The Only Player in 'Child of Stardust'-Chapter 83 - 70 Delusion Comes True
Chapter 83: Chapter 70 Delusion Comes True
Chapter 83 -70 Delusion Comes True
Early morning, six o’clock.
Zhou Yuan was woken up by the nurse.
He was dazed for a few seconds, a bad premonition rising in his heart.
He had actually fallen asleep!
“This isn’t right, I was very awake, how could I have fallen asleep…”
“Yeah, how could I have fallen asleep?”
Zhou Yuan hurriedly took out his phone to check the chat with Chen Guangxi and found that ever since returning to the ward, Chen Guangxi had not sent any messages.
“Could she have fallen asleep too?”
“Maybe she was just too tired.”
Zhou Yuan instinctively felt that something was amiss. He typed: “Are you awake? I inexplicably fell asleep last night.”
After waiting a few minutes, Chen Guangxi did not reply.
The nurse began urging the patients to wash up, so Zhou Yuan had to set the matter aside for now and went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face.
After finishing his morning routine, the nurse took the patients to the playground for morning exercises.
Zhou Yuan looked around and did not see Chen Guangxi. She still hadn’t replied, making him increasingly anxious.
“Don’t panic, follow the plan and ask the patients if they’ve heard of those rules.”
It made sense to Zhou Yuan, so he randomly asked more than a dozen patients if they knew of any rules they had to follow at the hospital. Every single one of them said they had never heard of it.
Just then, a tall, skinny patient pulled Zhou Yuan aside mysteriously: “You heard Dong Jie’s set of rules?”
“Yes.”
“Then you’re done for.”
The tall, skinny patient looked at him with pity, as if seeing a dead man. “Everyone who has heard Dong Jie’s rules, whether patients, nurses, or security guards, has mysteriously disappeared without a trace.”
Zhou Yuan was stunned: “How do you know?”
“Because I almost died after hearing his rules.”
The tall, skinny patient made a sign on his chest, filled with lingering fear. “Luckily, I turned to the Goddess of Light in time and escaped death.”
“You are a follower of the Temple?” Zhou Yuan was even more astonished to find a follower of the Goddess of Light here.
— Abnormal 099 · Goddess of Light, one of the true gods, whose followers formed the faith organization known as the Temple.
“Yes. Shortly after being admitted, I heard Dong Jie’s rules. After witnessing the bizarre outcomes of those rules, I had to believe in the existence of the supernatural.
To survive, I tried many methods to no avail. In the end, I could only pin my hopes on religion.
I found an entire book on religions in the library, and after praying to over a dozen deities, only the Goddess of Light responded, bestowing her blessing upon me and helping me free myself from the rules’ constraints.”
The tall, skinny patient devoutly made a sign on his chest.
Zhou Yuan was bewildered; it didn’t make sense. How could a book involving actual deities show up in a psychiatric hospital?
Moreover, how could a psychiatric patient receive the blessing of the Goddess of Light? Why stay here if that was the case?
“Do you want to join the Temple?”
The tall, skinny patient continued, “If you don’t join the Temple, sooner or later you’ll die from the rules’ ghost stories. Give me three hundred yuan, and I’ll introduce you to the faith.”
“Only three hundred yuan to join? What are you waiting for? Agree to it.”
Zhou Yuan nodded: “Alright, how do I give you the money?”
“Come to my ward during free time in the evening— first building, room 309. I’ll conduct the induction ceremony, and you can give me the money then.
By the way, my name is Shi Sanjin.”
After making the arrangement with Shi Sanjin, Zhou Yuan continued to ask other patients about the rules, but the results were the same. No one had heard of such rules.
“I haven’t heard of any rules in Bikini Bottom.”
One patient said in a SpongeBob voice, “I only know that there are swarms of jellyfish on the playground every night. Patrick and I caught them all night last night, didn’t we, Patrick?”
“Yeah.” Another patient responded in Patrick’s voice.
“Alright, you guys can go play.”
By now, Zhou Yuan was certain that this hospital was not an abnormal area of rule ghost stories. Dong Jie’s so-called rules were merely figments of his imagination. As long as one hadn’t heard his rules, they wouldn’t be affected or contaminated.
“Could Dong Jie really be a reality warper?”
“Would killing him end this?”
“It’s best not to. Qin Youwen disappeared in the rules’ ghost story, and to find him, you must confront the rules’ ghost stories…”
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Before long, morning exercise time ended and patients returned to their wards as medical staff began distributing breakfast medication.
This time, Zhou Yuan dutifully took the pills, not breaking any rules.
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There was still half an hour before breakfast, leaving Zhou Yuan enough time to find Chen Guangxi.
Unleashing Aoneng Power, his entire being turned into a shadow, slipping under the bed and disappearing.
In the ward.
Zhou Yuan emerged from the shadow under the bed. Confirming there was no one else in the room, he moved out and returned to his original form.
Chen Guangxi was quietly lying on the bed, asleep. Her exquisite sleeping face made her look like a fairy-tale princess.
Still asleep…
Zhou Yuan stepped forward and nudged her: “Chen Guangxi, wake up.”
No response.
“I’m going to slap you now, you better not get mad at me.
If you don’t say anything, I’ll take it as consent.”
Zhou Yuan rolled up his sleeves and gave her a slap. The next second, he was holding his hand in pain.
So hard!
Her face looked soft, but when he slapped it, it felt like hitting steel, jarring his bones.
Seeing that the physical method didn’t work, Zhou Yuan leaned down and whispered in her ear:
“The Control Bureau has issued original stones.”
“Three Kingdoms Kill is the number one rated game.”
“Child of Stardust announced another six-month delay.”
Still no response.
“Obviously, she was affected by abnormal strength. The reading room can dispel spiritual pollution and restore sanity. Maybe taking her there will wake her up.”
“Makes sense.”
Zhou Yuan walked to the window and looked outside. Sunlight cast large shadows on the buildings, stretching from the ward building to the main building.
Confirming the route, Zhou Yuan activated his mind, and a large amount of thick darkness emerged beneath Chen Guangxi, enveloping her and sinking into the shadows.
“First time taking someone else into Shadow Escape, it’s tough…”
Feeling his spirituality rapidly depleting, Zhou Yuan quickly sank into the darkness, taking Chen Guangxi downstairs, slipping through the shadows of the buildings, and reaching the third floor of the main building.
However, the reading room wasn’t available upon arrival.
“Damn, it looks like the interlayer can’t be accessed casually. I’ll have to wait until night…” Zhou Yuan had no choice but to take Chen Guangxi back to the ward.
Watching the sleeping Chen Guangxi, a thread of doubt rose in his mind. Why did Chen Guangxi fall into a deep sleep while he was unaffected?
“Unwaking sleep… wait, could it be that Chen Guangxi ‘traveled’ to another world?”
Zhou Yuan thought about Chen Guangxi’s fabricated illness and frowned, quickly forming a horrifying suspicion.
— This psychiatric hospital had the power to turn patients’ delusions into reality!
“That makes sense, that makes sense.”
Zhou Yuan muttered, “Dong Jie isn’t a reality warper; this psychiatric hospital made his delusions come true!
Now, Chen Guangxi’s symptoms have also become real, which means that even normal people will be influenced by abnormal strength and become mentally ill upon entering this place.
And my symptoms are…”
In his mind, the familiar voice let out a laugh:
“You finally figured it out.”
