I Was Once a Legend

A man and a woman are sitting around a fire, having a conversation:

Man: Ma'am, if I'm not mistaken, I seem to have seen you somewhere.

Woman: Me too, sir, I seem to have seen you somewhere.

Man: Madame, did I happen to see you in Manchester?

Woman: That's very possible.I am from Manchester!But I don't remember very well, sir, and I dare not say whether I saw you there or not.

Man: My God!This is so strange!I'm from Manchester too, ma'am!

Woman: This is so weird!

Man: This is so weird!However, I, madam, have been away from Manchester for nearly five weeks.

Woman: This is so weird!What a coincidence!Me too, sir, I have been away from Manchester for almost five weeks.

Man: Ma'am, I'm taking the 08:30 am train to London at a quarter to five.

Woman: This is so weird!So weird, what a coincidence!I took the same train!gentlemen! (Note)

Cui Zuojing listened for a while, his mind was full of "Sir, madam, it's so strange, what a coincidence, this is too strange, how could it be such a coincidence..." He heard his temples throbbing, and the conversation between the two sides did not Meaning to stop, they chatted about the train they took and where they lived when they arrived in London.

It was a conversation between two mental patients. Cui Zuojing listened for a while, but no one paid attention to him in the whole lounge, as if no one could see him. Cui Zuojing kept talking to the radio all the time. He stood in front of the indescribable man, reached out and took the radio away.

The man followed the radio with his eyes, and finally saw the young man who picked it up. He said "oh", his voice paused, and he said to Cui Zuojing, "You know that the sun will explode at noon in three months' time. ?"

"..." After confirming that he was not a ghost that others could not see, Cui Zuojing put the radio back in place and said, "I have nothing to do with the rain."

Cui Zuojing turned and left the lounge. The conversation between the man and the woman was still going on. I don't know what conclusion they will reach in the end.

After walking along the corridor for a while, a blond-haired and blue-eyed nurse came towards her. When she saw Cui Zuojing, she stopped and said, "Dinner is about to be served, hurry to the restaurant."

Before Cui Zuojing had time to ask her where the restaurant was, the nurse left. She turned into the lounge and called other patients by visual inspection.

Soon, the boy who painted the picture came out first. He was still autistic and passed by Cui Zuojing. This time, Cui Zuojing saw his face clearly. A flat stitched scar, as if cut straight out by a knife.

Cui Zuojing followed behind him, turned left and right, and arrived at the restaurant smoothly.

There were already quite a few people in the restaurant, a group of men and women in hospital gowns sitting at the long table in various postures, reaching for the food with little water in the soup.

Everyone's spoons are made of wood, apparently in order to prevent a patient from suddenly falling ill and use the spoon as a murder weapon. Judging from the walls and the decoration of each room, this is a madhouse in the late [-]th or early [-]th century.

According to Cui Zuojing’s understanding, insane asylums in Europe were originally used to detain the poor, homeless and mentally ill. The harsh living environment and unlimited claustrophobia have turned many normal people into lunatics in endless despair. , and with the development of the times and the gradual deepening of human understanding of mental illness, the madhouse has gradually become a hospital.

Of course, coming from such a deformed system, before the corresponding regulations were actually promulgated, the madhouse was still very scary.

Cui Zuojing pretended to be one of the patients, and sat down at a random place. He took a sip of the rice porridge with green leaves floating in it, which was bland and tasteless.

He took a bite and didn't want to eat anymore. A nurse noticed him and seemed to find something. She frowned and stared at Cui Zuojing's face for a while, then turned and left the kitchen.

Cui Zuojing didn't pay attention, the various noises and situations created by patients in a room attracted his attention. The person next to him was holding a spoon and trying to pour soup into the nostrils of the patient opposite him. The bread was torn into the shape of a man's genitalia, and he slapped the face of the woman next to him with it. The woman screamed and threw her down, and the two wrestled into a ball.

Cui Zuojing watched with great interest as the two women pulled each other's clothes and hair, three or two nurses rushed over to fight, and one of them poked their arms with a needle, and soon they both fell silent.

Tranquilizer.

At this time, Cui Zuojing felt someone pat on the shoulder.

He turned around, and behind him was a man in a white coat. The man was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. "I am the doctor here" was written in every pore on his body.

Cui Zuojing: "?"

The boy asked politely with his eyes.

Doctor: "Mr. Lane, please come with me, I need to do a test for you."

"Okay." It happened that Cui Zuojing didn't want to stay in the restaurant anymore, it was too noisy here, so he hid the small wooden spoon in his cuff, got up and followed the doctor.

They left the restaurant, followed by the nurse who had called the doctor and another male nurse. The male nurse was a full 1.9 meters tall and very strong. Cui Zuojing didn't doubt that he was handling things, and he could directly punch the patients here. fly.

The two seemed to be watching over Cui Zuojing, the young man didn't mind, the little spoon in his sleeve gave him confidence, as long as there was no sudden magical development, the three of them would definitely be unable to do anything to him.

