Xie Qingcheng was the last to follow the firefighters down the rope ladder.
When he went down, the fire was already approaching in their direction, and the smoke was so thick that people could hardly open their eyes. When he finally hit the ground, rescuers rushed over to check on his injuries.
Xie Qingcheng saw Xie Xue in the crowd. Several doctors and nurses were surrounding her. He hurried over: "How is she?"
"you are… "
"I'm her brother."
"Oh, oh, don't worry, she's fine, her vital signs are stable, and she can wake up after the medicine has taken effect."
Xie Qingcheng breathed a sigh of relief.
The ambulanceman looked up and down at this tall, shirtless man. Although it was not the right time, it would be easier for such a handsome man to look twice at work.
But Xie Qingcheng didn't realize how provocative the appearance of his shoulders and back, his narrow, thin and long waistline deeply entrapped in the silver buckle belt. , and don't care about the eyes of others.
No, the ambulancemen kept looking at him, but after watching Xie Xue, he only knew that he was facing Chengkang Hospital, which was still engulfed in flames.
Xie Qingcheng looked up at the flaming rooftop, with mixed feelings for a while. And as far as the eye can see, the patients who have not been rescued can be seen screaming in panic on the windowsill, slapping the windows sealed by the iron bars with their hands.
"Help me!!"
"Save us! Fire! Fire is coming!!"
"I don't want to die yet... Save me! Save you, save me!!"
Those railings were originally set up to prevent patients from jumping out of the window to escape, but now they have become the biggest stumbling block for emergency rescue. The method that could have been rescued from the window quickly by using a rope ladder was cut off. people.
The mournful screams were the same as those issued by Li Gui, and the entire Chengkang Mental Hospital was really like what Jiang Lanpei had cursed, and it became a purgatory on earth.
In the ward closest to the linen room, an old man was crying all the time, but he was calling his parents. The old man was demented and often went mad. The children disliked him and sent him here.
Maybe he also knew vaguely in his heart that they would be happy when he died.
Only his parents who have passed away loved him deeply. Before he died, he cried and cried like a child, and kept calling for his father and mother...
The fire department tried to forcefully break the window, but it was too late. The old man's room was too close to the fire. He was swallowed by the fire under the watchful eyes of everyone.
No one knows whether he was an old man who was abandoned because of illness or a child who missed his parents at the last moment.
With trembling lips, the fireman turned back and yelled at the crowd, "Where's the key? Did anyone bring the key with you when you escaped?"
"No, no... who remembers..."
"It's hanging in the director's office on the third floor!"
There was another deafening explosion, and the window panes and shards of wood slid out.
One of the rescued nurses stood up and said, "Comrades, don't go in anymore!! It's too dangerous!!"
"Yeah... It's too late... I can't save it at all..."
Someone even said softly: "Those are all seriously ill... The higher the floor, the more seriously ill it is. It's useless to save them..."
mess around.
Xie Qingcheng suddenly saw a chaotic place, there was a lonely figure standing, looked up at the burning building for a while, and then went around to the north gate in the depths of the unnoticed trees.
Xie Qingcheng was taken aback—
He Yu? ! !
"Excuse me, borrow a mask."
Xie Qingcheng said, judged the fire situation, grabbed two protective masks and ran in He Yu's direction.
"Hey! Comrade!" The ambulanceman snapped back to his senses, damn, a handsome guy can't be so headstrong! She shouted: "What are you doing! Don't enter the fire again!!!"
But Xie Qingcheng ignored her at all, and followed He Yu's back like a cheetah.
He never imagined that this man would return to the fire again - what was he going to do
He Yu didn't go to the north gate where the firefighters gathered. He grabbed a rope ladder that had not yet been taken down, and went directly to the roof where he had just escaped. Xie Qingcheng followed behind him. It was too late for the others to think about it. The flames had already burned, and the bottom half of the soft rope was instantly burned to ashes.
He Yu rolled over and crossed the roof railing. He glanced under the water tower, where only a charred and curled human body was burning, the body of Jiang Lanpei.
He slammed the door open, watched the fire, and ran to the director's office.
Xie Qingcheng thought he was a lunatic. Of course, he was a lunatic in the first place. He grabbed He Yu's arm when He Yu opened the fireproof iron door, and reprimanded him very severely: "What are you doing! Don't die? Hurry up with me. Go down through the north gate!! The fire here is not too big now, there is still time."
He Yu stared at his face as if he didn't know him: "What are you doing here?"
Xie Qingcheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, his eyes were sharp: "Fuck you down with me!"
"No. This time is different. This time I'm going to save people."
"you-"
"They're my kind, and I'm the only one who can save them, and I'm the only one who can get them all out - you hear what those people say below. The old man was burned alive right in front of their eyes, and many more were waiting. Death, but they say, forget it."
He Yu's eyes were almost terrifying.
He said softly: "—mental illness is not worth saving, if you encounter such a thing, you are all given up—you should all be damned."
He stared at Xie Qingcheng's eyes, and a biting sneer slowly opened at the corners of his mouth: "Do you think so too? Doctor Xie?"
