I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror-Chapter 487 - 453: He Has Come...

Yu Tianci had temporarily left, as he had received a phone call and needed to attend an important impromptu meeting, likely not returning until evening.

Cough, they’re letting me roam free in the mental hospital?

Is this for real?

Jiang Xiao scratched the back of his head, no hype, but he did indeed have a way with the patients.

Within half an hour,

all of the patients from Good to Come Again Mental Hospital had been assembled by Jiang Xiao on the playground.

"Attention!"

Jiang Xiao’s face was stern, his gaze unflinchingly fixed on the patients in front of him.

"One two!"

The patients too stood tall and proud, responding with vigor.

Looking at the two rows of neatly lined-up patients, a look of immense satisfaction appeared on Jiang Xiao’s face.

Heh heh heh, this was the feeling of commanding thousands of troops, no man could resist it.

Since Yu Tianci had granted him the freedom to move about, he was certainly going to make the most of it.

"Listen up, everyone, our mission today is to snatch the cafeteria’s dinner for our midnight feast, aiming for egg tarts and chicken legs, got it?"

"Yes Si!"

Seeing the unanimous response from the crowd, Jiang Xiao became even more pleased with himself.

"Uncle Li, you lead the SpongeBob squad from the east side into the cafeteria!"

"Yes Si!"

"Wang Bro, you lead the Kick The Lame Good Leg squad through the main entrance!"

"Yes Si!"

"Granny Liu, you lead the Old, Weak, Sick and Disabled squad to provide cover, blocking the cafeteria staff’s line of sight!"

"Yes Si!"

The numerous striped-shirts set off into action.

"Old Wang, tell me, how much longer do we have to play along with this kid?"

"Auntie Li, don’t ask, we’ll play until he’s tired of playing, right?"

Don’t ask why these people all listened to Jiang Xiao. Weren’t they all mentally ill? Could you still expect them to behave rationally?

Not to mention joining him in a cafeteria heist; this was something many of the patients had long been itching to do!

They would play along, create a ruckus, or even join him in a big sleep without a second thought.

After all, they were all mentally ill; nothing really seemed inappropriate.

"But there’s one thing I don’t quite understand. Why snatch dinner to eat as a late-night snack? What’s the difference between eating a bit early and a bit late?"

Ah, this...

Such a profound question clearly surpassed the understanding of these patients.

"Who cares? We’ve got someone leading the charge. However he wants to do it, we do it!"

...

It wasn’t until nine in the evening

that Director Yu was returned to Qingshan by a military jeep.

Seeing Jiang Xiao in the courtyard, feasting on egg tarts and chicken legs with the others, Yu Tianci displayed an expression of amused resignation.

All his worrying had been for naught.

The so-called meeting had been nothing but a pretext.

He had met with an influential figure in the medical field—how influential? Well, his portrait was in medical textbooks.

Yu Tianci was the director of a hospital; how could he not have some connections? This individual had been the teacher of Yu Tianci’s college professor.

From the few words exchanged, it was evident that something big might happen in Qingshan.

That’s why they had made a phone call to get Yu Tianci out of Good to Come Again Mental Hospital, to lay low for a bit.

At the same time, the matter concerning Pennywise was briefly discussed with Yu Tianci, who was warned that if he encountered it, he must not try to resist but run!

But now, having seen no disturbances at the mental hospital for so long, Yu Tianci was allowed to return.

He didn’t know if he was overthinking, but on his way back, Yu Tianci had a constant sense of trepidation.

It seemed as if the entire Qingshan Psychiatric Hospital had been targeted by something in the darkness.

It made his spine tingle.

Fortunately, the situation he had imagined hadn’t occurred.

Seeing the director return, the gleeful mental patients immediately quieted down.

Under normal circumstances, they would have been scolded and sent back to their wards.

Of course, this wasn’t to say they weren’t free to move around—it was just that after six in the evening, wandering in and out of rooms was forbidden, whereas during the day it was allowed.

But, against everyone’s expectations,

Director Yu didn’t send them away this time; instead, he rather ungracefully plonked himself down next to Jiang Xiao, who was gnawing on a chicken leg.

"Carry on, everyone. There’s no curfew tonight. Just enjoy yourselves however you like."

Yo?

Jiang Xiao glanced at Yu Tianci.

"Tsk, it’s about time you old kid wise up. I always thought that when it comes to managing the mentally ill, it’s better to guide than to block. As long as everyone’s happy, they won’t cause trouble for you. There was an Old Bideng before who could never understand what I said."

"Look, in your absence, everyone got along peacefully, not causing any commotion at all, see how obedient?"

"Mm, you make sense."

Yu Tianci, expressionless, ignored the trash strewn about the floor and the food wasted.

Jiang Xiao stood up, encouraging everyone to dig in.

"Eat and drink to your heart’s content, everyone! Director Yu said there’s no curfew from now on, so eat as you wish, drink as you wish!"

Yu Tianci: "?"

What is this nonsense!

Are you twisting my words, kid?

Wait, hold on?

Yu Tianci’s smile froze.

A chill suddenly spread from the bottom of his heart to his entire body. freewёbnoνel-com

Fear and trembling quickly overtook his spirit; his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.

He felt like crying...

He couldn’t suppress the overwhelming sadness.

Tears had already moistened Yu Tianci’s eyes. He wanted to cry out loud for no reason, but he couldn’t squeeze out a sound from his throat.

Trembling, he looked up to find that everyone else was in the same state.

All the mental patients were in tears but didn’t know why they were crying. The atmosphere of despair seemed to tear their bodies apart.

The lively scene from just moments ago was suddenly frozen, and moreover, turned monochrome.

"Ah..."

Yu Tianci clutched his head in agony.

He saw it: white, variegated, kaleidoscopic, severely twisted, dark, crawling...

His brain flickered like a slideshow, with countless familiar and unfamiliar images flashing erratically.

The extreme stimulation almost drove him mad, like being on drugs, as if he had taken drugs!

He wanted to scream, to streak naked through the streets, to leap from the eighteenth floor, to devour the person in front of him.

"Ugh!"

Some patients had started vomiting uncontrollably.

Others had a wild smile on their faces, opening their arms to the void as if embracing the most beautiful thing in the world.

Pennywise!

It was Him, it had to be Him!

He had never seen Him before, but the last shred of Yu Tianci’s consciousness told himself this was indisputably Pennywise!

That big shot had warned him that if he encountered Pennywise, he must run, but where did he have the strength to run now?

It was over...

Just as his sanity was on the verge of sinking into the abyss, a puzzled and wise voice came from beside him.

"Eh, what the hell is this?"

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