black abyss

Aiwen University in November is full of autumn, and the fallen leaves that fell on the ground were not cleaned up in a thin layer.

Bai Nian wore a thin windbreaker, walked and sat in the campus with the wind.

He stomped on the dead leaves on the ground and creaked, because it was class time and there were not many students walking on campus.

Bai Nian walked straight to the teaching building, and picked up his mobile phone to make a call as he went up the stairs.

The phone connected after two rings, and he had just walked to the first floor.

"Dean Wang, are you still in the office now?" Bai Nian asked as he walked.

The other side seemed a little surprised to receive this call: "Why did you call me?" Bai Nian said, "I'm here at school right now. I haven't seen you for a long time, so I came to visit."

Facing such a polite Bai Nian over there, they were even more surprised and asked repeatedly: "Bai Nian?" Bai Nian: "Yes, it's me."

Bai Nian said, "I'll be at the door of your office soon."

Dean Wang took down the phone suspiciously, stared at the caller ID and checked it several times. After confirming that the call was indeed from Bai Nian, he was a little puzzled.

Bai Nian was assigned to teach at Aiwen University three years ago, so he was completely a thorn in the side.

The other party was very bad, completely lacking the social etiquette of normal people, and could even be said to be defiant, and did not look like a teacher at all.

Dean Wang knew that Bai Nian once violated the special management law and invaded the spiritual sea of ​​the sentinel privately, which caused the sentinel who entered the black abyss to have mental problems, and he was completely lost and unable to come out.

He also knew in the past that Bai Nian was one of the few senior spiritual awakeners.

Because of his appearance and temperament, he often even appeared on the cover of magazines as a representative.

Dean Wang pays close attention to magazines of psychiatric science. In the past, he has seen many media praise Bai Nian, the genius they call, with large-scale content.

The other party went to university at the age of 14, and entered the sentry tower as a researcher at the age of 20.

Dean Wang also regretted it, and even tried to bring this detour back to the right path for a long time.

However, the other party didn't appreciate it, and still went its own way without anyone in sight.

After the other party voluntarily resigned, Dean Wang once reported to the watchtower. As an old professor who has been teaching and educating people in psychiatry for 30 years, he told others very responsibly that he still suspected that Bai Nian had anti-social tendencies .

He didn't reflect on himself for the mistakes he made.

The reply letter from the sentry tower is very official - thank you for your feedback, we will always pay attention to his dynamics.

It was just as official as when Bai Nian was assigned to teach in their academy a few years ago—although he made mistakes, his professional skills were excellent and should not be wasted, so it was necessary to arrange him to teach in the academy as a repentance.

Dean Wang was troubled by this for several days, and even asked a friend who worked at the sentry tower to inquire about Bai Nian's family background.

Friends say they don't know.

Dean Wang flipped through the outdated magazine with a sad face.

Bai Nian's "knock knock" knock on the door brought back Dean Wang's divergent thoughts.

He was thinking, why does a genius who has been reported by the media many times have no family information? "Dean Wang."

Bai Nian spoke in a deep voice.

Dean Wang cleared his throat: "Please come in."

Bai Nian opened the door and walked in boldly. He asked directly without saying a word of nonsense: "You wrote a paper 15 years ago on "The Origin of Aiwen and the Guide Sentinel"."

Dean Wang was a little stunned when he opened the door to the other party: "What?" Bai Nian walked up to Dean Wang with a calm expression: "In the next few years, I have successively targeted Aiwen himself and the establishment of Aiwen University. Development and the demise of the mental hospital in Lille, these topics have been studied in depth."

Dean Wang was really surprised. He didn't expect Bai Nian to remember these few projects he had done.

"What's the matter?" Dean Wang is almost 60 years old, and he is in good shape. Although he is a bit old-fashioned, he is a self-disciplined and rigorous researcher.

Standing in front of Dean Wang's desk, Bai Nian explained indifferently: "I've been very interested in this information recently.

