clown game

Chapter 149 Number Ten

Dreamland
After thinking about it, this thing is quite naughty. When people fall asleep or relax, it will quietly avoid the inspection of the subconscious, and express itself in various images.

Some people say that dreams are a window to the unconscious world. Some people say that dreams are just a kind of satisfaction of suppressed subconscious desires. In short, dreams are not so traditional and logical. They connect to the deepest part of our thinking. Absurd, crazy, all sorts of strange things. And people in the dream are almost completely unaware that they are in the dream.

So what would the conscious world of a psychopath look like?Is it as if we are in a dream?

A century and a half ago, quite a few people believed that mental patients were a group of poor people whose "subconscious mind" exploded and replaced the original "surface consciousness".To put it in a more understandable way, this group of people is always living in a dream, unable to distinguish between virtuality and reality.

From this point of view, an alternative treatment method has been derived. It does not use drugs, nor does it use external stimuli such as acupuncture and electric shock, but directly starts from the patient's consciousness itself, pointing directly at the source of the disease.
In fact, mental illness is different from other diseases in the final analysis. A large part of it has no real organic damage, and its lesions are in invisible things such as memory, emotion, and thinking mode.

So in theory, this kind of treatment is the most direct and effective.

But the world of thinking is too mysterious. Today, most of the treatments for mental illnesses are still limited to electric shocks, sleeping pills, restraint belts and other treatment methods.

But is it really so?

Well, after saying this, everyone may have vaguely captured something in their minds, but it is not clear enough.

So let's bring our thoughts back to this story again.

At this time, Dr. Zhang already had 3 sets of numbers. The first one is "8131620" found by himself, the second is "74123" found by Liu Yi, and the third is "380" that the three of them got together. ".

And this bearded uncle named "Jia Renliang" had already introduced his occupation and name, so the three of them filed out of the dusty little house that had been sealed for a century.
Soon they climbed out of the hole, but after Dr. Zhang stood still, he was surprised to find that the mirror on the sink was not broken, and was hung on the wall intact, separated by wooden boards. There are no blood stains or scratches on the door panel of the single room in the toilet. All traces of the string of numbers just now have completely disappeared, just like a dream.

Dr. Zhang opened his mouth slightly and froze in place, but soon he broke away from the shock.There were so many strange things that happened that night that he was a little numb
Immediately afterwards, Liu Yi also climbed out of the big hole.

"Hey? How did the mirror recover?" He shouted in surprise.

Dr. Zhang didn't think much about it. In fact, he had already noticed how bizarre everything he had experienced was, but he didn't want to admit it because of what he had known all along. "Maybe, it's really like what you said, we are all in a dream." He said lightly.

As soon as the words fell, Uncle Jia Renliang also crawled out of the pit wheezingly: "What happened?"

Doctor Zhang looked at him, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Well, if I say, all this is a dream."

He didn't say any more, but looked at the other party's reaction.

Sure enough, the other party looked at him like he was looking at a mental illness.

For a moment, Dr. Zhang seemed to see himself when he just woke up. At that time, Liu Yi also said that this is a dream, and he looked at him with such eyes.
Liu Yi~Myself~Jia Renliang~One person is followed by another person, from doubt to belief, it seems to be some kind of inheritance.

Perhaps, everyone's experience is in another person's dream.

Maybe everything now is still in someone's dream...

Who knows?

Thinking of this, Dr. Zhang shook his head, and he didn't explain anything, because he knew that this uncle named Jia Renliang would understand all this sooner or later.

Just like myself at the moment.

Just like that, Dr. Zhang ignored the inexplicable look in the other party's eyes, walked straight past the mirror, and came to the door of the toilet without even looking at it.

He pushed the doorknob down.

"click"

The door lock made the sound of being opened.
"Open it!"

Dr. Zhang shouted in surprise, he had no hope of opening it at all, he just came to try it, but he did not expect it to be opened.

"What's the matter..." Jia Renliang asked when he saw the surprised expressions of the other two.

Liu Yi hurriedly explained: "This door was originally closed, but I didn't expect it to be able to open now."

"Can't open it? Just like when I was locked in the "lounge"?" Jia Renliang said.

Liu Yi nodded, indicating that it was almost the same.

At this time, Dr. Zhang had already stepped out of the door: "Okay, come out first and then talk slowly~" He waved to the two people by the big hole and shouted, and blocked the door, as if he was afraid that after the door was closed, they would come back again. It's like it can't be opened.

When Jia Renliang and Liu Yi heard this, they also ran out of the door. After all, no one wanted to be locked in the toilet.

At this moment, the three of them stood side by side in the corridor outside the toilet door, which was similar to the "mild disease area" where Dr. Zhang was located. The corridor of the "severe disease area" was also connected back and forth, with wards on one side and walls on the other. , and the two ends of the corridor are stairs and windows.

"It's finally out, I don't want to stay with shit all the time!" Liu Yi said.

Dr. Zhang sighed, he didn't want to talk to this guy at all, now his mind is full of the new patient with the scar on his mouth.

