The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 9 The mastermind behind the scenes
Behind the white door is a staircase leading downwards, and at the end of the staircase there is another white door.

As soon as Wu Chang stepped onto the stairs, he felt a flash before his eyes and was overwhelmed by an inexplicable hallucination. The hallucination was composed of countless fragments of images, and the content inside was jumpy, chaotic, and crazy, just like the images that emerge in the mind of a mental patient before he completely collapses.

He shook his head violently, breaking free from the illusion with a strong will.

The moment he came to his senses, he found a red key embedded in the wall beside him.

Someone left the key to the fourth floor of the sanatorium here.

For this purpose, a special test was set up.

If your will is not strong enough and you cannot break free from the magic mirror, you will just walk through the corridor in a daze without noticing the red key on the wall.

It seems that his will passed the judgment.

He put the key into his personal space, walked quickly to the white door below, and pushed it open.

Behind the door was a room that looked like a clinic. An elegant middle-aged man in a white coat was sitting behind a desk, writing out prescriptions.

Wu Chang's heart skipped a beat. Oh no, he had fallen into a trap.

No one told him that behind the door was the night doctor's duty room. Now he was arrested on the spot for violating hospital rules. I hope the punishment will not be too severe.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the middle-aged man looked up. When he saw that the person coming was Wu Chang, not the familiar Jin Dun, his brows unconsciously frowned.

"who are you?"

Wu Chang stole a glance at the doctor's name tag and responded obediently, "Hello, Dr. Wolf, I'm a new patient."

Dr. Wolf's eyes swept over Wu Chang. Wu Chang remembered something and subconsciously covered the walker amulet hanging around his waist.

"You killed Jinton?"

As soon as Wolf said this, the atmosphere in the room instantly dropped to freezing point.

Wolf's question contained no emotion, and it was impossible to tell whether it was sadness or anger. Wu Chang stood there with a well-behaved expression, not knowing whether to answer truthfully or to take the initiative and shoot Wolf in the head with the Silver Dawn.

This time it was Wu Chang's turn to sweat profusely.

After a brief silence, he quickly understood the situation. The things inside the White Gate could even make experienced doctors afraid, so it would not be wise for him to rashly start a battle.

"Kinton lost the bet."

This is the truth, but only part of the truth. The unsaid part is left to Wolf's imagination.

"That's great!"

Upon hearing the news of his acquaintance's death, Wolf not only did not get angry, but instead he smiled brightly, as if he had heard something great.

Just then, from the back of the office came the sound of a kettle boiling.

"My medicine is ready. Come with me and we'll talk while we walk."

Wolf opened a door behind him and greeted Wu Chang warmly.

After passing through the office, the two came to a huge cave. In contrast to the neat and tidy office, the cave was very simple, like the nest of some large insect.

After entering the cave, Wolf's body began to tremble. His skin quickly expanded and tore, and his whole body swelled up like an inflated body. The part below the ribs turned into a swollen worm covered with pustules.

In just a few seconds, the elegant middle-aged doctor turned into a half-human, half-insect monster.

"I'm sorry, the smell in the pharmacy is too charming. It's hard for me to control myself." Wolf stretched out his right hand that had turned into an insect limb and scratched his head, with an apologetic look in his blood-red eyes.

"It's all because of those demons in Jinton. They brought me this damn paranoia. I hope I didn't scare you."

Wu Chang shook his head and said in a tone of "Come on! You can do it!"
"Doctor Wolf, you haven't been out for too long. You don't know that society now has diversified aesthetics. The idea that 'only people who look like people are normal' is outdated. Your current posture is what truly defines aesthetics. If you go to a certain White Tower country, you can at least be a beauty pageant lady."

"Miss...beauty pageant?"

"Of course, in the White Tower, not only aesthetics are not defined, but gender is not defined either. For example, my gender is an armed helicopter."

"Ah?" Wolf was at a loss for words. He looked at Wu Chang in confusion, as if it was Wu Chang who had turned into a monster instead of him.

What does this mean? Is this guy making fun of him, or has the outside world fallen into delusion?
It was not until the two reached the innermost part of the cave that Wolf recovered from his dazed state.

Deep in the cave, a huge metal pot was being heated on a fire, and the pale yellow liquid inside was boiling violently.

Wolf turned off the fire and skillfully poured the liquid medicine onto the gauze, wrung out the water, leaving a light yellow powder ball, which he put into a metal bowl.

Then he grabbed a sack from the corner, took out a handful of various herbs, put them in his mouth and chewed them.

Under the effect of the herbs, colorful pustules grew on Wolf's bloated worm body. He squeezed the pustules and let the pus drip into a metal bowl. He used a pestle to grind the pus and powder evenly and put it in the oven.

Then take out a plate of dried medicine powder from the oven, sieve it through a fine sieve twice, and fill it into the prepared capsules.

Wu Chang, who witnessed the entire manufacturing process, looked at the familiar capsule and asked with a tingling scalp: "Dr. Wolf, what are you doing?"

