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Chapter 262 - 240: Flying Over the Asylum (IX)

Chapter 262: Chapter 240: Flying Over the Asylum (IX)

The Ordinary Freya, with thick bangs covering half of her eyes, gratefully glanced at Li Cheng, then walked to a corner of the room, sat down slowly, and said nothing.

"Do you have nothing to say? Or is there something you need to give me?"

Li Cheng raised his eyebrows and asked. It was clear that Freya was an NPC with her own plotline; suddenly falling silent at this juncture seemed abnormal.

Freya slowly lifted her head, paused for a moment, and silently took out a key from her pocket.

The tape on the key was marked with a note that read "Pharmacy".

The first-floor pharmacy should be the last room in this three-story building that hadn’t been explored yet. Li Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, reached for the key, and said, "Thanks."

Freya held on to the key without letting go, her eyes full of sadness as she looked at Li Cheng through her thick bangs, "William, are you sure you want to do this? Even if the truth isn’t what you wish for."

Huh? You’re telling me to stop at this point, it’s like teenagers on an unsatisfying trip choosing to share a room when there’s only one left in the hotel, and then deciding to play poker overnight. What’s the difference?

"I’m sure."

The moment Li Cheng took the key, the bone-chilling cold he had encountered on the first floor struck his brain again, this time more severely.

It was as if his brain was frozen solid, becoming rigid, his body involuntarily falling backward against the wall, his muscles spasming and twitching.

The cold seeped into sensory organs like eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. Li Cheng’s vision went pale as if he were staring at the sun, or as if he were being illuminated by the light of an operating theater.

Fortunately, the pain came quickly and left just as quickly. A few minutes later, Li Cheng regained control of his body, propping himself up against the wall while gasping for air and wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.

’The frequency of brain freezing corresponds with the progress of the script exploration. The closer to the ultimate truth, the greater the resistance...’

Li Cheng, holding the pharmacy key, slowly stood up and began walking towards the door of the solitary confinement room.

"William,"

Freya called out to Li Cheng, bit her lip, and whispered: "Take care of yourself."

"Thanks, you too."

Li Cheng waved his hand, pushed open the door to the hallway, and casually closed the door behind him.

Freya, as a patient of the second-floor children’s clinic, being locked up in the third-floor solitary confinement room, most likely because she stole the pharmacy key for William.

In other words, William’s "Escape" plan had already been discussed with her.

Nurse Rachid, still patrolling back and forth at the end of the hallway, heard Li Cheng’s footsteps, whirled around, and charged at Li Cheng.

Having been ignored for so long, the nurse’s anger was clearly off the charts. With each step she took, her body underwent a violent transformation.

Compound eyes sprouted on her forehead, a multitude of centipede-like legs grew beneath her nurse’s dress, her human hands turned into scorpion pincers, and a long scorpion tail grew behind her, fused with that giant syringe, transforming into a terrifying weapon.

In the current world, all NPCs’ appearances depended on William’s perception of these people, which showed how ferocious and violent Nurse Rachid herself was.

Li Cheng couldn’t defeat Nurse Rachid in her human form, let alone now in her Scorpion King form.

As he sprinted away, he was still throwing out taunting words, "Auntie, you really should go and soak in medicinal liquor with that look of yours.

Ah, it reminds me of the old yellow dog beneath my building. He heard medicinal liquor could strengthen his vitality, soaked for three days, and shriveled his skin without any effect."

Clang!

The furious Nurse Rachid swung her tail needle, which Li Cheng narrowly dodged, the needle tip embedding deeply into the ceramic tiles of the elevator wall.

"Even the Q can be misaligned."

Li Cheng grinned with a wry smile, rolled forward and slid into the elevator car stuck between the second and third floors, then turned around, grabbed the floor of the third level, and swung back down to the second.

The so-called "greater size, greater weakness," Nurse Rachid, in her Scorpion King form, enlarged several times over and naturally couldn’t squeeze into the elevator, could only furiously destroy the elevator car with her scorpion pincers.