I have read these papers and topics of yours, and I don't understand some things. "

Dean Wang thought that Bai Nian was going to conduct academic research with him, and he felt relieved when he saw Bai Nian's eyes. He felt that he had brought a lost young man back on track.

Dean Wang took a sip of water, raised his hand and pointed to the sofa next to him: "Sit."

Bai Nian glanced at the sofa, he raised his wrist and looked at his watch: "I don't want to sit down, there are people waiting for me in the library."

Dean Wang nodded, and asked, "What don't you understand?" Bai Nian said, "Please provide me with information about Dr. Ai Wenai, her family members and experience."

Dean Wang said: "There seems to be her biography in our library. If you are interested in her, you can go and see it."

Bai Nian shook his head: "I don't think that information is accurate, and I may not know as much as you do."

Dean Wang was puzzled.

Bai Nian said: "The biography says that Ai Wen died in 2251, and died of illness due to long-term fatigue."

Dean Wang smacked his lips twice when he heard about this place, and suddenly became a little excited: "You also found that something is wrong, but usually no one pays attention to these issues. People have always paid attention to her research in the academic field."

Bai Nian raised his eyebrows.

Dean Wang immediately said, "I found out about this because even in 2251, three days before his death, she sent back a very informative research report to Aiwen Mental Hospital."

Dean Wang analyzed, "How can a patient who is seriously ill due to fatigue manage to analyze and write a detailed report three days before his death?"

Bai Nian led the question: "Couldn't it be her assistant who wrote it?" Dean Wang said: "Of course, this matter is still doubtful. No one has seen it with their own eyes, so these are just gossip."

Dean Wang slammed his mouth again: "There is also a rumor that she encountered an accident on the way to Wuchao Town."

Bai Nian raised his eyebrows.

When Dean Wang talked about his own analysis, he began to chatter: "He used to have an aunt who also worked in the Lille Mental Hospital, did you know that?" Bai Nian heard the message he wanted to hear, He raised the corner of his mouth calmly: "Yan Rui, right? The other party passed away in the same year as Ai Wen, but the exact time is unknown."

Dean Wang said: "Yes, this aunt once worked as a doctor in Wuchao Town, and was later transferred to Lille Mental Hospital.

When I was writing the report, I visited some elderly people, and someone told me that the two of them died in the same accident. "

Bai Nian's eyes were fixed on Dean Wang, his pupils were light in color, and when he looked at people, he looked light and light, as if he was staring at you, or at a distant cloud.

Bai Nian asked: "Is there any gossip that the two of them passed away because of some gossip?" Dean Wang shook his head: "Those of us who can only read history, how could we know history so clearly."

Dean Wang sighed and became curious, "Why do you suddenly care about Aiwen?" Bai Nian said, "I'm just surprised that Lille City Mental Hospital has completely declined from its heyday to the current Aiwen University. What happened after such a long period of time? How did the guides and sentries who were once regarded as mentally ill, locked up, and fed drugs feel after they were released."

Dean Wang was puzzled: "What does this have to do with Ai Wen?" What Bai Nian was thinking in his heart was that he just wanted to use Ai Wen to judge whether Chiwai's memory was real or fabricated.

He said: "I think Aiwen should be very popular with patients in the Lille Mental Hospital. After all, everyone said they were sick, but only Aiwen admitted that they were normal. Then after Aiwen passed away in 2251, these Do people feel very lost and painful?" Dean Wang said: "After the sentry tower was established, they admitted that these 'patients' were normal, and everyone returned to society, and the mental hospital naturally declined."

Bai Nian was curious: "Then why didn't the media report on the follow-up of these discharged patients? I've never even heard of the family members and descendants of these patients."

Dean Wang, who had researched the situation of the Lille Mental Hospital, was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked: "What are you doing, Bai Nian?" Dean, find something to do."

Dean Wang understood Bai Nian's meaning almost instantly. He suspected that almost none of these "patients" who were later recognized as normal people survived.

He suspected that a massacre had occurred in the Lille Mental Hospital, and this suspicion was really appalling.

