The man's expression was indifferent, and he looked at Ai Shuai as if he was watching a mentally handicapped performance show.
His words were like a punch to the soft cotton to the man, and they couldn't make any waves.
Ai Shuai stopped, imitating Jiang Lishan's sitting posture, bent forward, crossed his fingers on the table, his expression became serious, licked the inner mucous membrane of his mouth with his tongue, stared at the man's gray eyes without speaking, as if Trying to find some strange emotions from under his calm mask through those gold-rimmed glasses.
But Jiang Lishan's mask was well worn—or he was so calm, even Su Jinzhi couldn't find any flaws, as if his momentary gaffe just now was just their illusion, and it didn't really exist.
Ai Shuai raised his eyebrows, stopped looking at Jiang Lishan, and moved his gaze elsewhere, his eyelids drooped, and his expression was rather lonely: "Doctor Jiang, when will you smile at me?"
Su Jinzhi felt strange when he heard Ai Shuai's words, and asked No. 1: "Ai Shuai's words were a mistake, or did he really know that Jiang Lishan had just come out of my ward?"
Number one said, "It should be a wild guess."
"Then why did he mention me to Jiang Lishan?" Su Jinzhi was puzzled, and then a little happy, "Does Dr. Jiang already know about my specials?"
"Don't get me wrong, he probably mentioned you because of your hospital gown." Number One told him the information it had found, "Number Zero and I did a search for you. There were many patients in blue clothes in this hospital, but The only ones still in the hospital are you and Ai Shuai."
Su Jinzhi asked, "Where did the others go?"
"Heavenly Kingdom." No. 1's voice was flat, "They were sent to the electric chair."
Su Jinzhi: "..."
"I suddenly don't want to be discharged from the hospital." If he is about to go to the electric chair as soon as he is discharged from the hospital, then he might as well stay in the hospital. "What is the situation in this mental hospital?"
Number One said: "It's not clear yet, let's wait and see for a while."
On the other side, after Ai Shuai's performance ended, Jiang Lishan opened the folder and took out a stack of papers inside, with a black pen between his fingers, and began to ask Ai Shuai the above questions: "Since you have finished speaking, then Let's start doing the questions."
Su Jinzhi noticed that Ai Shuai looked calm when he started to answer, but he became a little anxious later, because Jiang Lishan's questions became more and more tricky, and he would even ask some questions repeatedly.
This kind of situation is rare, Su Jinzhi asked No. 1: "Why did he ask Ai Shuai these questions repeatedly?"
"In order to judge whether he is lying." No. 1 explained to Su Jinzhi, "If you are not lying, then no matter how many times this question is asked, your answer will only be one."
When you tell the truth and are repeatedly questioned, you will feel angry, you will become angry, and grumpy, but you will never give the wrong answer.
Sure enough, and Ai Shuai's answer was consistent at the beginning, when Jiang Lishan refined the question further, he couldn't guarantee that the answer was the same as before, and some small details were completely inconsistent.
When Ai Shuai realized this, his expression froze immediately.
Jiang Lishan also seemed to have got the answer he wanted, the corners of his lips curled up, and he said with a smile: "Thank you, Mr. Ai, for taking the time out of your busy schedule to do the test. I can also answer some of your questions. I just came from the toilet. from."
Su Jinzhi opened his eyes wide: "He lied! He obviously went out from my room!"
Number One said, "Perhaps in his eyes, your room is no different from the toilet."
Su Jinzhi was very angry when he heard No. 1's words, and Ai Shuai was also very angry when he heard Jiang Lishan's words. He just asked Jiang Lishan when he would smile at him, but when the man really smiled at him, Ai Shuai couldn't laugh.
Jiang Lishan stood up from the chair and tidied up the files on the desktop: "I will notify you as soon as the test results come out."
Ai Shuai sat without moving, only raised his eyes, and stared at Jiang Lishan with a dark gaze.
Jiang Lishan put the chair back to its original place, gave Ai Shuai a look without giving alms, turned around and left the room, looking at the direction of departure, it should be towards him.
Su Jinzhi hurriedly asked No. 1 to turn off the electronic screen, and tucked in the quilt to lie down.
"How is it?" Jiang Lishan pushed open the door and came in, asking the nurse standing by the bed.
The nurse said: "There is still some low-grade fever, but the temperature is not high."
Jiang Lishan walked over and touched the young man's forehead, confirming what the nurse said, Su Jinzhi opened his eyes the moment he put his hand on his forehead, and stared straight at him.
As a result, the man's eyes met his gaze, and his hand was quickly withdrawn as if it had been scalded.
Su Jinzhi propped up the bed and sat up, put his hands on his lower abdomen, and called Jiang Lishan: "Doctor Jiang."
The nurse guarding him went out when Jiang Lishan came in and closed the door behind him. There were only the two of them in the room.
"I thought you were asleep." Jiang Lishan smiled at him, pulled out the small bench under the bed and sat down.
"I'm afraid I'll go back there when I fall asleep." Su Jinzhi lowered his head and began to tell Jiang Lishan some things in his dream. The result of his previous discussion with No. 1 was that if he repeated that weird dream, he would tell Jiang Lishan the content of the dream.
