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After Ruan Xiangyuan ended his conversation with Tom, he felt that something was wrong.
No, to be precise, he felt that something was wrong with Tom. When he continued to talk about the so-called animal spirit, for a moment he found a blank expression on Tom's face, which seemed to represent Some kind of signal, yes, it must have been some kind of signal, because after that moment, Tom's face went back to normal—
"To be honest with you, if there is an animal spirit, I think its next target is me," Tom said with a gentle voice, looking at Ruan Xiangyuan with a smile, "except for Mira who pushed it down the stairs with her own hands. Besides, I was there at the time. Although the scene was chaotic, I noticed Mira’s every move—I knew what he was going to do, but at that time he was from Building No. 2, and there were even rumors that he was King Quan Lover, forgive me, I even thought it was just a trivial prank... So I watched weakly as he pushed the dog down until I saw Mira look like that... No nails, not even new growth It came out ugly too, with a completely ruined throat - yes, I didn't realize until this point, it wasn't as simple as I thought... But all in all, I didn't help to stop his murder, so the dog died, I'm at fault too, I'm an accomplice
. "
The boy's voice was very hollow, and the long string of words was not so much a statement as a confession of confused thoughts. Ruan Xiangyuan was horrified to hear it, that kind of voice was like a person talking to a tape recorder with completely meaningless self-talk Talking to himself.
The uncomfortable feeling was infinitely magnified in such a flat tone without ups and downs. Looking at Tom's young and beautiful face without vitality, for a moment, he suddenly had an illusion——
All that happened in front of me, maybe in a certain part of the plan, victims who were not in the plan were artificially added.
This kind of random guesswork that can't be paid attention to is a headache.
So, taking advantage of the time for the evening breeze, Ruan Xiangyuan hastily ended his conversation with Tom—originally, his problem had not been properly resolved, but when he left, he felt that the burden on his back became heavier.
After Ruan Xiangyuan left Tom, he hurried back to the medical room without stopping. At this moment, except for Aisha who stayed on duty, everyone else had already started to pack their things and prepare to leave work. Seeing Ruan Xiangyuan who had gone and returned, everyone in the medical room Somewhat surprised—
"I want to see Tom's profile." Ruan Xiangyuan collapsed on the nearest chair out of breath.
"Don't worry, there are seventeen 'Toms' in the Absolute Wing Pavilion, Xiaoyuan."
"It's from our building," Ruan Xiangyuan took a long breath after taking the cup handed over by Aisha, and added after thinking, "The man in the mirror
. "
"Oh, there's only one of these." Aisha bent over and approached the black-haired young man with her hips on her hips. She narrowed her eyes slightly. "Didn't you read his information? What's the problem?"
Ruan Xiangyuan sat up a little, raised his head and met Aisha's eyes: "I only read his basic physical information that time, and now I want to know if he has taken antidepressant drugs in the past year .”
Aisha was taken aback. Obviously, the medical doctors did not necessarily know all the prisoners well because they were in charge of different prisoners. Coincidentally, a beautiful doctor with short hair and eyes in her ears was at this time. Ruan Xiangyuan decisively joined their topic. In Ruan Xiangyuan's impression, this medical staff seldom even participated in direct rescue. His name was Rui'er. Later, Ruan Xiangyuan came to the medical room and found out that she was in charge of psychological counseling.
"That's my patient," Rui'er walked around the desk, took off a chair and sat down opposite Ruan Xiangyuan and Aisha. At this time, she seemed to be ready to go back to the high-end apartment dedicated to the medical room, but now, She put the things in her hands back again, "You're right, he has indeed been troubled by this to some extent... You know, it's really not suitable for a child like him to live in the Absolute Wing Pavilion, and... recently he The situation is very unstable, what, what happened?"
"He mentioned 'dog' to me." Ruan Xiangyuan said almost numbly, "Then he told me that he was there when Mira pushed... Rachel's dog down, but because he didn't step forward to stop it So he's complicit in that — I think it's totally illogical, what's up with this Madonna talk? If it's wrong, it's everyone who was on top of the building at the time."
Aisha burst out laughing: "...you said it so miraculously, as if you were the one who was pushed down the stairs at that time."
Ruan Xiangyuan: "..."
Pooh wool.
It's just a mere thing that's undermining me.
Ruan Xiangyuan thought for a while, and then said: "So I want to know, is there any hint in it?"
Rui'er listened and nodded: "Generally speaking, people would not lie in this situation. He must have some hints when he said that, but in fact, it doesn't necessarily mean that the animals in the third building closest to you Psychic events related to... um, I think..."
