"I'm sorry, but the patients here are so special, these measures are necessary." Seeing that we didn't like this place, Dr. Lu explained to us with a smile, "We don't have anyone here except patients and doctors, and even the family members who send patients here are often outside, and they turn back after handing over the patients to us, and they usually don't come in." ”

This place, ordinary people really don't have the courage to come in, but when I heard Dr. Lu say this, I feel more and more that this place is depressing, because it often exposes more of the evil side of human nature.

The door on the iron bar is a combination lock, after Dr. Lu pressed the code, the small iron door opened, after we entered, he confirmed that the door was closed, and then took us up, every step was very careful.

There was no one on the second floor, except for two patients in white and blue gowns, walking past us with a sluggish expression, and I looked at them, but they couldn't see me, and they didn't even give me a reaction.

Dr. Lu took us into his office and asked the nurse to pour us water.

"I'm sorry, the dean was supposed to receive you, but the dean hasn't come back from going out on errands these days, and the other doctors are very busy, you should also understand that no doctor wants to come to this place, so we haven't had enough people here, but don't worry, in the evening, I asked people to prepare a welcome party to give you a good reception."

"No, we're just coming to see."

"What you want, not just for you, in our hospital, there has been no happy event for a long time, so let everyone follow the joy and relax."

Everyone said so, I turned my head to ask for the opinions of the other two, Qiu Shiren was expressionless from the beginning, like a big leader, I am his spokesperson, his pawn.

And after entering this place, Fang Shan also played the role of his police officer, always guarding us, and he didn't say a word until now, very much like a taciturn bodyguard, if he hadn't seen his nature on the road, it would be really hard to believe.

Both of them wanted me to call the shots, and I could only smile and agree.

"Can I see the patient's basic information?"

"This," Dr. Lu pushed his glasses, "it may not be convenient." ”

"Now that we've let us come in to investigate, what's wrong with looking at the basic information? Afraid that we will reveal the identity of the patient? Rest assured, we are still aware of the non-disclosure agreement. ”

I secretly twisted the inner flesh of Qiu Shishi's arm, which had nothing to do with me, and he cooperated with his fierce face and glared at Dr. Lu, who pushed his glasses and his hand trembled: "Then, okay, please come with me." ”

He took us to the seventh floor, which is the top floor of the complex.

The elevator here is not very good, it looks like a freight elevator, not to mention, when the elevator starts to go up, it is always a meal, and I doubt that it will be awkward with you at any time.

"I'm sorry, our place is simple, we have a total of seven floors, everyone is used to taking the stairs directly, this elevator is generally not used." Probably seeing me looking at the elevator, Dr. Lu kindly explained to us.

But he explained that it was better not to explain, and I was even more worried when he said that.

I haven't used it much, so it's more likely to have problems.

Fortunately, it didn't look useful, but it still brought us to the seventh floor safely.

There was no one on the seventh floor, only a nurse wearing a mask shook it, although Dr. Lu looked quite normal, not to mention the patients, just the nurses he met, one by one, coldly, seeing people and not seeing people, I felt no different from the two patients I met on the second floor.

Dr. Lu pushed open the door to the archives and invited us in.

Very few people should have come into the archives, and I saw that many of the shelves were covered in dust.

"The information of our patients for so many years is basically here." Dr. Lu gave us a gesture that allowed us to do whatever it wanted.

I sneered, this Dr. Lu seems to be kind, but in fact it is very deep, I am not polite to him, and said straightly: "Where is the patient information this year?" Preferably in the last six months. ”

"It seems that you have a purpose." Dr. Lu pushed his glasses unexpectedly, and even less angry, and really pointed to a certain layer of a certain shelf for me, "This is what you want." ”

Without saying a word, Qiu Shishi pulled out a dossier that seemed to be the most up-to-date, and then leaned on me leisurely, and flipped through the file, which looked like a person reading in the library, the corner of Dr. Lu's mouth twitched.

I followed Qiu Shishi to see, we were mainly looking for Zhao Xingye and a few people, so I flipped through it quickly, and I finished the whole book in a few clicks, Qiu Shishi did not close it immediately, but turned the first and last pages again, and read the admission information of the two members respectively, and also checked whether the people in this file were discharged according to the admission time.

It's according to the time, yes, but the earliest of these books was at the beginning of last year, in the past two years, a total of ten people have come in, this place is remote, and it is normal that no one will be willing to send their families here, but among these ten people, there is no Zhao Xing, and there is no Ye Zi and Mrs. Wang.

