I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror

I must say, aside from being a bit remote, the village was very comfortable, both in scenery and air quality.

Walking was too boring, so Shinjiro willingly gave up control and let Jiang Xiao take over again.

The houses in the village were not close together, with the nearest neighbors likely a two-minute walk apart.

Strange layout~

After about fifteen minutes on foot, Jiang Xiao was brought by three little girls to the front of a small red brick building.

Jiang Xiao pushed open the wooden door and was greeted by the sight of an old-fashioned rural hall.

"You're back!"

"Dad, what you should say is 'I'm back,' right?"

Bai Yi corrected her father's grammatical mistake once again.

He glanced around the environment that met his eyes.

Cement floor, whitewashed walls.

There were some old black and grey oil stains on the wall, and overhead was a ceiling fan from the Great Wall brand covered in dust.

The furnishings inside the hall were even more simplistic.

A wooden dining table, a few stools, and some sacks of rice and flour piled up in the corner of the room.

Oh, and there was also a big old-fashioned color TV and a Little Tyrant game console.

It was already time for lunch.

Jiang Xiao could hear clanging sounds and the aromatic scent of cooking oil coming from the kitchen.

Upon hearing the noise outside, a somewhat cold woman's voice came from the kitchen.

"Xiao Yi, is your dad back? Dinner will be ready soon, go boil some water."

"Mhm! But Xi Tang and Shi Shi want to fight over dad!"

"It's okay, you are all mama's good daughters, there's no need to fight over anything. Whether it's looking after one or three, it's all the same."

Jiang Xiao was a bit stunned. Was this Analog Horror?

The stream's chat also began to question the difficulty of the game.

[Something's not right, why is it so harmonious?]

[It's not like the creepy scenes I was imagining...]

[Yeah, I thought it would start with a sinister old house or a strange villa.]

[Exactly! Then in the kitchen, there would be human limbs, an entire family with pale, dead faces, and spirit tablets being set up in the hall—now that would be a Kaidan!]

[Ugh... You can't just look at the surface, remember how the chosen one from the Land of Spirit died because he only saw the surface?]

That was true.

Couldn't let appearances deceive him, after all, it was a seven-star Kaidan. It shouldn't be so easy.

"Dad! You go upstairs first and help grandpa take his medicine."

"Grandpa lives in the room furthest out on the second floor, dad, you shouldn't enter the other rooms~"

Shi Shi handed Jiang Xiao some medicine bottles, each marked with the dosage.

"Why doesn't Shi Shi go feed grandpa his medicine?"

Jiang Xiao didn't want to go, and was trying to push the chore onto someone else.

But upon saying this, the expressions on the three little girls' faces changed in an instant.

In their eyes, Jiang Xiao could actually see resistance and fear.

This grandpa was probably no good.

What normally scares something creepy is something even creepier~

[Rule one: You will play a devoted father who fulfills every request of his children.]

"Because Shi Shi doesn't like grandpa... Is that reason enough?"

"Bai Yi hates grandpa. Do you want Bai Yi to hate you..?"

"Dad, Xi Tang doesn't feel like killing you just yet, but we hope you will be obedient."

Hate grandpa?

The voice from the kitchen changed as well, becoming hoarse and muffled.

"Xiao Yi! Is our new dad being disobedient again? If so... shall we change our dinner to eating dad?"

"Ha ha ha, oh Mrs. Nagger, I'm just teasing Shi Shi for a bit, I'm at my wits' end with you~"

Taking the medicine bottles from Shi Shi's hand, Jiang Xiao went upstairs.

The expressions on the little girls' faces finally reverted to their original sweetness.

A perfect illustration of how flipping faces can be faster than flipping a book.

But other than Jiang Xiao, there were indeed no other chosen ones dare enough to reject the requests of their children.

[I feel like if it wasn't for Jiang Xiao's high affection with the little girls, he might have been gone just now.]

[Yeah, this time the little girls even explained to him; remember the ones before who didn't get the chance were just gone straight away.]

[That's true, looks like it might be important to raise our affection with these kids in this game...]

The people from other countries camping out in the Dragon Country live stream immediately reported this piece of news.

"What? Is that even a thing? Raising affection with children? Damn cunning."

The Prime Minister of Sakura Country, stroking his chin, hesitated about whether to disclose this information to Meichuan Neiku.

