Chapter 730: Lots of Fun in the Sanatorium 15

You must be disappointed, old man, you can't find anything.

Jin Chen silently complained, but kept his composure.

Qiao Qing wouldn't give up, scanning him from head to toe again, yet still detected nothing.

So he gave up, folded and stored the instrument, and even placed a little thing in the same spot, under Jin Chen's bedside table.

You guys aren't done yet, are you?

One planted a bug, the other a camera, and they're oddly in sync.

Jin Chen's eyelids twitched slightly, and he was almost speechless.

Qiao Qing didn't linger in the room, knowing there was nothing here, and left straight away.

After he had been gone for several minutes, Jin Chen slowly opened his eyes.

He also didn't rush to move, only sitting up after letting 0731 block the signal.

【Your life is still quite valuable, Host.】

One or two of them want to kill him.

Jin Chen neither confirmed nor denied.

He continued flipping through the diary.

May 6th: Lately things have felt off; a new faction has entered the sanatorium, so I need to be more careful with my investigation.

May 11th: Today Yi Fei An also had a brief moment of clarity; I saw it, but he didn't notice I was aware too.

I need to find a chance to talk to him, but I'm not sure if he's a traitor.

Suddenly, a few sheets were torn out here, as if ripped off hastily.

May 28th: No, this is bad; my consciousness is getting fuzzy again, and my lucid periods are growing shorter.

The things I've investigated...

No, remember: you must never reveal these things!

June 1st: Indeed! I really am starting to forget.

This is terrible! I can only keep giving myself mental reminders; even if I slip back into madness, I must never tell anyone that I have two E-crystals inside me!

What followed were three blank pages.

What is this...

The diary ends here abruptly.

The last four words were written in especially messy scrawl, likely while he was already delirious, and he unintentionally left a phrase.

Jin Chen retraced his memory again and confirmed there was nothing about this part.

Today is June 20th.

The original owner had a period of lucidity and discovered some things, but didn't hide them in a secret compartment.

What happened between May 1st and May 28th? How did he suddenly relapse into madness after just one short month?

Who was the new force that arrived at the sanatorium on May 16th?

Could it be that, besides Shen Yan, there are other organization members in the sanatorium?

These diaries didn't give Jin Chen any insight; instead, they brought more mysteries.

So... does Yi Fei An still have moments of clarity now?

Looks like tomorrow I'll have to start with him and investigate each one individually.

Jin Chen put the diary back where it was.

The time is now 10:30 PM.

He was about to close his eyes and rest.

Unfortunately, the hallway once again rang with noise.

When will it ever end!

Jin Chen rolled over, wrapped himself in the blanket, and closed his eyes to sleep.

Huh! This scent... it's my wife!

He opened his eyes under the blanket.

Shen Yan likewise came to the bedside and probed Jin Chen's condition.

He stared for a few seconds, then suddenly curled his lip.

This person is surprisingly much quieter and better-behaved at night than during the day.

Shen Yan twisted open his watch, probing at the bedside, when a red light flickered briefly.

He crouched down and removed the camera that Qiao Qing had placed under the bedside table.

He plugged in the connector from the watch strap, fiddled with it a bit, then put it back.

Although Jin Chen had concealed the secret of the E-crystals very tightly, even in a room where he relaxed, a slip could still show.

We must protect this secret to the greatest extent possible.

Since Qiao Qing wants to look, we might as well let him see something else.

Shen Yan screwed his watch back on and let out a breath of relief.

He glanced at the bed again.

Strangely enough, he tidied Jin Chen's rumpled blanket corner before leaving the room.

Jin Chen was deeply moved.

My wife loves me so much!

Not only did she break the protagonist's monitor, she also helped tuck me in!

He turned over, satisfied, and closed his eyes to sleep.

Late at night, inside the sanatorium's forest.

Two figures quietly met here.

"Another new person has arrived; we must conceal ourselves well, cannot be discovered by anyone."

"Don't worry, I already met him today; there's nothing to fear, no one will suspect me."

The two seemed to have exchanged something, then quickly each turned and left.

——

The story is always full of twists and turns.

Early morning, the nurses' miserable cries ushered in another bustle at the sanatorium.

"Someone come—"

"Calm down, young master!"

Huakui, the young master, held a toy scissors snatched from somewhere, grabbed his own hair and was about to cut it down.

"Sisters, you don't need to stop me anymore."

He cried bitterly.

"From now on I will shave my head and leave the secular world."

"The prince doesn't want me, the young master doesn't want me, even that general doesn't want to take me into his household; in this world everyone is loved, why am I the only one who isn't?!"

The nurses were overwhelmed, and even the early-morning sleepy bugs were scared off.

"Even if no one loves you, you must love yourself, young master; men in this world are simply unreliable!"

"That's right, young master; once your hair is cut, it can never grow back!"

"You haven't even opened for business yet, young master; don't give up on the secular world so quickly!"

No matter how parched-mouthed they became from speaking, Huakui the young master wouldn't listen, and had already cut off two locks of hair.

What he cut wasn't hair, it was the nurses' high salaries!

The Nurse Team swarmed forward one after another, some grabbing the scissors, some pressing down his hands, risking their lives to protect this precariously dangling hair.

"Let go of me, you guys, let go quickly!"

Bang—

Jin Chen, whose room was nearest, was awakened by the noise early that morning and kicked the door open with a single foot.

"What's all the noise about?"

"Old Master Jin! Come quickly to persuade him! If you don't stop him now, he'll become a monk!"

Huakui and the Nurse Team seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

"Become a monk?"

Jin Chen's eyeballs rolled about.

This is a good thing!

He turned and went out, snatching a sharp pair of scissors from a nurse's hand.

"Come! Use this! Cut fast!"

Huakui and the Nurse Team: "Get out!"

Hey, I can't keep up with this.

Jin Chen walked downstairs with his hands behind his back; of course he had to take a stroll on the beach early in the morning.

Today the sunshine was decent, the air fresh, and one could hear the sound of the tide beating.

He narrowed his eyes and saw in the distance that Jiang Qiu had somehow found an inflatable pool, attempting to dive into a puddle less than half his height in a suicide attempt.

The suicide lad lived up to his reputation.

Jin Chen's lips curled up again.

He walked over and lifted Jiang Qiu by the scruff of the neck.

"Dear friend, you can't die from jumping here."

Jiang Qiu shook his wet face, spraying water, "Then, dear friend, how should I succeed in suicide?"

Jin Chen's face showed a mysterious, unfathomable smile.

He grabbed him and pointed to the red fence ahead, the fence that separated the beach from the sea.

"Do you see that? Jump over, and across is the sea; jumping into the sea to kill yourself couldn't be more appropriate."

"Romantic, and a one-time solution."

Jiang Qiu's eyes lit up.