Ruyizhai

Wu Xingchen woke up.At first he vaguely saw a patch of blue inlaid in a piece of gray. After a while, he saw clearly that in front of him was a ceiling with a hole in it.A cloud drifted over and covered some of the blue sky, making the sky a bit overcast.Wu Xingchen got up, his throat itched, and he coughed dryly.

"Would you like something to drink?" someone asked.

Wu Xingchen looked at himself, he was sitting on a broken mattress, his hands were handcuffed by a pair of handcuffs, and a bandage was wrapped around his left shoulder, even if he moved a little, it still hurt a little.He raised his eyes and looked around. He was in a brick-walled room. Except for a hole in the roof, the room was spacious, with windows, ventilation, and light transmission. There were chairs and tables. A young man, An officer in a white military uniform is standing on a wooden table, holding a coffee cup in his hand, and on the wooden table is an alcohol lamp with a strong flame, and a tin kettle is placed on the lamp, the water is gurgling and boiling, There was also some bread, some bottled water, and a can of coffee grounds scattered on the table.A mouse crawled onto the table. The officer glanced at the mouse, picked it up, and threw it into the tin kettle.The officer said, "You are the only survivor of Battalion 23, do you know that?"

There was a squeal and the sound of claws scratching metal from the kettle.

Wu Xingchen frowned, and asked, "Where is this place?"

"Battalion No. 14, Baifang." The officer raised his coffee cup to him, "Would you like some drink?"

Wu Xingchen looked at the kettle and shook his head.The officer still held up the cup in his hand: "You can drink this cup."

Wu Xingchen still shook his head, the officer smiled, put down the coffee cup, and grabbed the mouse out of the kettle. The mouse opened its mouth, opened its eyes, steamed all over its body, its four paws were stiff, and it did not move.The officer pulled out a dagger from his waist, cut off the mouse's tail on the table, cut off the mouse's head, and carefully peeled the mouse's skin while talking to Wu Xingchen: "Don't worry, that cup of coffee is brewed with distilled water. Yes, and even the water that boiled rats is better than the drugged water from the 23rd Battalion."

"Prescribe medicine?" Wu Xingchen said, and asked the officer, "You found me in the No. 23 Battalion? There should be another person with me. Where is he?"

Wu Xingchen tried to figure out Ruyizhai's height and figure. The handcuffs slipped away from his wrist. He saw the bracelet on his right hand. He was taken aback and touched the bracelet. There was a line of red letters on the bracelet: malfunction. , please send it for repair immediately.

The officer cut off a whole piece of mouse skin, spread it on the table, and squinted at Wu Xingchen: "I picked it up in the camp, is it yours?"

Wu Xingchen said, "It's mine, but it seems broken." He asked, "Did you find it in that pit?"

The officer cut the mouse into six pieces, threw it back into the kettle, groped in his trouser pocket, found a salt can, sprinkled some salt into the kettle, and asked strangely, "What pit?"

Wu Xingchen was also surprised: "The pit in the No. 23 camp is right next to the portable prison, a very large and deep pit. If someone died in the camp before, the body would be buried there, and then the next day..."

"The body will reappear in the camp tent the next day, with no eyes, and a..." The officer wiped his hands on his pants, poked his forehead, and asked with a smile, "What pattern is it? The sun or the devil's eye?"

"You know about this..."

The officer said, "Are you a recruit?" He folded his arms, leaning against the wooden table, "How is your mission going?"

Wu Xingchen didn't speak, and the officer said again: "The task of assassinating Commander-in-Chief Bai Fang."

"This is not my task!" Wu Xingchen immediately denied it with a high voice.

The officer looked at him and laughed straight: "Don't be nervous, black recruits, all recruits have this task, to assassinate the enemy's commander-in-chief, the result of the task is not important, what matters is how you plan to complete this task, you are When did you enlist in the army?"

"Recently." Wu Xingchen said.

The officer pulled up a chair, sat in front of Wu Xingchen, and said, "It is now 3060:11 on November 03, 07, the standard time of the war camp." The officer looked at the wristband, "56 minutes and 06 seconds."

He asked Wu Xingchen, "Do you know how long you have been in Camp 23?"

