Dreamland......

It's quite naughty when you think about it, when people go into a state of sleep or relaxation, it will quietly avoid subconscious inspections and express itself in various images.

Some people say that dreams are a window to the unconscious world, some people say that dreams are just a satisfaction of suppressed subconscious desires, in short, dreams are not so traditional logic, it connects the deepest part of our thinking, absurd, crazy, strange...... And people in dreams are almost completely unaware that they are in a dream.

So what would the world of consciousness look like for the mentally ill? Is it like we're in a dream?

A century and a half ago, there were quite a few people who believed that the mentally ill were a group of poor people whose "subconscious" mind exploded, thus replacing the original "superficial consciousness". To put it another way, it is that this group of people is always living in dreams, and they can't distinguish between virtual and reality.

From this point of view, an alternative treatment has been derived, which does not use drugs, nor through external stimuli such as acupuncture and electric shocks, but directly starts from the patient's consciousness itself, and goes directly to the source of the disease......

In fact, mental illness is different from other diseases in that a large part of it has no substantial organic damage, and its lesions are in the invisible and intangible things such as memory, feelings, and ways of thinking.

So theoretically, this kind of treatment is the most direct and effective.

But the world of thinking is so mysterious, and to this day, most of the treatment of mental illness still stays at the treatment of electric shocks, sleeping pills, restraint belts and other treatments.

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But...... Is that really the case?

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Well, after saying this, you may have vaguely captured something in your mind, but it is not clear enough.

So let's bring our thoughts back to this story again.

At this point, Dr. Zhang already had 3 sets of numbers...... The first is that he found "8131620" by himself, the second is the "74123" found by Liu Yi, and the third is the "380" that the three of them got together.

And this beardless uncle named "Jia Renliang" has also finished introducing his profession and name, so the three of them walked out of this dusty hut for a century......

Soon they crawled out of the hole...... But after Dr. Zhang stood still, he was surprised to find that the mirror on the sink was not broken, it was still hanging on the wall intact, and there were no blood stains or scratches on the door panel of the "toilet room" separated by wooden boards, and all traces of the string of numbers just now were completely gone, like a dream.

Dr. Zhang's mouth was slightly open, frozen in place, but soon, he came out of the shock. There were so many strange things that happened that night that he was a little numb......

Immediately afterwards, Liu Yi also climbed out of the big hole.

"Huh? How have the mirrors been restored? He shouted in surprise.

Dr. Zhang didn't think much about it, in fact, he had already realized how bizarre all this was he had experienced, but he didn't want to admit it. "Maybe, it's really like you say...... We're all in a dream......" he said lightly.

As soon as the voice fell...... Uncle Jia Renliang also crawled out of the pit with a snort: "What happened?" ”

Dr. Zhang looked at him, hesitated, and said, "En...... What if I said that it was all a dream......"

He didn't say any more, but looked at the other person's reaction.

Sure enough, the other party looked at himself as if he was looking at a psychopath.

For a while, Dr. Zhang seemed to see himself when he just woke up, and at that time, Liu Yi also said that this was a dream, and he was looking at each other with such eyes......

Liu Yi ~ himself ~ Jia Renliang ~ alone...... Then there is another person, who goes from doubting to believing, as if it were some kind of inheritance.

Perhaps, everyone's experience is in another person's dream.

Maybe everything is still in someone's dream......

Who knows?

Thinking of this, Dr. Zhang shook his head, he didn't explain anything, because he knew that this uncle named Jia Renliang would understand all this sooner or later.

It's like yourself at the moment.

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In this way, Dr. Zhang ignored the other party's inexplicable eyes, walked straight past the mirror, and came to the door of the toilet without even looking at it.

He pressed the doorknob down.

"Click......

The door lock made a sound of being opened......

"Open...... It's on! ”

Dr. Zhang shouted in great surprise, he didn't have any hope of being able to open it, he just came to try it, but he didn't expect it to be opened.

"What's going on here......" Jia Renliang asked when he saw the surprised expressions of the other two.

Liu Yi hurriedly explained: "This door couldn't be opened, but I didn't expect it to be opened now......"

"Can't open it? Like when I was locked up in the "break room"? Jia Renliang said.

Liu Yi nodded, indicating that it was almost like that.

At this time, Dr. Zhang had already stepped out of the door: "Okay, come out first and then talk slowly~" He beckoned to the two people on the side of the big cave and shouted, and blocked the door, as if he was afraid that the door would not be opened again after it was closed.

When Jia Renliang and Liu Yi heard this, they also hurriedly ran out of the door, after all, no one wanted to be locked in the toilet.

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At this moment, the three of them stood side by side in the corridor outside the toilet door, similar to the "mild ward" where Dr. Zhang was located, and the corridor of the "severe ward" was also front and back, with wards on one side and walls on the other, and stairs and windows at both ends of the corridor.

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"It's finally out, I don't want to stay with all the time!" Liu Yi said.

Dr. Zhang sighed, he didn't want to pay attention to this guy at all, and now his mind was full of the new patient with the scar on his mouth.

"That's him, it's all that bastard!!" He muttered fiercely in his heart, and for some reason, he had a feeling of extreme boredom with the guy from the first time he saw the picture of him...... No, not just boredom, but hatred, anger......

That's when it happened

"Hey, hey, hey~"

An eerie laugh came from the other end of the hallway.

"This, this, this...... This laughter! Liu Yi's face was full of panic, and he pointed in the direction where the voice came from: "This is the laughter I have heard!" ”

Jia Renliang also said in a panic: "This voice ...... This person is the one who locked me in the break room! ”

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And in fact, as early as the moment it just appeared. Doctor Zhang's eyes were already bursting with anger, and he could hear it before Liu Yi and Jia Renliang could distinguish this voice, which was the laughter he heard after dialing that phone number...... He also knew that this was the voice of the new patient.

