"Is the food here good?"
Following Talos all the way, Xia Xu suddenly asked inexplicably.
"Oh? Why do you ask that, Mr. Xia?"
On the surface, Telos still looked serious, and there was nothing unusual about him. He was even a little humorous occasionally. I don't know if it was to attract attention, but he was very talkative along the way.
"I see that many of your patients are quite fat."
Xia Xu watched from afar as several patients in striped hospital gowns left accompanied by medical staff.
Perhaps influenced by the connotation of the term "giant", he is now particularly sensitive about body size.
The two were walking across a lawn square used for patients to exercise and get some fresh air. From time to time, they encountered some patients, and these people seemed to be more or less obese.
Especially the one who had just been pushed in a wheelchair by medical staff in the hospital corridor next to the playground. His entire body was covered with tire rims. His thighs were thicker than an ordinary person's waist, and were covered with circles of fat. Some of the fat even hung from his thighs to his calves like sacs.
When they are this fat, they have basically completely lost the ability to move and take care of themselves. Only in European and American countries with extremely unbalanced diets can you occasionally see two such people in the news.
As for Xia Guo, to be honest, it is quite difficult to gain weight to this extent even if you want to.
"The diet structure of modern people is already unbalanced, and patients have no self-control. Various mental illnesses such as depression may lead to binge eating tendencies."
Tylos' explanation was impeccable, and he knew exactly why Xia Xu asked this question: "The person just now was suffering from severe depression. Because he suffered a certain blow, he locked himself in his home for a long time and overate. In the end, he became so fat that he completely lost his ability to move and even endangered his life. This time he was sent to us for psychological treatment first."
"I see."
Xia Xu nodded slightly, without dwelling on this topic for long, but took the initiative to take a step forward and continued walking forward.
Talos also followed, leading the way, and soon brought Xia Xu to a ward.
"This is… "
Xia Xu looked at the scene in the ward with a strange expression.
Gardner Psychiatric Hospital should be a high-end private hospital. All wards are single rooms, and even the decoration style is closer to home bedrooms or hotel rooms, with their own bathrooms.
At this time, in the bathroom on the left side of the door, a middle-aged man wearing the same striped hospital gown as the patients outside, looking handsome and elegant but with a somewhat dull look in his eyes, was squatting next to the bathtub.
The middle-aged man seemed to have not noticed Xia Xu and the others coming in. He just squatted beside the bathtub filled with water, staring at the water.
Perhaps because of the vibration caused by closing the door just now, the surface of the bathtub was rippling slightly, causing the sky blue plastic washbasin and white plastic cup floating on it to sway gently.
"This is Mr. Choi Sung-hwa Choi."
Talos introduced.
"What is he doing?"
Xia Xu tried to move closer, all the way to behind Cui Xinghua, but the other party still ignored him and did not react at all. He could only turn his head to look at Talos.
"He's diagnosing whether his mental illness is getting better."
Talos looked as if he was used to it.
“Diagnose yourself?”
Xia Xu looked even weirder when he heard that.
"Yes, he seemed to have been a doctor."
Talos nodded slightly, then shrugged his shoulders: "Although it's not psychiatric."
"How does he diagnose it?"
Xia Xu was speechless.
"The bathtub was filled with water and his wash basin and mouthwash cup were placed in it to test how he would empty the water from the bathtub."
Talos explained calmly.
"A normal person would use a wash basin?"
Xia Xu asked.
Talos said seriously, "No, a normal person would unplug the bathtub."
Xia Xu: “…”
"It's just a brain teaser, right?"
Xia Xu was somewhat speechless and said, "And isn't this his own idea? He already knew the correct answer, and he tested himself. How could this be useful?"
"Yes, he knows the answer, so he makes the right choice every time."
Telos nodded in deep agreement and added, "But he still insisted on wondering if he was mentally ill."
“Isn’t this behavior mentally ill?”
Xia Xu was quite amused.
"Yes, so he is a mental patient."
Telos nodded again and said, "When he stops doubting and stops doing such things, maybe he will be cured."
"So this kind of self-diagnosis actually works?"
Xia Xu was slightly stunned.
On second thought, isn't this an effective diagnosis? When the day comes when he no longer has doubts, he will naturally know that he is not sick.
“To some extent, it does work.”
Talos nodded again.
"So is he mentally ill?"
Xia Xu felt that he was a little confused.
This kind of philosophical question cannot be sorted out just by having a good brain.
"Of course."
Talos was sure.
"Can a mentally ill person soberly think of such a good way to diagnose his own illness?"
Xia Xu raised his eyebrows slightly in disagreement.
"Of course, this is exactly what psychopaths do."
Talos nodded affirmatively.
"What is the behavior of normal people?"
Xia Xu said in surprise.
"Let me diagnose."
Tylos pointed at himself seriously and said, "Why else would you need me, the attending physician, to come here?"
Xia Xu: “…”
"Compared to you, a black-hearted doctor who may or may not have switched careers from surgery, I think Cui Xinghua's own diagnosis is more reliable."
Xia Xu was secretly complaining in his heart.
Of course, these words were not spoken out loud.
He fell silent, seemingly sizing up Cui Xinghua, and in fact he was, but he was actually looking at his attribute panel.
Forget about spiritual philosophy and the like; the attribute panel is simpler and more reliable.
Name: Cui Xinghua
Life Level: 1
Fate potential: [Supporting role: "Attack on Titan"]
Talent potential: Surgery (5 stars)
Special: None
Obsession: The death of the patient, the healing hands
Favorability: 0
Five stars!
Surgery!
Upon seeing this, Xia Xu was immediately overjoyed, and his eyes were immediately focused on the dazzling talent entry.
But then he frowned slightly again.
His five-star surgical skills were indeed great, but he was unsure about Cui Xinghua's condition.
Choi Seong-hwa is not the protagonist of the plot, but a supporting character, and he and Talos alone are not enough to unlock the plot summary of "Attack on Titan".
As for obsession, according to the information obtained from the special department, Cui Xinghua encountered medical trouble because a patient died due to a failed operation.
In the end, his hands were damaged due to medical disputes and he could no longer perform delicate surgical operations. His career was ruined and he could not bear the blow and was admitted to a mental hospital.
In this case, it is normal for the obsession to be the cause of the patient's death and the healing of his hands. This is the main cause of the disease, and it is impossible to forget it even if you are really crazy.
But in this case, it is impossible to confirm his current mental state through the attribute panel, and the only hope is his fate as a supporting role.
Usually, minor characters or background characters will not show the fate of a supporting role. If you have the fate of a supporting role, it proves that you have a certain role in a certain plot.
Since he can become a supporting role and participate in the plot, he should usually be conscious, but it is possible that he is pretending to be crazy.
But this is not absolute, because there are many crazy characters in various plots.
For example, a character who reveals some important information while being crazy, a character who is half crazy and half awake and acts as a hermit at a critical moment, a character who has a powerful past but has fallen into madness and waits for the protagonist to ask for help and finally finds ways to wake him up...
There are so many similar settings, and we don’t even need to talk about the imaginary ones. Isn’t his chief biologist Gu Haiming playing a similar role in the plot of "Batman"
Combining Cui Xinghua's current behavior with the remarks made by Telos that almost confused him, Xia Xu now had to accept a reality—Cui Xinghua might really be crazy.