Qiu Shiren took down a few more books and looked at them, but these people would only come in earlier, and we still checked them, but there were still none.

In the end, Qiu Shishi gave me a look, I closed the file book, looked up and asked Dr. Lu, who was waiting patiently: "Some time ago, a few women were sent in, named Zhao Xing, Sang Ye, and Sun Hui, why didn't you see them?" ”

Mulberry leaves are leaves, and Sun Hui is Mrs. Wang.

"This," Dr. Lu habitually pushed his glasses, but I could feel that he was tighter this time than before, "Several of them are more special, and they are not recorded in this. ”

"Oh, how special is it?"

"You should know that," he smiled, "and they're all female prisoners!" ”

I craned my neck and calmed down: "Of course I know that Ming people don't say dark words, they are the real objects of my investigation, and I want to see them now." ”

"I'm afraid not."

"You can visit all the prisons, and I can't even see a few patients when I come to you to investigate?"

"No, you misunderstood what I meant, it's not that our hospital won't let you see it, but you, you can't see it."

"What do you mean?"

"That Zhao Xing is dead."

“……”

He said very regretfully: "You can't let me go to the underworld and detain her soul to see you." ”

After half a minute, I shouted a little uncontrollably, "Zhao Xing is dead? How did she die? ”

Qiu Shiren quickly pressed my shoulder, I pressed down my excited emotions, grabbed Qiu Shishi's clothes with my trembling hands, and calmed myself down: "Doctor Lu, please tell me, what is going on, this Zhao Xing, not long after coming to this hospital, why did he die?" ”

The girl who said that she hated her brother and killed her family frantically, but she was inexplicably a little distressed, rescued her younger brother who was on the verge of being destroyed by the poet at the last critical moment, a little sister who seemed to be fragile but was actually strong, she actually died?

"I'm sorry, but this is indeed a dereliction of duty." Dr. Lu apologized without shirking any responsibility, "Zhao Xing has a very serious depression, and not long after she came to us, she took advantage of the absence of the nurse we cared for and committed suicide. ”

"You say she was, self-killed?"

"That's right."

"It can't be." I know that Zhao Xing has mental problems, but after she killed her family, she still lives alone in her house, under the same roof as her parents' corpses, and often cleans her parents' room, she doesn't know how strong she is in her heart.

For most of the year, she didn't commit suicide, but after reaching a great reconciliation with her brother, she committed suicide?

Maybe depressed patients will really want to end themselves when they are in pain, but my intuition tells me that Zhao Xing will not.

"You have to believe me, I am a psychiatrist, I know this kind of patient better than you, many people who look cheerful may not be able to survive, not to mention Zhao Xing's already serious mental problems."

I almost tore out Qiu Shishi's clothes: "What about mulberry leaves, what about Mrs. Wang?" ”

"They can be seen, but ......"

"But what?"

"Well, you'll know when you see it."

Then, Dr. Lu took us up the stairs to the sixth floor, the sixth floor is the inpatient department, which is a ward, each room is a square space, estimated to be four or five square meters, there is only one bed in it, there is no window, the door is tightly locked, there is a small window on the door, you can see the situation in the room.

Occasionally, when I glanced inside, I could see a patient in a restraint belt, staring blankly ahead, motionless like a sculpture, looking like a dummy.

I don't know what other mental hospitals are like, but I hate it, Dr. Lu has been saying that they take care of patients more from just now to now, but whether it is a patient or a nurse, I can't feel the slightest warmth from it.

Colder than the dead, colder than ghosts.

Soon, Dr. Lu stopped in front of a hospital room: "Mulberry leaves live here." ”

Eagerly and patiently, I walked over at a normal pace, and looked through the small window of the door, and there was a girl inside, no different from the patients I had seen before, bound to sit on the bed, her body swaying up and down in a very regular manner.

The only difference was that she seemed to sense that someone was watching her, and slowly turned her head towards the window, I don't know if she could see me, she stared at the little window of the door fixedly, and it looked like a baby had discovered something new, and then suddenly laughed, "giggled".

The innocent look, the innocent laughter, was revealed by a thin girl with a hideous scar on her face, and I felt chills from the bottom of my heart.

"How did she become like this?"

I turned to look at Dr. Lu with ferocious intent: "Didn't you say that many patients will get better when they come to you?" Why did she become like this? ”

"That's how she came when she came......"

