Chapter 503: Sharp Turn

The corridors of the sanatorium were brightly lit, and occasionally a faint scent of air freshener could be smelled. Yu Sheng, carrying the little doll, followed the "director" together with Little Red Riding Hood. Occasionally, Secret Service staff would appear in the corridor, and they would stop to greet the "director", who would respond politely and friendly.

Everything seems so "normal" - if you ignore the fact that the dean himself is a goldfish.

The tall figure, more than two meters tall, was walking in front. A series of tiny bubbles appeared in the fish tank on his shoulder. The goldfish in the fish tank swam slowly, and their eyes fell on Yu Sheng from time to time.

"You seem very curious about this place?" asked the goldfish.

Frankly speaking, every time the fish spoke in that lazy, magnetic voice, Yu Sheng felt a little overwhelmed. The last time he felt this way was when he first met the "King" and heard the kitten make Zhao Zhongxiang's voice...

"I'm just a little surprised," Yu Sheng said quickly, even though the fish's voice was a little unsettling. "I thought this special... 'mental hospital' would be more depressing, or more strictly controlled. That's what I felt when I looked at it from outside just now. I didn't expect it to be so relaxing inside."

"It's not wise to put a group of psychics who already have mental problems into a stressful environment," the goldfish swam in the water, the tips of its nearly transparent fins seeming to stir up phantoms. "My job is to get those psychics who are on the verge of losing control back on track as much as possible - or at least prevent their situation from getting worse, rather than guarding a prison. As for the strict control you mentioned..."

The goldfish suddenly spit out a bubble, and the bubble reflected faces with constantly changing emotions.

"Of course, the regulations here are very strict. The entire sanatorium is operated according to the standards of a high-level detention facility. You don't have to doubt Baili Qing's ability in this regard. However, strict regulations are not inconsistent with a relaxed and comfortable living environment. The former is for safety, and the latter is also for safety."

"How is 'Sun Chen' doing here?" Little Red Riding Hood suddenly asked.

"'Sun Chen'... is a very special 'patient,'" the director's steps seemed to pause slightly when he mentioned this name, but he quickly returned to normal. "He is the only 'patient' who came here on his own initiative while fully conscious. According to the rules of the sanatorium, 'normal people' like him are generally not allowed to stay..."

"So that guy named Sun Chen isn't crazy after all, right?" Little Red Riding Hood's eyes widened, and then she was startled again. "In principle, he can't move in, so how did he get in?"

"The doctor he was talking to was crazy," the dean said.

Yu Sheng & Little Red Riding Hood: “……?”

Irene couldn't help but ask, "What do you mean the doctor is crazy?"

"Literally," the director said slowly, "according to the rules, even if a seemingly normal person enters this building and submits an application for admission, even if they don't meet the admission requirements, they must undergo a basic interview and examination by a psychiatrist before leaving the sanatorium. So I arranged for a doctor—they spoke for twenty minutes, during which time Sun Chen underwent a simple hypnotic interrogation and a 'psychological puncture' examination. Twenty minutes later, the automatic alarm in the ward was triggered.

"When I rushed over, the psychiatrist in charge was writing incomprehensible symbols and extremely confusing words on the wall over and over again. He was completely unable to communicate, and the 'patient' was fast asleep on the examination bed nearby.

"The good news is that the psychiatrist only fell into temporary insanity and recovered after a week of treatment. The bad news is that he has no recollection of what happened in the ward, nor can he explain the meaning of the symbols he wrote during his mental disorder.

"After that, 'Sun Chen' was placed in the second-highest-security ward in the entire Jinglin Sanatorium. To this day, he still behaves like a... completely conscious and normal person."

"Why is it the second-highest containment level?" Irene suddenly asked. The little doll's focus was clearly different from the others. "With such a bizarre situation, shouldn't he be locked up in the highest containment level? The doctors are going crazy!"

The tall figure stopped, and the little goldfish in the fish tank that served as its head slowly turned around. "My room has the highest containment level in this facility."

Erin thought for a moment, "...Wow."

Yu Shengze did not say anything. After hearing what the "dean" said, he fell into a state of thought.

After a moment, he suddenly broke the silence: "In other words, Sun Chen himself is not crazy, but there is something in him?"

