Chapter 66
The moment the computer displayed that the password was correct, the sound of flying footsteps could be heard fast approaching the office; it seemed like he would appear at the door at any second.
Lin Yi stared intently at the computer. He had no time to feel conflicted or hesitate. He didn’t even have time to look at the door to tell whether Doctor Zhu had come.
He continued to move the mouse, taking advantage of what little time he had to find what he needed.
On the computer desktop, Lin Yi quickly spotted what he wanted.
There was a folder named ‘Patient Information’.
Lin Yi double-clicked to open this folder.
He knew it wouldn’t go so smoothly. As he expected, the folder contained a huge amount of data.
There was a whole lot of information. Every patient who’d entered the psychiatric hospital had their medical record information stored in it.
Lin Yi didn’t know the Doctor Zhu’s specific information. The only thing he knew was that Doctor Zhu’s surname was ‘Zhu’. So, first thing he did was find all the patients with the surname ‘Zhu’.
There were twenty-seven patients surnamed Zhu.
Lin Yi opened the medical record of the first patient and found that there was no photo of the patient in the medical record. In other words, he needed to filter it further to locate Doctor Zhu’s information.
But the sound of footsteps now so close at hand declared he time he’d gained with his destructive display had run out. The moment the door of the office was pushed open, the only thing Lin Yi could do was squat low.
He crouched behind the desk, trying to make himself as small as possible so that the desk could block sight of him.
The footsteps were restless and angry and they were heading straight for the desk. Lin Yi held his breath. Although NPCs can only kill people at night, if he’s discovered by Doctor Zhu, he might not die immediately but what awaits him would be airtight captivity.
Seeing the shadow on the floor, Lin Yi carefully reached out, intending to unplug the computer. With the computer off, he might be able to talk his way out of why he was at the office at this time.
He stretched out his hand, fumbling for the computer cord. Lin Yi was about to pull the plug when he suddenly heard a burst of quick and deliberate footsteps.
Then there was an unknown rustling sound.
Lin Yi was momentarily stunned and he cautiously poked half a head out from behind the desk.
“Lin Yi.” Qin Zhou threw the unconscious Doctor Zhu onto the sofa and then hurriedly locked the door.
Lin Yi was pleasantly surprised: “Senior!”
Lin Yi quickly got over his surprise, he did even have time to ask why Qin Zhou was here. He was still focused on his mission so he hurriedly got up and continued to look for Doctor Zhu’s medical records.
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After locking the door, Qin Zhou glanced at Lin Yi and after making sure that Lin Yi was fine, he didn’t bother asking what Lin Yi was up to. He simply stood by the door and worked as Lin Yi’s lookout.
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There had still been some ether left in Room 303. Qin Zhou went to find Lin Yi after he knocked out Patient 303. When he went to Room 203, Qin Zhou only saw Patient 203 sleeping on the bed but not Lin Yi. He also saw the sleeping pills.
These things proved that Lin Yi was still safe.
He guessed that it was these sleeping pills that had created an opportunity for Lin Yi. Although he didn’t know what clues Lin Yi was looking for, Qin Zhou took out a towel soaked in ether and covered Patient 203’s mouth and nose.
After cleaning up the traces from Room 203, Qin Zhou went to find Lin Yi. At this hour, most of the nursing aides were with the patients eating in the cafeteria, so Qin Zhou headed directly to the building where Doctor Zhu’s office was.
As soon as he entered the building, Qin Zhou could smell this indescribable stench that was the mixture of all sorts of smells. He could also hear the sound of angry footsteps on the second floor.
Qin Zhou made to chase after him to the second floor but when he passed Doctor Zhu’s office, he took a look. The door of the office was ajar and he caught sight Lin Yi in the office.
There was no time to meet with him at this time. Qin Zhou took the stairs two at a time, intending to buy some more time for Lin Yi.
It was just that Lin Yi had destroyed all the containers of the regenerated animals on the second floor and after what happened last night, Doctor Zhu, who was supposed to relocate these regenerating animals, was determined to catch the perpetrator.
He rushed down from the second floor and Qin Zhou followed him all the way back to the office.
The desk wasn’t big and Lin Yi couldn’t hide at all. His clothes were peeking out. From the office door, you could actually see Lin Yi’s feet at a glance.
Qin Zhou took out the towel, stepped forward quickly and while Doctor Zhu was rushing over to grab Lin Yi, covered his mouth and nose with the towel from behind him.
Five seconds later, Doctor Zhu had passed out.
Qin Zhou stood guard for a while. Calculating the time when Patients 303 and 203 would wake up, Qin Zhou reluctantly urged Lin Yi to hurry.
“Senior, just a bit longer.” Lin Yi’s voice was anxious.
Probably hearing the anxiety in Lin Yi’s tone, Qin Zhou walked towards him.
Lin Yi had just opened the medical record of the 23rd patient surnamed Zhu. After scanning it, he closed it again and moved on to the 24th patient.
By the time Lin Yi finished checking the Zhu patients’ records, another five minutes had passed. By this time, the sky outside must have gotten darker. The night that the participants feared was about to descend once again.
Qin Zhou asked, “What’s the situation?”
It wasn’t his intention to doubt Lin Yi’s abilities, he simply thought that maybe he could help once he understood the situation.
Lin Yi looked back at the information of the first patient surnamed Zhu and brought Qin Zhou up to speed as he read, explaining to him the current thorny situation..
The computer password wasn’t difficult. The final word in ‘Yu City Huayuan District Psychiatric Hospital’ on the screen gave Lin Yi the idea.
Since it was a hospital, there were three numbers forever bound to all hospitals — ‘120’.
The patient’s medical records weren’t some overly confidential information for the psychiatric hospital. At most, they would be used for inquiries so the password wouldn’t be something complicated and generally speaking, people won’t set their passwords to just three digits; they usually used six.
