"Approved."
Victor adjusted his non-existent glasses.
"Be quick about it. Don't let those germ-ridden things filthy up the porch."
"As you wish, Director."
Alice lifted her silver great scissors and performed an elegant curtsy.
In the next second, the doors slammed open.
The ghouls that had been frantically scratching at the entrance felt a blur before their eyes.
A black whirlwind, carrying a suffocating aura of death, crashed into the crowd of monsters.
There was no flashy magic, only the most extreme physical cutting.
Snip.
The crisp metallic snap became the only melody in the dead silence of the wilderness.
Victor stood by the window, hands in his pockets, watching calmly.
Alice moved as if dancing a waltz.
Her black dress fluttered as the heavy great scissors moved in her hands as light as a feather.
A ghoul roared and lunged forward.
A flash of silver light followed.
The head and neck were completely separated.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, and the creature's scream was severed mid-breath.
"Snip... all the broken parts must be snipped away..."
Alice hummed a haunting nursery rhyme, her figure moving like a phantom.
She didn't look like she was fighting; she looked like a tailor with obsessive-compulsive disorder, trimming unruly fabric.
Pfft! Pfft!
Severed limbs and broken parts flew through the air.
In just half a minute, over a dozen ghouls had been turned into neatly piled fragments on the ground.
Alice had even gone as far as stacking the body parts into several small pyramids according to size and type.
"Phew..."
She stopped and flicked away non-existent droplets of blood from her scissors.
The moonlight fell upon her pale face, her red pupils shimmering with a lingering excitement.
Turning around, she looked through the glass at Victor and offered a sweet smile.
If the backdrop hadn't been a sea of blood and gore, she would have looked like the perfect girl-next-door.
【Ding!】
【Medical disturbance hazard cleared!】
【Evaluation: Perfect suppression.】
【Congratulations on obtaining the first-kill reward!】
A pale blue light orb emerged.
Victor's lips curled slightly.
The system's evaluation criteria were both absurd and logical.
Indeed, any behavior that interfered with the order of treatment was collectively referred to as a "medical disturbance."
Physical deterrence was the most effective solution.
He tapped the light orb.
【Obtained: Infinite Suture Thread (Special Equipment)】
【Quality: Rare】
【Properties: Indestructible and extremely sharp. When used in coordination with "God-Chosen: Alice," it can be used to set up strangulation traps.】
An silver-white metal box appeared in Victor's hand.
He pulled out a thread as thin as gossamer and tightened it against the iron leg of a table.
Screech—
Sparks flew.
A deep, bottomless gouge appeared on the hard stainless steel pipe.
"Good stuff."
Victor's eyes lit up.
How was this a suture thread? It was clearly a monomolecular cutting wire!
【Obtained: Basic Anesthetic Recipe】
【Description: Finally, you no longer need to use physical anesthesia. One injection, and an ogre will sleep like a baby.】
【Obtained: 100 Clinic Points.】
Victor immediately crushed the recipe to learn it.
Meanwhile, Alice returned to the clinic.
She pointed at the neatly stacked "trophies" outside the door as if presenting a treasure.
"Director, those pieces of trash... do you need me to stitch them together into new security guards?"
Victor glanced at the pile of rotten meat and shook his head.
"No need. Too ugly. It would lower the clinic's standards."
Ghouls were essentially rotting wild dogs; even if stitched together, they wouldn't have much combat power.
But it would be a waste to just throw them away.
"System, initiate recycling."
Victor walked to the pile of remains and pressed his hand onto them.
【Inferior biological materials detected.】
【Recycle?】
"Recycle."
Hum—
A faint blue light swept over the area.
The nauseating piles of flesh instantly vaporized and vanished.
【Recycling successful!】
【Obtained: 50 Biomass Materials, 12 Inferior Magic Cores.】
【Account Balance: 200 Points.】
Victor nodded in satisfaction.
Kill, loot, decompose, recycle.
A perfect environmental loop.
Gurgle...
A thunderous growl from his stomach broke the moment of joy.
Victor clutched his stomach, his face turning pale.
He had been in this world for half a day without a drop of water, and after performing high-intensity surgery, his stamina was depleted.
"Alice, aren't you hungry?"
Alice blinked and shook her head. "Undead only need to absorb magic power, or... stay by the Director's side to not feel hunger."
"..."
Victor sighed.
It seemed he was the only one who needed to eat.
"System, buy food."
The light screen expanded.
【Holy Purification Potion: 500 Points】
【Mithril Scalpel: 1,000 Points】
【High-Energy Compressed Rations: 10 Points】
...
Fortunately, basic supplies weren't expensive.
Victor spent 30 points to exchange for two blocks of compressed rations and two bottles of water.
He tore open the packaging and took a large bite.
The texture was like chewing sawdust.
But at this moment, it tasted better than any gourmet delicacy.
After swallowing a few mouthfuls and chugging a bottle of water, the burning sensation in his stomach finally subsided.
But this was only a temporary measure.
He only had 170 points left.
Sitting idle and consuming resources would lead to a dead end.
Victor wiped the crumbs from the corner of his mouth, his gaze becoming sharp.
He walked to the window, looking out at the forest shrouded in darkness.
That was a paradise for monsters and a forbidden zone for humans.
But in Victor's eyes now, it was a massive "point bank" and "material factory."
"Alice."
Victor turned and straightened his collar.
Though his lab coat was stained with blood, his aura was like that of a general about to go to war.
"Pack the tools."
Alice tilted her head, her scissors snapping slightly. "Director, is there a new patient coming?"
"No."
Victor pushed open the door, the night wind making his coat hem flutter loudly.
He looked into the depths of the dark forest, his lips curling into an aggressive arc.
Since this was a wasteland where the strong preyed on the weak, they couldn't blame him for disregarding medical ethics.
"Since the patients won't come to the doctor..."
"The doctor will just have to make a 'house call' himself."
He picked up the Rusty Saw of Redemption and pulled the starter cord.
Vroom—!
The roar echoed through the night sky.
"Let's go... and give our neighbors in the forest a thorough physical examination."
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