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Chapter 1381 The Bottom of Darkness (This Meow is Fluffy and Soft)

After killing those monsters guarding the door, Duanmu Huai rushed directly to the second floor with the two detectives. It must be said that this rough method made the two detectives very addicted. You know, in the past, when they searched, they were always very cautious, just like thieves. It was not as comfortable as breaking into an empty door like a robber. Well, it was a pity that they still couldn't do this when facing ordinary people.

But there is no such concern when facing monsters.

There are about 30 wards on the second floor, but unlike ordinary psychiatric wards, which have one patient per room, these wards are packed like sardines in a can, with nearly 10 people crammed into one ward. Such an environment is unbearable for ordinary people, not to mention mentally ill people. However, the strange thing is that the patients in these wards are standing there like puppets, with dull eyes and no reaction.

The doors of these wards were not locked, as if they didn't care at all about the patients escaping. This was indeed the case. Even when everyone went in to wake up these patients, the latter looked dazed and stupid. Although they would move when being pulled, they would stop as soon as their hands were let go.

"No, these people don't react at all!"

The food detective sighed and looked at the patients with a complicated expression.

"They have all undergone surgery, which means that the monster called Shoggoth may have been implanted in their brains..."

The idol detective flipped through the files next to him, his expression equally grim.

"In that case, let them stay here and wait to die."

Duanmu Huai made the decision decisively, and when they heard his words, both of them were stunned.

"Do we really want to do this? Maybe... maybe we can take them to the hospital for treatment... At least this isn't some unscientific thing like evil spirit possession, maybe it can be cured..."

"Then we'll see what happens."

Duanmuhuai shook his head.

"Well, since these people are beyond saving, let's turn to our own jobs."

Although it was a little hard to accept Duanmu Huai's judgment, the two detectives knew that this was the only solution, so they didn't say anything more, but followed Duanmu Huai to the emergency exit. According to the architectural drawings investigated by Ziyuan Temple Yuko, there should be a passage leading to the underground, but...

"There's nothing here."

Duanmu Huai reached out and knocked on the wall, making a dull "dong dong dong" sound.

"Is it really just a disguise? Then I have no other choice. There must be a hidden passage leading underground, but I can't determine the exact location of the entrance."

"What should I do?"

"Don't you have two detectives over there? Leave it to them."

makes sense.

It turned out that these two detectives were no rookies. After spending some time, they actually found some clues.

"right here!"

The food detective panted and sat down on the chair, taking out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his forehead. In front of him was a bookshelf in the head nurse's office. At this moment, all the medical books and periodicals on it were opened, revealing the combination lock hidden behind it.

"As expected, I said, these people's ideas are really simple, but they are also right. They can come in here to search. Unless they are like us, it may not be easy to find these things."

"Um………"

The idol detective narrowed his eyes and carefully examined the combination lock in front of him.

"Password, fingerprint, voiceprint, these are old-fashioned and safe methods. What should we do now? We don't even know the password, and we don't know who to find for fingerprints and voiceprints..."

"There's no need to go to such trouble."

Duanmu Huai walked over and waved at the two of them.

"You two go aside."

  After signaling the two to step back, Duanmu Huai stared at the heavy steel bookshelf in front of him, then he raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist. Duanmu Huai roared, and smashed the bookshelf in front of him and the wall behind him with a punch, and a deep hole was instantly smashed into the solid wall. Duanmu Huai stretched out his hands and grabbed the left and right sides of the broken gap, and the muscles on his arms bulged. With the teeth-grinding sound of steel tearing, Duanmu Huai actually tore a big hole in the wall under the stunned gaze of the two detectives!

"Wow..."

"Is there anything wrong with my eyes?"

  The food detective and the idol detective stared at this scene in amazement, not knowing what to say. You know, this is a steel plate!

But in his hands, it turned out to be as fragile as brown paper?

Could this guy not be human?

"boom!"

Duanmu Huai certainly had no idea what the two were thinking. After tearing open the crack, he grabbed the steel door with both hands and pulled it back hard, directly pulling the heavy steel door, which was more than two meters wide, off the wall. Then he threw it aside, revealing the elevator room inside.

"Okay, let's go."

Fortunately, there was no strange thing installed in the elevator. Perhaps for the people here, they did not expect that someone would be so forceful as to tear down the door and rush in.

"Obviously, as long as the data is connected, I can find a way to crack it."

The voice of Shionji Yuuko coming from the headphones was three parts surprised and two parts speechless.

