Episode 147: Because of a medical accident, a 'Zombie' crisis was almost created.
『 As the three were about to make their move, their feet hadn't even crossed the hospital room door when they were blocked inside.
At this moment, the patients in the ward sat up straight one by one, calling out "Mummy, Mummy" as they approached them step by step.
"Go back to your rooms!" the Doctor stepped forward and shouted.
Strangely enough, the patients calmed down as soon as they heard the Doctor's voice.
Seeing that this move was effective, the Doctor pressed on, continuing to scold, "I'm serious, I'm very angry with you!"
"Go... back to your rooms!!"
Unexpectedly, these words actually worked.
The patients, yelled at by the Doctor, all hung their heads in dejection and obediently returned to their respective beds. 』
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〜Dimensional livestream, Chat Room〜
[ Eriri Spencer Sawamura (Saekano): "These patients seem so obedient." ]
[ Eriri Spencer Sawamura (Saekano): "It's like they're good children." ]
[ Umaru Doma (Himouto): "This Doctor seems like a 'mommy' figure." ]
[ Shizuka Hiratsuka (Oregairu): "Good children should obediently listen and return to their rooms." ]
[ Takanashi Hina (PapaKiki): "Hina is also a good child!" ]
[ Takanashi Hina (PapaKiki): "That's right, Hina is also a good child~" ]
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『 After the crisis was averted, the three let out a collective sigh of relief.
Then, they left the ward and went to the top floor of the hospital, to the door of the first patient's room.
Jack pulled out his sonic gadget and, with a "click," easily picked the lock.
But the room was empty. Where was the first patient? 』
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[ Umaru Doma (Himouto): "Where is the person here? Did they already run out?" ]
[ Barbara (Genshin Impact): "If they ran out, wouldn't that be terrible?" ]
[ Haibara Ai (Detective Conan): "This situation seems like it's about to become even more complicated, especially with the first patient already gone." ]
[ The Herta (Honkai: Star Rail): "No, all the patients here just now obediently returned to their rooms." ]
[ The Herta (Honkai: Star Rail): "So, that means..." ]
[ Shinomiya Kaguya (Love Is War): "That means the patient is still obediently staying in this room." ]
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『 Jamie, Nancy's brother, who should have been there, had slipped out the window at some unknown time.
The Doctor walked to the table and opened the recording device placed there.
It was filled with the old doctor's incessant questioning of the little boy.
And this recording, just as they had heard before, showed Jamie repeatedly asking, searching for his mother.
Until the recording ended, Rose was full of doubts: Jamie didn't seem to know who his mother was.
Upon hearing this, the Doctor paced back and forth in the room, pondering what exactly had happened that day.
On the very day the medical helicopter crashed, Jamie collapsed beside the aircraft.
Due to some special anomaly, he was changed, acquiring an abnormally powerful body.
At this point, the Doctor suddenly chuckled, "This power is almost divine, and I told him to go back to his room to sleep."
"Doctor..." Rose clearly saw something, his eyes filled with terror.
But at this moment, the Doctor and everyone else heard the familiar voice of the little boy: "I'm right here, why can't you see me?"
"What is that sound?" Rose became a little nervous.
Because the Doctor suddenly realized that the previously played tape should have finished a long time ago.
He had just told Jamie to return to his room, but wasn't this the first patient's room, Jamie's room?
Thinking of this, the Doctor suddenly turned his head.
Sure enough, the little boy Jamie was standing by the tape recorder, staring intently at them. 』
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〜Dimensional livestream, Chat Room〜
[ Shinomiya Kaguya (Love Is War): "As I expected, this person indeed obeyed the Doctor's words and returned to this room." ]
[ Umaru Doma (Himouto): "I was almost scared to death just now, with someone suddenly appearing." ]
[ Chika Fujiwara (Love Is War): "This time, will the Doctor still use a mother-like commanding tone to make this little boy behave?" ]
[ Conan Edogawa (Detective Conan): "Probably not, right?" ]
[ Houtarou Oreki (Hyouka): "+ 1. I think so too." ]
[ Miyamizu Mitsuha (Your Name): "Is the gas mask on this little boy's face different from others?" ]
[ Haibara Ai (Detective Conan): "Different masks, similar wounds. There seem to be many suspicious points." ]
[ The Herta (Honkai: Star Rail): "Are you saying they are patients copied by some entity, and the source of the copy is this little boy in front of us?" ]
[ Haibara Ai (Detective Conan): "That's a possibility." ]
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『 Seeing this, Jack intended to pull out his blast gun to attack, but at some unknown point, his weapon had been quietly swapped by the Doctor.
Taking advantage of Jack's, the Doctor coolly drew the blast gun from his waist and blasted a hole in the wall.
