dark crossing

Those sanitarium-going sanitarium-going, sanctified caring people are not as good as they make out to be.

These people are nothing more than a group of unscrupulous gamblers who gamble on the "death date of patients and the elderly" and try to gain windfall.

And these row upon row of "nursing homes" and "elderly centers" under the guise of charity provide cover for their madness.

Gamblers who regard conscience as nothing regard nursing homes as "racetracks". They carefully observe and speculate on the death date of terminally ill patients, and place bets accordingly.

In order to gain the understanding of the family members and realize the title of "public welfare" and "mutual aid".5% to 10% of the total bet will be donated to the patient's family members in the name of "funeral expenses".

This clever gift is to allow the nursing home to confidently use the set of arguments that have been prepared when conscientious family members or gamblers who are new to the game question this kind of gameplay.

"Treatment and funeral expenses are too expensive! The insurance system for the elderly is not perfect. We do this to help the families of patients raise treatment and funeral expenses, in order to prevent these families from returning to poverty due to illness to the greatest extent. This is no different from life insurance or critical illness insurance in the final result!"

Faced with such high-sounding excuses, the family members who were already suffering from exorbitant treatment bills all wavered and compromised.

They will deceive themselves and think: That's right, they are all dying anyway, they are just being evaluated and predicted the date of death, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

In this death carnival of patients, there seems to be no victim, let alone a murderer.

Of course, at this time, no one will deliberately think about the cruel additional conditions behind this life-threatening gamble. ——Once the gambling game starts, anyone, including doctors, can only pretend to go through the motions.

Because here, really actively treating patients is strictly prohibited.

This rule has led to the emergence of many nurses among the gamblers who can directly participate in the daily treatment and care of patients.

As professionals who can best predict and control the time of death of patients, they are ready to move in front of the temptation of huge interests.

After all, it is easiest for them to "make a fortune" by controlling the life and death of patients.

Afraid of being caught by other gamblers, these unscrupulous nurses from "hanging the pot to save the world" to "seeking money and killing their lives" often place bets under the guise of distant relatives, and then use some professional and imperceptible methods to wantonly manipulate them. Gambling results, in order to obtain huge profits.

What is even more shocking and chilling is that because the casino does not expressly prohibit the participation of family members, many family members of patients also directly participate in betting and gambling.

They frightened and speculated about the death of their relatives, but what they cared about was no longer just the life and health of their family members, but the jingle in their pockets.

As for these patients lying on the bed, are they really unaware?

Although suffering from pain, most of the patients' consciousness is actually clear.

"Can this game survive three months?"

"Eating is okay. It is estimated that the goods in the next bed will go faster."

It is watched and discussed every day.

Among these whispers, the old people naturally knew everything.But what can I do if I know it?

Not to mention, at this point, it is already a man for a knife, and I for a fish.

Many people whose lives were bet on even themselves acquiesced in this kind of behavior.

Poor parents all over the world, once they think that their children may also benefit from it.These old people, who were driven to nowhere by illness and despair, lay in pain and numbness on the hospital bed, wishing that they could die as scheduled and bring the last bit of value to their children, and they had nothing to desire for the rest of their lives.

It is a pity that the poor people with very little trial and error cost are forced by reality to hope to exchange their lives for money.

But in most cases, the life is gone, but the money is still not earned.

In the last fight for survival, they often lose everything.

And those gamblers who just want to make money don't think so much.

They just stared at the up and down line on the patient's electrocardiogram like wolves and tigers.Like the stockholders in the securities hall, they are as focused and serious as they pay attention to the K-line trend of the stock.

Winning big or losing everything depends on this line.

These "desperadoes" despise human lives, but ironically put all their hopes of getting rich overnight on these gambles one after another made up of lives that are not valued by them. superior.

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"I've had bad luck recently." Jiang Maiyun took off his mask and threw it on the table.

He frowned, feeling extremely irritable: "I bet on bed No. 36 to win alone, but the old man kept dragging his breath. I think the situation on No. 15 has worsened even faster..."

The concept of "one win" in life and death betting is somewhat similar to the concept of "one win" in the rules of the Jockey Club.

