As Lumian rounded the main building and saw the separate small building housing the psychiatric departnt, his phone vibrated once.
It was a WeChat ssage from Franca: "I've arrived near Mushu Hospital, parked diagonally across the street."
"Good, I'm about to enter the psychiatric departnt." Lumian replied using voice input.
He then put his phone in airplane mode to avoid any unexpected disturbances like spam calls during the operation.
He imdiately activated the contract mark below his left shoulder, transforming himself into a shadow creature.
He currently didn't know which room in the psychiatric ward Li Keji was confined in, so he couldn't directly teleport there. He needed to search around, and Shadow Transformation was more discreet than "hiding in shadows", making it less likely to be discovered.
Lumian's body quickly thinned and darkened, rging with his own shadow cast by the sunlight, standing alone frozen on the cent ground.
He swiftly glided along, using the shadows of corners, trees, and corridors to make his way into the psychiatric ward, sneaking into the nearest room.
"Haha, haha." The patient in this room was laughing constantly, laughing so hard his waist was bent, tears flowing from the corners of his eyes.
For so reason, Lumian also felt an urge to laugh madly, as if infected by the other's emotions.
He glanced at the patient, confird it wasn't Li Keji, and imdiately retreated through the shadow of the door crack.
As soon as he returned to the hallway, his state quickly returned to normal.
Lumian didn't delay at all and entered the next room.
He suddenly beca irritable, wanting to burst out of the shadows and rush to the nurses' station, demanding they hand over Li Keji.
His ears were then filled with loud shouts:
"I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy!
"Caution can indeed handle most situations, but it can't solve all problems.
"When it's ti to take risks, you still need to take risks!"
Lumian roughly determined who the patient in this room was and silently retreated to the hallway of the psychiatric ward.
He glided through the shadows cast by various objects, moving into another patient room.
What entered his field of vision was a patient locked to the bed, as quiet as a statue.
A feeling of sadness and grief gradually welled up in Lumian's heart. He wanted to go mad, to harm himself.
Wh— He maintained his rationality and didn't linger long in this room.
After regaining his composure in the hallway, Lumian seriously pondered his recent encounters.
As soon as I enter a patient room, I get infected by the corresponding ntal patient?
ntal illness has beco contagious, similar to the manifestation of that humanoid Sealed Artifact we encountered before…
I understand now, this place is essentially a dream, and the ntal patients also have corresponding symbolism.
They symbolize the negative, crazy, extrely irrational emotions and ntal states of the dream's subconscious. And interactions within the dream are essentially spiritual interactions, so once you get close, you get affected…
Why are the doctors and nurses here still normal?
Do they symbolize the dream subconscious's power to suppress madness and extres?
From this perspective, the thoughts that suppress crazy ntalities and extre emotions can also be infected, which is reflected in the dream as doctors or nurses occasionally going mad?
Hmm, the doctors here, the nurses here, the dicines and dical equipnt here can all be used to deal with the dream's own crazy ntality and extre emotions. They symbolize the corresponding forces…
Lumian turned his gaze to a nearby treatnt cart, looking at the syringes and dicines placed on it.
He felt that in special scenarios, these things might be more useful and effective than the treatnt drugs he and others carried.
They were part of the dream's power.
Having understood the special circumstances of the psychiatric ward, Lumian maintained his shadow creature state and moved even faster, just glancing at each room to avoid being infected by the emotions of different patients.
However, he didn't find Li Keji or discover any mushrooms.
Not in the psychiatric ward? Lumian quickly left this place, ca to the iron gate at a corner of the wall, re-entered under the pretext of visiting a patient, and approached the nurses' station.
Wearing sunglasses and a mask, he said to the nurse on duty, "I'm here to visit Li Keji."
"Wait a little longer, the patient was sent for treatnt and hasn't returned to his room yet," the nurse looked up at Lumian.
"Where was he sent for treatnt?" Lumian suddenly had a bad feeling.
The nurse explained simply, "B1 of the main building, there's specialized large equipnt there."
B1 of the main building… Lumian nodded, turned around, and walked out of the psychiatric departnt.
On his way to the main building of Mushu Hospital, he restored his phone signal and sent a ssage to Franca: "Li Keji has been sent to B1, I plan to go look for him.
"If I haven't sent you a ssage within a quarter of an hour, have Ludwig co find mom, this should be very useful in B1.
"If all else fails, the corpse wax candle can be used once more, and Chief Yagates's honorific na can also be called upon."
Lumian explained in such detail to tell Franca that he still had a way out, to prevent her from risking herself to save him.
After quite a while, Franca replied briefly: "Be very careful, prioritize your own safety."
Lumian switched his phone back to airplane mode, transford into a shadow creature, and infiltrated the main building.
