Chapter 2532: Chapter 1694: Flying Over the Madhouse (Musou Did a Good Job This Time)

From the outside, this Western-style house looks very beautiful. The garden outside is also quite large. After entering the main gate, it takes about ten minutes to reach the steps of the mansion. Banai took out her phone and carefully took photos of the mansion in front of her.

"Looking at it like this, it’s still very pretty here. Why is it abandoned?"

"Isn’t it because the transportation is inconvenient?"

Duanmu Huai yawned.

"This place is in the middle of nowhere, extremely remote. There’s not even a store or supermarket nearby. If you get sick, you can’t even see a doctor yourself. By the time the doctor arrives, you might already be dead. Of course, if someone wants to play tricks in this deserted ghost place, it would be the easiest thing to do."

"Is that so...?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai’s answer, Banai was somewhat surprised, and Chitanda nodded with a sense of agreement.

"Yes, I actually don’t like going home very much. It’s not easy to go out. If I want to go to the convenience store to buy something, it’s more convenient to buy at school..."

"A place like this has long since fallen out of the realm of human civilization."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"To put it bluntly, even if someone committed murder and arson here, people outside wouldn’t know. Even in this era, it’s the same. Even if it’s only a half-hour drive from the highway, we’d still consider this place as an alien planet far from human civilization."

"Xiao Ai, your saying seems rather romantic?"

"And also very dangerous. Aren’t isolated islands often featured in horror movies? It’s because of this, as long as you’re far from human civilization, any moral or legal constraints won’t take effect. When you realize that no one will find out what you do here, the situation is entirely different."

Duanmu Huai withdrew his gaze and looked at the door in front.

"Alright, let’s go."

This mansion has a typical Baroque colonial style, with lots of sculptures and decorations on the walls and columns. The three-story Western-style house with symmetrical left and right sides and surrounding staircase, though dilapidated and closed long ago, still carries a certain classic elegance in its appearance.

Banai, carrying a camera, was continuously taking pictures here and there, showing clear interest in the place.

"Didn’t expect it to be quite pretty here."

"Yes, it’s rather interesting."

Duanmu Huai crossed his arms and nodded. After seeing many Japanese-style mansions, the Baroque-style Western architecture in front of him felt refreshing. A rusty metal plaque hung in the porch, with faint traces of the words "Aomori Hospital" visible.

This should be the name of the mental hospital that previously operated here.

Just then, Banai had a phone in one hand and pushed the door open with the other hand.

"Ugh, why is it so dark inside?" 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Is it very dark, Anan?"

"Somewhat, Ai Liu, can you turn on the flashlight?"

"Wait a moment..."

Banai and Chitanda walked through the door with their phones, and Duanmu Huai also walked in. Looking around, it was indeed pitch black, so dark that you couldn’t see your hand in front of you. Maybe because the vines outside sealed the doors and windows, the entire hall appeared completely dark; Banai and Chitanda’s phones could only light up a small patch of floor directly in front of them.

"Hmm?"

However, when Duanmu Huai walked into the hall, he suddenly felt a faint flow, like walking into an icy lake. The originally calm lake surface rippled because of Duanmu Huai’s arrival, spreading outwards, and then......

"Bang!"

The door slammed shut, startling Banai and Chitanda, who hurriedly turned back.

"Xiao, Xiao Ai? Why did you close the door?"

"I didn’t close it; I’ve been standing right here."

Duanmu Huai raised his hands, signaling he was standing by Banai and Chitanda’s side and not at the door.

"Then what exactly is......."

Before Banai could finish speaking, the originally dark space suddenly lit up. Feeling the sudden lighting, the three hurriedly turned forward, and the scene before them startled them.

Before them was not the dilapidated ruin but a clean and tidy hall. Ahead, a T-shaped staircase connected to the second-floor corridor on both sides. The electric light emitted a soft dim yellow glow, brightly illuminating the surroundings.

"What’s going on?"

Banai hurried to the door to pull it open, trying to open it, but the door was as if fused with the wall, completely immovable.

"Can’t open it?"

If you think about it, that’s not surprising.

"Who are you?"

At this moment, a dignified voice rang out. The three looked up and saw a middle-aged female nurse standing sternly at the second-floor staircase, staring at them as she slowly walked down.

