Free Web NovelChapter 56: Chapter 56: No Matter What... Jiang Che Will Never Misunderstand
They listened as Xiong Jie spoke about many things related to live streaming.
In the process, they discovered that humans know much more about evil spirits than they imagined.
Xiong Jie spoke with fear in his heart—if the humans saw what was happening here on their side, he’d be as good as dead when he went back.
"Relax, no one’s paying attention to your side." Ding Ning sensed around, but felt no gaze on Jiang Che or Xiong Jie. "Seems everyone’s attention has been drawn by the exit."
Xiong Jie was slightly stunned, then couldn’t help but chuckle.
Thinking of how he’d acted before, all self-important, believing he was on TV, believing all eyes were on him...
Indeed, once ’despair’ has an exit, all eyes shift elsewhere.
But Xiong Jie’s words actually reminded Ding Ning—previously, there hadn’t been much interaction between her and Jiang Che, so those things could be explained away. Luckily, she trusted her intuition and opened the exit to draw all attention.
If not, if someone had seen that scene at the dining table, Jiang Che would have only one fate when he returned: death.
Xiong Jie didn’t say a word, but he noticed that as Ding Ning lowered her head in thought, the Blood Slaughter Couple quietly stood behind her, and the Little Evil Spirit only peeked out to look at him, making no moves.
The thought that Blood Slaughter now needed others’ permission to kill him made a phrase pop into Xiong Jie’s mind.
You still gotta check with the owner before beating the dog!
"If the psychiatric patients can’t get equal status as normal humans, what do they usually do?" Ding Ning, now counting Xiong Jie as one of her own, wasn’t afraid for him to know about her relationship with Jiang Che.
After all, she’d have Xiong Jie look after Jiang Che in the Human Realm, so there was no need to hide their connection.
If Xiong Jie betrayed them, she could have him killed on the spot.
Xiong Jie, after mentioning the ’live stream props,’ expected the evil spirits would interrogate him about this item. He’d already calculated to spill everything he knew.
He owned some money, and had access to private information.
Now, with no humans watching the stream, he felt this was the perfect time to pledge allegiance!
If someone handed him a tail right now, he’d probably wag it on the spot.
Upon hearing Ding Ning’s question, Xiong Jie opened his mouth, ready to share some juicy human secrets, but choked back his words.
???
What kind of question is this? What does a psych patient do every day? Is she talking about Jiang Che?
Xiong Jie sensed these evil spirits had an unusual concern for the psychiatric patient.
He suddenly remembered Blood Slaughter had fetched a pile of human food, clueless about how to handle it and brought Xiong Jie in. He’d first assumed the evil spirits wanted to try human cuisine.
Now, thinking back, wasn’t all that actually for the human?
Xiong Jie took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. "That’s not schizophrenia, and Red Pearl Mental Hospital isn’t a place for treatment."
"They call it mental illness, yet the hospital doesn’t treat anyone. The daily checks are about physical health, and the food is bland nutritional meals, flavorless."
"Whenever there’s a successful match or a host has a request, that’s when those patients get discharged."
The basement was quiet; only Xiong Jie’s low voice could be heard, his broken and hurried breathing betraying his fear of saying something wrong. "Everyone who’s familiar knows it’s just a human organ center."
"So... do they have families?" Blood Slaughter couldn’t help asking. Xiong Jie stared at him in surprise.
In human society, when the boss speaks, subordinates shouldn’t butt in.
But Ding Ning didn’t scold Blood Slaughter—did these evil spirits have a hierarchy?
No respect for rank?
But he kept his questions to himself; he had money and brains, after all.
Seeing his boss didn’t object to Blood Slaughter’s interruption, Xiong Jie lowered his head and answered him.
"Some do, some don’t," Xiong Jie said quietly. "But after being put into the mental hospital, even if you had family, you don’t anymore."
"Once you’re locked up here, even if you weren’t mentally ill, now you are."
"Humans have a profession called psychotherapist, and a lot of normal people do suffer from mental issues, but most are treated at home."
His words were contradictory, but Blood Slaughter and the others understood.
The mental hospital is more like humanity’s dumping ground—you don’t have to throw the sick in there, but once you do, it’s pretty much abandonment.
Jiang Che mentioned he’d lived in the hospital for many years; had he spent those years always searching for family?
Walking along the way, Jiang Che said, "I’m grateful for the nurse in the hospital. She told me my family was in the dungeon, so when I came, I could find them."
"I’m grateful for Ya. She always points me in the right direction."
When he said these things, Ding Ning didn’t understand, and Tuantuan was baffled why he’d believe whatever others told him.
Because, as evil spirits, they could sense immediately when humans weren’t well-meaning. The first time Ding Ning met Ya, she sensed Ya was scheming against Jiang Che all along.
Because he kept searching, for so many years.
A firefly in the night is most captivating. If not for that sincere heart of Jiang Che, this dungeon would have been the last wasteland of his life—a mirage with no oasis to be found.
If Jiang Che craved the warmth of family, then she craved Jiang Che’s gentleness toward his own family.
She and Jiang Che—aren’t they kindred spirits?
Under the fog, Ding Ning grinned wide.
The humans see Jiang Che as a freak, but she found herself and Jiang Che the perfect match!
If he has no family, then she would become his family.
Those humans did all they could to use him for survival in the dungeon; she was determined all of them would die, and Jiang Che would walk out alive.
"Enough!" Ding Ning cut him off.
"You stay here for now." Ding Ning turned away; she needed to prepare some things for Jiang Che’s departure.
Ding Ning left with Blood Slaughter, locked the basement again. Xiong Jie lay back down, his mind, after the intense shock, grew tired again; he drooped his eyelids and didn’t fight off sleep.
This time, he could sleep soundly and confidently.
Because he knew, as long as he didn’t bare his teeth, the master wouldn’t kill the dog.
Ding Ning stretched out her hand, and the room where Jiang Che was sleeping began to change.
In an instant, it changed into a prison full of torture devices.
And Jiang Che, sleeping sweetly in the tiny bed of that cell.
"I never thought about the live-streaming part before, but from now on, I want everyone to put on a vicious act, mocking the humans," Ding Ning started planning for Jiang Che’s return.
Although the exit had drawn human attention, no one escaping for too long meant she had to stop anyone from switching cameras back.
Blood Slaughter and the others nodded. Toying with humans—that was their specialty.
Four evil spirits sat together; with no humans present, the humans couldn’t observe their movements.
Would Jiang Che panic upon waking, seeing his room changed into a prison?
Would he resent his ’parents’ glaring at him?
The Blood Slaughter Couple thought: We didn’t exactly act nice the first time either.
Mm, whatever we do...
Jiang Che won’t get the wrong idea.
