Chapter 1: Welcome to the Asylum

"Huff!"

Li Xuan jolted awake from a dream.

He looked around in alarm, and only after confirming that the black-clad man radiating a terrifying aura was not beside him did he finally let out a breath.

This was not his room...

Li Xuan swung his legs out of bed and stepped barefoot onto the cold floor, taking in the room's furnishings.

The room was small and spartan, with a spring bed and a bedside cabinet as its only pieces of furniture.

There were no windows. The walls were a dull light gray, and the fluorescent tube overhead was coated in dust. It was impossible to tell whether it still worked.

Li Xuan walked to the door and pushed.

It was locked. He could not open it.

He opened the bedside cabinet and searched inside, but it was just as empty, with nothing useful and no clues at all.

Just as Li Xuan was preparing to turn the spring bed upside down and search every inch of it, a rough male voice sounded in his ear.

"Event name: Nanshan Psychiatric Hospital."

"Background: This is a hospital surrounded by strange legends. Every year, large numbers of mental patients are sent here, but no cured patient has ever left. The surrounding residents never speak of this mysterious hospital, and the local government treats it as if it does not exist. But every night, the terrifying howls that come from inside tell everyone..."

"This place is filled with horror and danger,"

"and now, you have been sent here, becoming one of the hospital's patients."

"Clear condition: Find a way to escape the hospital within seven days, or uncover the truth behind the hospital's strangeness."

"Note: Be cautious and obey every rule. They can help you find that faint path to survival."

Damn it!

This had to be a joke!

Although Li Xuan had suspected something unnatural was happening when he first saw that strange man, when he truly heard the event introduction ringing beside his ear, he still could not help cursing.

Damn it, he had finally gotten a second chance at life, and before he had even had time to breathe in the fresh air of freedom and beauty, this had happened.

Admittedly, what he had done to the more than thirty elementary school girls he taught, stripping them and fucking them until they got pregnant, was vile beyond words, but hadn't he already been shot once for it?

Why did he still have to suffer this after being reborn into a parallel world?

Though he had only been reborn for a few days, Li Xuan had learned from the internet and the media just how terrifying the consequences were once someone got dragged into an anomalous incident.

If the internet and the news were not exaggerating, then out of a thousand people caught up in such events, only one could make it out alive.

And even those who returned to the normal world were mostly far from unscathed; only a tiny fraction came back completely intact, while the majority either lost arms and legs or simply went insane.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

Could this be the retribution for his being a lolicon?

Li Xuan muttered curses at the heavens without pause, pacing anxiously around the room.

To escape this sealed ward within seven days, unless he were the reincarnation of Sun Wukong and could perform seventy-two transformations, the only way would be to compress him into a paper-thin figure and let him drift out through the crack under the door.

"Calm down, calm down!"

Li Xuan plopped down on the bed and slapped his face while muttering to himself.

Since there was a clear clear condition, that meant he was not in a dead end with no chance at all. So where was that chance...?

Li Xuan's gaze suddenly fell on the bedside cabinet.

Inside the drawer he had opened, there was now a sheet of paper covered in writing.

He could swear it: when he had just opened the drawer, it had been completely empty!

Could this be the chance he needed to survive?

Li Xuan bent down and took the paper from the drawer.

"Welcome to Nanshan Psychiatric Hospital. On behalf of all the staff here, I extend our sincerest greetings to you!"

"Our hospital has the finest doctors, the most attentive nurses, and orderlies who can give you the greatest sense of security. Curing your condition is the most important thing to all of us, so for your safety and well-being, please be sure to follow the rules below."

"1: Be sure to take your medication on time. It can help you resist hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, headaches, bodily distortion, and other symptoms."

"2: Outside of rest hours, please remain quietly in your room. If your condition worsens, you may knock on the door. The nurses will rush over as soon as they hear you. The nurses' uniforms are pink, and they wear white stockings. If the one who comes is a nurse in white, immediately close the door and do not answer any of her questions until an orderly arrives."

