I dug up the magical girl's corpse.

Chapter 19 Prison Break

When Chen Mu saw the caregiver standing at the door, he asked her if he needed to use the restroom.

After entering the bathroom stall, she carefully inspected it before finally giving up completely.

It wasn't an illusion; something was really missing.

You're in luck.

"So, in that sense, I really have become a little girl."

On his way back to the ward, Chen Mu began to think.

Her expression shifted between light and dark. After all, she had been a man for over twenty years, had been married, and had done everything she was supposed to do. It was indeed difficult for her to accept the sudden change.

What happened to her was too unbelievable: one second she was at home getting ready to sleep, and the next second she was suddenly in a mental hospital and had undergone gender reassignment surgery.

Let me organize my thoughts. There are roughly these possibilities:

First, the time-travel theory.

This aligns with the common understanding in online novels: Chen Mu transmigrated into the body of a girl eleven years younger than himself and inherited her body.

However, this explanation cannot account for why she fell ill in this world and recounted her experiences in the "magical girl world."

It sounds like the two worlds are even synchronized?

Second, the "mental illness theory".

What if Dr. Wang and the others are right, and I really am just a patient having an episode, and everything before was just a figment of my imagination?

But was the past twenty-seven years all a lie?

Those events are still vivid in my mind; so many real feelings and experiences are impossible to let go of immediately.

Third, the hallucination theory.

Then Chen Mu thought of a third possibility: that the mental hospital was fake and that it was all a hallucination.

If it were a magical girl from the realm of "Flowers," she could indeed create such a realistic dream. As a mortal, Chen Mu would have no ability to resist and would be instantly drawn into the illusion.

"If that's the case, it means the Demon Academy has discovered my plan and is trying to stop me from continuing my investigation."

Chen Mu still couldn't convince himself, "But if that's the case, why don't they just kill me directly? Why bother creating this illusion and deceiving me? What's the benefit?"

If such a powerful magical girl were to launch a direct attack, the entire villa would be razed to the ground; there would be no need for such tricks.

...

In conclusion, all three theories have problems and cannot fully explain the current situation.

Although the thinking process didn't yield any definite results, it was thanks to this process that Chen Mu was able to calm down and stop panicking.

"Whether it's true or false, there's no need to dwell on it too much at this stage."

"For me, I just need to focus on the present. Whether or not I return to my original world in the future, I can't let myself be trapped here..."

She followed the nurse's footsteps, turned her head, and looked at the window on the right side of the corridor.

All the windows were sealed off by steel bars piercing through the center, eliminating any possibility of escape.

Even going down each floor is blocked by an iron gate, and the key is only in the hands of the caregiver.

Chen Mu immediately determined his next goal:

"We have to escape. There's nothing we can do in this mental hospital."

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but laugh. She remembered escaping from being kidnapped by a magical girl in the past, and now she had to escape from a mental hospital.

These life experiences made her feel more professional than the protagonist of a prison break.

"Stop laughing, are you having another episode?"

The caregiver patted Chen Mu on the shoulder, pushed her into the original ward, and slammed the door shut.

...

During his time in the mental hospital, Chen Mu didn't rush to devise an escape plan. Instead, he tried to figure out his current situation.

She gathered information from doctors, caregivers, and other patients, and through comparison, she gradually sorted out the situation.

Unexpectedly, the initial problem stemmed from the name.

The girl's body is actually called "Chen Mu" instead of "Chen Mu".

Although there is only a one-character difference and the pronunciation is the same, the document uses a different character.

Perhaps it was more in line with the characteristics of a girl's name, Chen Mu didn't care too much. She is sixteen years old now and entered this mental hospital ten years ago.

In other words, she was admitted at the age of six and has been in a state of illness ever since, rarely waking up. This state has lasted for ten years with no signs of improvement.

The caregivers all said, "Xiao Chen, we all thought it was a miracle that you were able to regain consciousness."

Chen Mu continued to press for answers and learned that ten years ago, the girl was traveling with her parents when they were involved in a car accident on the highway.

The girl survived the loss of both her parents. She seemed to have suffered a severe emotional blow, going insane and being admitted to a mental hospital, where she has remained for ten years. The inheritance and compensation left by her parents were used for her medical expenses, and it's said that they haven't run out yet. However, since it's a public mental hospital, there's no need to worry about hospitalization even if the money runs out.

"In other words, I can't stay here any longer. Even if I run out of medical expenses, I will be taken in by a charity."

Chen Mu pondered, "I might be locked up for life and eventually die here."

Patients can only be discharged after they have fully recovered and been assessed as harmless.

But Dr. Wang just said that her condition has worsened and she has developed new symptoms of personality disorder... This approach probably won't work anytime soon.

Is it really possible for a person to completely prove that they are mentally sound?

She has a terrible past, so even if she tries to act innocent now, I doubt anyone will believe her.

After moving in, she started telling everyone that she was in a world with "magical girls," acting like a man, bumping into walls, attacking others, eating random things, and being oblivious to her surroundings. It seemed like everything Chen Mu did in his original world was being reflected here, making her appear like she had gone mad?

"Um?"

As Chen Mu listened, he suddenly realized something.

The life experience of this "Chen Mu" is very similar to my own.

They're not just similar, they're practically identical.

In her original world, she also suffered an accident when she was six years old, which resulted in the death of both her parents and made her an orphan.

Before that, everything was basically the same. From that moment on, life began to take different directions.

That version of myself didn't go crazy; instead, I persevered and used the compensation money to finish high school and enter the workforce.

Then came the matter of meeting his wife.

"Could it be understood this way: this is actually a parallel world, and this 'Chen Mu' is actually me on another timeline? It's just that in this possibility, I am a woman, and because of that accident, my mind accidentally received the consciousness of another timeline, which makes me appear crazy to outsiders..."

Chen Mu suddenly felt that this explanation seemed quite reasonable, at least it could explain all the confusion until now.

Let's use this as a foundation for thinking about the problem for now.

"Sister, what are you talking to yourself about? Is your attack starting again?"

Just then, the little girl in the next bed came over, lifted the curtain, and asked a question.