I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror-Chapter 478 - 444 Infectious Mental Illness

The room was larger and housed more patients, not just medical staff and soldiers.

Among them, Jiang Xiao also noticed a "professional" dressed just like Lala beside him.

Their eyes were closed, motionless, as if they were corpses, with only their mouths moving as if muttering.

The entire room was filled with the murmurs of "Pan Ni Wai Si."

It sounded like the continuous buzz of a fly circling one’s ear, inducing a nauseating feeling of wanting to vomit.

But when you tried to listen closely, those four words seemed filled with magic, irresistibly drawing people closer...

Such a strange feeling...

"Do... do you have specific information?"

Jiang Xiao shook his head, feeling his voice tremble. It was rare for something to affect his mental state so deeply.

"Do you want to see the video?"

After closing the eerily air-filled room door, they moved to another room with archival footage.

Through the video in that room, Jiang Xiao also witnessed the process of the "infection."

It started with the attending doctor.

He had initially come over to check the soldiers’ vital signs, but suddenly, like being stricken by a point, he froze in place.

Without any warning.

Later, when other doctors discovered him, he was just like that special forces soldier, found in a comatose state, continuously muttering "Pan Ni Wai Si."

Just like that, the first case of "infection" was documented.

The sequence continued with the duty nurse, the doctor’s doctor...

In the end, the situation escalated, and even an "agent in black" got dragged into it.

"What the hell? And you still call me here to die?"

"Because later we found out that wearing protective suits effectively prevents the infection."

Sss...

Jiang Xiao tightly closed his eyes, as if trying to clarify the chaotic thoughts in his mind.

What kind of bizarre disease was this?

"You initially mentioned they were frightened. May I ask, what exactly scared them?"

"Pan Ni Wai Si."

"What exactly is it?"

Du Lala hesitated for a long time before finally shaking her head, indicating she didn’t know how to describe it.

"It could be anything, but whatever it is, it always triggers the most fearful side of humans."

Such a vague explanation was clearly not satisfying Jiang Xiao.

But since that’s how she put it, it was clear there was no concrete description of what Pan Ni Wai Si really was.

"Because of fear, of being startled, you categorized this disease under mental illness?"

"No, I think you misunderstood. It’s not that we categorized Pan Ni Wai Si under mental illness; it’s that Pan Ni Wai Si targets people with mental illnesses."

Jiang Xiao stared intently at Du Lala, signaling her to continue.

"Jiang Xiao, if I remember correctly, your ’Spirit’... seems quite active?"

Du Lala wanted to say his brain was sick, but she held back at the crucial moment.

"Uh, probably."

"Jiang Xiao, I know your mind is very confused right now, let me summarize for you. It, which is Pan Ni Wai Si."

"Pan Ni Wai Si cannot be precisely defined by us, but It especially likes children and causing screams... We discovered It and attempted to encircle and trap It, but Its intelligence is very high. It started deliberately avoiding us, to muddy the waters, some mental patients also became Pan Ni Wai Si, albeit a low-quality version of It."

Couldn’t understand...

Not one bit...

How did it end up related to mental patients and children now?

Du Lala was silent for a while, seemingly giving Jiang Xiao time to digest.

"Not... you guys don’t even know what this Pan Ni Wai Si is, why bother involving me?"

"Hey, because I feel only you can restrain It... Ordinary supernatural tools simply have no effect on such an elusive entity, we suspect, only people with highly active ’Spirits’ can see It."

Oh?

"So, you mean my ’Spirit’ is quite active?"

"Isn’t it?"

"Haha! You’re quite the observer! Since I was a kid, Old Wang and Ms. Li always said I was brimming with ’Spirit’!"

Du Lala: ....

Saying you’re chubby, yet you really take a breath.

Actually, the reason she thought of Jiang Xiao was because Pan Ni Wai Si had recently been targeting mental patients.

Moreover, there was a very strange phenomenon.

Ordinary people handling Pennywise were inevitably fatal, but when faced with the mentally ill, they couldn’t achieve a 100% instant kill.

Some survivors lived on.

Not only did these survivors not die, but they also saw "Pennywise."

As for the mentally ill...

Four Seas State wasn’t equivalent to Blue Star.

They had summed up a set of theories on "Spirit" centuries ago.

A person’s "Spirit" could be roughly understood as Yin Yang Eyes.

The higher a person’s Spirit, the more they could see and feel things that normal people couldn’t perceive or that didn’t exist.

And both children and the mentally ill had higher Spirit than normal people.

That was why some children could see things that adults couldn’t.

Similarly.

Some mentally ill people were the same.

They might have been very normal at first, but because their own Spirit was high, if they could see things that normal people couldn’t, they were diagnosed with delusional or schizophrenic disorders.

The introduction about Pennywise that Du Lala mentioned earlier was also recounted by the mentally ill, so Jiang Xiao was puzzled.

Therefore, there was reason for the organization to speculate that some special mentally ill people might have some influence on Pennywise.

But the problem arose again.

How could the mentally ill possibly rival the terrifying entity known as Pennywise?

Indeed they could not, if they were just ordinary mentally ill people...

But Du Lala inexplicably thought of Jiang Xiao, whom she had met at Wuliang Hospital.

Weird Research Institute wasn’t particularly surprised about his identity as a Chosen One, because Du Lala had spoken to Jiang Xiao while she was at Wuliang Hospital.

In her world, they had encountered "Chosen Ones" more than once and generally got along well with them.

Du Lala’s suggestion was mostly accepted by the Weird Research Institute.

Because you see, at that time, Wuliang Hospital itself was a severe mental patient’s dream fantasy.

Everyone inside was an existence fantasized by this mentally ill person.

Yet Jiang Xiao was able to blend in effortlessly. If you say his mind is that of a normal person.

Who would believe that?

So therefore, they had spent a cost to perform a sacrifice to communicate with the "deities" of their world, trying to get the Chosen One named Jiang Xiao to come and help.

Du Lala briefly described all these matters to Jiang Xiao.

"Oh, I see..."

Jiang Xiao pondered, feeling that if the reward was reasonable, meeting this Pennywise wouldn’t hurt.

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Just as Jiang Xiao was considering, the door was opened from outside by a man in black entering.

His expression was cold and even carried a hint of annoyance.

"Hehe, Lala, stop begging him. Do you really think we can’t manage without him? If it weren’t for the Deceitful Device Soul Separation being accidentally lost, would we be led around by the nose by Pennywise?"

Du Lala’s face reddened as she softly said.

"Indeed..."

If Soul Separation were still here, they could have directly gone to Pennywise’s brain world and confronted it head-on.

"But...but it’s lost, now we can only ask Brother Jiang Xiao for help, be more polite when you speak."

"Polite?"

The man scoffed.

"Sorry, we’ve already transferred Project 135 ’Awakening Stone’ from Lingyun Research Institute, though its effect is not as good as Project 27 ’Deceitful Device Soul Separation’, it can still effectively restrain Pennywise."

Pausing a moment, the man confidently and arrogantly said.

"Currently, we’ve already dispatched two emergency response teams carrying Project 135 to take down Pennywise. Want to watch the live broadcast?"

After finishing, the man pressed a button on the large screen in front of Jiang Xiao, turning on the camera feed being transmitted back by the emergency response teams.

However...

Jiang Xiao’s expression was even more excited than the man’s!

My god!

From his words, Deceitful Device Soul Separation is only ranked 27?

There’s also a 135?

Doesn’t that mean this Weird Research Institute has hundreds of deceitful devices?

If I don’t get rich off this, it’s simply against all reason!

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