Li Xian had heard this prolonged tone before-
On the morning of his first day in the Instance, just after taking his medicine.
The sound was exactly the same now as it had been then, its pitch piercingly high as it rang through the silent corridor for a full five seconds.
What exactly did this sound mean?
Before Li Xian could figure it out, his roommate suddenly sprang up in bed!
The sound seemed to have terrified him. He raised his head, still shaken, his body trembling violently and uncontrollably as his breathing grew heavier-
Li Xian suddenly realized there was a serious problem.
Would patients who had taken sleeping pills be woken by this sound?
If not-then the fact that he had switched the medicine could very well be exposed!
Li Xian's heart tightened. He looked nervously toward the door, praying that the patients who had been woken wouldn't do anything too extreme.
But his hopes were dashed. Barely a breath later, he heard shouting and pounding on doors from the other patient rooms!
At the commotion, his autistic roommate began trembling even harder, faint whimpers squeezing out of his throat.
Li Xian could no longer worry about pretending to sleep. He climbed out of bed, walked over to his roommate's bedside, and gently patted his back.
He acted partly out of sympathy, and partly because... he couldn't afford to draw the orderly or the Head Nurse back here now.
Yet Li Xian's attempts to soothe 303B did nothing to ease his trembling. The whimpers in his throat grew louder, and he was on the verge of crying out-
Something was suddenly popped into his mouth.
303B's sobbing first stopped in surprise, then he felt a trace of sweetness on his tongue.
His trembling slowly subsided, and he began