“Dr. Zhao, do you think I’m sick?”
Dr. Zhao, sitting opposite Mo Bai, heard this and offered an awkward but polite smile: “Of course you’re sick.”
“If you weren’t sick, why would you come to me, a psychologist?”
Mo Bai retorted, “What if I’m just looking for trouble…?”
Dr. Zhao extended his hand, interrupting Mo Bai: “Then I need to remind you, I charge by the minute here, 50 yuan per minute.”
Mo Bai: “…”
“Alright, I really am sick.”
Mo Bai began to describe his condition: “Dr. Zhao, you don’t know, lately, I’ve been able to see some strange things above people’s heads…”
Dr. Zhao wrote a couple of strokes in his notebook: “What exactly are they?”
“Uh.” Mo Bai paused, then said seriously: “I can see people’s ‘components’.”
“Like white pufferfish, Walmart plastic bags, Goblin, Rice Immortal, and so on.”
Dr. Zhao became interested: “Then what are my components?”
“This…” Mo Bai glanced at him, then said expressionlessly: “Quack doctor.”
Dr. Zhao: “…”
He applauded in admiration: “Then you’re quite accurate.”
Mo Bai: “?”
“Hey!” Mo Bai was stunned: “Is it really okay for you to call yourself a quack doctor like that? I’m about to pay you!”
“Believe it or not, I’ll report you!”
“Don’t be silly, kid, I have connections… *cough cough*.” Dr. Zhao coughed, changing the subject: “That’s not important. How long has this condition of yours been going on?”
“It started just this morning.”
Mo Bai looked puzzled: “As soon as I stepped out, I saw them—a bunch of green words swaying in front of me, like the stock market.”
“Dr. Zhao, do you think my condition is serious?”
“It’s fatal, it’s fatal…”
“Ah?!” Mo Bai paled: “How is it fatal?!”
“Oh, it’s nothing, it’s not you who’s fatal. It’s just that you mentioned the stock market just now, and I couldn’t help but take a look.” Dr. Zhao adjusted his glasses, put down his phone, and muttered: “It’s just a technical adjustment, don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid…”
Mo Bai: “…”
Is this doctor really reliable?
“Let’s get back to your condition.” Dr. Zhao summarized professionally: “Hallucinations, it’s nothing serious. I encounter several every day.”
“Some say their eyes have evil gods sealed within them, some say they have Command Spells on their hands to summon Heroic Spirits, and the most outrageous one was a person holding a Sparklence wanting to transform into a Magical Girl.”
“Looking at it this way, isn’t your condition not so serious?”
Mo Bai: “No, I still think it’s quite serious. Just now, right before my eyes, the ‘Quack Doctor’ above your head turned from white to green…”
“And it even had an upgrade effect.”
“That does seem pretty serious.”
Dr. Zhao crossed his legs and casually asked: “Is it two-dimensional?”
“No.” Mo Bai shook his head, looking honest: “I’m just a lowly anime watcher, not some two-dimensional being.”
“Then it is two-dimensional.” Dr. Zhao smiled: “Let me guess, have you recently watched some anime that made you a bit chuunibyou?”
“Like ‘Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!’, ‘Code Geass’, ‘Magical Girl Madoka Magica’, or something similar?”
“None of those.” Mo Bai said, still feeling unsatisfied: “I recently rewatched ‘Yosuga no Sora’ and found it very enlightening.”
“Hoh.” Dr. Zhao sat up straight: “So you’re an old two-dimensional fan.”
“Then you definitely don’t have a younger sister, right?”
“No.” Mo Bai coughed: “I have a younger sister, a biological one.”
Dr. Zhao looked at him with respect: “Pervert.”
Mo Bai: “?”
“I’m leaving! I’m really leaving now!”
Mo Bai shot up suddenly: “I’ve never been so wronged in my life!”
“Don’t rush, young man, the talk therapy isn’t over yet. Here, have a glass of iced black tea to calm down.”
Mo Bai watched Dr. Zhao casually pick up a bottle of iced black tea with a certain prison-themed color scheme, pour him a full glass, with white foam floating on top.
Mo Bai: “…”
Hmm… I’d better not drink it.
Afraid that if he drank it, he’d turn into a prisoner.
“Since you’re an old two-dimensional fan, the problem makes sense.” Dr. Zhao tapped his head: “Your situation is simply that you’ve been under a bit of stress lately, causing your brain to overload. Combined with the films and TV shows you’ve watched before, it’s created hallucinations to relieve stress.”
Mo Bai asked: “Then how can I cure it?”
“It’s very simple.” Dr. Zhao smiled: “For your condition, one prayer will help a lot.”
Mo Bai: “…”
He was furious: “Quack doctor! Quack doctor!”
“I’m going to report you…”
“I can give you a few resources to help with your prayer.”
“You truly are a good doctor!”
Mo Bai smoothly exchanged WeChat IDs with Dr. Zhao: “I feel much better now, the treatment can end.”