The car made a grating metallic twisting noise, followed by a loud bang as the steel cable snapped, and the entire car crashed to the bottom of the first floor.

"William!"

The head nurse roared furiously, left the elevator, and with centipede-like steps, headed towards the second floor along the staircase.

Listening to a series of sounds coming from behind, Li Cheng sprinted back to the cafeteria and slammed the cosmetic pencil onto the table, "Glass Diamonds!"

Barbie, who was originally sitting and chatting with the goat-headed old lady, was startled and belatedly realized what was happening, handing over the Glass Diamonds to Li Cheng.

"Thank you,"

Li Cheng sighed in relief. Now he had collected the four items: Glass Diamonds, mint candies, a razor blade, and matches. He said, "You two had better find a place to hide, like the children’s clinic. The head nurse is on her way."

"The head nurse? We’re just sitting in the cafeteria chatting; she shouldn’t bother us, right?"

Barbie said confusedly, then she saw the Scorpion King form of the head nurse charging towards them from the end of the corridor, "Forget I said anything."

Barbie and the goat-headed old lady sprinted alongside Li Cheng. When they reached the other end of the corridor, the two decisively hid in the children’s clinic and slammed the door shut.

Li Cheng continued to flee, rushing down a floor, and casually shouted for the rat man Scaven to hide before he kept moving forward, heading straight for the pharmacy in the furthest corner of the first floor.

Unlocking the door, all the cabinets in the pharmacy were locked, with only three items quietly placed on the desk.

One was a bag of crunchy snacks, another was a Black Feather Jade Cactus, and there was also a medical record bag, with the name boldly written as Daisy.

In the corridor, the sound of the head nurse’s footsteps were drawing closer, and Li Cheng quickly opened the medical record bag to inspect its contents.

Name: Daisy

Gender: Female

Age: Sixteen years and four months

Condition: Bipolar disorder, paranoid schizophrenia

Admission date: June 1st

Her stepmother stated that the patient has been extremely emotionally unstable since the death of her brother, with a strong tendency to be aggressive towards others. Due to the patient’s particularity, the institution recommended that she be isolated on the fourth floor in the sanatorium, prohibiting any contact with other patients.

Daisy’s photo showed a rather beautiful blonde girl, with bright blue eyes.

So that’s how it is.

Li Cheng set down the medical record bag; all clues had been gathered.

All the peculiar NPCs in the mental hospital, the intermittent brain pains, the attending physician’s recording pen, William’s own cosmetic contact lenses, and this medical record from the never-before-seen Daisy, all pointed to that one truth.

He picked up the Black Feather Jade Cactus, turned around, and looked outside the door.

The Scorpion King form of the head nurse had already reached the entrance, her scorpion pincers casually striking, bursting open the iron door.

Her tail needle swept back and forth like a giant’s arm within the moderately-sized pharmacy, knocking over a large number of cabinets,

"There are four triggers for spatial Perception Disorder. Besides temporal lobe epilepsy and Schizophrenia, there’s also epidemic type-B encephalitis and, cactus alkaloid Poisoning."

Li Cheng spoke calmly, taking a bite of the so-called North American cactus, the Black Feather Jade Cactus.

Juice splattered everywhere as Li Cheng felt a tingling on his tongue, still speaking indifferently, "Cactus alkaloid can cause metabolic disorders in the patient’s cortical sensory cells and transmission fibers, relieving fatigue and Hunger, leading to perception disorders such as seeing objects transform, enlarge, or shrink.

Like, now."

The scene in front of him twisted violently; the previously larger-than-human-sized syringes quickly shrank to normal size.

The head nurse, trapped outside, instinctively sensed trouble and tried to escape.

But Li Cheng was faster, bursting out of the pharmacy, and with a distorted vision, watched her.

The effect of object shrinking transmitted from the syringe to the head nurse, causing her to shrink as well.

From over three meters tall, she shrank to the size of a palm.

Li Cheng emptied the sand and stones from the cactus’s glass jar and inverted the jar over the head nurse, who desperately waved her scorpion pincers but could not smash or move the heavy jar.