Chapter 39
The Spider Lady’s body was still on the ground, unrestrained.
Si Chen asked in a low voice, “Are you going to eat that?”
The Eternal Life Abyss considered it over and over again. It shook its head. “Teeth, hurts.”
This meat was too woody, tough and hard to chew on.
As a capable and responsible parent, Si Chen surreptitiously opened the back of his hand and checked the little tentacles curled up inside. He was inspecting the little fangs in the Eternal Life Abyss’ mouth.
Sure enough, this child was teething. Some of its baby teeth had fallen out and new small points were growing in.
Si Chen couldn’t help poking with his fingers. The Eternal Life Abyss reflexively wanted to bite down. It almost closed its mouth when it remembered that this was its mother.
The bite thus turned into a gentle lick.
Si Chen checked the nurse’s body and regrettably found that the nurse hadn’t given any useful drops.
What she had with her was a thick medical record book, marking the admission date of each patient.
The patient on the first page was called Gangzi, who had been Yu Lian’s teammate. The hospitalization date recorded in the medical book was today and the discharge date was also today.
Just half an hour ago, Gangzi had been “discharged” from the hospital.
Si Chen said, “The nurse had been fighting with us, she didn’t have time to write anything down. This medical record must automatically update patient information.”
This was a medical record book with supernatural properties.
Discharge meant death.
Flipping through the book, there were more than 20 brand new entries. All the patients were recorded as having been hospitalized today and they have yet to be discharged.
No wonder he’d come across so few Evolutionaries. They’d all found themselves hospitalized in the rehabilitation center.
It was a very thick medical record book and it looked quite old. The surface of the cover even had traces of having been burned.
Si Chen directly turned to the last page.
The patient’s name attracted Si Chen’s attention, “Xiong Chuan”.
‘Xiong’ was a rare surname.
Attached to the medical record was a photo of a white teddy bear.
Si Chen tore off the page and held it up to Xiao Zhou. He asked, “Is this him?”
Xiao Zhou became visibly excited: “Yes!”
Si Chen raised the lamp. The red light was already very weak.
Fortunately, his eyes have been enhanced and even under such a dim light, he could take in the entire medical record.
Thankfully, this High-Dimensional world didn’t use some alien language.
[Xiong Chuan. Male, 136 years old]
[Present Illness: Dual Personality]
[Past Illness: Schizophrenia]
[Condition summary: Xiong Chuan’s biological father suffered from bipolar disorder. He had severe violent tendencies and was prone to committing domestic abuse. Because he had witnessed his mother being strangled to death by his father, this triggered schizophrenia in the young Xiong Chuan.]
[After three years of treatment, Xiong Chuan recovered. At the age of 30, he graduated from Salo University with a doctorate in Psychology.]
[After graduation, Xiong Chuan returned to his hometown of Pinglin City and with the support of the “House of the Mind”, he opened the “House of the Mind Rehabilitation Center”. He received patients from all over the world. Patients here recovered quickly and had a low relapse rate. The rehabilitation center quickly gained an excellent reputation.]
There were a few long paragraphs in the middle, which were inexplicably distorted and deformed. It was completely impossible to see what was written. Just looking at it made people dizzy.
Si Chen flipped a few pages and checked the end of the entry.
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[Fugitive madman John Doe set fire to the rehabilitation center for personal revenge. Both he and Xiong Chuan died in the fire.]
[Ten years later, Pinglin City fell due to a Spiritual Revival; the House of the Mind Rehabilitation Center became the supernatural center of the city.]
[John Doe and Xiong Chuan’s ghosts were locked in eternal struggle. John Doe used his second life to trap Xiong Chuan on the third floor of the rehabilitation center forever. Xiong Chuan was finally diagnosed with a dual personality. The two merged into one, possessing the abilities — puppet maker and spiritual communication.]
[During the day, the main persona is John Doe who has lost his memory. During the dark of night, the main persona is Xiong Chuan.]
[Treatment plan: Incineration]
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Although he wasn’t clear on what it does, Yu Lian knew that the infusion needle definitely wasn’t anything good. It’s a pity that even after the needle was pulled out, the Evolutionaries didn’t wake up.
It would be up the Safety Bureau to revive them. After the Space Fold, a specialist would be called in to deal with it.