The hospital is quite big. Outside the dining room are activity rooms and lounges. Within the time allowed by regulations, the performance is stable and there is no threat to others. Patients can move around freely under the care of nurses. In addition, there are bathhouses for men and women. All closed at this point for cleaning.

Although I have only seen this doctor from the beginning to the end, judging from the number of nurses and patients, this should be a well-known madhouse, otherwise the scale would not be so impressive.

He was taken to the second floor. Cui Zuojing thought that the doctor would come into the office to examine him, but unexpectedly the doctor passed by the door of the office and continued to walk forward.

Cui Zuojing didn't say a word, he wanted to know what tricks these people were up to.

He was brought to a closed door, the doctor stopped, took out the key, but did not open the lock immediately, he turned around, his eyes behind the lens were extremely calm, and asked Cui Zuojing: "How many days have you been?" How are you feeling?"

"It's okay." Cui Zuojing replied, although he woke up from the confinement room and was tied up with a restraint belt, probably because of his violent tendencies, but as a mental patient, even if he said something wrong It doesn't matter.

The doctor nodded, he smiled at Cui Zuojing, moved his gaze upwards and made brief contact with the male nurse behind the boy, and continued, "Do you remember Miral?"

"Who?" Of course Cui Zuojing couldn't remember.

"She was severely injured by you, and died of infection after the operation." The doctor did not let go of the momentary stunned expression on Cui Zuojing's face, "Joshua, Emory, Ada, do you remember these people?" ?”

Cui Zuojing shook his head, the doctor turned his face away, he inserted the key into the lock, and with a soft click, the door was pushed open by the doctor.

This is an operating room.

At the moment when Cui Zuojing's retina reflected the furnishings in the room, the male nurse suddenly hugged him from behind, and his strong arms strangled Cui Zuojing, Cui Zuojing could almost hear the sound of his ribs being squeezed, The terrifying strength made him unable to even do the simplest movement of breathing at that moment.

An ordinary person would have already lost the ability to resist this blow, but this is Cui Zuojing. He had noticed his intentions before the male nurse attacked him, but he didn't hide, so he was firmly imprisoned by him.

He wanted to see what these people were going to do.

Cui Zuojing's figure is not intuitively strong, he struggled twice pretendingly, was dragged into the operating room by the male nurse, followed by the female nurse, and quickly closed the door.

"You gouged out Joshua's eye with a spoon, Emery was tricked by you into jumping off the third floor and broke a leg, and Ada committed suicide."

The doctor picked up the needle tube that had been prepared long ago on the table, which was filled with transparent medicine. Cui Zuojing had visited the operating room of Lin Hangzhi and Victor, and when he saw all kinds of equipment, he knew that they were going to operate on him immediately. That needle is the anesthetic.

What surgery will be performed?The answer is simple.

The whole of modern medicine can be said to have developed in just 200 years. For a long time in the past, doctors were at a loss for many diseases, such as syphilis, tuberculosis, the Black Death, and mental disorders.

At this time, some scientists discovered a surgical method to treat mental illness through experiments——

Frontal lobotomy surgery.

The frontal lobe is in charge of complex cognitive behaviors, personality expression and decision-making of human beings. When it is removed, people will lose their own personality and part of their body functions, and almost become a walking dead. Of course, doctors are willing to see such well-behaved mental patients So in their hands, the originally crazy patient was perfectly treated like this.

Even Rosemary Kennedy, the sister of US President Kennedy who suffers from epilepsy and emotional disorders, was once sent to the operating table by her father to undergo a frontal lobotomy.

Then she spent the rest of her life as a mentally retarded and aphasic fool.

And Cui Zuojing, as an extremely dangerous person with serious violent tendencies, who had indirectly or directly injured four people, the doctor naturally wanted him to be honest.

But is this possible?

The strength of the male nurse is indeed very strong. If it is necessary to rely on brute force, it will be difficult for Cui Zuojing who has increased his strength to break free directly, but who stipulates that it must be head-to-head?

When the doctor came over and the needle was aimed at Cui Zuojing's arm and was about to stab it, the spoon hidden in his sleeve slipped into his hand. Cui Zuojing just moved his fingers lightly. The spoon pierced the male nurse's waist, opening an opening in an instant.

"Ah!" The male nurse yelled, subconsciously wanting to lower his head to look at the wound, and naturally lost some strength in his hand. Cui Zuojing stomped on his shoe, and with a clever trick, he slipped from his arms like a loach. Li broke free.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, the doctor's hand was still in mid-air, and the female nurse opened her mouth wide and screamed before she could utter a scream, Cui Zuojing grabbed the doctor's wrist, and the needle pierced the man's arm in the next second. Nurse's arm.

Everyone was caught off guard. Cui Zuojing kicked over the doctor with a force value of only five, pushed her away amidst the screams of the nurse, blocked the male nurse who was about to pounce, and pulled her violently. Opening the door of the operating room, he rushed out ten meters away in the blink of an eye.

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