Chapter 408

Staring at the enemy who had fallen unconscious in the corridor, Lu Mi did not act immediately; he silently squatted down.

He took out the bottle of sleeping potion that had originated from Luntasi of the "Joyful Siren," unscrewed the cap, and brought it to the nose of the patient wearing the blue and white striped hospital gown.

Fu Lan Ka poked her head out to take a look and said:

"Pull that broken arrow out of his chest first, otherwise I feel his constitution might be able to resist a large portion of the sleeping potion's effects."

On the body of the Beyonder suspected to be "I Have a Friend," the gray-white, stone-like scales were slowly fading due to the spiritual unconsciousness brought about by the "Hum-Ha Technique."

Lu Mi nodded and used the hand holding the bottle cap to pull out the obsidian broken arrow.

Seeing this, Fu Lan Ka quietly let out a breath and said:

"The problem now is how to confirm this guy is the real 'I Have a Friend.'

"A powerful 'Hypnotist' can completely 'hypnotize' a Beyonder of the same pathway and sequence, changing their self-perception, making them appear in various situations as the person themselves, completing different pranks, and fighting against incoming enemies.

"Damn it, why does this seem even more annoying than a 'Marionettist'!"

She meant that the enemy before them might also be a victim, a victim whose cognition had been altered and who mistakenly believed themselves to be "I Have a Friend."

This possibility could not be ruled out at all right now, so she couldn't quite bring herself to kill the other party directly and perform spirit mediumship.

Moreover, in this situation, the little bit of "Truth Serum" Lu Mi had left wouldn't work either, because the person being hypnotized would certainly be telling the truth as they believed it to be.

Lu Mi screwed the cap back onto the sleeping potion and said thoughtfully:

"Set up a ritual and request confirmation from Mr. 'Fool.' Since 'Loki' can rely on the help of that Celestial Venerable to find members of the 'Curly-Haired Baboons Research Society' within a certain range, we can also use a similar method to stimulate the special aura on 'I Have a Friend.' If it's there, it's real; if it's not, it's fake."

"What if he's a member of the Research Society who was captured by 'Loki' and 'I Have a Friend'? In the past, several members just went missing and haven't been confirmed dead yet, and that includes the 'Psychiatrist'." Speaking of this, Fu Lan Ka suddenly became suspicious of the source of the Beyonder characteristic used by "I Have a Friend" when he advanced to Sequence 7.

The member of the Research Society who was hunted by them?

Lu Mi thought for a moment and said:

"Then let Yu Jianna come in. She should still have some residual good luck in this regard. If she doesn't run into anyone else, it proves that the unconscious one is 'I Have a Friend.'

"You are responsible for providing protection for Yu Jianna..."

Before Lu Mi could finish his sentence, the voice of Lady "Magician" suddenly rang in his ears:

"There's no need for such trouble."

Lu Mi, who was squatting in front of the unconscious person, immediately felt the surrounding space come alive, shrink inward, and swallow the Beyonder suspected to be "I Have a Friend" in one go.

"Wow..." Fu Lan Ka let out a sound of amazement, while Lu Mi slowly stood up straight.

The two waited patiently, and in just twenty or thirty seconds, the Beyonder wearing the blue and white striped hospital gown was "spat out" by the void.

Immediately after, they simultaneously heard the reply from Lady "Magician":

"It is 'I Have a Friend'."

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Under the crimson moon in the high sky, the Delta Asylum was shrouded in darkness that was significantly thicker than the surroundings and curved into an arc.

On the rooftop of that gray-blue three-story building, the shadowy "Magician" said to her companion beside her:

"Apart from that crazy guy, there are no hidden dangers or more traps.

"Was I overreacting and taking it too seriously?"

"Justice," who was also vaguely visible like a dream, said peacefully:

"Your choice has no problems at all. When facing matters related to that Celestial Venerable, no amount of caution is a mistake.

"Only by being cautious enough every time will you not be suddenly deceived by Him and step into a real trap."

"Magician" nodded slightly, closed the notebook in her hand, and cast her gaze toward the third-floor corridor, which was completely invisible from this position.

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After hearing the conclusion from Lady "Magician," Lu Mi laughed.

He put away the sleeping potion, which was still half-full, turned his head, and said to Fu Lan Ka:

"You can let Yu Jianna come in now."

Fu Lan Ka nodded and then disappeared into the shadows on the inner side of the corridor.

Lu Mi lowered his head to examine "I Have a Friend," who had an ordinary and unremarkable face, his eyes deep and a smile on the corners of his lips.

The effects of the "Hum-Ha Technique" should have long since passed, but the sleeping potion of the "Joyful Siren" was still taking effect.

Given the constitution displayed by "I Have a Friend," this shouldn't last long either, but for Lu Mi, who had been prepared for a long time, this amount of time was enough.

At this time, influenced by the fire and shouting just now, many people in the Delta Asylum had woken up. The first floor was especially lively, with the duty doctor leading several sturdy guards to patrol everywhere, confirming whether there were any remaining sparks that hadn't been truly extinguished.

Yu Jianna and Fu Lan Ka used the cover of the shadows to avoid them and went up to the third floor.

Lu Mi took a piece of sheepskin from Yu Jianna that had come from Father Guillaume Bénet and spread it on the ground.

Then, he wrapped "I Have a Friend" inside it.

After staring at this "April Fool's" psychiatrist for a few more seconds, Lu Mi suddenly raised the obsidian broken arrow in his hand and, with a *pop*, inserted it into the left eye of "I Have a Friend."

The intense pain allowed "I Have a Friend" to break free from the influence of the sleeping potion, his left eye a mess of blood.

