Chapter 3: Let Me Eat a Bottle?

Jiang Xiao didn't wait for a response from inside, he just opened the door and went in.

The first thing he did upon entering was to size up the patient ward.

Hmm, predominantly white, with some yellow decorative items stuck to the walls—a mental hospital's habitual use of warm tones for therapeutic effect.

There was a seductively dressed, sexy woman lying on the bed inside.

However, she was wearing the same blue and white "Spirit" hospital gown as Jiang Xiao.

"Uh, are you, are you a new fellow patient?"

The female patient asked cautiously.

Weird, wasn't a new doctor supposed to come today? Why is there a "Spirit" patient?

Jiang Xiao replied with Pai Daxing's wise tone.

"What fellow patient, I don't understand what you're saying, Sandy, you know, I'm certainly not some neurotic."

"I'm not called Sandy, my name is Wang Xiao'ai."

The female patient corrected Jiang Xiao's mistaken address.

"No! You're not Wang Xiao'ai, from now on you're Sandy! The Sandy that lives in the Oak Residence of Bikini Bottom!!!"

Jiang Xiao frowned, quite dissatisfied that the other person was not cooperating with the roleplay.

Wang Xiao'ai swallowed hard, feeling that this patient might be even more ill than herself...

"No, you cannot tell me what to do, I... I only listen to the doctor."

Only listen to the doctor?

A lightbulb went off in the genius Jiang Xiao's mind; if he wasn't mistaken, wasn't there a white lab coat in the office from the beginning?

"Okay, you just wait! I'll be right back."

Jiang Xiao left the room and went back to the office he started in, greeting the security guard as he walked.

"Hi there, big guy who looks like a shrimp boss, you seem a bit slow."

This whole act left the audience dumbfounded...

[What's going on, I just saw a hint of fear of Jiang Xiao on that mental patient's face...]

[Nonsense! If you met a poker-faced "Spirit" patient on the street who insisted you were Sandy from Bikini Bottom, wouldn't you be scared?]

[I can't handle it, this style, why is it so eerie and weird...]

...

Meanwhile, Dr. Wobuju had already made it past security to visit the mental ward.

After much dilly-dallying and sweet talking, he finally got Wang Xiao'ai to take her medicine willingly.

After all, needing to medicate her without making her angry was truly no small feat for Wobuju.

After Wobuju's guidance and conversation, Wang Xiao'ai uncertainly said she might be sick.

But what baffled him was that Wang Xiao'ai had forgotten what her illness was.

She just kept repeating how much she missed the other two patients and wanted to see them.

No matter how Wobuju asked, the woman seemed unable to provide any useful information.

This won't do, there didn't seem to be anything valuable about this Wang Xiao'ai, it was time to find another breakthrough.

Wobuju left the first room promptly, returning to the corridor.

Time is life; he couldn't hang all his hopes on one lead, and he was also sorting through the sparse information he had.

"She said she 'seems' to be sick? Isn't she sure if she's ill?"

"She also said she misses the other two patients a lot, wants to meet them..."

"But rule five clearly states that the two female neurotics should not meet; according to the rules, it seems the two women might be enemies."

"However, so far patient number one, Wang Xiao'ai, seems quite stable, a bit foolish, but not like she's going to morph into something ghoulish."

"Could it be possible that she wanted to deceive me into taking her to the presence of another female patient on purpose?"

"Maybe, I should let her meet the male 'Spirit' patient first?"

"Rule five mentions the male 'Spirit' patient loves the other two female patients, so letting the two of them meet should be okay..."

"Hmm, let's go see the other two patients before making plans!"

The Lighthouse Country's live streaming room was brimming with praises.

[My old chum! Come look, Dr. Wobuju's deduction is simply magnificent]

[For God's sake, his reasoning is as delightful as the apple pies made by Aunt Susan next door]

[This is just fabulous! I think we can start celebrating our doctor's third victory in advance!]

[Hahaha, good thing I tuned into Lighthouse Country, the actions by Dragon Country's chosen ones seem like the foolish antics of a groundhog~]

Many Dragon Country nationals in the Lighthouse Country live streaming room wanted to retort, but they felt powerless.

To be fair, Dr. Wobuju was indeed impressive...

Let's go see if Jiang Xiao, that neurotic, has been eliminated yet.

They returned to Dragon Country's live streaming room.

By this time, Jiang Xiao was back in the first room.

"Sandy said she listens to the doctor, so if I wear this white coat, I should be good."

Jiang Xiao donned the white lab coat, thought for a moment, and then opened the cupboard.

"I need to bring some gifts for my good friend Sandy; she'll like these jelly beans."

"This... this idea seems to have no problem..."