"That's because it's really too late... Be rational! You can't open doors one by one." Xie Qingcheng's voice was hoarse, "There's no time."
He Yu didn't speak any more. He was so strong that he broke free from Xie Qingcheng's hand and ran towards the office.
Luckily, the area of the office was separated from the area where the fire was most intense by a large area of toilets. At that time, the construction was made of ceramic tiles and even a wooden frame was too lazy to insert. Now this area has become the slowest place for the flames to spread.
He Yu found a large bunch of dingy key boards in the room, and went to some of the wards on the third floor that had not yet been burned.
"Help… "
"Save us!!"
"I don't want to die yet... I don't want to die yet!!!"
"Wuwuwu, is the devil's fire burning? It's the devil's fire!!"
The lights in the aisle have long been turned off, and there are cries on both sides of the aisle, but in more rooms, there will be no more cries...
With the key board facing the door number, He Yu took the latest one and started to open the door.
When Xie Qingcheng chased after him, he had already opened the first door, and a woman with disheveled hair ran out of it, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is - this is out of control at all.
Ordinary people will lose their minds in such a situation, not to mention these patients
The woman screamed, and without thinking, she was about to run in the direction of the fire. Xie Qingcheng was about to stop, but saw He Yu stretched out his hand and dragged her back—
"Don't go in that direction!"
"She won't listen to you—"
"Fire! There is fire!!"
When he was messing around, Xie Qingcheng suddenly saw a flash of cold light!
It was He Yu who was holding a blade that he brought out from the office just now, and wiped it in the palm of his hand.
The blood seeped out of the wound at once, Xie Qingcheng didn't know why he did this for a while, but there seemed to be a long-term data memory in his mind, which was already about to move. Upside down.
The next second, he opened his eyes wide to see He Yu untied one of the rings on the key board and stained it with his own blood. He said softly to the mad woman. : "Take this set of keys to open the door, open one door, and then give the people inside other keys and order them to open more doors. Be fast. The faster you are, the more patients you can save. .Go quickly."
A terrible thing happened. The woman who was hysterical before, at this moment, seemed to have been given some tranquilizer. The moment she smelled He Yu's blood, her eyes became very calm—
It seems that He Yu's blood, through the sense of smell, aroused a certain reflex in her brain, making her also at the mercy of his emotions.
The woman took the keychain and immediately ran to the other iron gates.
The entire order process was very short, but Xie Qingcheng felt chills all over his body, even his fingertips were cold—
Case No. 4 He Yu, his disease ability in adulthood is...
In the data calculation file, the "Blood Gu" has been marked as suspicious! !
Mental Ebola lacks clinical data, and can only be speculated on the first three cases and a series of digital simulations. What is certain is that, in addition to the basic characteristics that every patient will have, people suffering from this kind of mental illness also have a disease ability.
To put it simply, the disease mutates in an individual, and each person's genes are different, which will make the direction of differentiation of the disease mutation different. This mutation often develops with the patient's age, fully revealed in adulthood, and tends to develop. in stability.
Case No. 1, the disease ability that occurred at that time was - Smell Sniff.
The disease changed her olfactory nerve, and her nose became extremely sensitive. Generally speaking, the area of a dog's olfactory nerve is four times that of a human. Any tiny breath in the air was stimulating her olfactory nerves, tormenting her to the point of becoming more and more insane.
No. 2, No. 3, both showed their unique sickness abilities before they died.
As for No. 4 He Yu, before Xie Qingcheng resigned, he had not shown any signs of alienation of his condition.
Xie Qingcheng originally thought that perhaps the individual variation of spiritual Ebola is not absolute, and He Yu may be an exception.
Unexpectedly, he was the most terrifying mutation calculated in the data simulation calculation—
Blood Gu.
The so-called blood poison means that under certain conditions, He Yu's blood has the effect of inducing paralysis in a specific group of people such as mental illness. Just like serotonin, it can calm the patient's emotions immediately, and at the same time, like a drug, it stimulates the reward mechanism in the patient's brain, so that the patient has the illusion that "just listen to him, you can get more", thus It caused the patient to be controlled by He Yu's language, as if "intoxicated".
At that time, what the laboratory calculated was just a guess. When the data simulated the mutation direction of "Blood Gu", some researchers did not even believe it.
But now-
The doors were opened one by one by the patients.
The speed is astonishingly fast. Once you open the door to rescue one, there will be one more person who helps to open the door. The key is quickly dissipated. Those crazy patients are stimulated by the blood poison, and they have become well-trained soldiers. .
He Yu walked through it with a stern expression, like a spiritual leader controlling the patients. He walked to the end of the corridor, which was the only way to escape from the north exit. The firefighters' voices were already lingering at the entrance of the corridor. They quickly Going up to the third floor.
But at the same time, the flames at the end of the corridor were already approaching, roaring towards them like a roaring fire dragon, enveloped in billowing and choking smoke, as if to smother them with suffocating poisonous gas and devastating heat. Killed in this dense corridor.
There is no water here, there is no way to wet the cloth to cover the mouth and nose, only to increase the speed.
