Chapter 77: The Black Dental Clinic (Part 8)

Chapter 77: The Black Dentist Clinic (Part 8)

At 1:15 AM, outside the Ant Nest.

A black luxury car stopped at the entrance of the slum. It was Liu Niannian's first time visiting such a place.

This neighborhood... has quite a unique look.

Through the car window, Liu Niannian could feel the overwhelming sense of oppression emanating from the Ant Nest.

An atmosphere of death and decay.

Liu Niannian got out of the car, still wearing the white kitten protective suit from last time. She asked, "Why did you follow me here?"

Leaning against the car, Pei Shu was dressed in his gear today. His protective suit resembled a demon hunter's outfit but had subtle differences upon closer inspection. Without a helmet, he yawned lazily and said, "I'm afraid you might die."

Liu Niannian: "..."

Liu Niannian hadn't seen Zhu Ning's message immediately; it took her time to get here. After she replied again, there was no response from Zhu Ning. Her car's AI system had replied on her behalf.

Zhu Ning meant for her to wait outside the dentist clinic for her signal. Only after Zhu Ning completed her mission could Liu Niannian go in to clean up.

Pei Shu, unusually serious, said, "Although I don't know what your relationship with that young lady is, the places she takes you to are getting stranger and stranger."

Since entering the hotpot restaurant last time, Liu Niannian had been in contact with someone.

Pei Shu didn't pry into who this person was, but every mission Liu Niannian undertook required his approval.

The address for this mission was in the Ant Nest, a place well-known to those in their line of work. Out of some sense of "chivalry," they wouldn't come here to cause trouble unless necessary.

Pei Shu couldn't let Liu Niannian come alone.

Liu Niannian asked, "Why not?"

The contaminated area hasn't been purified yet; Liu Niannian only needed to wait at the perimeter. Pei Shu lit a cigarette and said, "This place used to belong to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical."

Yongsheng Pharmaceutical?

Liu Niannian was taken aback. She remembered that the previous hotpot restaurant also had ties to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, and Zhu Ning had asked her for information afterward.

Liu Niannian provided the information but didn't ask about the follow-up.

Could Zhu Ning have found another contaminated area related to Yongsheng Pharmaceutical so quickly?

Pei Shu exhaled a puff of smoke. "Your friend really knows how to court death."

There were so many uncleaned contaminated areas in Zone 103, yet Zhu Ning seemed to be deliberately targeting Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. Given Pei Shu's understanding of those people, this young lady must already be on Yongsheng Pharmaceutical's radar.

Being targeted and not acting low-key, instead investigating some of Yongsheng Pharmaceutical's old issues, was tantamount to courting death.

Pei Shu asked, "What does she want? Revenge?"

Liu Niannian: "..."

Pei Shu was more perceptive than Liu Niannian. He didn't want the young lady to get involved in disputes. Their family's relationship with Yongsheng Pharmaceutical was quite complicated.

Liu Niannian fell silent. She didn't mention that she had given Zhu Ning some information before. Honestly, Zhu Ning's initial knowledge of the Optimal Body Plan came from her guidance.

But Liu Niannian wasn't clear on what Zhu Ning intended to do. Did Zhu Ning really have a grudge against Yongsheng Pharmaceutical?

She didn't betray Zhu Ning but countered, "Is this a Yongsheng Pharmaceutical experimental base?"

Liu Niannian glanced at the structure of the Ant Nest. In the darkness, she could only see the tall, slender buildings, with the sky bridges connecting them not very visible. Looking at it this way, the place seemed like a chessboard.

Without saying more, Pei Shu didn't press further. He exhaled a puff of smoke, squinting as he looked at the Ant Nest, and asked, "Don't you think this place looks like an experimental field?"

Liu Niannian was taken aback. Now that Pei Shu mentioned it, it did look like one.

Having spent a lot of time in laboratories, Liu Niannian was familiar with such setups. Each small building resembled a tiny experimental data point, easily located using coordinates.

It was almost the perfect experimental field.

Thinking of the hotpot restaurant owner, Liu Niannian could vividly imagine what had once happened inside. If it was an experimental field, experiments might have been conducted there.

Liu Niannian: "Inside..."

Liu Niannian trailed off. This place had once been a large pharmaceutical company's experimental field, which later became a residence for the poor after being abandoned.

People chose to live here because they had nowhere else to go.