Si Chen gripped Xiao Zhou in his hand and asked, “Where can we get the fire in the rehabilitation center?”
The treatment option stated in the medical record was incineration.
To be able to burn Doctor to death, it definitely can’t be just any ordinary fire.
Xiao Zhou replied, “In Doctor’s, pocket, is a lighter.”
Si Chen nodded slightly. He then said to Yu Lian, “You wait for me here.”
He wasn’t worried about sharing the spoils with Yu Lian. Yu Lian is seriously injured and his current combat power was only 5. It would be cumbersome for him to keep up.
If Doctor suddenly took out another bowl of the “cook’s meal”, Si Chen would find himself attacked from behind.
Yu Lian didn’t argue. He thought for a moment and handed the few bullets he had left on him to Si Chen. “They’re all standard model. You can use it with your gun. But the quality of the ammunition is average. Be careful.”
For loot bag convenience, the small-type energy guns produced by the Machine Core Group all use standard bullets. Only the contents of the ammunitions are different.
The sky was gradually brightening. Si Chen understood that time was running out.
He took Xiao Zhou to the third floor.
At the entrance, there was a huge iron grill door with a heart-shaped lock hanging on it.
Through the iron grill fence, Si Chen observed the scene inside.
The third floor was decorated like a small toy city. There were play facilities everywhere and dolls strewn on the ground at random.
The main color of the game machines and the attached LED light strips was blue-green, dotted with pinks and yellows. With the twinkling lights, it created a very cyberpunk feel.
Si Chen took out the key from his pocket and unlocked it.
After this fancy key was inserted into the lock cylinder, it simply melted away.
The solid heart-shaped lock fell to the ground with a bang and shattered.
Si Chen took a deep breath and opened the door.
The temperature on the third floor was not low; on the contrary, it was a bit muggy. It was like a large shopping mall with a broken air conditioner in summer, full of various “human smells”.
The smells of human sweat, body odor… the smell was very strong. Mixed together, it made Si Chen feel more nauseous than the smell of corpses.
Dolls were thrown haphazardly on the ground; they could be seen everywhere.
The appearance of these dolls was very lifelike. They looked expensive. But the owner seemed to not care for them very much. Most were missing arms and legs. Their bodies had varying degrees of deformities.
Si Chen took a step forward and stepped on a mess of hair.
He squatted down and took a look. There was even a layer of scalp attached to the hair. The blood had dried up.
The most prominent items here were the claw machines. All kinds of palm-sized plush dolls were piled up in the glass boxes.
Si Chen glanced around and saw the telephone hanging on the wall.
He raised the receiver and entered the number he now knew so well.
“Ding ding ding—”
The phone rang.
It was coming from right in the middle of the hall.
Si Chen tightened his hold on his gun and walked over. The cold blue-green light shone on his face, giving him a different kind of gloomy yet tranquil look.
On the screen of the game console in the center of the hall, a cute white pixel bear jumped out. “Welcome to the House of the Mind.”
“For the better relaxation of our patients, with the financial support of the House of the Mind, we have opened a leisure and game center on the third floor!”
“Today is the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the House of the Mind Rehabilitation Center. All game tokens are 20% off! Grab a doll and get points. If you accumulate 100 points, you can redeem a special prize – Dr. Xiong and we’ll even throw in a lighter~ ”
On the screen, the image flickered.
After a short period of static, a brown teddy bear appeared in the center of the screen.
It sat on a chair, tilted its head and looked at Si Chen, still holding the phone in its hand.
Dr. Xiong spoke with an inexplicable sneer, “You’re still here, my dear patient. You are all so stubborn. It doesn’t matter to you that it’ll be dawn soon, does it? You’d rather stay with me in the dark.”
The scene then suddenly cut off.
A pixel bear suddenly turned its face to the screen. The smile on its face almost reached behind its ears. “Hey, handsome, come and play!”
Si Chen punched it directly.
His hand hit the screen and the screen of the game console flickered. It skipped some frames but quickly returned to normal.
Two options popped up on the screen: exchange game tokens/exchange rewards.
As an ordinary patient, Xiao Zhou had spent his days trapped in the bathroom of the rehabilitation center. This was his first time on the third floor.
He stumbled and said, “Before, it was not, this way.”
