Mental Illness Evolution Manual - Chapter 58

The base in Yuecheng was no different from Nanjin City. Cold white metal walls, ceiling lights embedded in the ceiling, and door after door without any markings.

But the members here were more diverse than those in Nanjin City, they were mostly yellow-skinned with Chinese features.

As soon as they returned to the base, the injured members were taken to the medical department. Those who needed medicine got medicine, those who needed injections got injections. Yan Xianchuan was put in a wheelchair and pushed into the operating room.

Lu Mingqiu let go of her hand, “It’ll be over soon.” Then she gave the doctor a look, the latter closed the door and laid the injured person on the operating table.

“I’ll give you a local anesthetic first.” The female doctor said, wearing a mask, “It’s a local anesthetic, the whole surgery will only take an hour, and you’ll have a pair of better eyes.”

“How much better?” Yan Xianchuan asked.

“It’s the new model from the research department, I’m using it.” The doctor said with a smile, “As for its effect, you’ll know when you put it on.”

The effects of the medicine gradually took effect, the constant stinging finally disappeared. Yan Xianchuan could feel her eyelids being lifted, something was digging out her broken eyeballs, but she didn’t feel any pain.

“Wow, your eyes are pretty bad, it’s okay, don’t worry, I’ll take care of it.” The doctor said, clearing away the rotten flesh, she was very chatty, “Blue Whale was like this before, he was much worse than you, half his face was ruined, but I fixed it up beautifully. I even helped him pad his nose, his face is even more handsome than before!”

“But your foundation is pretty good, you don’t need to be fixed.” She pondered for a moment and said, “Should I fix your eyebrows?”

“Oh right, what color do you want for this eye? Yellow, green, blue, purple, black, brown, gray, we have everything.”

Yan Xianchuan: …

This person wasn’t like a doctor, she was like a street vendor.

“Can you see my face?” she said, in a declarative tone.

“Ah? Oh! I won’t tell anyone.” The doctor changed to a smaller tweezers, her tone was casual but serious, “You can’t judge a person by who they are, you have to look at what they’ve done. I read in a book that people who share the same ideals are called comrades. We’re all comrades, we’re comrades-in-arms.”

“But, that…” she lowered her voice and said, “Can you do me a favor and get me an autograph?”

Yan Xianchuan: “…Okay. I want black eyes.”

“Okay! No problem!” The female doctor beamed, “I’ll make sure it’s installed properly.”

“I’ll go get the poster for you later, it’s a limited edition! I’ve been saving it for a long time. If you don’t know where the medical room is, just ask anyone, just say you’re looking for Jenny.”

The feeling of connecting nerves was like ants crawling.

This part was delicate work, Jenny, the doctor, finally closed her chattering mouth.

Yan Xianchuan’s ears were quiet, she had never met someone who could talk so much.

She didn’t need anyone to talk to, she could just chat on her own. In a short time, she had told almost all the gossip about the people who had been treated in the entire base. Like how Blue Whale became handsome and was chased by people for his contact information, he was so socially anxious that he ran away on the spot. Bell had specially changed her mechanical hands, not for missions, but because she was squeezed out of the top of the leaderboard in a game, she felt that her hands weren’t flexible enough…

Yan Xianchuan didn’t tell her to shut up, because she was quite interesting.

Besides, she seemed to be a big mouth, but she was actually very good at keeping secrets. She didn’t say a word about anything that involved the members’ real privacy.

After a while, Jenny, the doctor, clapped her hands, “Okay! Perfect!”

She removed the bracket that was holding her eyelids, she wiped the blood off Yan Xianchuan’s face with a cotton ball, she rubbed her hands and said, “Should I put on some makeup for you? My hands are itching.”

Yan Xianchuan was adapting to her new eyeballs, adapting to the new, strange visual images, she stopped getting off the bed and said, “What kind of makeup?”

“But I had just thought, even if I put it on, it wouldn’t be useful…” Jenny, the doctor, said regretfully, “You’re going to use a projected fake face, you can’t show your real face.”

Yan Xianchuan, who had wanted to take advantage of her appearance, was silent for a moment, she said quietly, “Then give me the poster.”

