"abnormal!"
The next day, while eating breakfast, Little White Flower glanced at Xia Xu secretly, then blushed and lowered her head and muttered.
"Who is the pervert? It's obviously you who didn't sleep well."
Xia Xu glanced at her unhappily and said, "I was going to sue you for murder, but when I woke up, a pig's hoof was stuck in my nostrils. I almost suffocated to death."
"Bah, you are a pig's hoof."
Tang Youxin blushed and spat slightly. The atmosphere during the breakfast became a little awkward.
After breakfast, Xiao Baihua stayed in the hotel and continued to tinker with her Bai Ze system on her laptop.
Xia Xu first went to pick up the checked Venom supercar, and then drove straight to a mental hospital called Gardner.
The Haicheng that Liu Quande mentioned is actually the Magic City, just with a different name. The doctor Cui Xinghua, who may have five-star surgical talent, is now recuperating in this mental hospital.
This was also the most important thing for him to do in Shanghai besides reporting. After all, the Second Heart Project was waiting for a reliable surgeon to conduct clinical trials, and Zou Jin and his family also urgently needed a skilled doctor to perform surgery.
"Hello, Mr. Xia, right? Could you please sign..."
Mental hospitals are different from ordinary hospitals. The visiting rules are stricter. The attending physician's consent must be obtained and the family members must sign various agreements.
This is understandable. After all, the mentally ill patients who can be sent to a nursing home are already in serious condition. Many of them are unconscious or even have aggressive tendencies. Rash contact will pose risks to both the visitor and the visitor.
Fortunately, the special department had already asked Cui Xinghua's family to complete the visitation procedures yesterday, so Xia Xu only needed to sign a visitation registration form.
"Mr. Xia, there are a few things to note before visiting. Please be sure to follow them. Otherwise, this hospital will expel you and put you on the blacklist in the spirit of being responsible for all patients. If necessary, legal measures will be taken."
Gardner Mental Hospital should be a foreign-funded hospital, and many of the medical staff there are Westerners.
After the registration was completed, a middle-aged doctor with blond hair and white appearance led Xia Xu to the inside of the sanatorium while reminding him of the precautions:
“First of all, it is forbidden to give any items directly to the patient. Food or other items brought to the patient must be handed over to the nursing staff for safekeeping.
In addition, except for visiting patients, please do not move around without permission and do not contact any other patients. This is responsible for the safety of the patients as well as your own safety.
Please remember that this is a serious issue, even chatting is not enough, and the risks do not just come from physical conflict.
Many of these patients have unique thinking and their own logic. Even our medical staff may be adversely affected by them and develop mental illnesses…”
The blond white man who spoke was Cui Xinghua's attending physician. Judging from the name on the name tag on his chest, his name should be Tylos.
The precautions he mentioned were not much different from those in other mental hospitals, but the tone was more severe, giving a feeling of resolute implementation and strict rules.
This is not an illusion.
In fact, since entering the nursing home, the eyes of the surrounding caregivers have always been focused on Xia Xu. Whenever Xia Xu stopped or tried to deviate from his trajectory, he would be stopped by Talos.
Of course, it is not a direct verbal obstruction, but a more subtle urging and changing of the subject, but the purpose is very obvious.
"It seems that this mental hospital is indeed a bit unusual..."
After probing a few times, Xia Xu narrowed his eyes slightly.
The feeling that Gardner Mental Hospital gave him was not so much that it was full of strict rules as it was that of a certain kind of vigilance and precaution.
The attending physician accompanies the patient throughout the visiting process. Patients are not allowed to move around without permission, give items to the patient, or have any contact or communication with other patients.
These rules seem to be no different from those of other mental hospitals, and each regulation is reasonable, but the difference between strict enforcement and lax enforcement is huge.
After all, hospitalization is not imprisonment. A normal mental hospital may also enforce these rules, but they will never be so strict. At least, they will not be so harsh and strict to the patients' families and visitors.
Under such strict enforcement, the entire mental hospital is even more stringent than a prison or even some special bases.
The outside world cannot see through them, they are isolated from the outside world, and because of the special nature of mental patients, no one will believe some of the things they say.
The most important thing is that most mental hospitals have the same precautions, which are themselves based on the care of mental patients. Everything seems reasonable and they can implement them openly and may even be praised.
If we speculate all this from a more malicious perspective, wouldn't it be easy for the hospital to do something to these patients in private or hide something
These mental hospitals are located in relatively remote areas. Apart from the patients, there are only a few visitors who can come here. If they want to do something, this place will be a hell more hopeless than a prison.
Xia Xu never hesitates to use the greatest malice to judge people's hearts.
And Talos's attribute panel seemed to be a kind of evidence at this moment.
Name: Talos
Life Level: 1
Fate potential: [Supporting role: "Attack on Titan"]
Talent potential: Surgery (2 stars)
Special: None
Obsession: None
Favorability: 0
Xia Xu had seen this attribute panel at the beginning, and that was why he paid more attention to Talos and the sanatorium. Otherwise, he might not have noticed it so quickly.
[Supporting role: "Giant"]
This Talos is actually a supporting character in a certain plot.
Moreover, he is a psychiatrist, but his talent lies in surgery.
Although it is true that he could have been explained by choosing the wrong career, it is a bit outrageous that he chose the wrong career and failed to use his true talents, yet was able to become the attending physician of a large psychiatric hospital at such a young age.
"Giant, could it be that these ghosts secretly created some giant monster?"
Although there is only one entry now and no detailed plot summary can be seen, Xia Xu has a bad feeling just by looking at the name of the plot.
In fantasy works of all genres, giants basically refer to humanoid creatures that are several meters or tens of meters tall and exceed the normal human size.
From the perspective of character and image design, this kind of image that is similar to humans but taller and stronger than humans often uses this natural analogy impression to highlight power and strength. This thing will basically not be a weakling when it appears in any work.
Moreover, reality is not a game or animation, so it is impossible for an abnormal situation to occur where a being is huge in size but weak in strength.
As the body becomes larger, just to withstand factors such as gravity and air pressure, it requires corresponding strength, organ strength, and musculoskeletal strength.
What's more, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. For the same muscle cells, if their volume and number are expanded several times, wouldn't their strength increase
If these people really created some giant humanoid monster, its strength and destructive power would definitely not be too bad.
"Risks are directly proportional to benefits. If we really have this kind of technology, it's not unacceptable to take a risk and plan it..."
Although it felt a bit risky, a desire to take action soon followed.
Conducting this kind of research in private is definitely a villain organization.
There is certainly no need to talk about chivalry when dealing with such an organization. Moreover, it is obviously impossible to publicly register for patents for such illegal, sensitive and coveted research, so it can't be used as soon as it is obtained.
In other words, only if he plans well, he might be able to have another powerful black technology in his hands.
"I wonder if it will be old friends again."
Thinking of this, Xia Xu couldn't help but have a somewhat evil thought in his mind.
After all, the companies and research institutes that we dealt with before were basically controlled by the Andra Group either openly or secretly.
"It's better not to do that. It's not good to always catch a sheep and it will be troublesome if you really make them angry..."