After a short period of contemplation, Rui'er raised her head again and announced decisively that she would not return to the apartment for the next few days and would be on duty together in the medical room
. Then she grabbed the black-haired young man and asked a little bit about Tom in detail—Ruan Xiangyuan only knew superficially about psychological things, so during the conversation with Rui'er, he found out that before talking to Tom There is a good chance that he missed very important information in the conversation.
It was as if he expected something to happen tonight. That night, Ruan Xiangyuan tossed and turned, unable to sleep no matter what—
Until the fluorescent pointer in the cell slowly pointed to twelve o'clock, when the big clock in the Jue Wing Pavilion rang, and with the last bell falling, there was a strange commotion outside the cell in Building No. One turned over and sat up, as if he had been quietly waiting for this moment for a long time—
The doors of the cell were all opened immediately. Outside the cell, the prisoners were looking around to find out what happened. Ruan Xiangyuan also got out of bed and walked out of the cell. Before he could stand firmly in the corridor, he saw Reyce like a gust of wind. Flying past him, the prison guard put a cap on his head while running to try to cover his hair that was messed up due to sleep, and he was yelling something loudly. A few key words.
Tom.
ten floors.
Suicide by jumping off a building.
Tom jumped off the building
Dazedness swept across the face of the black-haired young man, and then, as if he suddenly woke up from sleep, he ran all the way to the tenth floor!
…
When Ruan Xiangyuan came to the garden on the tenth floor, it was crowded with people, and the center of the garden on each floor was hollow. I don’t know what the designer thought about the design. It is indeed very suitable for jumping. At this moment, Tom is standing on the wall that is only one foot wide, staggering, his hands are spread flat, and he is smiling to keep his balance. He is barefoot and wearing the morning clothes. a suit of clothes—
Through the conversation among the crowd, Ruan Xiangyuan found out that no one saw Tom after the lights were turned off. At first, the people took it for granted that he went to find mt, because he seemed to have said so during the day—until nearly half past eleven in the evening , mt appeared outside the cell on the tenth floor, and called Tom's name outside the cell with a rough voice, and people realized that something was wrong.
At this moment, crowds of people surrounded the wall, but no one dared to approach—
It was rare to see the sign of impatience on Reis's face. At this moment, his tense face seemed to be completely integrated with the people around him. This guy only showed a little bit when his life was at stake. Some normal people's emotions - when Ruan Xiangyuan saw her, he grabbed the prisoner beside him and asked angrily if the air cushion was ready. When he got a negative answer, the prison guard raised his foot and kicked the answer fiercely. innocent criminal of the problem
.
Not far from Reyce was Mira with arms folded and expressionless.
Quickly glanced at the crowd, Ruan Xiangyuan found that mt was standing far away from the crowd at this time, almost being submerged. At first, the black-haired young man felt a little strange, but soon , he knew why mt had to stand so far—
Because as if subconsciously, at this moment, Tom standing on the fence was muttering in his mouth. When the crowd gradually quieted down, everyone could almost clearly hear that this guy seemed to be calling names, and what he said was normal. Names of people with whom he was on good terms—
"Jia Lai, is Jia Lai here?"
"..."
In this environment, anyone whose name is called will have goosebumps all over his body. Some people answered him in a hurry, but some people subconsciously felt that something was wrong, even though He was really already here, but he didn't answer Tom's question.
Ruan Xiangyuan stood there and watched for a while. In such an unfamiliar environment as the Jueji Pavilion, almost every person who could be named was a different and special existence to the black-haired young man. This was the first time he faced such a thing. , Watching the death scythe hanging high in the air, it was about to take the life of the young and beautiful boy in front of him.
Mingming afternoon also vowed that his parents should not be allowed to cry and take his body home.
Mingming afternoon, he still swore so firmly that he would live a good life no matter what.
Yes.
At this moment, Ruan Xiangyuan memorized almost every punctuation mark of what Tom said in the afternoon in detail, so when these words and those about "guilt theory" were sorted out, they were reassembled into a letter like When things like a suicide note were lined up in his mind, the black-haired young man suddenly realized that he regretted so much that he almost wanted to grab his hair and throw himself off the tenth floor—such obvious suicidal intention hints, why didn’t he find out
!
"Ruan Xiangyuan, ah, that new kid, are you here?"
Hearing someone calling his name, he subconsciously opened his mouth as if to answer, but suddenly, someone covered his mouth from behind and dragged him back into the crowd!
"—don't answer him, do you want to kill him?"
"Woo!"
