Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Mondrian Private Hospital.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and Wei Chi is standing in the corridor on the second floor of the hospital, flipping through a case book.

The hospital is a century-old building with elegant neoclassical corridors. The highly saturated golden sunlight falls on people through the deciduous trees in the courtyard, like the color of a running egg yolk, but it cannot dispel Weichi's whole body. coldness.

The exaggerated voice of the doctor just now echoed in Wei Chi's mind: "It's a miracle that he can wake up!"

Then he got this case book, Ji Jingzhe's case.

In a series of technical terms, he quickly found a series of keywords.

"No trauma", "no thrombus", "no infection", "no relevant medical history", "unexplained cause", "disappeared brainstem response", "disappeared EEG activity", "spontaneous breathing stop", " Irreversible deep coma", "brain death".

The doctor beside him was still sighing endlessly, but Wei Chi's mind was buzzing, and he didn't listen to a word.

"Okay, Daniel." Jin Yue interrupted the doctor in time, and asked him to go back to work, then lit another cigarette, and finished it slowly beside Wei Chi.

Wei Chi felt as if he had split into two, one was floating in the air in shock and numbness, and the other was still saying something inexplicable: "As far as I know... His diagnoses have reached the standard of brain death... …If the results do not change within 72 hours…they will be declared dead.”

"The one you read is a real case, and we have another set for the outside world." Jin Yue said, "Otherwise, how do you think hospitals like ours make money?"

So Ji Jingzhe's aunt made this decision?The hasty relationship between aunt and nephew... Can she do this?

Wei Chi felt strange.

Jin Yue has been observing Wei Chi.

As a genuine senior international registered psychological counselor and WMECC-certified hypnotist, she has dealt with countless people and analyzed the psychology of various people in detail. It is easy to find some shadows in Wei Chi.

She knew that he was very smart, so smart that any logical breaking point could be keenly captured by him.When dealing with such people, telling the truth is the only option, otherwise it will only push them into suspicion, and any conversation after that will no longer be effective.

She sighed and said truthfully: "Actually, Xiao Ji's parents have an inheritance, probably because they are doctors? They made a will when they were very young, and the inheritance will be left to Xiao Ji, but if there is anything If there is an accident, all will be donated to the medical system.”

"At that time, Ji Hongyan must have had some financial difficulties—people will always encounter many difficulties in life—it was also caused by her selfishness. Five years ago, Xiao Ji had an accident—for no reason, she fell into a coma. She declared her brain dead, but Ji Hongyan maintained Xiaoji's physical life activities, and at the same time used that inheritance privately." She crushed the cigarette on the milky white railing, "I am her good friend, and my husband is the teacher of this school. The partner of the hospital helped her with this."

She looked into Wei Chi's eyes: "It can indeed be said that it is her selfishness, but if it weren't for her selfishness, we probably wouldn't be able to see Xiao Ji who woke up five years later, I think you should thank Hongyan for his wisdom Decide."

Wei Chi nodded: "Of course."

He turned to the end of the case. In the photo, Ji Jingzhe probably just woke up, with a dazed expression. His body lying flat on the bed was pale and shriveled. Because he was too tall and his frame was too thin, only a piece of skin remained. The skeleton is like a mountain with seven arches and eight arches, which makes people worry.

"He..." Wei Chi opened his mouth, but his throat was so choked that he couldn't speak a word.

How... how thrilling.

If any link goes wrong, he will never see Ji Jingzhe again.

He thought of the day when Ji Jingzhe came back to look for him, well-dressed and dusty, dragging a ostentatious big red suitcase, so handsome, glamorous, high-spirited, without a trace of illness.That day was only three months away from the day in the photo.

"He has a strong willpower." Jin Yue also looked at the photo with him, and called up some photos and videos of Ji Jingzhe's rehabilitation training from his mobile phone, and said with a smile, "It's a three-month rehabilitation period. Work hard every day."

Ji Jingzhe on the phone was mostly smiling, heartless, and even compared V to the camera.

"That's when he told me a lot." Jin Yue glanced at Wei Chi and said, "He said he was going back to China to see you."

Wei Chi felt that his heart was hit by a powerful force, causing all the strength in his whole body to be concentrated on the heart, and he was trying to resist the feeling of impending collapse, which made his limbs a little numb, and he couldn't control his expression .

He seemed to be drowning in the deep sea, and he could only hear his own huge heartbeat.

At this time, he heard a soft voice in the heavy water: "Are you feeling pain?"

He was puzzled: "What?"

The voice asked again, "Are there times when you feel pain, disappointment, sadness, or fatigue?"

He thought for a while and said, "Everyone will."