Si Chen noticed that the white pixel bear had said, “Welcome to the House of the Mind”, not to the “Rehabilitation Center”.
He didn’t choose immediately. He first walked around the third floor.
There were two corridors branching from the hall. One led to the facility head’s office and the other led to the operating room.
The aisle leading to the operating room was extremely narrow. Only an adult of normal size could pass through.
Si Chen didn’t really want to go in. The place was too narrow and there was simply no room to maneuver. In case he was trapped from both front and back, he’d be caught in the middle and would simply have to wait and die.
Si Chen put Xiao Zhou on the ground and said, “Can you go in and have a look?”
Xiao Zhou raised his trident, stuck it on the ground and slowly dragged himself into the operating room. His fishtail slapped on the ground.
A few minutes later, Xiao Zhou came back. “No way. Inside, there is, wall. Dead end.”
Although it looked very deep and dark, in fact, the length of the corridor was less than ten meters.
Its innermost part was covered by a solid cement wall. He couldn’t tell when it’d been blocked off; the wall was covered with a layer of dust.
The road was blocked.
As for the facility head’s office, Si Chen tried the doorknob, testing to see if it could be opened.
However, on the glass panel of the office, a line of blue-green pixel words popped up. [Redeem for 100 points].
Si Chen returned to the game console.
He tentatively clicked on the first option — exchange game tokens.
On the screen, a few lines of black pixel words suddenly lit up.
[Exchange table (discounted price)]
800 heart yuan = 1 game token
1 intelligence = 5 game tokens
1 stamina = 1 game token
First night right=100 game tokens
Mechanical prosthetic eye (with locator) = 100 points
Trait – blood resuscitation = 100 points
Trait – blood pupil = 80 points
Eternal Life Abyss (Juvenile) = 2000 Points + 5 Resurrection Coins
White Dress =? ? ? (Not open for exchange yet)
Si Chen raised his eyebrows.
This exchange table revealed a lot of information.
What surprised him the most was that the mechanical eye that Shen Yanxing gave him was actually equipped with a locator.
Moreover, this ordinary mechanical prosthetic eye was actually worth 100 points here.
The so-called heart yuan should be the banknote that Xiao Zhou gave him before. After exchanging for game tokens, you could go to the claw machines lining one side to win dolls. Each doll was assigned different points. After accumulating 100 points, you could get the final boss, Dr. Xiong.
Coincidentally, claw machine was probably the one arcade game Si Chen knew.
When he was in middle school, when he had no money to eat, Si Chen would go to the game arcade, buy a couple of tokens and win a few dolls. He’d then set up a temporary stall and sell them. They generally sold well.
The arcade owner knew that he was earning money to study, so he turned a blind eye to what he was doing.
Si Chen wasn’t some extreme sociopath. He greatly cherished these occasional kindness from strangers.
If this were some ordinary person, they might have simply exchanged the mechanical prosthetic eye for points.
But his abilities were worth only 80 to 100 points. This mechanical prosthetic eye was actually worth 100 points. This thing obviously wasn’t as simple as it seemed.
What’s more, from previous actions done by the House of the Mind, Si Chen didn’t think that they’d be so generous.
All pawnshops undervalue items to the extreme.
Si Chen clicked on the next page.
[Player status]
Name: Si Chen
Intelligence: 10 points
Stamina: 7 points
Features: Blood Recovery, Blood Pupil
Equipment: Eternal Life Abyss (starving), prosthetic eye (model XR-761, out of battery), White Dress (AFK)
Props: new energy gun, bullets x 10
Translator’s note: Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia – Link
Schizophrenia and childhood trauma – Link
Crane game from O yen to 1 million yen – Link
Thank you for taking the time and effort to put links to accurate information about schizophrenia and other topics 😊
I never thought about connection between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. As I understand, they have so correlation, but straight link between them doesn’t exist. Thanks for links!!
Thank you for your translation 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
Then again the trauma schizophrenia comes with can be a plausible cause
Thanks for the links and translation 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
an afk white dress shouldn’t have made me laugh 😂
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Eternal Life Abyss is starving 😂. You should feed your baby Si Chen~
Thanks for the chapter 🌹
Oh no, white dress aka ghost sc is afk!
Thanks for the chapter! I wonder if white dress will be an important involved character or will be a deus ex machina for the mc