Artifact Report

Chapter 191 Mai Minghe accidentally chases and blocks the doctor
Although Mai Minghe was eager to find his first pseudo-image client in his life, the most urgent thing was to take care of his physical needs: treatment, eating, and sleeping - whichever came first.

Since Sea Reed's injuries were more serious and needed treatment first, she decided to go see a doctor with him.

Having a cell phone is convenient. When he's almost downstairs in a taxi, he can just call and Mai Minghe will be waiting downstairs. After selling the fake image, he needs a smartphone himself.

"what is this?"

As soon as he got in the car, a paper bag was stuffed into Hai Luwei's arms.

"I thought you must be hungry," Mai Minghe sat down, closed the car door, and said, "I made you a toast sandwich and a box of juice."

“Isn’t this the lunch for elementary school students?”

Hai Luwei seemed a bit embarrassed and a bit amused. He handed the paper bag back when his stomach started to scold him. Mai Minghe urged him on, and he sheepishly took out the sandwich, took a big bite, and mumbled as he chewed, "...It's like having a grandmother all of a sudden."

"It's a pity there's no ice cream to eat." Mai Minghe looked at him happily. "I just like watching animals... and people eat."

"Did you forget to take the money?" Sea Reed said, looking at the sandwich.

"All the money on the card has been withdrawn." It wasn't much in total, originally enough to last them until they died.

"Huh? You know how to use an ATM?"

The driver in the front seat couldn't help but look up at Mai Minghe in the rearview mirror - who would be so surprised that a woman who looked to be in her twenties could use an ATM?

"Have you never been around older people?"

Mai Minghe wasn't worried about others hearing it, so he let the driver be confused. He couldn't figure it out anyway. "I remember there were ATMs in the 1970s."

Hai Luwei smiled sheepishly, a little mayonnaise on the corner of his mouth. "My grandmother's generation died quite early. I never saw them."

The clinic, which mainly serves hunters, is located in an old building in Little Italy. Fortunately, the elevator runs 24 hours a day, so two people who don't have a good pair of feet can go up to the third floor.

Hai Luwei had already made an appointment with a doctor before arriving. Although there was no one at the front desk and the lights were dim, the clinic door was not locked. He pushed the door open and called out, "Doctor Nate?"

Mai Minghe had originally thought that a doctor treating hunters would look like something different—a gangster, a tough guy, or a Frankenstein.

In the end, the person who came out was just an ordinary man, who seemed to have been weighed down by the burden of life and whose face was pale. He looked more like a patient than a doctor.

That’s right, he was called in to treat his injuries before five in the morning, so his complexion must not be good.

A thick stack of newspapers on the office desk made Mai Minghe feel particularly at home. Nowadays, even small kiosks selling newspapers and magazines seem to have disappeared from the streets of Blackmore City.

But for some reason, the newspapers all seemed to be dated from the same day—it was obvious that Dr. Nate had bought every newspaper available that day.

"Doctor Nate, how are you doing lately?" Hai Luwei was quite able to endure the pain. Even though his bones were broken, he could still take a deep breath and chat with the doctor.

Dr. Nate glanced at Mai Minghe and sighed deeply. "A new hunter?"

Such good vision?
"I told him," said Sea Reed.

Mai Minghe felt a little proud when he thought that he could be introduced to others as a hunter.

"I really don't understand what you hunters are made of." Dr. Nate shook his head, looked at the X-ray, and said, "This job isn't something a normal person can endure, yet you keep doing it... I've had enough. I'm planning to retire soon."

"Why do you suddenly want to retire?"

Doctor Nate seemed reluctant to mention it. "...There are definitely no hunters in the Bahamas."

If you dislike hunters so much, why did you get into the hunting business in the first place?
Mai Minghe raised his eyes in confusion and his gaze met Hai Luwei's on the back of the doctor who was bending over to put on the splint.

Logically speaking, why the doctor wants to retire has nothing to do with them; if this doctor retires, they can just find another one.

But at this moment, Mai Minghe has not yet thought that if he ignores things that have nothing to do with him, he may not be able to become a hunter at all - because illusions will be hidden under any appearance.

"Doctor, your clinic has been open for twenty years, right?" Hai Luwei asked.

"Yes."

"Who suddenly made you think hunting was scary?" He didn't hide his curiosity. "Some people just don't know how to be considerate." Doctor Nate was silent for a moment, then said, "People like Chase Monroe are more than just 'inconsiderate'...they're too cruel."

