Chapter 27: Onwards to the Flooded Basement (1/2)

Calvin's mind madly spun.

As far as he could remember, after taking the keycard from this room.

The Benevolent Father would appear in the corridor just outside the door. He would roam through the corridor while carrying his daughter and singing a children song and the only way to escape him was to wait for him to pass by or use the darkness of the corridor to one's advantage.

But this only happened after one acquired the keycard for the Security Room.

They were now in the room, but the keycard was nowhere to be found.

'Will that monster appear in the corridor outside even though we still don't have the keycard?'

Calvin thought to himself.

”What do we do next, Calvin?” Hugo asked.

Calvin gestured for them to close their mouths with his hand as he walked towards the door of the room.

Sticking his ear close to the wooden door. He scanned for any movements outside the door.

There was none.

Calvin heaved a sigh of relief.

At the least, despite the huge increase in difficulty. It seemed that Fivecent wasn't entirely heartless.

If the Benevolent Father was indeed roaming in the corridor, then they might as well just commit suicide.

After all, after turning on the electricity they still needed to find where that keycard went.

Calvin turned to look at Hugo and was about to answer his question when Jannette suddenly cried out loud.

”I found something!”

”What is it?” Calvin looked at her and discovered that she was standing in front of an opened closet.

Within the closet were cleanly folded hospital gowns. They must be the gowns worn by the patients in this asylum.

”What is that?” Nicholas, Roy, Ray, and Phillip turned to look at Jannette's direction.

Nicholas lightly chuckled and said, ”Oh, hospital gowns? I wonder what will happen if we wore those gowns and pretended that we were mad like the patients here, hahaha...” A silly smile could be seen on his lips, but Calvin who was wondering about what was the purpose of the clean hospital gowns inside the closet suddenly exclaimed.

”Ah!”

”That's it!”

”So, that's the reason why there are hospital gowns in this room!”

”Wha... Come on, man... Don't just shout like that, you almost gave me a heart attack.”

Nicholas complained.

Hugo and the others looked at him and urged him to speak with their eyes.

Calvin cleared his throat and explained, ”Fivecent would never place useless items in a room. That includes the files and the computers in this asylum. They must be useful, one way or another. I haven't heard of any hospital gowns in this place, but since we can clearly see that there are hospital gowns. There is only one explanation for their existence...”

”Is it because they can be used?” Medea interjected at this moment.

”Yes... Fivecent may be thinking the same as Nicholas. They placed these gowns here because they want us to wear it, they want us to become the embodiment of insanity itself to escape the madness of this place.” Calvin replied.

Rose stared right at him and said, ”That should not be... the case, right? Why would they turn their potential employees into madmen like the patients here...?”

Calvin shook his head, ”I don't know. If I do, then I would've already told you all. But since there is no harm to testing out this theory, then how about we try it? Just wear the hospital gowns over our ordinary clothes so we can rip them off as soon as we feel the need to do so.”

Ray nodded his head, ”That makes sense, all right. Let's wear them. Can I choose first?”

”Choose what? They look the same. Just take one randomly.” Jannette lightly chuckled hearing Ray's words.

Ray stared right at her and the gazes of the two paused in mid-air.

”Cough...”

Scarlette broke their small world with a cough.

”This is no time for games and romance, I hope that both of you can understand...”

”Wha-What romance are you talking about?”

Jannette covered her face in a panic.

Ray also scratched his head awkwardly.

Calvin stared at this scene with a bitter smile on his face.

”These bastards... Do they really have any sense of danger at all? We're in an unknown situation here, yet they are still taking the time to flirt.”