Pei Shu knew what Liu Niannian was thinking. "Contaminated metal is designed to infect people."

Just like residents downstream of polluted factories would fall ill, these large companies' improper waste management would indiscriminately infect unfortunate individuals.

Living near contaminated metal made people more likely to become pollutants.

The cost of treating mental contamination was excessively high, so the poor preferred to become pollutants.

Even though the laboratory was closed, the invisible infection never ceased.

Liu Niannian might never need to deal with such people in her lifetime. She would never fall into such a situation, but Pei Shu felt it was necessary for the young lady to encounter the real world.

Based on Pei Shu's speculation, it would be difficult for this young lady to maintain her innocent happiness. She would either be consumed by her own family or eventually take a path opposite to her family's.

Liu Niannian fell silent for a moment and asked, "Are there still people from Yongsheng Pharmaceutical inside?"

Zhu Ning would find it hard to leave unscathed if she encountered them.

Pei Shu: "It's long abandoned, with all personnel evacuated. Otherwise, it wouldn't have become a slum."

Liu Niannian had just let out a sigh of relief when Pei Shu added, "But this place is a natural breeding ground for curses. After the people from Yongsheng Pharmaceutical left, something even more terrifying moved in."

Liu Niannian: "..."

How did Zhu Ning manage to be even more reckless than herself?

Liu Niannian: "What's inside?"

Pei Shu asked, "Do you think there's a distinction between good and evil among pollution sources?"

Huh? Liu Niannian had never considered this question before. Was Wang Ming from the hotpot restaurant an evil person?

Many ordinary people, when suppressed to the extreme, would only isolate themselves. Their contaminated zones were sealed off, and some of them believed that as long as they didn't cause trouble while alive, they wouldn't cause problems after death.

For example, the hotpot restaurant was very self-contained, never opening to the public. Apart from reckless people like Liu Niannian, it rarely caused harm to its surroundings.

But there were pollution sources who weren't good people even when they were alive, and they continued to cause trouble even after death.

Pei Shu, being Liu Niannian's teacher, aimed to inspire this young lady, "Think about it, what would happen if a serial killer became a pollution source?"

Liu Niannian frowned. If someone was a serial killer, becoming a pollution source wasn't a punishment but a reward.

They would gain abilities beyond those of ordinary humans.

They were meticulous, emotionally detached, and had a strange sense of malevolence. They would torment you until your last breath.

"If we say that pollution sources have good and evil, and contaminated zones have their own qualities, then your friend unfortunately stepped into the bad one."

Pei Shu stubbed out his cigarette, "I guess in twenty minutes, you can go in to collect her remains."

Cleaners, in essence, were corpse collectors. This was only Liu Niannian's third mission since becoming a cleaner, and now she needed to retrieve Zhu Ning's body?

...

Zhu Ning needed to return.

She had no choice but to go back.

Xu Mei clearly had an interest in the teeth marks on her neck; if touched, she might be bitten through the neck.

The remaining dentist, dental assistants, front desk nurse, and the little girl added up to sixteen people.

Apart from Gao Zijian, Zhu Ning had to deal with seventeen pollutants. She could already imagine pollutants lying in wait for her upon entry.

Moreover, these were first-time encounters, and there might be other pollutants inside.

Guns were useless; the only thing available was the system's items.

This meant that if Zhu Ning returned, she would have to prepare to expend her health points and mental points.

Indeed, her health points were not sufficient. She could either exhaust herself and die in the contaminated zone or fight to the death. The question was how to fight?

She reviewed the talents and items at her disposal. She couldn't crush the dental clinic like she did with Experiment 777. First, crushing the dental clinic would consume a large amount of mental points, potentially driving her to madness.

Second, even if she crushed the dental clinic, it wouldn't be very useful because the contaminated area was vast, and Zhu Ning's ability couldn't crush the entire ant nest.

The ant nest was interconnected in all directions. If given any chance, Gao Zijian could easily escape from the dental clinic to other areas.

Third, even if she crushed it, Gao Zijian might emerge unscathed.

As a cold, antisocial personality, Zhu Ning knew very little about Gao Zijian.

So far, Gao Zijian hadn't revealed any of his abilities.

Blow it up?

Zhu Ning had bombs capable of destroying a thirty-story building without harming herself, making them seem perfect for this contaminated zone.

