A few days later, He Yu set up a cloud restaurant and asked Xie Xue to meet on the weekend night, where he planned to formally express his feelings with Xie Xue.
Xie Xue answered his call, so she was very happy when she heard some food: "Okay! I'll come! I'll definitely come!"
"See you at six o'clock in the evening on the 20th."
"Huh? The night of the 20th?"
"What's wrong?"
Xie Xue was a little embarrassed: "I might have to be a little late on the evening of the 20th, because the emergency department in Shanghai No. 1 just called me and said that the people from the rescue station on the evening of the 20th would pick up Mr. Zhuang to the Chengkang Mental Hospital. I will also be with Chengkang. Greeted and wanted to talk to their person in charge about bringing students to visit…”
He Yu sighed: "Then let me change the time."
"But this restaurant is very difficult to book. The last time I called, the other party said it would be at least three months in advance."
He Yu smiled: "It's okay, you can go whenever you want. This restaurant is funded by my family."
Xie Xue: "..."
Capital is so boring. It takes everything away from that hard-won joy.
"Don't, it's very annoying to the restaurant manager, and I don't like it either." Xie Xue said, "Then it's the 20th. I'll try to finish things as soon as possible. If there are any changes, I'll do it in advance. I told you on WeChat."
He Ji paid off the balance and smiled more clearly: "Okay, it's up to you."
Xie Xue hung up the phone happily.
It's delicious!
Blink of an eye to the 20th.
Because Xie Xue wanted to talk about the project for the school, in order to be more formal, she wore a classic small suit of the staff of Shanghai University, and accompanied the old man Zhuang Zhiqiang to Chengkang Hospital with the people from the rescue station.
Unlike Wanping 600, Chengkang is a private, very old psychiatric hospital. When they got out of the car, they smelled a stinky stench. It turned out that the nurse was reluctantly directing the clearing operation. The car pulled away the sheets and bedding stained with the patient's feces and urine. There were two people who were in charge of refueling the transporter arguing next to them, blushing and arguing about whether there was a shortage of gasoline.
Old Man Zhuang was a little scared, so he shrank back and took Xie Xue's hand: "Daughter, this..."
"It's alright, old man, just stay here for a while, and I'll pick you up somewhere else, okay?"
Uncle Zhuang then slowly followed Xie Xue in.
The reception desk of the mental hospital is quite warmly furnished. Although the facilities are quite old, the smell of the house is refreshing and the color matching is very soothing.
"Isn't Zhang Zhang from the rescue station? Are you here to handle the temporary guardianship service for the elderly Zhuang Zhiqiang?"
"Yes."
"The leader told me, please come here."
Zhuang Zhiqiang's symptoms were relatively mild, and he was placed on the first floor. Xie Xue, accompanied by the staff, looked at the room environment and felt relieved. After Uncle Zhuang entered, a nurse who was about the same age as Xie Xue was talking to him with a smile, and he took the other person as his daughter and chatted endlessly.
"Then I'll trouble you." The staff of the rescue station returned to the office with the person in charge of the hospitalization and signed a series of agreements.
But it was not the receptionists below who were talking about cooperation with Xie Xue, but went upstairs. The receptionist was supposed to accompany her, but unfortunately she couldn't leave, so she instructed Xie Xue to go to the 24-hour duty office on the third floor to find Director Liang directly.
The third floor of Chengkang Mental Hospital is the intensive care area. As soon as Xie Xue got up in the elevator, she instinctively felt a chill—the whole atmosphere here was different from the one below.
The bars and doors are like a prison. The screams and weeping that fill the entire corridor make the whole environment terrifying like a scene in a ghost movie.
Although the light in the aisle is very bright, incandescent lamps are turned on all the year round, but the lights show an abnormal dead white in this atmosphere.
"It's going to die! It's going to die hahahahaha-"
"You are sick! You are sick!"
"I'm not a human, I'm a ghost, no, I'm not a ghost, I'm a human!... Who am I? Am I a human or a ghost...?"
Each ward is sealed by a heavy iron door, and each iron door has an A4 frame size tempered explosion-proof glass, through which you can see the scene inside.
Xie Xue walked in tremblingly for a while, finally unable to restrain her curiosity, stopped at the door of one of the quieter wards, and stood on tiptoe to look inside through the window.
A woman sat in the room giggling, the entire ward was packed with software to prevent patients from committing suicide or self-injury. There was no table, no chair, and even the bed was a special kind of bunk with no corners, with black restraints hanging down.
The mad woman was there touching the restraint belt, sticking to the restraint belt intimately, and stuffing it into her plump chest, while stuffing it, giggling: "Let you cheat with that bitch, look, you Now... I've already chopped them into pieces... Besides me, who else would want to touch you and hold you like this? Husband... "
Xie Xue moved to the next room.
The next room is empty, probably the patient has been taken for treatment.
In the next room was a man with a hunched back. He was sitting in the corner facing the wall and was putting something on the wall. His figure looked very quiet and peaceful. However, Xie Xue took a closer look and found that what he wiped on the wall was actually his own feces!