"Did his moves just happen to correspond with the rules?"

"Hey, don't have any hope for a mentally ill person, just be happy if they can survive a moment longer."

Seeing Jiang Xiao emerge in a white coat, the security guard's face immediately broke into a warm smile; this was finally in line with the game script!

"Hello, you must be the new doctor, Jiang Xiao, right? We have a total of three patients here, and they..."

"Please, Mr. shrimp boss lookalike, shut up. Doctor Pai Daxing doesn't need your pointers, I swear I can handle everything."

The smile on the security guard's face stiffened, and he, grinding his teeth, said,

"Okay, okay, Doctor Pai Daxing, then please, go ahead..."

Watching Jiang Xiao's back, the security guard's lungs were about to explode.

Freaking hell, if it weren't for the rules forbidding him to act, he would have torn this idiot to pieces right now!

'DuangDuangDuang!'

After knocking three times, Jiang Xiao directly entered the ward.

Seeing Jiang Xiao in a white coat, Wang Xiao'ai's eyes lit up.

"Doctor Jiang Xiao, you're finally here, there's hope for my condition!"

"Got it, the weirdness here seems to only recognize the clothing, not the person..."

"No wonder the rule demands players to wear the white coat; otherwise, the guard would probably have attacked and killed them as soon as they entered the corridor."

"Just asking because I don't understand, why was there no problem when Jiang Xiao wasn't wearing the white coat just now?"

Bullet comments fell silent for a while...

Followed by a weak reply from a guy,

"At the beginning, Jiang Xiao was wearing a psychiatric patient's attire, which also seemed pretty reasonable, right? After all, this is a mental hospital..."

"True, the guard might have thought Jiang Xiao was a new patient just now."

"Holy shit! Look what Jiang Xiao is doing!"

Jiang Xiao then felt Wang Xiao'ai's stomach, afterward began to seriously stroke his chin with a furrowed brow.

"Oh, Sandy, your health is really terrible now."

After hearing the doctor's diagnosis, Wang Xiao'ai became a bit panicked.

"Doctor Jiang Xiao, what exactly is my condition? And by the way, my name is Wang Xiao'ai, did you get it wrong?"

"No, no, you're Sandy, and I'm Doctor Pai Daxing; we agreed, you must listen to the doctor."

"Huh?" Wang Xiao'ai was startled, "My name is Sandy? And you're called Pai Daxing?"

"Buddy, maybe things are exactly as you think they are."

"Doctor Pai Daxing, please, you must save me, I have loved ones; I can't forget them!"

"Fine, it's good I came prepared, look! Magical rainbow candies! Just eat these and you'll be fine!"

Jiang Xiao took out the candy beans he had earlier.

"Doctor Pai Daxing, those look like medicine, right?"

"Think what you will, it doesn't matter."

"Crap! Was he just a blind cat that ran into a dead mouse and actually made it to the medication stage?"

"Brother, don't celebrate too soon; I always feel like something unexpected is going to happen."

Sure enough, Wang Xiao'ai had a question.

"Doctor Pai Daxing, may I ask, how much of this should I take?"

"Oh, that's a very profound question; I don't understand what you're saying."

Wang Xiao'ai: What? Such a profound question???

Seeing Wang Xiao'ai's distrustful look, Jiang Xiao spoke again.

"But I think... you should be able to take a whole bottle because that's what I did just now."

Oh, consume a whole bottle...

Wait, what? Consume a whole bottle??!!

Wang Xiao'ai's expression instantly stiffened; was this doctor planning to kill her directly with medication?

"Doctor Pai Daxing, you… you must have gotten it wrong?"

Being doubted by Sandy was something Jiang Xiao found quite displeasing!

"No mistake! It's exactly like that; quick, eat up, Sandy!"

"Uh, I… I'll just take six, is that okay?"

Wang Xiao'ai, frightened, weakly said after swallowing saliva.

Jiang Xiao nonchalantly waved his hand.

"Fine then, actually you can take as many as you like, because it really doesn't matter."

"I can't take it anymore, it hurts to laugh, I almost couldn't keep it together when they knew they had to take a whole bottle!"

"Wang Xiao'ai: I thought you were the living Bodhisattva here to save me, turns out you're a purebred Living Yama coming for my life!"

"I bet Wang Xiao'ai is questioning her life now, hahahahaha..."

"I'm impressed, scaring the weirdness into taking medicine–Wobuju was talking vividly just now and only with great effort did he persuade her to take it properly."

"Don't know why, but I feel like Jiang Xiao might actually clear the game?"

"Er, brother, hopes are full, but with Jiang Xiao's character, if there's no accident, then that itself would be the accident."