Chapter 114: The Alter Ego Says He Loves Me (Part III)
“Reversing heaven and earth.”
When Xiao Yinnian woke up, this was the scene he saw.
“I haven’t even taken you to the psychiatric sanatorium yet, and you’ve brought me here one step ahead.”
After speaking, he looked down at the bathrobe and slippers on his body, gritting his teeth:
“Dressed like this, is my face not your face?”
Xiao Ji was silent for a moment:
“Sorry, I had just finished showering when the mission came.”
Xiao Yinnian was stunned and looked around again.
Gloomy weather, a dilapidated hospital building, an empty courtyard, and an endless thick fog.
Immediately after, a panel appeared in front of Xiao Yinnian:
[You killed your wife. To avoid prison, you need a doctor’s approval to issue a certificate proving you have a mental illness.
So you racked your brains to pull strings and came to the Telindun Psychiatric Sanatorium.
But here, there seem to be some unusual secrets, and when you want to escape, you find that it’s already too late…]
Xiao Yinnian quietly read this short paragraph, frowned, and wanted to continue turning the panel, but unfortunately, the rest was completely blank.
There was only a small icon in the corner that said [Points].
Xiao Yinnian clicked on the icon, and there were only two lines of text inside:
First line: [Current points: 0]
Second line: [Points are accumulated by triggering key nodes. Different people will always take different paths. Wishing you a pleasant life.]
“No mission instructions, and no time requirements?” Xiao Yinnian asked Xiao Ji, organizing the currently known information.
The information obtained right now was not much. Xiao Ji was not in a hurry to answer, only saying:
“Let’s go in first.”
In Xiao Yinnian’s twenty-seven years of life, he had left home for college at eighteen and moved off-campus due to neurasthenia. Since then, for a full nine years, he had lived alone.
From a cramped and dilapidated tube-shaped apartment to the current spacious and bright large apartment in the city center, he didn’t know how many times he had moved.
He was used to being a loner and living alone, and never felt that he was timid.
But at this moment, as he walked through the gates of this sanatorium, he involuntarily felt a chill down his spine.
He crossed the corridor and came to a spacious hall.
There were two rows of wooden benches in the hall, and several people with different clothes and expressions were currently sitting on the benches.
Three men and three women.
One of them, a fat man carrying a briefcase, was still cursing loudly:
“This is a complete scam. You said you’d give me a loan once I signed the contract, but I got dragged to this hellhole. I still have business to discuss! Who’s going to be responsible for the delay?!”
Another man in a suit and glasses glanced at him:
“When you signed the contract, you should have known that you only get rewards after doing tasks. There are no free lunches in the world. Instead of thinking about your business now, you might as well think about how to keep your life.”
Xiao Yinnian’s appearance attracted the joint attention of several people.
A young-looking boy at the very edge sized Xiao Yinnian up and joked:
“Brother, quite in a hurry.”
Xiao Yinnian pulled the collar of his bathrobe tighter and didn’t speak.
But soon, a woman in a high-slit long dress asked:
“Newcomer, right?”
Xiao Yinnian didn’t hide it: “Is there an explanation for this?”
The woman raised an eyebrow: “Only a newcomer’s first mission comes so suddenly.”
After speaking, she sized Xiao Yinnian up again and praised:
“Nice figure.”
The man in the suit who had spoken earlier looked at the watch on his wrist: “Probably no one else is coming. Let’s introduce ourselves, share the identity information we’ve received, cooperate with each other, finish the tasks as soon as possible, and get the points we need.”
“My name is Du Lin, a newly admitted patient.”
The lady in the high-slit dress followed suit:
“Jin Can, a newly hired nurse.”
Seeing Jin Can speak, the other two girls exchanged glances and spoke one after another:
“Zhao Xiaoyu, I’m also a patient.”
“Wang Ran, I’m a nurse, but I have a question. My identity description says I’m the director’s wife.”
Hearing this, Du Lin nodded: “A special identity is a good thing. It usually means you have more opportunities to trigger key information and gain more points.”
Wang Ran let out an ‘oh’ and was just about to say thank you when she heard Jin Can add:
“Correspondingly, the risks you bear are also greater, and you are more likely to die before completing the mission.”
Wang Ran’s face instantly turned ugly, her voice trembling slightly:
“Then what should I do? I regret it now. Is it still in time to go out?”
Jin Can shrugged: “Try it yourself and you’ll know.”
The young boy who had joked with Xiao Yinnian earlier didn’t follow their conversation, only saying:
“Lin Chuan, patient.”
Now, except for Xiao Yinnian, everyone had reported their identity information. Only the fat man with the briefcase narrowed his eyes, looked at Du Lin, and pointed at Jin Can:
“I see it now. Among us, except for you and this broad, who are veterans, the rest are all newcomers.”
“How do I know if you two don’t know each other? If I tell you my identity information, is it more beneficial to me or to you?”
Hearing this, Jin Can let out a ‘yo’: “So sensitive? Do you have a special identity?”
The fat man immediately denied it: “Bullshit.”
Du Lin didn’t have any emotional reaction to the fat man’s words, only saying:
“The mission doesn’t require only one person to survive, which means in this kind of mission, if you’re lucky, everyone can escape safely. I have no need to target anyone.”
“But whether you say it or not is up to you. I won’t force it.”
After speaking, he looked at Xiao Yinnian: “And you?”
Xiao Yinnian said calmly:
“Xiao Yinnian, patient. I trust you. Please take care of me.”
Du Lin nodded. Just as he was about to say something else, a rhythmic clicking of footsteps came from the end of the corridor.
Soon, a nurse with heavy makeup and a pale face appeared in front of everyone, slowly curling the corners of her lips:
“Welcome to the Telindun Psychiatric Sanatorium. The wards have been arranged for everyone in the inpatient department on the fourth floor. I will take you there shortly.”
“Before that, there are a few important things I need to inform everyone about.”
“First, for the sake of everyone’s condition, please do not go out privately without permission.”
“Second, after lights out at night until the doctor’s rounds the next day, patients cannot leave their ward doors.”
“Third, the medicine distributed to everyone must be taken before dinner. If you don’t take your medicine, you cannot eat.”
“Fourth, if unfamiliar patients speak to you, remember to ignore them and just detour away.”
“Additionally, in seven days, the hospital will invite a priest to baptize everyone. Please be sure to attend.”
After she finished speaking, she locked onto Jin Can and Wang Ran in the crowd and said to them:
“Staff dormitories are tight recently. You guys stay in the inpatient department for now, but there is one thing.”
She paused: “Living in the inpatient department means you have to follow the inpatient department’s rules. At night, absolutely do not walk around in the corridors.”
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