Strange was examining Stark on the operating table. But this ti, it wasn't to check for any diseases, but to inspect his physical characteristics. Shiller was recording the report in a dical record.
They couldn't leave now, but that didn't an they couldn't send out a ssage. Even though the nurse looked fierce, he was obviously communicative. Making him carry the ssage out and splitting the reward in half would still count as a small profit.
Of course, the money on Stark had definitely been thoroughly plundered. The final loot included three gold coins, over twenty silver coins, and six or seven copper coins.
Shiller didn't know the conversion thod of this world, but it didn't seem to be decimal. However, this was good news, aning that copper coins might be more valuable than they thought.
Unfortunately, the gun in Stark's hand was conjured by magic, and they couldn't take it. Otherwise, this job would have been hugely profitable.
After plundering everything, Shiller directly injected Stark. Intravenous injection was very simple, basically you just needed a hand. After Strange explained the technical points, Shiller succeeded on his first try.
He sighed with a bit of regret, and then he and Strange stuffed Stark back into the passage. After the gate closed, the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground erged, and when the passage opened again, the person had already disappeared.
"I think we should celebrate our first successful treatnt," Shiller said as he stuffed all the gold coins into his pocket while pulling out a purple small crystal core found previously inside Mr. Raven from another pocket.
Strange glanced at it and then shook his head, saying, "It should be sothing like an energy crystal. The magic system here is completely different from ours, incomparable."
After researching and finding no results, the two prepared to leave. When they were ready and pulled the lever, what fell down was actually a bird man.
His body was a normal human body, covered with black patterns on his skin, and he was wearing a suit and a bow tie. However, his head was a huge raven's head, and his sharp bird beak resembled a sharp guillotine.
A guilty Shiller imdiately gasped, quickly binding the still unconscious raven man to the bed.
"Damn, that raven couldn't have been his son or sothing, right?" Shiller grimaced, but then he froze and said, "Wait, does that an his body might also have..."
Just then, the bird man's fingers moved. Shiller quickly used the intravenous injection technique he had just learned and gave him a mandrake anesthesia.
Mandrake wasn't on the raven's nu; he should be unable to immune to this poison. Sure enough, the raven man about to wake up passed out again.
"There are two possibilities now," Strange said, "Either he is that mysterious Mr. Raven, coming down to settle scores with us, or he is just an ordinary resident who just happens to have a bird's head."
"No matter who he is, we can't let him go alive," Shiller bared his teeth, revealing a sinister true face, and said, "Bad luck falling into our hands, let's do this, open his chest."
Strange had no objections, imdiately picking up the scalpel. After unbuttoning the suit, they discovered that the opponent's chest was covered with black feathers. Shiller did not hesitate at all, directly plucking all the feathers.
Strange swiftly cut open the chest, but did not find any strange structures inside the chest. The body tissues were identical to those of the human race, fully functional heart and lungs, and no mysterious small crystals.
Unwilling to give up, Shiller looked up at Strange and said, "Can you perform cranial surgery on birds?"
Strange walked over, picked up a bloody clamp from the floor, and raised it saying, "As long as survival rate is not a concern, what's difficult about a craniotomy?"
"Bang! Bang bang!"
When the nurse's eyes appeared again at the observation window, Shiller very tily blocked his line of sight, then said: "Patient with mineral hyperplasia, unavoidably a bit noisy. By the way, madam, after sending that violent patient away, I only then noticed sothing amiss..."
Shiller started telling the nurse about Stark, he shook the report and then said, "I reckon I've contributed a bit to this matter, claiming half of the bounty isn't too much, right?"
"You want to go to the police station to report?"
"Of course not, just find anyone to send the ssage," Shiller leaned against the door, "Money from the sky not earned is money wasted. What do you think?"
The nurse neither agreed nor disagreed, took the report Shiller wrote and left. Shiller didn't care too much whether it succeeded, turning back to check on Strange's situation.
Strange, covered in blood, picked up a much larger purple Crystal Core from the ground. The strange magic light shined on the black bird beak mask's glass eyepiece, appearing extraordinarily splendid and eye-catching.
Shiller took the Crystal Core, admiring it—this thing looked very valuable, but perhaps had so other functions. He did not put this thing with the gold coins but threw it in a jar instead.
"What to do with the corpse?"
"Pluck the feathers clean," Shiller said, "and then throw it into the furnace."
"You're not worried about complications?"
"I just want to see what complications might arise."
Both of them dismantled the raven man's corpse and stuffed it into the furnace. Shiller stared at the flas in the fireplace for a while, noticing the big mouth behind the wall beginning to speak sothing again.
"Trade..."
"What?"
"Give food... I'll give you treasures..."
The room's candlelight flickered, seeming to remind Shiller not to trust the devil's words. But Shiller didn't care about that, he said, "What treasure can you give ?"
