I dug up the magical girl's corpse.

Chapter 53 Madwoman

"Ugh, it's only been a few minutes since I checked, how come it's like this again!"

While Chen Mu was still in a daze, the caregiver beside him had already gone over.

The caregivers here are all burly and strong, the kind of aunties who often do physical labor, and they quickly subdued the crazy woman who was yelling and screaming.

He pushed her down onto the hospital bed, then turned to her and said, "Xiao Chen, come lend a hand!"

"...Do I have to do that too?"

Chen Mu pointed to himself.

"Nonsense, do you want to live with a crazy patient? Tie her up!"

The caregiver's words convinced Chen Mu. She had a deep impression of the way the woman had acted during her attack; she looked like a female ghost crawling out of a horror movie. If she had pounced on her, she might not have been able to handle it.

So he went over and helped the caregiver tie the restraints securely around the woman's body, but the whole bed was still shaking violently.

"Ughhhhhh, don't even think about ruining my cultivation—"

"Eat, eat, eat! This is a medicinal pill!"

The caregiver forced the patient to swallow the medicine from his arms, which finally calmed him down.

"call……"

She got out of bed and gave Chen Mu a grateful look: "You're quite clever, I won't hold what happened before against you."

Taking advantage of the caregiver's increasing affection for him, Chen Mu seized the opportunity and immediately asked:

"Sis, where did Xiaoying go? Has she been discharged from the hospital?"

"Xiao Ying?"

The caregiver wiped her sweat, looking utterly confused, as if she couldn't understand what Chen Mu was saying: "Who?"

"That six-year-old child, who used to sleep in this bed, was my roommate in the same ward."

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Chen Mu gestured with her fingers, but she was beginning to realize that something was wrong.

The caregiver seemed to have never heard of it before!

"What are you talking about, Xiao Chen? There's no way a six-year-old child would be admitted to a mental hospital! We can't possibly admit a patient that young!"

"What?" Chen Mu was stunned. Didn't these words make her sound like a lunatic?

Eager to find evidence, she quickly looked at the patient name tag at the head of the hospital bed and discovered it belonged to an unfamiliar woman.

Could she have gone to the wrong room? She went to another bed, and there it was written: "Chen Mu". This was indeed their original room.

But where did Xiaoying go? Why doesn't the caregiver remember her?

"Xiao Ying? We don't have any patients with the surname Xiao in our hospital. You must be mistaken!"

The nurse waved her hand dismissively, saying that she seemed to be familiar with the patients in the hospital.

Chen Mu frowned. Now, she couldn't even bring herself to say that her surname wasn't "Xiao." How could a living person be called by such a nickname as "Xiao Ying"?

It's even less believable when you say it out loud.

She calmed down and asked in a more composed tone, "Then who was my previous roommate? It couldn't have always been her, could it?"

She pointed to the madwoman on the hospital bed, who was asleep due to the effects of the medication. Her hair was disheveled in front of her eyes, making it almost impossible to see her face.

"No, she came after you put her in solitary confinement. But this is her second time in jail; she escaped once before but was caught and brought back for further treatment."

The caregiver laughed, seemingly finding Chen Mu's question amusing: "Little Chen, your previous roommate? It seems you don't remember at all. You used to be a notorious critically ill patient here, never lucid, attacking anyone you saw, and spouting nonsense. Who would dare be your roommate? This bed next to you was always empty until you were locked up, and then a new person moved in."

"Well……"

Chen Mu was speechless.

"However, your new roommate is quite a troublemaker. Dr. Wang arranged for you two to be together, which can be considered a case of one thing subduing another."

The caregiver walked over, patted Chen Mu on the shoulder, and said meaningfully, "As for the 'Xiao Ying' thing, it's okay if you talk to me about it. You helped me today, so I won't report it. Just don't let it slip to the doctor, or you'll be charged with a worsening condition and increased supervision. Don't blame me for that."

After saying that, she ignored Chen Mu's slightly complicated expression and walked out of the ward.

...

For the rest of the day, Chen Mu stayed in the hospital room, pondering only one thing:

—Could this so-called Xiao Ying really be a character I made up?

The more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed. Why would a living, breathing person simply vanish into thin air?

She had been roommates with that little girl in this mental hospital for at least a few days, and she remembered those memories very clearly.

In particular, the knowledge about "witches" that Xiaoying talked about is still firmly etched in my mind; it couldn't be more real.

To suddenly transform her into a fictitious, non-existent character would undoubtedly overturn her original worldview.

"However, this dream world is inherently incredible, so it's understandable that some strange phenomena occur."

Chen Mu thought that perhaps her two transmigrations had disturbed some variable, causing a butterfly effect and altering the world line.

In this timeline, Xiaoying doesn't exist; instead, this crazy woman becomes her roommate, right?

Chen Mu had considered whether there was something wrong with her brain.

She had read that so-called mental illnesses, in the final analysis, are not mental problems, but rather physiological disorders. Many seemingly bizarre and unbelievable symptoms are actually due to a malfunction in some part of the brain, making it impossible to think and act normally. If this girl's body really has a physiological disorder, then it's possible that Chen Mu, after transmigrating, might also...

"No, my mind is perfectly clear, how could there be a problem?"

But Chen Mu was a resolute person, even to the point of being obsessive. She would never think that way and insisted that she was fine.

Ultimately, whether or not Xiao Ying is there is no real significance; once she's gone, she's gone, and it's not important.

"My only goal is to escape this mental hospital and uncover the secrets of this dream world."

Thinking of this, Chen Mu's mind was no longer filled with fear and unease, but became extremely clear.

She had been thinking for a while when she got up to go to the cafeteria to get something to eat. She hadn't eaten since waking up and was still hungry.

Just then, the person in the next bed suddenly made a muffled "uh-ah-uh-ah" sound.

Did that crazy woman wake up?

Chen Mu paused for a moment, then pulled back the bed curtains and went to the next room to take a look.

It turned out that the woman was still firmly bound to the bed with restraints, her eyes tightly closed, and she was uttering some incomprehensible words:

"...To achieve supernatural powers, one must elevate one's immortal foundation, ascend to the Ascending Sun Palace, and cross the twelve-story tower to manifest supernatural powers. But that's not all. One must also use supernatural powers to push the Ascending Sun Palace into the Great Void, regard the mortal body as nothing, first overcome the ignorance of the mind, forget the self and the external world, and after seeing through the ignorance, hold the supernatural powers in one's mouth, then face the boundless illusions, and only after passing through can one achieve the Purple Palace."

"--Um?"