This ti, he didn't choose the elevator, but glided down the dim ergency staircase step by step.
Arriving at B1, just as he turned into the elevator hall, he saw glass doors at the exit.
At this mont, the glass doors were half open, with a wheelchair placed at the entrance.
A person sat in the wheelchair, their entire body wrapped in white bandages, like a living mummy.
Lumian suddenly had a sense of familiarity.
His spiritual intuition told him that the person in the wheelchair was his "colleague", Old Ding, who had been injured by lightning strike at work.
How did Old Ding end up in B1? Where are his family mbers? Lumian carefully circled around through the shadows next to Old Ding.
The next second, he saw Old Ding struggling to extend his right hand, reaching towards a white paper pasted on the half-open glass door.
Several words were written on that white paper: "dical area, no entry to unauthorized personnel"
Lumian withdrew his gaze, not interrupting his infiltration.
As he glided along the shadows on the side of the corridor towards where he suspected patients might be, Lumian gradually beca uneasy.
He unconsciously looked down and found that at so point he had separated from the shadows and returned to human form.
His contract ability had naturally beco ineffective!
Lumian also noticed that the clothes on his body were slowly changing, transforming into the standard attire of a Mushu Hospital orderly.
Wh— Lumian associated this with the "mummy" Old Ding at the entrance and that notice, thought of the illusory abyss underground and the characteristics of the Mother Tree of Desire pathway, and quickly ford a guess.
There was a strong curse in this area!
The content of the curse was: no entry to unauthorized personnel!
In other words, unauthorized personnel who enter will beco authorized personnel, becoming orderlies who frequently enter and exit this place, becoming puppets of the illusory abyss? After figuring this out, Lumian naturally understood how to break this curse.
But he didn't dare to do so.
His thod of breaking the curse was to shout on the spot "Mother, I am Your child!"
The essence of this statent was to acknowledge himself as a true Child of God.
And B1 of Mushu Hospital clearly contained the power and influence of the Great Mother, with the "newborn" in the morgue being proof of this.
Under these premises, the Child of God of the Great Mother certainly wouldn't be considered unauthorized personnel!
Lumian felt the abnormal changes in his body accelerating, and for the mont he couldn't think of any other way, so he had no choice but to activate the black mark on his right shoulder and teleport away from this level.
He appeared in the ergency stairwell on the first floor, which was empty.
Fortunately, I could teleport out from B1; otherwise, I would have had to use the corpse wax candle or call upon the honorific nas of Madam Magician or Chief Yagates… No, at the speed of the changes just now, the Beyonder ritual wouldn't have had ti to take effect… Lumian looked down to examine himself and found that his clothes had returned to normal.
He transford back into a shadow creature and ca to the entrance of the ergency stairwell, observing the up and down movent of the elevators while pondering how to penetrate basent level one and rescue Li Keji without becoming a true Child of God.
Amidst his swirling thoughts, Lumian saw a special elevator co up from B1, and an orderly pushed out a transfer bed.
A nurse stood on each side of the transfer bed, and lying on it was a man with a thick beard, eyes tightly closed, wearing blue and white striped hospital clothes.
It was Li Keji.
Has the "treatnt" ended? Lumian's eyes narrowed.
Was I still too late after all?
He watched Li Keji being pushed out of the elevator hall, following in the shadows all the way, out of the main building and back to the psychiatric departnt.
After confirming Li Keji's hospital room, Lumian first returned outside, behind so green trees, took out his phone, switched modes, and sent a ssage to Franca: "Couldn't penetrate B1. There's a curse inside; I was forced to leave early.
"Now, Li Keji has completed 'treatnt' and returned to his room. I plan to sneak in to confirm his condition. If it's unsalvageable, I'll execute the cleanup plan."
Franca quickly replied: "If the cleanup is too complicated, we can abandon it for now and bring Ludwig to try.
"I think he's very effective against food-type enemies, like mushrooms."
That makes sense… Lumian replied with an "OK" and directly put the phone into the Traveler's Bag.
There might be a battle coming up, so he needed to protect his phone.
Soon after, Lumian in his shadow creature state slipped through the door crack of Li Keji's room, silently rising up in front of the bed.
He looked around, gazed at the still sleeping Li Keji, and began to assess his condition.
Suddenly, Li Keji opened his eyes and sat up.
Seeing it was Lumian, he showed a genuine smile.
"I've discovered the essence!
"I've succeeded!"
Lumian's expression changed abruptly.
He saw Li Keji's chest swell up, two large mushrooms raising his hospital gown, milk overflowing, while in Li Keji's abdon, mushrooms that seed to be ford from flesh and blood writhed and tore through the clothing, as if creating a blood-colored, real, directly exposed uterus.
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