And at that time, it happened to be the time when the sentry tower was established and began to establish a new organization and a new order.

Even though it's been half a century since it happened, it's still no small allegation.

Dean Wang had doubts about this topic when he was young, and he didn't want to discuss it at all. After a pause, he said: "I looked through your magazines a while ago, and most of them are research topics you wrote. .

There are also some reports that praise you for being smart and informal, and there are few reports that mention your parents and guardians. "

Dean Wang is a smart person, he analyzed: "A normal family raises a smart child, they should be very keen to publicize their excellent parenting skills.

The media should also be very keen to interview families who can cultivate excellent next generations, in an attempt to let the public copy the education method and raise countless excellent next generations. "

Bai Nian said "oh" slowly, and he even poked his head to look at the calendar on Dean Wang's desk. It said November [-]th, and a few days later, it would be the city of Lille. A very famous holiday for the whole family.

On that day, the citizens of Lille will have a rest day without being disturbed by work and study.

Bai Nian stretched out his finger and flipped through the calendar: "I've been working under the dean for three years, are you only trying to get to know me this time?" Dean Wang paused, trying to understand me before, But he couldn't find any information, thinking that Bai Nian might have a strong background, otherwise it would be impossible for him to make such a big mistake, not to be imprisoned, and to teach at Aiwen University.

——Is Aiwen University a reform-through-labor institution, and anyone can be a teacher? !He is almost 60 years old, and he does not have the research spirit of his youth, so he muddled through most of the time.

It is already considered responsible to say a few words about Bai Nian's bad performance.

What's more, Bai Nian is arrogant and defiant, he doesn't have the heart to care about him.

It was after he resigned from the school that Dean Wang had a sense of social responsibility in his heart, so he reported the matter to the sentry tower.

Dean Wang was silent.

Bai Nian reached out and poked the date of November 22th: "This is a good day for the whole family to celebrate. I need to go to the Black Tower to visit my biological father who has been imprisoned for [-] years."

Bai Nian said: "This is the time for parent-child time once a year."

The dean was surprised: "I've never heard that your father was a sentinel?" Bai Nian smiled: "Yes, he killed my mother himself.

And was locked up here. "

Dean Wang was stunned.

Bai Nian smiled inexplicably, his expression was not at all sad when he mentioned the sad past, he even smiled relaxedly: "That's why, no media interviewed my parents."

Dean Wang still looked at Bai Nian in surprise. Seeing that the other party looked calm, even with a strange smile, he added in his heart - that's why you became an anti-social.

Bai Nian blinked at Dean Wang, and said before leaving: "If the dean gets any news about Ai Wen and the patients in the Lille City Mental Hospital, please notify me in time."

He added slowly, "I'm very interested."

After Bai Nian left the dean's office, he went straight to the school library.

At a remote self-study desk on the second floor, Chi Waiting sat by the window, reading with lowered eyes very seriously.

Almost the moment Bai Nian's gaze fell on him, he felt that Bai Nian was back, he immediately raised his eyes, and waved the book in his hand at Bai Nian.

He was as excited as a puppy seeing his master come home.

Bai Nian strode up to him and sat down: "According to Dean Wang, there are rumors that your aunt, grandmother and your mother died in the same accident in 2251."

Chiwai laughed with a muffled voice, and he whispered next to Bai Nian as if telling a secret: "I told you, I killed them both, and you don't believe me."

Bai Nian frowned and looked at him: "You said your aunt and grandmother were very kind to you. She rescued you and gave you two years of happy childhood."

Chi waited to stick his face on the rough page, raised his eyes and blinked at Bai Nian, and said innocently, "Because I have a beast in my mind."

Bai Nian clicked his tongue.

Chi Wait smiled and said, "Teacher Bai, don't worry, I will lock up the beast so that it won't hurt you."

The composition of Bai Nian's family members is actually not that special in Lille.

His mother was an ordinary man and his father was a sentinel.

