The nth time I met my puppet

The doctor pinched Wan Nan's hand harder and harder, and Wan Nan felt the suffocation getting stronger and stronger.

"The moment I locked eyes with you, I knew. But I still wasn't sure who you were, so that's when I decided to test you. I didn't expect my guess to be right. It was a truly unexpected reward."

The feeling of suffocation and dizziness became stronger and stronger. Wan Nan could only use all her strength to break free. She didn't care about anything else and just called him instinctively. Even if the plan failed, she would disrupt the doctor's plan, at least to prevent the curious from being deceived by the doctor.

"Little maid! Little..."

Wan Nan blurted out this most common name subconsciously due to suffocation and blurred consciousness. Unfortunately, before she could finish speaking, she completely lost consciousness, and her last thought was vague.

Is there nothing she can do to stop it?

Or perhaps it could be said that she could do nothing, could change nothing. The curious person was destined to become a straggler, to be encountered by her past self again, because this was an established fact that had already happened.

"Do you think you can ruin my plan? Haha, aren't you also a part of my plan?"

……

The curious person had been awakened by the scream and was on guard. But at this moment of fear, he heard a familiar voice calling out, and he ran out in a panic.

But in the darkness, where was the human figure? Yet he still refused to give up, desperately calling out, hoping for a response. He clearly heard it, so how could there be no response?

"Where are you?!"

The only responses he received were the cool night breeze and the chirping of insects.

"How could that be? I clearly... heard it. Stop hiding, okay? Come out..."

There was a dead silence, and ultimately, nothing. He couldn't help but think he was hallucinating again. Finally, after searching in vain, the curious person could only helplessly return to the house.

"Did you hear that sound just now?"

He subconsciously asked the child beside him, hoping that he also heard the call and told him that it was not an auditory hallucination, but the answer ultimately disappointed him.

"What was that sound? That scream? I heard it."

"No, you really didn't hear any other sound..."

The curious person asked expectantly. The child shook his dizzy head. It seemed that he had a fever and his head was buzzing. Wan Nan's voice was not as loud as the scream, and he happened to have a high fever so he didn't hear it.

"No…"

Still a negative answer, which completely extinguished the little hope that had risen in his heart and sank him to the bottom of the valley.

It turns out... he was hallucinating again...

……

Wan Nan returned to the doctor's laboratory, but unlike before, she was no longer the doctor's assistant...she was the protagonist of this experiment.

She was placed on a cold metal platform, her hands and feet tightly bound with strong ropes, unable to move. She couldn't even muster the strength to resist, at this moment she was just lying on the chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered.

At this moment, her body was extremely weak, and even lifting a finger was extremely difficult. She tried to struggle, trying to break free from these restraints, but it was all in vain.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, with only the occasional soft humming of instruments breaking the silence.

"Doc! What on earth do you want to do?!"

Wan Nan questioned angrily, but she had no idea what drug the doctor had injected her with. Her whole body was weak and even her voice became powerless.

The doctor chuckled, as if mocking her naiveté.

"Heh... I just want you to answer some questions for me. For example... why are you still alive?"