Further down, there is a young man in the next room. It is estimated that the self-mutilation is too severe. He was bound to a special bed. I don't know how long he has been bound. He is still tirelessly laughing, laughing and crying: " Fuck/you/mommy! Why are you tying me up? I want to die!! I want to die, can't I!! If you don't let me die, I will kill you when I come out...! I will kill you all when I come out! Let me out! Let me go!!"
The more Xie Xue looked, the more hairy she became, the more hairy she looked, the more fascinated she became.
Eyes move on the glass window, move to the next—
"what!!!"
Accidentally met an eye that was close to the glass window inside, Xie Xue was startled, screamed, and retreated to the other side of the aisle, clinging to the door on the other side, gasping for breath.
The man who looked at her from the glass window in the ward had cross-eyed eyes, terrifyingly large and bloodshot. Seeing that she was frightened by himself, he laughed out loud in the room, and was overjoyed, with a rosacea close to her. The glass, the greasy dirt rubbed the window surface into a blur...
Xie Xue's heartbeat was pounding, and she managed to slow down a little, and suddenly felt a chill in her ankles.
She looked down-
"Ahhh!!!"
This time she was calling louder than before!
is the hand! !
In addition to the prying glass above the iron door, there is a loose-leaf board for delivering meals! !
A small pale hand stretched out from the door's flip-flop and grabbed her ankle by the door! ! !
Xie Xue almost collapsed, jumping up, crying and screaming, stomping her feet, and retracting her little hands, but the patient inside retreated to the center of the room, and a person standing outside through the window was just enough Seeing his position, it was a little boy with albinism. His whole body looked as if he had been bleached. Even his eyes were almost transparent.
"Sister... hee hee hee..."
Chengkang's soundproofing was not good. The patients in the entire aisle were aware of such a commotion, and they all rushed to the window glass to squeeze Xie Xue, making all kinds of strange noises. Hands stretched out from under the loose-leaf board, dangling blindly like seaweeds.
"A woman is coming to see us!"
"Who? Doctor?"
"Furting doctor! Visiting prisoner!"
"It's a ghost!"
"Grab her feet!"
Of course, they couldn't catch Xie Xue, but they laughed so arrogantly that Xie Xue felt like he had broken into the jungle where Ye Xiao became an elite for a moment, and there were sounds of ghosts and ghosts everywhere.
Xie Xue couldn't take it any longer, and was about to flee back. No matter how long the waiter downstairs was busy, she would come up together after the other party was done!
However, at this moment, she was tapped on the shoulder.
"Help ah ah ah!!!" Xie Xue's psychological line of defense completely collapsed.
"Shh."
Xie Xue's face was soaked in cold sweat, and she turned her head in horror, but she met a very beautiful face.
is a beautiful woman.
The woman was wearing a vintage red dress and red high heels. She is a little old, she looks like she is in her fifties, but she can still see that she should be amazingly beautiful when she was young. Even if she is now shriveled like a dehydrated and spoiled snake fruit, she can still see some beautiful and charming people in the past. coquettish.
On her chest is a brand name: "Liang Jicheng".
Xie Xue suddenly let out a sigh of relief. It was like a leaking ball, and he was about to collapse: "Liang, Director Liang..."
Liang Jicheng smiled, but for some reason, his face was a little stiff, as if he couldn't fully mobilize his muscles, and he could only make the smile superficial.
She said softly to Xie Xue, "Don't scream here. The more you scream, the more stimulated these patients will be, and the more they will scare you. Come and go to the office with me."
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Half past five.
He Yu suddenly received a message from Xie Xue: "I shouldn't be late."
He replied to her: "did everything go well on your side?"
"It went well. The other party agreed that we could let some students come to visit, but the request was a little bit more. I'm still grinding with her."
After a while: "By the way, Director Liang, who is in charge of receiving me today, is very beautiful, a beautiful woman, and has a special temperament. It's a pity that you didn't come with me."
He Yu was too lazy to care about her, threw the phone away, got up and took clothes from the closet, ready to go out to the hotel to wait for her.
It was still early when he arrived at the hotel, and the manager respectfully led him to the reserved rooftop position. Although there is a private room, He Yu chose the terrace, which can overlook the entire scenery of Shanghai, and the evening wind is very pleasant, and the red sunset on the horizon is gorgeous and solemn. He felt that Xie Xue would like it more here.
Six point five.
Xie Xue hasn't come yet.
He Yu sent her a message asking where she was and if there was a traffic jam. Just after the message was sent, she heard the voice of the waiter not far away: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be careful of the steps."
He raised his eyes and saw a large group of people came outside, like a business meeting or a high-level party of a company.
He Yu felt a little noisy, and was thinking about whether to change his position, but glanced at one of the men with an indifferent expression.
He Yu was startled: "Xie Qingcheng?"
Xie Qingcheng's medical school had an important event. The school arranged the location in this hotel a few months ago. Now the event has ended, and it's dinner time.
He Yu never thought that he would have such an idea, and he would meet Xie Qingcheng on a date in such a place.