Wu Xingchen pursed his lips. If he remembered correctly, he stayed in Camp No. 23 for a full month.The officer continued: "Two snipers from the No. 23 Battalion died suddenly while fighting on the front line, and a high concentration of ancholine was detected in their blood. Toxic substances, excessive intake of ancholine by the human body will cause serious damage to the brain center."

Wu Xingchen covered his mouth and said, "You mean it will cause people to have hallucinations?"

The officer nodded: "A scout from the 14th Battalion found you on the 23rd during a routine inspection of the camps and brought you back. Ancholine was detected in your body. After that, on the 23rd Anchovy was detected in the remains of bottled water in the camp and in six other corpses."

"Six?"

The officer said: "The two black prisoners of war should have died in the prison. One body was dragged out, and the other was left in the prison."

Wu Xingchen followed the calculation in his mind, this should be the two prisoners of war who were killed by the investigator in the prison.

"A white artilleryman. According to the soldiers who have been with him for a while, this person has shown signs of absconding a long time ago."

black eyes?

"A senior black recorder."

677.

"An investigator for White Fang."

Inquisitor.

"A Second Lieutenant Bai Fang."

second lieutenant.

Wait, is there a missing body?Wu Xingchen rubbed the back of his head. He and 677 should have died on the first night of their rest in Camp No. 23. He still clearly remembered that when he woke up in the tent the next day, the body was lying on the next bed. 677 pulled him to that corpse many times, three times... He saw that corpse three times!Then this corpse was taken by Ruyizhai for an experiment to test the blood splatter trajectory, and he should be with the second lieutenant's corpse.

"What's the matter? Is there a problem?" asked the officer.

Wu Xingchen said: "It seems that there is one person missing."

The officer smiled: "Maybe that's your hallucination." He asked him, "Do you remember when you first drank the bottled water from Camp 23? Everything that happened after that was probably hallucination. "

The officer added: "The command reasonably suspects that this is a black poison campaign against the No. 23 Battalion."

Wu Xingchen looked at the scabs in his palm, it was incredible: "I remember I dug a very deep pit, very deep, for many days, I have been digging a pit, that feeling, could it be..." His palm Itchy and painful, "Is it also a hallucination?"

The officer stood up, turned off the alcohol lamp, stabbed the kettle with a dagger, tied a piece of rat meat, stuffed it into his mouth, spat out two bones, and said, "The transport team will pass by the No. 23 Battalion later, you can pay attention."

As he said that, he turned around and shouted out the window. After a while, two soldiers came in, picked up Wu Xingchen, and dragged him out of the brick house.Outside, the rainforest wraps the building, the building surrounds the rainforest, the ground is covered with mud, and the air smells of moss.

A banyan tree fell on the road, and a dozen soldiers were trying to cut it open with a saw.

Two soldiers dragged Wu Xingchen to a truck parked under the shade of a banana tree. The back of the truck was loaded with more than 20 people. With a rope tied to his body, Wu Xingchen was stuffed into a truck, and tied with this group of people to become a grasshopper on a rope.A man whose waist always seemed to be straight came up to talk to him, and the man asked him, "Which camp are you from? How did you get arrested?"

Wu Xingchen said, "Everyone is a prisoner of war?"

Someone blew the whistle: "He is the one from the 23rd Battalion!"

The crowd was in an uproar, surrounding Wu Xingchen, chattering: "Did you see the white ghost?"

"I heard it was poisoning!"

"Why didn't you die?"

"He is the murderer! Hahahaha!"

Wu Xingchen asked softly, "What the hell is White Ghost?"

The hunchbacked man said: "When you see the white ghost, it means that you are about to die!"

The hunchbacked man also said: "White Ghost can be a woman, a man, a child, or a dog!"

Wu Xingchen guessed: "Is it the person you miss the most?"

"Almost!" The hunchbacked man raised his eyebrows: "You did it, right?"

"what?"

"Poison!" The man pulled Wu Xingchen, and whispered to him, "Honestly, is this your secret mission? You are so cruel, Bai Fang's people didn't poison a few people to death. Black has been tossing enough!"

Wu Xingchen pushed the man away: "Of course not, I almost died too!"

