The Madness State

In just a short time without comforting him, the child's face had become extremely frightening.

The child's eyes, which should have been pure, revealed an inexplicable anger. His chubby hands pinched the siren's arm, ignoring the wrinkled hospital gown, and pinched the siren's arm until it was bruised and purple.

Although this was no longer unbearable pain for the predictor, it was clear that the baby's feelings for the siren were not love, but possession and resentment.

Yu Xing was too tall; if he stood up straight, he would inevitably brush against the embryos suspended by umbilical cord-like ropes. He simply squatted down and asked the somewhat surprised siren, "I just heard you calling yourself 'Mom'? Is your task to play the role of a mother who aborted her own child?"

A hint of sadness flickered in the siren's deep blue eyes. She moved the child a little further away and squatted down, lest this precious, intact child be snatched away by other embryos. "That's right, my character profile is that of a mother who deeply regrets aborting her child, leading to mental health issues. I need to find my child in the gynecology clinic."

"Find your child..." Yu Xing looked around. The gynecology clinic was a mess, with embryos hanging everywhere. Those embryos had not yet developed vocal cords and could not make the same sound as the child in the siren's arms.

A glint flashed in Yu Xing's eyes.

"Finding the child doesn't complete the mission. What else do you need to do? For example, comfort your child before you can finish this mission?"

"Yes, they said my child has to be satisfied with me, otherwise I'll die, but there's no time limit." The siren frowned, looking down to find the baby had already opened its mouth and started biting her shoulder. She didn't know how old the child was, but its teeth were already quite developed, and the bites were quite painful; if you weren't careful, you might get a piece of flesh bitten off.

She was a little distressed. "That means I have to take him with me everywhere I go until he's satisfied with me. I originally planned to take him to other places first, but he cried so hard, and the louder he cried, the more the embryos tried to take him away, so I couldn't get out at all."

"It seems this task is to make you a good mother." Yu Xing looked at the chubby baby, its fair skin pink and tender, yet its behavior was somewhat terrifying. "Being able to find him among so many embryos and successfully untie the ropes binding him is a test of your observation skills and abilities, but... you were still misled."

The siren's expression turned dark with suspicion.

Yu Xing said, "Would your child be the one to strangle you?"

The siren was startled, then suddenly seemed to remember something, and with a flick of her arm, she threw the infant who was about to bite her neck away.

It seems she realized what was happening, but simply abandoning the child wouldn't do... Yu Xing thought to himself, sighed, and swiftly caught the infant. He glanced up and saw that the embryos were eager to drive him, the outsider, away. Many of them had already developed sharp teeth or eerie large eyes. If he stayed any longer, he might really be besieged.

So Yu Xing didn't keep you in suspense and said directly, "The one you found is already several months old, right? Don't forget, you're a mother who regrets aborting her child. Your child shouldn't be growing healthily; on the contrary, it should be stillborn."

He placed his hands under the baby's armpits, lifted the infant, and shook his head dismissively. "Just because he's different, the only one who survived, you think you should look for him? No, the fact that the subsequent embryos tried to pull him back, and that you didn't complete your mission, are all hints."

"Many women must have abortions at this hospital. Every embryo hanging here was once a life growing in someone else's womb. They were abandoned by their nominal mothers and then bound here by the umbilical cord. They are, in a way, guardian spirits. This child is alive, that's right, and it's precisely the object of the embryos' protection. To them, the mother who abandoned her child is despicable; only the child is their companion. What you just did, in their eyes, is harming their companion."

The child cried with his mouth open, trying to bite Yu Xing's hand as he cried, but Yu Xing's action prevented him from biting, so he could only use his two fleshy arms to pinch Yu Xing.

After pinching for a while, the skin, which had turned purple for only a few seconds, returned to its original white color, leaving the baby confused.

