappointment was fleeting and he did not insist.

Just the expression disappeared little by little.

"Doctor, are you just giving up?" Mostima asked suspiciously.

"Give up." He suddenly smiled and nodded, "You are not revolving around me, you can't agree to my willfulness, right?"

"We all have our own goals and our own lives."

Those were the last words she had heard from the Doctor a year ago.

Chapter 2 What did you say to him?

Zhuang Ning had already forgotten when he became like this.

Maybe it’s not because of those one or two people, but because of one incident after another?

It seemed that no matter who it was, they would reject him in the end and leave.

"Goodbye, Doctor. I will miss you in the future."

Chen Huijie handed his resignation to Zhuang Ning and turned to leave Rhode Island.

Compared to the Doctor, she still thinks Lungmen is more important, and Zhuang Ning is destined to not be able to accompany her to the end.

So without hesitation or looking back, she disappeared from his sight.

"I don't hate you, Doctor."