novelraw Chapter 258: The Core Principle Every Night Doctor Should Have
Chapter 258: The Core Principle Every Night Doctor Should Have
[Ding! Your reputation in the Night Doctor faction has reached 100. The second phase mission has been activated.]
[Ding! You have activated the Night Doctor job change mission (2): After passing the assessment and meeting the Matriarch, obtain Night Doctor identity certification. Mission reward: Special legendary skill x1, Black Skull Coins x10, Basic experience x10,000]
[Ding! Congratulations on completing the hidden special mission: Philosophy and Action. You have obtained mission rewards: Wang Tao affinity +100, Night Doctor reputation +20, Skill Enhancement Scroll +1]
The system prompts continuously rang in his ears.
But Lynn couldn't be bothered with them at the moment.
Gritting his teeth and holding the key in his hand, he quickly ran along the dark corridor outside the classroom.
This is terrible!
Absolutely terrible!
He had gotten too immersed in educating and manipulating that young man earlier, making him completely forget he was still in the middle of an assessment!
He checked the time.He was already over 20 minutes late!
And after using the key to open the door, this room didn't directly teleport him to the second stage.
Obviously.
He had probably failed this assessment stage!
With a loud clang.
Lynn kicked open the door leading outside from the inside and ran out panting, gritting his teeth as he said:
"Instructor! Sorry! I took too long inside. Do I still qualify to take the third stage assessment?!"
"..."
The main hall fell completely silent.
Only then did Lynn notice that besides the previous trainees, there were actually dozens of neatly dressed Night Doctors wearing plague doctor masks in the hall.
Lynn widened his eyes, completely bewildered, not understanding what was happening.
His appearance.
Instantly drew everyone's attention to him.
Lynn said in surprise, "Um, can someone explain to me what's going on?"
"..."
The surrounding trainees all covered their faces in frustration, their faces turning green from holding back.
The Head Examiner glared at him with murderous eyes, really wishing he could glare him to death on the spot.
Lynn stood there with a "?" expression, completely confused.
Tap—
Footsteps sounded.
Under Lynn's gaze, the tall figure leading the dozens of Night Doctors walked step by step toward him.
His leather jacket was engraved with eight crosses.
And whether it was the plague doctor mask or the leather jacket, they were clearly different from those of the other Night Doctors.
But for some reason.
Lynn felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with him.
The next moment.
The tall Night Doctor stopped before him, the lenses of the plague doctor mask reflecting Lynn's face.
The surroundings fell silent once again.
Everyone held their breath, watching the scene with suffocating tension.
It was so quiet you could only hear someone's heartbeat and the sound of a pin dropping.
After a long time.
Under Lynn's hesitant gaze, the Night Doctor reached out and slowly removed the plague doctor mask from his head, revealing a serious, weathered middle-aged face.
"Hello, you bastard."
The middle-aged man smiled as he extended his hand toward Lynn.
The moment Lynn saw his face, he was shocked, looking at that face in disbelief as if he'd seen a ghost.
Could it be...
This middle-aged man was...
Wang Tao from reality, outside the script?!
What kind of international joke is this!
Lynn was stunned.
And his interface immediately displayed the Night Doctor's panel.
[Code Name: White Night]
[Occupation]: Night Doctor/Enforcer/Demon Hunter
[Race]: Human Race/Evil Spirit
[Level]: ???
[Alignment]: Neutral Good
[Combat Ability]: Cheat-like combat ability and area clearing capability.
[Introduction]: White Night, meaning to make the night as bright as daylight. After falling into the Dark World, he became a member of the Night Doctors and rapidly became the youngest eighth-level Veteran in history within a few decades. He often operates in the most dangerous areas of the Dark World, long dedicated to healing this world's wounds...]
Lynn looked at his panel in surprise and said:
"You're Wang Tao?!"
White Night smiled calmly and said, "It's me."
...
A few minutes later.
At a table and chairs on the other side of the hall, Lynn and White Night sat facing each other.
Lynn skeptically looked up and down at the middle-aged man before him, but aside from some superficial resemblance, he couldn't connect that young man with the man in front of him at all.
"So you're saying that because I triggered a hidden ending you buried in that script, you sensed it and came here?"
White Night smiled and said, "Yes, because you're the first Night Doctor in all these years to trigger that mechanism."
Through their conversation.
Lynn understood what had happened.
The Fantasy Room actually contained many real experiences of Night Doctors.
They input those experiences as scripts to serve as assessments for newcomers, and what Lynn had just experienced was the past of this Night Doctor before him.
He came from Earth.
The same world as Bai Yi.
"So what exactly happened?" Lynn looked at him seriously and said:
"What was the mechanism for triggering that final scene? Did I pass the assessment?"
White Night smiled as he looked at this young man from the same world and said, "Actually, my script is one of the more difficult ones among all the scripts. It doesn't just test your fear tolerance and observation skills, but also your thinking ability. But most importantly..."
"This is also a test of your heart."
Lynn was taken aback.
White Night raised his head, looking at the hall's dome, and said:
"If you had left immediately after getting the key, you would indeed have passed the assessment. In fact, almost all Night Doctors who experienced my script would choose to leave directly after getting the key. Even those who felt empathy would, after repeated consideration and hesitation, choose to go out the door."
"They weren't wrong, because it really was just a script. Even if you wanted to change it, it would be futile—reality wouldn't change because of adjustments to the script."
"But you still did it."
He looked at Lynn across from him with satisfaction, a sincere smile appearing on his face.
Lynn looked at him, thought for a moment, then looked up and said:
"Is this what you meant by some things shouldn't be placed on a scale to be weighed, right?"
White Night smiled and said, "Yes, this is also the philosophy I value most that Night Doctors should possess."
"Even if you know that doing certain things won't benefit you, and that doing them will hardly change the predetermined outcome... but if you're not even willing to try, then how would you know you can't change it?"
Therefore.
He stopped there abruptly, leaving that ending.
It's not about whether you have the ability to solve it, but about whether you would still be determined to help them in that situation.
He wasn't looking at the result, but at the choice.
On one side were the final few minutes determining whether you could complete the assessment, on the other side was a script that would become meaningless once you left.
What would you choose?
Lynn rubbed his temples and said, "So my attitude determined whether I could trigger that ending, right?"
White Night smiled and said, "Yes, if you still chose to stay and provide help when the countdown ended, you could trigger that ending."