Neverland

Four 10 minutes ago, Nursing Home Block A, guarding area.

Xu Muzhou covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and walked in vigilantly against the wall.This place is not like a nursing home, but more like a lifeless and cold prison.This tense atmosphere affected him, Xu Muzhou felt his heart beating very fast, as if he would be caught by some strange man in a white coat at any moment.

Ten minutes ago, he received a call from Yan Cen, who had just finished his psychiatric treatment for Ji Yun.It was probably not too detailed on the phone, so Yan Cen only briefly mentioned Ti Jiyun's hypnosis results and his judgment.

"These two are definitely not a person's spiritual world." Yan Cen's voice on the other end of the phone was a little distorted: "Although the environment of the playground is empty and open, even if there is no one person, it will make people feel safe."

"Safe?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"Yes, safe." Yan Cen repeated: "You can also feel that in that environment, there is no threat around you, even if you walk in the dark, you don't have to worry about any sudden appearance Something comes out and taps you on the shoulder from behind."

Xu Muzhou's back was numb from Yan Cen's few words, and he quickly interrupted his immoral behavior of telling ghost stories in the daytime: "I, I, I know, you continue to talk."

Yan Cen on the other end of the phone changed the phone from his left hand to his right, and suddenly remembered that Xu Muzhou still has a problem of "fear of ghosts", so he changed the subject and asked: "And it's a playground, Xu Muzhou, where are you?" What is the first feeling when you enter the playground?"

"Relax, or be happy." Xu Muzhou said: "When I woke up this morning, I thought about this question - if the playground is a world generated entirely based on subjective cognition, then the word 'playground' The location might mean something in itself...especially with all the devices inside still on."

Yan Cen walked to the elevator with his mobile phone in his hand, raised his hand and pressed the up button, only to realize that there was no signal in the elevator, so he canceled the elevator call, turned his head and walked to the next stairwell.

"Just like my 'interview', the high-speed train was generated based on my subjective cognition, so there will be bugs with incorrect seat arrangement. This is the impact of subjective wishes on the generated world." Xu Muzhou said: "So if the owner of the 'playground' just wants this scene, the equipment inside should not be turned on without exception. Music, colored lights, everything is missing, as if they can be activated at any time... To be honest, Excluding my vigilance itself, the playground gave me the feeling of a very simple and tacky 'joy'."

"But Ji Yun's spiritual world is not like this." Yan Cen continued: "All the factors in her spiritual world are very unstable. Large tombstones represent death and ending, and there are blood-stained tombstones. White Rose, this irreversible change also shows that she has had an absolutely irreversible experience."

"Very dangerous." Xu Muzhou commented: "It doesn't sound like a good environment."

"You are right." Yan Cen affirmed: "In her illusion, there is also a church imprisoned by thorns, a crow, a self in a black dress and her own empty tomb. Ji Yun once faced the gods in the illusion Confession—saying she's guilty."

"Tsk." Xu Muzhou was caught by Yan Cen's words, and said casually: "You still say she's not sick, doesn't that sound like a sick person?"

"Here's the thing - her logic is clear, and in her subconscious everything is logical. Like the moon hanging in the sky at night, the thorns of roses scratching fingers, the godfather chanting during confession The Gospel of John washes away her sins... There are many details that you can't imagine." Yan Cen's voice is very calm: "That world is complete, from the perspective of 'creation', her world is flawless .”

If Xu Muzhou still thought Ji Yun was a bit strange just now, then he doesn't think so now.

——What kind of person is flawless, Xu Muzhou thought.

"Other than that, I didn't find any signs of a second personality in the hypnosis, but if there was no second personality, her subconscious would not have such a big contrast with the playground." Yan Cen paused, and said in a deep voice: "...there are two extremes."

"No wonder you are so sure that the playground is not her subjective world." Xu Muzhou grabbed his collar and shivered in the cold wind. He stomped his feet, trying not to drown out his voice: "So you want to say, let's find Wrong mission object?"

"No, I don't have a hunch." Yan Cen denied: "And there is a very secret commonality between these two spiritual worlds."

Xu Muzhou asked, "What?"

"There is light." Yan Cen said.

After Yan Cen finished speaking, the call was cut off without warning. Xu Muzhou tried to call again, only to find that there was a notification to shut down the phone.

Probably out of power.

After all, this is a normal reality, Xu Muzhou didn't think much about it, he made phone calls for several minutes in the cold wind, his fingers were numb from the cold.Xu Muzhou looked at the building door not far away, and decided to continue with his plan first.

He sent Yan Cen a text message and asked him to meet him in the cafeteria at twelve o'clock.Then, tremblingly, he opened his collar like an old machine whose bearings were short of oil, and put the mobile phone back into the inner pocket of the hospital gown.

Xu Muzhou rubbed his hands in embarrassment, then wrapped his clothes tightly, and walked towards the building door.