I don’t know who that is, but he must be a hunter - Mai Minghe’s eyes swept across the pile of newspapers on the table again.

Dr. Nate must have a cell phone, too. They say smartphones have everything, yet he still bought every single newspaper that day… He wasn't going to miss out on any channel; this was a big deal.

"Are you worried that something will be discovered?" Mai Minghe asked.

In shock, the skin on Dr. Nate's face flinched in mid-air.

"Chase Monroe..." Sea Reed muttered softly, "Second-in-command of the Kai family. I've heard he's ruthless. But if he gets you involved in something, the reward will surely be substantial... Hey, no wonder you were able to retire suddenly, Doctor."

Even if he didn't know who was who in the hunter circle, Mai Minghe knew one thing: since Hai Luwei said that "the reward was not low", it was definitely not a simple and legal good thing.

"Isn't he dead?" she asked tentatively. "Doctor, have you seen it?"

"You don't know Chase Monroe's reputation," Sea Reed said. "He's probably dead. I guess Dr. Nate is afraid of being exposed and becoming an accomplice."

"That's why I especially hate you hunters!"

Dr. Nate slammed the prescription sheet on the table and lost his temper. "Every one of you is like a fucking obsessive-compulsive disorder. The slightest smell will follow you all the way back to your grave. No one is asking another question. If you spill the beans, I won't let you keep quiet."

Both of them shut their mouths; but Mai Minghe pursed his lips tightly, and couldn't suppress the corners of his mouth.

"What are you happy about?" asked Sea Reed.

"This means that I have some talent as a hunter, right?" Mai Minghe asked with a smile.

"It seems so," Sea Reed also smiled. "It's really amazing that you can bring out a false image the first time you enter the nest."

To be precise, it was the second time, but the difference was not too big, so Mai Minghe felt that she did not deserve it. Although Dr. Nate was unhappy, he had to continue the treatment. While he was treating Mai Minghe's injuries, she and Hai Luwei chatted casually and brought up the Black Heart Restaurant.

"...I just realized they can go out to sea and fish there. It seems to correspond to the central bay of Blackmore City—eh!"

Mai Minghe screamed in pain, retracted his foot, and looked at Dr. Nate in front of him. He found that his face looked even worse than his own. "What's wrong? You almost peeled off a piece of my skin."

"You... don't have any ulterior motives, do you?" His eyes dimmed as he looked back and forth between the two of them. "What did you hear? Why did you come to me?"

Two people, each more confused than the other.

"What's the purpose?" Sea Reed said, "To treat the injury, of course."

"So what did she just say...something about going out to sea from Central Bay? What did that mean?"

Hai Luwei said that people who deal with hunters generally only have a vague understanding of the nests - unless there is a hunter who is willing to patiently explain the knowledge to the other party; but even if there is, no hunter dares to say that he knows the nests very well - there are even people who can deal with hunters while not believing that the nests exist.

Mai Minghe didn't know how much Dr. Nate knew, but at that moment, she didn't have time to think about whether she should be more clear or more obscure.

Because at that moment, a piece of information from the nest, like a fragment, perhaps because it was finally connected, suddenly popped into her mind and blurted out from her mouth as if it had its own inertia.

"The sea of ​​Blackmore City is special. Although the denizens cannot reach Blackmore City through the sea, sometimes, when they go out to sea, they can salvage things that have sunk into the sea of ​​Blackmore City and bring them back to the den."

Dr. Nate looked at her blankly, then subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the thick pile of newspapers on the table.

It was as if the answer finally fell into his hands, and he didn't know whether to be afraid or relieved.

"You...you go ahead," he put down the bandage, pointed to the door, and said, "I suddenly remembered that I have something urgent to deal with."

　I quite like this kind of everyday (?) plot, although it seems a bit clichéd... 2600 words, if put in a TV series, it might only take ten minutes?

　　Speaking of which, there have been some small good things happening recently, such as I bought three pieces of clothing for 40 yuan, and I got a hairstyle that is destined for the soul of a person's life.

　　No matter how many days I don't wash my hair, it always wakes up with a fluffy, high top! I never used to let my hair down because it looked ugly, but now I finally understand how people who let their hair down feel when they go out...

　　Now I feel that the first eighteen years (hmm) before I met this hairdresser were wasted. I go wherever she goes and I can't wait to propose to her.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)