Anyone who often went out knew just how terrifying the phrase "since we're already here" could be.
After walking all the way here, they had reached what looked to be the very heart of the sanatorium. The attending physician's office stood right before them.
No matter why they had come, no matter how much of it was true or false, decisively stopping in front of a door like this was rather extraordinary.
It was not as though it required tremendous willpower or anything. Being mentally unsound seemed a more fitting description.
Especially since there was not even anyone inside. Going in and coming back out should, theoretically, have had no effect whatsoever.
Even if he did not want to go in, he could at least push the door open and take a look, satisfying a little of his curiosity.
Yet after knocking three times, Fu Qian actually lowered his hand, with no intention whatsoever of peeking inside.
As a result, the neurologist who had accompanied him all this way and possessed an exceptional capacity for empathy nearly had his obsessive-compulsive disorder flare up on the spot.
"What's wrong? Don't tell me what you said earlier was the joke? Are you actually still planning to drag me in there?"
Most importantly, this was behavior he himself had strongly advocated.
So when Fu Qian looked over in confusion and asked about his reaction, Unyielding Man's eyes had already turned red from holding it in.
Ding ding ding...
But as the saying went, heaven never barred every path. Just as Brother Unyielding Man was showing faint signs of a cerebral hemorrhage, a peculiar ringing sound suddenly rang out.
It was accompanied by the sound of a door opening.
Not the door to the attending physician's office, but one farther down the floor, in