Really...... It's all about him!

"Let's go!" Dr. Zhang rushed out almost in the next second: "You must catch that bastard!" He shouted.

And Liu Yi and Jia Renliang also looked at each other and hurriedly chased after them.

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The corridor was not long, and in less than a minute, the three of them ran to the stairwell at the end of the corridor.

And the sound happened to come from upstairs......

"...... It's ugly! Dr. Zhang looked from the bottom up, his face full of disgust. After that, he pulled his legs and ran upstairs again.

He climbed up the second floor, then the third floor, step after staircase, he didn't know how many stairs he had climbed, and at this moment, his mind was already filled with that inexplicable anger, and he frantically pursued laughter and climbed up.

He didn't think about why this shrill laughter could penetrate such a high floor and reach his ears, nor did he think about why he hadn't seen a single person in the entire hospital except for the two guys who followed him all night.

And the two strange chairs, and the doors that couldn't be opened, and the awakenings again and again, and the numbers that didn't know what they were for, all of which he had forgotten about at this moment.

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There is no logic to any of this...... It's like waking up in a dream, but still in a dream.

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Finally, after crossing an unknown number of stairs, Dr. Zhang came to the end of the stairs, which had long exceeded the height of the hospital.

But he doesn't care about it anymore, and the deeper he sinks into the dream, the less he notices the absurdity like this. Just like people in dreams, they can't distinguish between reality and illusion. He didn't even notice that the two people who were still following him just now had disappeared without a trace.

In front of him at this moment was a huge iron gate welded by a row of fences.

He knew that this was the fence that isolated the area where the dangerous mentally ill were active, and that was the corridor where the patient named "Liu Yi" told him that he was in the first dream. And on one side of the iron door, there is a combination lock, that is, there is a 1 to 0 on the top, 0 in the middle of the bottom row, and there are "*" and "#" on both sides......

Dr. Zhang rushed over with a brisk walk, and the code of this lock was "74123", which he knew, because Liu Yi had already told him.

After a few electronic "dripping" sounds, the iron door opened in response.

Dr. Zhang pulled open the iron fence, and in front of him was a narrow corridor with walls on both sides, without any room, extending forward into the darkness, the light bulbs above his head flickering on and off, and the sound of steel grinding against each other echoed in the corridor.

He ran into it like crazy...... Because that shrill laughter rang out again.

He ran for a long time, but he didn't tire of it, and finally, he saw a door at the end of the hallway.

This is the door of a ward, and on the top of the door frame is a house number...... 380。

Ward 380.

Dr. Zhang frowned, he seemed to feel that this Ward 380 was extremely familiar, but he couldn't remember anything.

So he gave up thinking.

Because at this moment, his mind has been swallowed up by an inexplicable emotion, he does not like the new patient, very, very disliked, extremely disgusted, jealous, hateful, angry, and even ......

I want to kill each other.

"Right...... I'm going to kill him. Dr. Zhang thought.

His expression gradually became hideous. Grinning

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It's like being a manic.

Immediately afterward, he pushed open the door of Ward 380.

But...... The new patient he hated was not in the house.

At this moment, in front of Dr. Zhang, there is a hospital bed, a small table, and a chair, and on the table, there is a telephone......

This scene actually felt extremely familiar to him...... It's as if he's been living in this ward for years...... For many years......

Dr. Zhang frowned, his actions as if he were suddenly out of the control of his consciousness.

He grabbed the phone in front of him.

“8~1~3~1~6~2~0”

He began to press the keys on the phone...... And as he pressed it, he whispered the numbers in his mouth.

But it's inexplicable...... His hands began to tremble, and then his whole body.

Soon, he had dialed all the numbers when his finger left the last button......

"Toot-toot-"

The phone was busy.

Then, the phone was connected, and on the other end of the phone, it was a girl's voice.

"Hello...... This is the xx city psychiatric hospital...... How can I help you, make an appointment, ask about your condition, and guide ...... doctor?"

The voice on the phone was very gentle, very good, and I could even feel that the operator was a very beautiful girl, but Dr. Zhang almost didn't listen to anything, and for some reason, tears welled up in his eyes

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Right here and now

His surroundings began to change.

The mental ward in front of me has disappeared, replaced by a residential room, two bedrooms and one living room, the decoration is very warm, the sunlight outside the window through the gap in the curtains, with a warm smell, gently scattered on the table on the photo frame, in the photo frame is a photo, a man and a woman in the photo hugging each other, the smile is extremely sweet.

However, in the lower left corner of the frame, a drop of blood and its abrupt smearing were on it......

If you look down this drop of blood, you will find that there is still a pool of blood on the coffee table. The blood trailed down the coffee table to the floor, converging into one piece and spreading brightly into the living room...... In the end, it turned out to be a long trail of dragging.

At that end...... It was a girl, she was lying quietly on the floor, she was still wearing the clothes in the photo, but at the moment, the blood under her body had spread out, dyeing the clothes scarlet.

Oh yes, the boy in the picture...... It's very similar to Dr. Zhang.

It's just that it looks a lot younger......

The phone in Dr. Zhang's hand had been hung up at some point, and he looked at the scene around him with a blank expression.

Suddenly, he seemed to notice that there were two wet marks on his face, and he subconsciously wiped them with the hand that was not holding the phone.

Immediately after, a smell of blood rushed into his nostrils.

He lowered his head, but was horrified to see that his body, hands, and shoes were covered in blood...... And on the floor at his feet, a knife was lying quietly, the tip covered with blood......