"Where?" Jiang Lishan immediately sat up straight when he heard the words, softened his voice, and spoke to him in a tone that would not scare him.
"It's a red room, it's full of blood, and there's a headless corpse sitting on the sofa..." As Su Jinzhi spoke, it seemed like the headless corpse ran out of his dream, and he was hugging him right now. The illusion that his head was standing at the end of his bed, he could even hear the ticking sound of the blood dripping from his head onto the floor, and he could smell the sticky and thick smell of blood.
"Su Jinzhi..."
"Su Jinzhi!"
Gradually, Su Jinzhi's mind became a little fuzzy, and when he came to his senses, he realized that Jiang Lishan was grabbing his wrist, and almost climbed onto the hospital bed, pressing down on him heavily.
As for the two voices he heard just now, one was from Number One, and the other was from Jiang Lishan.
Su Jinzhi blinked, and found that warm liquid was sliding down his cheeks, and then he realized that he was crying, and his whole body trembled violently. Seeing that his eyes were clear again, Jiang Lishan let go of one hand and wiped the tears from his face.
"Jinzhi, don't think about it." Jiang Lishan lightly touched his face, "Let's not think about that dream."
Su Jinzhi was still a little dazed, he didn't know why after a while, he and Jiang Lishan became in such a posture, and at this time, several male nurses rushed in with a bang, opened the sick door, Take tranquilizers and restraint bandages for mental patients.
"Doctor Jiang!" The nurse yelled, and stepped forward with a bandage to put it on Su Jinzhi.
The nurses in the psychiatric hospital don't wear masks, because some patients will feel panic when they can't see the nurse's expression, so their faces are slightly distorted when they are anxious, and the expression is clearly visible. Su Jin flinched subconsciously , Jiang Lishan immediately protected him, pushed the nurse away and said, "Don't put this on him."
"But Mr. Su—" The nurse still hesitated.
Jiang Lishan interrupted him: "Jinzhi is ready."
After finishing speaking, he immediately lowered his head and gently stroked Su Jinzhi's hair: "It's okay, it's okay..."
His voice seemed to have magic power, and under his comfort, Su Jinzhi's beating heart gradually calmed down. Seeing that he had calmed down, Jiang Lishan slowly loosened the grip on him, tested it little by little, and only after he was sure that Su Jinzhi would not go mad again did he let go and get off the bed.
"What happened to me just now?" Su Jinzhi asked number one.
"I still want to ask you." No. 1 asked him back, "You were fine just now, and suddenly you became mad as if possessed by a ghost, screaming and screaming, almost eating people."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Su Jinzhi sleeps alone in the hospital at night. He doesn't know the nurse who watches the night. Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he still has the feeling that the nurse is a "good brother". When he mentioned the name of "good brother" without hesitation, he was immediately frightened.
Su Jinzhi frowned: "I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't have any memory of what happened next. I only know that you and Jiang Lishan were calling me when I was awake."
Number One said, "Are you sure you were unconscious at that time?"
"Yes." Su Jinzhi said, "I don't have what you said, the memory of when I was crazy."
"Then you have to speed up the action of waking up Jiang Lishan." No. 1's voice became a little serious, "You may be assimilated by this world, if you are crazy and your mind is lost in the sea of data, then I may not even be able to wake you up .”
Su Jinzhi was also very desperate: "But I want to know how to wake up Jiang Lishan."
Number one said: "You should be able to break his inherent cognition."
"How to break it?"
"For example, in the eyes of everyone, including Jiang Lishan, you think so-you are a mental patient, you just need to prove that you are not crazy from the beginning to the end, you are a normal person, this is different from the person he set up for you in the world. If it doesn’t match, he will wake up when he finds something wrong.”
Su Jinzhi said: "If I didn't go crazy today, I might firmly believe that I am a normal person, but now I also feel that there is something wrong with me."
"I'm just giving you an example." No. 1 paused for a few seconds, then continued, "I think you can start with Ai Shuai. Didn't he say he knows a lot about you?"
"My partner won't let me approach him."
"Then you have to get closer to Ai Shuai." No. 1 said, "What you have to do now is to confront Jiang Lishan."
Su Jinzhi: "... I will try my best."
Even if he wants to get close to Ai Shuai, he must have a chance to get close. Now there is no way to get out of this room without anyone following him. Besides, even if he goes out, he and Ai Shuai will definitely be accompanied by four strong people. male nurse.
Su Jinzhi was worried, and felt that it was too difficult to get close to Ai Shuai, and it was easier to start with Jiang Lishan.
"Doctor Jiang, can you stay with me tonight?" He grabbed Jiang Lishan's hand, "I'm very scared."
Su Jinzhi didn't lie, he was indeed a little scared. He had been tortured by such horrible dreams for several nights in a row. He would wake up with fright every night and couldn't fall asleep.
"Okay." Jiang Lishan said, and lightly closed his fingers and shook his hand, "I'll be here with you tonight."
