Kaidan Game Train: Abide Rule or Die!
Chapter 300 Mental Pollution

Chapter 300: Chapter 300 Mental Pollution

Not long after, Sima Xiao’er also came knocking. Xu Huo told him to open the door himself, and he entered smoothly, holding a bag of fruit. Surprised by the person in the corner, he said, "Wasn’t he locked up on the fourth floor? How come he’s here with you?"

"Went crazy and ran down here himself." Xu Huo asked him, "Did you find the trigger point for the instance?"

"No." Sima Xiao’er said anxiously, "I’ve searched the first, second, and third floors, looks like the key is upstairs... How about we go look for it together?"

Seeing his hopeful expression, Xu Huo smiled slightly, "Are you scared?"

"How could I be!" Sima Xiao’er immediately denied, "Do I look like someone who gets scared? But going up there might be dangerous; one of us could hold them off while the other sends out the message. That way, it won’t be a wasted trip."

"I didn’t realize you were so conscientious." Xu Huo pondered briefly before agreeing to go with him.

"Come on, have some fruit." Sima Xiao’er shoved an orange into his hand, "I swiped it from the duty room. That nurse is like she hasn’t slept in eight lifetimes, she didn’t even wake up. It’d be great if the duty room upstairs is the same."

Xu Huo looked at him intently, thinking that being simple-minded isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

The two went up to the fourth floor. Two doors didn’t stop them, and Sima Xiao’er unlocked them effortlessly. He even said, "I spied on the nurse entering the code today. All the codes for the corridor doors are the same."

The corridor doors turned into code locks, no keys needed. Unconsciously, the structure of the hospital building had changed again.

The layout on the fourth floor had not changed much, only the walls and the floor looked a bit more worn. The room doors had become iron doors, and the entire floor echoed with the screams and banging of patients.

Sima Xiao’er showed fear, stopping in his tracks, afraid to go forward. Xu Huo walked in, and the two doors that were supposed to open slammed shut again with a "bang."

"Let’s not waste time," he said.

Sima Xiao’er hurried to catch up, "Since there are people in the wards, the instance trigger point definitely isn’t in the rooms; could it be in the doctor’s office or the treatment room?"

The treatment room was at the end of the corridor. When they entered, the walls underwent another change; the ground and walls became even more dilapidated, with some dried-up stains appearing. Although it was unclear what they were, their presence in this kind of setting was impactful.

"Take it easy, Brother Xu. We’re just ordinary people right now," Sima Xiao’er whispered as a reminder. Right then, a patient in the adjacent room slammed against the door, startling him into jumping. After recovering, he angrily flipped off the patient whose face was pressed against the wire-reinforced glass window.

Then the person inside flipped him off in return.

"This guy is awake," Sima Xiao’er nudged Xu Huo’s elbow.

"You go talk to him," Xu Huo said casually.

True to form, Sima Xiao’er approached. Before he could say a word, the person inside punched through the glass and forcefully stretched his hand through the wire mesh, grabbed him by the shoulder, and smashed him against the door. Face to face, the man said, "Let me tell you, there are ghosts in here."

Sima Xiao’er shivered, "Let go, lunatic!"

"You see, here comes the ghost!" The man inside suddenly cried out in terror, looking towards the side of the corridor, and retracted his hand like lightning, covering the broken glass with cardboard.

However, when Sima Xiao’er turned to look in the direction he mentioned, he didn’t see a ghost, but the lights in the corridor suddenly started flickering, the dark corners along the walls seeming to deepen, as if something was about to emerge from within.

"Hey," a hand slapped down on his shoulder.

Sima Xiao’er flailed in fright, only to let out a heavy sigh of relief upon seeing Xu Huo’s expressionless face, "I just saw things... I actually thought there was something in the corridor too."

"With that little brain capacity of yours, don’t think too much; keeping your mind simple is good for you," Xu Huo said with a hint of coldness.

"What’s that supposed to mean? Are you calling me stupid?" Sima Xiao’er’s indignation lasted only two seconds before he continued, "I might not be as smart as you, but I’m not dumb either. Apart from those who are either exceptionally smart or exceptionally dumb, most people’s IQs are more or less the same!"

"I’m not calling you dumb, I’m reminding you not to let your imagination run wild," Xu Huo turned and continued to walk forward, "Anything anyone imagines in this hospital can become reality in their own and others’ eyes; in other words, the Spiritual World is interfering with the real world, and what you conjure up can become true."

"Are you saying that the person just now saw ghosts because he imagined them all by himself?" Sima Xiao’er was both surprised and felt it made sense, since he hadn’t seen anything.

"Then how do we know if what we’re seeing is real or not?" he asked in confusion, "If I find the trigger point for the duplicate, is it just what I believe it is, or does it really exist?"

Xu Huo glanced at him, "Think less, observe more."

"I can’t be as composed as you; with so many patients in the hospital, who knows what kind of bizarre things they might imagine!" Sima Xiao’er paused, his eyes suddenly lighting up, "Can I imagine the Jade Emperor, a Superpower, or something like that to help me fight?"

This time, Xu Huo didn’t even turn his head, "Do you think your Psychic Power is strong enough to influence everyone in the hospital? What you fantasize needs to be seen by others to count."

In fact, this hospital might not even exist for real; before the Special Defense Department personnel entered, they all saw an incomplete building. Whether it appeared and moved with the fog or was imagined by the first ones to enter remains unknown.

But as time went on, the mental state of those who entered began to change. The stronger their Psychic Power, the more likely they were to influence the environment and other people, which is also why the hospital kept changing.

When their minds were normal, the world they could see also tended to be normal, but this hospital had a force influencing them. The longer they stayed, the worse their mental state became, especially for those with weak wills. Once they started doubting whether they were truly ill, they weren’t far from mental breakdown, and after a few more days, this building would turn into a den of monsters and ghosts, a site of spiritual contamination.

The strength of the madman lies in his unconditional belief in himself, while normal people find it hard to do so.

This isn’t a duplicate, but getting out won’t be easy either. The real exit still needs to be found inside the hospital.

Xu Huo pushed open the door to the treatment room. As soon as he entered, Sima Xiao’er knelt on the ground, starting to retch behind him.

Frowning and inspecting the room, Xu Huo said, "If you can’t handle it, wait outside."

However, Sima Xiao’er looked into the room with a terrified expression, "Inside there’s..."

Xu Huo closed the door. The room he saw was normal, just dirtier than the outside, with medical instruments that hadn’t been sterilized piled on the floor and operating table, some rusted, appearing unused for a long time.

Compared to the treatment room on the third floor, this was a completely different world. The spiritual contamination was intensifying and would soon reach the third floor as well.