He spoke very loudly, everyone laughed and looked at each other. Wu Xingchen wanted to explain a few words. At this time, the officer who ate rat meat came over with a toothpick. He confessed to a soldier and got out of the car. The soldiers began to distribute bottled water to the people in the car. Everyone got a bottle. Everyone took a look at Wu Xingchen and looked at each other. Yes, Wu Xingchen looked at the water in his hand and didn't move.The hunchbacked man arched him: "Boy, be careful with the water others give you."

Wu Xingchen looked at him, the man finished drinking the water in his hand, grabbed the bottle from him, unscrewed the cap and poured it down his throat.Wu Xingchen stood in the crowd without making a sound.

After distributing the water, the officer nodded in satisfaction and sat in the passenger seat of the truck.A soldier sat in the driver's seat and started the car. Someone cheered, someone applauded, someone played a tune, and everyone pushed and sang along to the tune.

"Victory is just around the corner! Lucia! Lucia! Waiting for the good news of coming home! Wash your ass, wipe your face, and put pumpkin cream on your tits!"

Wu Xingchen asked, "Where are you going now?"

The banyan tree was cut into ten pieces and removed from the road by the soldiers. The officer waved his thanks to the soldiers and the car started.

No one answered Wu Xingchen, the cheerful singing became louder, and the handcuffs and bracelets collided with each other to make a crisp sound, accompanying the good news of returning home.

The car drove out of the rainforest city and entered the plain.The singing weakened a little, and several prisoners who had been clasping their shoulders and singing triumphantly began to argue, one spit on the other's face, and one immediately rushed to beat the other.A group of people were all tied by a rope, and if one person made a slight movement, the big guys had to sway left and right, and they would inevitably step on someone's foot, bump someone's eye socket, and someone's elbow, and the prisoners of war would not obey. Unrelentingly irritable, he stopped singing and started fighting.

The officer turned his head and looked at them through a glass window, smiling. He had an extra camera in his hand, and he took pictures of the prisoners.

Wu Xingchen huddled in the corner, trying his best to protect his head. Amidst the sound of cursing and fighting, he heard the officer shout: "Hey, kid! The 23rd Battalion is here."

Wu Xingchen hurriedly squeezed to the side of the car and looked out.The truck was driving in Camp No. 23, and the entire camp could be seen at a glance. The three white tents were still there, the prison was gone, and the pit was gone.A white flagpole stands on a burnt field.

"Pooh."

Wu Xingchen felt someone spit on his back, but he didn't look back, he was still looking at Camp 23.He tried to find some traces of earth filling on this plain.He couldn't find it.

The black hole-like pit, the corpse suspended in the darkness, Ruyizhai, may really be his hallucinations.There is no authenticity at all, no mysterious underground golden kingdom, no Ruyizhai.Only death haunted him.He doesn't know how he survived, maybe he didn't drink a lot of drugged water, maybe his willpower is strong enough, but it doesn't make any sense to think about it, he thought, they were transported to the execution ground Otherwise, where else would a carload of prisoners of war be sent?

The truck passed by the Sanatorium in Paris, Texas, and the fighting on the truck subsided a lot, only a few prisoners of war were still spitting at each other, cursing words like orangutan, white-skinned pig, and chimpanzee.

"Boy, is it possible that you want to go back to the nursing home?" The hunchbacked man squeezed back to Wu Xingchen and asked him, "You can't go back to that place once you get out!"

Wu Xingchen didn't answer, the man smacked his lips, and said again: "Furthermore, why go back? You can do whatever you want here, how free you are!"

Wu Xingchen asked: "Do prisoners of war have freedom?" He looked at the man, and said, "Prisoners of war will be executed. If there is no life, what freedom is there?" The man giggled, his laughter, His appearance disgusted Wu Xingchen, he turned his head away from looking at the man.

The truck stopped when it came to the black side's territory, and the soldier who was driving got out of the car, opened the tailgate of the rear car, and the prisoners of war got out of the car one by one.Then the soldier re-hung the fender and drove away.

The officer stretched out his hand from the passenger seat and grabbed something in his hand. After the truck drove for a certain distance, the officer waved his hand, and all the handcuffs on the prisoners of war suddenly loosened and fell to the ground.The prisoners of war began to untie the ropes on their bodies, Wu Xingchen was puzzled and said, "He released all the prisoners of war? He...is he really an officer of Bai Fang??"

One said: "Idiot, so the war can go on forever!"