The three quickly slipped through the hole, and Jack immediately used his sonic gun to repair the wall. 』
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〜Dimensional livestream, Chat Room〜
[ Shizuka Hiratsuka (Oregairu): "This magical gun in hand is really convenient; it can directly pass through walls and then restore them." ]
[ The Herta (Honkai: Star Rail): "A portal gun? This technology isn't that difficult." ]
[ Haibara Ai (Detective Conan): "Amazing...." ]
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『 But Jamie, after his transformation, was extraordinarily powerful.
Not only was he powerful himself, but he could also command other patients to intercept them.
Before long, the three were surrounded by patients.
They were trapped, bewildered, and at a loss.
At the critical moment, Rose abruptly aimed the sonic gun at the ground, blasting open a new escape route, and then, following suit, restored the passage.
They initially thought they were safe, but before the three could catch their breath, all the patients in the ward suddenly woke up.
Helpless, they could only embark on their escape journey once again, hiding in a storage room somewhere in the hospital.
However, at this moment, Jack's gun also ran out of power, unable to create new exits.
No other way out was found around them.
For a time, the situation seemed to be at a stalemate.
At this point, the Doctor, being particularly stubborn, walked to the wall, intending to "resonate" with the wall using his sonic screwdriver to drill through the hard concrete wall.
But in the blink of an eye, Rose was surprised to find Jack gone.
Just then, Jack's voice intermittently came from the old radio in the storage room.
It turned out that Jack had already slipped away using the emergency teleporter on the spaceship.
However, because the spaceship's security system was too smart and recognized Jack's molecular structure, it didn't take Rose and the Doctor along.
Jack assured them both that he would find a way to come back and rescue the Doctor and Rose as soon as possible.
Suddenly, Jamie's voice echoed from the radio again.
Thinking that Jamie could communicate in real-time and might track them using this signal, Jack quickly played music to interfere with the signal.
The song played was the background music from when Jack and Rose danced on top of the spaceship earlier, Glenn Miller's famous "Moonlight Serenade."
The Doctor's face fell a little when he heard it, as he realized that in Rose's eyes, he was apparently someone who couldn't dance.
Speaking of which, the Doctor had lived for nine hundred years; could it be that he couldn't even dance? 』
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〜Dimensional livestream, Chat Room〜
[ Umaru Doma (Himouto): "I, I didn't mishear, did I? The Doctor is already nine hundred years old?" ]
[ Shizuka Hiratsuka (Oregairu): "How can such a young person have lived for nine hundred years? If they're really that long-lived, how do they maintain their skin?" ]
[ Himeko (Honkai: Star Rail): "Nine hundred years old, he can actually compare with those people from the Xianzhou." ]
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『 Rose, however, was relentless, reaching out to have the Doctor demonstrate his dance moves on the spot.
As soon as the two struck a pose, they were whooshed away by a force and teleported onto Jack's spaceship.
The Doctor looked around, realizing that Jack's spaceship was also a Chula series.
However, Jack might not be the original owner of this ship.
Jack didn't refute this statement; instead, he readily admitted that the previously scrapped medical transport ship was also a Chula series.
Just at this moment, a shower of tiny golden light particles, like a swarm of busy sprites, enveloped the Doctor's fingertips.
This was due to the marks left by his palm being accidentally burned by the control panel during an earlier chase.
Just as Rose had experienced before, after the wound was meticulously repaired and restored to its original state, these magical, tiny builders silently returned to their home within the spaceship.
Although the Doctor had been healed by Jack's spaceship, he still didn't quite trust this glib-tongued fellow.
Jack tried hard to explain, saying that he didn't do these things entirely for money or other selfish reasons.
More than that, he wanted revenge on those hateful Time Agents, because he discovered they had secretly taken about two years of his memories (to read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!).
This infuriated Jack, so he simply left his original organization and became a free-spirited lone wolf.
His greatest pleasure in daily life was to prank those Time Agents.
If the Doctor chose not to believe him, it was understandable; after all, perhaps the Doctor's suspicions were correct.
Just then, the spaceship arrived at the location of the medical transport aircraft, and the three disembarked, preparing to inspect the situation on foot.
But upon arriving nearby, they were surprised to find several guards on watch.
Seeing that they were all men, Rose intended to step forward herself to attract the guards' attention.
But Jack spoke up at this point: "I've been here for a month, and I'm very familiar with the leading guard, so trust me, someone like you isn't his type; let me attract him."
With that, Jack strode confidently towards the guards.
Rose, seeing this, thought she had misheard, but the Doctor also explained the situation at this moment.
Jack was a person from the 51st century; people of that era were not just single-oriented. 』
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[ Umaru Doma (Himouto): "Is this really something I should be seeing?" ]
[ Shizuka Hiratsuka (Oregairu): "Indeed, the future of humanity is beyond saving." ]
[ Paimon (Genshin Impact): "Hiss, it's not just single-oriented..." ]
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『 Immediately after, everyone watched as Jack confidently walked towards the head guard, greeting him warmly.
"Mom?" the head guard blurted out, utterly bewildered.
Before Jack could react, he pulled out a token.
