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Chapter 263 - 241: Flying Over the Asylum (10)

Chapter 263: Chapter 241: Flying Over the Asylum (10)

Now, only the last step remained.

Li Cheng staggered towards the staircase.

The poison of the angel’s trumpet flower could stimulate the central nervous system, causing dilated pupils, rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, and lead to nausea and vomiting.

Overwhelmed by the severe side effects, Li Cheng ascended the stairs with sheer willpower, step by step, reaching the third floor and patted the pile of cardboard boxes blocking the stairwell, "Here are the instant noodles you wanted."

"Uh... thanks."

Dalton crawled out of the boxes, discarded the flavoring packet from the instant noodles, quickly finished the noodles, and then, as agreed, moved the boxes blocking the way to the fourth floor, clearing a path.

[Item Name: Instant Noodle Flavoring Packet]

[Type: Food]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Special Effect: None]

[Equipment Conditions: None]

[Note: Cannot be taken out of the scenario world]

[Note: Maybe it can be hidden in the trash can on the fourth floor and secretly taken out?]

Thus, with all the props collected, it was time to go up.

Li Cheng leaned on the railing and stumbled upwards, Dalton’s voice, tinged with complex emotions, sighed from below, "Good luck, William."

Li Cheng did not respond, he continued on his own to the fourth floor, tossed the flavoring packet into the nearby trash can, then collapsed heavily.

The poison was still exerting its effect, his entire head felt as if it were submerged in ice water, completely numb, unable to control his limbs to move.

Creak—

The door to the head office at the end of the hallway slowly opened, and Pella, the director in the photos, stepped out and walked down the entire corridor.

Behind her, more and more figures gradually appeared, including doctors, nurses, and those two fitness-enthusiast caregivers.

The director approached Li Cheng, who had no ability to resist, and looked down at him from above, saying calmly, "Help him up."

Two caregivers pulled Li Cheng up on either side and made eye contact with the director.

"William, William, how many times must you repeat these foolish acts?"

Director Pella sighed, "What kind of story have you concocted for yourself this time?"

"Hehehehahaha."

Li Cheng grinned and laughed out loud, not responding to Director Pella, but instead looked past her at a certain figure behind her, "That must be Doctor Dawson."

Amidst the bustling crowd, the tall, sunny-smiled Doctor Dawson in a white lab coat stepped forward and nodded at Li Cheng, "I’m sorry to meet you under these circumstances, William."

"The recorded conversation on the voice recorder, the one making a deal with you and offering ten thousand US dollars to hire you to steal the keys to the fourth-floor isolation room, was me."

Li Cheng lightheartedly said, "William’s goal was to rescue his sister, Diane, who was locked in the isolation room on the fourth floor by the hospital."

Pella did not speak but merely arched her eyebrows, and the medical staff behind her became slightly restless.

"This conclusion was not hard to guess, the medical records show that Diane was locked up on June 1st, due to her brother’s death, which triggered paranoid psychosis and bipolar disorder.

In William’s own records, there were signs of healed fractures before he was admitted."

The Fairy’s Alkaloid affects vision and hearing, but it couldn’t prevent Li Cheng from speaking eloquently, "There is a possibility that William went missing during an incident (out at sea or wilderness camping),

and his disappearance was disguised as an accidental death. Under the manipulation of some people, the very close siblings Diane ’contracted’ a mental illness."

Director Pella remained unmoved, calmly asking, "Where’s the evidence?"

"My eyes."

Li Cheng blinked his non-colored-contact blue left eye, "The natural eye color of both individuals was a very beautiful blue.

William didn’t die, he was lucky enough to survive, and just when he returned to civilized society, he found out his sister had been sent to a mental hospital, so he chose to forge his own identity and medical records, infiltrating the hospital, trying to find a way to rescue her.

At the same time, in order not to let outsiders know his connection with Diane, he deliberately wore colored contacts to falsify his own eye color.

The question is, why would William use such a complicated method to rescue his own sister?

Why didn’t he just reveal his identity and be frank with the hospital staff, demanding to take Diane away?"

Li Cheng paused for a moment, his gaze passing through the window and looking down at the meticulously tended flower bed below.

"In history, Saint Elizabeth Mental Hospital’s two main sources of revenue were government subsidies and the support of various elites and dignitaries.

The wealthy paid money to support the operation of the mental hospital, while the hospital had to take in those social thorns.

For example, unruly journalists who didn’t report properly, union leaders who led worker strikes, civil rights activists, widows and widowers with money but no descendants, and so on.

This mental hospital was no different. Without a large sum of money, how can one maintain the hospital’s facilities? How can one afford a professional medical team? How to hire...uh, sexy and beautiful nurses—cough cough, forget I said that."

Li Cheng cleared his throat, "In the voice recorder’s log, there was one comment that particularly caught my attention, which was that William had paid Dr. Dawson a deposit of ten thousand US dollars and promised that ten days after Christmas, he could give a further one hundred thousand dollars.

So, the question is, why ten days after Christmas? Where did this underage young man get the one hundred and eleven thousand dollars?

Could it be William had to wait until after Christmas to get his New Year’s money?

No, no, no, the reason is simple—the birth date."

He nodded his chin toward the medical record bag tagged with William’s name hanging from his collar, "William’s admission date was October 4th, aged seventeen years and ten months.

Meaning, ten days after Christmas, on New Year’s January 4th, William would turn eighteen.

Once he became an adult, William could get a large sum of money from somewhere, maybe a family trust fund, maybe his deceased father’s will.

As for the evidence... it’s still the information in the medical records."

Li Cheng spoke with ease, "The greatest fear and pain in William’s heart is watching his mother get buried with his sister when they were children.

And in Diane’s medical records, it mentioned she was brought to the hospital by her stepmother.

Combining all the clues, we can deduce the truth.

Their mother died early, the wealthy father remarried, and after the father also passed away, the stepmother took over the family business. The will stated that once William and Diane came of age, they would receive a large sum of money and possibly shares in the family business.

To eliminate the hidden risks, the stepmother plotted to kill William and then threw Diane into the Saint Elizabeth Mental Hospital, which she had generously sponsored.

Thus, the piece of newspaper from December 24 I found in the solitary confinement room stated that the Kang Group’s new female CEO was considering selling the US business.

Therefore, William, already considered dead in social society, chose to infiltrate the hospital—the guardian mentioned on the medical record is likely an actor he temporarily hired.

As long as he rescues Diane and waits until his eighteenth birthday, the adult William could take back the family business, staging a prince’s revenge."

His statement was incredibly coherent, and after listening quietly, Director Pella clapped slowly, "Fascinating, but unfortunately, you’re wrong.

Diane is already dead; all of this is just a story you’ve concocted in your mind out of guilt."