[Infinite] End Game

The archives room should have been left unattended for a long time, and Tang Yu choked on the rising dust as soon as he entered.

It was a windowless room, so the air was also a dull smell.Tang Yu covered the iron door, then took out two flashlights and gave one to Chang He.

The light illuminates the outline of the house. It looks like a library. Rows of huge and dense cabinets extend to the distance. There is only one person-wide space between the two rows of cabinets for walking.

The height of the cabinet reaches close to the ceiling, and there are no rows of kraft paper bags densely stacked on the grid. The appearance of the paper bags is the same, the difference is only in thickness.

For a moment, Tang Yu only felt a headache.

How the hell are you going to find it! ?

"Hurry up and search separately." Chang He shook the dozen or so cabinets on the right with a flashlight.

"Okay." Tang Yu agreed, and added: "The documents here must be arranged in order, and some unimportant cabinets can be skipped for the time being."

After speaking, Tang Yu walked to the first cabinet on the left, took a kraft paper bag from above, carefully opened it, and quickly browsed it.

"...Number 041... Se, Lim."

This is a medical case, the ink printed on it has faded, the name and number are marked on the top of the page, and an old photo is pasted next to the name.

In the photo, the child's eyes are empty and lifeless, staring at the front dully, as if looking at him through countless time.

Because it hadn't been touched for a long time, the paper was a little yellow when it was opened. Under the light projected by the flashlight, Tang Yu felt that he, as a spy, was watching for a trace of mystery.

He collected himself and continued to read.

This is indeed a case, but not the current case.

Under Selim's name, it is written that he was admitted to the hospital in 1889, when he was only 14 years old.

The case is only two thin pages. According to the description in the file, the teenager was sent to the rehabilitation center by his family in April. The symptoms he showed at the beginning were only excessive anxiety, refusing to eat and sleep, and making a scene. There's no reason to break things and curse those around you.

The third ward received the boy Selim, but after two months of treatment, the boy's symptoms did not ease, and even worsened - because he began to show strong aggressiveness.

Turning here, the first page of the case has been written, Tang Yu flipped back, but the strange thing is that the second page of the case only has a few short lines, which stated that in September, the young Selim The disease that had deteriorated was suddenly cured.

He began to become quiet, docile and harmless, and was officially discharged from the hospital at the end of September. A thank you letter was attached to the back of the case.

Tang Yu continued to unfold the letter. The letter was written by Selim's mother. The handwriting was not delicate, but the gratitude revealed between the lines was undoubtedly overflowing.

The general content of the letter is as follows:

【Dear Mr. Dean, thank you for saving my poor Selim from the devil.

Although it has been a year, until now I am often awakened by nightmares, you can hardly imagine how I felt when I found that Selim suddenly became a different person, rude, irritable and even started to speak ill at me Sad (you know he used to be such a good kid).

I feel like I've had the darkest six months of my life, I feel like my sensible Selim has completely left me...

So I am really grateful to you, thank you for helping me and Selim for free, and thank you for curing my son.

Now, Selim can sit quietly on the sofa and bask in the sun, and he will never break anything again.In a few days, I plan to take him back to his hometown to recuperate, hoping that he will become happier.

... I really have no way to repay your kindness, but to pray for you every day, may God always be with you. 】

After Tang Yu finished reading the last sentence, his expression became a little dignified. He was silent for a while, then put the documents back in place, got up and went to the two cabinets at the back and took another file bag from above.

It was still a case, but this time, the patient number became 083, a 15-year-old girl named Wendy, who was admitted to the hospital in 1902.

The medical record states that she was admitted to the hospital after her family took her on a seaside vacation, where she started fantasizing about being a fish, tried several times to bury herself in the bathtub, and nearly drowned herself a dozen times. , Wendy's parents sent her to a rehabilitation center.

However, the progress of the girl's treatment after admission was not recorded. At the end of the large blank file, it was only stated that Wendy passed away ten months after admission.

Tang Yu took a few more files from this cabinet and found that they were all files from 1902, ranging from 01 to more than 100. Without exception, they were all teenagers. Some were successfully discharged from the hospital, and some were like Wendy. Also died in the courtyard.

And if there is anything in common among these cases, it is that those discharged from the hospital have shown a quiet and docile state.Most of the people who died in the hospital showed symptoms of hyperactivity or nervous sensitivity, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, delusions, and schizophrenia.

In more than a dozen files, more than a dozen fixed-frame young faces, life and death experiences are all coldly recorded on paper with a few sentences, and then sealed here, probably not many people will care about the lives of these people.

Tang Yu felt a little tired. He pinched the bridge of his nose, put all the files back, and then went directly to the innermost row of cabinets in the room.

Tang Yu can basically confirm that the files here are arranged according to the year, and the patients admitted to the hospital in that year will fill in the vacant numbers.

Then the last cabinet should store the latest files. According to the old and new handwriting on the head of the bed, it can be judged that it will not be a long time since this trace was left... Maybe the girl named Ann is his. The last one, or several 116 numbers.

Thinking of this, Tang Yu tiptoed to remove the file bags on the top row of the cabinet, but after removing a few, Tang Yu gradually showed a strange expression.

His analysis was not wrong. These files were indeed filled with new paper, and the most recent time was 1934.However, no matter how much he searched through the documents beginning with the letter "A", he never found a girl named Ann.

Correspondingly, Tang Yu found number 116 before him.

Holding the kraft paper bag, Tang Yu couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

He squatted on the ground, holding a flashlight in one hand for lighting, and reaching into the bag with the other hand, and slowly pulled the case out of the kraft paper bag.

On the paper, a beautiful girl wearing a gorgeous little skirt and holding a doll in her arms is smiling timidly at the camera, while the name column next to it reads: Silica.

Silica Hawkins, 14 years old.

In the spring of 1931, he was admitted to the hospital for treatment, but there was only a large blank in the description of the condition.While Tang Yu was thinking, a letter slipped out of the paper bag.