"Didi."

The yellow warning light of the scanner lit up, emitting red lines that reflected on Zhang Yuanqing's forehead.

The machine emitted an electronic voice:

[Didi, initiating diagnosis of the ailment as]

Zhang Yuanqing held his breath, anticipating the all-powerful medical machine's answer.

However, the electronic voice suddenly stuttered. After a few seconds, it resumed:

[Didi, initiating diagnosis of the ailment as]

[Didi, initiating diagnosis of the ailment as]

[Didi, initiating diagnosis of the ailment as]

The electronic voice repeated endlessly, looping each time it was about to announce the ailment.

"Hmm?" The female doctor maintained her scanning posture, glancing at the main unit and then at the T-shaped device in her hand, looking bewildered.

Zhang Yuanqing was even more bewildered, and also a bit disappointed and anxious, like arranging to meet his girlfriend at a bar for a heart-to-heart, only for her to say, after everything was prepared, that her period had arrived.

Although he didn't have a girlfriend, that was the feeling.

"Is the machine broken?" Jiang Jingwei walked to the cylindrical machine and, without a second thought, kicked it twice with a "bang bang."

"Jingwei, don't kick it!"

Li Dongze was taken aback, thinking that this was a high-level item that the Songhai branch had purchased at great expense from the Le Shi family.

Support items weren't as durable as combat items; damage was common.

"When the appliances at home have problems, they're fixed after I kick them a few times."

Jingwei kicked it two more times with a "bang bang." The female doctor couldn't stand it anymore and curtly snapped, "You!"

[Didi, system rebooting]

The detector emitted an electronic voice, and the screen went black, then lit up again, initiating a reboot.

Jiang Jingwei grinned. "See? It's fine after a beating."

Teng Yuan pushed up his glasses and said calmly, "It's okay. If you break it, the organization is obligated to reimburse you."

Li Dongze looked helpless.

Guan Ya glanced at Yuanshi Tianzun and laughed, "I'm more curious about what's wrong with your body."

Zhang Yuanqing forced a smile and squeezed out a sentence, "Maybe it's Scorpio syndrome, or a black nylon fetish for female human legs."

Was this a coincidence? Did the machine break down at just the right time?

He glanced at his companions. Their expressions were all very calm; they probably also thought it was just a minor malfunction.

Only Wang Tai frowned deeply.

"Something's not right," he said, scratching his head. He walked up to the detector, tapped and knocked on it, then opened the screen's operating interface and studied it carefully. Scholars were future artificers, and Wang Tai was highly accomplished in item research.

He tinkered with it for a long time and said, "It's not malfunctioning. Moreover, at this item's level, it shouldn't malfunction. You might not know, but Le Shi class items are the most durable, and this item has self-repair capabilities."

Huh? Guan Ya and Li Dongze, as scouts, frowned simultaneously and looked at Yuanshi, only to find that he also looked bewildered.

At this moment, the detector finished rebooting, and the female doctor said, "Although I don't know why, it seems to be fine now."

As she spoke, she raised the scanner and aimed it at Zhang Yuanqing's forehead again.

Seeing this, the others stopped talking and watched silently.

The scanner's yellow light lit up, and the electronic voice sounded again:

[Didi, initiating diagnosis of the ailment as didi, please do not simultaneous]

The voice suddenly cut off.

"It seems like there's still a problem. I'll try again."

The female doctor frowned, put down the scanner, waited a few seconds, and then raised it again, aiming it at Zhang Yuanqing's forehead.

The yellow light lit up, and the electronic voice came:

[Didi, no ailment detected. Your body is very well maintained. Please maintain diagnosis complete!]

Huff, the female doctor exhaled and smiled. "No problem. Your body is very healthy. Please continue to maintain it."

"Oh, oh!" Zhang Yuanqing got up, looked around at his teammates, and laughed, "It seems I'm very healthy too."

Guan Ya and Li Dongze exchanged glances and smiled knowingly.

Wang Tai frowned. "Something's not right. I just feel like this item is acting strangely today. Doctor, can I stay here and study it?"

The female doctor said with a straight face, "No. This item is very valuable. It's not something that can be disassembled and studied casually."

"Okay..." Wang Tai gave up helplessly.

The group left the examination room. Li Dongze led the team towards the stairwell and said, "The stewards are waiting for us on the second floor, and Centurion Fu is there too. The next step is the mental state examination. In previous years, there was only a mental assessment, but this year there's also a lie detector."

He said these words to Yuanshi; he was the only new member of the team.

But Zhang Yuanqing couldn't listen at all. The detector's voice echoed repeatedly in his mind:

The result of the first scan was enough to show that it detected that I was sick, and I was indeed sick, so there was no possibility of a malfunction. But why didn't it give the ailment?

Could it not give the ailment, or was there another reason? As for the second time, the focus was on the words "please do not simultaneous." This meant that after the reboot, the detector had already detected my problem and was about to give a prompt.

But it suddenly stalled.

Please do not simultaneous what? What did it want to say?

The more Zhang Yuanqing thought about it, the heavier he felt, and the more he felt that something was wrong.

All sorts of doubts flashed through his mind, and finally, tracing back to the source, it returned to the ailment itself—where did the headache come from?