"Perhaps, but even the psychiatrists sent by the Secret Service are helpless. For several months, we have made no progress in 'diagnosing and treating' Sun Chen," the dean said slowly. "On the other hand, 'strange' patients like him are not uncommon here. This sanatorium gathers nearly half of the 'difficult and complicated patients' among the psychics in the border area. We do not have unlimited manpower and resources to analyze the strange things happening to him.

"So now I'm curious, why did our Director Baili suddenly issue a special visitation permit to allow you to contact this patient? What happened 'out there'?"

Yu Sheng raised his head and looked intently at the goldfish in the fish tank. The goldfish also looked at him curiously.

Obviously, although this "entity" generated by the sanatorium is now a "special partner" of the Secret Service and controls the entire Jinglin Sanatorium, Baili Qing did not tell it about the Goddess of Omen.

"Oh, it seems this is a secret," the goldfish suddenly shifted his gaze, "then I won't ask."

This straightforward attitude actually caught Yu Sheng off guard: "Uh, I thought you would be more curious."

"Cats are curious, but goldfish aren't—goldfish just want to avoid the sight outside the fish tank," a lazy and magnetic female voice said slowly, and then the "entity" stopped, "It's in front, the room with the blue door..."

"puff--"

A strange and slight muffled sound suddenly reached Yu Sheng's ears, like the sound of something expanding to its limit and then exploding.

Everyone's footsteps subconsciously paused, and the dean's words were interrupted instantly. A bad premonition suddenly appeared, and then Yu Sheng heard a cry of alarm in his ear: "Not good!"

The next second, he saw the tall figure over two meters tall suddenly rush out, and the goldfish in the fish tank spun rapidly - the "Dean" rushed to the blue door and raised his hand to punch directly.

With a loud "bang", the thick door that looked quite sturdy was smashed to pieces by the "dean", and immediately afterwards, a strong smell of blood came into everyone's nose.

Little Red Riding Hood reacted instantly. The strong smell of blood even made a pair of wolf ears pop out from under her hair. Then she suddenly pulled Yu Sheng and rushed to the ward at the end of the corridor.

The scene in the ward confirmed Yu Sheng’s bad premonition.

In the spacious single ward, a corpse in shirt and trousers was sitting at a desk by the window. The head of the corpse had disappeared, and a large amount of blood was splattered all around, even onto the high ceiling. The entire room was almost covered with horrifying bloodstains and splattered tissue fragments.

Even Little Red Riding Hood, who was used to seeing all kinds of horrific scenes and strange events, subconsciously took a breath of cold air and got furious for a moment when she saw this scene.

"Oh my god..." Yu Sheng's expression was not much better. The tragic scene in front of him and the shock brought by the sudden interruption of the clues at the critical moment made him frown instantly. In the next moment, he suddenly noticed other "things" at the scene besides the bloodstains -

There are dense symbols, numbers and geometric shapes on the walls, the floor, and even the sheets and bedding.

Dazzling characters filled almost every visible inch of space in the room. Some were written with a pen, while others were obviously carved with something after the pen broke. There were even some words mixed with suspicious bloodstains. Densely packed and extremely chaotic symbols and unrecognizable words were crowded together, even layered on top of each other, as if they were written layer by layer, so that even just a glance at them would make people dizzy, and there was even a trance-like feeling of being surrounded by noisy words.

Little Red Riding Hood immediately pulled out a shot of sanity blocker from her bag and injected herself with it.

The first "dean" who rushed into the room had already taken out a strange little device from his coat and quickly pressed a button on the device. Yu Sheng heard a slight vibration coming from the bottom of the room, and then the glass window on the other side of the ward began to darken rapidly - a thick cement-like substance spread upward from the windowsill like living mud and began to block the entire ward.

After completing the emergency blockade, the "dean" quickly walked to the headless corpse beside the desk.

The "goldfish" swam out of the fish tank.

The fish tank itself is completely enclosed, and there are no openings on the spherical glass container, but at this moment, the goldfish seemed to have turned into a phantom, silently penetrating the solid glass tank - it swam its tail in the air, swimming slowly in the air, circling around the corpse twice as if collecting something, and then quickly returned to the fish tank.

"No," said the goldfish, "the spirit dissipates very quickly..."

But before it could finish its words, Yu Sheng interrupted it: "I'll do it!"

The next second, Yu Sheng placed his hand on the pool of blood closest to him.

"Come talk to me!"

(End of this chapter)