At the beginning of the game, the final death date of the five critically ill elderly people with similar disease progression became the market for gamblers to bet on.

The so-called win-win in Jiang Maiyun's mouth refers to his betting that the old man who bought bed No. 36 will die the soonest.

Sitting opposite him is Zhao Yetai who is in charge of the daily management and operation of the organization in "Kuntai Shanai".He is Jiang Maiyun's high school classmate. The two have similar views and hobbies. They have been inseparable since high school and have been called brothers for many years.

Hearing Jiang Maiyun's complaint about bad luck, it was rare for Zhao Yetai not to agree, and silently stroked the teacup with his fingers, "I think we are lucky."

Of course Jiang Maiyun knew what he was talking about, and the expression on his face suddenly became a little more irritable, and he frowned in extreme dissatisfaction: "It's not bad luck, I have suffered heavy losses recently! I lost all my money!"

"You should be lucky, at least the police didn't suspect anything."

"It's not your fault, of course you can say it easily!" Seeing that Zhao Yetai was still drinking tea elegantly, Jiang Maiyun couldn't help but get angry when he thought of his current dilemma.

Zhao Yetai understands that he lost his daughter, and consciously and generously doesn't really care about anything with him, but he is still a little unhappy about his "ungrateful": "If I really stay out of it, you won't have the opportunity to howl with me now .”

Jiang Maiyun was stunned into silence.

Of course he knew that Zhao Yetai and himself were already grasshoppers tied by a rope.

About two or three years ago, Jiang Shiyin became popular on the Internet on a small scale because a passerby posted a group of photos on social media.Since then began her career as a child model.

But the little angel in front of the camera, like her mother Wang Zhilei, was always beaten and scolded because of Jiang Maiyun's "rough temper".

Not slapping her face was Jiang Maiyun's last concession for her daughter's reward.

All parts of Wang Zhilei's and Jiang Shiyin's bodies that were covered by clothes were full of shocking scars.

There were also times when Jiang Maiyun became anxious and lost his mind.

Jiang Shiyin, who was injured in the face by her father, was unable to work as scheduled.

As an agent, her mother, Wang Zhilei, had no choice but to always lie to the cooperating brands to make excuses.Missing work due to illness is the reason she uses the most.

Over time, everyone in the small circle of the children's model industry knew that this little girl was a delicate and sick beauty.

After knowing about Jiang Shiyin's existence, Zhao Yetai, who could bet on anything, came up with the idea of ​​this beautiful and famous sick and weak girl.

From side-by-side temptations to upright incitement, he managed to convince his good friend Jiang Maiyun without much effort.

Just as no one can think of the old man's death can still bet on the same.No one would have thought that, in the eyes of some greedy gamblers, the course of illness of this little girl as beautiful as a doll could also be part of gambling.

When and why Jiang Shiyin will get sick, what kind of treatment can she receive, and when will she fully recover.All the details, in the eyes of gamblers, have become handicap that can generate money.

In order to prevent gamblers from buying off medical staff and ensure relative fairness in the link.Gamblers can vote collectively at any time in the middle of the gamble to decide whether to change the child’s treatment plan, and can choose any option like playing a game to decide which drug treatment the child will receive at a certain stage .

It's just that they never thought that the banker behind this bet is the child's biological father. ——Jiang Maiyun, who was born to be a sadist.

Jiang Maiyun is not a "normal person" in the universal sense.

When falling in love with Wang Zhilei, he himself often said, "I am not a person with a conscience."

Wang Zhilei once thought this was just a self-deprecating duplicity of a "literary creator".

After getting married, she realized deeply that this was not self-mockery, but Jiang Maiyun's confession after he had a thorough understanding of himself.

Normal people have an innate ability to empathize with love.

Just like Jiang Shiyin loves the big golden retriever and the cute plush doll at home very much.The innate ability of human beings to empathize with love makes it easy for children to put themselves into pets and toys.

They take it for granted that pets and toys are just like themselves, children who need to be cared for and loved.Therefore, very few children will abuse small animals and dolls.

But Jiang Maiyun was different, he was born lacking the ability to perceive love.

