Chapter 56: Superstition

"Actually, it's all superstition, and you know that these are just some old legends and the like, which are called weird stories in other places."

"Yes, and there's a lot of weirdness, and each one can be offensive, so be very careful, very, very careful."

The man gently closed his hands together, because his nails were too long to put them together, so he arched in the air like a bridge.

Mu Chun nodded, he didn't object to the man's statement, from the beginning to the present, he didn't question a word.

The atmosphere in the clinic changed from cold to gloomy, and the man had a smell of dust when he first entered, and now it gradually became like asphalt choking in his lungs.

"Am I the only one like this?"

The man asked, "Am I the only one chosen?" โ€

"Selected? A sense of fatalism? It's as if you're bearing some kind of pain, so that the people around you will be spared some calamities. โ€

"yes, it's like in some story, you know, what I'm talking about."

"Are you sure so? Firmly believe? โ€

"Sometimes, but I don't dare to disobey them, what if these things are true? At least now, although my wife is gone, she is living well, but she no longer lives with me, compared to people who die, which is already good. โ€

"Yes, it's already good. You're working hard. โ€

"Don't live like this."

The man paused, as if he was going to have a hard time speaking again.

If it is in the throat, it is the silence of the man at the moment.

"If you don't......"

The voice is always deep in the throat and cannot break through the ground.

Mu Chun didn't snatch the words, just waited quietly.

A few minutes seemed to Chu Sisi to be as long as a whole day.

It was like a knife in front of the neck, unable to move.

Mu Chun's eyes kept looking at the computer and the desktop in front of the man, and the man's gaze finally changed, sometimes looking at Mu Chun, sometimes looking out the window.

Originally, Sunshine was fair to everyone, neither paying a penny nor giving you a trace of warmth.

But some things are just horizontal in front of the sun, which is both domineering and helpless.

"If you don't, if you don't follow the established rules, it will become unsafe."

The man finally finished the whole sentence, Chu Sisi felt a moment of relaxation, and his hanging heart finally relaxed slowly, but he didn't know when he began to feel pain.

It's so uncomfortable, so familiar with the pain, have you ever been like this?

It's just that he's more serious, so serious that the nails that haven't been trimmed for two years have dried up and turned yellow because of the lack of nutrients, and the decay of the nails is more desperate than the branches that fall in late autumn.

It's hard to recall that it was once a part of an active life.

"Why did you come to the hospital?"

Mu Chun asked.

"I suddenly wondered if there would be any medicine, and if I took it, I could change my condition."

"Do you know that your actions are unreasonable?"

The man nodded in frustration, and he clicked a total of 7 times, no more, no less.

"Yes. I know. I don't want that. โ€

"Are you sleeping okay?"

"Sleep is the only good thing. Sleep is also getting more and more, and the best thing to do when you are locked up in a house and not going out is to sleep, and there is nothing like sleeping to make the world safer. โ€

"What kind of safety is it, is it not necessary to do some strange things to block fear?"

"Well, I'm scared, something bad is going to happen."

"Haven't you asked for help before?"

The man paused.

Chu Sisi looked at the patient in front of him, this person should be close to 190cm tall, although the whole body is slightly hunched now because of long-term exercise, but it can be seen that he used to be very enviable.

Even now, he tries his best to maintain a decent posture, and he really doesn't look like some men who take the initiative to stay at home and be lazy.

It's just sick.

Chu Si thought about what the former person had said to her, "I don't blame you, it's just that I'm sick, let's try to solve this problem together." โ€

That sentence is like a spring breeze, like the sunshine outside the window.

"I don't blame you, I really don't blame you, it's not your fault."

The feeling of being redeemed and released in an instant.

Back then, if it weren't for that person, the man who has become a little eccentric and selfish now.

Chu Sisi shook her head, no, this patient is still different from her, this patient looks much more serious than she did at that time in some aspects.

"I've tried to talk to others before, and the first one is my wife."

"Your wife can't understand your behavior, does she?"

"When I talked to my wife, I had been silently enduring it for nearly half a year, and I couldn't get used to living a life where a person suddenly broke in like this without saying hello, and I don't know if the doctor could understand this description. I can't believe that there are still people in this world who can understand. These things are so weird, like evil spirits, even once I passed by the entrance of the park, there were fortune tellers who said that I had fallen into evil spirits. โ€

"My wife doesn't understand it at all."

The man grinned, and the skin on his face fell like peanut crumbs on ice cream.

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Mu Chun nodded.

"yes, I was right next to the shoe closet, holding the black sneakers I wore when I went out a few days ago, holding them in the palm of my hand, licking them like this."

The man clasped his hands and his thick tongue coating, pretending to lick in the air.

Chu Sisi didn't feel any nausea, just distressed.

My heart hurts even more than when I listened to his statement before.

"Because something bad is going to happen? If you don't? โ€

The man nodded suddenly, quickly and forcefully, like a child.

"Yes, because something bad is going to happen, a very strong upset, a very strong one, and then there's a voice in the body that says, 'Lick your shoes 21 times, and you'll be able to avoid bad things.'" That's it, I want to resist, but I can't. In the past, I turned off the lights 21 times, brushed the toothbrush 21 times, and when I took a shower from the bathroom and got dressed, I had to take it off and put it on again, and repeat it 21 times. I can tolerate this, but the voice is not satisfied, it asks for something different every time, and it is a shoe lick that day. โ€

"Are you hesitating?"

"How can anyone really believe that something terrible can happen without licking their shoes. Right, doctor, you won't believe it, if you don't eat ten steamed buns in the morning, something bad will happen, so you have to eat ten steamed buns anyway. โ€

"How can you eat it?"

Chu Sisi couldn't help but ask.

The man was silent, and in the silence it was as if tears had fallen to the ground.

"What's the hell about it?"