Fang Xiu couldn't help but turn his head towards the entrance of the mental hospital, only to find that the entrance was gone. In its place was a wall. He took a step back and looked around, but there was no mental hospital in sight. Instead, there was the luxurious and magnificent Bai Liu Academy.

Subconsciously, Fang Xiu blinked his eyes. When he opened them again, the mental hospital had reappeared! And security guard Zhao was nowhere to be seen.

What was going on?

Fang Xiu focused his gaze on the Qing Shan Mental Hospital. The next moment, a strange scene occurred. The Bai Liu Academy began to slowly appear, as if fading in and out like a movie effect. First, it was a shadow, then it became solid, and the colors gradually became more vivid. What was even stranger was that the Qing Shan Mental Hospital was also there! The two buildings seemed to overlap.

Was there a time-space distortion? A spatial overlap?

Fang Xiu felt as if he were seeing things, with duplicates and overlaps of the mental hospital and Bai Liu Academy everywhere. He changed positions and reached out his hand to touch the mental hospital's wall, but his palm went through it until it touched the wall of the Bai Liu Academy.

He made a judgment: the mental hospital was probably illusory and could only be seen. It required some conditions to make contact.

This was still the Bai Liu Academy, with the mental hospital hovering over it like a holographic projection.

Fang Xiu no longer had thoughts of finding Wu Dahai. He wanted to explore the secrets of the mental hospital. Why was it the only strange building among the living entities?

"Hey, hey, Xiaofang, why did you just walk away without saying anything?" Security guard Zhao's voice came from behind, but Fang Xiu ignored him and focused all his attention on the mental hospital.

He walked slowly because the two buildings overlapped so much that it was sometimes difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion, and it was easy to run into a wall. For example, now, Fang Xiu was clearly near the green area of the Bai Liu Academy, but in front of him was a dilapidated ward.

Without hesitation, Fang Xiu plunged into the ward's wall, as if he had entered the air, and went directly inside.

The scene before my eyes changed, and I found myself in a corridor with benches and walls stained with dried black and red blood, resembling a scene from a horror movie.

It felt like I had entered a hospital from decades ago, with dim walls and gray cement floors instead of the usual marble.

Instead of following the usual path, I walked straight through the walls, searching for something.

It seemed that something terrible had happened in this psychiatric hospital, as there were bloodstains everywhere, and even decaying flesh.

I passed through empty halls, a cafeteria, a restroom, and an activity room until I stopped in front of a particular room.

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This room was unique, with a dark red door that looked like someone had spilled a bucket of blood on it and let it dry.

From afar, it looked like a demonic mouth, sending chills down my spine.

The room was marked with the number 104.

I couldn't resist my curiosity and stepped inside, passing through the door.

The room itself was ordinary, with a single worn-out bed, and in the corner of the bed, there was a small girl wearing a hospital gown, curled up, her head buried in her legs, and her pale wrist adorned with an old flower rope.

I did not look directly at her and instead glanced around the room.

I knew that there couldn't be any living people in this eerie psychiatric hospital, no matter how human they might appear.

The little girl seemed to sense my presence and suddenly lifted her head.

I tried to ignore her and walked past her, but she stared at me with her featureless face until I left the 104 room.

As I walked through other rooms, each with their own number, I couldn't help but wonder what had happened in this place.

He walked into the room one by one and encountered many strange and diverse entities.

Most of them were cruel and bloodthirsty, and their first reaction upon seeing a living person entering was to attack frantically.

Fang Xiu didn't even blink an eye and let them attack him.

He roughly counted and found that there were dozens of similar wards in the mental hospital.

This meant that there were at least dozens of anomalies locked up in the mental hospital!

"There must be a big secret hidden in this mental hospital."

As he walked, he suddenly stopped.

Because he found that the doors of wards 162, 169, and 177 were open and empty inside, with nothing in them.

Did the anomalies escape?

He continued to go deeper, but his path was blocked by a villa in reality, and he didn't have the key, so he had to go around.

When he finally circled around, he found himself in a doctor's office in the mental hospital.

The room had a desk with a stethoscope and some medical records scattered on it, all stained with blood.

Fang Xiu approached and looked at the medical records, and his pupils contracted!

On a blood-covered medical record, there were a few lines of text exposed.

It was written that experimental subject 128 (covered in blood) had a transformation anomaly degree of 2164, but the transformation failed.

Transformation anomaly!?

Could anomalies be transformed from humans?

Were all the anomalies in those wards once human?

Fang Xiu was shaken by this thought, but the next moment, everything was suddenly unreal, like a holographic image, and he couldn't pick up the medical record to read it.

Damn it!

As he watched the secret was within reach but still out of his grasp, anger surged within him.

Suddenly!

A few thin strands of black hair appeared in front of Fang Xiu's line of sight.

These strands of hair hung in the air, connected to something unknown.

Naturally, Fang Xiu couldn't foolishly look up. He pretended to wander around and created some distance, using his peripheral vision to look.

He saw a "beautiful" doctor in a white coat, with limbs that resembled those of a spider, perched on the ceiling. She stared directly at him with a sinister gaze.

Her face was pallid, with pitch-black eye sockets and fierce lines. Her eyes had only the whites with no pupils, and her hair was over a meter long, naturally cascading from the ceiling, while she held a shiny surgical knife in one hand.

A doctor!?

Fang Xiu's heart stirred.

Did she write those case reports?

Could it be that she was once human?

Various speculations rushed through his mind, but he couldn't get any answers. The mysterious will never answer your questions.

Fang Xiu could only continue forward. Since the doctor's office had a clue, there must be other clues in the mental hospital.

And there was the director's office!

That must be the core of the mental hospital. Perhaps all the secrets lay within it.

He continued to roam the mental hospital, searching for the director's office.

Soon, he locked onto an office area. Based on the normal construction of hospitals, Fang Xiu deduced that the director's office should be in this office area.

As he approached the office area, he realized that the office area's real-world location was the sales office of the Hundred Willow Academy.

It was also where Fang Xiu worked.