Yu Xing chuckled softly and shook the loudly crying baby, "If you really take him away, then your role will become that of a bad woman who goes to the gynecology clinic to look for her child but can't find her, so she steals someone else's baby. How angry will your stillborn child be when he doesn't get to see you? So you don't need to keep him with you. As soon as you carry him out of the clinic, you'll die."

When the siren suggested, "This child likes to pinch her so much, it's probably not hers," she realized she had gone astray. She had subconsciously viewed the embryos as monsters, and the monsters were trying to steal her child, which was hindering her from completing her mission. Plus, the child kept crying, and she was busy comforting the child, so she didn't have much energy to think about what was wrong.

"You're right, I made a stupid mistake." She took a deep breath, staring at the countless stillborn fetuses, her temples throbbing. "So my child is in this examination room, but it shouldn't be among these embryos, otherwise I wouldn't be able to complete my task."

She stood up and looked around at the various cabinets in the room.

Ignoring this false interference, the child she's looking for should be among these cabinets!

"Thank you, Xing. You're such a good person, and even smarter and more helpful than I imagined." The siren walked towards the cabinet, feeling much more at ease, though still a little scared.

She only just realized that it was just the first mission in Dusk Mode, so why was it suddenly so difficult?

Even the previous episodes of the Dusk Mode in Fear Hospital weren't this harsh from the start.

While she was preparing for the event, some people brought up things she didn't understand, such as "Han Yan will definitely play his trump card, good luck to the temporary alliance, if the Siren dies again, she'll die directly without any rule changes, hahaha," etc. Unfortunately, there weren't many viewers in her live stream, and she didn't have time to ask. For her, the preparation for the third round was more than the first two rounds, and she should also think carefully about how to avoid being sacrificed as someone who didn't care. So she didn't pay much attention to the viewers.

Now, she vaguely felt that she had missed something very important; otherwise, why would the first task be so difficult, and why would Xing help her unconditionally?

She was the perpetrator, and thankfully not her accomplice. Why trust her?

She needs to find Shafuri quickly.

The siren began rummaging through drawers and cabinets without a care in the world. On the other side, Yu Xing took one last look at the irritable child in her arms and memorized this detail.

Although Dusk Mode is the most chaotic mode, it is also the mode with the most information. All the monsters come from the Dean's heart. The existence of such monsters must be because the Dean has such prototypes in his memories.

When the hospital director was managing the hospital, he must have experienced incidents such as a woman who went insane after having an abortion at their hospital and then snatched someone else's child, and a patient who was considered a serial killer and died due to incorrect treatment. Perhaps after the death, the director learned that the patient's true past was just that of a normal person, but they treated him as a stubborn patient.

The fault stemmed from the dean's imagined identity, but ultimately it was the dean's fault.

The hospital director would keep in mind every patient who died or went insane because of his mistakes, eventually creating an irreversible madness.

This is likely the cause of Fear Hospital.

[Note that you will enter your first frenzy state in one minute, which will last for ten minutes.]

The system's ruthless notification shattered Yu Xing's thoughts. Yu Xing raised an eyebrow, not expecting her first bout of madness to come so quickly.

He lifted the baby up, and immediately countless small, still-developing hands took the baby in, surrounding it. The baby calmed down, closed its eyes, and quickly fell asleep.

There are sirens here, and because of the embryonic little monsters, his and the sirens' live streams are definitely on. He has no idea what he'll be like when he goes crazy, so he'd better try to find a secluded place first.

The siren found a clear glass bottle in a hidden cabinet. The bottle contained an unknown, murky liquid, and in the liquid was a small, curled-up figure.

The siren's eyes welled up with tears the moment she saw it.

It's a really strange feeling. It's clearly not her child, just a character's persona, but when she sees it, she still feels an overwhelming mix of sadness and joy, as if she's found a missing part of her life.

Is this the bond between a mother and her child?

The siren held the bottle, closed her eyes "happily," and held back her tears. She hugged the bottle as if she were holding a tiny life.

In that instant, she received a notification that the mission was complete.

