"My child, my child..."

When Lu Li presented the stolen plastic baby to Asina, she immediately recognized it as her own child.

The soft cries of the mother holding the plastic baby were heartrending.

Because Asina was already mad, and because it wasn’t really her child.

Even more guilt-inducing was the fact that Lu Li’s actions merely transferred the suffering of one patient to another.

One mother found her "child," while another lost her "child."

"I have found your child."

Lu Li had to interrupt the upsetting scene before him because time was running out.

Grateful for reclaiming her identity as a mother, Asina rewarded Lu Li with a coin of a "1" denomination.

"Sweetheart... don’t cry, don’t cry..."

Asina, rocking the baby, made Lu Li abandon the plan to snatch the plastic baby back and return it to the Weird Shadow leader.

With his reward in hand, Lu Li hurried back to room 207, recounting his recent crazy escapade to the Big Sister.

"Are you fucking nuts!"

The Big Sister’s reaction was as Lu Li expected—

"Why do such fun things without me!"

—Part of the reaction.

"Next time, for sure."

Lu Li refocused the Big Sister’s attention on the matter at hand: there was only one baby, but two mothers.

"Take back the plastic baby and return it to the Weird Shadow leader!"

"Trade it for another."

Even if he didn’t expect to cure the patients, Lu Li didn’t want to worsen their conditions.

As his words fell, Lu Li heard the wailing from the hallway. Before long, the head nurse and nurses rushed by.

"It’s too late."

Lu Li said softly, lowering his gaze.

Now, the best option was to remain silent. Apart from Asina and the Big Sister, no one knew that he was the one who stole the baby. Even if the nurses questioned Asina, her muddled mind wouldn’t be able to reveal who brought the baby, nor was she likely to hand it over.

Without evidence, even if the nurses suspected Lu Li as the culprit, they couldn’t ascertain it.

But he couldn’t leave it at that.

Because there was a terrifying possibility beyond Lu Li’s logic—what if that baby wasn’t a fake plastic one?

Everything Lu Li did now was based on a false "delusion." Delusions could turn the Asylum’s patients into oddities and turn a baby into a fake baby.

"Do you have any good ideas?"

The commotion in the hallway grew increasingly chaotic, and Lu Li asked the Big Sister.

"Then find her another child!"

Lu Li pondered the suggestion... there was indeed a suitable candidate—a model searching for her mother.

But the model and the Weird Shadow leader had nothing in common, except for both not resembling humans.

The Big Sister scoffed at Lu Li’s hesitation: "She needs a daughter; she needs a mother. Why not let them reunite!"

Lu Li disliked relying on luck, but at this moment had no other choice.

Putting the Big Sister on his shoulder, he left the ward. From room 211 to the left, shrill cries continued to emerge. Lu Li seized the moment to slip into room 206 and directly told the model, "I have found your mother."

When those disdainful, protruding lead-colored eyes turned to him, an unnerving emotional surge seemed to warn Lu Li—the consequences of lying would be dire.

"I’m not entirely sure, but she is also looking for her daughter."

Lu Li filled in with confidence as he led the model out of the ward towards the chaotic source.

The nurse stood inside the room, and Lu Li squeezed past the contemptuous nurse, addressing the Weird Shadow leader huddled, trembling in the corner like a spider trapped in a matchbox, "I have found your daughter."

As if by miracle, without any recognition process, the mother recognized the daughter, the daughter recognized the mother, and the bizarre spider and the towering Weird Shadow seemed to warmly embrace.

They really were a mother and daughter pair.

"Lucky bastard, you fucking guessed it right." The Big Sister clapped Lu Li’s back, shouting.

"It’s us."

"I like that phrase! We!"

The Big Sister’s cheers drew attention, and malevolence.

"Lu Li..." The nurse scolded Lu Li with hatred as if addressing an enemy, "You have violated the rules of the hospital!"

"Quite the contrary. I adhered to the hospital’s rules and even helped your patients reunite." Lu Li didn’t believe the nurse knew of his nightly excursions out of the ward to other floors, his every action...

So he indeed hadn’t violated any rules.

"This is not something a patient should do!"

"I simply did what a normal person would do," Lu Li responded with normal logic, "As a nurse, don’t you hope for the patients to recover?"

But the nurse stubbornly believed Lu Li violated the rules, channeling past grievances onto him: "I’ll have the doctor confine you to the third floor!"

"You can’t do that." Lu Li calmly met the nurse’s hate-filled dark yellow eyes, increasingly unable to comprehend where this animosity stemmed from.

Moreover, it accumulated over time.

"I can."

"You can’t."

"He can!"

—A voice came from the hallway, and it was Kate.

"He can!" The Big Sister immediately chimed in.

"He can!" Friday joined the fray.

"He can!" The model and the Weird Shadow leader chorused, united by Lu Li’s reunion.

Gradually, the second-floor patients whom Lu Li had previously helped gathered outside the ward.

Lu Li calmly faced the nurse: "You have no authority to do so."

The nurse ignored the patients’ hostility, continuing to heap hatred upon Lu Li, until the head nurse roughly said, "Swamp, you have no right to punish him."

Lu Li was used to everyone’s strange nicknames here—if the nurse had a normal name, that would be unusual.

"You are all defying the hospital’s rules!"

The nurse ignored the head nurse’s reprimand, trembling, the ground trembled... the entire Asylum seemed to shake in tandem.

Some extreme horror was unfolding.

"I’ll go see the doctor with you."

As Lu Li’s words fell, the curtain slowly descended back.

Having prevented some ominous future, Lu Li glanced around at the patients outside the door, handed the Big Sister to the head nurse, then looked back at the nurse: "Lead the way."

The triumphant nurse pushed through the crowd, leading Lu Li to the office.

Lu Li wanted to know the Asylum’s stance.

On the surface, doctors and nurses were on one side, while the head nurse was on his side. But why did the nurse dare defy the head nurse’s orders?

Knock, knock—

Entering the office, Lu Li saw the doctor for the third time.

And this time, there were no pretending greetings.

"You are an instability here." The doctor looked at Lu Li with disdain, telling the nurse, "Take him to the third floor."

"I still have my things in the ward," Lu Li said.

"The nurse will bring them up."

"If anything is missing, I will truly become an ’instability factor.’"

Lu Li turned to leave.

The inquiry result was out.

The Asylum’s stance wasn’t on the side of the patients.

Accompanied by crisp footsteps, Lu Li was confined to his room 313.

Though the outer layer of the barred door couldn’t prevent Lu Li from leaving.

The upcoming actions just needed to avoid the nurses.