But could Gao Zijian be destroyed by the explosion?

Moreover, Prometheus led her here, suggesting that the dental clinic might contain some information.

The system also said that the dental clinic held clues to Zhu Ning's death.

What kind of clues?

The system insisted she resolve the dentist's psychological issues. In her view, this dentist was so well-adjusted in his perversion that Zhu Ning was developing her own issues facing him.

Such a person absolutely didn't need a psychologist, and she didn't want to know what had happened in his past to make him this way.

Blow it up, that's all Zhu Ning could think about.

Before entering, Zhu Ning inventoried her equipment and checked her stats again. Her health points were down to 98.

Spending health points like water wasn't scary as long as she could earn them back.

Zhu Ning had no choice now; she had to win and earn purification points as a reward.

She hoped Prometheus hadn't misled her.

If she found nothing inside, Zhu Ning would definitely blow up the Prometheus mainframe.

Zhu Ning took a deep breath and pushed open the emergency exit door, revealing a pitch-black corridor ahead.

This was the third time she walked down this corridor. The first time, she was so terrified that she lost 10% of her mental points. The second time, she fled in panic from the dental clinic.

The third time, knowing the danger but heading straight into it, her mindset was completely different each time.

With a click, she pushed open the door to the dental clinic.

It was dark.

All the lights in the dental clinic were out, and under the night vision function of her helmet, everything turned green.

Zhu Ning adapted quickly, as everything happened in an instant.

A figure suddenly darted out from the waiting room on the right. Zhu Ning barely caught a glimpse, only seeing a shadow flash before her eyes.

The speed increased.

Zhu Ning immediately realized that it was a dental assistant charging at her. His hands were drenched in blood, his white coat soaked halfway through with it, his mouth split wide, extending to his ears, and his crooked teeth grew along with the split.

Like a monster with its mouth wide open.

Zhu Ning had no doubt this thing could bite off half of her head in an instant.

The dental assistant moved incredibly fast, like a leopard darting out of the darkness. He was only half a meter away from Zhu Ning.

With a squelch—

A piece of scrap metal filled his mouth, its sharp end piercing through his skull instantly. The scrap metal flew up, and Zhu Ning didn't even touch the other end.

The dental assistant lowered his head, seeing what had filled his mouth—it was a mangled signboard.

The sign for Little White Rabbit Dental Clinic.

Zhu Ning hadn't come in unarmed; she had brought metal objects with her.

The assistant seemed enraged by Zhu Ning's action. A piece of scrap metal couldn't kill him, and he roared, trying to pounce on Zhu Ning again.

But he found he couldn't.

The deformed scrap metal had pierced his throat, lodged between his throat bone and spine, fusing him with the metal.

Under the force of brute strength, he couldn't get within two meters of Zhu Ning.

Zhu Ning tilted her head, and with another squelch, the dental assistant was lifted into the air, pinned hard against the opposite wall.

The monster couldn't be killed, but it could be trapped. By embedding metal objects into his body and fusing them with him, Zhu Ning could control him.

Zhu Ning had found the correct way to use her metal manipulation ability.

The dental assistant roared, struggling, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move an inch.

Within two meters, Zhu Ning had absolute control over metal.

Zhu Ning's protective suit had indeed been upgraded. Her mask detected her entering combat mode, and the panel automatically identified contaminants, showing four red dots outlining their bodies on the helmet's display.

Zhu Ning glanced up; the short dentist was on the fifth floor, leaning on the railing, watching her like a spectator.

With the assistance of her new helmet, Zhu Ning's strategy proved effective.

The dental clinic wasn't short of metal items—iron cabinets in the waiting room, iron chairs, handrails on the stairs, and the dentists' drills and dental instruments.

As a dentist tried to struggle to his feet, he was immediately struck by a chair, which instantly transformed into armor, trapping him entirely.

A bullet was fired into the dentist's mouth. Under the influence of Zhu Ning's metal manipulation ability, the bullet acted like a flexible snake, moving and drilling inside the dentist's body.

The bullet would accelerate, passing through every vein and organ, causing pain even to the contaminants.

The dentist couldn't even scream from the pain.

Zhu Ning controlled the bullet, unaware of the danger behind her. Suddenly, she was pounced upon with such force that her back felt like it was being crushed, and her head slammed down hard.