He was born in a family with a relatively depressive family atmosphere and patriarchal supremacy, and he lived in extreme contradictions since he was a child.Jiang Maiyun's father has a bad temper and controls his son extremely strictly, beating and scolding him frequently.But Jiang Maiyun's mother doted on and indulged him out of some compensatory psychology.

But Jiang Maiyun, who is in the double sky of ice and fire, has the same indifference to both his father and mother.He has no so-called emotional sustenance to anyone since he was a child.

In his heart there is only himself, and other people are no different from dead things.

At the age when ordinary people need love and marriage, Jiang Maiyun is not interested in establishing an intimate relationship with girls.

And after the age of 30, the reason why he chose to fall in love with Wang Zhilei and get married was just to profit from it.

After all, as long as a marriage certificate is required, he can get a young and beautiful tame toy that is worth showing off, and he can also create an image of a successful person with a happy family by the way.

The human perception of love that Jiang Maiyun lacks is one of the indispensable basic elements for establishing a "conscience".Another element that constitutes "conscience" is called "sense of obligation".

The sense of obligation means that normal people subconsciously believe that they have a tacit and inescapable responsibility to others.This feeling is often hidden deep in the heart, and it is an innate instinct of most people, rather than an acquired skill.

When something unexpected happens, this instinct can generate a lot of emotions.For example, when someone close to us is sick, we feel very anxious inside.And when they find their child lost, parents will inevitably feel panic and worry.

These emotions don't need to be brewed deliberately, they will all be revealed naturally because of the hidden sense of obligation.

But Jiang Maiyun not only lacks the ability to empathize with love, but also completely lacks this sense of obligation.

He has no sense of responsibility as a husband, so Jiang Maiyun doesn't feel guilty whenever he does something to Wang Zhilei.And pretending to be self-blaming is just to appease Wang Zhilei, so that life can continue as he wants.

Wang Zhilei also had hopes in her heart. She told herself over and over again that after having a child, the instinctive fatherly love would definitely change this man.

Don't people say that boys don't really grow up until they become fathers?She expected and believed.I hope God can let the little angel who stops the ugly violence come between them earlier.

But she didn't know that if a person doesn't have the ability to love others and lacks the sense of responsibility to take responsibility, then he can't have a conscience.

People without conscience will not have kind thoughts in their hearts.

He doesn't feel any discomfort when he hurts another, even if it's his own flesh and blood.

Faced with an empty, painted-skin-like body, Wang Zhilei, who hopes to use her children to call for love, is bound to fail.

Unable to make up her mind to make a decisive cut with Jiang Maiyun, she walked step by step into the abyss of despair and destruction.

Daughter Jiang Shiyin has been loved by everyone since she was a child, but the indifferent Jiang Maiyun has no feelings for this beautiful and soft-spoken child from the bottom of her heart.

People with antisocial personality in the world can be roughly divided into two categories.

One is the low-IQ type, who have weak empathy and will not hide themselves.Such a person is actually easily isolated by those around him, and people can easily perceive that this is a weird guy with cold feelings.

But the other is the high IQ type.Despite their insensitivity and cruelty, they can pretend to be empathetic and even emotionally intelligent.

Jiang Maiyun obviously belongs to the latter.In front of others, he will briefly act as a good father for his own benefit.But this is just acting.

For him, kindness and kindness are like heavy makeup on the stage. As long as they look good, everyone can be a beauty and a hero.But no one knows whether the one hidden under the lifelike painting is a human or a ghost.

Wang Zhilei had known about Jiang Maiyun's participation in the gambling of life.However, due to violent coercion and brainwashing insults, and being firmly held by her husband with mental manipulation methods, she has long been numb to this ordinary level of cruelty.

But when she found out that Jiang Maiyun had teamed up with Zhao Yetai to "integrate resources" and set up a private bet on Jiang Shiyin's health, Wang Zhilei, as a mother, still collapsed.

She cried and questioned the man who had shared the bed with her for almost ten years. ——"Gambling with your daughter's life? Don't you feel guilty, Jiang Maiyun?

Looking at Wang Zhilei's messy hair and half of her cheek that was obviously swollen.

Jiang Maiyun smiled.

