A woman ca out carrying a plate of greens. Seeing the girl with dark circles at the door, she imdiately spoke.
"Why are you just standing there? Hurry up and scoop the rice. Do you want to serve it and feed it to your mouth for you?"
That one scolding made the dark-eyed girl shrink her neck at once. She hurriedly responded, went into the kitchen, and, as if she'd always known what to do, deftly opened the disinfection cabinet, took out a rice scoop and a small bowl, and filled it with rice.
A mother's role, a younger brother, plus the dark-eyed girl, all sitting together to eat.
An ordinary al, the standard: one plate of greens, plus sothing else.
The mother picked up the remote, turned off the TV, and scolded her younger brother.
"Don't watch TV while you eat. Eat your food quietly. Have you forgotten about getting choked by a fish bone last ti?"
With that sentence, the "other dish" on the table transford into a plate of stead perch.
The dark-eyed girl ate quietly. The mother turned to look at her again.
"You've finished your undergraduate now; you absolutely must get into graduate school. The competition is fierce these days.
Even when the neighborhood is hiring soone, and says bachelor's degree is fine, the ones who can actually get the job are all postgraduates.
I can still make a bit of money now; I can definitely support you. Just focus on your graduate entrance exams.
Then it'd be best if you find a boyfriend—soone with better prospects. After graduation, they definitely won't even look at what our family has to offer."
The dark-eyed girl listened quietly to her mother's nagging. She continued eating as always, calm and silent, but her emotional defenses were beginning to erode.
Outside the bubble, Dream Tapir watched everything inside. At this mont, it finally spotted the crucial point.
The buildings there.
The surrounding three buildings slowly began to turn into the lower half of a giant open mouth.
The row of storage rooms in front, just one story high, turned into the lower row of teeth in this gaping mouth.
The darkness creeping in slowly beca the upper half of the mouth.
This mouth was about to close. And the dark-eyed girl sitting inside still wasn't aware, happily enjoying her al.
Doctor ng's figure flickered, and he appeared inside the bubble.
He flicked his fingers, and a knuckle bone flew out—imdiately, a torrential rain poured down, the rainwater becoming a massive pillar, propping up the mouth that was about to slam shut.
Doctor ng reached out and grasped, and a black umbrella appeared out of thin air in his hand.
In the pouring rain, a pair of crimson eyes lit up.
"Entering the dream?"
"Before, she was my guest. Now, she's my patient. Give so face and let it end here—good for you, good for , good for everyone."
"Ha..." The eyes in the rain laughed loudly.
"I'm serious. I have zero appetite today, and I'm not in a great mood. I don't care what you are, don't want trouble, don't even want to report to the Scorching Sun Departnt again. The Scorching Sun Departnt's been a hassle lately. You'd better leave now."
Doctor ng offered good advice, knowing that if they fought, he'd be forced to report to the Scorching Sun Departnt.
Otherwise, if anything happened later and the Scorching Sun Departnt found out, it'd be hard to keep this clinic running.
There aren't many places where you don't need to struggle for food, there's always sothing to eat every day, and you even have the Scorching Sun Departnt's okay.
He doesn't like spicy food, and he doesn't want to go back to Tianfu County; the dreams there really don't suit his taste.
Unfortunately, Doctor ng's well-intentioned advice was only t with mockery.
Seeing this, Doctor ng sighed.
"Turns out you don't even know who I am. No wonder you're so reckless."
Doctor ng stretched out a hand and seized forward—instantly, it was as if the whole world was retreating behind him.
Out in the rain, those eyes—still at a distance, blurry, impossible to pinpoint—were now instantly seized by Doctor ng.
Doctor ng looked down at the eye in his hand; it seed still shocked.
"It's been a long, long ti since anyone in the dream world's dared to act wilder than so in my own clan. I already told you, I just have no appetite and don't want to ss with the current Scorching Sun Departnt. Did you really think I was afraid of you?"
Doctor ng gripped that illusory eye, and with his other hand, reached into the drifting clouds in front of him.
The next mont—there, in the sky, a giant hand descended, covering half the dream world, and seized the other eye that'd tried to get away.
He drew his hand back from the clouds before him; the giant hand in the sky withdrew at the sa mont.
Now, both his hands held an eyeball each.
He thought for a mont, shook his head, turned into the head of a Rakshasa Bird, opened his beak wide, and swallowed both eyeballs, one after the other.
"There's a sickly taste to it—like chilled cucumber mash, way too salty."
With a flick, he left this dream world, turned back to his original Dream Tapir form, cradled the dream bubble in his hands, opened his mouth wide, and swallowed the entire dream world.
He closed and opened his eyes, and as Doctor ng by the sickbed, opened his eyes again.
He looked at the sleeping dark-eyed girl on the hospital bed. Even her tightly furrowed brows began to relax. He took a tissue and wiped his mouth.
He gently closed the door and left so white noise to help her sleep.
Downstairs, Doctor ng took out his phone and browsed his contacts.
In the end, he called Zhuge Wanjun.
"Hello, Wan Jun? There's sothing I'd like to ask you."
"Brother ng, what is it? Just ask. If it's sothing I can say, I won't keep it from you."
"Are you up to date on the situation at the Nanwu County Scorching Sun Departnt?"
Zhuge Wanjun gave a brief summary.
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