“You truly are a miraculous doctor!”
“Of course, I’m famous for being quick.” Dr. Zhao waved the payment QR code in his hand: “We chatted for a total of ten minutes, that’s 500 yuan. Cash or scan?”
“I’ll use a card.”
Mo Bai brightly handed over a card, on which was clearly written: “XX Ancestral Talk Therapy, present this card for three free services.”
Dr. Zhao: “…”
He was completely unprepared, this old two-dimensional fan came prepared!
He said with a serious face: “Young man, your condition is quite serious. I suggest you go through several courses of treatment in batches. I think at least four courses will be needed to get well.”
Mo Bai gratefully shook Dr. Zhao’s hand: “I know, I’ll go home and pray four times in batches.”
“Thank you for the reminder, Dr. Zhao, I won’t bother you, I’m leaving now!”
Dr. Zhao: “…”
“No, you can’t leave.”
Dr. Zhao stood up. Just as Mo Bai thought he was about to pull out a butcher knife and howl, Dr. Zhao silently took out a box of kidney pills from the cabinet and looked at Mo Bai with anticipation.
“Young man, can your body handle so many prayers?”
“Here, I also have kidney pills. Do you want to buy some?”
Mo Bai: “…”
“Six.”
…
On the street, Mo Bai casually found a bench and sat down.
【Quack Doctor Component Concentration Increased】
【Obtained Green Concentration Quack Doctor Ability】
That’s right, it wasn’t Mo Bai’s mind that had a problem, but this damn world.
He had gained a golden finger.
A home visit artifact that could check others’ components.
For example…
Mo Bai randomly selected a passerby, clicked to check components, and soon, what components this passerby had became clear to him.
【Starting Component Check】
【Components Found: Goblin (Green), ○-Batch (Green), Foot Odor Bar Friend (White), Lolicon (Blue), Paradox Interactive War Criminal (Green)】
Hmm, looking at it this way, although Mo Bai didn’t recognize this guy at all, just by looking at his components, he knew exactly what kind of person he was.
A Lolicon and Paradox Interactive war criminal, you play quite wild, kid. I suggest immediate execution, and the bullets must not be the smallest, lest he enjoy it too much.
Components have concentrations, which are color levels. Ordinary people’s components are generally white or green, and occasionally some who have persisted for a long time can reach blue… Hmm, wait a minute?
Mo Bai squinted: “Hiss…”
Sure enough, it would be better to just execute that Lolicon from before.
Then, the main point came: all components whose concentration increased due to Mo Bai’s actions could become his abilities.
For example, the Quack Doctor ability he just obtained from Dr. Zhao.
【Name: Quack Doctor’s Scalpel】
【Concentration: Green】
【Effect: Can activate ability while holding a bladed tool. When cutting, it will randomly create a wound on the body, and it will definitely not be at the location of the cut.】
【Doctor, it seems it’s not this leg I need surgery on…】
How to describe this ability… it has a beauty of brainstem deficiency.
Cutting fruit and accidentally cutting himself, this ability might even directly lead to a throat-slitting and bleeding, dying by suicide.
But even with an unreliable component like Quack Doctor, combined with a green concentration, it can give birth to such a supernatural ability, so his golden finger still has a promising future.
Moreover, since such things have appeared, then it’s highly probable that some supernatural things exist in his world.
At that time, he could find some guys with complex components, pick a few components that look awesome to cultivate, and then he could also become awesome.
Becoming a companion of justice, saving the world from suffering, and after death, being gender-bent and entering the gacha pool to drain the wallets of countless otaku…
Thinking of such a future, Mo Bai couldn’t help but chuckle.
However, while Mo Bai was chuckling foolishly, he suddenly heard an incredibly heavy and dangerous roar.
“Huh?”
Mo Bai turned his head and saw an iron beast speeding towards him from behind. Its old, muddy face spoke of the monstrous creature’s mournful cry, and its loaded cargo was as awe-inspiring as nine dragons pulling a coffin.
It was a 6-axle semi-trailer truck weighing tens of tons.
It was speeding towards him.
Like an unstoppable monster.
It was very sudden, very unexpected.
In that instant, Mo Bai thought that the damn heavens were jealous of his golden finger and had sent a transmigrator’s happy truck to take his dog’s life.
Neither speed nor mass was something Mo Bai could currently handle. His newly awakened golden finger had no use, and the Quack Doctor seemed to have become a cruel joke.
At that moment, there wasn’t even time to wait for death.
However…
Just like a script, the semi-trailer truck grazed Mo Bai’s body, passing by him.
Then, it brutally ran over a girl who was behind him.
“Bang!!!”
He heard the sound of the truck’s front colliding with something hard, that teeth-grinding friction.
Steel, wailing.
Amidst it, faintly mixed with the girl’s gasps.
“Eh?”
Mo Bai turned his head in confusion. So, he wasn’t the one who got hit?
Also, why was he seeing pink, heart-shaped special effects on the smoking truck front?