Moreover, he claims that humanity’s development and utilization of the pineal gland is at an absolute minimum, and that if it were fully developed, humans could directly receive alien signals from hundreds of millions of light-years away.

He even says that with slight modification of the pineal gland, humans could absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, achieving transformation and ascension.

Isn’t it terrifying? A person can actually draw the pineal gland in complete detail after magnifying it several hundred times.

……

The ninth psychiatric patient is known as Quentin.

He claims that his brain is like a quantum computer, able to deduce unknown past events from the present, and even predict the future. He insists that he is not fortune-telling, but rather calculating based on the chain of cause and effect.

When he was first admitted, he performed miracles, successfully predicting countless upcoming events, and was regarded as a supernatural being.

But the world is always full of variables. Whenever a sudden change occurs, his predictions are wrong, and in his mind, a parallel world different from reality is simulated.

As the number of errors accumulated, the number of parallel worlds evolving in his mind also increased. So his brain is constantly experiencing a big bang, completely crashing.

Now, the ninth patient is like a walking corpse, eating, drinking, and excreting without any response to the outside world. Because his brain has to simulate N parallel worlds, he has completely exhausted all his energy.

He has been hospitalized for seventeen years. In the first year, he performed countless miracles. After that, the miracles became fewer and fewer. For the last fifteen years, he has been a complete walking corpse, always keeping his eyes closed—eating with his eyes closed, sleeping with his eyes closed, going to the bathroom with his eyes closed—day after day, blending in with the crowd.

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The seventh psychiatric patient is nicknamed Cameron.

This lunatic claims he can become another person. That doesn’t sound like much, but in reality, it’s terrifying. Every person is an independent individual, completely unique. Even the so-called world is just one person’s perception.

Vision, hearing, touch, emotion, memory, and so on, all make up a person’s understanding of the world.

To some extent, when a person closes his eyes, he himself is the whole world. So one person cannot become another.

But the seventh psychiatric patient says he can become someone else.

He will pick a target, learn all about their past, feel their joys and sorrows, and think in their way.

At first, the two people’s manner of speaking is exactly the same, then their movements are exactly the same, and then something even more frightening happens. The seventh patient’s appearance begins to change, gradually resembling his chosen target.

One day, he actually becomes exactly like that target, from face to body shape, completely identical.

The two people, separated by a great distance, say the same things, make the same movements, and even think the same thoughts.

Creepy, isn’t it? Terrifying, right?!

This has already completely transcended the bounds of reality.

……

The sixteenth patient is nicknamed Ghost.

It’s not because he looks like a ghost, but because he almost has mind-reading abilities.

As long as he looks into your eyes, listens to your breathing, and observes your micro-expressions, he can know what you’re thinking. In front of him, people’s thoughts seem transparent—utterly terrifying.

Chapter 2: Damn, what a bunch of freaks

Within X Asylum, these twenty-nine psychiatric patients are each more bizarre and more genius than the last.

And the most bizarre and terrifying of all are the number one, two, and three patients.

So what special talents do these three have?

No one knows!

In Gavin Clark’s view, they are the three most normal people in the entire asylum.

The only quirk of the third patient is that he constantly says, “I am an alien.” Other than that, there’s nothing strange about him.

Over time, the third patient’s nickname became Alien.

As for the first and second patients, they don’t even have nicknames. They are complete mysteries, kept in the deepest underground cells all year round. Even as the director, Gavin Clark has never seen them.

In the three years since becoming director, Gavin Clark still doesn’t know what special talents these three have, and no one else in the entire asylum knows either.

Perhaps the previous director knew, but he… is already dead.

But one thing is certain: the number one patient must be the most terrifying and special of all, otherwise he wouldn’t be designated number one.

And the talents of number two and three must also be extraordinary, it’s just that their special abilities haven’t manifested yet.

Or perhaps, with Gavin Clark’s abilities, he still can’t discern their special talents.

……

At this moment, Director Gavin Clark is making his rounds.

“Don’t stop taking your meds!”

“Number twenty-three, Leonardo da Vinci, what are you doing? What are you doing?” Hearing the nurse’s exclamation, Gavin Clark rushed over, only to find that number twenty-three had castrated himself…

Number twenty-three psychiatric patient calmly said, “I’m studying life, and I wanted to try creating life.”

“You’re studying life, but do you have to be so ruthless to yourself? Are you trying to practice the Evil-Resisting Sword Manual or something?”