Serial Player
Chapter 415 - 92: Mother

Chapter 415: Chapter 92: Mother

When Li Changhe arrived, he saw the two people being wary of each other.

It seemed that they had also discovered the secret behind this sanatorium and were worried that [Player] from ’here’ had entered the instance.

On this piece of information, Li Changhe was no different from them.

As Li Changhe approached, the cautious atmosphere became thicker.

The hobo’s right hand exerted force, his muscles bulging as if ready to deliver a fatal blow at any moment.

Meanwhile, the blood-colored puppet in the masked woman’s hand grew even more grotesque.

For this [Player] who spoke in loose, ordinary Chinese, they couldn’t trust him either, especially when they saw the row of ’正’ characters on his arm...

Their first thought was probably ’pervert’.

The second thought was to consider whether the other party was a person from ’here’. This possibility was a bit low...

"But in a situation like this, it’s unlikely that both of them are from ’here’. At least it avoids being surrounded and attacked." Li Changhe thought to himself.

"Is it you? Is the investigation downstairs done?" the hobo asked. He had written down the nurse’s tested abilities in the stairwell on the first floor, as a guide for the teammates who came later.

"When I saw the prompt, my physical strength value was almost exhausted. Even knowing her general abilities, it’s hard for me alone to kill her. I only have one pair of eyes..." Li Changhe began to lie while fiddling with his loose Heluo Sound and standard Chinese: "Let’s wait until we finish investigating this incident and then deal with the nurse together."

"First, we need to make sure there’s no one from ’here’ among us." The masked woman glanced at the two of them and replied, "No one wants to face an Abnormality only to be attacked by a teammate from behind, right?"

"It makes sense. Mr. Lu Xun once said that the real fear is not the gunpoint of enemies ahead, but the blade of friends behind," Li Changhe expressed understanding.

The hobo clicked his tongue, "I suspect Mr. Lu never said that?"

"Mr. Lu Xun said a lot in his life, who knows whether he said it or not. Why don’t you go find a Republican era script Task and ask?"

"Enough, stop talking nonsense. Dragging on like this won’t solve anything," the hobo suggested, "There are still two Abnormal Incidents left to investigate. As long as we can complete the investigation, we can safely escape the instance."

"What is this Abnormality’s ability?"

"As it stands now, a simple shadowy figure with an unclear face walks out of this room. While its strength is not too strong, even if it is defeated, it will reappear from the room after a while. Neither mysterious attacks nor physical attacks work. Look..." The hobo pointed at the hospital room a few steps away. A shadowy figure appeared behind the door again, as if ready to push the door open at any moment.

"The Abnormality’s ability is linked to obsession," the masked woman added, "Although the sanatorium’s Abnormality has been deliberately arranged, this principle won’t change."

"And the ghost story here is ’The Invisible Child’," the hobo said, "It is said that nurses and doctors often hear the sounds of children crawling and crying at night. You should have no more detailed information."

"Actually, we might have been misled," the masked woman said, "After all, the ghost story only mentions the sound of a child, but no one has ever seen the child, let alone the shadow."

"Are you saying that instead of facing a child, we have to face... the mother?" Li Changhe stroked his chin. When he first entered the third floor, he had discussed this with Yun Ting.

"Based on the information I found, the patient here is a woman who suffered a mental breakdown due to the death of her child. She stubbornly believes that her child is still alive." At this point, Li Changhe couldn’t help but think of his father, who sometimes felt Yun Ting was by his side even after having his memory erased.

"You’re saying that because of the patient’s strong obsession, even if I kill the shadow... or the imagined child, she still stubbornly believes that the child is alive, thereby recreating the nonexistent child." The hobo shook his head, "That’s unlikely. I also have some basic understanding of psychology. This kind of mental breakdown is actually a passive form of self-suggestion. Once the target of the suggestion is destroyed or disappears, the suggestion will cease."

"If that’s the case, I think I understand the situation now," the masked woman replied after a moment of silence, "You should be able to feel that the floor under your feet is somewhat soft. It’s obviously ceramic tile, but it gives a warm and familiar feeling."

"I thought it was Psychic Interference," the hobo stomped on the floor, "So you’re saying that in a place like this, the three of us – with different genders and ages – both feel a familiar sense of belonging. This is..."

"Inside the body of our mothers," Li Changhe whispered, "The mother refuses to accept the reality of her child’s death, or rather, to escape that despairing fact, she imagines putting the child back into her body. She detects that the fate called reality is going to harm her child, so she wants to protect him. The reason you can’t get rid of the shadow is because of her obsession. After all, in the mother’s understanding, only the child in the body is safe. In other words, the shadow... the ’child’ is under her protection, invincible."

The three of them fell silent, as even the weakest woman would become indestructible when faced with a child they did not want to lose even in death.

In order to protect her child, the mother had created an existence that even [Players] could not destroy.

"Have you tried entering the room? Perhaps only by facing that mother can we complete the investigation," Li Changhe looked at the observation window. A shadowy figure stood inside the door, his face blurred and hard to see, with a pair of wide-open eyes staring at the three of them through the window.

"No, when I found this room after defeating several shadowy figures..." The hobo looked at the masked woman, "She arrived. Whether or not it was what Mr. Lu said, the sentence was accurate. I don’t want to face a Mysterious Species or Demon Beast Species and get stabbed in the back."

"Now that there are three of us here, that problem shouldn’t arise." Li Changhe chuckled, "After all, if there were two people with ulterior motives among the three of us, there would be no need for such trouble."

The hobo glanced at him, "So you mean, two people stay outside to keep each other in check, and one person goes into the room to investigate?"

"But if the [Player] who enters encounters danger, how can the two holding each other back outside provide support? And how can they be sure that none of the support teammates will have ulterior motives?" The masked woman said, "By then, we might all get caught in one fell swoop."

The only difficulty was the chain of suspicion.

Fortunately...

"You don’t have to worry about that at all. Because among the three of us, I am trustworthy."

Neither the masked woman nor the hobo asked why. Because there was a flickering spatial distortion on Li Changhe’s body, and a black trench coat appeared.

As Hua Country [Players], they naturally knew who wore such a coat.

"It’s... the Great Wall!"

"Great Wall Yanyun Branch Third Team Captain, Yang Dong!"

Li Changhe spread his hands, the Great Wall combat coat fluttering around him, "You can call me Brother Dong!"