But with only two opportunities to pass on messages in this Kaidan, every piece of information had to be used to its fullest potential.

Because of this, a large portion of Sakura Country's parliament suggested holding onto this message.

Waiting until the next time they got some other valuable information so they could pass them on together.

Thinking it over, the Prime Minister felt that seemed sensible.

After all, with the Five-limb Substitute Death Technique, even if Meichuan Neiku died once, it wouldn't be too bad.

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Might as well wait for next time and deliver two messages together, maximize the benefits!

Many countries chose the same approach as Sakura Country, all believing that this message wasn't particularly important.

Of course, some countries immediately passed the message on to their Chosen Ones.

Upon receiving this message, many Chosen Ones were left with faces full of question marks.

What are you talking about?

Increase my rapport with these kids?

Just seeing these creepy children freaks me out!

And you want me to improve my feelings toward them?!

Even the Chosen Ones who knew about this message could only play it by ear.

The most important thing right now was to survive!

By now, Jiang Xiao had reached the door of the outermost room on the second floor.

'Knock knock knock~'

He knocked, but there was no response from inside.

"Dad, I've come to bring you your medicine."

Inside there was a long silence.

'Knock knock knock~'

Still no reply.

Goddamnit, what kind of aloof act are you putting on?

Jiang Xiao pushed the door and entered.

The scene before him made him pause.

The first thing he saw was an old man lying on a white wooden bed.

But in terrible condition!

This so-called grandfather seemed to have less than half a life left in him?

The old man had many tubes chaotically inserted into him, aside from the oxygen mask on his face.

The whole room was filled with a rancid stench of rotten flesh,

but mainly, there was a black mist swirling around the old man's chest.

This mist was the most direct source of contamination in Analog Horror.

Once a Chosen One made contact, they would become infected by the mist and turn into something eerie.

Seeing Jiang Xiao come in, the old man turned his head toward him revealing a ghastly smile, seemingly trying to say something.

But because of a tracheotomy tube in his neck, he could only make a 'heh heh' sound.

This is freaking disgusting, Jiang Xiao frowned in disapproval.

There wasn't a bit of flesh on the face, just a layer of dried up, moisture-deprived old skin.

Interesting~

Such an unsettling old monster living upstairs, no wonder Shi Shi and the others didn't dare come up.

"Dad, I've come to give you your medicine."

Jiang Xiao tried to keep his posture low, removing the oxygen mask from the old man's mouth.

However, the old man was clearly unappreciative, his mouth tightly closed, staring at Jiang Xiao with a malicious gaze.

"Be good, open your mouth, I'm doing this for your own good."

Jiang Xiao was still patient, persuading the old man to take his medicine as soon as possible.

Is this still Jiang Xiao?

The comments couldn't believe it; when had Jiang Xiao ever been so gentle?

[What's happening?]

[This seems normal, but why does it look so strange when it's Jiang Xiao doing it?]

[Has Jiang Xiao recovered from his mental illness?]

[Impossible! With such a severe illness, there's no way he would have recovered in just a few days.]

[Er, Jiang Xiao acting normal is a good thing for us, right?]

[But I feel like unless something unexpected happens...]

Jiang Xiao, after a lot of coaxing, realized that not only did the old man have no intention of taking his medicine, but his lips kept moving, mumbling something.

"Dad, are you unable to speak?"

The old man didn't respond, just staring intensely at Jiang Xiao with his eyes rolling back.

"Alright, I get it, Old Bideng, you old fart want to kill me, right?"

The old man grinned sinisterly, nodding while licking his cracked lips.

Without a moment's hesitation!

'Slap!'

Jiang Xiao swung a hefty backhand that sent the tube flying off the old man's neck!

The old man was smacked so hard he stared at Jiang Xiao in disbelief.

"What the hell are you looking at? The fuck, you can't speak and still dare to be so arrogant to your dad? Who do you think you are acting all high and mighty in front of me?"

Seemingly unsatisfied, Jiang Xiao lifted his palm-fan-sized hand and gave him another combo of backhands to the left and right!

'Slap slap!!!'

The old man's nosebleed was wrenched out with an "ow," and his head buzzed.

You have to realize that Jiang Xiao's strength now was at 16, far surpassing normal human limits.

With these slaps, he almost smashed the old geezer's brain to pieces!

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