1234 Forest trails
The nature of this mental hospital makes it troublesome, and it is not as peaceful as it seems.
Helping the two of them pack their bags, the two girls said to me, "What are you going to do?" β
"I'm a patient here, even though I look normal at the moment." I said, "There's nothing to worry about. β
"However, if you shot just now, you may make the other party hold a grudge." The tall girl said, "We can take you back to the nature reserve, and your mother has a meeting there, isn't it?" Even inside a mental hospital, this place is relatively remote. β
"When I called my mom last night, she said someone would pick me up today." I refused, because I wanted to see if I could find out the mysterious person hiding here, to see who the person was, and what he wanted to do.
Dr. Nguyen Li's job and identity, from my point of view, put her in the middle of the storm, although she is still in the eye of the storm, so she seems safe, but once the situation breaks out, trouble will follow. At present, it is certain that any mysterious organization other than the whisperers may be unfavorable to Dr. Nguyen Li, but it is only a general idea, and it is impossible for the other party to flock to it. It is of course best to be able to figure out the most frontal enemy in a short period of time.
However, I probably don't have much time to do these intelligence reconnaissance.
"I'll send you out." I said, "I'm going to take you to the nature reserve." β
The two girls laughed: "What's the difference between this and us sending you there?" β
I smiled and didn't answer. Because, from my point of view, of course, there is a difference. There is a distinction of "which side is the protector".
We met the boys at the door, both of them didn't have much luggage, it was a big bag.
"You didn't take anything from here, did you?" I asked the boy. This question has also been confirmed to the girls, "If you take something that is not your own, you will be punished." "I warned them in a religious way. Then, they swore that they did not take what did not belong to them. The expression on his face was like saying to me: "Little brat."
I'll just believe them, although they said that "there will be retribution" before, but whether they will really be targeted by "mysterious" because they took something here is not something that can be confirmed now. Besides, after they leave, we probably won't see each other again.
"Let's go, then."
The mentally ill who was knocked out had not yet woken up, and the two girls prevented the boys from taking the opportunity to vent. Because the girls were fierce before, the boys didn't consciously obey, so they didn't do superfluous things.
We got out of the hut and headed for the route we had returned from last night, towards the office of the nature reserve. After walking for about ten minutes, there was a feeling of finally leaving that place, and the boys couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After that happened, the area of the wooden house began to feel isolated from "normal".
From an occult point of view. It's like it's become some kind of mysterious realm.
Maybe it's an illusion, but this time. Even if it's a delusion, take it seriously. I didn't hesitate to think so.
The atmosphere along the way was a bit dreary, and the contradictions between boys and girls were getting bigger and bigger. After the previous incident, the boys lost face, of course, because they used this place as a game and suffered by themselves, but the girls stood by and watched. also had a mocking expression, which made the boys resentful. I could see very clearly that the boys' eyes were full of irrepressible depression, embarrassment, and anger, and I didn't think that they were the ones who could reflect on themselves and take the result as their own retribution. It's not that they're narrow-minded. complaining about people or something, but just because they are just ordinary people.
Isn't it normal to be wronged and hurt, and try to shirk the responsibility in order to let the negative feelings in your heart vent? Because it's so normal, I don't even have the idea of enlightening them, and besides, my appearance and age are similar to my previous high density, which generally makes me not treated by them. At this time, no matter what I say, they are unlikely to think for the better, and even blame me for a qiΔ cause.
Although I am not very old, I will not be older than theirs even if I count the growth time of the Doomsday Fantasy. However, these commonplace things are still stored even in schools. As an honor student, and even as a member of the student council, it is a matter of course to manage students of the same age and bear their different thoughts and eyes.
Even in mysterious events, the experts who obviously came to solve the incident will have a grudge with each other, and there is also a negative and imbalance between the victims and those who are trying to save them. In the reality of the hospital, I am definitely no stranger to Dr. Nguyen Li's side, because of the research route, philosophy and stance, and even the benefits that research itself can bring.
I don't think it's a mistake, and I've never thought about the world of the ideal country in literature. I just understood the situation and took it as normal, adapted and lived it.
I don't feel angry and sad because of these things, other people's thoughts, and all kinds of negative emotions.
What really saddens me is not that people make mistakes and have to suffer the consequences, or that they suffer when they don't have mistakes. Rather, it doesn't matter whether it's moral or not, whether it's right or wrongβthe world I've observed, whether it's a hospital reality or an apocalyptic fantasy, no matter how people think and do, the end result is the same, there's something terrible that determines their inevitable despair, and when they think they're dead, it's not the end.
That big, cold, helpless kind of storage zΓ i was set up like a program from the beginning. If the process is painful, and the result is good, it is fine, however, whether the process is painful or beautiful, the result does not change. I can't say the phrase "just enjoy the process and not expect the result", and I also think that I will say it because no matter what. The results are not expected.
Compared with these situations, what is it to say what you think is right here, but then you are so envied that you are hit back? Such a trivial thing is meaningless at all.
I want to be a hero. From the beginning. The scope of this dream is small, so small that it is just a wish that the people who can see it in its eyes, and those who think that it is included in the scope of "humanity", can smile happily.
