Doctor Gao granted every patient's wish. Everyone stood in the sea of flowers until their blood congealed.
"Go take care of your work. Leave the cleanup to us." Bone Wax stood beside the operating table and lifted a bracelet made of strung-together flower buds, lingering over it with wistful reluctance.
What was normal, and what was madness? When no one cared, neither mattered anymore.
Entering the director's hospital ward, Doctor Gao took out the drug he had stolen from the Ethics Research Institute and sat beside the bed. "When you first met me, you said some very strange things. You said you'd seen plenty of madmen, but I was the first who frightened you. You said I was influencing you, that you were afraid I'd convince you. In truth, you'd already accepted my view of this world."
"You knew I wasn't wrong. You tortured me with all those painful treatments only to punish your own cowardice."
"But it doesn't matter anymore. Your soul will no longer have to remain trapped in this old, stinking shell."
He injected the drug into the director's brain. If anyone tried to share a brain with him, their sanity would be destroyed immediately.
"The Mortal World Entrance is about to close. Those unpredictable beings haven't found this place."
In a world gone mad, perhaps the patients locked in the asylum were the normal ones. This hospital was called the Mortal World Entrance because it truly led to the mortal world. But through Doctor Gao's efforts, even the final opening had been sealed. Not a single normal soul remained in the hospital.
He found Doctor Chi deep inside the department and exchanged work IDs with him. After leaving him a dose of the drug, Doctor Gao hurried home.
As soon as he stepped through the front