"You are talking nonsense," I cut off his words, "I caught her, and she was fine before I handed her over to you." "Even better, because at that time she finally met her sister, Shu'er enlightened her very well, she looked forward to Shu'er's recovery, to have the opportunity to reincarnate, I even promised her that I would bring her good news.

How could she be like this before she waited for me?

"Sir, please calm down, this is indeed the case when she sent us."

"Impossible!"

"If you feel like it's our responsibility, then I have nothing to say." Dr. Lu crossed his hands in front of his abdomen, looking like he was a righteous man, and he was helpless and upright when I wanted to take people's lives.

When I was furious, Qiu Shishi casually put his arm on my shoulder, stopping me from saying angry words, and he said indifferently and calmly: "What about Sun Hui, just like her? ”

"That's not true, Sun Hui's situation is the best, she went to other buildings with other patients to do activities today, and she will come over later, or I will ask someone to call her over? However, for our patients, it is better not to interrupt the activity in the middle of the activity, otherwise it is easy to ......."

"Alright," the poet listened impatiently to his hypocritical two-faced words, "we'll just wait." ”

"So, back to my office?"

When it was dark and it was time for dinner, Dr. Lu took us to the cafeteria on the third floor.

The complex covers a wide area, don't look at the only seven floors, but the space on each floor is quite large, and many patients are not suitable for running on both sides, so the canteen is also in the complex.

When I saw Mrs. Wang, I was surprised.

Compared with Zhao Xing, who died inexplicably, Ye Zi, who was crazy and abnormal, and Mrs. Wang's situation was ...... It couldn't be better.

I still remember when she was imprisoned, she was completely hysterical, to say that I, among the three, Mrs. Wang's spirit was the most broken, but now, she is like a normal woman, holding the food on the tray to find a seat, the expression on her face is very calm, and she will say a few words to the patients next to her who are also in good condition, not only does she look fine, but she also becomes peaceful?

This is really a magical place, where people who have a tendency to change for the better come in, either die or go crazy, and those who go crazy come in and get better?

We walked over and sat down across from Mrs. Wang, who was surprised to see us, no, surprise, she was very happy: "It's you, are you coming to see me?" ”

"Sort of," I nodded, looked at the entire cafeteria, there were patients and doctors, most of the doctors, nurses, and patients ate without saying a word, a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of food were as regular as robots, a few like Mrs. Wang, who would say a few words to the people next to her, with expressions on their faces, and smiles, I withdrew my gaze and looked back at Mrs. Wang, "You are here, how are you?" ”

"I'm fine," Mrs. Wang also glanced at the others, especially a certain doctor, and then lowered her head like an introverted woman, "Everyone takes good care of me." ”

Is this Mrs. Wang in front of me still the Mrs. Wang I recognize?

After everyone else had eaten and cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and left, Mrs. Wang looked at me timidly: "I—Can I ask a question?" ”

"What?"

Mrs. Wang clenched the chopsticks in her hand, tightly, restrainedly, not at all wearing mink, and said arrogantly to Master Qiu: "I want to know, how is Orange Orange now?" ”

"You, ask Orange Orange?" I'm not convinced.

"I know that I am not a good mother," Mrs. Wang reproached herself, "I may not see her again in my life," she said as she raised her head bravely and looked at us pleadingly, "I know that you are all good people, can you help me watch her more so that she can grow up safely." ”

I sneered, "Now that you know you regret it?" Why did you go earlier? ”

"I know it's me who is bad, and now I've got retribution, I don't want anything else, I just hope that Orange Orange can be well, even if I want to die immediately, I'm willing."

She sobbed as she spoke, and when she didn't find a tissue, she wiped away her tears and snot with her hands.

I closed my eyes and opened them again, staring at her seriously, trying to see something from it, but she was guilty, and her body was already covered with a layer of black gas that was darker than others, and I really couldn't see whether her mood at this time was gloomy or sunny.

In this way, it is more difficult to tell whether what she said is true or false.

But it shouldn't matter if it's true or not, she is here now, and she can't hurt Orange Orange anymore.

"Orange Orange, she's fine." I'll just say it simply, I don't need to tell her about Orange Cheng's former "autism", and now she is slowly coming out of the shadows in a new kindergarten.

"That's good, that's good!" Mrs. Wang muttered these three words, happy and regretful.

I thought about it for a moment and leaned over to her: "I ask you, ...... you"

"Suzu—"

The sudden ringing of the bell interrupted my questioning, and Mrs. Wang hurriedly stood up: "Assembled, I can't say more to you." Then he left with the few people left in the cafeteria.

