This is an integrative medicine clinic. As soon as you enter, you can smell a strong smell of medicine, which is a row of mahogany medicine shelves, divided into many compartments, and the name of the medicine is labeled on the drawer. Diagonally opposite is a glass sliding door with several hospital beds and iron shelves next to them.

Further inside, is the kitchen. The kitchen was a mess, with sacks of medicine piled up on the floor and a few iron pots on the stove. The copper lock was opened and looked at it, and it contained half a pot of black paste Chinese medicine, which should be used to boil Chinese medicine soup.

The whole room is not too big. However, such a neighborhood clinic cannot be opened by one person. I don't know why, the head of the household is not here at this time, but there is no one else.

There were only a few rooms in total, and we all walked around and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. There was a room that was quite private, with rows of bookshelves neatly stacked with medical books. I flipped through the pages, and almost every one of these books showed traces of reading, and the corners and gaps were full of marks and caprice made in red pen. It seems that the owner here is definitely a very professional medical professional.

My sister-in-law urged us to go. There's really not much to be found here. When he was about to leave, Xiaobao stood still and didn't move, looking left and right, with a confused look on his face.

We asked what was wrong, and he shook his head and said, "No. I distinctly remember the room I was studying, and it didn't look like any of them. ”

Li Yang squatted in front of him and asked, "Then do you remember how you entered that room?" ”

We talk to him now, and we don't treat him like a child at all. His tone of speech and logic tend to be adult.

Xiaobao took two steps, looked left and right, and then turned into the consultation room. None of us spoke, just watched. Xiaobao walked to the chair opposite the doctor and sat down, then stood up, blindfolded his hands and walked out slowly.

We hurried over to him and held him up. Xiaobao said that every time his father brought him here, the doctor would put a blindfold on him. He had an extra eye and probably recorded the number of steps he walked and the direction.

Xiaobao led the way in front, and we followed behind. He stopped and stopped, carefully identifying the direction, counting the number of paths he walked. Brass Lock whispered, "This kid has become a sperm." ”

Walking around, I came to the door of a warehouse. The door was locked, so we didn't go in at first. Xiaobao walked to the door, sniffed with his nose, put down his hand and said, this is it.

The work of unlocking is still handed over to the copper lock. He crouched down, fiddled with the lock very earnestly, and it didn't take long for it to open. When I opened the door, I suddenly smelled of damp and mold. Looking inside, it was dark and not in the middle of winter, Li Yang reached in and touched the light switch, but he didn't touch it after touching it.

It turns out that there are no electric lights here. Xiaobao went in and grabbed him. In such a dark secret room, children are really not at ease when they enter it. Li Yang looked at me and the copper lock, that means, which of the two of you will enter?

Copper Lock was helpless, took a deep breath and walked in, and we followed him. This warehouse is not large, only a dozen square meters, full of rags and sundries, and the smell is smoky.

After a few steps inside, we came to the end and we had to quit. At this time, Xiaobao suddenly ran in, facing a wall, and looked at it stupidly.

We looked at each other, and the copper lock said, "This kid can't be evil." ”

"This is it." Xiaobao suddenly pointed to the ground.

We walked over and saw a sewer cover looming on the ground. The brass lock tugged at the chain on the lid and lifted it up hard, revealing a deep hole in the ground.

Sure enough, there is a mystery.

The brass lock probe looked at it, retracted its head, and said solemnly, "It's a basement." ”

Xiaobao didn't look at it, ran over, and went down with the ladder in the cave. The sister-in-law was in a hurry, so she also ran over and asked Li Yang to grab it.

Li Yang shouted at the copper lock: "What are you still stupid about, hurry up and take a look!" ”

The copper lock was stunned by him, and he didn't say what he wanted to say, so he shrank his head and chased down the ladder. We came to the entrance of the cave and looked inside, and there seemed to be light shining through. In the faint light, an iron ladder led to the bottom.

I climbed down the ladder and saw a small passage with rough concrete walls on both sides. On the wall, you can still see the wires pulled, which are very thick and black. On the aisle ceiling, there are three small wattage light bulbs, emitting a dim yellow light, which look like three small fireflies. Wires snake along the wall, and at the end of the hallway, there is another staircase. At this time, the copper lock and Xiaobao were gone, and it seemed that they had gone down from there.

I really didn't expect that there was such a space hidden under an ordinary clinic. The scene in front of me is too much like the mysterious doctor killer in the American drama, and there is another operating table in the basement to catch some people for live experiments.

Li Yang and I helped my sister-in-law, cautiously walked to the end of the aisle, and continued down the stairs.

