I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror-Chapter 477 - 443 Weird Research Institute

Du Lala let out a dry cough, seemingly trying to save face.

"Don’t underestimate it. Its structure is extremely stable. Even a three-year-old child inside would not be easily thrown out. It perfectly conforms to engineering mechanics, and it only needs minor modifications..."

"Come on." After her introduction, Du Lala mounted the "Bear Battle Vehicle," and squeezed to one side. "I’ll take you to meet the person you’re supposed to see today."

Jiang Xiao remained motionless, his face full of resistance.

Is this really necessary?

"I’m a grown man riding in a kiddie ride, and now I have to share one with you?"

"Would you like me to call another one for you?"

After receiving confirmation from Jiang Xiao, Du Lala pressed the switch in her arms again.

’Sheep from Joy~ Mei Yangyang~ Lazy Sheep~ Boiling Sheep...’

’Don’t look at me; I’m just a sheep~ baa~’

"How about you ride this Mei Yangyang? What do you think?"

This...

Fortunately, people here were accustomed to this mode of transportation, and it didn’t attract much attention.

"Eh?"

"How about that? Not bad, right?"

Du Lala caught the shock on Jiang Xiao’s face.

Indeed.

Who would have thought this little guy would get things moving so quickly?

The speed was not much slower than some motorcycles, and it was very stable, not shaking at all. It could smoothly dodge people and obstacles.

"Hehehe, Jiang Xiao, if you find it boring, you can also turn on the ’shake’ mode or open the ’storytelling’ mode to cultivate your sentiment."

Jiang Xiao: "?"

They finally arrived.

A massive door stood before the two.

Based on the speed, Jiang Xiao suspected that the entire mountain below had been hollowed out.

"Actually, we invited you here today because we want your help to look at a patient."

Look at a patient?

Jiang Xiao was stunned.

"That’s not right. Although I have some involvement with mental diseases, you’re having me..."

"Don’t rush, we’re just asking you to look at the patient, not to treat them."

Just "look at the patient"?

Before examining the patient, Du Lala had both herself and Jiang Xiao put on thick protective suits.

As the giant door thunderously opened, the two passed through three more isolation doors.

That’s when Jiang Xiao saw today’s target.

It was a man dressed in special forces gear, currently handcuffed to a hospital bed, with several tubes connected to machines inserted into his body, continuously murmuring incoherently.

"Jiang Xiao, this is the illness. Have you come across it before?"

Jiang Xiao frowned. Wanting to appear very professional, he checked the man’s pupils, then pretended to read the list next to him.

"Is he in a comatose state?"

"Yes, comatose... you can understand it that way."

After seeing the previous doctor’s diagnosis, Jiang Xiao’s brow furrowed even more.

Strange~

It stated the patient was in a comatose state, but his body was in a state of severe nutritional deficit.

Those tubes were constantly supplying nutrition.

And the amount of nutrition being administered was astoundingly high.

He had carefully checked the medication list earlier, and the average hourly nutritional components were enough to sustain a normal adult man for a week.

"This disease shouldn’t fall under psychiatry, should it?"

"No, look at his brain scan report."

Du Lala pulled out several scan reports for Jiang Xiao.

The reports showed that the patient’s cerebral cortex cells were extremely active.

No...

It was terrifyingly active to an extreme degree!

"Is it because the brain cells are overly active, causing the patient to significantly deplete their own nutrients?"

Overuse of the brain could indeed make a person feel physically and mentally exhausted and hungry.

"Um, that was also the conclusion previously reached by experts. Do you have a way to treat it?"

Jiang Xiao Yi was completely flabbergasted by this statement. Others can’t manage it, why should I be able to?

"I’ll say it again, I’m not trying to avoid responsibility or pass the buck, but this situation is most likely not something I can resolve, right?"

"Jiang Xiao, what if they became like this after being frightened?"

Frightened?

What kind of fright could turn a special forces soldier into this condition?

When Jiang Xiao had just examined the man’s body, he had found many wounds on him, some of them severe enough to be life-threatening.

You tell me.

Could such a tough guy be frightened into this state?

"There’s more than one patient like this, and you should have recognized the syllables they were uttering, right?"

Jiang Xiao nodded. "Pennywise?"

"Yes, each person repeatedly mutters these four syllables."

Jiang Xiao was silent.

His mind frantically searched through all the knowledge he had acquired in his life.

Clearly, he was powerless regarding the current situation.

"Jiang Xiao, do you know of any mental illness that’s contagious?"

"Hereditary?"

"No no no, I mean, like a cold, transmitted through the air or saliva."

What a joke!

He had grown up in a psychiatric hospital and had never heard of any mental disease that could be transmitted like a cold!

Jiang Xiao was about to scold the other person for disrespecting science when a light suddenly flashed in his mind.

"Hey? Actually, there is one, hysteria or delusional disorder, you know about it roughly, right?"

"Um, I know a little, but how is this illness transmitted?"

Their conversation was clearly transmitted into a room at the Weird Research Institute.

Everyone was eagerly awaiting Jiang Xiao’s answer.

"No, it’s not transmitted, there’s a certain communal type of mental illness that usually occurs within a group or family."

"If, I say if, you had hysteria and saw your family’s chopsticks grow eyes, but your family didn’t believe you, yet after your long-term guidance and mental contamination, your family also saw the eyes on the chopsticks and believed you wholeheartedly, then you’ve ’infected’ them."

Hearing this, Du Lala’s expression turned unpleasant.

No one likes being used as an example with their own condition, but the benefit was that it was very easy to understand.

She got it...

In the room where they were monitoring the conversation in real time, someone stood up.

"Communal mental illness?"

"Occurring within a group?"

"Mental contamination, what an apt description..."

"However, what he’s describing seems different from what our comrades are experiencing."

Du Lala thought carefully, then shook her head.

"No, Jiang Xiao, if I told you that this comrade’s symptoms could be spread through the air, what would you think? Not just through air, but the medical staff close to him have indeed been infected."

Jiang Xiao stiffened.

Mental illness transmitted through the air?

Stop kidding!

But Du Lala had invited him here to help, it seemed she had no reason to deceive him.

"If you said it was transmitted through bodily fluids, I might overturn what I’ve learned in medicine and reluctantly believe you, but air? That’s too far-fetched, sister."

"I didn’t say it was through the air, I was just making an example. Come here."

Du Lala took Jiang Xiao with her and they left the room to enter another.

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