The ropes were also untied, and the prisoners of war went their separate ways and scattered in all directions.Wu Xingchen hadn't recovered yet, he stood where he was, still staring at the direction the truck was going away.Prisoners of war can turn against each other at any time, and prisoners of war can be sent back to their own camp at any time. All this is just to keep the war going, to keep this camp alive, to continue to accommodate those dangerous elements in society, those hopeless patient.

The hunchbacked man patted Wu Xingchen and said, "Hey! Are you addicted to being a prisoner of war?"

Wu Xingchen shook his head, his eyes fell on the signboard of the nursing home.He asked, "Is it impossible to go back, or does none of you want to go back?"

The hunchbacked man frowned, Wu Xingchen ran away from him, and he ran to the nursing home.

Someone shouted behind him: "What is he doing?"

Someone replied: "He's crazy!"

Wu Xingchen knew that according to the standards of new humans, he was indeed "crazy", he belonged to a war camp, he should accept the diagnosis and treatment recommendations of the sanatorium, and stay here until he died, but he didn't want to stay here any longer, not even for a moment.

Anthony, the sea is approaching, run!

Behind him, there seemed to be someone shouting.

Wu Xingchen knocked open the door of the nursing home.

The white corridor was quiet, no one was there, Wu Xingchen panted heavily, he really returned to the nursing home, he came in, he came back!But what to do next, he doesn't know, he hasn't figured it out yet.Inquiring about new treatment options?Apply for home treatment?Or move to a nursing home closer to home?

Soothing, soft music blared from the promenade.

Debussy's "Moonlight".

Wu Xingchen heaved a sigh of relief, he still retains the memory of music, he still remembers the name of this gentle piece of music, he thinks he is not that crazy yet.He is still saved.

A female doctor came out of a room, smiled and bowed to Wu Xingchen: "Mr. Wu is you, this way please."

He has seen this female doctor.Wu Xingchen hurriedly walked up to the female doctor, who held out her hand, and he extended his hand too, and they shook hands.Wu Xingchen smiled and said, "Doctor, you see, I'm not hopelessly crazy. I know this piece of music, it's from Debussy. I feel good, really good."

The female doctor smiled: "Please come in, please come in and talk."

Wu Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief, went into the treatment room, and said, "I thought that once I went out, I couldn't come in again, but that's not the case, those lunatics didn't want to come in again, you see, I came in again, which means I'm not crazy. "

"The nursing home is always here if you need it," said the woman doctor.

So, it's time to play the tune "In a Sentimental Mood."

The female doctor asked Wu Xingchen to sit down, and said to him: "Your terminal seems to be damaged, and the nursing home cannot track your health status in time. Do you agree to have your blood sampled now?"

Wu Xingchen nodded furiously: "Agreed, agreed, you take a sample, you will know, I am better, really, I have seen all the ugly illusions, I was not defeated by them, I came back to life."

The female doctor listened quietly, and after listening, said: "Wait a moment." and walked out.

After a while, she came back, poured a glass of water for Wu Xingchen, took a 50ml blood sample, put it in her pocket, and looked at Wu Xingchen with a smile: "So, what worries you recently?"

The consultation room was filled with green grass and soft music. Wu Xingchen sat relaxed on the sofa and asked, "I think the only problem I have now is how to distinguish reality from illusion."

The female doctor said: "The reality is beyond doubt, and the illusion is fleeting."

Wu Xingchen said: "I saw Ruyizhai in the camp. For a long time, he didn't disappear for a while, but he should be my hallucination."

"Are you referring to Mr. Ruyizhai who you claim fell into a coma with you in your apartment?"

"Yes, he is not in the war camp, is he?"

"There is no record of such a gentleman in the war camp," said the woman doctor.

"War camps can't be entered casually, can they?"

"Strict security measures have been implemented at the entrances and exits of the war camp, and no one else can enter."

Wu Xingchen said: "In other words, he didn't see my despicable and ugly side."

"Please define mean and ugly."

"I don't want Ruyi Zhai to see the side."

"Please describe Ruyi Zhai."

"He was always dressed in white, and he was beautiful."

"You think he symbolizes beauty, purity, don't you?"

"Yes."

"Understood, then, would you like to go back to the war camp?"

"Do I have any other options?"

"Have you considered going to a war camp base on the moon?