The headache suddenly started one day, when he was still in high school. One night, it suddenly hurt so badly that he felt like he was dying, and his nose bled. His aunt and cousin quickly took him to the hospital.

As a result, they checked from day to night, did all kinds of tests, and the doctor said that his body was healthy and there was no problem.

At that time, his family didn't take it to heart and told him to rest well, until the second attack, when the condition became more and more serious. Zhang Yuanqing was hospitalized for this. After hearing about it, his mother finally agreed to put down her work and devote a little bit of energy to paying attention to her son, taking him to major hospitals, but they couldn't find the cause. Until one day, his mother brought back a special medicine from abroad.

The fact that the cause couldn't be found was strange in itself. My mother didn't take me to be examined when she went abroad, but she was able to bring back a special medicine. Now that I think about it, it's even stranger...

And what's even stranger is that even a Spirit Realm item can't find the cause!

Could this be an ordinary disease?

While Zhang Yuanqing was thinking, the group arrived on the second floor. Compared to the lobby on the first floor, the space here was much smaller. More than twenty physical examiners and an equal number of guards made the place look crowded at a glance.

Wang Tai's expression suddenly became ugly. He seemed constrained and repulsed.

Seeing this, Zhang Yuanqing's heart stirred, and he laughed, "Brother Wang Tai, I remember there's a restroom on the first floor. Let's go relieve ourselves together?"

Wang Tai nodded repeatedly. "Okay, okay."

Immediately, the two of them went down the stairs, returned to the first floor, and entered the restroom.

Zhang Yuanqing pushed open each toilet stall to make sure no one was there, then came to the urinal and, while taking out the Sea Stabilizing Divine Needle, said nonchalantly, "That detector is amazing. Is it a Saint-level item?"

"Yeah!" Wang Tai said, seriously relieving himself.

Zhang Yuanqing asked again, "An item of this level should have self-awareness, right? My Rule-class item has its own thoughts."

"Oh, it does," Wang Tai said. "It has self-awareness, existing in the form of artificial intelligence."

It really is self-awareness. So it changed its mind just now and didn't want to reveal my ailment. Zhang Yuanqing's mood was complicated.

After the two finished relieving themselves, they returned to the second floor. During the long wait, one official Night Watcher after another completed their mental assessment. Most people passed, and a small number were marked and needed some mental counseling.

For example, some Fire Masters were too irritable and were diagnosed with severe mania.

Some Wood Demons were overly addicted to sex and needed mental counseling, combined with medication, to restrain hormone secretion.

Some Scouts suffered from voyeurism...

Finally, it was the Second Team's turn. The mental states of the Second Team members were worrying. Li Dongze had severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, Guan Ya had cleanliness and negativity, and Jiang Jingwei was manic and easily angered.

Teng Yuan was pessimistic and negative, accompanied by moderate depression.

Finally, Wang Tai, diagnosed with moderate autism, walked out of the examination room and looked at Zhang Yuanqing on the long chair.

"It's your turn," he said.

Zhang Yuanqing immediately entered the examination room and saw a middle-aged doctor in a white coat sitting behind a desk.

"Please sit down!" the middle-aged doctor gestured for him to take a seat and smiled. "You must be Yuanshi Tianzun. You're indeed a talented and promising young man. My name is Sun. I'm a steward from the Chao Men district, a Level 5 Saint-level Scout, and also a Ph.D. in psychology.

"I'm going to do a mental assessment on you now, just ask you a few simple questions."

His smile was gentle, and his eyes were deep, as if he could see through people's hearts.

A Steward-level psychologist. Damn, he's much more perceptive than Guan Ya's squad leader.

Zhang Yuanqing sat down and said, "Okay."

Dr. Sun smiled. "Don't be nervous. I may ask some private questions next, but there are no cameras or listening devices here. No one will know except me, and I have my own professional ethics and won't expose your privacy."

"Yuanshi Tianzun, 21 years old, local to Songhai, has money and a car at home, his father died, never had a girlfriend, and his special skill is 20 cm."

Zhang Yuanqing said sincerely, "Please be sure to expose it."

Dr. Sun was stunned for a moment and stared deeply. "You're a little nervous, instinctively saying some strange things to lighten the atmosphere. I told you, don't be restrained. We're friends."

Zhang Yuanqing took a deep breath, knowing that in front of a Saint-level Scout, it was pointless to joke around, so he said seriously, "That was a joke. Let's begin then."

Dr. Sun nodded and asked, "Do you usually like to watch action movies? I mean love-related action movies. If you like to watch them, what categories do you focus on, domestic or foreign? What age range of actors do you like? Do you fast-forward when watching movies? After watching movies, do you look for a girlfriend or tissues?"

Zhang Yuanqing was stunned by the series of questions, thinking, Did you install a camera in my house?

How could you ask so accurately? Hitting all the right spots?

ps: The Night Wanderer arc is two-thirds finished. I made a detailed outline for a while today, so the update is late. The outline is not finished, and I will continue later.

Also, thank you Zhai Cai for the third Gold Alliance, and Huan Yu for the Silver Alliance. I bow to you大佬s.