"It's me," he said. As he spoke, Jack realized that the man in front of him had suddenly transformed into the appearance of a previous patient. It turned out that at some unknown point, this guy had also been infected.
The Doctor quickly noticed this situation and rushed over, realizing that the infection here was rapidly worsening.
Just at this critical moment, the Doctor and the others suddenly heard someone singing.
The scene shifted.
It was Nancy. She stood in a room with one of the infected. And as she sang, something miraculous happened: the infected person slowly drifted into a peaceful sleep.
The Doctor slipped in quietly, quickly ushered Nancy away, and filled her in.
Nancy's reason for being there was simple: everything—the strange illness, Jamie's resurrection—led straight back to the crash site of that metal cylinder.
She couldn't run from the truth any longer. She had to understand what was really happening.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Jack reached for the mysterious transport aircraft—but the moment he tried to open it, an alarm blared.
The sound jolted the sleeping patients awake. One by one, they began to rise… and shuffle toward the metal cylinder.
"Rose!" the Doctor called, tossing her the sonic screwdriver. "You and Nancy—reinforce that barbed wire fence! Now!"
As they worked frantically to secure the perimeter, Nancy glanced over at Rose.
"Who are you three, really?" she asked.
Rose, focused on twisting the wire, didn't hesitate. "We're from the future," she said plainly.
"Got a machine that travels through time. Bit magical, I suppose."
Nancy frowned, skeptical—but her thoughts were already elsewhere.
"The bombing… the Germans… they're everywhere. Can we even hold this place?"
"I know things look bad right now,"
Rose said gently, "But this isn't the end of the world."
"How can you say that?" Nancy replied, voice heavy.
"Look around!"
Rose met her eyes. "Because I was born in this city."
A pause. Then, softer: "I'm a local. A Londoner… from fifty years in your future."
Nancy blinked. "Here?"
"Yeah," Rose said firmly. "I'm from your future."
"But…" Nancy stammered.
"But what?"
"The Germans…?" Nancy whispered, almost afraid to hope.
Rose leaned in, voice steady and sure: "Nancy—the Germans don't win. They lose. In the end… You win this war."
She added quickly, "But you can't tell anyone. Not a soul."
Nancy stared at her, eyes wide. "We… won?" 』
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[ Shizuka Hiratsuka (Oregairu): "Although this news is quite good, is this kind of spoiler really appropriate?" ]
[ Shinomiya Kaguya (Love Is War): "It shouldn't be, right?" ]
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『 Soon, the two returned after reinforcing the barbed wire fence.
By the time they came back, Jack had successfully opened the medical transport aircraft.
As he had emphasized earlier, the interior of this transport aircraft was empty, devoid of anything.
At this moment, the Doctor's mind suddenly recalled the previous nanogene fragments.
After all, they belonged to Chula technology, so what else could be stored in this transport aircraft specifically designed for treatment?
Recalling, when this transport aircraft crashed, billions of nanogenes escaped from within.
Their initial setting was to heal all living organisms they encountered.
However, their first encounter in this world was with a deceased child.
These nanogenes had never seen what a living human being looked like before.
So, at the sight of Jamie, they mistakenly thought that was the true appearance of humans, confusing the boundary between the skull and the gas mask.
Ultimately, using the terrified Jamie as a sample of "normal" humans, they modified all subsequent patients they encountered.
Furthermore, those nanogenes also bestowed incredible power upon a little boy searching for his mother. 』
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〜Dimensional livestream, Chat Room〜
[ Haibara Ai (Detective Conan): "Did that creature, having never encountered a living human before, mistake the first dead little boy for a normal person, setting off everything that happened next?" ]
[ Chika Fujiwara (Love Is War): "So, that's how it is? I was so scared for nothing before." ]
[ Oyama Mahiro (Onimai): "Hey, hey, hey, can this be considered a medical accident?" ]
[ .....]
『 Subsequently, the Doctor gazed at the group of patients led by Jamie and said in a deep voice, "Every little boy in this world, from the moment he's born, carries the wish to tear heaven and earth apart just to save his mother."
"Although others are powerless to do so, this little boy in front of us can indeed achieve it."
Nancy was heartbroken to tears upon hearing the truth. Most of the responsibility for all this seemed to lie with her.
The Doctor was about to offer comfort when he noticed the patients still calling out incessantly, a strange situation.
"Mummy!" *N.
"Mummy!" *N....
"Mummy!" *N....
"Mummy!" *N....
Seeing all this, the Doctor suddenly understood.
It turned out that Jamie was not Nancy's brother as she claimed, but her own biological child.
After all, in those days, a woman having a child without being married would face so much scorn.
Nancy dared not tell anyone the truth, not even Jamie himself. 』
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〜Dimensional livestream, Chat Room〜
[ Umaru Doma (Himouto): "What! He's her son, not her brother?" ]
[ Shizuka Hiratsuka (Oregairu): "So that's how it is." ]
[ Chika Fujiwara (Love Is War): "This, this is simply unbelievable." ]
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