Ruan Xiangyuan struggled to turn his head back, but found that standing behind him was a white sparrow that appeared at an unknown time. The two were instantly submerged in the crowd. Tom repeated the black-haired young man's name three times. During these three times, Ruan Xiangyuan stood in the crowd, staring at him, his mouth was tightly covered by the white sparrow, this short period of less than thirty seconds, to the black-haired young man, seemed like It's been a century long...
Finally, after Tom called mt's name seven or eight times, he finally calmed down.
Ruan Xiangyuan turned his head, only to find that the white sparrow gave him a "not finished" look.
He hurriedly turned his head to look at Tom, sure enough, as if to confirm Baique's guess, he seemed to completely ignore the fact that so many people did not directly respond to him before, at this moment, standing on the edge of the fence, staggering The young man giggled, he seemed to be very happy, showing his white teeth. Under the nervous eyes of everyone, he leisurely turned around in a scary posture, and then stopped suddenly, with his hands behind his back and his head Leaning slightly, he asked in a voice that everyone present could hear—
"It's twelve o'clock, is everyone here?"
No one dared to answer him.
"You see, I'm not as shameless as some people—I have done something wrong, and I have to bear the consequences," Tom continued as if talking to himself, and he slowly squatted down by the wall, half The soles of his feet were dangling in the air frighteningly, he raised his head and looked not far away, "Look, the puppy is here, and it will just squat there, hee hee, don't worry, wait until I jump down , and when Mira dies tragically too, it will never come back—listen, do you hear the dog barking? A very clear barking sound."
"..."
Some of the prisoners present turned extremely pale in an instant. They trembled, stared in horror, and exchanged strange glances with each other—as if they really heard something.
The strange thing is that another part of the prisoners are somewhat baffled by this phenomenon.
.
Ruan Xiangyuan followed Tom's gaze. At first, he really seemed to see the furry creature, which made his heart skip a beat. At that moment, the expression on the face of the black-haired young man relaxed.
"Nonsense." At this time, the voice of the white sparrow also rang in Ruan Xiangyuan's ear, the voice was full of contempt, "The stupid dog that Lei Qie raised is a husky, and the husky is the latest wolf type. Stupid, but never makes a stupid 'woof' sound."
Ruan Xiangyuan: "..."
If it weren't for the fact that the conditions on the scene at this moment do not allow joking or telling cold jokes, he would probably feel that the white sparrow's sound of barking like a dog is quite pleasant.
At this time, Tom found Mira, who was gloomy in the crowd, and he let out a mocking chuckle, raised the corners of his lips, and said slowly, "Are you afraid, Mira, the puppy you killed back then is here— You can't run away, I will come to you later."
Mira responded with a loud sneer.
At the same time, the big bell of the Absolute Wing Hall rang again with a bang.
It's one o'clock.
"Didn't someone stop that damn clock?" Reyce scolded.
Sure enough, as if he was particularly sensitive to this aspect, Tom quickly moved his eyes away from Mira. He scanned the surroundings, first asked "Is mt here?", and then asked, "It's already one o'clock." , is everyone here?"
For some reason, Ruan Xiangyuan, who had already been tricked once, felt that these two questions that Tom had repeated countless times were very strange, as if...
with some sort of hint.
At this moment, a prisoner ran up from the stairwell, panting, and called Reyce's name loudly. Before everyone could react, the prisoner said in a voice that almost everyone could hear—
"The air cushion and everything are ready, and the downstairs has been arranged!"
At that time, everyone's attention was on the only person who spoke in the silence, and some people even showed a sigh of relief because of the prisoner's words.
.
Only Ruan Xiangyuan, who was staring at Tom all the time and never looked away, could clearly see that when he heard what the prisoner said, the smile on Tom's face, who hadn't shown signs of jumping at all, suddenly tightened. When the white bird behind him yelled "Oops, hold him", Ruan Xiangyuan saw that young, beautiful young man who was supposed to be full of vitality fell backwards like a kite that had lost its string —
People were stunned by this sudden change.
For a long time, no one responded.
Until people heard Hawkeye standing behind the crowd let out a clear sigh, which was mixed with Mira's piercing sneer, all the prisoners exploded, and then they heard a muffled "boom" into their ears, It sounded as if a heavy object had slammed into a soft object.
Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that air cushions may not be absolutely safe for jumpers—
Sometimes it's because the floor the jumper chose is too high, sometimes it's because the jumper landed on the air cushion in the wrong posture and directly broke his neck or shattered his ribs and pierced his internal organs, or, sometimes, it's because The physical fitness of the jumper himself.