The evil big mouth disappeared. But Shiller heard a few "clangs" coming from the chimney pipe, as if sothing was falling down.
"Glug glug," sothing fell into the flas, then suddenly bounced, and rolled onto the floor.
Shiller walked closer for a look and discovered that it was a tooth, with so small spikes growing out of its center.
Shiller handed the tooth to Strange. Strange took off his mask, put on a monocle, and observed it carefully before saying, "This must be the tooth of a late-stage ore disease patient. The ore has grown out from the bones. There are so residues here, probably food he ate before his death."
After thinking for a while, Shiller said, "Maybe we could use the jellyfish fluorescent agent detection thod to examine the nature of the residues."
"What's the use of this thing?" Strange asked.
Shiller shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. He took a jar and poured so jellyfish fluorescent agent into it, then soaked the tooth in it. The part with the residue showed a faint red color, resembling tissue cells.
Ti here seed to pass faster, and it quickly turned to evening. The Nurse visited again, and Shiller gave him a report. As the Nurse was leaving, Shiller heard so noise at the door. When he went out to check, he was confronted by several silver coins.
It seed the Nurse had agreed to the bounty, but he didn't agree with the allocation plan and didn't give Shiller and his group half. Shiller cursed "stingy" in his mind, then closed the door.
He was tired last night; tonight he prepared to sleep well. So, he ca to the chair by the fireplace, leaned on its soft back, yawned, and quickly fell into a dream.
He, like Strange, quickly realized he was dreaming. But this ti, he was tied to a chair, and a cold tal tool was stretching towards his mouth.
Shiller opened his eyes wide. Looking around, he noticed that it wasn't his own hands that were fixed to the chair's armrests, they looked thin and young, probably a child's.
The tal pliers suddenly clamped onto a tooth and then yanked it out fiercely.
Shiller gasped sharply. The real sensation of pain didn't wake him up; instead, his body began to tremble continuously.
Shiller instinctively looked at the hands holding the pliers, but saw nothing; the pliers seed to be floating in mid-air, uncontrolled. Shiller looked further away.
The pain stimulated his brain, but the usual hazy illusions didn't appear; he only heard himself screaming in agony, tears streaming from his eyes. Clearly, this was not his response, but the child's.
Shiller couldn't help but curse in his mind: "Since there's no one operating it, why don't you run?"
anwhile, Strange also had an uneasy sleep. The strange dream from yesterday continued. The little girl was taken out of the cell, brought to a room with mysterious patterns on the floor, and then hoisted up.
He saw a blurry dark shadow kneeling at his feet. Strange was just about to look closely at this person's face when he felt a pain in his foot. A toenail was being pulled off.
Strange took a sharp breath. He could feel the pain, but couldn't fully control his body. The little girl struggled due to the pain, and all he could do was watch helplessly.
In a daze, he felt a beam of light. When he opened his eyes again, a faint light was coming from a small window above the room. It was already daylight.
Shiller woke up almost at the sa ti. He instinctively licked his teeth with his tongue, then froze in place.
He was missing a tooth!
Strange also instinctively checked his foot. He didn't feel pain, but when he took off his boots, he discovered that the nail on his right foot's big toe was gone.
Shiller got up from the chair, licking the spot where his tooth should have been. There was no bleeding, no remnants of tooth roots. The tooth seed like it had never grown at all.
Strange also moved his toes; he didn't feel anything unusual, the nail on his big toe seed to have never existed.
Both noticed each other's odd behavior, and at the sa ti, they stood up from their chairs. On the way to the operating table, Shiller paused. At that mont, the voice of the Bear Caregiver erged outside the door.
"Want sothing good?"
Shiller quickly went to the door. Without waiting for the Bear Caregiver to speak, he imdiately asked, "Can you sell stuff here?"
"Selling things? What do you have to sell?"
"Oh, quite a lot," Shiller took out the small crystal core he had previously kept, shook it in front of the observation window, then said, "How much is this worth?"
The Bear Caregiver behind the observation window imdiately widened his eyes, lowered his voice, and said, "A Puppet Crystal? Where did you get this?"
"That's for to know. I can only tell you, we have a steady supply and quality assurance here. Let us know what you need, and we can figure out how to get it. So, will you take it?"
The Bear Caregiver obviously struggled.
"This thing is dangerous," he said. "Not many dare sell it on the black market, yet you managed to get it..."
Shiller silently watched him.
"Okay," the Bear Caregiver clenched his teeth, "20 silver coins."
"You better not be scamming ."
"Selling this thing, I'm also taking a great risk, this price is fair."
After so haggling, they finally agreed on a price of 26 silver coins. Shiller also bought so other things.
After the Bear Caregiver left, Shiller saw the money bag he left on the ground, picked it up, and began counting the silver coins inside.
Just as Strange saw the light shining brighter than the silver coins behind Shiller's glass monocle, he knew, from that mont on, the nature of the ga had changed.
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