"I was standing at the window, which was a big floor-to-ceiling window. I watched it climb up the rocks and break out of the dirt, and the world outside was no longer the world I knew, it was like a black quagmire, like a swamp, that could swallow everyone at any moment. ”

"Do you have any other memories besides these images?"

"Hmm...... It was as if in the blur, there was a man speaking, and I heard that person say to me, it was all arrangement, that I had been chosen to come here to fulfill the sacred mission. ”

"Mission?"

"yes, I think it's weird, it's kind of like a religious ceremony, but you know, I don't have any religious beliefs, so I'm very concerned about what I see."

"Well, from the time you fell into that abyss, everything you saw?"

"Yes, like a city buried underground...... Or maybe it's just a building, because it goes up again, and then it rises up above the ground. ”

"Well, it feels more like a spaceship or a burrower, capable of powering."

"Well, maybe it's a spaceship or something. Because its windows are particularly large, floor-to-ceiling windows. ”

“…… To be honest, I can't guess what you mean based on what you said, I just think you're thinking too much. Tired lately? Is studying stressful? Are you looking for a breakthrough? It's normal to have dreams like this. ”

Cao Xi was sitting cross-legged on the bed, facing Luo Xin in front of the phone screen, and the two were having a weekly video conversation.

For the "boundless" that Cao Xi would come like this every week, Luo Xin was used to it. So, he looked serious, as if he had given her an absolutely correct answer. Cao Xi had no choice but to take a breath of cool air and make a helpless expression.

A knock on the door interrupted their conversation.

The door opened, and a nurse poked her head out and smiled at Luo Xin: "Doctor Luo, it's almost half past three." ”

"Okay." Luo Xin replied, and then looked back at Cao Xi in front of the screen, "That's all for today, I'm going to see a patient." ”

"Okay." Cao Xi waved goodbye to him and stretched by the way.

"Don't think about it, it's not the first time you've had strange dreams, not every dream is meaningful, you still have to listen to me, stay up less late and sleep more." Luo Xin didn't forget to tell her more, "Combining work and rest in study, have you signed up for the club this year?" ”

"Got it, got it." Cao Xi squinted, deliberately avoiding this question, and then smiled and waved his hand, "You're busy." ”

With that, she turned off the video.

At this moment, the sun was shining outside the dormitory, and she was still nested in the dormitory. Well...... Because mobile phones are more fun.

"Ding" sounded, which was a friend online reminder she set.

She quickly picked up her phone and looked at it, and sure enough, it was from Shi Wei.

"Interested in going hiking together?"

"On foot?"

"yes, it's a very exciting place."

"What's the stimulus?"

"I'm interested in asking this, I'll pull you into the group to chat together at night."

"Okay."

In the four years of college, except for studying, Cao Xi did not participate in any clubs, and even had little communication with the people in the dormitory. Many people think she's weird.

But Cao Xi feels that like other ordinary people, she likes to read books and watch movies, and even chats with other people on the Internet, but she really doesn't feel interesting in the face of people in her life. Some people say that because she is an orphan and lacks the warmth of family affection, she is so withdrawn. Cao Xi didn't believe it, she could chat with like-minded people online for a night.

For example, Shi Wei.

Although Shi Wei is from different departments of the same school, they have never met. It's just the most matching chat partner selected when searching by condition on the campus network. Of course, don't ask why there is no match for a boy to chat, for a person who doesn't like to communicate too much with others in his daily life, talk to a boy? Hehe.

She rolled over and got out of bed, ready to go to the library to read a book before everyone finished class.

The weather in November is a little cool, but fortunately there is sunshine, and it is very pleasant to listen to music and walk on the tree-lined streets of the campus.

After four years of college, Cao Xi does not want to graduate and is ready to continue his graduate studies. After all, it is difficult to find a job after graduation, and it is a little difficult for her to devote herself to real life.

She often disguises herself in a virtual world, but has little communication with people from the outside world, and it is a headache for her to involve complex interpersonal relationships anyway. Maybe it's really because she's an orphan, and she's erected a barrier with the people around her, but she opens her heart to strangers.

Fortunately, there is also a "stranger" Luo Xin who sponsors her to study. I don't know what his specific identity is, anyway, for as long as Cao Xi can remember, he is here.

So Cao Xi affectionately called him "uncle".

It wasn't until Luo Xin left the city and went to the town next door that they would have a routine video once a week to convey the latest situation.

