Ring of Fate

Chapter 1018 "Treatment" (asking for double monthly tickets)
When Lumian walked around the main building and saw the independent building where the psychiatric department was located, his phone vibrated.

This is the WeChat message from Franca:

"I'm already near Mushu Hospital, and my car is parked diagonally opposite."

"Okay, I'm going to the psychiatric department." Lumian replied using the voice input method.

Then he put his phone in airplane mode to avoid any unexpected events such as harassing phone calls during the operation.

He then activated the seal of the contract below his left shoulder and transformed himself into a shadow creature.

He currently does not know which room in the psychiatric ward Li Keji is being held in, so he cannot "teleport" there directly. He needs to search for it. However, "shadow transformation" is more covert than "hiding in the shadows" and is less likely to be discovered.

Lumian's body quickly became thinner and darker, merging with his own shadow created by the sunlight, and remained frozen on the concrete floor alone.

He moved quickly, using the shadows of corners, trees, and corridors to enter the psychiatric ward and sneak into the nearest room.

"Haha, haha." The patients in this room kept laughing, their backs bent with laughter, and tears flowed from the corners of their eyes.

For some reason, Lumian also had the urge to laugh crazily, as if he was infected by the other person's emotions.

He glanced at the patient and after confirming that it was not Li Keji, he immediately retreated from the shadow of the door.

Once back in the corridor, his condition quickly returned to normal.

Lumian didn't waste any time and went into the next room.

He suddenly became irritable and wanted to rush out of the shadows, run straight to the nurses' station and ask them to hand over Li Keji.

He immediately heard loud shouts echoing in his ears:

"I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy!

“Being cautious can solve most situations, but it can’t solve all problems.

“You still need to take risks when it’s time to take risks!”

Lumian roughly determined who the patient in this room was and silently retreated back to the corridor of the psychiatric ward.

He wandered in the shadows created by various things and was transferred to another ward.

What came into his sight was a patient who was locked in a bed, as quiet as a statue.

A feeling of sadness and sorrow gradually emerged in Lumian's heart. He wanted to go crazy and destroy himself.

This... He remained rational and did not stay in this room for long.

After calming down in the corridor, Lumian thought seriously about what had just happened:
"As long as you enter the ward, you will be infected by the corresponding mental patient?

"Mental illness has become an infectious disease, which is similar to the behavior of the humanoid seal we encountered before...

"I understand now. This is essentially a dream, and mental patients also have corresponding symbols.

“They symbolize the negative, crazy, and extremely irrational emotions and spirits in the subconscious of dreams. The interactions in dreams are essentially interactions between spirits, so once you get close to them, you will be affected…

“Why are the doctors and nurses here still normal?
“Do they symbolize the subconscious power of dreams to suppress madness and extremes?
"From this perspective, the idea of ​​suppressing crazy spirits and extreme emotions will also be infected, which is reflected in dreams, that is, doctors or nurses go crazy from time to time?
"Well, the doctors, nurses, medicines and medical equipment here can all be used to deal with the crazy spirit and extreme emotions of the dream itself. They symbolize the corresponding power..."

Lumian turned his gaze towards the nearby treatment vehicle and looked at the syringes and medicines placed on it.

He felt that in special scenarios, these things might be more useful and effective than the therapeutic potions he and others carried.

They are part of the power of dreams.

Lumian understood the special situation of the psychiatric ward and maintained his status as a shadow creature, moving faster and faster, only taking a quick look at each room to avoid being infected by the emotions of different patients.

However, he did not find Li Keji, nor did he discover the mushrooms.

Not in the psychiatric ward? Lumian quickly left here and came to the iron gate at the corner of the wall. He re-entered under the pretext of visiting a patient and came to the nurse's desk.

Wearing sunglasses and a mask, he said to the nurse on duty:
"I'm here to visit Li Keji."

"Wait a moment, the patient has been sent for treatment and has not returned to the ward yet." The nurse looked up at Lumian.

“Where was he sent to for treatment?” Lumian suddenly had a bad feeling.

The nurse explained simply:

"The main building is on the underground level, where there are specialized large-scale equipment."

The basement floor of the main building...Lumian nodded, turned around, and walked out of the psychiatric department.

On the way to the main building of Mushu Hospital, he restored his cell phone signal and sent a message to Franca:

"Li Keji was sent to the basement level, I plan to go look for him.

“If I haven’t sent you a message within a quarter of an hour, ask Ludwig to come find Mom. This should be very useful on the negative first floor.

"If it doesn't work, the corpse oil candle can be used once, and the honorable name of Director Ya can be recited."

Lumian explained it in such detail because he wanted to tell Franca that he still had a way out and asked her not to take the risk of coming to rescue him.

After a long while, Franka replied briefly:

"Be careful and put your own safety first."

Lumian switched his phone to airplane mode again, transformed himself into a shadow creature, and sneaked into the main building.

This time, he did not choose the elevator, but walked down one step at a time in the dark safety passage.