At this time, Ruan Xiangyuan remembered why Tom called names frequently before, and why almost all of Tom's questions revolved around some specific answers that could be transformed into "it's over" in some way. Questions, like time, like asking if everyone is here—
There was nothing wrong with the strangeness he felt before, it was almost a hint of time.
It's as if a suicidal man is waiting, waiting for someone to tell him - "Your time is up, get on the road".
"..." Ruan Xiangyuan almost didn't know how he followed the crowd downstairs. At this moment, his mind was buzzing, and he could only hear someone whispering in his ear. How peaceful, because of fights and other things, when there was an accident in Building No. 3, the medical staff were there to deal with the affairs, and it would take about ten minutes to rush over—
"Aisha and the others haven't come yet?"
Ruan Xiangyuan raised his head, and asked the tall, gray-haired man who was dragging him away with some confusion—he didn't even have the brainpower to think about it anymore. How could Baique, who had been standing with him, know such a question
.
"No, you heard it too, it will arrive in about ten minutes." Bai Que tugged at Ruan Xiangyuan, and after thinking about it, he blurted out a sentence that he would regret for a long time in the future—
"Aren't you also a medical staff? Can you hold on for a while?"
Ruan Xiangyuan nodded numbly. At this time, they were already standing in the corridor on the first floor—
People crowded around the air cushion in layers, and no one seemed to remind them that they should leave enough space for Tom to breathe smoothly. When Ruan Xiangyuan squeezed in, he even shouted loudly while squeezing, It's a medical staff", but he found that, for some reason, today's human wall seems unexpectedly difficult to break through—
When he stopped, he finally saw clearly that in the seemingly scattered crowd around him, there were actually three or two people regularly separated, and there would be some familiar faces standing there. But it is invisibly preventing people from approaching Tom—
The masters of these people were the only ones on the mat with Tom at this moment.
Hawkeye helped his gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and he put his hand lightly on the left side of Tom's chest. After waiting for a while, he stood up and announced Tom's death.
At that moment, Ruan Xiangyuan felt that the anger in his body was about to burn him to ashes, and the blood rushed from the soles of his feet all the way to his head. He threw away a person who was holding him tightly, and shouted angrily in the noisy crowd Mindful of the fact that Tom is the mirror man, he repeats words like "I'm the paramedic let me in" meaninglessly—
Although he knew, these people commanded him to stop him more firmly.
Because their purpose was to kill Tom.
Ruan Xiangyuan finally understood that everything can be connected in this way—
What kind of bullshit animal spirit? It was just a psychological hint from Mira. The appearance of the so-called animal spirit was first described from his mouth. Some people who were originally with him mixed into the crowd and pretended to have an accident. Afterwards, more and more people believed it was true—
How did you say that sentence? The more careful you walk, the easier it is to fall.
In the end, some completely unrelated people, because they believed too much, connected things that had nothing to do with him with him, and because of the long nights and dreams, they subconsciously injured themselves while walking the stairs, and then told I am an animal spirit at work—
This is why Ruan Xiangyuan can also see the so-called animal spirits.
.
This is why, when Ruan Xiangyuan saw the so-called animal spirit for the first time, the other party was a husky, but when he subconsciously managed to change his subconscious mind, what he saw in the garden on the tenth floor just now was a husky. A Samoyed with snow-white fur.
Rachel said, don't believe your eyes, sometimes the eyes can deceive you.
If you're not careful, you can become one of the sheep, Rachel said.
yes.
There is always a "herd effect" in the crowd. Individuals in the group will lose most of their judgment and blindly follow the opinions of others - this situation usually has another name, "herd effect".
The black-haired young man finally gave up on breaking through the deliberately built human wall. He looked at Tom clearly through the crowd, from the so-called "declared dead" slowly, like an old man Staggering, hesitating towards death.
Ruan Xiangyuan seemed to see that in his world, something seemed to become weaker and weaker with Tom's breathing, and then with a bang, the whole world was fragmented and completely collapsed.
at this time. Building No. 1 of the Absolute Wing Pavilion.
Brightly lit.
The young black-haired king was standing in a cell on the 31st floor of Building 1, with his hands behind his back, facing the direction of Building 3.
It seemed to vaguely hear crying—ah, of course, maybe it was more likely to be a hallucination.
Whoops, hallucination.
"Do you understand now? My little apprentice, before I turn you into the "environment", the first lesson I teach you is to be familiar with the "original environment". In this place, if you don’t have rights, you, as a medical staff, can do nothing but watch your patients die in front of you.”
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