So Lin Yi had tried 120120.
The password was correct.
Why wasn’t Doctor Zhu able to guess the password? After Lin Yi successfully logged in, he found an explanation.
For a hospital, the patient’s medical record should be readily available. Doctors needed to be privy to their patients’ condition. So in conclusion, the patients’ medical records information, for the hospital, weren’t something deadly important.
But for Doctor Zhu, it was completely different.
This was Doctor Zhu’s secret and also the biggest secret of the sanatorium. People looked at problems from different angles. Doctor Zhu would definitely have thought that the password should be something complicated and difficult. So, he’d make complicated guesses when trying to crack the password. He wouldn’t have gone with Lin Yi’s overly simple ‘120’.
Perhaps in the eyes of Doctor Zhu, the psychiatric hospital wasn’t a hospital but a prison.
And prisons weren’t tagged with ‘120’.
There was no photo of the patients in their medical records. Lin Yi pointed to the computer screen: “There are a total of 27 patients with the surname Zhu, and Doctor Zhu’s age is somewhere between 25-35 years old. Seven patients can be excluded by age. There’s still 20 patients left.”
Qin Zhou gave an ‘en’ and looked at what Lin Yi was pointing at. “Sex.”
Lin Yi said, “Oh yeah, after filtering for sex, there are only thirteen left.”
Qin Zhou: “Look at the history of illness.”
Before entering the 16-8 Rule World, the participants all saw another copy of themselves. This situation seemed to speak of a splitting of the mind.
Not all mentally ill patients would have symptoms of a split mind so filtering by mental illness could also exclude some patients.
Lin Yi: “Okay.”
From time to time, the clicking of the mouse can be heard in the office. Lin Yi said, “Depression wouldn’t cause a split mind…”
“That filtered out eight more people, Senior. Now there are five people left.”
“Look at the history of the illness.” Qin Zhou said, “Exclude those who only have hallucinations, auditory and visual, at the time of their illness.”
Lin Yi nodded.
The 16-8 Rule World can actually be regarded as a fantasy of Doctor Zhu’s. But Doctor Zhu wasn’t only seeing the fantasy, he actually played a role in it.
So they could exclude the patients who simply had the fantasies, leaving only the patients immersed in them.
Afterwards, only three of the five medical records remained.
Using these filters, they managed to whittle down to three what had originally been twenty-seven. Although they were already half-successful, that there still remained three was a problem.
Because they’d basically used all means to narrow it down.
Lin Yi looked at these three medical records repeatedly. In addition to ‘age’, ‘sex’, ‘history of illness’ and ‘symptoms at onset’, there was only one ‘disease diagnosis’ left in the medical records.
Lin Yi set his sights on “disease diagnosis”. “Disease diagnosis” wasn’t just a patient’s disease diagnosis. Doctors will make this disease diagnosis based on the patient’s original family and life experience.
Lin Yi stared closely at the last three medical records.
Qin Zhou was also reading.
Time was ticking by. Doctor Zhu’s fingers trembled slightly, he was showing signs of gradually waking up.
Lin Yi stared at Doctor Zhu again. “Qin Yilu…Emperor Jin of Hui…Li Hong…”
Qin Yilu was deprived of his wife, Emperor Hui of Jin was poisoned by his minister and Li Hong was poisoned by Wu Zetian.
In Doctor Zhu’s fantasy, he wasn’t a hero like Cao Cao, he wasn’t a cruel character like Sima Yue and he wasn’t a strategist like Wu Zetian. These three roles played by Doctor Zhu were all tragic roles.
Suddenly, Lin Yi thought of something. He twisted his neck and continued to look at the three medical records on the computer.
Qin Yilu had his wife taken and was made to wear a green hat. Emperor Hui of Jin was poisoned, betrayed by those he trusted. Li Hong was killed by poison, a misfortune from the original family.
Lin Yi said: “Doctor Zhu must have experienced all this! As long as his diagnosis has these three points recorded, we can be sure that that’s Doctor Zhu!”
Qin Zhou paused. He didn’t expect Lin Yi to be able to think about it in this way. But he didn’t find it surprising. He said softly, “Little genius.”
However, Lin Yi’s body suddenly tensed.
The ‘diagnosis’ of the three medical records:
Medical record A: The patient has family history; combined with the above, the diagnosis is ‘Split Mind Disorder’.
Medical record B: The patient’s brain atrophy caused the Split Mind Disorder. Combined with the above, he is diagnosed with ‘Split Mind Disorder caused by brain atrophy’.
Medical record C: The patient’s business failed and coupled with the mother being exposed to the influenza virus during her pregnancy, his brain development was affected, causing abnormalities in his ability for mental integration. Combined with the above, he is diagnosed with ‘Split Mind Disorder’.
Of the last three medical records, without exception, there was no mentioned of being cuckolded, betrayed or caused misfortune by the original family.
Dun dun DUNNN
Lin Yi: ((((；ﾟДﾟ)))))))
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Oh this cliffhanger is gonna split my mind O.O
Haha ,˗ˏˋ ♡ ˎˊ˗ the emotes in the coments
ㅤ/ᐠ – ˕ -マ
CLIFFHANGERS ARE GOING TO BE THE DEATH OF ME
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
One minor translation error: sex and gender are two different things, using them as synonyms doesn’t work. Thank you for the chapter!
Yeah, they do. You understand them right? Why does it matter?
Sources:https://cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48642.html#:~:text=Sex%20is%20usually%20categorized%20as,men%2C%20and%20gender%20diverse%20people.https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/what-do-we-mean-by-sex-and-gender/
Geh- my brain hurts TvT
…ha..ha….im dying here….ahhh