I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror-Chapter 485 - 451 Spirit Test

"Mental hospital?"

"Yes." Du Lala nodded. "Exactly, a mental hospital, it’s where our sociological experts have deduced Pennywise might show up next."

Jiang Xiao was momentarily at a loss for words.

Should this be said or not, had they suddenly hit the professional mark?

"Just a mental hospital doesn’t determine which specific one Pennywise will appear at, right?"

Faced with Jiang Xiao’s question, Du Lala revealed a confident smile.

"Don’t worry about that. There are only six mental hospitals in Four Seas State. We just need to temporarily transfer most patients from five of them to another location, and Pennywise will definitely end up at the very last one left!"

The reason couldn’t be more simple: the more mental patients there are in one place, the greater the collective psychic energy. As long as Pennywise isn’t foolish, he will certainly head to the mental hospital with the most people.

"By then, you’ll infiltrate as a patient yourself. Uhh, given that your psychic energy is also high, you’ll blend in seamlessly."

Jiang Xiao: ...

You’ve got to admit, you’ve got a good eye for people~

The B2 vehicle drove Jiang Xiao and Du Lala and finally reached a place called Good to Come Again Mental Hospital at sunset.

Even with Jiang Xiao’s imagination, seeing the name "Good to Come Again" left him silent for a long while.

"Don’t just stand there, hurry up and get registered. The mental hospital only has one director named Yu Tianci. Just use your real name, Jiang Xiao."

The admissions process and other complex organizational tasks had already been taken care of.

"Wait!"

B2 spoke up, interrupting with an apologetic tone.

"Uh, Brother Jiang Xiao, by the rules, every patient has to go through a psychological test before admission. You’ll need to cooperate with that."

Hm?

Du Lala gave B2 a puzzled look, then furrowed her brows in dissatisfaction.

Clearly, this psychological test must be something devised by those within the organization who didn’t trust Jiang Xiao, just something they cooked up.

However, Jiang Xiao didn’t mind. He was well accustomed to psychological tests.

After seeing Jiang Xiao into the Good to Come Again Mental Hospital, Du Lala and B2 drove around the corner to stake out the area.

Besides them, three emergency teams were stationed nearby, but this time they had not been given any orders to engage.

"B2, what’s going on? Where did this psychological test come from? Didn’t we already have a green light?"

B2 didn’t speak, staring straight ahead, he calmly explained.

"I didn’t want to do this, either. It’s someone else’s idea. Someone higher up wants to test to see where Jiang Xiao’s mental state falls."

Plainly speaking, the research institute’s main interest was to determine the extent of Jiang Xiao’s capabilities.

...

Having just walked through the gates of the mental hospital, a crew-cut man led Jiang Xiao into a fully enclosed room.

Jiang Xiao raised an eyebrow, his intuition telling him that this crew-cut man was a military person, not at all like the hospital staff.

But it didn’t matter. If he’d come all this way, he’d be content. As for whether his psychic state was normal, he was quite confident about that.

"Jiang Xiao, right? Come here and put this on."

In the room, a sweet-looking girl in a white coat took out a black wristband.

Hmm.

But on her chest was a name tag reading "Wang Sweet," which must be her own name.

Tsk.

This girl wasn’t one of the mental hospital staff members either. Although she was pretty, she felt completely different from the professional nurses like Bai Jie.

Beside her was another man, solemn and serious, with a name tag reading "Liu Dengyun."

"Huh?" Jiang Xiao, taking the black wristband, seemed surprised, murmuring, "I recognize this!"

"You recognize it?" Liu Dengyun said, disbelieving.

"Of course, isn’t this the Little Genius children’s phone watch?!" frёewebnoѵēl.com

Both were puzzled: "?"

"It’s not..."

Wang Tiantian explained:

"Not only does it show the time, but it also allows us to communicate internally, and it can monitor your heart rate, blood pressure, and psychic threshold, among other things..."

"So, if it’s not the Little Genius children’s phone watch, what is it?"

Uh...

Upon reflection, there indeed was a kind of uncanny similarity.

Under Wang Tiantian’s guidance, Jiang Xiao still ended up wearing it on his wrist.

Meanwhile, Liu Dengyun silently moved aside and turned on the dedicated computer connected to the wristband.

"Let’s start the test."

"Okay," Wang Tiantian nodded and asked Jiang Xiao, "Let’s play a game. I show you a picture, and you interpret it, alright?"

"OK! I have complete confidence in my IQ!"

Pretty odd, huh?

This was the first time Jiang Xiao had ever encountered this kind of mental assessment through picture identification.

"Looking at this picture, what do you want to say to it?"

Wang Tiantian presented a picture of a monkey with blood-red eyes, holding a bone club, seemingly ready to strike something.

The image conveyed a sense of madness and bloodlust.

"Caveman," Jiang Xiao calmly responded.

Liu Dengyun: ....

"Good, next question. What do you want to say upon seeing it?"

Wang Tiantian took out a photo of a giant octopus with tentacles filling the entire frame, instilling a sense of oppression and absurdity.

"Hey, Brother Octopus, would you like to blow bubbles? Only twenty-five cents."

Liu Dengyun: ....

"Good, next question."

Wang Tiantian rubbed her nose and presented a picture of a sunflower radiating sunshine and warmth.

"Wubba lubba dub dub?"

Liu Dengyun: ?

"Continue, we’re going to switch it up this time. I’ll speak, and within two seconds, respond with whatever comes to your subconscious. Got it?"

"Okay."

"Can consciousness exist independently of matter?"

Jiang Xiao furrowed his brows and declared decisively.

"No! I am a firm materialist!"

"Can consciousness dictate the form of material existence?"

"Yes! Because occasionally I am an idealist too!"

Hiss?

Wang Tiantian and Liu Dengyun exchanged glances, both seeing confusion in each other’s eyes.

"That’s quite abstract..."

"Abstract what? Where is it? How are you going to abstract it?"

Wang Tiantian was taken aback, then quickly continued.

"We have a traitor among us!"

"A traitor? Have we come straight to the erotic rewards level, skipping the torture mechanism?"

Both of them: ????

Holy crap!

"Liu Bei!"

"Seven in and out, Zhao Zilong!"

"Xiliang’s Jincheng Ma Chao!!"

"What do I care if it’s tight?"

Wait a minute?

"Your...your mental state doesn’t seem normal."

"Lenin once said that the truth is often in the hands of the few; I think it’s the same for one’s mental state!"

"No no no, I mean, you might be a lunatic, the incurable kind."

"What is lunacy? Is it the spirit that is ill, or the spirit being sick? If I am mentally ill, is my roommate next door also mentally ill?"

"There is... there probably is..."

Wang Tiantian answered hesitantly, after all, this was a mental hospital.

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