Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 258 257 Psychiatry

As soon as you join, you will receive "membership benefits" and the promise of being able to obtain the "Joker" potion formula and some main ingredients from the Fortune Teller Club.

When he left the Fortune Teller's Club, Klein still felt a little dazed.

Wow, this is how a big shot takes action, no drag at all.

After bidding farewell to Lillard, a senior member, Klein and Pettigrew walked around Blue Moon 17, familiarizing themselves with this club known for its fortune-telling methods.

During this time, Klein also saw other fortune tellers. They seemed to know Pettigrew, and Pettigrew introduced Klein, the fortune teller of the Nighthawks, to them.

"The vast majority of people in the Fortune Teller Club are Sequence 9 Fortune Tellers, or perhaps just "Fortune Tellers" who are here to earn some extra cash."

The latter refers to those Beyonders on the Diviner Path who have already digested the Diviner and improved their own Sequence, but intend to earn pocket money through divination.

"There's a role-playing method. If you play the role of a real fortune teller in the Fortune Teller Club, you should be able to quickly digest the Fortune Teller Potion and be promoted to the Joker."

"I will work hard."

After walking around for a while, they walked out of No. 17 Blue Moon Street.

On the third floor of the Fortune Teller Club, faces appeared one after another on the glass windows of a room, calmly watching the departing backs of Klein and Pettigrew.

-

"We have information about the Secret Order."

On Friday, Dunn Smith brought good news. "Miskatonic University, through the information retrieved from Nix Miller's body, they have captured other members of the Esoteric Order in Tingen City."

"But that member's condition is very bad now. He is currently being admitted to the psychiatric department of St. Peter's Hospital... We need to go there."

"Going crazy?"

Pettigrew wondered, "Was it contaminated by the Antigonus family's notes, causing it to go out of control?"

Dunn Smith shook his head. "The specific situation is unclear. This is just a possible guess. We'll find out once we get there... Neil, Klein, and Leonard, come with me."

"After obtaining accurate intelligence, depending on the specific circumstances at that time, we may need to directly participate in the operation to recover the notes."

"Okay, Captain." Leonard, who had a poetic temperament and wore a crystal monocle in his left eye socket, spoke first.

Klein and Pettigrew also nodded.

They quickly got ready and took a carriage to St. Peter's Hospital.

St. Peter's Hospital, Department of Psychiatry.

Compared to the inpatient building where Klein had last visited, St. Peter's Psychiatric Department was far away from the crowds, and the surrounding buildings were not as densely packed. It looked more like a large park, filled with bright green plants. Just looking at them seemed to soothe one's inner anxiety.

A masterpiece for the audience?

Klein speculated so.

After all, the audience's Sequence 7 is called a psychiatrist, and the psychiatric department of St. Peter's Hospital should have no shortage of corresponding Beyonders.

Led by the nurse, several people prepared to go to the department director's office on the 8th floor to inquire about the condition of the crazy secret society patient.

Klein also gained more information about the Antigonus family from his recent knowledge of occult knowledge and history. He knew that this family had once been suppressed by the Church of the Evernight Goddess, which was why they gradually declined during the glorious Solomon Empire of the Fourth Epoch.

The reason why the Night Watchers care so much about the lost Antigonus family notes even though they come from Tingen University and belong to Miskatonic University is, on the one hand, because of the connection between the Church of Night and Miskatonic University, and on the other hand, because he, a believer of the Goddess of Night, has now joined the Night Watchers as a fortune teller.

On the other hand, there is the problem of the Antigonus family.

Both the Secret Order and the Church of Night seem to be quite interested in the affairs of the Antigonus family and have different concerns.

"But why did the Goddess's Church suppress the Antigonus family of the Diviner's Path? Well, there must be a deeper secret here."

As the elevator went up, everyone was silent.

However, when the elevator reached the sixth floor, the door suddenly opened.

Someone outside the door pressed the elevator button and prepared to take the elevator.

Klein looked over and saw a young man in a white coat. He should have been full of energy, but his expression was rather numb.

Klein's fortune-teller intuition suddenly triggered, and he immediately remembered who the doctor in the white coat was.

Klein had met this doctor not long ago.

At that time, he was visiting his original body's mother and met a patient diagnosed with "paranoia" and "schizophrenia" in the corridor.

"Why is he here? No, he's a patient, wearing a white coat. Is he pretending to be a doctor?"

When Klein looked at the other person's badge, he clearly saw the words "Psychiatrist, Ademisol" written on it.

Is he really a psychiatrist at St. Peter's?

Klein was quite puzzled, but since this was St. Peter's Hospital's own business, he didn't dare to ask too many questions.

Perhaps Ademisol, a former mental patient, has recovered after a few days of treatment?

In the world of Extraordinary People, anything seems possible.

Klein shook his head silently. Dr. Ademisol entered the elevator, apparently intending to go to the director's office with them.

When Dr. Admisol entered the elevator, revealing the corridor behind him, Klein glanced at the sixth-floor corridor outside the elevator door and saw several strange rooms with iron doors and observation windows.

The sixth floor seems to be a ward for mental patients.

The first ward that came into Klein's sight had a strange black iron ring hanging on the door. The second ward had an oil painting that seemed to depict the starry sky hanging on the door.

The third ward had nothing hanging on it, but there was a sign with something written on it. It should be the patient's name, but the distance was too far for Klein to see clearly.

The first three wards were silent, extremely quiet. From Klein's perspective, it was difficult to see the specific conditions in the wards from this angle, but the fourth ward was an exception.

In the fourth ward, through an observation window, Klein saw something moving inside. It looked like the patient in the ward was pressing his face against the window, squeezing it, as if trying to squeeze out.