Her real baby only needs a hug to be content, yet she spent so much time gently comforting someone else's child. How... foolish of her.

The siren still wanted to cry.

She thought of herself, wondering if the role the Fear Hospital had assigned her was a coincidence or inevitable... She, too, had once been an abandoned child.

She was thrown into the sea and didn't remember what happened, only the boundless darkness of the seabed and the ripples created by the creatures swimming past her.

It was a strange feeling; her emotions at that moment were probably the same as those of the abandoned babies here.

The sound of footsteps brought her back to her senses. She carefully released the bottle and found it filled only with murky liquid. The small figure she had just seen was gone, as if it had never existed.

She sighed softly.

In reality, how could an aborted child possibly be found? The woman who went mad came back looking for it, but it was just a form of emotional support. She might have thought she had found it, but in reality, there was nothing there.

It was all just a dream.

She turned around and called to Yu Xing, who was about to leave. "Wait! The monsters outside haven't dispersed yet. Let's at least wait until they're farther away before we go out! Um... thank you for your help. Is there anything I can help you with in your mission?"

Yu Xing didn't look at her, her hand on the doorknob, her tone somewhat strange. "It'll be too late once they leave."

"What do you mean 'too late'? A time-limited mission?" The siren thought for a moment, then walked over and patted him on the shoulder. "Then I can help even more."

She was the perpetrator, and could have struck at this moment without anyone noticing. You could even say she killed Sachi, but for some reason, the siren felt that her usually decisive judgment had been affected.

Her soul seemed to disapprove of her doing so; an inexplicable intuition told her that this person was somewhat kind.

Could it be... that he was the one who spoke to her and saw her secret glowing orb?

The siren started speculating wildly, and it was fortunate that she came directly to help her, perhaps because they had communicated in a pure soul state before.

Regardless of her train of thought, the depth and mystery of the sea certainly gave her an extraordinary capacity for imagination. She tentatively touched Yu Xing: "Can you tell me? Your mission. I just received your help, and I won't turn around and repay kindness with enmity."

Yu Xing paused.

He had actually intended to leave earlier, but there were just too many monsters outside, and they were of all kinds. It was impossible for every one of them to be easy to deal with, nor were they all particularly evil. For example, the baby embryo monster in the gynecology clinic was one of the more benevolent types.

He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should break through at all costs, as that might have a negative impact on his ability to conceal his whereabouts later.

Moreover, if you go straight out, it will also be considered an encounter with a monster, and keeping a live stream running the whole way is the same as staying in a gynecology clinic.

Before he could come up with a solution, the siren called out to him.

Or... let's just stay here and wait. Hopefully, the siren can withstand his madness.

With her muscles relaxed, Yu Xing turned around and smiled at the siren.

"Alright, from now on, I only need you to do one thing."

"What is it?" The siren instantly released her grip, sensing something was amiss.

"Don't get scared, and don't die for no reason," Yu Xing cautioned. "Of course, it's also possible that nothing happened..."

Maybe he can handle it completely.

As soon as she finished speaking, Yu Xing's expression changed.

The minute ended precisely at that moment, and a state of frenzy enveloped him, making his eyes look very different from before.

Before the siren could even grasp the meaning of his advice, she felt as if she were being stared at by a venomous snake, her hair standing on end and goosebumps rising all over her body.

Inside the room, the infant embryos, which had stopped making any further moves towards them, became restless. Instead of acting normally, they all retreated and crawled away from Yu Xing.

"Uh..." The siren chuckled and took a step back. "Actually, you want to get out, right? It's not impossible. I think you're quite capable; maybe you can manage to get out."

Before she could finish speaking, Yu Xing grabbed her hand.

The rose mask was also affected by his madness, manifesting rose patterns on his face, making him appear both eerie and dangerous.

Yu Xing asked very clearly, "Have you ever lived in an underwater dragon palace?"

The siren froze before she even began to struggle. "?"