Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 501

Chapter 501: Chapter 253 Bedlam Asylum Journal (Part 4)_2 Chapter 501: Chapter 253 Bedlam Asylum Journal (Part 4)_2 The selected candidates were few, and it was indeed possible to find the right one among them.

But there was one strange thing–TK contacted the organization once a week, yet the library and the card room were only open to patients once a month. Whether TK was passing messages to his contact by slipping them into books or hiding them within card boxes, each method could only be used once a month.

As such, even if he utilized both methods, there would still be a two to three-week gap in between, which seemed somewhat odd.

This suggested that if the above speculations were true, then aside from books and cards, TK was also using several other methods to transmit messages.

Fan Quan was pondering this when Ke Mingye’s stern voice interrupted his thoughts.

Ke Mingye asked, “Have you wandered enough? If so, stay in your room. It’s not time for you to linger in other places.”

“Easy there, pal.”

Ke Yinzhi, with a hand propping his chin, idly flipped through the books with drooping eyes.

Sitting opposite, Fan Quan remained silent, his mind occupied with thoughts not much different from Ke Yinzhi’s.

“Each book has a serial number. Put them back in their place, and don’t think about sneaking them back to your room, or you’ll be severely punished,” Ke Mingye told Ke Yinzhi. “Allowing you to take one book back to your room is already a special privilege. Any more would not be allowed.”

Ke Yinzhi looked down at the book, responding with a dismissive tone.

“Hehe, is such nastiness really necessary? I’m a patient, not a prisoner.”

“Don’t think I don’t know what you’re up to,” Ke Mingye said. “You claim to be patients, but in reality, you’re criminals using mental illness as a cover. The government didn’t know how to handle a bunch of you playing dumb, so they dumped you all in Bedlam Asylum.”

He thought to himself: Being a supervisor is great! Only when playing the role of a harsh supervisor do I get the chance to speak to my brother this way.

Of course, such a response depended on Ke Yinzhi’s cooperation–if Ke Yinzhi suddenly decided to drop the act and reveal his identity, it wouldn’t be excessive for Ke Mingye, the lowly supervisor, to bow his head to him twice over.

“Think whatever you want,” Ke Yinzhi said with a smile.

In the midst of their conversation, a tall, thin figure suddenly unlocked the library door with a “click” and walked in under the dimly lit blue sky.

Both Ke Yinzhi and Fan Quan raised their eyebrows and looked up, only to see the newcomer with thin, greying hair, a stooped posture, and a gloomy demeanor. He wore a patient’s gown with reading glasses on one side. His garment was different from the other patients: he had two badges on his chest, one with a picture of a book and the other of playing cards.

As Ke Mingye turned to look at him, his Superhuman panel popped up.

[Code Name: Memory Strange Man]
[Name: Francis]
[Danger Level: E]
[Introduction: Francis is an individual with abilities that allow him to remember everything, but the side effect makes him unable to recall faces or names, rendering him incapable of functioning in society and forcing him to become a fringe person. After several unsuccessful attempts to find suitable work (some claimed he committed crimes and entered the asylum voluntarily), he was sent to Bedlam Asylum by the government and has lived there for decades.]
Seeing this, Ke Yinzhi watched Memory Strange Man Francis for a long while, then slowly turned to ask Ke Mingye, “Supervisor, didn’t you say that the card room and library would be off-limits to patients on Saturdays due to routine cleaning?”

“He’s a special case.”

Ke Mingye paused a moment and glanced at the message sent by Cai Bing on his panel, which gave a temporary briefing.

[Cai Bing: This patient named “Francis” has been selected as the librarian for both the library and the card room due to years of good behavior, allowing him free access to both places during his free time.]
Ke Mingye read the message and then relayed, “This patient’s name is Francis. Due to his good behavior, he is the librarian of the institution’s library as well as the manager of the card room and can freely use his keys to access both places at his leisure.”

“I see…”

Ke Yinzhi pondered thoughtfully.

Before the eyes of the three men, Francis quietly walked to the very left end of the bookshelf number one in the back row, with his head slightly lowered as if he were a walking corpse, silently arranging the books.

He murmured a string of numbers and began arranging the books on the bookshelf number one. The bookshelf contained a total of 24 books arranged in three rows: top, middle, and bottom, with eight books in each row.

From the corner of his eye, Fan Quan surreptitiously observed Francis; Ke Yinzhi, resting his chin in his hand, brazenly watched him from the side, his bright eyes brimming with curiosity.

“What is he doing?”

After a while, Fan Quan couldn’t help but ask.

“Supervisor, what is he doing?”

Ke Yinzhi almost simultaneously asked the same question.

“You can ask him yourselves,” Ke Mingye replied curtly, adjusting the brim of his cap. “I’m not interested in what lunatics like to do.”

Hearing this, Fan Quan and Ke Yinzhi exchanged a look, then rose from the reading table and slowly walked behind Francis.

As if unaware of their presence, Francis continued murmuring and arranging the 24 books on bookshelf number one.

Fan Quan and Ke Yinzhi stood side by side against the wall of the library, quietly observing the Memory Strange Man.