When he arrived at the basement floor and just turned into the elevator room, he saw a glass door at the exit.

At this time, the glass door was half open, and there was a wheelchair at the entrance with a person sitting in it.

The man was wrapped in white bandages, like a living mummy.

Lumian suddenly felt familiar.

His spiritual intuition told him that the man in the wheelchair was his "colleague", Old Ding, who had been injured at work by lightning.

How did Lao Ding get to the basement? Where were his family members? Lumian carefully walked around Lao Ding in the shadows.

The next second, he saw Lao Ding stretch out his right hand with difficulty and touch a piece of white paper stuck on the half-open glass door.

There were a few words written on the white paper:
"Medical facility, no unauthorized persons allowed to enter"

Lumian withdrew his gaze without interrupting his dive.

Lumian gradually became uneasy as he walked along the shadows on the side of the aisle towards where the patient was suspected to be.

He subconsciously lowered his head and found that he had escaped from the shadow and turned back into a human being without knowing when.

His contract ability naturally became invalid!
Lumian also noticed that his clothes were slowly changing into the standard attire of a nurse at Mushu Hospital.

“This…” Lumian thought of the “mummy” Lao Ding at the door and the notice, and thought of the characteristics of the illusory abyss underground and the corresponding path of the “Mother Tree of Desire”, and quickly came up with a guess:
This area has a strong curse!

The content of the curse is: No unauthorized persons are allowed to enter!
In other words, irrelevant people who come in will become relevant people, become caregivers who frequently come in and out of here, and become puppets of the illusory abyss? After Lumian thought about this clearly, he naturally understood how to break this curse.

But he didn't dare do that.

His solution was to shout out on the spot, "Mother, I am your child!"

The essence of this statement is to acknowledge oneself as the true Son of God.

The power and influence of the "Great Mother" are clearly present on the basement floor of Mushu Hospital, and the "new life" in the morgue is proof of this.

Under this premise, the Son of God of the "Great Mother" certainly does not belong to irrelevant persons!
Lumian felt that the changes in his body were accelerating, and he couldn't think of any other solution for the moment, so he had to activate the black mark on his right shoulder and "teleport" out of this level.

He appeared in the emergency passage on the first floor, which was empty.

“Fortunately, I was able to be ‘teleported’ out from the negative first floor, otherwise I would have to use corpse oil candles or chant the honorific name of Ms. ‘Magician’, Director Ya… No, with the speed of the changes just now, the secret ceremony would not have had time to take effect…” Lumian looked down at himself and found that his clothes had returned to normal.

He turned into a shadow creature again and came to the entrance of the safe passage. While observing the elevator going up and down, he thought about how he could go deep into the underground level and rescue Li Keji without turning into a real Son of God.

As his thoughts raced, Lumian saw the special elevator coming up from the basement level, and a nurse pushed out a transfer bed.

There was a nurse standing on each side of the transfer bed, and lying on the bed was a man with a thick beard, eyes closed, and wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown.

That was Li Keji.

The "treatment" is over? Lumian's eyes narrowed.

Is it too late after all?
He watched Li Keji being pushed out of the elevator, followed him in the shadows all the way out of the main building and back to the psychiatric department.

After confirming Li Keji's ward, Lumian went back outside. Behind the green trees, he took out his phone, switched modes, and sent a message to Franka:

“I was unable to go deep into the negative first floor because there was a curse inside, so I was forced to leave early.

"Now, Li Keji has completed his 'treatment' and returned to the ward. I plan to sneak in and confirm his condition. If he cannot be saved, I will implement the cleanup plan."

Soon, Franka replied:
“If cleaning is difficult, you can give up and take Ludwig with you to give it a try.

"I think he's pretty good against food-based enemies, like mushrooms."

That makes sense… Lumian replied with an “OK” and stuffed the phone directly into the “Traveler’s Bag”.

There may be a fight next, so you have to protect your phone.

Not long after, Lumian slipped in through the crack of Li Keji's ward door in the form of a shadow creature, and quietly grew taller and larger in front of the bed.

He looked around, looked at Li Keji who was still sleeping, and began to assess his situation.

Suddenly, Li Keji opened his eyes and sat up.

When he saw that it was Lumiana, he smiled sincerely:

“I discovered the essence!
"I succeeded!"

Lumian's expression suddenly changed.

He saw that Li Keji's chest was bulging, and two large mushrooms were pushing up his hospital gown, spilling milk. In Li Keji's abdomen, mushrooms that looked like they were made of flesh and blood were wriggling and tearing his clothes, as if they were creating a bloody, real, directly exposed uterus.

PS: Ask for double monthly tickets~
PS2: I think the monthly ticket goal has been reached. There will be an Easter egg chapter tomorrow, which will release a path of Outer God's grace. I found that there are too many things in the main text and I may not be able to write them all. It is better to take this opportunity to release some of them. Haha.

(End of this chapter)