It's not damp, it smells dry musty and medicinal, very pungent. When I got down, I saw a wooden door, which was in tatters, half-open and half-closed. There are two steel bars on the wall, mottled with red rust, and I don't know what to do.

Judging by the scene, this basement should have appeared very early, even before the construction of this complex. It's a bit like a bomb shelter, and it also has some meaning of a military bunker. Entering the wooden door, there is a short corridor in the middle, and a thick concrete wall at the end. There is a door on the left and right.

The door on the left was lit and we walked in. It's a two-in-one office and a medical laboratory. There was a writing desk, a laptop on it, the screen was still on, and there was a mess of paper materials next to it.

In addition to that, what caught my eye the most was that there was also a delicate electron microscope. There is a thick notebook spread out next to it, with a pen pinned to it, and it seems that someone is doing experiments with a microscope, casually recording the results of the data.

Next to the desk is a heavy green filing cabinet, locked. Further inside is a large operating chair with a shadowless lamp hanging from it. Xiaobao was sitting on the chair at this time, looking at us with a sad expression and a melancholy look.

"This is where they studied me." Xiaobao's tone was calm, but he could still hear some trembling and excitement.

"What do they want to study you, do you know the Tao yourself?" Li Yang asked.

Xiaobao suddenly coughed a few times, and his voice actually became a little hoarse: "I am a weirdo who is different from normal people. ”

"Don't talk about it." The sister-in-law cried and ran over and hugged her child tightly: "I beg you, you can let us two go." ”

"Sister-in-law." Li Yang went over and gently touched her hair: "You always dodge like this, you can't solve the problem." We want to know what happened to Xiaobao? ”

"Xiaoyu." The sister-in-law looked at him: "You have changed, how have you become like the old horse, you make me feel terrible." Do you know the secret of Xiaobao, is it to help Xiaobao, or do you want to deal with Lao Ma? You say. ”

Li Yang was speechless for a moment. We don't talk either. Xiaobao's situation is too strange to guess what happened. We inquired about him, on the one hand, we were curious, and on the other hand, we really wanted to find the weirdness in Director Ma.

But we all ignore that Xiaobao is a living person, no matter how strange he is, he is also a person. He is not a tool for others to study and probe for secrets.

The sister-in-law cried and said, "Child, let's go." Mom took you out of here and never came back. ”

As soon as his sister-in-law pulled him, Xiaobao jumped down from the chair, and he fell on his heels without standing firmly. The sister-in-law hurriedly went over to help him up, and when Xiaobao stood up again, his body shape had changed a lot.

His waist was hunched.

He was hunched up, coughing as he walked, hissing in his throat, like an old man on the verge of death. The copper lock stepped forward to help him, and the sister-in-law screamed: "No need for you! ”

She picked up Xiaobao. Xiaobao's head was hanging on her shoulders, her hands were down, and her eyes were looking at us. I can't describe that look, which is really only found by an old man who is about to die.

When ordinary people describe people who are about to die, they always say that they are attached to life, afraid of death, or something. In fact, an old man who died of normal old age, before he died, was not afraid, but calm, and even a little numb, like a thing that came naturally, like lying on a pillow late at night to sleep.

That's what Xiaobao's eyes look like this now. The corners of his mouth barely showed a smile, and his eyes were hazy. He looked at us with a cough in his eyes as if he were from another world.

Gradually, he closed his eyes.

At this time, my sister-in-law had already walked out of the room, and when she heard the sound of footsteps, she was walking quickly outside. Li Yang was not at ease and followed him. At this time, it was just me and the copper lock in the room.

Suddenly there were fewer people. The room was suddenly deserted, and I felt a chill. The copper lock was rummaging through the papers on the table, and I said, "What is there to see, let's go too." Don't wait for that guy to come back, it's embarrassing to block us here. ”

Copper Lock ignored me and continued to look at something, very attentively.

I shouted, and he looked up and handed me a thick notebook: "Look at this." ”

I flipped through it and saw that on the first page, the number "046" was written. Flip to the next page, with the date on it, and it looks like a diary. As I continued to look down, I was amazed.

It reads, "June 5th. Marble dies again. Time of death is 11:04 a.m. The last death was two days ago, and the time of death lasted 27 hours. As far as is currently observed, there is no apparent pattern in the timing of his death. ”

I looked up at the Copper Lock in surprise, and the Copper Lock shook its head in confusion, indicating that I didn't understand what it meant.

Ma Bao, it should be Xiaobao. He ever died? Judging from the information revealed in the notes so far, he has died more than once.