"3: The doctors will resolve all problems caused by your condition. They will only come to your room to check on you half an hour after dinner every day. If a doctor appears in your room at any other time, immediately take your medication and do not respond to her in any way."

"4: The doctors only wear white uniforms and black stockings. If you encounter a doctor in a green uniform wearing a mask, immediately return to your room and wait until an orderly knocks."

"5: This hospital does not keep any animals. If you hear a dog barking or any other animal sounds, immediately return to your room and take your medication. During this time, do not speak to anyone. If you can still hear dog barking or other animal sounds after half an hour, leave your room and look for an orderly. You can find them at the corners of each corridor, and they will protect your safety."

"6: This hospital only accepts adult patients. If you encounter a little girl, immediately leave and return to your room. Do not respond to anyone."

"7: Please do not leave your room at night. Doctors and nurses will not appear anywhere in the hospital at night. If you encounter a doctor in a white uniform, immediately leave and look for an orderly. You can find them in lit areas of the hospital corridors. If the doctor is wearing a green uniform and a mask, ignore them. They will not hurt you."

"8: Please do not go near any plants. They are dangerous."

"9: There is no morgue in this hospital. If anyone asks you about the morgue, ignore them and leave immediately."

Li Xuan read the note once through and could not help frowning.

Even from the contradictory and chaotic rules on this patient handbook, one could tell just how strange this hospital was.

Li Xuan flipped the note over and discovered that there were actually several crooked lines of writing on the back.

"Don't take the medication! Don't take the medication! Don't take the medication!"

Li Xuan turned the sheet back and forth several times.

The patient rules on the front told him he had to take the medication, that it could help treat all kinds of strange symptoms, while the writing on the back warned him not to.

The two were in direct contradiction.

Whom should he believe?

Li Xuan held the paper and thought for a long while.

Suddenly, an idea struck him.

That rough voice had said that if he wanted to survive, he had to obey the rules. So did the message written on the back of the patient handbook count as a rule?

If it did, did that mean he could also add some rules favorable to himself?

But there was nothing in the room he could use to write with.

Li Xuan thought for a moment, then hardened his heart, bit open his own finger, and planned to use his blood to write something on the paper to confirm his guess.

However, the blood left no trace on the page at all.

No good...?

Or was it that only a designated pen would work?

At the very least, it proved one thing: this sheet of paper was definitely no ordinary object.

Li Xuan tucked the patient handbook into his clothes, closed his eyes, and sat by the bed to carefully digest the contents of the rules.

From the rules, it seemed that aside from patients, the hospital had three roles: doctors, nurses, and orderlies.

During the day, the nurses in pink clothes and white stockings were safe, the doctors in white clothes and black stockings were safe, and the orderlies were safe.

The nurses in white clothes and the doctors in green clothes were dangerous. If he saw them, he had to avoid them immediately and return to his room to take his medication.

And at night, the rules said on one hand that doctors and nurses would not appear at night, but on the other hand, that encountering a doctor in white clothes was dangerous, while encountering a doctor in green clothes was safe.

Could the difference hidden in that contradiction contain the key information needed to uncover the truth in the clear condition?

There were also the fact that there were animal sounds despite no animals being kept, the fact that adult patients were admitted yet a little girl might appear, and the warnings not to go near plants and the special note that there was no morgue.

Just from a single patient handbook, it looked like he would not be able to extract much useful information.

He did not know whether the nurses, doctors, and orderlies also had their own handbook. If he could find theirs, he might be able to obtain even more useful information.

In a situation this blind, the more information he could gather, the higher his chances of survival.

"Click."

The sound of a lock opening came from the door, and Li Xuan stood up and looked toward it.

The ones opening the door were two female nurses in pink nurse uniforms.

Both of them were extraordinarily beautiful, and their uniforms were even more alluring. Compared with the proper nurse uniforms Li Xuan had seen before, what they wore was practically the same as an outfit made to arouse desire.