"What's the difference between there and here?"

"90.00% of the patients transferred to the moon base reported that they were more relaxed in the moon base. Studies have shown that living in space can effectively improve the symptoms of atavism and help rebuild personality. If you agree, the nursing home will notify you immediately mother, sign the consent form to send you to the moon."

Wu Xingchen said, "I want to go home."

"Does home mean your apartment in Jerusalem?"

"Yes."

"What do you plan to do when you get home?"

"I don't know, I didn't expect this step..." Wu Xingchen looked at the female doctor, "It's not that I lack planning, it's just that I have a lot of ideas."

"Don't you want to go back to work?" asked the female doctor.

"Work? Yes... yes, if possible." Wu Xingchen said, "I don't want to stay here."

"Understood." The female doctor said, "Don't you want to drink some water?"

Wu Xingchen's mouth was really dry. He picked up the water glass and was about to drink, but stopped. In the water glass, the smiling face of the female doctor was distorted into several curves.Wu Xingchen's heart tightened for no reason, he put down his cup, and asked, "According to your judgment, what state am I in now?"

The female doctor said: "Don't worry, Mr. Wu, the nursing home will continue to provide you with the most effective treatment plan."

Wu Xingchen said again: "You plan to send me to the moon, don't you?"

"This requires your mother's consent."

Wu Xingchen clasped his hands: "If you go to the moon, you can't come back, right?"

"If your treatment goes well, you can resume your normal life and return to society," said the female doctor.

"How sure are you?"

The female doctor patted Wu Xingchen's hand and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Wu, the nursing home will continue to provide you with the most effective treatment plan."

Wu Xingchen felt lost for a while, and withdrew his hand, and the investigator's corpse floating in the darkness flashed before his eyes.He's crazy, he has no plans for the future, he's completely left his professional responsibilities behind him, he's disappointed in the nursing home, he wonders if he's ever really saved, yeah, he's so ugly, so evil, so Insidious, deliberately satirized 677 in front of the investigator, he even killed people, his hands were covered with blood, but this does not mean that he needs to use ugliness to cover up ugliness, use blood to cover up blood, mix among a group of vicious people, and This consolation did not sink hopelessly.He is indeed hopeless, the war camp can't save him, and the nursing home can't save him, maybe he should go to the relatives of 677 to apologize, and he will give them his life, but before that, he wants to say goodbye to Ruyizhai .He wanted to tell him that he saw him when he was dying, that he was his white ghost.

Wu Xingchen asked: "How are you going to take me to the moon base, take a shuttle?"

"Yes, there will be someone to escort you."

"Several people?"

"Two nursing home escorts."

"From which shuttle station?"

"From the nearest New York shuttle station."

"Can we leave from the Paris shuttle station?" Wu Xingchen looked at the female doctor, "If I really want to leave the earth, I want to take a last look at Paris."

The female doctor said: "Understood, you and Ruyizhai spent some time in Paris."

"Yes, we have also traveled together from Gare de Paris."

"Understood." The female doctor looked down at the terminal and said, "Your transfer notice has been approved by your mother. Then, please follow the escort to take the aircraft to the Paris station."

The door opened, and two tall escorts stood at the door. Wu Xingchen got up, walked between them, and followed them.

They walked through the hallway and took the elevator to the roof of the nursing home.The escorts were not equipped with pistols or electronic guns. Their arms were strong and they were half a head taller than Wu Xingchen.

A manned aircraft was already waiting on the roof. The escort and Wu Xingchen went up. They smiled at him and sat on either side of him.The door of the aircraft was closed, and a white pigeon flew out from the dashboard, surrounded by a line of words: enter the autopilot mode, please fasten your seat belt.

The three strapped on their seatbelts as the aircraft's windows darkened and its engines rumbled.

The white dove glides in the cabin holding a line of text:

Destination: Paris shuttle station.Flight time: 15 minutes.The aircraft has taken off.

The feeling of weightlessness hit, and after a while, Wu Xingchen asked, "How long have you been flying?"

"One minute and three seconds," said an escort.

Wu Xingchen smiled and said, "I'm sorry, one of the symptoms of returning home syndrome, I can't record the time accurately."

Another escort comforted him: "The Department of Social Services and the nursing home have formulated the most complete recovery plan for you, and you will recover."