Almost at the same time, he heard a whisper filled with a smile:

"Sheep!"

Amidst the echoing Hermes word, "I Have a Friend," wrapped in the ritual sheepskin, was instantly swallowed by dim light, unable to use any abilities.

By the time the dim light subsided, he had turned into a gray-white sheep.

Lu Mi pulled the obsidian broken arrow out of the shattered eyeball and, with another *pop*, inserted it into the right eye of "I Have a Friend."

A "baa" of miserable screaming rang out. Lu Mi retracted the obsidian broken arrow, pressed down on the struggling "sheep" with one hand, stroked its head with the other, and said with a smile:

"Now, we can finally have a good chat."

While whispering to the "sheep," he tossed the obsidian broken arrow to Yu Jianna.

Immediately after, he took out a bottle of ordinary trauma medicine, meticulously applied it to the bloody eye sockets of "I Have a Friend," and used the white bandages he carried with him to wrap the other party's eyes layer by layer.

Only then did "I Have a Friend," who had woken up from his unconsciousness and encountered intense pain, regain a certain amount of thought. He eagerly tried to use his abilities, but not a single one succeeded.

Beside them, Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna watched Lu Mi earnestly bandaging the wounds of the sheep that "I Have a Friend" had turned into, and both felt a bit creeped out. The latter had originally wanted to help Lu Mi vent his anger by kicking the crotch of that despicable psychiatrist, but now she felt that this was enough.

She shifted her attention to the obsidian broken arrow in her hand, not finding any special negative effects, and didn't know if it was a magical artifact that Fu Lan Ka had mentioned before.

When Lu Mi took out the brown-yellow hemp rope he had prepared in advance and wrapped it around the sheep's neck, the duty doctor, who had heard the sheep's bleating, led several sturdy guards to patrol to this floor.

Fu Lan Ka and Yu Jianna immediately hid in the shadows, while Lu Mi, in the appearance of a masculine Aurora, turned around unhurriedly and led the sheep toward the end of the corridor.

Strands of crimson flames emerged from his body, which had recovered a little spirituality, and burned fiercely in the corridor.

The duty doctor and several guards didn't dare to approach, only seeing a figure walking in the depths of the flames, stepping closer and closer to the end of the annex corridor.

That figure was also strangely leading a gray-white sheep. The sheep originally didn't want to walk, but was pulled by the rope around its neck and dragged directly forward.

After sliding along the ground for a distance, the sheep, whose neck was being choked tighter and tighter, making breathing increasingly difficult, finally stood up, took steps, and followed forward.

By the time the flames in the corridor suddenly extinguished without burning any of the rooms, the duty doctor and the guards had already lost the trail of the man leading the sheep.

Is it my hallucination... The matter was too strange and unbelievable, to the point that these few people all had the same thought.

But the corridor, which had left behind charred marks, proved that a fire had indeed occurred just now that hadn't hurt anyone.

After ordering a guard to go to the nearest police headquarters to report the crime, the duty doctor returned to the first-floor office in a daze.

He collapsed into his chair and couldn't help but start guessing:

"Could it be that a demon in charge of fire has crawled out of the abyss?

"Its characteristic is leading a sheep? Is that the incarnation of fire?"

The duty doctor's thoughts became more and more exaggerated, feeling that he shouldn't report it to the police, but should go directly to the church to invite the bishops and priests to come and take a look.

Knock, knock, knock!

He heard the sound of knocking on the door.

The duty doctor sat up straight and responded in a deep voice:

"Please come in."

The door creaked open, and the duty doctor's gaze instantly froze.

The person who came was the blond demon from just now. The sheep he was leading even had its eyes wrapped in white bandages, and the gray-white hair on its face was stained with spots of blood.

"I have a matter to trouble you with." Lu Mi led "I Have a Friend" into the doctor's office and said in a calm voice, "This sheep of mine has severe anti-human tendencies and extreme violent behavior. I want to treat its mental illness."

How to treat it... Before the duty doctor could speak, he saw the handsome blond demon open his mouth and ask:

"Do you know how to perform a prefrontal lobotomy?"

"I, I know a little." The duty doctor answered subconsciously, "But it's a sheep..."

Can the brain structure be the same?

While raising such a question, the duty doctor saw the sheep struggling frantically, trying to escape, but it was tightly bound by the rope and couldn't break free.

Lu Mi laughed:

"It doesn't matter, you can give it a try. It's just a sheep; if it dies, it dies. We can still eat roast whole lamb."

While speaking, he dragged the sheep, which was trying to attack him, to the examination table beside them, and then used his hands and feet to pin it down firmly.

If the patient were a human, the duty doctor, who didn't have much experience and was forbidden from performing prefrontal lobotomies, certainly wouldn't dare to act. But since it was a sheep, he had no qualms.

Acting on the thought of not angering the arsonist demon and cooperating well to wait for the police to arrive, the duty doctor walked to the examination table.

He said with some hesitation:

"I need an ice pick."

He was trying to find an excuse to go to the ice storage to put some distance between himself and the arsonist demon, but as soon as he finished speaking, he saw a palm reach out from the shadows, handing him a sharp, thin ice pick.

This, what is going on... While the duty doctor was astonished, he vaguely heard the words "You're welcome."

He numbly took the thin ice pick and untied the white bandages wrapped around the sheep's head.

The sheep struggled even more violently.

The duty doctor identified the damage inside its eye sockets and suddenly inserted the thin, sharp ice pick through the gap, stirring the frontal lobe in its brain.

After struggling for a few seconds, the gray-white sheep suddenly quieted down.

(End of chapter)