“Asho Heath, if you’re awake, please leave on your own. Dinner time has passed. We don’t provide meals for patients here.”
Asho sat up quickly, his eyelids feeling hot from the bright lights. He touched his face and stomach, feeling no pain or swelling. It felt like the beating from Igura earlier was just a dream.
This was not the first time he had witnessed the medical technology of this world, but every time left him amazed. The wound that was pierced by the Bloodthirsty Hunter’s sword would have left him in the ICU for over ten days in his past life, but here it was healed before the interrogation.
It made Asho think that they wanted to heal him first and then give him a full set of interrogation and health care.
Looking around, it was not like the treatment room he had imagined. There was no smell of disinfectant, and although the environment was clean without any bloodstains or clutter, the color scheme was mainly gray, black, and brown, giving a “dirty and chaotic” impression.
Not to mention the medical staff here, dressed in black robes that covered their entire body, wearing a crow mask that was frightening, and holding a shiny short knife.
They didn’t look like doctors at all, but rather like heretics who were using Asho as a sacrifice.
The medical staff who spoke to him was slightly shorter in height, and the voice was indistinguishable between male and female. The mask seemed to have an effect that distorted the voice, making it even more frightening.
She noticed Asho was looking at her and asked, “Is there a problem?”
Asho casually said, “I think there’s still something wrong with my face.”
“Hmm? I’ve already healed all your injuries.” The medical staff was confused. “Is it a broken blood vessel inside?”
“I think I’m not as handsome as before. Did you not fix it? By the way, do you provide plastic surgery services here?”
Originally, Asho was just chatting to leave a good impression so he could get some fruit when he came back for treatment in the future. But unexpectedly, the crow medical staff became excited and approached him, saying, “Of course we provide it! Eye enlargement, nose adjustment, bone shaving, chin filling, I can do all kinds of procedures. You can become whatever you want, even if you want to become another race! I highly recommend this Kazi Lande technique, which can effectively expand your eyes…”
Asho pushed the medical staff away with disgust. “You’ve already cursed me with your crow mouth!”
“Oh, I’m sorry. If you want to have lip surgery, I have a new White Rabbit Candy technique that can make your lips naturally sweet…”Looking at the medical practitioner’s fanatical look of selling insurance, Asho was a bit scared. “I don’t have any money!”
“I don’t want your money, I just want you!”
Asho trembled, “So fast? We haven’t known each other for long. Wait, are you male or female? What race are you…?”
The medical practitioner realized her mistake and waved her hand, saying, “What I meant was, as long as you are willing to let me perform surgery on you, it’s enough. You don’t have to pay me, it’s completely free!”
“Um…” Asho asked, “What if I want you to give me money?”
“Uh…how much do you want?”
Seeing the medical practitioner really take out her wallet, Asho quickly stopped her. “Wait, I was just asking casually. I don’t really want to have surgery on my face. But are all of you medical practitioners this kind? Doing surgery without asking for anything in return. I thought you were the type that suddenly raises the price during surgery, judging by your appearance.”
The medical practitioner said, “Ah, isn’t this normal?”
“Huh?”
Asho couldn’t tell whether she was talking about “free” or “raising prices during surgery.”
“So you really don’t plan on doing plastic surgery?” The medical practitioner tried to convince him. “I am a silver medical practitioner with three Sorcery Spirits. You won’t find a free and capable medical practitioner like me outside. You’ll hit the jackpot if you meet me!”
“What if you suddenly charge in the middle of surgery?”
“Do you have money?”
“No.”
“Then what are you worried about!?”
It seemed reasonable. As long as I have no money, you won’t be able to cheat me out of my money… Asho still shook his head. “In my industry, there is a saying: free is the most expensive. If I take advantage of your free offer, I will inevitably pay the price elsewhere.”
Seeing that Asho was not interested, the medical practitioner had to be honest and said, “Okay, if you are willing to let me perform surgery on you, there will be a little risk.”
“A little?”
“Yeah, a little.” The medical practitioner gestured with her fingers. “After all, I’m not very skilled in this area of surgery, so I need to perform more surgeries to increase my proficiency. But with my three Sorcery Spirits, it’s enough to ensure that you are not in mortal danger…”
With the medical practitioner’s explanation, Asho finally understood why they were willing to let patients freeload: because the medical effects of silver medical practitioners were not guaranteed.
Unlike the medical practices of his past life, the medicine in this world was developed by Artisans, and the most commonly used Sorcery Spirit by medical practitioners was the “Water Therapy” of the water system.As long as there is moisture in the patient’s body, the Sorcery Spirit can be activated, allowing the patient’s wounds to regenerate rapidly.
The most common treatment method is to bleed and scrape the flesh, then activate the Sorcery Spirit to promote rapid regeneration of the body.
As one can imagine, this treatment method has many flaws, but all Sorcery Spirits have the characteristic of evolution, and this is even more evident in the ‘Water Therapy’ Sorcery Spirit: whenever the ‘Water Therapy’ Sorcery Spirit is used to treat a disease, it will memorize and optimize the treatment, so that the next time it encounters the same disease, it can treat it more efficiently.
Not only that, as long as the healer has treated enough diseases, they can even evolve the ‘Water Therapy’ Sorcery Spirit into a two-winged Sorcery Spirit!
As a result, silver healers are eager to treat patients but can’t, while patients would rather spend more money to find better gold healers and not choose silver ones – the weaker the healer, the worse the ‘Water Therapy’ effect, and the greater the probability of patients having problems.
In the eyes of healers, the Broken Lake Prison is a very attractive place – every day there are prisoners who are beaten to the brink of death receiving treatment, they can gain experience here very comfortably, and the doctor-patient relationship is very stable, even if they accidentally kill a patient, there will be no trouble!
Like the healer who talked to Asho, if it weren’t for having a background, they wouldn’t have the opportunity to come here to gain experience!
Asho thought to himself, the Deathmatch Society not only incited the prisoners to compete with each other, but also used them as renewable resources for healers to gain experience. This prison was really good at doing business, and it had won over the prison.
However, the treatment was actually free and did not consume the contribution of the death row prisoners. From this point of view, the prison was still small in scale and not as good as Asho’s company – the company not only sold Asho a sudden death insurance but also directly deducted the electricity consumed by Asho’s malicious overtime from his salary, causing Asho’s plan to make money by working overtime and mining cryptocurrency to be aborted.