He Yu stood in front of the fire door, turned his face slightly, and gave instructions to all the patients: "Try to lower your body as much as possible, go in my direction, and go down to find the fire department. Quick."
The patients are like robots that have been entered with instructions, rushing forward, rushing to the safe passage with astonishing speed and order, and the zombies manipulated in science fiction films are just like this...
When the last patient ran down, the fire was already very close, and the smoke concentration was getting higher and higher, almost to the point where he had to lie on the ground to breathe. He Yu looked at Xie Qingcheng, who was approaching him with a rather ugly expression. He didn't say anything, just turned his body to let Xie Qingcheng come in too.
With a loud bang, the safety passage fire door slammed shut behind them, temporarily isolating the approaching fire dragon.
The icy almond eyes stared at the stunned peach blossom eyes in the dark: "Xie Qingcheng. Don't tell anyone."
Xie Qingcheng's face was very blue, but he finally handed a gas mask in his hand to He Yu without saying a word.
"Take it. Go."
The flames slammed into the fire door, and He Yu and Xie Qingcheng ran down with the rescued patients...
"elder brother!!!!!"
Xie Qingcheng and He Yu were supported by the firefighters. When the last two ran out, they were greeted by two almost broken howls. As soon as Xie Qingcheng took off his mask, he saw Xie Xue, who had already woken up, covering his face. She rushed towards him tearfully, running so fast that she dropped the shoes the firefighters had found for her.
"Brother... Big brother!! Big brother!! Are you trying to scare me to death? Are you trying to scare me to death!! I thought you didn't even want me!! Even you are leaving me!!! woohoo woohoo…”
She threw herself into Xie Qingcheng's arms and hugged Xie Qingcheng so tightly that she almost broke his waist. The surrounding explosions and screams continued, and some people could not be saved. Come out... She was so frightened, as if all the blood had been drained from her body, only a thin painted skin remained in the world, only when she hugged her brother's tall body tightly, she was out of breath She cried angrily and breathed in the smell of Xie Qingcheng's body. She seemed to have a heartbeat again, and the blood was poured back into her body.
Tears dripped down one after another, smearing her cat-like face, and she cried with her mouth open, crying vaguely: "You can't be like Mom and Dad. Me!! You can't want me like mom and dad!! I'm so scared... I'm so scared... hug me, hug me!!"
"It's all right. It's all right."
Xie Qingcheng rarely accepts such strong feelings. He is a very family-conscious person, but his love for his family is often introverted and even revealed in the form of accusations.
But at this moment, he couldn't stand it anymore. He hugged his sister who was shivering in a long coat, lowered his head and kissed her messy bird's nest head, and the circles of his eyes were a little red.
"It's alright, Xie Xue."
Xie Xue howled in Xie Qingcheng's arms for a while, and saw He Yu again.
She just calmed down and broke down again, crying and throwing herself into He Yu's arms - no, to be precise, she should have dragged He Yu over and surrounded him with her eldest brother, so He Yu was forced to marry Xie Qing Cheng was also close to each other.
He Yu's gentle and handsome face showed some embarrassment. He had never hugged a man so close before, especially that man was Xie Qingcheng, and he felt very uncomfortable - looking at Xie Qingcheng's expression, he seemed to That's what it means.
But the two of them didn't move because of Xie Xue's face and emotions, so she forced the three to embrace them and circled their reunion in the chaos.
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"Help! Help! Comrade! Someone here! I'm here!!"
At the elevator door of Chengkang Hospital, a gray-haired man shouted in panic. He belongs to the oldest group of leaders in Chengkang. He and Liang Jicheng went to play polo a while ago and broke his leg. Now he can only travel in a wheelchair. . If it weren't for the temporary work in the unit that he needed to handle today, he would not come back.
The man was fighting in a wheelchair, his crotch was completely wet, and the urine was flowing down the trousers. For the first time, he realized how terrifying the pain of being unable to take care of himself. The fire was approaching in his direction, even if he knew that he could not take the elevator. , even the elevator is broken, still involuntarily pressing that button frantically.
"Quick! Quick... Someone, help... I have money... who help me... I have a lot of money!"
The muscles in his cheeks twitched violently from the tension.
suddenly-
As if God heard his prayer, a man wearing a gas mask and looking like a firefighter ran up from the darkened safety passage and saw him paralyzed in a wheelchair.
The man is like seeing the gods: "Comrade!! Help me!! Help me!!!"
His nose flickered excitedly, his pale nose was covered with fine beads of sweat, and his pupils contracted excitedly, reflecting the figure of the other party approaching him with fire equipment.
Then, he was stunned. Eyes closed suddenly!
The man in the fire suit flashed a faint sneer through the blindfold, and then turned on the equipment in his hand... That's not a fire extinguishing device! That is…
gasoline! ! !
"You, you are!"
"Chengkang can't keep up with this mess. I was sent by them to 'clean up'." A dull male voice came from the mask, "Keep your money down and spend it slowly."
"No!!!"
Boom! !
The gasoline and the lighter were thrown together on the man's face that was completely contorted in extreme panic. That face finally looked like the crooked face in Munch's cry, and the whole was swallowed by the flame...