Wolf said as a matter of course: "Pharmacy, didn't you see before you came in that this room is the pharmacy room."

Looking at the colorful pustules on Wolf's body, Wu Chang's stomach churned. Fortunately, he hadn't taken the special medicine given by the sanatorium. He really wanted to ask Wolf, who the hell taught you to make medicine like this.

Wolf put the prepared capsule into the medicine bottle, turned around and asked, "Where were we just talking about?"

Wu Chang: "Speaking of Jinton, they turned you into this."

"Thank you very much."

Wolf looked down at Wu Chang and said slowly, "You are a stranger. As an outsider who can come here, you must be a treasure hunter."

"You can think so." Wu Chang didn't know what the setting of treasure hunter was, but seeing that Wolf didn't seem to have any ill intentions, he agreed first.

"Unfortunately, the 'Cursed Gold' you are looking for does not exist. This is all a scam. You and we have all been deceived."

Wolf sighed and recounted the town's past in a nostalgic tone.

The place where Moonlight Sanatorium is located is called White Stone Town, a small town with a history almost as long as the kingdom, and has always been managed by the Anderson family.

At the beginning, Baishi Town was still Baishi Territory.

Chief Anderson was born into a farming family and earned this territory through his epic military exploits.

The descendants of the Anderson family, through the unremitting efforts of generations, successfully turned the huge territory into a small town.

It's still a small town on the verge of bankruptcy.

The Anderson family's dire financial situation forced them to seek help from the surrounding areas, but while they opened the door to invite help, they also invited a vicious wolf into their home.

The Vino family of Forest City owns dozens of large factories, has amazing financial resources, and is good at business. They claim that they are attracted by the long history of White Stone Town and cannot bear to see it decline, so they lend a helping hand.

Under the magic of the gold coins, the Vino family quickly took control of White Stone Town. They built factories in the town, explored minerals, and established schools and churches.

For a time, the town was thriving and the townspeople's lives became prosperous.

But in fact, this is all a conspiracy.

In addition to being wealthy businessmen, the Vino family has another identity, that is, members of the Church of Tranquility, a group of lunatics who live in an industrial society but believe in mysticism and magic.

The remote town of Baishi is the experimental field of the Quiet Church.

As a result of their covert manipulation, the town's water and air were polluted, the townspeople's physical condition deteriorated, and they were often plagued by illness.

In order to get rid of their illness, they had to seek help from the church and gradually accept the Church of Silence.

Under the guidance of the Church of Tranquility, their spirits began to be affected and they developed a contagious mental illness called delusional disorder.

As the patient's condition worsens, he or she begins to go crazy and attack others.

In order to control the spread of the disease, Randy Anderson and Wolfe, who had returned from studying medicine in the capital, converted the oldest cathedral in the town into a moonlight sanatorium.

Hearing this, Wu Chang looked up at Wolf and asked in surprise: "In other words, you are one of the builders of Moonlight Sanatorium?"

Seeing Wu Chang's surprise, Wolf did not show any pride on his face. Instead, he said sadly:

"I am also one of the creators of this tragedy. Randy and I were both wrong. It turns out that the occult really exists. The Church of Tranquility used the delusional patients gathered together to complete some horrific magic experiments!"

"They succeeded, and used the power they gained from the experiment to seal off the sanatorium, torturing the patients inside, twisting their minds and bodies, and turning them into inhuman monsters. Just like..."

"Just like me."

"It was because I investigated too deeply that I was discovered by them, so I became like this. They also kept sending Kington to monitor me."

Wu Chang stared at Wolf's worm body and asked, "Does Dean Randy know that you have become like this?"

Wolf shook his head and said, "Randy hasn't left the fourth floor since the sanatorium was closed. I guess his condition is not optimistic, but he is our last hope."

"You pathetic and pitiful outsider. Now you are trapped in this situation. If you want to get out, you must help me! I can't tell who among the medical staff are believers of the Church of Tranquility. I can only trust you outsiders."

"The Tranquility Church has mastered the power of the evil god and is using this power to distort reality. You must let Randy know the conspiracy of the Tranquility Church and find a way to stop it all!"

Wolf said this excitedly and waited for a while, but did not hear Wu Chang's response.

He stretched out his insectoid arms and scratched his back, asking, "Outsider, is there something on my back that you've been staring at?"

Wu Chang looked at the light red resentment that Wolf's insect limbs were scratching, and shook his head in response: "Nothing."

He looked at the resentful last words, then looked at Wolf, whose expression was sincere and his tone was natural, and sighed.

An old actor, if it weren't for the information in his resentment, he might have really fallen into Wolf's trap and believed that the monster in front of him was a tragic hero.

His eyes were fixed on resentment, and a line of ordinary last words emerged from the resentment.

“I didn’t expect that you, a pharmacist with thick eyebrows and big eyes, are actually a believer of the evil god like me. Wait, Master Priest, don’t do anything, we are on the same side!”

(End of this chapter)