Wu Xingchen asked, "Where are you now?"

"Going through New York."

"When can I see Paris? Can I see it from the sky?"

Both escorts agreed.After sitting for a while, Wu Xingchen spoke again: "Have we reached Europe yet?"

The escort on his left released the window's meditation mode, and looked down together with Wu Xingchen.Wu Xingchen pointed to a piece of black land and said, "Is that Paris?"

The escort pressed against the window glass, not very sure: "It should be, sorry, geography is not..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wu Xingchen grabbed his hair and slammed his head hard against the glass, bleeding from his head. Seeing this, another escort exclaimed: "Mr. Wu, calm down! We are at high altitude now Fly, please don't do anything that will harm your personal safety!"

Wu Xingchen punched him in the face, his face hit the white dove, the dove rolled its eyes, Wu Xingchen took a look at the dove, unbuckled his seat belt, grabbed the body of the bloody escort and slammed into him. dash board.Once, twice.The white dove landed on Wu Xingchen's hand, pecking at him to remind him: Do not destroy the flying equipment! !

The third time.

The white dove flapped its wings and made a serious female voice: "Forcibly enter the voice mode, the flying altitude is too low, the flying altitude is too low, and an emergency landing is about to take place! The visualization mode is turned off!"

"Please fasten your seat belt and wear protective equipment!"

Wu Xingchen sat back, fastened his seat belt, and a layer of soft protective pads squeezed out from both sides of the seat, covering his whole body.

boom!

The aircraft fell to the ground.The two escorts bumped into each other in the aircraft, and a big impact shook the entire flight cabin. It was pitch black outside the window, and nothing could be seen. Wu Xingchen held on to the seat belt tightly, and the white dove landed on top of his head , kept pecking at him, and after about a minute, the vibration finally stopped.Wu Xingchen sat for a while, and waited until the aircraft hatch opened automatically before he unbuckled his seat belt.White pigeons flew around him, constantly reminding him: Please go to the nearby hospital for medical treatment immediately!Please go to the nearest hospital for medical treatment immediately!Wu Xingchen pushed it away and walked out of the cabin. The aircraft made an emergency landing in a forest and knocked down many trees. There was a tall fir tree leaning on a mound. Rough, grainy patches of color.Wu Xingchen walked over, touched the mound, it was cold to the touch, he found a big rock nearby, and threw it at the mound.The stone hit the mound, causing a layer of khaki ripples.Undoubtedly, the mound is wrapped in an optical shield.Wu Xingchen walked around the mound and found a small path. He picked up some stones and put them in his pocket. He walked along the path while throwing stones in front of him. He walked to a wide place, which seemed to be the entrance of the forest. The stone he threw hit something and made a clicking sound.The stone hit a shade of a tree.Wu Xingchen threw a few more stones at the shade of the tree, and the black shade trembled.Wu Xingchen looked around, there was no one around, and there were no footprints on the ground. He touched under the shade of the tree, tapped, touched and scratched, and he grabbed a thin piece of cloth.The cloth fell on his hand, and his hand was gone—his hand was hidden under the shade of a tree.

Wu Xingchen folded the cloth and looked at what it originally covered—a car with the words "Grey Horse Special Car" posted on it.The window glass was transparent. He looked in the car, and there were no virtual animals. There were steering wheels, dashboards, and several sets of military uniforms on the back seat. with some paper.

Wu Xingchen smashed the back seat glass, opened the car door, and flipped through the stack of military uniforms. There were several sets of ordinary people's clothes mixed in the military uniforms. He put on a gray coat, fumbled in the pockets, and took out a bracelet.There is a bracelet in every set of military and ordinary clothes.Pressed under the clothes were some papers with chemical formulas written on them.There are two bottled water under the rear seat.

Wu Xingchen covered the military uniforms with the cloth in his hand, and there seemed to be nothing in the back seat.Wu Xingchen climbed to the front seat, opened the glove box and looked, there were two pairs of leather gloves, a bunch of keys, and a map of Paris with many red circles drawn on it.He put on his gloves, tried three keys, found the car key, and turned the key.The engine started to fire, he drove the car out of the forest, saw the first road sign, he stopped on the side of the road and unfolded the map to study, well, now he knows how to drive from the Bois de Boulogne to the Paris Observatory up.