Naturally, there was nothing behind the doctor, but Su Qiubai had to pretend to be crazy in order to be admitted to the hospital.

"What are you talking nonsense? This is a hospital, don't mess with all this stuff! The doctor said a little unhappily, but he still subconsciously moved his position.

Su Qiubai ignored what he said, but grabbed a broom in the corner, waved it behind the doctor and said, "Go away, go away!" ”

Seeing this scene, the doctor had no choice but to sigh and say, "It seems that I made a mistake in judgment just now, and he must be hospitalized in this situation." ”

Anya breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and Su Qiubai was still acting energetically on the side, and Anya wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and endured it very hard.

After completing the admission procedures, Anya made an appointment with Su Qiubai for a visit and left the hospital.

The internal structure of a psychiatric hospital is not quite the same as that of a normal hospital, and the doors of each ward are locked, and patients are locked in the wards when they sleep at night. Ordinary patients are two people in a room, while some patients with more severe conditions and violent tendencies are housed in single rooms.

During the day, patients can move around the hospital for hours, but the wards are separated from the areas where the medical staff are located, so the hospital looks a bit like a prison.

Su Qiubai's "illness" is not particularly strict, so he does not enjoy the treatment of a single room. His roommate is a schizophrenic, Su Qiubai can change his personality every time he chats with him, and each personality is very different, if he is not a patient, he can be called an actor.

After using the first day to find out the surrounding environment, Su Qiubai began to pay attention to every patient around him, trying to find out the suspicious people among them. But after looking around, he realized that this was not a good idea at all. Because there is no way to judge a person's identity with their eyes, most of the patients around them look like normal people, and they can't even tell that they are sick if they don't communicate with them.

After discovering this, Su Qiubai began to look for someone to chat with. He first started with someone who was the same age as the murderer, but when he asked a few people in a row, they couldn't communicate with him normally, and as soon as they talked about the key points, the topic was rambling, which gave Su Qiubai a headache.

As he was sitting in a daze on a bench on the lawn, an old man suddenly sat down beside him.

Su Qiubai glanced back curiously, and saw that the old man was about sixty years old, and he looked energetic, and his eyes were very focused, not at all like he was sick. However, after seeing so many patients, Su Qiubai was no longer sure of his judgment.

"You love to talk." The old man spoke first.

Su Qiubai was stunned for a moment before nodding and said, "Idle is also idle, just talk casually." ”

When the old man heard this, he laughed and said, "I really haven't seen a few patients like you who love to talk to people. Most of the mentally ill live in their own world. ”

Su Qiubai glanced him up and down, and saw that he was also wearing a hospital gown, obviously a patient, but his tone was more like a doctor.

"What, don't you want to talk to me?" Seeing that Su Qiubai didn't speak, the old man said.

Su Qiubai hurriedly continued: "Of course it's best if you are willing, in fact, I just found so many people, and few of them can really talk to." ”

The old man smiled and said, "It's right if you can't talk about it, otherwise you won't also become mentally ill?" ”

Su Qiubai was stunned when he heard this, what did he mean by this, did he know that he was not mentally ill?

The old man looked at Su Qiubai's eyes, shook his head and smiled: "Don't be surprised, I can still see if you are sick or not." ”

Su Qiubai was really shocked at this time, even the doctor didn't see that he was pretending to be crazy, how could he be seen by a patient instead?

Despite this, he pretended to be stupid and said: "I also thought I was not sick, but my family insisted that I was sick and sent me here." ”

The old man stared at him for a long time, but said nothing.

"Uncle, you don't look like a sick person, why do you live here?" Su Qiubai asked.

The old man smiled and said, "My situation is quite special, if I sue you, I used to be a doctor here, do you believe it?" ”

Su Qiubai asked in surprise, "Doctor?" How could that ......?"

The old man shook his head and said, "This is nothing unusual, it is normal for doctors to get sick too." I see more and more patients every day, and I always listen to them talk about what their world is like, and over time, I actually believe some of them, and I start to lose the difference between fantasy and reality, which is actually a very dangerous thing. ”

Su Qiubai suddenly felt a little sympathetic to him, the doctor can't heal himself, but he is affected by this profession and becomes ill, which is also a sad thing in itself.

"And how long have you lived here?" Su Qiubai asked.