He was already prepared for guerrilla warfare, but he didn't expect that there was not a single surveillance camera in the so-called "guardian area".

The first floor was empty, Xu Muzhou went straight to the stairwell.An empty elevator is silently staying on the first floor, the elevator door is wide open.Xu Muzhou stood outside and looked around, making sure that the monitoring equipment in the elevator was operating normally, then walked in and pressed the door close button.

The three buildings in the nursing home all have the same number of floors, Xu Muzhou looked at the numbers from one to twelve on the elevator control panel, and chose the safest number.

The button for the seventh floor on the control panel lights up, and the elevator shakes slightly and begins to ascend.From the moment he entered Block A, Xu Muzhou felt uncomfortable everywhere. The elevators in this elevator are made of mirror material, even if Xu Muzhou is already standing close to the corner of the car, he will still feel the pervasive feeling of being spied on.

Xu Muzhou even felt that not to mention critically ill patients who needed to be monitored, ordinary people staying in this environment for a long time might also damage their mental state.

Fortunately, the height of the seventh floor was fleeting, and the elevator stopped steadily on the seventh floor with a ding sound.

Xu Muzhou tugged at his clothes, and moved his steps unobtrusively, so that the surveillance camera in the upper right corner could capture his expression.

The moment the elevator door slowly opened, Xu Muzhou stepped forward - but he didn't go out immediately, he stood at the junction of the elevator door and the corridor, with a moment of bewilderment appearing on his face.

He hesitated back and forth for four or five seconds before hesitantly took a few steps forward and walked out of the monitoring range of the elevator.

The lack of monitoring in the corridor of Building A helped Xu Muzhou a lot. He wanted to understand the environment, but he needed a time lag for the medical staff in Building A to find him.

When getting out of the elevator, Xu Muzhou glanced back at the floor guidance posted next to the elevator door. Except for the lobby on the first floor and the treatment room and equipment room on the third floor, the rest of the floors are the inpatient department.

In addition to the floor guide, there is a one-meter-high transparent plastic board between the doors of the two elevators. On it is the floor plan of the floor, which is mainly used to mark the safety exits and emergency passages.

When Xu Muzhou was in school, the floor plan of the building was eight hundred if not one thousand. He only took a quick look at the two places of the emergency exit and the emergency passage, and compared the overall layout with the floor plan of the first floor. The room setup is the same on each floor.

Xu Muzhou's shorthand ability is very impressive. In the eyes of others, he seems to have just glanced at the surrounding environment casually, but in Xu Muzhou's heart, those two pictures have already been printed in his mind.

He retracted his gaze, lifted his foot and walked into the corridor.

Contrary to the open area, not only does Block A have no medical staff with a good attitude, but even the interior decoration is different from Block C. The cold steel railings are locked in front of the windows and the doors of each ward, and the walls are painted an ominous pale. color.

There was an indescribable smell in the air, like a rancid smell mixed with high-concentration disinfectant, which was a very pungent pungent feeling.

Contrary to "respect for privacy", all the doors of the wards in the monitoring area are wide open. Only a very dense iron fence outside separates the wards and corridors. There are big locks on the iron doors without exception. A small gap in the top of the door made a trap door that could be pulled out.

Behind the small trap door is a steel platform, probably used to put lunch boxes and medicines.

Xu Muzhou could clearly see the situation in each room from the corridor. Most of the patients were tied to the bed by restraint belts, some of them were asleep, their chests hardly heaved, and some of them were writhing in vain. Struggling, the meaningless roar was blocked in the throat by the tongue depressor, and he could only make a heavy gasp.

——The monitoring area and the open area are like two worlds. The open area is full of vitality, and everyone has a friendly and gentle smile on their faces.But in another building just a few tens of meters away, everyone here was treated like livestock, tied up on a cold bed, struggling like meat worms without dignity.

There are a few bulletin boards hanging on the wall of the corridor on the other side of the room. In addition to the popular science bulletins of medical diseases, they are the list of all medical personnel in the monitoring area. Xu Muzhou paid more attention and found that there is not a nurse on them.

He was engrossed in looking at the different bulletin boards hanging on the wall, and before he knew it he was almost at the end of the corridor.

Suddenly, there was an unexpected scream behind Xu Muzhou. He was terrified by this sudden incident, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated. He turned his head in horror, only to find that the man in the ward behind him was holding the steel door. The railing shook violently.

He was so strong that the steel pipe creaked when he pinched it.Xu Muzhou took two steps back subconsciously, and broke out in a cold sweat instantly.

The man in the ward didn't know what was wrong, he was staring at him paranoidly, his mouth seemed to have a very stiff arc split on both sides, as if he saw some interesting prey.

After coming out of the internship mission, Xu Muzhou was no longer frightened by such a small scene. He looked at the man impartially, and took a deep breath to calm his heartbeat.

However, before he could return the same way against the wall, there was a shout from across the corridor.

"—someone over there!"