Klein saw the slightly distorted face. His mouth opened and closed, and it looked like he was saying something, but neither Klein nor anyone else could hear clearly.

There seemed to be a few more doors left, but as the elevator door closed, Klein could no longer see them clearly. As the elevator door closed, Klein seemed to hear the sound of a door slamming from far away, extremely far away.

He quickly put what he saw out of his mind, and no longer thought about the patient in the fourth ward and what he was saying.

Leonard Mitchell watched the entire abnormality in the corridor on the sixth floor outside the door. He silently pinched the monocle in his left eye socket. In the reflection of the monocle, there seemed to be a young man wearing a black pointed hat, a magician's robe of the same color, with a broad forehead and a thin face, laughing silently.

Those words are—

He lip-synced, but neither Leonard nor Dunn, nor Pettigrew, the nurse, nor Admitsole could hear him.

"Run away."

The corners of his mouth widened in a smile, as if he had just seen something hilarious, and he really couldn't stop grinning.

"Most of the people in the psychiatric department of St. Peter's Hospital have mental illnesses. As you move up the floors, it seems that the severity of their illnesses increases as well."

Klein secretly shook his head. "If it was a Beyonder who lost control, perhaps he would also be locked up in a mental hospital?"

I just don't know if St. Peter's Hospital has any means to treat out-of-control conditions.

There should be, the audience channel is very good at this kind of treatment...

Arriving at the eighth floor, Dr. Ademisol was the first to walk out of the elevator, followed by the nurse leading the way, Klein, Leonard Dunn and others.

On the eighth floor, the director's office of the psychiatry department.

They were received by the director of the psychiatry department, and after entering the office, Dr. Ademisol consciously walked to the corner and stayed there without saying a word.

"Good afternoon, Ms. Lettice."

"Good afternoon, Mr. Smith."

The head of the psychiatric department was an old lady who looked to be over fifty years old and was very kind.

After the daily greetings and Dunn Smith's description of the patient, she took out a stack of documents from her desk drawer and said as she flipped through them:
"We've been conducting a detailed psychoanalysis since we took this patient in. His mental state is very poor. He seems to believe that the world he lives in is unreal. He can't clearly distinguish between reality and fantasy, and he has a tendency towards self-destruction..."

A "schizophrenic" patient?
Another "schizophrenia" patient?
Klein couldn't help but glance at Dr. Admisol in the corner, trying to find the same madness he had seen in him before.

But Dr. Admisol remained calm, as if immersed in his own world, unaware of the outside world. He stood in the corner like a silent wax figure.

There is no trace of the madness that kept shouting "Save me, I'm dying" and "This world is fake".

"We found clues to the Antigonus family notebook in the patient's spiritual world. Nix Miller found the notebook and handed it to him. Now, it's in the hands of a man named Reil Bibb... We have informed Tingen University and Miskatonic University of the specific situation... You can go see the patient later."

The old woman spoke slowly. After she finished speaking, she glanced at Klein with a kind expression:

"Kid, have you had any nightmares recently?"

"No..." Klein was stunned. He didn't expect to be asked this question. He was about to shake his head when he suddenly thought of a nightmare he had had before. Although he couldn't remember what was in that nightmare, the terrifying and strange feeling still remained in his mind.

He answered honestly, "Yes, I did have nightmares after the Antigonus family notes disappeared, but I can't remember the content of those nightmares anymore... I haven't had nightmares recently."

"This is a normal phenomenon. It proves that the power that pollutes you is gradually weakening over time." The wrinkles on the old woman's face were stacked together, but she still looked so gentle.

"I remember that Night Watchmen have annual physicals. You can find a time to come to St. Peter's for a more detailed checkup... This will better ensure your health, and if there are any problems, they can be resolved as soon as possible. Don't think this matter is unimportant just because you are young and feel good about yourself..."

Free physical examination?

"I will."

But the captain never mentioned this at all!
Pettigrew thought for a moment and whispered beside Klein, "He forgot."

But you didn’t remind me!
Klein looked at Pettigrew, who cleared his throat and turned his head away.

Oh, he forgot too.

There have been too many things going on recently. As a human being, it is not a big deal to forget unimportant things.

When I came out of the director of psychiatry's office, Dr. Ademisole did not follow me out.

Klein, Dunn, and the others took the elevator to the second floor and went to see the member of the secret order who was said to be crazy.

He was in the ward, crying and laughing, sometimes quiet, sometimes talking like crazy, "It's him! It's him! It's all him!"

This made Klein almost start singing "Little Nezha~" or something like that.

This person has such a beautiful mental state.

Klein sighed silently.

"He doesn't look out of control, but more like he's scared crazy." Leonard pinched the monocle in his left eye socket and said with a smile.

"What you said makes this matter even more terrifying."

Klein complained in his heart, and after confirming the condition of this secret society member, the few of them planned to leave.

They will then go to Tingen University and meet directly with Tingen University Security and Miskatonic University investigators to arrest Riel Bibb and retrieve the notes.

As he passed the corridor outside the psychiatric ward, Klein saw a middle-aged man in a hospital gown sitting on the lawn outside the ward.

The man had a thick golden beard and a pair of pure, childlike golden eyes.

He looked over, and Klein noticed that the other person seemed to be holding a strange doll with five heads in his hand, which looked very scary.

"Number 3, we have to go back."

The nurse standing not far from the middle-aged man in the hospital gown shouted.

"number 3?"

Klein didn't understand what was going on, but the middle-aged man holding the scary puppet had already slowly stood up and, led by the nurse, returned to the psychiatric ward behind him.

Leonard tilted his head and glanced at the middle-aged man, then turned his head back as if nothing had happened.

(End of this chapter)