I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror
Chapter 184 - 160: If It Goes Out of Control...

Chapter 184: Chapter 160: If It Goes Out of Control...

After exchanging her money, Mu Xitang confidently headed to the bun shop on the other side of the street.

Two yuan sixty cents, and the owner gave her three buns.

"Hey, wait, little Xi Tang, here’s some pickled vegetables."

The bun shop uncle called out to the little girl who was about to leave and handed her half a bag of pickles.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to give more; giving a whole bag might cause the little girl to refuse.

"They’re too salty, not to my taste, so I’m giving them to you."

"Thank you, Uncle!"

Mu Xitang thanked him before taking the pickles and leaving.

It was clear from her joyfully raised eyebrows that the pickles were an unexpected gain for her today.

Seeing her smile so happily,

Jiang Xiao also laughed and cried.

But before they reached Mu Xitang’s "camp",

Jiang Xiao’s expression turned grim.

Mu Xitang also slowly widened her eyes as if she had realized something...

The bun uncontrollably "plopped" and fell to the ground.

Afterward, the little one dashed all the way to the green belt.

"Where’s my cardboard box? My cardboard box is gone!"

Her voice became frantic, and her little face was filled with anxiety.

Undeterred, she searched around nearby: the green belt, under the trees, including some nearby trash cans, all were turned upside down.

In the end, she even crawled through a gap in the nursery school door to look inside.

It was gone, truly gone...

Mu Xitang sat down at the nursery school entrance steps, her head hanging low.

She had saved those cardboard boxes for a long time, only to have her painstakingly built little home disappear.

Jiang Xiao didn’t want to see the despair and sadness on her face and couldn’t help but turn away.

After a long while, Mu Xitang finally picked up the bun that had fallen on the ground.

In her heart, the cardboard box was the only place she could call home in this bustling city.

Although the box was small, it was a place to hide her grievances and worries.

So even though it was destroyed several times by the bad children at the nursery, she still went to great lengths to retrieve those cardboard boxes.

But this time, she had scoured all the corners where the naughty children had hidden the boxes and found nothing.

Jiang Xiao sighed, knowing that the box must have been taken away by the sanitation workers...

Although devastated by the loss of her little home, Mu Xitang did not cry; she forced back the tears welling up in her eyes.

Her dirty little face put on a stubborn expression, full of defiance...

Watching her munch on the dry, hard bun with pickles, Jiang Xiao could only feel helpless as a bystander.

Ah,

why hasn’t my body appeared yet.

With no box, where will she stay tonight?

As the temperature dropped, Mu Xitang had to continuously blow on her hands and stomp her feet to keep warm.

Without the box, spending the night here would surely mean freezing to death.

The bun fell from her shivering hands four or five times before she finally finished it.

Then she stuffed the remaining two buns and unfinished pickles into the pockets of her military coat.

The little girl with furrowed brows pondered for a good while.

Eventually, she decided to try her luck at the commercial street to see if she could find a warm place.

The loss of her small home left Mu Xitang utterly dispirited.

She walked unsteadily, even falling down twice in a daze.

The oversized military coat meant that although the falls didn’t hurt, she struggled to get up each time.

Her already dirty clothes looked even scruffier after two falls.

"It smells so good~"

A delicious aroma made her involuntarily swallow her saliva.

A small restaurant appeared before her.

The clanging sounds of pots and pans from inside and the sight of people clinking their glasses drew Mu Xi Tang deeply.

Especially a family of five...

A father, a mother, and three daughters,

eating delicious, steaming hot food in a warm room.

The warm steam made Mu Xitang’s expression blur...

She thought of playing video games with her parents,

of their family of five playing checkers on the bed,

of the egg poach and millet porridge her mother would cook when they were hungry at night,

of the first time her father cooked for their mother,

of the time her father took them to a small town to score some free noodles from a kind man...

Uncontrollably, Mu Xitang walked to the glass window, her body trembling, but she pressed close to the glass to look inside.

The people inside truly seemed so happy...

"Hey! Don’t disturb our business!"

A woman stuck her head out from the door to shoo Mu Xitang away, but the cold wind made her quickly retract her head.

"Oh, oh, sorry..."

Mu Xitang shakily huddled down outside the restaurant wall.

She thought, her dirty self leaning on their glass would definitely affect the appetite of the guests inside...

"Ugh~"

Perhaps feeling that even leaning on the wall might affect the restaurant owner’s business, Mu Xitang laboriously shifted to the side.

She rested for a while.

Feeling that continuously slumping there was no solution, Mu Xitang finally managed to stand up again.

Jiang Xiao’s breath became frantic.

Analog Horror was right; she really was struggling...

While still weak in the evening, Jiang Xiao felt her spirit was still okay.

But unexpectedly, within just a few hours...

The snowstorm grew fiercer, and the people on the street all hurried by.

No one would notice the small body wrapped in a military coat.

Mu Xitang dragged her exhausted body, having to stop to rest every few steps...