After finishing the last chapter of the King in Yellow, Plague Doctor, Gu Jun was silent for a long time.
Dirty-minded Yu, Zixuan, and the monitor survived. But Chief Si, Feng Wei, and many others …
He heaved a long sigh. It was time to move on. But in the end, he still had no idea what happened to the giant blob of meat that turned the sky above Mo Bei into a dark forest. It was not mentioned in the book. Did it explode? Disappeared? Or was it still there?
Shub-Niggurath …
An existence that was no less powerful than Nyarlathotep …
Gu Jun had many thoughts and feelings that needed to be sorted out.
In front of Perry Sanders and the others, he did not insist that he was the Gu Jun in the book. If this was a trick, then so be it.
Of course, he had to find his way home. If Nyarlathotep could fail once, it could fail twice.
Based on Keziah Mason's explanation, defeating Nyarlathotep was the fun it really wanted.
Sunders tried to persuade Gu Jun to stay here and recuperate, but Gu Jun insisted that Sunders help him leave. After that, they left the meeting room and returned to the small, cramped ward. The next time the nurse came to deliver the medicine, Gu Jun still didn't swallow the pills, which gave the nurse a headache.
Other than that, however, Gu Jun appeared to be very calm. He cooperated with the doctors who came for ward rounds and various examinations.
However, in his heart, there was an unwavering determination.
The Stanford Prison Experiment showed that the environment can gradually change a person's personality, and the situation can immediately change a person's behavior.
Once he really entered the role of a mental patient and entered a situation where he went crazy and was treated in the hospital, and then allowed himself to be influenced by others, it wouldn't take many days before he really had mental problems.
Therefore, no matter how Gu Jun cooperated with the doctors and nurses, no matter how he negotiated.
However, he insisted on not taking the medicine and stubbornly insisted that he was fine.
He told himself over and over again, "I'm not crazy, I'm really Gu Jun."
Actually, there was one way to get the evidence, using the Ancient Seal or spells.
But when Gu Jun added one more layer, he felt like he had fallen into a trap — he tried to cast the Ancient Seal or chant a spell, but it did not feel as effective as before. Then he would be pushed into the abyss of self-doubt.
Since this body of his could become like this, there were no broken fingers, no PEEK skull, no scars.
It was not impossible that the Ancient Seal and the spells could not be activated.
For three days, Gu Jun slept, sat on the hospital bed, thought, exercised, and waited for the lawyer to complete the formalities.
On the fourth day of his awakening, April 8th in this world, the eighth day of Jem Mazurewicz's stay at Arkham Asylum, he was discharged.
When he came in, he didn't have any luggage, so when he left, he was also empty-handed.
Gu Jun only changed out of the patient's garb and wore the outfit that Jem came in in, a red jacket, jeans, and running shoes.
At this time, he and Sanders were walking side by side in the corridor of the forced hospitalization area. This was not the first time he walked this corridor, but it was very quiet every time. There seemed to be no patients in the rooms, but the metal doors of the rooms were tightly shut, and there seemed to be a dangerous atmosphere.
Arkham was not a simple place and Arkham Asylum was probably not simple either.
At the waiting hall outside the sickrooms, Gu Jun once again met the Mazurewicz couple, the adoptive parents of this body.
Bob Mazurewicz, a rotund middle-aged man with an honest face, ran a small supermarket at Arkham. From the conversation with Sanders, Gu Jun found out that Bob was a kind-hearted person. He did many good deeds, including taking in orphans. He treated Jem like his own son.
Janet Mazurewicz was a middle-aged woman, the owner of the supermarket. She was also a good person but she was more cunning than her husband. She was the one who made the decisions at home.
"Jun." The couple called their adopted son by his nickname when they saw him and hurried forward.
Even though their adopted son could leave the hospital through legal channels, the two were still worried about his condition. They asked how he was doing.
"I have some memory loss." Gu Jun told them, "That's the only problem, the doctor said it'll take time to recover."
No matter how nice they appeared, Gu Jun naturally kept his guard up around them.
He knew nothing about the Mazurewicz family but there had to be a reason why he came to this family.
Gu Jun looked around, "Where's that sister of mine?"
Now he had two clues, one was the King in Yellow and the other was Hannah Mazurewicz. Was she Keziah Mason?
"Hannah is still busy." Janet answered, "We made a dinner date with her."
Gu Jun nodded silently. No matter how busy they were, they would still make time for each other. They had not visited for days, how could they be close siblings?
Hannah Mazurewicz, 24 years old, a journalism graduate from Miskatonic University. She worked as a reporter at the Arkham Honest.
From Sanders, he learned that Hannah was a very smart person with excellent academic performance. After she graduated from high school, she could have entered more famous universities like Harvard or Stanford, but in the end, because it was closer to her home, she chose the local University of Missouri.
However, in this world, Miskatonic University was not that bad.
Miskatonic University was also a member of the Ivy League in America. It also had a long history and a global reputation.
In Massachusetts, Miskatonic University and Harvard were the two most popular universities for the children of the upper class.
Miskatonic University was famous for its library, it had one of the largest collection of books among all the universities in the world. It was rumored to have many mysterious books.
The first time Jim Mazurewicz read the King in Yellow was at Miskatonic University's library.
Gu Jun also found out something else. The King in Yellow that Sanders gave him was not the one from Miskatonic University. Instead, Sanders bought it online and the one from Miskatonic University was still in Miskatonic University's library. Gu Jun wondered if the content of the other book was the same.
When he exited Arkham Sanitarium, Gu Jun turned back to look.
According to his understanding, the old sanitarium was built in the 19th century and had a Victorian architectural style.
At that time, this kind of place was used to separate the mentally ill from the normal people. It used a divergent layout that originated from prison buildings. The building space was distributed from the center to the surroundings. It was made up of multiple wingspans, and there was an open space outside. It looked rather gloomy.
When he walked down the street, he did not see any patients in hospital garb. Instead, there were guards and doctors in white coats. They wore masks and their eyes were calm.
Gu Jun had a feeling that one day, he would return to this place to explore.
But now, he, Saunders, Bob, and Janet got into a black five-seater car. Bob drove the car and left the mental hospital.
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