Chapter 132: Paradise
The drizzle was drizzling, and a faint light passed through it all, falling into the room through the cracks in the curtains, banishing the darkness and bringing a little light.
The building looked very old, with turquoise vines crawling into the windowsill along the cracks and pipes, and there was not much furniture in the room, except for some necessities of life.
The girl on the bed woke up slowly, entered the white ceiling, smelled the familiar smell of disinfectant water in the air, and couldn't help frowning slightly.
It was a ward, but unlike the usual wards where several people lived together, the girl was obviously of a special status, and was fortunate enough to get a separate room in this ghost place, although her freedom was limited, but she was so lucky compared to those patients who had to wear restraint clothes at all times.
Fortunate...... Lucky fart!
Eve raised her hand to smash the door with a punch, and trotted out, but as soon as the anger rose, it dissipated.
She leaned back on the pillow, took out an apple from the fruit basket beside her, and nibbled on it without paying attention.
Click, click.
Biting the apple, she resembles an angry squirrel, but Eve also knows that she can lose her temper with the apple a little here.
Eve Phoenix, heir to the Phoenix family, detective in Sualan Hall, and the self-proclaimed female captain of Invig......
Well, none of these identities matter now, and at the moment Eve is a patient, trapped in this place called Black Mountain Hospital.
The cause was a raid on the gang more than half a month ago, and the person behind that incident was Hercule, because of his desire for those secret knowledge, he used several other forces to cause disputes against the inferior secret blood.
The final ending is also the familiar one, the demon appears, and Mr. Lorenzo Holmes comes on the scene at a critical moment to end it all.
For Lorenzo, the incident was over, but for Eve, it was all going on, as she and the detectives in the Sualan Hall were corrupted, and in order to ensure that the effects did not spread, the Purifier placed them in the Black Mountain Hospital for psychiatric testing and treatment to remove the effects of the erosion.
But after all, this treatment has been a little too long, and the doctor's daily rhetoric is the same, saying that she is not healed and can't leave, and Eve is more inclined to Arthur to lock her up here than this.
The worried old father finally couldn't stand this frightened daughter, so he simply put Eve in foster care here, and Eve couldn't run away anyway, and the old father was probably busy dealing with the mission.
Although Arthur never revealed those things to Eve, she could more or less guess those things after being in contact with Lorenzo for so long, but because of this speculation, she felt that she had really angered Arthur this time, and maybe when he was discharged from the hospital, Arthur would send himself to some idyllic island and say goodbye to some so-called demon.
Eve didn't want that, she didn't want anyone else to make decisions for her.
She also tried to escape many times, but each time she ran halfway through and was caught, probably because of her identity, those doctors were also very polite to her, at most they just locked herself up.
Yes...... It's a pity, it's a pity that there is no ladder here, otherwise Eve would really want to try this life pass again.
Make the bed, get dressed, and wear a crisp white hospital gown, and if there is some strange number on it, Eve will even feel like a prisoner.
She sat on the bed, her feet swinging, as she usually did here, and before long footsteps rang out in the hallway, and the nurse pushed open the door, pushing a small cart with a mechanical instrument in front of her.
"It's time for regular check-ups, Miss Phoenix. ”
The nurse wore a white nurse's hat and mask, and could only see a pair of bright eyes, and each of them was like this, and if it weren't for the different nameplates on their chests, Eve would have been unable to distinguish them.
They were polite to Eve, after all, her surname was Phoenix, and even if the nurses didn't know the inside story, their boss had more or less vaguely revealed Eve's dignity.
But think about it, on a thunderstorm night, Eve smashed the security guard on duty with the leg of her chair, and then climbed down the sixth floor along the pipe outside the wall.
And there have been more than one such escapes, and during this more than half a month of treatment, Eve has fully demonstrated to the doctors how good it can be when a police detective wants to commit a crime.
But fortunately, the security of the Black Mountain Hospital was strong enough to capture Eve every time, and for this kind of erosion-related, extremely uncooperative patients, they often responded with restraint clothes and tranquilizers, but these did not fall on the girl's head, she was just transferred to a more secure building, and increased patrols in the area.
"I know, I know. ”
Eve said in response, then ruffled her long, fiery red hair.
On the back of the neck, the area that was covered by long hair had long been shaved off, revealing the skin underneath, and seeing that Eve cooperated like this, the nurse pushed the machine directly to the side of the bed, took out a few electrodes from it, and stabbed it along the exposed place at the back of the head.
"Do you need painkillers? It's going to hurt. The nurse asked.
"No, hurry up. ”
Eve urged.
The nurses looked at each other for a moment, perhaps admiring Eve's courage, and they didn't remind Eve, they started the machine directly, and as the electricity surged, a sharp pain detonated from their minds, which felt like someone had shot Eve in the head, and for a moment the vision became confused.
She grabbed the guardrail at the edge of the bed so that she didn't fall, and the scene in front of her gradually became clear after a flash of light, the nurses surrounded Eve, removed the electrodes, and took out cotton swabs to disinfect the wound, while some nurses went to observe the indicator light of the machine, and after so many days of treatment, it finally turned green.
"Congratulations, the erosion on your body has subsided. ”
The nurse said to Eve, who was holding her head, as she recorded the information.
The girl had only just woken up, refreshed and ready to start a beautiful new day, but in the blink of an eye, her face turned pale, and the pain was still echoing in her mind, as if she had been hit several uppercuts head-on.
It hurts, it hurts.
"That'...... Can I be discharged?"
Hearing the news, Eve's pale face barely lifted a little joy, grabbed the guardrail next to the bed, and asked the nurses.
"Not yet, you need to observe for a while longer and do a perfect check, this time it's just a regular check, to make sure you're okay now. ”
Predictably, these nurses would not let themselves go so easily.
