Chapter 65
Lin Yi looked at Doctor Zhu, trying not to show any emotion on his face.
Of the three hypotheses, Lin Yi really did not expect for the third one to be verified correct.
With the third hypothesis verified, several other questions were automatically answered.
Why were there so many sedative drugs in the medicine room?
Because this wasn’t a sanatorium at all, but a psychiatric hospital. It’s was normal for a psychiatric hospital to have a large number of sedatives.
Why were there so corpses of medical staff in the mortuary cabinets?
Because they were the original staff in the hospital. They were killed and stored in the mortuary cabinet.
Why did the students see another copy of themselves before entering the 16-8 Rule World?
Split Mind Disorderor a Delusional Disorder
And the electrified fence on the mountainside was to prevent the mentally ill from running off. The electrified fence won’t cause real harm to those who climb over it. If the nursing aides really wanted to escape, they could destroy the pulse resistor or find a way to use an insulator to protect their bodies from the fence. They could even band together and cut off the supply from the power grid.
But the mentally ill patients wouldn’t necessarily think so. They might not even have any actual intention of running away. The electrified fence might be there not to prevent them from escaping, but simply to prevent them from getting lost.
These question-and-answer clues made confirmed Lin Yi’s third hypothesis.
This whole matter of immortality was simply in Doctor Zhu’s imagination. And right now, the way Doctor Zhu was baring how he actually feels, proved Doctor Zhu’s true identity as a patient in the Yu City Huayuan District Mental Hospital.
So how did he become the Doctor of the sanatorium? The corpses in the mortuary cabinet provided the answer. Doctor Zhu had killed the medical staff of the psychiatric hospital. He then stole a white coat and occupied the Doctor’s office.
After changing his identity, he started his terrible immortality experiments. He first attracted the patients and then recruited suitable nursing aides for the patients.
This was the correct outline of the 16-8 Rule World’s main plot.
Lin Yi was a little terrified by his unexpected harvest. It was like a pie falling form the sky; it was pleasantly surprising but also extremely disturbing.
Especially when Doctor Zhu stopped struggling and looked up at him gloomily, saying coldly, “I don’t remember.”
Lin Yi looked at him nervously, saying nothing. He couldn’t tell what Doctor Zhu was thinking. Given the circumstances, having confirmed that Doctor Zhu was a mentally ill patient, Lin Yi had to be more careful with what he says. He wasn’t sure what he might say that might arouse Doctor Zhu’s fury.
After staring at each other for a long time, footsteps could be heard coming from the corridor. Patient 203 must have seen the door to the room open and was hurrying over, afraid that Lin Yi had escaped.
Once Patient 203 appeared, Doctor Zhu stood up and said, “I’ll go back and check.”
After saying so, he turned and left. Patient 203 greeted him but Doctor Zhu seemed not even to notice.
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After Doctor Zhu left, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief. He stood up and said to Patient 203, “Mr. 203, thank you for bringing me breakfast.”
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Patient 203 withdrew his gaze after hearing Lin Yi’s words. He began to look Lin Yi up and down, as if wondering why Lin Yi hadn’t run away. He obviously felt that something was wrong with Lin Yi.
At this moment, the sound of the door opening and closing came from Room 303.
Qin Zhou must have not seen him at breakfast and was now confirming his situation.
Lin Yi also closed their door. He didn’t dare make it too loud like Qin Zhou did but his movements were not light either. His response was definitely heard in Room 303.
After closing the door, he turned around and took his breakfast from Patient 203. He said sheepishly, “Mr. 203, I’m really sorry. I should be the one taking care of you but instead I even had you bring me breakfast.”
Patient 203 looked at him and when Lin Yifan was halfway through his breakfast, asked, “Didn’t you think about leaving the room?”
Lin Yi stopped eating and asked back, “Why would I? Mr. 203, do you…do you not want me to take care of you anymore? Is there anything I did that dissatisfied you?”