"Why waste time when you can just open it? What I hate most is decrypting and looking for keys."

Not long after, with a "ding" sound, the elevator slowly stopped.

Then, a cold electronic voice came from inside.

"Welcome, doctor."

As the elevator door opened, a clean and tidy metal corridor appeared in front of the three people. From the outside, it seemed that this place was no different from other places in the hospital. If the way leading to this place was not too strange, then everyone would just think that they were on another floor where patients were admitted.

At least there is no trace of blood, ugliness, or even distortion here.

Just as the three of them walked out of the elevator, the voice soon rang out again.

"Doctor, please enter the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment room."

Along with the sound, a door next to it opened directly. The three of them looked at each other and then walked in.

This place looks no different from an ordinary treatment room, and there is a computer on the desk. Duanmu Huai and others came to the computer, and then the idol detective reached out, turned on the computer, and began to search for the information inside.

"Let me see... Ah, sure enough, it says Dean Mihara. There's also a surgery record here! It's from that boy!"

As he spoke, the idol detective clicked on a surgical record. Soon, a gloomy, skinny, rat-like man in his 50s or 60s appeared on the screen. He was wearing a white coat, staring at the screen with a sneer, and then he spoke.

"Prepare the record. The patient... Mr. Honda is a second-year student at Kitagawa Junior High School. He suddenly fell ill during class and attacked the surroundings indiscriminately. He is considered a priority patient. He is about to undergo surgery. We will act according to the rules and procedures..."

As he was talking, the camera turned to the bed next to him, where a young man was tied up tightly with belts. However, he was still struggling and shaking his head desperately. The three of them were familiar with this face, as it was the face of the popular young man.

However, the young man's face was red at this moment, and he looked like he was about to shout in anger.

"Let me go! I'm not sick! They're all monsters! Don't you understand? Those monsters want to kill me! Let me go!"

"The patient suffers from severe paranoia. He simply claims that his classmates are not themselves but monsters in disguise, and he wants to kill them. We believe this is a very dangerous cognition, so we are giving him a first-level treatment plan... Now, start anesthesia."

As the doctor spoke, a nurse with an indifferent expression appeared on the screen. She then took out a needle and quickly inserted it into the boy's body. A moment later, the boy who had been roaring and cursing was lying there motionless like a dead pig. Then the nurse pushed the bed and walked towards the operating room.

Soon, the camera switched from the ward to the operating room. There were only two people in the operating room, a doctor and a nurse. This was consistent with the information Duanmu Huai had obtained from Shadow. It seemed that these two people were the ones who were really responsible for this in the entire mental hospital. Of course, this did not mean that the others were innocent.

Soon, the screen showed the scene of an operation. The doctor used an electric saw to cut open the skull. Then he picked up a scalpel and cut here and there in the patient's brain. It looked very professional, but unfortunately...it was completely incomprehensible.

"Ugh...I feel a little sick."

The idol detective covered his mouth, his face pale. Even the food detective didn't know what to say. Only Duanmu Huai looked at the bloody brain in the picture and sighed silently.

I feel like eating brains.

"Okay, we have completely removed the frontal lobe, and the next step will be repair therapy."

Repair, how? Put a CD player in there?

However, what appeared on the screen next made the three of them open their eyes wide.

  The nurse came over with a sterilized tray, on which was a bottle of something resembling black mucus. But that sticky liquid, and the faint purple glow emanating from it… were all too familiar to the three of them!

The doctor took out the liquid with a syringe and injected it into the removed part of the brain. Soon, the strange viscous liquid began to merge with the brain. At the same time, the doctor's voice sounded again.

"They need enough space to gradually devour and digest, and analyze the other party's memories and emotions. I once tried to inject it directly into the brain, but due to lack of space, unnecessary accidents eventually occurred. Therefore, it is very necessary to remove part of the brain structure to provide space for their assimilation."

As the doctor spoke, everyone saw that the black objects that originally looked like a pile of mucus began to gradually penetrate into the brain along the grooves, and it itself gradually began to change, as if it had merged with the brain.

"This process will last for a while, and then the operation is over."

As the words fell, the picture flashed, and then the young man appeared on the screen again, but this time he had a bandage on his head and his eyes were dull. He was no different from the people Duanmu Huai and others had seen on the second floor before.

"This is the first stage after the operation. During this period, the patient has no reaction, only biological reactions. For example, he will eat, drink water, and defecate. But other than that, he will not have any self-consciousness. We believe that this is because the brain is analyzing and understanding the information, which takes some time, so it temporarily controls the functions of other parts of the body."