Bai Nian grew up to ten years old, and the family was considered harmonious. His mother was a researcher at the sentry tower, and his father was a geological surveyor.

The family of three lives in the old-fashioned house where he lives now, and the rhododendrons in the yard were planted by his mother more than 20 years ago.

His mother handpicked newly bred rhododendron varieties to bring vibrant color to their yard year-round.

Bai Nian's memory is relatively good, but a child's memory does not include comprehension. Maybe his family does have details that he ignored when he was a child.

After 20 years, when he looks back, he only feels that his family is no different from other families.

An ordinary woman married a sentinel doing geological surveys.

Sentinels need to travel frequently, and the consequences of travel may be that the supply of mental stabilization drugs is insufficient.

Sentinels, who often lacked stable psychotropic drugs, had a mental riot and a complete breakdown on a certain day, which brought about a horrific vicious incident.

The sentry who hurt people was imprisoned in the black tower, while the woman was sent to the cemetery.

This is not a complicated case.

In Bai Nian's 32 years of memory, there have been several similar cases.

It hasn't been for a few years.

Although the news department of the sentinel pushes the principle that everyone is equal every day, in fact, the social status of the sentry has been declining year by year.

From the proportion of sentinel guides who are gifted year by year, the highest education level of the two in the sample survey, and the registration of newlywed couples in the Civil Affairs Bureau, all show that sentinels are decreasing and are not being accepted.

Bai Nian once occasionally saw a piece of data, which stated that the number of sentinels who registered marriages in Lille last year did not even exceed a thousand.

According to statistics at the end of last year, the permanent resident population of Lille was more than 700 million people.

In the middle of this year, the new regulations on the management of mental stability drugs issued by the sentry towers made this group of sentinels, who were more or less addicted to drugs, want to go to the gates of each sentry tower to sit quietly.

Of course, it is impossible for them to sit in meditation. A sentinel who is judged to be a little bit harmful will be brought to the treatment team for a full set of mental examinations.

The sentinels are more or less addicted to some drugs, and they will be taken to compulsory detoxification after being checked.

It was almost a life-threatening experience.

Bai Nian seemed a little withdrawn when he was young, and he spoke later than ordinary children.

His mother was also anxious about him being delayed or autistic or dumb.

He would sit silently on the carpet at home, playing with some strange toys, and would be immersed in his own world, never being moved by people visiting from home.

Bai Nian doesn't quite remember what he was thinking when he was a child.

Later, the one whose parents died entered the black tower, and he was raised by his mother's family.

Because of a little talent, and because he really didn't want to live with the elderly for too long, he was admitted to university when he was fourteen, and lived in the school dormitory. After he was 16, he moved to the current house by himself.

His father was imprisoned in the Black Tower for the first few years, and he seemed a little confused. After Bai Nian was 16 years old, he would visit him once a year in November.

In the first few years, the other party couldn't recognize who he was.

The past few years have gotten better, and he and Bai Nian will sit silently on the cold bench in the visiting room.

Bai Nian is not very talkative, and he is too lazy to use some therapeutic methods to ask why this man suddenly went crazy and killed his wife.

——Because I lost control of my mind and couldn't control myself.

Of course it was for this reason, otherwise what the hell could it be.

Can he hear any other reasons that are special enough to make his eyes shine?The final destination of all Sentinels is to lose control of their minds.

Normally, after the annual half-hour visit is completed, Bai Nian will straighten his clothes and say goodbye politely to the man who gave him his life.

"Goodbye, see you again this time next year."

During these weird times, Bai Nian will show some ironic politeness.

Men always come to the last moment and casually ask some seemingly caring words: "How is your grandma?" When Bai Nian heard grandma being called this, he couldn't hold back the sarcasm on his face: "Don't worry, I still hate you to death.

He killed all the sentinels in this world with hatred. "

Bai Nian walked out of the visiting room politely and politely.

On November [-]th of this year, Bai Nian was still planning to drive alone to Heita, dozens of kilometers away, to visit his biological father.