Su Jinzhi heaved a sigh of relief after getting the answer, and lay back on the bed, but he didn't let go of Jiang Lishan's hand, and for some reason, Jiang Lishan didn't take his hand away from his palm, letting Su Jinzhi hold it all the time.
When it was time to take medicine at night, Su Jinzhi began to refuse to take medicine again: "I still have nightmares after taking these medicines." He looked at Jiang Lishan accusingly, "You lied to me."
"I didn't lie to you, I just said that these medicines can make you sleep better." Jiang Lishan was also a little helpless.
"I won't take it." Su Jinzhi pulled the quilt over his body and pointed his butt at Jiang Lishan. He suspected that his madness today was caused by the medicine he took yesterday. Obviously, when he didn't take the medicine, he had nothing but dreams. Now It got worse after taking the medicine.
Just because of Su Jinzhi's abnormality today, Jiang Lishan didn't dare to force him. Seeing that Su Jinzhi refused to take the medicine, he asked the nurse to take the medicine and leave.
And that night, Su Jinzhi had the dream as usual, but this time the dream had something new: he saw what the head looked like—it was his face, exactly the same.
What the headless corpse held in its hand was his head.
After Su Jinzhi woke up from the fright, he became a little nervous, curled up on the bed and trembled, even Jiang Lishan couldn't help coaxing him, he almost cried.
This feeling of fear reached its peak the next day after he found purple-red bruises on the wrist and elbow joints of his arm. He almost talked to Number One with a trembling voice: "Number One, tell me honestly, Are there ghosts in this world?!"
Even if Su Jinzhi has not practiced feudal superstition for many years, he also knows that such marks will not appear on normal people's bodies. These bruises are most likely made by ghosts.
"No." No. 1 answered in the affirmative, but after a pause for a few seconds, it changed its words again, "Actually... I'm not sure either."
Su Jinzhi: "!"
"This is not the world written by No. 0, it was created by your partner." No. 1 said, "We don't know if there are ghosts or not."
Su Jinzhi became even more desperate after hearing No. 1's words. When he went to the toilet to take off his pants for convenience, he found these mottled purple-red bruises on his knees and ankles. He rushed onto the bed, grabbed Jiang Lishan's arm and refused to let go.
Jiang Lishan saw that his face was pale, and his anxiety was evident, so he hugged him loosely, and gently stroked his spine with his palm: "What's wrong?"
Su Jinzhi pulled up his sleeves to show him the marks on his arm, and was about to say "there is a ghost", but after thinking that he must remain normal, he changed his words and said, "Hands hurt so much."
Jiang Lishan held his hand and looked at the marks carefully. Su Jinzhi pulled up his trousers again and showed him the bruises on his ankles and knees: "The legs hurt too."
"Does it hurt here?" Jiang Lishan let go of his arm, and gradually lowered his fingers to hold his ankle.
"En." Su Jinzhi nodded, because his heart was full of fear and anxiety, so he didn't notice that Jiang Lishan's voice was much lower than usual.
The body of the young man who has not seen the sun all year round is as white as snow, and his calf is not like his arm covered with centipede-like scars, it is white and smooth. Jiang Lishan couldn't control himself, his fingers lingered on the young man's ankle for a long time before he moved it away with difficulty, and pulled down the young man's trousers to cover the snow-like whiteness.
"I'll rub it for you." Jiang Lishan looked down at the young man on the bed, held his wrist and gently rubbed the bruises to relieve his pain.
It's daytime now, the bright sunlight evenly spreads into the room through the glass, gradually dispelling the darkness, Su Jinzhi looked at those broken golden rays, and with Jiang Lishan by his side, the fear in his heart subsided a little.
He turned his head to look at Jiang Lishan, and saw that the man's eyes were faintly bloodshot. Remembering that he hadn't slept all night, he didn't care about being afraid, but felt a little distressed: "Doctor Jiang, go and have a rest."
"I'm fine." When Jiang Lishan spoke this time, Su Jinzhi heard a much hoarse voice, and immediately felt even more distressed.
"Your eyes are very red." Su Jinzhi looked at the bloodshot eyes beside the gray eyes, and subconsciously raised his face that wanted to touch Jiang Lishan.
The man watched his hand approaching, remained motionless, and let him touch it lightly, until the shift nurse opened the door and came in, the two people in the room came back to their senses, Su Jinzhi hastily withdrew his hand, and Jiang Lishan did the same.
But the ambiguous atmosphere still lingered around the two of them.
"Doctor Jiang, I'm here to change shifts with you." The nurse didn't notice the ambiguous atmosphere in the room, set up the bed table, and handed the chopsticks to Su Jinzhi.
Su Jinzhi is now able to eat some food normally, no need to eat liquid food anymore, Jiang Lishan patted him on the shoulder: "Eat first, I will come to see you in the afternoon."
"Yeah." Su Jin nodded.
However, although Jiang Lishan said he came to see him in the afternoon, he came just after lunch time, and the time was so short that Su Jinzhi wondered if he had gone to catch up on sleep.
When he came, he brought another nurse with him, and that nurse followed him behind him with a medicine trolley. On the top tray of the medicine trolley was a disposable infusion set, and beside it were two packs of dark red blood bags.