Patient 203 had been carefully observing Lin Yi’s face but he didn’t catch anything from Lin Yi’s expression. He pondered. Since Lin Yi didn’t leave the room even when the door was wide open, Patient 203 thought that Lin Yi must not have discovered the secret of the sanatorium. But Patient 203 couldn’t figure out how he fell asleep and what the incomplete other half of Lin Yi’s diary was used for. These two points made Patient 203 feel that there was something wrong with Lin Yi.
With these two contradictions plaguing his mind, Patient 203 didn’t say anything. He returned to the hospital bed, picked up a book from the third drawer of the bedside cabinet and began to read.
Reading was one of the few ways for patients to pass the time in the sanatorium. Patient 203 turned the book to where he’d left off and then continued to read.
Patient 203 ignored Lin Yi and Lin Yi made no move to come forward. As someone with social phobia, he wasn’t good at dealing with being snubbed.
Lin Yi poured a cup of hot water for Patient 203.
When the hot water cooled, he poured out the cold water and replaced it with hot water.
For almost the entire day, Lin Yi kept repeating this action as if he wanted to impress Patient 203 though this action so that Patient 203 wouldn’t give up on him.
Finally, Patient 203 was moved by Lin Yi’s perseverance and he took a sip of the hot water.
It didn’t take long for Patient 203 to feel his eyelids grow heavy. He couldn’t endure the sudden drowsiness and so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Lin Yi heaved a sigh of relief after hearing the sound of the book in Patient 203’s hand fall to the ground.
If Patient 203 still didn’t drink the water, he would have run out of zopiclone.
Afraid that the pill would be less effective if dissolved in water, Lin Yi took out two more pills, opened Patient 203’s mouth and stuffed them in.
Having done this, Lin Yi walked out from Room 203.
The sky was getting dark and it was just about dinner time for everyone.
Lin Yi didn’t go to the cafeteria. He went to Doctor Zhu’s building while the nursing aides were accompanying the patients to eat. This way the other patients wouldn’t see him from their windows.
Lin Yi quickly entered the building. He walked through the lobby of the original mental hospital and then stopped outside Doctor Zhu’s office.
The door to his office wasn’t closed. Lin Yi stuck closed to the wall and peeked inside.
Just seeing Doctor Zhu’s back and Lin Yi could already feel his anxiety.
Right now, Doctor Zhu had removed all the books from his bookshelves. He was furiously flipping through one book and then looking at another.
Lin Yi glanced at the books, “Zizhi Tongjian“, “The Three Kingdoms”, “Up and Down Five Thousand Years”…
They were books about history.
The book that Patient 203 had been reading today must also be Doctor Zhu’s since it was a collection of historical novels.
“Du Shi…Du Shi…”
Doctor Zhu mumbled as he aggressively flipped the pages. The slightest bit of carelessness could tear off a page or two.
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze. He quietly walked up to the second floor and slipped into the looked room.
The door was still locked. Lin Yi bent down to look at the keyhole. Probably when this was still a psychiatric hospital, this room wasn’t intended to be some off-limits area and so the door lock was an A-level lock that was easy to open. The A-level lock had a simple structure and few and shallow pin slots, suitable for a novice like Lin Yi to open.
Lin Yi went to the medicine room to find a hard cardboard. He then ground the front end a little, grinding the top into a cross shape.
After inserting the paper shell into the keyhole, Lin Yi gently turned the doorknob.
After a crisp sound, Lin Yi pushed the door open.
The stench in the room was overwhelming. Lin Yi saw the glass containers that Qin Zhou mentioned but now there were only nine glass dishes. The missing one must have been the one broken by Qin Zhou. Lin Yi could still see glass shards on the floor.
Without any hesitation, he pushed all the glass containers to the ground. Regardless of whether there were regenerating animals in the containers, none of the remaining nine glass containers escaped Lin Yi’s treacherous hands.
The movement and smell quickly attracted Doctor Zhu to him. Lin Yi, who had finished his wave of destruction, took advantage of Doctor Zhu’s furious arrival to rush immediately into Doctor Zhu’s office.
