I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror Chapter 183 - 159: If There’s No Future

So cold~

His consciousness had not yet fully awakened.

Jiang Xiao felt a chill assault him.

This was...

A city with fine snow floating down?

But Jiang Xiao was certain there was no eerie scent.

At the sa ti, he also confird that Sun Wei and Mu Xitang had most likely already parted ways...

Hmm?

He didn’t yet have a physical form, or rather, his body was slowly condensing.

Was this Earth?

The cars coming and going and the bustling shops all around spoke of the city’s prosperity.

After surveying quite a large area, Jiang Xiao didn’t spot that quirky little pink-haired presence.

Strange.

Hadn’t Analog Horror said it would be easy to take her away?

Was he really expected to find Mu Xitang in an entire city?

That was unacceptable!

"Hello, ma’am, have you seen a pink-haired little girl around here recently?"

Faced with Jiang Xiao’s inquiry,

the old lady with a basket on her arm continued to stoop and select potatoes from the stall without responding.

"Ma’am? Sir? Hey, guys, can you see ?"

’Swoosh~’

A child riding a scooter passed right through Jiang Xiao’s body.

Oh.

In his eagerness, he had forgotten his body had not yet fully materialized.

What kind of world was this?

He checked inside himself...

Thankfully, his strength was still there.

According to the current progress, it shouldn’t take too long for his body to fully materialize.

The snow was still falling.

With no leads for the mont, Jiang Xiao followed the street straight ahead.

It was not until he reached the entrance of a daycare that he stopped.

The surrounding area was teeming with restaurants and shops.

Only this place had many children about the sa age as Mu Xitang.

If the little pink-haired girl was nearby, she would surely appear here.

It just so happened to be close to closing ti.

Many parents bustled about the entrance, coming to take their children ho.

It seed she was not here...

After standing guard for half a day, that small silhouette still had not appeared.

Just as Jiang Xiao was about to turn and leave, the voice of a rambunctious child caught his attention.

"Co on, everyone! The thief, she sneaked into our daycare again!"

"Ah? The one with pink hair?"

"That’s right, are you coming or not?"

"Let’s go, let’s go, Erhou, Sanzhu, we’ll do it together!"

Following the voices,

Jiang Xiao saw a snotty child with a big nose and a sneer.

A pink-haired thief?

For so reason, Jiang Xiao instinctively felt that this "thief" was the person he was looking for.

He floated after the runny-nosed kid to a flat area behind the daycare.

What was this?

Several crumpled cardboard boxes were haphazardly pieced together, standing lonely on the snow-covered ground.

Judging by the shape, the owner of these boxes had tried to assemble them into a "house."

But it was sloppily done with so holes here and there.

...

Under the snotty kid’s lead, several boys were throwing stones and small branches at the boxes.

"Thief!"

"Co out, stick your head out and take a hit!"

"How about this, just pop out and apologize, and we won’t beat you, the thief, next ti."

Seemingly unable to bear the harassnt, an indignant pink-haired head popped out from the box.

"I am not a thief!"

’Bang!’

A branch struck Mu Xitang’s little face just right, causing her to tuck her head back into the box in pain.

"Heh heh, see? I’m the most accurate thrower, right?"

One of the boys sneered, sniffing and picking up another stone, weighing it in his hand.

As soon as the pink-haired little girl showed her face, he was certain he could score a direct hit!

Playing this kind of "shooting ga" with the dirty little girl with no parents after school

was these boys’ favorite pasti.

"Still saying you’re not a thief? Where did these boxes co from? I clearly brought them to the daycare, how could you have taken them out if you didn’t sneak in and steal?"

"These are what I collected! You were the ones who took them into the daycare; I just went in to retrieve what’s mine! You’re the bad guys, stomping on good boxes, now they’re all leaking air!"

The voice hiding in the boxes sounded both helpless... and defiant.

"Retrieving what’s yours? Are these boxes yours? Maybe you stole them from so mall."

"Heh heh, I think this thief stole them from a supermarket!"

"I say it’s from the dump!"

Constantly slandered as a thief, the girl’s voice grew angry.

"You’re the thief! Your whole family are thieves!"

Her rebuttal was t with even more taunts from the little boys.

"Yo, yo, yo, our whole family are thieves, but you don’t even have a ho~"

"You don’t understand, it’s good for her not to have a ho, she can take a family photo all by herself."

"You’re the thief, your dad and mom are thieves too, they were caught stealing and that’s why they don’t want you!"

"It’s also possible that you were the one stealing, so your dad and mom disowned you and dumped you!"

The slander against her own parents brought a crying tone to the voice from inside the box.