Then, the scene jumped again, and this time the boy on the screen had no bandages on his head and had grown hair. His expression was still a little dull, but he had already started reading and writing.

"In the second stage, the patient is recovering—no, strictly speaking, he is getting familiar with his own abilities. He is trying to merge with this body and master the cognition of this body at a rapid speed."

Seeing this, the faces of the three people turned a little ugly, the reason—no need to ask, they knew.

Then, the scene changed again, and the boy who appeared this time had completely returned to his original appearance. Both his clothes and appearance looked like an ordinary person.

"In the third stage, the patient has completely recovered, and his behavior is no different from before. This is a very worthy research topic, after all, the removal of the frontal lobe will affect the connection of the body's nerves to a certain extent. But now this body is performing very smoothly, and the test results are also quite perfect. It can be considered that it has completely simulated and replaced the original human body structure - it is really an unimaginable ability."

As if to verify the doctor's words, the scene changed, and a couple of parents were seen smiling as they walked out of the hospital with the teenager and said goodbye to the doctor.

"The patient's condition is completely normal, and even his family didn't notice anything. So far, the treatment can be considered a success."

There was a hint of ridicule in the doctor's voice, and then the video ended.

Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone was speechless. Then the Food Detective clenched his fists and slammed the table hard.

"Damn it! This bastard! What on earth did he do to those people!"

"Well, now it seems that those people up there can no longer be saved."

Duanmu Huai was mentally prepared, so he was not as angry as the other two.

"Let's continue to focus on our goal. Do you have a map of this place?"

"Let me see... I found it. Uh... This is the psychiatric diagnosis and treatment room, the operating room, and the supply storage room... Supply storage room 2?"

The idol detective who turned on the computer and was studying the map carefully was stunned for a moment and pointed at the map on the screen.

"Look, this material storage room is so strange. There are two material storage rooms, and they are placed next to each other?"

"Anyway, let's go and see for ourselves."

Just as the idol detective said, the material storage room was right next to the operating room, and of course the door was closed—of course it was no match for Duanmu Huai.

"To be honest, I still think this is too exaggerated."

Watching Duanmu Huai easily remove the door of the storage room, the food detective shook his head helplessly.

"Why, do you have the ability to knock open the security door with a password and fingerprint?"

Duanmu Huai ignored the alarm, threw the door aside, and walked in.

The material storage room outside looked like an ordinary material storage room, mainly containing some medicines, alcohol, gauze and other surgical instruments. On the contrary, the door leading to the second material storage room was a bit strange. Unlike the clean and tidy stainless steel doors in other places, this door was made of stone and looked quite old. It was locked with iron chains and huge padlocks. Well, it was a completely incompatible style.

Duanmu Huai reached out, grabbed the chain and broke it, then he pushed open the stone door.

"call-----"

As the stone door opened, a foul, disgusting, and cold breath came from inside, causing the two detectives to cover their mouths and noses and push back. Duanmu Huai also frowned and strode in.

The whole room was dark. Duanmu Huai raised the flashlight and shone it around. He saw that this was a room that didn't look too big. It was completely empty inside, except for something in the middle that was about five meters in diameter and looked like a well. The surrounding walls were covered with strange, twisted designs and patterns.

"A well? Why is there a well here?"

The idol detective picked up the flashlight in confusion, walked to the wellhead and shone it inside.

"It's so deep... I can't even see the bottom..."

At the same time, the food detective's expression changed slightly.

"Hey, did you hear any noise?"

"sound?"

"…………"

The gourmet detective didn't say anything, he just lay on the ground with his ears pressed to the ground, and then his expression became more and more terrified.

“This, this is…”

"Tekeli—li! Tekeli—li! Tekeli—li!"

As if it came from ancient times, across the world, a voice like a devil's curse sounded, it passed through the ground, emerged from the depths of the well, and spread outward. When the two detectives heard this voice, their faces suddenly changed.

"Oops!"

The idol detective hurriedly stepped back, and the food detective also quickly left the door. Only Duanmu Huai remained standing, holding up his flashlight and shining it at the wellhead in front of him. Under the illumination of the flashlight, a stream of mud-like liquid gushed out of it, rolling and changing. Eyes and mouths emerged from the oil-like black and sticky surface, staring at the three people in front of him.

Then, those mouths opened one after another, and once again let out the wailing that could only be heard when the nightmare returned.

"Tekeli—li!"

(End of this chapter)