I have the impression that my uncle is always busy, so each chat will not exceed half an hour. In order to be able to chat more, Cao Xi will give up the class every Thursday afternoon. However, she didn't have any special ideas for elective courses, so she might as well go to the library and read some books that she was interested in.

When she sat in the quiet library, there weren't many people inside. So, plug in headphones, listen to music, and read nursing books.

Well, she is not in this major, but it does not prevent her from learning nursing knowledge, maybe one day she can take the exam, maybe she can go to her uncle.

Of course, this was just wishful thinking on her part.

……

At this time, Helong Hospital was conducting a routine afternoon round.

"Dr. Luo, the patient in bed 34 is in trouble again." Nurses arrived from the side of the hallway, and the sound of rushing runs and shouts broke the silence of the hospital.

"Is it still like that?" Luo Xin asked as he walked forward, and the nurse struggled to follow him.

"Yes, but this time there was an attack."

"Attack?"

They walked outside the door of the 34 beds, and there were already three or four guards blocking the door, just in case. The occupants of the other beds were evacuated outside or kept in their rooms under the supervision of nurses.

Luo Xin looked through the small glass window on the door and saw that a person inside was desperately smashing something, emotional, everything he could lift was smashed in the same place, as if he had to smash something there.

And this patient, Luo Xin is very familiar, he has often come to visit the hospital in the ten years he has been in the hospital, and this person has made a deep impression on him. A little old man over sixty years old, thin, either silent, or bowing his head and muttering to himself, over the years, the only headache he has had is habitual self-harm, and at every stage, he will suddenly try his best to torture himself: hit the wall, hang himself, or bury his head in the toilet...... This time, however, he changed his object and began to face other things violently.

Luo Xin was about to open the door and go in, but the guard grabbed him: "Doctor Luo, what are you doing?" He's very emotional right now, you're going to be in danger! ”

"It's okay." Luo Xin was much calmer, "The object of your attack is not people. ”

Just when everyone was at a loss, Luo Xin opened the door and walked towards the little old man.

The guards nervously slammed the door shut, fearing that something might happen and hurt them.

"Mr. Ma, I'm Dr. Luo, and I come to see you every day." Luo Xin slowly approached him and introduced himself kindly.

But this Mr. Ma didn't care about him at all, and smashed the wall desperately with a chair, and some cracks had already appeared in the hard wall, and a layer of large and small wall fragments had accumulated on the ground.

"Mr. Ma, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Get out...... Get out ......," he muttered, but he didn't stop moving.

"Get out?" Everyone's first reaction should be that the little old man asked Luo Xin to go out, but Luo Xin understood what he meant.

"Isn't there a door here?"

"Nope! No! Mr. Ma became emotional, "Someone has sealed it!" Sealed by that group of people! ”

"Who?"

He suddenly threw away the chair in his hand, his eyes widened in horror, he turned sideways and grabbed Luo Xin, his expression began to distort, as if he was extremely afraid: "They want to eat me, they want to eat me!" ”

The guards outside the door hurriedly rushed in at this moment, surrounded the little old man, and controlled him in two or three strokes, but he had obviously unloaded the attack, turned to fear, and began to cry.

"Doctor Luo, are you alright?" The nurse asked Luo Xin.

"It's fine." Luo Xin tidied up his white coat, but it was just a little painful to be scratched by him at that time, and it was no big deal.

The little old man was tied to the hospital bed, crying uncontrollably, and the nurse gave him a tranquilizer, and before long he fell asleep.

Luo Xin patrolled the entire ward, just a small corner, which he had attacked, and the rest of the room was intact. Perhaps, as he said, there was a door, and he wanted to open it.

After finishing the ward rounds, Luo Xin returned to the office, gently closed the door, and pulled up a folder from the computer, which contained Ma Hui's medical records, on which the time and place of today were recorded, and Ma Hui had an aggressive behavior.

After recording, he looked up, neatly recording what symptoms Ma Hui had in what year, month, and when, in addition to some masochistic behaviors, and some words he had said, all of which were recorded.

Luo Xin flipped to the top, he used to be the owner of a company, with a successful career and a harmonious family, twenty years ago during a trip, he had an accident and disappeared for nearly two months. All the people who traveled with him disappeared, but he was the only one who returned in disarray, and he was delirious ever since.

Ma Hui kept saying that they shouldn't have gone there, that he had to kill other people, that it was an evil place, that place was called "Shuixi Village".

Luo Xin closed the documents, and in this same folder, there were also several people's documents, he didn't open them, but was silent in front of the screen for a long time.

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