“No rush, no rush, look in the mirror first!” Jenny, the doctor, directly pulled open her white coat and took out a handheld round mirror from inside her clothes, “Look!”

Her face was reflected in the mirror, her face was pale, her lips were bloodless, and she had a pair of dark, lifeless eyes. They were very real, just like real human eyes.

It was just that when Yan Xianchuan looked at this image, a line of small characters appeared next to the mirror: Zi Dai Company 2133 Edition, Model yyn60375, Width 10cm, Length 15cm.

There was also a line of small characters next to her eyeballs: Jingzhe Mechanical Prosthetic Eye Fifth Generation.

Looking at the bed, there was the production model and manufacturer of the bed. Looking at the scalpel, looking at the shadowless lamp, everywhere you looked, there was something.

“This eye…” Yan Xianchuan said, her gaze fell on the person next to her, she immediately knew that she had used a prosthetic eye, she had changed her prosthetic limb, and she had even installed a mechanical lung.

“It’s connected to the think tank.” Jenny, the doctor, said proudly, “Isn’t it amazing?”

Think tank? Which think tank has the right to access private information, don’t tell me it’s connected to the Federation’s backdoor, that’s too exaggerated.

But, to be honest, it was really useful.

Yan Xianchuan nodded.

“I’ll go get the poster, you adapt for a while, walk around here, see if there are any rejection reactions, I’ll be right back!” After saying that, she pushed the door open and left.

Yan Xianchuan’s gaze followed her, when she stared intently, she could even see the scene of her clothes fluttering, it was as clear as if it was in slow motion.

Dynamic vision.

She lowered her head, the lines on her palm were also clearly visible, as if she had a magnifying glass with her.

The scabs, bruises, and swollen purple marks were also clearly visible in her eyes.

She wrapped the blanket around her, she sent a message to Lu Mingqiu, saying that she had finished her surgery.

The other party replied after a while: [Okay, take a rest, you can walk around the base, I have something to do now.]

She’s so cold. Yan Xianchuan thought with her chin resting on her hand, it seemed that she didn’t get any preferential treatment after she was no longer a patient.

She sat on the operating table, she swung her legs, she sent a message to Black and asked: [Comrade, do you know where the cafeteria is?]

Black’s reply speed was like that of an intelligent AI, he instantly sent a route map, an arrow directly connected from the operating room to the cafeteria.

Yan Xianchuan: [Thank you.]

She hadn’t eaten anything for a day and a night, healing her wounds also consumed a lot of her body’s energy. She felt like her stomach was flat, if she didn’t eat something, her stomach would consider digesting the liver next to it.

“I’m back!” Jenny, the doctor, pushed open the door to the operating room with a beaming smile, “Here you go, here you go.”

Yan Xianchuan unfolded the poster, it was a model photo, Lu Mingqiu was wearing a long dress the color of night, the hem of the skirt was like waves, layer upon layer, the stars were like waves, one by one, they surrounded her.

She reached out, her palm held a round moon, her bare back was empty, the crisscrossing gauze half-covered her waist, a white veil covered her face, leaving only the vague outline of her features.

It was beautiful, so beautiful that Yan Xianchuan wanted to keep it.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” Jenny, the doctor, said eagerly.

“It’s beautiful.” Yan Xianchuan told the truth.

“Then take a look.” She said smugly. Then she changed her tone, like she was doing something sneaky, “I’m going to ask a gossipy question, you two, are you really…?”

“Fake.” Yan Xianchuan rolled up the poster, her eyes were emotionless, “It’s a business marriage.”

Jenny, the doctor, said sadly, “I really shipped you two! Oh well.”

“You can’t keep wrapping yourself in a blanket like that, come on.” She slapped her thigh, “I’ll take you to the lounge to change clothes.”

Yan Xianchuan said thank you listlessly, she followed her to the lounge.

Jenny, the doctor, swiped the door open, “I won’t go in, quickly give yourself a good scrub, the pink bottle is shampoo, the blue bottle is shower gel, don’t get them mixed up.”

Yan Xianchuan politely said thank you again.