Lin Yi remembered clearly that there was a computer in Doctor Zhu’s office.
He thought that since this place used to be psychiatric hospital and Doctor Zhu had simply occupied someone else’s office, then there was a high probability that the computer in his office belonged to the psychiatric hospital.
If it did then data and information about everyone in the psychiatric hospital might be stored there. Information about the medical staff as well as the patients should be in there.
Lin Yi pressed the power button.
The computer was very old fashioned. Its monitor wasn’t even an LCD screen. After Lin Yi pressed the power button, the exhaust fan in the computer’s thick case made an ungodly noise.
He looked at his index finger. It came away dirty. Dust had already accumulated on the power button.
Lin Yi was even surer that this computer had belonged to a mental hospital. Although he was not sure that there would be information stored in the computer, he was more worried whether such an old computer would even turn on.
As if joking with him, the computer’s originally lit display screen suddenly went out.
Lin Yi knelt down and wiped off the dust behind the case using his hands. Too much dust would increase the operating burden on the computer.
He had to gain something or he would have destroyed all those for nothing.
After wiping off the dust, Lin Yi glanced out the door. He could hear Doctor Zhu’s hysteria in the room on the second floor.
Fearing that Doctor Zhu would come down suddenly, Lin Yi hurriedly turned it on again.
The computer screen lit up again and as Lin Yi was imitating Cheng Yang and reciting ‘Buddha bless us, Bodhisattva bless us’, the computer finally ended its lengthy boot. It had taken more than five minutes.
After booting up, a screensaver with text appeared on the screen – Yu City Huayuan District Psychiatric Hospital.
Sure enough.
Lin Yi immediately went to slide the mouse. Because he was so anxious, he ended up clicking the right mouse button several times. It took a long time for the computer to respond to him.
‘Please enter the user password’
Lin Yi paused, Doctor Zhu must have never used this computer. Otherwise he wouldn’t let the screensaver display the words ‘psychiatric hospital’. This password must have prevented Doctor Zhu from accessing it.
But this was not good news. How could he know the computer password when even Doctor Zhu didn’t know?
Lin Yi tried to hit enter directly.
‘wrong password’.
Lin Yi typed six ones. The password was wrong.
Eight ones, wrong password.
Six sixes, wrong password.
Eight sixes, wrong password.
Lin Yi tried almost all the mindless passwords but the screen always returned with ‘wrong password’.
He was breathing a little more quickly. The password had no character limit or quantity limit. The characters and numbers on the keyboard made the list of possibilities almost endless.
This was harder than winning the grand prize in the lottery.
Before Lin Yi could calculate how many billions of possible permutations and combinations there were, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse.
The hysteria on the second floor stopped and then came hurried footsteps. Doctor Zhu was coming down.
In order to divert Doctor Zhu’s attention and buy himself more time, Lin Yi had destroyed all the glass containers. If he didn’t succeed this time, it would be difficult for him to get out of Room 203 smoothly, let alone lure Doctor Zhu away.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer. Doctor Zhu was practically flying over.
Lin Yi stared at the computer screen intently, looking at the words ‘Yu City Huayuan District Psychiatric Hospital’ on the screen. His thoughts were running fast and finally he tried trying a few numbers on the keyboard.
Ding–
The computer beeped, indicating that he had entered the correct password.
Translator’s note: https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/q-and-a/whats-the-difference-between-dissociative-identity-disorder-and-schizophrenia
Oh my gosh this is so stressful!!!
Thank you Mushroom for your top tier translations ❤️
thank you for the new chapter, I wonder how Lin Yi guessed the password.
This much tension is harmful for my fragile heart.. 😱
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Bitting nails … So nervous…
Thank u for the update 💓
And how d heck did lin ye get the password right 🤔😳
I may have DID, unironically. It’s interesting I’ve read a couple of Chinese works and they’ve all written DID as Schizophrenia instead.
It does frustrate me. But honestly, seeing the way some of the authors have described DID, I wonder if it’s possibly a translation error. That the translators assumed it was Schizophrenia, and that the authors had known all along.