He laughed at the woman's innocence openly.

Will he feel guilty?

of course not.

There was never a word related to guilt in his dictionary.

"Shiyin is still so young! How can you bear it?"

What's so bad about making so much money with such a young child?Why feel guilty?Why can't you bear it?

Jiang Maiyun, who couldn't understand Huang Zhilei's logic, felt that the other party was a fool who didn't even know how to make money.

In order to win more money, Jiang Maiyun, who has no sense of guilt at all, often lies in front of the doctor without changing his face.He exaggerated the child's condition just to expose the child to unnecessary treatment.Sometimes, in order to delay the course of Jiang Shiyin's illness, he would even secretly inject urine into a drop bottle to give the child an IV, in order to cause an infection of "unknown cause" that has a high probability but a small chance of occurrence.

But these crimes of his have never been discovered by outsiders.

Because these actions violate the common sense that "a tiger's poison does not eat its children".

No one could have imagined that a loving father would disregard the health of the child and wantonly manipulate the illness of his own flesh and blood.

……

At the end of March, the viral flu, which had been widely concerned by the international community a few days ago, completely got out of control and swept the world all at once.

Jianghu City is a super first-tier city with the second highest per capita savings in the country and a first-class economy. Jianghu people with high health awareness are notoriously rich and risk their lives.

As soon as the news of the raging epidemic was reported.The next day, most people in the city were wearing masks.

For a time, masks and disinfection supplies became the hot commodity that the citizens rushed to grab.

Chu Huainan went to Singapore on a business trip, and Shen Ting immediately moved back to Yuehuai Hotel from Tangcheng Binjiang.

The masks in the pharmacy in the city center are basically out of stock, and Song Ci's gang of crooks shouted collectively: "I don't even wear a condom when I'm shooting! Wear your mb's mask!"

In order to fit in with the group, Shen Ting had no choice but to "run naked".

Chu Huainan would call him every night, and before hanging up, he never forgot to ask: "Do you miss me?" His low laughter was like a slightly inflamed thorn in his flesh.It’s okay if you don’t think about it, but once in a while, you can feel a piercing itch when you think about it.

On the eve of April Fool's Day, Shen Ting and Lin Huo met Veron again.

The middle-aged man who sold zombies to Huang Chenghao was also there.Shen Ting already knew that the other party's name was Li Zhiwu, and he opened a second-hand car dealership in Jianghu City.The business of this car dealership is mediocre, but the accounting flow is amazing.

After checking the records for the past three years, Shen Ting judged that this Li Zhiwu was probably using the car dealership to launder drug money.

In order not to startle the enemy, the members of Operation Taomu did not act rashly.It was just that Li Zhiwu and his related personnel were closely monitored.

Compared with many undercover strategies of catching the big and letting go of the small during the operation, Shen Ting's case-handling methods belong to the "skynet recovery, sparse but not missing" type.In other words, as long as the other party's behavior is related to a crime, when he finally catches the net, even if it's just some small fish and shrimp, he will catch them all in one go and never let them go.

That night, Chu Huainan pestered Shen to listen to the phone call for a long time.

Shen Ting didn't sleep well that night due to the long-term highly concentrated call.

Probably because the next day was April Fool's Day, God made a joke with him especially for the occasion.It made him even dream of Chu Huainan's smiling eyes.

The capitalist's ear-piercing voice made goosebumps all over his body: "Do you want me, as long as you say you do, I'll be right back."

Shen Ting, who was pierced by the magic sound, couldn't sleep well, woke up early in the morning, and went to take a cold shower with a sullen face.

Just after taking a shower, before I even had time to dry my hair, the doorbell rang.He looked at the time and estimated that it should be room service to deliver breakfast.

When he opened the door, he saw Chu Huainan's face.

Early in the morning, Shen Ting's nightmare came true, and his face turned livid.

The well-dressed Chu Huainan was still wearing a black shirt that had never changed for thousands of years. There was a dreamlike smile in his peach eyes, but the corners of his mouth were not too curved. He looked like a restrained gentleman.

Shen Ting cursed a beast in his heart, not knowing whether he was scolding the other party or himself.