They left with the machine, but not far, but down the hallway, pushing open another room, and not long before another terrible scream rang out.
Eve had gotten used to it, and she lay back in bed to ease the pain in her head, the screams in her ears.
There aren't many patients living here, but they all seem to be as special as Eve, so the nurses give them the best care to make sure that everyone can detect them, and the screams on this floor usually last for about half an hour.
However, there are also people who can hold back the pain and not scream, Eve is one, and there is another patient on this level who is also like this, but Eve has not seen him.
This is the Black Mountain Hospital, an institution under the purification agency that focuses on the study of spiritual directions, and if the perpetual motion pump pursues the truth of matter, then what they are trying to explore is the true meaning of the spirit.
The Black Mountain Hospital is mainly divided into three areas, the first is the place called the Mild Symptom Zone, where most of the normal mental patients are housed, after all, there are not many people who can survive the erosion of demons, these normal patients are also listed as the research objects of the Black Mountain Hospital, and compared with the people who are corrupted by demons, their symptoms are really mild.
The other area is the critical area where Eve is now, where most of the wounded are cleansed, as well as some people who have been eroded by demons, many of them are as sane as Eve, but they have become dangerous because of the erosion on their bodies.
The last area is called the research area, which is the place where the doctors study the spirit, but Eve doesn't know where that area is, and now she can feel it more or less, and now the names of these areas are just a disguise, and the purification agency enforces a strict class information seal, and if you don't reach that level, you will never know how many secrets there are in this Black Mountain hospital.
But Eve can at least guess what the so-called research area is doing now, the mild area is a group of normal mentally ill people, and the severe area is some people who have been eroded...... Eve has a conditional suspicion that the so-called research patient in the research area is a living demon.
It was a chaotic world, and Eve felt the pain relieved a lot, and then picked up another apple from the fruit basket and nibbled on it.
Pushing open the ward, the guard had been waiting for a long time, he was wearing a helmet wrapped in barbed wire, which protected him and broadened his vision to the greatest extent, and he was also wearing a pitch-black suit with a weapon pinned to his waist.
Eve walked in front, the guards followed, he was not protecting Eve, but to prevent the girl from suddenly jumping out of the window to escape, in the previous few pursuits, he had seen the girl's so-called agility, he even wondered if there was something wrong with the tutor in the Phoenix family, how to teach such a wild monkey-like guy.
Guards and nurses were everywhere in the building, as well as countless iron gates, each with a large set of keys pinned to their waists, and information and areas were strictly cordoned off.
The atmosphere was gloomy and gloomy, and one could see through the cracks in the unclosed doors, one after another, staring blankly at the bed, as if they were soulless sculptures, looking through the cracks in the curtains, feeling the only remaining light.
Eve remembers the doctor telling her this, that it was a procedure called a prefrontal lobectomy, and that these patients were eroded to the third stage irretrievably, and if they didn't, they would become demons.
Most of them are knights who have eliminated the mechanism, and after realizing that they are going to turn into monsters, some choose to die, and some choose to undergo surgery, making themselves the experimental material of the Black Mountain Hospital, and the masonry of the wall of reason.
The barred door slowly closed, the elevator began to descend, the guard had only the minimum clearance, his key could only lead to a certain place, and Eve needed to open the door for all of her actions.
Finally, the door slowly opened, and Eve stepped out of the ancient building, surrounded by green vines, bathed in faint sunlight.
Eve couldn't remember how she got here, but when she woke up, she was in the Black Mountain Hospital.
There is a very strange phenomenon in the Black Mountain Hospital, many people in the old Dunling know that there is such a large mental hospital in the old Dunling, but when you think about its location carefully, no one can remember its location, and no one seems to have really been here.
The same was true of Eve, who sometimes had to look at the gloomy clouds above the sky and feel the drizzle of rain to make sure she was still in the old spirit, under the dark clouds.
The guard stopped, and stood not far from Eve, an activity area, surrounded by several buildings, where the patients let off steam, some of them sitting on benches in a daze, some of them being pushed by the nurses, and some of them were slightly mobile, chasing and playing on the wet lawn like children.
Everyone laughed, sang and danced, and for a moment Eve even wondered if she was in the wrong place, but humans are very adaptable creatures, even here.
"Good morning! ”
"Good morning!
"Good morning! ”
"Morning ...... Well, that can't be eaten!Mr. William!"
Eve can't be idle in this ghost place, so during this time of relaxation, she became friends with several mentally ill people who could barely communicate.
General Cole is a veteran, and almost all of the older ones can be Eve's grandfather, but he is still strong, and he is the fastest of those few people who are running around.
Eve didn't know about his condition, but what she did know was that old Cole thought that the Glorious War was not over, and that he himself was a wounded general recuperating here, and he was always asking the doctor when his injuries would heal, and he said that his soldiers were still waiting for him to fight the Gaulnalo back...... But in fact, it has been many years since the Glorious War ended.
Sir Delenn was the man standing under the tree, with a shallow smile and elegant demeanor, who hated old Cole, and thought that it was no etiquette for the guy who was shouting all day long to fight and kill, and that the guy who was digging the ground with his hand in the corner was a Gavin soldier.
Gavin thinks he's a soldier, and he's on the battlefield, you think he's digging the ground, but it seems to him he's digging trenches, Old Cole always bullies Gavin, thinks he's a deserter, and Gavin never resists, after all, Old Cole is a general.
As for the guy who was lying on the ground and gnawing on the grass frantically, it was Mr. William, who looked about the same age as Cole Sr., and he felt that he had a group of people in his head, and this group of people thought they were alchemists.
Howling, laughter, vomiting.
An embarrassed smile appeared on Eve's face, this is a veritable paradise, a paradise for the mentally ill.