The buttons on the top had been undone three at a time, and the two plump white breasts beneath were almost half exposed. The nurse skirt below was tight and short; with the slightest bend, the underwear underneath would be visible. Their long legs, wrapped in white stockings with garters, stepped in pink high heels, and their fleshy hips swayed with every movement.

Though there was no expression on their gorgeous faces, the drifting look in their eyes seemed to tempt every male around them at every moment, making one want nothing more than to pin them down and fuck them hard!

Damn, these nurses are even sluttier than streetwalkers!

Li Xuan cursed inwardly.

But very quickly, his eyes widened.

These two female nurses looked exactly alike!

Could they be twins?

No. That was not right!

Even if they were twins, makeup and identical clothing could make them hard to tell apart, but they still could not possibly look completely identical, not even the slightest bit different!

The two nurses walked up to Li Xuan. One held a medical chart and looked him over from head to toe. Li Xuan glanced at the chart. The angle was bad, so he could not see it clearly, but he still roughly made out a photo of himself and some information attached to it.

"Li Xuan, male, 25 years old."

"Condition: sex addiction, a unique preference for young girls, mild paranoia, irritable."

"Disposition: above average."

"Treatment plan:"

For some reason, the beautiful nurse's arm happened to press over the treatment plan, making it impossible for Li Xuan to see what was written after it.

"Jibber-jabber, jibber-jabber."

The nurse holding the chart said a few words in a language Li Xuan did not understand to the other nurse, and the other nurse nodded. She took a set of blue striped patient clothes from a bag and walked over to Li Xuan to start taking off his clothes.

"Hey, no need, no need, I can do it myself. I can do it myself."

As he spoke, Li Xuan reached out to take the clothes from the nurse, signaling that he could handle it himself.

The nurse ignored him and instead grabbed Li Xuan's arm, twisting it behind his back. Li Xuan had not expected this seemingly delicate nurse to be so strong. The twist nearly dislocated his arm, and he gritted his teeth in pain.

Seeing that Li Xuan had settled down, the nurse quickly stripped off his clothes, not even sparing his underwear.

When Li Xuan's underwear was pulled down, a thick, proud fleshworm snapped free with a slap and sprang into view before the three of them.

In that awkward moment, Li Xuan was so embarrassed that his head felt like it was steaming. That was also why he had wanted to tell the nurse he would change clothes himself just now.

These two female nurses were a little strange, but they were undeniably beautiful, and their mannerisms and outfits were truly slutty. Li Xuan might be a lolicon, but he was not numb to women this outstanding. On top of that, the unique feminine allure they carried meant that the instant he saw them, his cock was already painfully hard.

Yet the two female nurses seemed to take all of it as if they saw nothing at all.

Especially the nurse changing his clothes. When she squatted in front of Li Xuan to help him with his pants, he, looking down from above, could easily see through the opening of her collar the big breasts wrapped beneath the uniform, and could even faintly make out two cherry-red peaks.

That made Li Xuan's cock even harder.

Even worse, when the nurse crouched down, her face was exactly level with Li Xuan's rod. He could feel the moist breath of the nurse brushing over the head of his glans, and as lust rushed to his brain, he unconsciously thrust his waist forward, wanting to feel the softness of her lips with his shaft.

The nurse noticed his intent and, with lightning speed, reached out and gripped the base of his cock, stopping him.

"Jibber-jabber, jibber-jabber!"

The nurse lifted her head and sharply scolded Li Xuan in a string of words. Even without understanding her, he could tell from her tone alone that the beautiful nurse was reprimanding him.

Li Xuan hurriedly put on an apologetic expression.

Only then did the nurse let go of his cock and quickly help him into his pants.

"Jibber-jabber."

Seeing that Li Xuan had finished changing, the nurse holding the chart turned and left the room, gesturing for Li Xuan to follow.

Li Xuan did not dare say much and obediently followed the nurse out of the room. As he left, he looked back and only felt relieved after seeing that the clothes he had taken off were still on his bed.