We followed out, and found that they were all going upstairs, and just as we wanted to continue, there was a nurse in the stairwell, silent, with a pair of cold eyes to expel you.

"We're here to see where they live."

But the two nurses who stopped us didn't seem to understand human speech at all, their eyes didn't dodge at all, their arms were not lowered, they didn't communicate with us at all, and they didn't care what we said.

"You ......"

"Sir."

Dr. Lu, who had gone somewhere during the meal, walked up behind us and waved at the two nurses before they lowered their arms, retreated to the stairs, and stood against the wall.

I became more and more skeptical that this place was dedicated to cultivating robots.

"I'm so embarrassed," Dr. Lu explained apologetically to us, "our patients here will try their best to escape from here, and sometimes they will even pretend to be doctors and nurses here, but they are only doing their duty, not against you, so don't worry about us." ”

On the one hand, he said that his nurse was conscientious, if we blame it, wouldn't it be ours, I found that Dr. Lu was especially good at saying this kind of thing about scolding Huai.

"The welcome party is ready, the three of you are hungry, let's go?" He gestured "please" to us, but his finger was pointing downward.

I was unwilling to look at the stairs that I was going up the stairs, but when Dr. Lu saw it, he hurriedly said, "You still have to stay with us for a few days, and you can see everything you want, and you can see everything you want, not bad for a while." ”

I think in my heart, sometimes, one day earlier and one day later, there will be a big difference, but I also know that even if we come here as inspectors, this is someone's territory after all, and we can't exceed it too much, so I have to smile and say politely.

The welcome meeting will be arranged in the dormitory.

This dormitory building is not high, only four floors, and the welcome meeting is on the second floor, in a small hall.

The furniture inside was all black, with four windows, all of which seemed to be sealed with glass that could not be opened, and there was a black table five or six meters long, which was now full of plates, and the plates were covered with lids, so that you could not see what food was in it.

The lights were not particularly bright, nor were they particularly dim, and the doctors and nurses who had been waiting inside clapped their hands in welcome.

Why clapping instead of clapping, because they play very rhythmically.

The whole atmosphere is like coming to the house of the vampires in Central Europe in the last century, these doctors and nurses who even have smiles on their mouths and are lifted by the thread, they are the obedient blood servants, maybe those blood servants, are much more humane than them.

They're more like puppets that have been made.

Dr. Lu, the only normal one, invited the three of us to sit down with a bright smile.

The first place was vacant, Qiu Shishi sat first on the left, then me and Fang Shan, then Dr. Lu, and the other nurses and doctors sat down in turn, and I looked at the nurse sitting opposite me, she originally had a wooden face, and after discovering my gaze, she stiffly raised the corners of her mouth and smiled at me.

She was supposed to express her "good" side, but looking really scary, I twitched the corners of my mouth and simply lowered my head.

Dr. Lu took the lead in giving a speech, and everyone clapped their hands in an "orderly" manner, and then put on a light music, but the tone of the music sounded not gentle at all, with a little passion, and a little weird in the passion, similar to the ending song in a vampire anime I watched.

, what music is playing!

Then, the main event began, and after Dr. Lu announced the opening of the meal, someone was responsible for opening the lid on the plate.

Judging from the weird atmosphere that I was thinking about just now, will the food on this plate be eaten by normal humans, and judging from all kinds of treacherous atmospheres, I was really worried, staring at those plates and not daring to blink, for fear that some centipede spiders would crawl out.

Then the lid was removed, and plates of dishes were revealed.

There are roast duck, braised fish, chicken feet, chicken gizzards, green vegetables and radish, and fried rice noodles and fried noodles.

I can't even say whether I am relieved or disappointed, why is it awkward that the dishes I ate at this family gathering are placed in this place.

"Come on, we can only tinker with these in this place, please forgive me for the inconsiderate hospitality, we can't drink, so we will replace wine with tea." Dr. Lu held up his cup to toast us, and the tea was barley tea.

"It's already very good, but in fact, there is no need for this, it is too expensive." I raised my glass with both hands to greet everyone, and then hit Qiu Shishi with my elbow, he pursed his lips and glanced at me, but he still raised his glass, lifted it casually, and drank it himself.

I can only laugh with Fang Shan and finish this cup with everyone.

"Come on, eat vegetables, don't be polite to us, we are here, but it is rare to have guests, maybe, you are still the only guest of 'Sunset'."