"I have a ho! I have a dad and mom! They are the best parents in the world, they are not thieves! You’re the thief!"

Seeing that no matter how they insulted her today, the little girl was not planning to show her face.

After these little boys had exhausted their "ammunition" on the cardboard box, they left.

Their conversation as they left also drifted into Jiang Xiao’s ears with the cold wind.

"Tsk, this thief has gotten smart, she used to co out when we bad-mouthed her parents."

"Hehehe, being pelted by us every day, she must’ve learned it hurts, only an idiot would co out."

"In my opinion, we should just tear the box apart and leave her with nowhere to hide!"

"That won’t do, if there’s no fortress of a box, our shooting ga would beco boring."

"Yeah, yeah, right, if we bully her too much and she runs away, then we’d have no fun."

"Ha ha ha..."

Actually, Jiang Xiao had already arrived by Mu Xitang’s side.

His eyes red with tears, he hugged her several tis, but each ti he passed right through her small body.

Gone.

The eerie scent inside Mu Xitang was gone.

He didn’t know if the power had dissipated or was being suppressed by so seal.

The Mu Xitang inside the box poked her little head out.

She only climbed out of the box after making sure the boys who bullied her were far away.

"Ugh, it’s broken again..."

Mu Xitang tenderly touched the crushed part of the box.

"I need to find so good boxes to fix it before it gets dark, or else I’ll freeze to death tonight."

Rubbing her stiff and swollen little hands, she looked at the sun halfway down the horizon, the little girl resolutely headed toward the comrcial street opposite her.

After walking a few steps,

The little girl turned back, carefully folded the box first, then hid it behind so greenery.

After completing these tasks, the small pink-haired girl proudly clapped her hands and then headed back to the comrcial street.

Jiang Xiao followed Mu Xitang’s steps with a heartbreaking ache.

He discovered that Mu Xitang, in winter, was still wearing her sumr clothes.

It was the white dress she had worn when he had last seen her.

Only now, the little dress was very dirty.

Her little ankles showed through white socks, now turned pitch black.

Probably due to chronic malnutrition, her body, already small, seed even more delicate and frail.

Her complexion had changed from its previous rosy white to a waxy yellow.

The only decent thing about her was the scarf she must have found or was gifted by soone kind, along with a large yellow army coat.

The oversized coat could envelop the tiny Mu Xitang completely.

Making her look just like a little beggar.

Walking on the comrcial street, the little girl obviously lacked confidence and showed more hesitation and bewildernt.

This place was nothing like the small village she was familiar with.

Cars and people bustling, lights shimring brightly...

Many stores displayed intriguing toys she had never seen before.

The streets were bustling with parents accompanied by children and lively fragrant restaurants.

But...

Mu Xitang knew that all of this had nothing to do with her.

A draft of cold air seeped into her neck through the loose army coat, making her shiver and pull the coat tighter around her neck.

"Ugh, I’ve got to find sothing quick to fix my little ho..."

She searched from sunset until complete darkness fell.

Mu Xitang never found a complete cardboard box.

"But these bits of cardboard should work, they should block the holes just the sa!"

Speaking to herself, Mu Xitang then glanced at the plastic bag in her left hand and her face once again showed Jiang Xiao’s familiar confident smile.

"I’ve collected lots of cans and bottles today, I’ll definitely have enough to eat!"

With her "sufficient" supplies, Mu Xitang hopped to the entrance of a small store.

"Grandma Wang, I’ve co to sell bottles."

She exchanged these items for two yuan and sixty cents.

"Xi Tang, if you can’t find your parents, you should go to the welfare agency, they can provide for orphans for free..."

"Hey! I’m not an orphan! My dad will definitely find ! If I go too far, what if he can’t find ..."

The old lady from the small store sighed, unwilling to see the sunshine smile on the little girl’s face fade.

"The city is so big, and you said you used to live in a small village, do you think your dad is Superman? How can he possibly find you in a big city..."

"Yeah! My dad is Superman, his full na is Donggan Superman! He even helped us defeat the evil neighbor!"

Mu Xitang started gesturing a dynamic light wave pose as she spoke.

"But the cold wind forced her to drop the pose and instead hug her coat tighter."

A dynamic light wave...

Jiang Xiao’s tears had never felt as worthless as they did today.

Nor had he ever tried this hard to embrace soone.

Grandma Wang shook her head, no longer trying to persuade her.

The most she could do was to help her collect so bottles and cans, so this poor little girl could have sothing to eat.

As for adoption, that was out of the question; people have their families to take care of.

The welfare institute wasn’t far from here, and the neighbors had often tried to persuade the little girl.

But the young girl was stubborn as a mule, insisting that if she went to the welfare institute, her dad would not be able to find her.