As time passed, I realized my powerlessness, and the dream shrunk again. It's so small that I just hope that the people I care about can live happily. You don't have to suffer that kind of pain.
However, even such a small dream was shattered by what I observed.
The people I love, even smiling, are under a fateful weight of pressure and pain, as if they were born to be such a part of a drama about a tragic world. Whether they are self-aware. Or maybe I don't know it for some reason, but when I look at them. I can't rejoice in their lives now, even if it's temporary pleasure, temporary happiness, I can't wash away the gloom in my heart.
I wanted to save them, but that thought seemed like that now. But it's no different from saving everyone.
I carry the dream of "Takakawa", even the smallest dream, it is so unforgettable, but such a dream often makes me feel hopeless. Let me feel my own distortion in despair.
I can only pray that my plan, no, to put it that way, exalts itself too much. It should be said that all the people who are trying to change this qiΔ today - and I am only one of them - are carrying out their own plans, and after their plans collide with each other, there will be one who can really achieve the good result that I wanted.
If that is the future, then I will not regret it even if I die of failure.
The reason why I cling to my plan is not because I am sure that I must be right, but because I feel that I can't find a better plan within the scope of what I can observe.
That in itself is a sorrow, a pain.
Pain, as if engraved in my soul, makes me, even at the happiest moments, grow like weeds as soon as I fall into the silence of the night.
This point, no matter who I see I am currently saving and who I have not been able to save, is the same. Its existence always makes me feel that what I do is meaningless, but in order to move forward, I have to think hard to find a reason and meaning for my actions.
In the midst of such contradictions, spur yourself forward.
Does that make sense? The question is inherently meaningless. Because, even if it is really meaningless, I will find meaning for it and convince myself to do these things that are actually meaningless.
I watched the three boys and two girls bickering, both not to be outdone, blaming the other for their faults. However, the biggest reason why the boys are at a disadvantage is not because they behave badly in the first place, but because the girls are carrying guns.
They brought the gun out of the hut, and I'm not sure if it's good or bad. Of course, this good or bad, is based on the "mystical level." There is indeed a faint, abnormal feeling about that place, and what brings out that place, in short, is like the occult that brings out objects that invite bad luck from a dangerous and forbidden place. And that's often the beginning of a horror story.
I'm not sure what will happen to the two girls, but I can't say that they will be caught up in the mysterious horror. If they were involved, then of course, the three boys would not be able to escape.
For now, the most important thing I want to do is to get them out of this place, away from the peninsula, and even from the surrounding towns. I heard that the three boys are all from the surrounding towns, so they learned about the situation in the mental hospital, and did the things that stole the facilities before, and after that, they probably won't leave their hometown soon. However, the two girls are tourists from other countries, and as long as they make up their minds, they can leave quickly.
At present, mystification is spreading rapidly, if not in this country, in this region. There will come a time when no place will be safe, and that's why I pushed the Whisperers to be born in the first place, protecting my city and crowding out other mystical forces - I wanted to create a safe haven.
Now it seems that there are some opportunities, but there is also a high probability of unsuccess.
Even so, before the world became like that, in the actions of the mysterious organization, and in the observations of Dr. Nguyen LΓͺ. Before the great change that means the end comes, ordinary people like these two girls must still have a place where they can go back and feel at ease.
I believe so.
Although they were advancing in a quarrel, the pace of several people was not slow. Probably because of the previous situation, it really scared them a little, although no one was hurt, they didn't want to do it again.
"It's better to separate like this." I say.
The five of them stopped arguing and looked at me, and the tall girl was a little stunned and said, "What separated?" β
"Travel has become like this, and it will definitely be very disappointing to visit the surrounding area." I said, "Why not change places?" You can go to the big cities to see. Anyway, you haven't spent any money until now, have you? "I don't believe that two girls came out without any extra money just because they heard that the boy was going to have a treat.
"What do you say! Gremlin! "The boy was very angry, but I didn't think so. His own statement was so blunt that he couldn't stand it, so. It should still be the previous thing, which made him accumulate too much anger.
"Look, you've been arguing. Even if one party asks for a treat, it's hard to trust the other anymore, isn't it? I said calmly, "Instead of dragging mud and water like this, it is better to separate early." Spend the rest of the holiday individually. Holidays are rare, there's no need to push yourself, do you? β
When the boy heard this, he wanted to come up and do something to me, but the girl stopped him. The shorter girl pulled me behind me. Say to the tall girl, "I think so too." I had a good life before, but when something like this happened, I couldn't get rid of the mustard in my heart. β
"Well, that makes sense." The tall girl glanced at the boy, and said a little unwillingly: "I finally had a free tour, and this time it's in vain." I won't trust netizens again next time. β
"I already said that I should be comfortable with my own money." The shorter girl said it very bluntly in front of the boys. Make their faces flush a little. This time, it was indeed they who screwed it up. However, I know that they don't want to be told by girls in front of them, but they have no position to refute it. In my opinion, they are not thick enough to deliberately distinguish between right and wrong, and the previous bickering was just a momentary mood.