The old man looked up at the sky and thought for a long time before he said, "It's been almost ten years, and I basically know every patient here, and basically no one has stayed longer than me. ”

Su Qiubai's heart was suddenly happy, the person he was looking for was lived in four years ago, if that person was still there, this old man must know. But he did not dare to ask directly, for the old man seemed to be too conscious, and he would be suspicious if he asked him about a patient who had been admitted four years earlier. What's more, he has already seen that he is not sick, and if he sues the hospital about this matter, he will be kicked out at least, and he may be held legally responsible at worst.

"Hasn't your condition improved in ten years?" Su Qiubai asked.

The old man shook his head and said, "It is difficult to cure mental illness, at most it is controlled. And I also see it, it doesn't matter if it's cured or not, I'm happy to live here anyway, and it's a pleasure for me to listen to different patients talk about their world every day. ”

Su Qiubai can now see that he is sick, otherwise how can any normal person like to live in this kind of place?

"They say what's wrong with you?" The old man asked suddenly.

Su Qiubai thought for a long time before he remembered, and replied, "Delusional schizophrenia." ”

The old man immediately became interested in him and asked, "What are you delusional about?" ”

Su Qiubai felt a little embarrassed, like a real patient facing a doctor's inquiry, but had to answer.

"I can see ghost ......"

"Oh? That's very interesting, I've seen a lot of patients over the years who claim to be able to see ghosts, why don't you tell me what the ghosts you see look like? The old man asked earnestly.

Su Qiubai endured the embarrassment and replied: "Actually, they are not much different from living people, but some resentful ghosts will retain the appearance of when they were dead, which is more scary." ”

"That's all?" The old man asked.

Su Qiubai nodded, and emphasized: "I can really see it." ”

The old man smiled and nodded, as if he really believed that there was indeed something wrong with him.

"Since you're here, let's get treatment, and when you want to talk to someone, you can come to me." After the old man had said his last words, he left.

Su Qiubai looked at the old man's back, thinking in his heart how to get out his words and ask about the murderer's current whereabouts.

The hospital would give Su Qiubai a lot of pills every day, and the nurse had to watch him eat it. It didn't bother him, just put the pill under his tongue and wait for the nurse to leave before spitting it out. In addition, he has to undergo psychological treatment from a doctor, which is nothing more than telling him that there are no ghosts in this world and trying to re-establish his worldview.

At noon the next day, after eating the unpalatable lunch in the hospital, Su Qiubai ran to the small garden again, looking for the figure of the old man yesterday.

"You're looking for me?" Suddenly a voice came from behind him, it was the old man from yesterday.

Su Qiubai smiled noncommittally and said, "It's too boring to stay in the ward, so I want to come out and find someone to talk to." ”

The old man walked to the bench not far away and sat down, and said, "You really can't be idle, say, what do you want to talk about?" ”

Su Qiubai looked at the patients around him and asked, "These patients were originally normal people?" ”

The old man nodded and said, "That's natural, no one is born mentally ill." There are many so-called successful people among these patients, but once they get sick, it really doesn't matter how much money you have. ”

Su Qiubai took the opportunity to ask: "I heard that some patients have violent tendencies, so just let them walk around at will, won't there be a problem?" ”

The old man shook his head and said, "The kind you said belongs to the very serious condition, they are locked up in the ward most of the time, and they can only come out once a week." ”

Seeing that Su Qiubai finally got to the point, he continued to ask, "So strict?" Will they really hurt people? ”

The old man smiled: "Why not hurt people? There are people who have been killed, but unfortunately because of mental problems, they can't be sentenced to death, so they can only be locked up here. ”

Su Qiubai hurriedly asked: "There are still people who have been killed?" ”

The old man nodded, "I've worked in this hospital for most of my life, and I've received not ten but eight murderers, most of them are hateful, but some of them are pitiful, but anyway, don't think about going out if you come in this situation, and many of them end up dying in the hospital." ”

"All dead?" Su Qiubai asked.

The old man gave him a strange look, not knowing why he asked.

"I'm afraid that one day I will meet a murderer and be killed by them by mistake, it will be too wronged." Su Qiubai explained.

The old man smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this, they are accompanied by medical staff when they come out to let the wind out, and they can't hurt you." ”

In this way, it is also difficult to get close to such a serious patient, and he has to plan carefully.