The layout of the lounge was similar. She first put down the poster and went to the bathroom to take a shower, washing away the sand and dust on her body.

The water was black and red the first time she washed.

The shallower wounds had scabbed over, she rubbed them off one by one. The deeper ones, she peeled them open a little, and along with the slight pain came blood beads oozing from the wounds.

Pretending nothing had happened, she pressed them back in. Yan Xianchuan washed three times before coming out, she nonchalantly took out a Band-Aid and put it on.

Who told her to tear near her collarbone, it was hard to hide.

The clothes at the Yuecheng base were also in a more traditional style, with a cotton and linen shirt with button closures and a pair of light blue wide-leg pants with a good drape.

Yan Xianchuan grabbed her hair in front of the mirror, she didn’t bother to dry it, she went out with it half-wet, still wearing that blonde hair and blue eyes, it had a very mixed-and-matched feel.

The cafeteria here was the biggest and had the most dishes she had ever seen.

There were sweet, spicy, and salty dishes, everything. As soon as she sat down, someone came over, “Sister! What kind of flavor do you like? I’ll introduce you. I’m telling you, spicy rabbit head! One word, amazing!”

“Thank you, I’ll have a spicy rabbit head and a fruit pizza.” As soon as Yan Xianchuan finished speaking, the person’s eyes widened, as if he had been electrocuted, he trembled.

“You! You actually eat spicy rabbit head with pizza!” He covered his chest, looking like he was about to faint.

Yan Xianchuan: ?

She uninterestedly retracted her gaze, she stared at the chat box for a while, she couldn’t help but send another message: [I’m in the cafeteria eating.]

It was like a stone sinking into the sea, there was no response.

It wasn’t that Lu Mingqiu didn’t want to reply, it was that she really didn’t have time.

Back at the Yuecheng base, the injured members all went for treatment, but she had something important to do, which was to interrogate the captured church members. They had been given hemostatic gel, they wouldn’t die, so she might as well seize the opportunity to extract information.

The first person she interrogated was the doctor, who was dressed differently.

After he was woken up, his face was as cold as stone, he showed no fear, “You can give up, I’m only loyal to the Mother Goddess, you won’t get anything out of me, no matter how much you torture me, I won’t yield!”

“You heretics, you heathens! You disrespect the Mother Goddess, you will be punished sooner or later!”

Standing next to Lu Mingqiu was the leader of the Yuecheng base, his name was Gray Rabbit, he was wearing a funny rabbit mask, he said with a sigh, “Why do they always use the same lines, did they go to a training class?”

With Yellow Canary here, who cared if he agreed or not, if he was willing or not.

Staring into the doctor’s eyes, her psionic ability activated, Lu Mingqiu controlled her mental tentacles, probing into his brain.

The doctor’s first half of life was uneventful. He came from a third-class citizen family, he went to school, graduated, worked, got married, all according to plan, until an accident, an electrical fire, killed his entire family, only he, who was on a business trip out of town, survived.

The doctor was depressed from then on, he quit his job, he was in a daze, until he accidentally walked into a church, a priest stopped him and asked him what was bothering him.

He blurted out his pain, he said that he couldn’t find the meaning of life, the priest comforted him. Gradually, he went to church more and more often, eventually becoming a believer.

Later, the Archbishop found him and asked him if he was willing to dedicate himself to the church. He agreed, he followed the other party to the backyard of the church, they walked through the corridors filled with murals and scriptures, under the painted dome, under the colorful and dreamy sunlight.

A hooded person walked over, he stepped on the light of the Mother Goddess statue, his face was obscured, you could only see his clean hands, they were clasped in front of him.

He walked over and placed his hand on the doctor’s forehead, his voice was as soothing as a violin, he said, “Believer Bolna, are you willing to wholeheartedly, completely believe in the Mother Goddess, and follow the teachings?”

The doctor replied, his voice was dazed, “I am willing.”

The person said again, “Look up, look at me.”

The doctor looked up, Lu Mingqiu followed his gaze in his memory, she looked up, she saw a white light.

This white light was like a hot whip, a bolt of lightning, it instantly struck her.