"Impossible!" Chu Xueying's voice suddenly rose a few degrees and she said, "I can feel it, and I must be able to learn something from here! I believe in my feelings!"
Seeing how determined the other party was, Jiang Cheng was speechless for a moment, so he could only help his girlfriend get out of the car and walk with her to the lunatic asylum.
The inspection at the door was very strict. After Tong Xingtao explained his intention, he had to go through identity registration and various inspections before finally letting the three people in.
After passing through the wall, Jiang Cheng finally saw the entirety of the lunatic asylum. It is a quaint four-story building with old doors and windows, and the overall tone is low and gray. Many of the ivy creepers on the walls have been burnt and fallen off, leaving some dark brown stumps attached to them. Iron fences were erected everywhere, forming independent areas one after another, and there were no people in the large open spaces around them. Occasionally, there are several people wearing hospital gowns in different iron nets. A patient was walking back and forth among them, beating his head and talking to himself in a gloomy and weird tone. One of them stood stiffly, looking directly at the three strangers with a pair of eyes, his expression indifferent. Another person simply lay on the ground, but his posture looked very twisted, as if he was doing yoga.
Just after entering here, the three of them felt an inexplicable coldness almost at the same time, as if they had entered an absurd and twisted world after passing through the wall.
After finally crossing the open space in front of the building, the three of them finally saw several nurses in white coats. Seeing the existence of normal people, their deep vigilance also dropped.
Tong Xingtao looked at a nurse with a delicate face in front of the counter, walked up and said, "Hello, we called before."
"Oh, you are the ones who came to see Zhang Xiao." The nurse looked pretty good, but her voice was a bit unpleasant, as if she was scratching the glass with her claws, which was creepy. Out of politeness, Tong Xingtao did not show his inner feelings, but just nodded slightly.
The nurse seemed to know that her voice was not pleasant, so she smiled apologetically and said, "Sorry, I caught a cold recently and my vocal cords were damaged."
Tong Xingtao smiled and expressed understanding.
The nurse made a phone call and said to them: "Please wait a moment, we are making arrangements here."
Tong Xingtao turned around, and Jiang Cheng and Chu Xueying took a long breath when they saw him.
About half an hour later, a nurse began to lead them inside.
After passing through the iron gates, Jiang Cheng almost had the illusion of entering a prison. In fact, except that there were no police, this place was no less relaxed than a prison. He saw the look on the guard at the door, which always revealed a sense of tension that had been suppressed for a long time.
Finally, I walked into a closed room. The surrounding walls were specially treated to prevent patients from hitting the walls and committing suicide. In the corner of the room, a man was squatting on the bed, holding his head in his hands, as if reciting something, muttering something in his mouth, completely unaware of the visitor's arrival.
"Zhang Xiao, someone is here to see you."
The nurse's unpleasant voice caught Zhang Xiao's attention, and the three of them finally saw her true face. He has unkempt hair, a stooped and thin body, and a pair of protruding eyes, but he has a strange look that normal people don't have. Those eyes reminded Jiang Cheng of Chu Yan who committed suicide.
Zhang Xiao glanced at the three people, and finally fixed his gaze on Chu Xueying. He gradually opened his mouth wide, and his eyes that were originally protruding now widened even more, showing an expression of surprise or even horror. Without warning, Zhang Xiao suddenly shouted: "Why are you here! No! You shouldn't be here! You... you are not her!"
Chu Xueying heard that the other party knew her, so she couldn't help but step forward and asked eagerly: "You know me? Then you must know something about me, please tell me!"
Seeing Chu Yan approaching, Zhang Xiao was so frightened that he jumped back on the bed, shrank into the corner while shouting, and kept saying intermittently: "No way! You've already left! It can't be you!..."
Chu Xueying looked very anxious. It was obvious that the other party knew her and even knew that she had left Yilin City. Her feeling was correct, the other party not only knew her, but was also very familiar with her!
"Zhang Xiao, please help me! I have lost my past memory. I don't remember anything except Aunt Chu Yan!" Chu Xueying said in a pleading tone.
"Chu Yan!" Zhang Xiao calmed down, and his expression seemed to have regained some sense. He slowly turned his head and looked at Chu Xueying, with a strange smile on his face: "Amnesia?"
Zhang Xiao repeatedly muttered "amnesia" and "Chu Yan" and suddenly laughed, "Amnesia? This is okay!"
The laughter was like the cry of a night owl, which made the hairs on one's body stand up and made people feel unspeakably uncomfortable.
Tong Xingtao couldn't bear it anymore. For a moment, he forgot that the person in front of him was a mental patient, and shouted: "That's enough! Zhang Xiao, what do you know?"
Zhang Xiao was startled by the roar, and finally discovered the existence of Tong Xingtao. His expression became dull and he murmured: "Tong Xingtao? Why are you here?"
"You... know me? Do we know each other?" Tong Xingtao's eyes widened. No matter how he searched his memory, he could not remember the name You Zhang Xiao.
Zhang Xiao's sanity only lasted for this short moment. The next moment, his expression became extremely frightened, "You are here too! Could it be that... he has found me? No! Impossible!"
"What on earth are you talking about!" Tong Xingtao felt that the matter was related to him, and an ominous feeling arose in his heart, and asked: "Why do you know me! What is going on?"
It was obvious that Tong Xingtao was not very friendly in his anxious manner. Zhang Xiao was so frightened that he screamed strangely and could not speak at all.
Jiang Cheng couldn't stand it anymore and stopped in front of Chu Xueying and Tong Xingtao: "Don't you see that he is a patient! How can he answer questions normally? The more you force him, the more nervous he will be!"
Jiang Cheng was right, and the two of them felt discouraged after hearing this. Judging from Zhang Xiao's demeanor and tone, it was clear that he knew something, but they just couldn't get the truth right in front of them. This feeling is extremely depressing.
"Maybe he is just crazy and what he said is just nonsense." Tong Xingtao murmured, seeming to comfort himself.
Chu Xueying immediately said: "But why does he know you and even know your name? You know, your name is also on the list, which means that you and Zhang Xiao must be related in some way."
The two people were arguing here, but Zhang Xiao burst out laughing, "Amnesia! Haha, two amnesia fools! Can't remember anything! Good luck fools!... I won't tell you, in that book What about the matter? No one should know!"
"What? He knows about the existence of that notebook?" Chu Xueying turned her head and looked at Zhang Xiao in disbelief, "About the things in the notebook? What on earth is that?"