With such a feudal master, how could he confess to Xie Xue? ! Xie Qingcheng might throw him from the top floor into the river below!
Xie Qingcheng also saw him, said a few words to his colleagues, and came over to say hello to He Yu: "Wait for someone?"
"… Yes."
Xie Qingcheng came over to a good colleague and saw He Yu: "Yo, such a handsome young man, Professor Xie, your relative?"
"The client's son."
"Oh... The guy is on a date with his girlfriend?" There are always annoying acquaintances in this world, asking questions without a sense of boundaries.
He Yu was well-mannered and smiled: "I'm waiting for Professor Xie's sister."
The colleague became even more bloody, turned his head and winked at Xie Qingcheng: "Your brother-in-law is so handsome."
He Yu knew from the look on Xie Qingcheng's face that if he dared to confess to Xie Xue today, Xie Qingcheng would dare to smash his table and fight him on the spot.
... Otherwise, forget it, let's have a meal with Xie Xue today.
"You misunderstood, it's an ordinary friend." He thought so, and took the initiative to smile.
Xie Qingcheng still frowned: "What do you have to do with her?"
"I haven't invited her once since I returned to China."
Xie Qingcheng was just about to say something. Their table was already welcoming them to their seats. His colleague pulled him away. He had no choice but to give He Yu a warning look before returning to his table.
Six fifteen.
The table of the medical school professors started to serve, but Xie Xue still didn't come.
Not only did she not come, she didn't even reply to the message He Yu sent her ten minutes ago. He Yu sent another question to her, but still no response.
He Yu felt something was wrong, so he simply called Xie Xue a WeChat voice.
I did not answer.
Replay the call.
First there was a beeping waiting sound, but after waiting for a long time, there was still no movement.
He hit again-
Really wrong.
"Hello, the user you dialed has been turned off, please try again later."
Xie Xue suddenly never received a shutdown!
Now He Yu was sure that something was wrong, got up immediately, and went straight out of the cloud restaurant. Seeing that Young Master He was in such a hurry, the manager was startled and a little panicked:
"Young Master He, is there no service?"
"No." He Yu pressed the elevator button, his eyes getting sharper and sharper, "You ask the lobby to call a car for me, be quick."
"Oh, oh, well, well."
He Yu is on fire at this time. What the hell is a broken building built so high? Going up and down the stairs have to change a transfer elevator!
"Ding!"
The abandoned elevator finally reached this floor, and the mechanical dark gray door opened. He Yu was about to close the door when he entered, when he slammed a hand on the elevator door and opened it again.
He Yu raised his head sternly, to see which one with short eyes wasted his time, and then saw that it was a long and beautiful hand wearing a watch, looking down his arm, he met Xie Qing had a grim face.
"What happened."
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Forty minutes later, the hotel nanny's car, whose score had been deducted for many red lights along the way, stopped outside Chengkang Mental Hospital.
He Yu and Xie Qingcheng were admitted to the mental hospital together.
At this time, it was already dark, the lights were on in the hall of Chengkang Mental Hospital, and several mild patients on the first floor were doing re-examination activities accompanied by nurses.
"Who are you looking for?"
The nurse at the reception saw He Yu and Xie Qing pushing the door in with a bad look on their faces, stunned for a moment, then got up and asked.
Xie Qingcheng: "In the afternoon, a girl, a teacher from Hu Chuan, came to you, Director Liang, to talk about the project. I'm her brother, where is she?"
"Then it should be on the third floor." The nurse looked at Xie Qingcheng, and suddenly smiled with a blushing face, "Do you worry about your little sister, handsome?"
She joked sweetly: "You don't have to be so nervous, we are a regular hospital here, there will be no problems, maybe they have been talking for a long time, and our Director Liang is in his fifties, and we have both wives and children. ,would not-"
"What did you say?!"
He Yu interrupted her abruptly.
"You said Director Liang has a wife and children?"
"Yes, yes."
His face changed suddenly.
Originally it was just an uneasy guess, but now He Yu is completely sure that something is wrong.
There was also Xie Xue's last message on the phone. She told him at that time—
"Director Liang, who is in charge of receiving me today, is very beautiful, a big beauty, and has a special temperament..."
- Director Liang can't be a woman!
He Yu immediately ran upstairs! ! !
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At this moment.
In the duty office of Chengkang Mental Hospital, a long singing voice echoed: "Throw it, throw it, throw away the handkerchief, put it gently behind the child, don't tell her..."
"Liang Jicheng" just hummed this song carelessly, holding a scalpel in his hand, slashing to the ground one after another.
The fan hummed above her head, cutting the light and shadow into chaos, but it still illuminated what was in front of her—
It was a dead body.
The blood has dyed the work uniforms of Shanghai University teachers... Shanghai University teachers' work uniforms...
It's Xie Xue! ! !
"Liang Jicheng" finally cut off Xie Xue's entire hand. She held the severed hand and looked at it for a while, then threw the severed hand away with a numb expression. The hand rolled beside Xie Xue's already cold body...