Her attacker pressed down on her with all four limbs, pinning her like a mountain, making it impossible for her to lift her head. But through the rear view function of her helmet, Zhu Ning saw who was behind her.

Xu Mei.

Xu Mei's degree of mutation was indeed different. Her neck had become a new mouth, and Zhu Ning had tried to pierce her with metal objects, but Xu Mei's body showed no vulnerabilities.

Her body seemed specially reinforced, making her a walking steel plate.

The same tactic wouldn't work on her.

Xu Mei opened her mouth, and a new tongue extended from her neck, hanging down and landing hotly on Zhu Ning's nape.

Xu Mei's fingers clawed fiercely at Zhu Ning's back. If it were the old protective suit, it might have been torn to shreds, but after the upgrade, Xu Mei only managed to rip off two metal pieces.

"Warning! Protective suit about to be damaged!"

The internal system of the protective suit announced, and electric sparks flashed across the helmet.

Zhu Ning felt intense pain in her back. If this continued, she might be disassembled by Xu Mei.

She took a deep breath and opened the system panel.

"Use item: Pigman's Guillotine?"

Zhu Ning: "Use."

Xu Mei's teeth had already bitten into Zhu Ning's helmet, and electric sparks crackled inside, showering sparks.

Her hard teeth could even penetrate the protective suit helmet.

Unfortunately for Xu Mei, she didn't see what was happening behind her. A guillotine blade suddenly appeared, cutting off half of her body.

Despite being so close to Xu Mei, the Pigman's Guillotine only cut through Xu Mei, not even scratching Zhu Ning.

Xu Mei's upper body bore three neat incisions: one on her waist, one on her neck, and one on her head.

Her lower half collapsed like a lifeless doll with a thud.

Her upper body remained rigid, and even in this state, she did not release the force of her bite. Zhu Ning had to exert great effort to pry Xu Mei’s teeth apart.

The pig-man's guillotine was a C-class contaminated item, said to be infallible, but it clearly didn't guarantee death.

Xu Mei wasn’t dead yet; as long as the source of contamination lived, she could still revive.

Xu Mei's body was cut into three parts, scattered in different directions. Her head was still moving, and even so, the smile on her face seemed welded on like a mask.

She had found a job she had always dreamed of, so she wore a contented and happy smile even now.

She needed to become a permanent employee, so her gaze was filled with greedy excitement. She would do anything to achieve that goal.

Work.

In the wasteland world, everyone is assumed to have a job; they must work to survive. Those without jobs are seen as anomalies.

Xu Mei desperately wanted to fit in. She struggled to survive, even living in the slums without giving up.

She found an unusual job and was willing to fight for it until death. She believed that if she earned enough money, she could move away from this hellhole.

She hadn’t given up on life; she had tried every possible way to save herself.

But the more she tried to save herself, the deeper she fell into the trap.

This little nurse just wanted a legitimate job.

Gao Zijian exploited this. As a B-class contaminant, he had the ability to use mental pollution on Xu Mei.

Even in her current state, Xu Mei had to serve Gao Zijian.

She couldn’t show a tired smile; her muscles had formed a memory, and she would smile until death.

Even when contaminated, the strength and resentment of the contaminants were related. Xu Mei’s obsession far exceeded that of others, making her stronger than other contaminants.

The first floor where Zhu Ning stood was a mess of blood and flesh. The black dental clinic had turned into a blood-red one.

Whether or not they received orders from their master, these contaminants did not rush forward again but stood at a distance, watching her like a pack of wolves.

Zhu Ning looked at him coldly. There were four floors between her and Gao Zijian; she was on the first floor, and he was on the fifth.

The pig-man's guillotine entered its cooldown period and could not be used today, and its effect was poor anyway. But there were still many contaminants in front of her.

Zhu Ning’s helmet must have had a leak; all she heard was the sound of electricity, a hissing noise in her ears.

Gao Zijian leaned against the railing, looking down at her from above, saying regretfully, "Indeed, she isn’t very useful."

Only now did Zhu Ning have the chance to observe Gao Zijian. For a man in the wasteland world, Gao Zijian was too short.

People in the wasteland world had long broken free from genetic constraints; most were around 1.7 meters tall, while Gao Zijian was only 1.6 meters.

He wore a white coat that made him look like he had stolen his father’s work clothes. Gao Zijian appeared very thin and small, making his head seem disproportionately large. He looked somewhat comical but maintained a mature demeanor.