"This is not a place you should be!"

"We, we are........."

Banai and Chitanda didn’t know what to say for a moment, and Duanmu Huai pulled Banai aside, whispering a question.

"When was that mental hospital burned down?"

"About the seventies?"

"Alright, not exceeding limits, just listen to me and cooperate."

Duanmu Huai whispered a couple of sentences to Banai and Chitanda, then walked up to them, while the nurse came down with a stern look, staring at the three of them. Facing the nurse, Duanmu Huai flashed a timid, uneasy smile like a young girl.

"H-hello, we are... We are just here to have a look."

"Have a look?"

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s reply, the nurse pushed her glasses with her hand, and Duanmu Huai nodded vigorously.

"Yes, our brother is ill, our father said he would send him here, he said our brother’s illness could be cured here, so we wanted to come and see what kind of hospital this really is, right? Sister?"

Saying this, Duanmu Huai turned to Chitanda with an innocent, knowing wink, to which Chitanda paused and nodded.

"Ah, yes, that’s right."

With Chitanda’s reply, Duanmu Huai turned back to the nurse.

"Excuse me, is this really a hospital? It doesn’t look like it at all."

"Hmm, this is indeed a hospital."

Perhaps convinced by Duanmu Huai’s words, the nurse’s initially stern demeanor softened somewhat, and she nodded to the three of them.

"It’s just that it is different from a regular hospital; it caters to patients whose minds have been hurt."

"B-but how do you treat a hurt mind? Do you have to perform surgery?"

The nurse now relaxed her tone.

"Well then, little girl, can you tell me what’s wrong with your brother?"

"I-I don’t know either."

Duanmu Huai shook her head timidly.

"Brother doesn’t have a fever or a cold, but he is always alternately crying and laughing, and occasionally he becomes very scary. Father took him to a hospital where the doctors said he was ill, but that regular hospitals couldn’t cure him, so he was brought here..."

"So how did you find this place?"

"It’s my sister who found it!"

Duanmu Huai pointed to Chitanda.

"Sister found the registration form in Father’s room, which said that our brother should be brought here, and even though Father told us not to worry, we were still very concerned, so..."

"So that’s why we’re here secretly, I’m sorry for bothering you, we really didn’t mean to."

Chitanda understood Duanmu Huai’s intention now and quickly bowed her head to apologize.

"I see, no need to apologize, it was presumptuous of me, after all, we rarely have visitors here."

The nurse paused for a moment.

"Normally, we don’t accept unapproved visits here, but since your case seems special... Well then, please come with me to the reception room, I’ll speak with the director, and if he permits, I can show you around."

After this, the nurse led the three to the reception room on one side of the hall, poured them water, and then left.

Only then did Duanmu Huai breathe a sigh of relief.

"Phew, didn’t think it would be so easy to trick."

"Xiao Ai, your performance just now really scared me; I never thought you’d show that kind of face."

Banai looked at Duanmu Huai bewildered, since when did she see Duanmu Huai act cute in front of her?

"I am an actor, after all; this is basic skill."

Duanmu Huai rolled her eyes.

"Alright, you all know the situation. Now our identities are three sisters, Chitanda is the eldest sister, Banai is the second sister, and I am the youngest. If we encounter negotiations, just leave it to Chitanda."

"Why though? I’m quite talkative too."

Banai claimed that she was the yang jiao, wasn’t negotiating supposed to be her specialty?

But Duanmu Huai just gave her a glance.

"Can you speak in Chitanda’s noble lady tone?"

"Ah..."

This was really impossible.

"By the way, what’s going on here? Have we traveled back in time?"

Banai was equally bewildered; she took out her phone to check, only to find no signal... Well, that was to be expected.

"If I guess correctly, we might be trapped in the ghost’s memory."

"Ghost??"

If it weren’t for the bewildering scene in front of them, neither would believe it.

"Yes, didn’t you mention earlier, Banai, that this place was later converted into a mental hospital, then caught fire, and the patients and doctors inside killed each other to death, hmm... maybe we’ve been transported to that day."

Of course, if it were just like that, Duanmu Huai wouldn’t be sure, but he could confirm because he felt it—he felt that familiar, subspace aura when he entered the hall.

So, it’s likely that here lies the passageway to subspace that I’ve been searching for!