"Okay, if you want to go, let's go." A boy said indignantly: "I wanted to say it a long time ago, don't you just have bigger breasts?" And we can't be suffocated. When the other two boys heard this, they didn't mean to please us anymore, but just looked at us coldly.
The tall girl deliberately erected her breasts far beyond her peers and said, "Haven't you been weaned yet?" Thinking about boobs all day long. A group of nasty embryos, just this egg still want to soak in a woman? Go back and touch your own milk and masturbate it for a few more years. β
I think her words are quite vicious.
The boy's face was blue, as if he would hit him at any moment, but the two girls pretended to wave their guns inadvertently, and their eyes froze a little. The girls had shot before, although it was to stop the mentally ill, but it also scared them, they really didn't know that there were guns here. Because, the two girls were the first to find the gun, but they hid it.
"Let's go." One boy took the lead and walked briskly, and two boys hurriedly followed, they sped up their speed, as if they didn't want to go all the way with us again, but the route to the nature reserve seemed to be just that.
It wasn't until they turned into the woods and lost sight of their figures that the two girls breathed a sigh of relief, and although they had been vigorous before, they seemed to be quite nervous now. I also think that even if the boys did, they would not be able to shoot in the first place.
"Okay, that's all we have left now." The tall girl sighed.
"I want to get out of here right now. It makes me feel uncomfortable here. The shorter girl seemed to feel something, and frowned unhappily.
I looked at the sky, it was about nine o'clock, the sun had become quite strong, and the fine spots of light were shining through the branches of the trees and spilling on the blue-black soil, all of which looked normal. However, I can't ignore the words that the shorter girl seems to say casually. Even if they are not mystery experts, there are people who have extraordinary sensitivity to anomalies in certain situations, especially in the case of a mysterious event, which seems to be a casual word or a random action, but it is actually a subtle hint.
I think it's probably because after leaving the wooden house area, the abnormal feeling suddenly decreased, and my feelings were not as sensitive as before. In this case, even if it is a bow and a snake shadow, it is better than not caring at all.
"Let's go, we'll be there in twenty minutes." The tall girl urged us as if she wanted to abandon the previous unpleasantness.
So we hit the road again, and five minutes later, I had to mention one thing: "Is there any other way to go here?" β
With a stunned expression, the two girls said, "Who knows, this road was taken by those boys...... and the shorter girls also turned their heads and concluded: "There should be no other artificial path, but in the woods, you can walk everywhere, isn't it?" β
As she said, except for the road under our feet, which was made of stones, everywhere else was dirt and rocks.
"The traces of the movements of those three boys were broken not long ago." I said, "Will they run out of this way?" β
"Traces?" The two girls looked at them in amazement, "You still pay attention to their traces?" "It's like they're looking at weirdos.
ββ¦β¦ Great Detective Sherlock Holmes. I like it. I casually made an excuse, "Observe the details." β
"But there's no need." The two girls looked at each other, but the tall girl still said, "Those boys are ahead of us, if they don't leave the road......" She paused, as if thinking of something bad, shook her head vigorously and said, "I guess I left." β
The shorter girl had already crouched down and double-checked the pavement, but she wasn't sure what she could see and finally gave up, and of course, I knew, she doubted that I could really see anything. But in reality, of course, I can't see it with the naked eye, but chain judgment can.
"It stands to reason that they should just pick up the pace and leave us behind, not off the road. There's no need unless they want to do something bad. The shorter girl said in the affirmative.
"Suppose they just took this path and didn't deliberately leave the route, but they couldn't find any trace of them......" The tall girl felt like she had a cold, and her body trembled slightly. She laughed hard twice and said, "Don't say it, what else can happen?" I really scared myself. Could it be that some psychotic serial killer is still lurking here? β
"Don't talk about it." The shorter girl was also a little unbearable, interrupting the evocative words.
I still find it strange, but I can only pray that nothing is happening. If something happens to those three boys, our side probably won't be safe. However, the chain decision did not observe much more. For now, we can only speed up the pace. If something is really following us, stalking us with malice, it will definitely show up. But as long as we don't show up and we return to the office facilities in the nature reserve, we will probably be safe.
I'm not afraid of enemies, but the two girls around me are just ordinary people. I don't think that in the ever-changing "mystery", they can be 100% protected. It's best to leave without anything happening.
We can't help but pick up the pace.
Ten minutes later, we seemed to walk into a faint haze. This makes me even more vigilant, haze in the mountains and forests is not uncommon, but in such weather, and in a mysterious spread, near the end of the world, it often means that some strange things have happened. I'm not sure, I feel vague, but even then, I have to prepare for it as if it were true. I didn't say that, both girls are ordinary people, and it must be hard to understand - saying that they are incomprehensible, or like a story novel, will only make them believe that there is something wrong with my spirit.
After a while, three figures loomed in front of us, looking like the three boys who had tried to shake us off earlier. Seeing these three figures, the previous suspicions of the two girls disappeared, and they let out a long breath.
"That's all I know." The tall girl muttered. (To be continued......)