He was the owner of the grave post, and his tone when posting was calm, like a pervert lurking online.

When he actually appeared before her, Zhu Ning found him even more unsettling than his online persona.

Gao Zijian said to Xu Mei, "Hey, I gave you a job, can’t you try a bit harder?"

Hearing this, Xu Mei wriggled a couple of times, trying to struggle to stand despite being cut into pieces.

Zhu Ning frowned; honestly, such a pervert like Gao Zijian was rare.

Gao Zijian seemed to be a creature similar to humans but entirely non-human, merely wearing a human skin.

Gao Zijian sighed, "Don’t come to the slums for work next time. And the ant nest has metal contamination; even if you hadn’t met me, you would have become a contaminant."

His tone was gentle, as if he genuinely cared about Xu Mei. The lower the social stratum, the higher the crime rate. His advice to Xu Mei was not to work here.

"It’s dangerous for a girl to be alone; you can easily encounter perverts."

His expression was serious, and he didn’t seem to be joking.

Does he really think he’s a good person deep down?

Xu Mei smiled and nodded excitedly, as if receiving praise from her boss was the happiest thing for her as an employee.

"Too stupid," Gao Zijian shook his head, "I wonder what made you think you could move here."

Zhu Ning asked, "What’s wrong with this place?"

Gao Zijian rarely found someone willing to listen to him and thought Zhu Ning’s voice was beautiful.

"You don’t know?" Gao Zijian seldom found people who would listen to him, "This place used to be an experimental base."

It made sense, Zhu Ning realized. A grid-like layout would certainly be convenient for experiments.

Zhu Ning knew without asking who originally owned this place.

Prometheus must have wanted to tell her this. What was Yongsheng Pharmaceutical doing here?

Gao Zijian hoped Zhu Ning would continue to ask questions, but she didn’t, showing no interest in him.

Zhu Ning’s indifference made him feel somewhat defeated. Why didn’t she continue asking?

Doesn’t she want to know what happened here?

Gao Zijian looked at Zhu Ning with some puzzlement. This person was dressed in a black cleaner's uniform, her helmet seemingly damaged, but she hardly spoke throughout.

Even after he had provoked her so much, Zhu Ning didn't get angry.

She had been traumatized, her mental state should have been severely affected, yet she hadn't lost her reason or experienced hallucinations.

It was too strange.

Gao Zijian desperately wanted to talk to someone. He decided to ignore Zhu Ning's expression and really wanted to confide his troubles.

"Do you feel sorry for her?" Gao Zijian put on a pitiful look, "I'm also very pitiful."

He was also very pitiful; no one listened to him. The most pitiful thing about a person is that no one finds them pitiful.

He had been in the ant nest since birth.

"My father used to be a researcher," Gao Zijian said.

His father had worked for Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, researching until the final stage of the project, when it was abruptly terminated, and all researchers and equipment were moved out.

After Yongsheng Pharmaceutical withdrew, the place was taken over by real estate developers, who quickly renovated it and rented it out again.

Capital chases maximum profit, and the greatest profit lies in not abandoning any opportunity to squeeze out value. For a time, the ant nest was even transformed into an internet-famous community, very popular online, where people had to queue up to move in.

But his father, for some unknown reason, started trying to shut down the ant nest.

"All this metal pollution makes it unsuitable for human habitation."

"You will be contaminated!"

"It can't be lived in!"

But no one wanted to listen to him. It was very cheap here, the rent being only one-twentieth of what it was outside.

A person seemed so insignificant in front of the ant nest, completely ignored.

Later, his father left Yongsheng Pharmaceutical. He gave up his glamorous job as a researcher and opened a clinic within the community, dedicated to serving defective products.

The fees were very low, almost like doing charity work, and Gao Zijian remembered from childhood how poor their family was.

Because they were poor, he couldn't afford good clothes, and his clothes were always torn.

Because they were poor, he couldn't go to better schools outside and had to study at home.

Because they were poor, he couldn't integrate into the outside world; those around him were all defective products.

For his father, his own needs were always placed behind those of his patients.

He resented his father. If his father had continued working as a researcher at Yongsheng Pharmaceutical, he could have had a better life.

But their family was dragged down by this clinic, living in a metal-polluted area, Gao Zijian couldn't grow tall, and his father died early.