"Yes, everyone will encounter it, so it's not a big deal." The voice was like the sound waves wrapped in the waves, coming wave by wave, "When you encounter this feeling, you can also seek help from others. You are not alone."

Wei Chi frowned and looked at her: "Are you hypnotizing me?"

Jin Yue raised an eyebrow.

Then she smiled: "My consultation fee is three hundred pounds an hour. I don't know how to do free work."

Wei Chi: "No money."

Jin Yue laughed again, looked at the time, and patted her hair: "Then I'll go first, and you can just return the case to Dr. Daniel when you are about to leave."

"Thank you." Wei Chi nodded, winked at Jin Yue again, and called, "Auntie."

"Stinky boy."

Jin Yue walked to the courtyard downstairs, then raised her head and said to him in the corridor, "Son, only 'cracks' can let light through."

She is 41 years old this year, and has already passed half of her life. She is not a great talent, and it is difficult to make any major breakthroughs in her contribution to society.She knows that the future is in the hands of these young people, and she also knows that using the so-called "life experience" to discipline and instruct a young person is mostly useless and offensive.

But she couldn't help it.

She once met a consultant who was 15 years old and was forced to come by his parents.The kid was unquestionably a genius, with a photographic memory, paranoid, apathetic, neurotic, over-intelligent, and indestructible.He talked with her at the consulting table, debating Freud's sexual tendency, all psychological terms were naked in front of him, and the world in his eyes was just "a spread phenomenon" and "meaningless". He has his own system of logic, and other points of view are "the other side of the debate" for him.Hypnosis didn't work for him, and he would even sneer at her professionalism—of course she couldn't remember the documents like he did.

Her "professional skills" are no longer useful at this time, and all she has left is "a longer life".

But in the end she didn't conquer the child's hard shell.

He was too hard, too calm.

But no matter how hard the outer shell is, there will be wear and tear. There is no impeccable thing in the world.

That child’s final ending was not very bright—of course, it was only light in the eyes of “ordinary people” like them—he killed [-] national treasure animals in a row and was sent to a mental hospital.

She saw the shadow of that child in Wei Chi.

In fact, the moment she first saw that child, she knew she was in trouble, and after all her professional skills had expired, she should stop, but she still couldn't help it.

These young, advanced, gifted children, children who are destined to go further than them...how can we help them?

She waved to Wei Chi: "If you need it, you can still come to me and give you a discount."

Wei Chi smiled at her and waved his hand.

She suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

At least the 15-year-old child never smiled at her.

Wei Chi read the medical records twice more, felt that the commotion in his heart had completely stopped, he let out a long breath, and stretched his stiff neck.

When he looked up, he saw the man under the shadow of the trees in the courtyard.

For a moment he thought he was blinded.

It was Ji Jingzhe.

Well-dressed and dusty, he is still dragging that ostentatious big red suitcase, so handsome, glamorous, and high-spirited, standing in the courtyard looking up at him, his face hidden in the shadow of trees, but his eyes are amazingly bright, as if he has already seen him. for a long time.

Wei Chi just looked at him like this.

The color of the sun became thicker and thicker, Wei Chi saw a leaf slowly falling on Ji Jingzhe's shoulder, suddenly woke up, turned around and ran downstairs.

Ji Jingzhe thought that Wei Chi didn't want to see him yet, so he called out "Wei Chi" and started chasing him, but ended up bumping into Wei Chi at the exit of the courtyard.

It turned out that Wei Chi didn't want to see him, but ran down to look for him.

He is so stupid that he often can't figure out what Wei Chi is thinking.

He looked down at Wei Chi, obviously he hadn't seen him for two days, but it felt like it had been a long time, they stared at each other for a while, and then he realized that he saw the magic, obviously Wei Chi was so angry when they parted at the airport , he subconsciously began to apologize: "Wei Chi... I'm sorry, I..."

Wei Chi interrupted him and asked, "Have you encountered 'that world' five years ago?"

"Brain death" with no trauma, no medical history, and unknown cause may seem incredible to others, but it is not surprising to them.

Ji Jingzhe looked at him for a while, then admitted: "Yeah."

Wei Chi suddenly reached out and touched his face, he found that Wei Chi didn't seem to be angry at all, instead he asked him softly: "What happened?"

He trembled.

For a while, he suddenly returned to the summer when he was 15 years old, and turned back to the junior high school graduate who was powerless to everything. His father had broad shoulders, and his mother could see tiger teeth when she smiled. place, but... the Grim Reaper stood in the way.

But... it's all over.

"Car accident." He exhaled slowly, meeting Wei Chi's red eyes.

He has grown up, he is no longer the 15-year-old kid who can face his own destiny.

He also smiled: "I died in that car accident, with my parents."