He hoped his son could inherit his legacy, leaving the clinic to Gao Zijian.

His father had a noble goal: to treat defective products, whom everyone else had abandoned, but he wouldn't. All of Gao Zijian's refusals made him seem petty.

To be a gentle and kind doctor, so Gao Zijian couldn't refuse.

The cost of being a good person far exceeded Gao Zijian's imagination.

The general clinic was under too much pressure. After taking over, Gao Zijian turned it into a dental clinic.

Because even defective products need dental care. Indeed, his judgment was correct; he had some business acumen. After the Black Dream epidemic, his business thrived.

Every day on his way to work, he would pass by defective products lying in corners, inhaling Black Dream until their teeth rotted away, their bones became brittle, and they eventually died.

He couldn't understand why these people needed saving.

He couldn't understand the necessity of being a good person; his father's fate wasn't good.

He also couldn't understand the meaning of his work. His father taught him to be a kind and responsible doctor, and he did. He treated every patient with kindness and never looked down on them.

But he never expected that one day, he would hear a cry for help from a tooth.

Doctor, my tooth hurts.

Doctor, my tooth really hurts!

The voice inside the tooth repeated, annoying him. He had to save this patient.

Gao Zijian saved the person inside the tooth, watching as a drill descended from above, making him a source of contamination.

"I can never figure it out," Gao Zijian said, "Why did he know there was metal pollution here but still choose to live here, and make me live here?"

"I later realized, he was atoning for his sins, using my life to atone for his."

One person's atonement wasn't enough; he wanted his son to atone with him.

How hypocritical.

Gao Zijian: "I'm just a victim."

Zhu Ning: "Oh."

"Oh?" Gao Zijian was slightly irritated. He had said so much, and Zhu Ning only responded with one word.

Oh?

She must not be a qualified listener. Gao Zijian regretted talking to Zhu Ning for a moment.

This was the first time Zhu Ning had encountered such a talkative source of pollution. She seemed to have grasped the essence and found the critical point: "You can't leave here, can you?"

It had nothing to do with his father's last wish; Gao Zijian had legs and arms, and leaving this place would be easy for him.

But he didn’t move, instead, day after day, he did a job he despised.

Why?

All perverts attributed their reasons to their unfortunate childhoods, unable to find fault within themselves. They hated their parents and the world but never hated themselves.

A source of pollution must harbor resentment; otherwise, it couldn't form a polluted area.

What was Gao Zijian’s resentment?

Gao Zijian’s face suddenly turned ugly; Zhu Ning had hit a nerve.

Zhu Ning smiled when she saw Gao Zijian’s expression, "You're trapped here, aren't you?"

He was trapped here.

He couldn’t leave the ant nest. Here, he was still a respected doctor, but once he left, he would be instantly swallowed by the crowd.

No one cared about him, no one respected him, and no one would listen to him.

He was short, ugly, and strange. Outside the ant nest, he could hear people whispering around him, as if every passerby was laughing at him madly.

He had tried to escape before, but then he came back. He found the place that suited him best.

As long as he was in the slums, he was the god who controlled others' fates.

He would hear cries like, "Doctor, my tooth hurts."

Doctor, my tooth hurts.

That was the proof they needed him, their desire for salvation. He was needed like a true angel in white.

The motive for selling black dreams wasn’t for money.

It was because he couldn’t leave, not that the patients couldn’t leave him, but that he couldn’t leave the patients.

He wanted the patients to always need him, so much so that he was willing to become a drug dealer.

The still-operational dental clinic was the best proof. Even though it had become a polluted area, he had never stopped serving.

Was it Xu Mei who needed this job more?

No, it was Gao Zijian who needed to play the role of fulfilling Xu Mei’s wishes.

Gao Zijian’s smile froze, and he finally showed a bit of his true self, his eyes cold.

Zhu Ning had stirred his anger. Black lines emerged from Gao Zijian’s back, and dark shadows writhed behind him, like a hedgehog raising its sharp spines.

He seemed on the verge of rage, his voice low and icy, "What exactly are you here for?"

Zhu Ning gasped, swinging two metal rods, and said seriously, "I’m here to untie your heart knot."

The system said that Zhu Ning should untie the dentist’s heart knot.

Gao Zijian was taken aback. If Zhu Ning had said she was there to kill him or purify something, Gao Zijian might have believed her.

But she said... she was there to untie his heart knot?