"It's him, all of this is caused by that bastard!!!" He muttered fiercely in his heart, for some reason, when he saw the photo of that guy for the first time, he had a feeling for him The emotion of overwhelming boredom No, not just boredom, but a kind of hatred, anger.
at this time
"Hey hey hey~"

A strange laugh came from the other end of the corridor.

"This... this laughter!" Liu Yi was full of panic, pointing in the direction of the sound: "This is the laughter I heard before!"

Jia Renliang also said in a panic: "This voice... this person is the one who locked me in the lounge!"

In fact, as early as the moment it just appeared.In Dr. Zhang's eyes, there was already a burst of anger. Before Liu Yi and Jia Renliang could distinguish the voice, he could hear it. This voice was the laughter he heard after dialing the phone number... He also knew that this was the voice of the new patient.

Sure enough, everything has to do with him!

"Go!" Doctor Zhang rushed out almost in the next second: "We must catch that bastard!" He shouted.

And Liu Yi and Jia Renliang also looked at each other, and quickly chased after them.

……

This corridor was not long, and in less than a minute, the three of them ran to the stairwell at the end of the corridor.

And the voice just came from upstairs...

"Damn it...it's ugly!" Dr. Zhang looked up from the bottom up, his face full of disgust.Then he ran upstairs again.

He climbed up to the second floor, and then to the third floor, one after another, he didn't know how many stairs he had climbed, at this moment, his mind was already filled with that inexplicable anger, He frantically pursued the laughter and climbed upwards.

He never thought about why this sharp laughter could penetrate such a high floor and reach his ears, nor did he think about why the entire hospital was silent all night except for the two guys following him. Did not see.

And those two strange chairs, those doors that couldn't be opened, the startled awakenings again and again, and those numbers that existed for no reason, at this moment, they were all forgotten by him.

There's no logic to it all. It's like waking up from a dream and still being in the dream.

Finally, after climbing an untold number of stairs, Dr. Zhang came to the end of the stairs, which had already exceeded the height that the hospital should have.

But he won't care about these anymore, the deeper he sinks into the dream, the less he will notice such absurdities.Just like a person in a dream cannot distinguish reality from illusion.He didn't even notice that the two people who were following him just now disappeared without a trace.

What stood in front of him at the moment was a huge iron gate made of welded fences.

He knew that this was the fence that isolated the area where those dangerous mental patients were active, that is, the corridor where the patient named "Liu Yi" told him that he was in the first dream.On one side of the iron gate, there is a combination lock, which is the one with 1 to 0 on it, 0 in the middle of the bottom row, and "*" and "#" on both sides
Doctor Zhang rushed over with a stride. The password for this lock was "74123". He knew it because Liu Yi had told him about it long ago.

After a few electronic "didi" sounds, "click", the iron door opened.

Dr. Zhang pulled open the iron fence, and in front of him was a long and narrow corridor with walls on both sides, without any room, extending forward into the darkness, the light bulb above his head flickered on and off, and the sound of steel rubbing against each other echoed in the corridor .

He ran in frantically. Because the sharp laughter sounded again.

He ran for a long time, but he did not tire. Finally, he saw a door at the end of the corridor.

It was a white door with a small window at the top.

Exactly the same as the door of the mental hospital ward.

Dr. Zhang frowned. He seemed to feel that this door was extremely familiar, but he couldn't remember anything.

So he gave up thinking.

Because at this moment, his thoughts have been swallowed by an inexplicable emotion. He doesn't like the new patient, very, very dislike, extremely disgusted, jealous, hated, angry, and even
Want to kill each other.

"I'm going to kill him." Doctor Zhang thought.

His expression gradually became ferocious.Grinning
It's like being a maniac.

Then, he pushed open the door of the ward.

But the new patient whom he hated was not in the house.

At this moment, in front of Dr. Zhang is a hospital bed, a small table, and a chair, and on the table is a telephone.
This scene, he felt extremely familiar, as if he had lived in this ward for many years.
Doctor Zhang frowned, his behavior seemed to be out of conscious control suddenly.

He grabbed the phone in front of him by mistake.

“8~1~3~1~6~2~0”

He started to press the buttons on the phone. While pressing, he whispered the numbers in his mouth.

But somehow. His hands began to tremble, and then his whole body.

In no time, he had dialed all the numbers when his finger left the last button.
"Beep-beep-"

The phone's busy tone rang.

Afterwards, the phone was connected, and there was a girl's voice on the other end of the phone.

"Hello. This is the xx City Mental Hospital. May I help you? Make an appointment for registration, ask about your condition, and give advice from a doctor."

The voice on the phone was very gentle and nice, and one could even feel that the operator was a very beautiful girl, but Dr. Zhang hardly listened to anything, and for some reason, tears welled up in his eyes
at this very moment

The environment around him began to change.

The psychiatric ward in front of me has disappeared, replaced by a residential house, two bedrooms and one living room, the decoration is very warm, the sunlight outside the window passes through the gaps in the curtains, with a warm smell, gently scattered on the photo frame on the table , in the photo frame is a photo, a man and a woman in the photo are embracing each other, their smiles are extremely sweet.

However, in the lower left corner of the photo frame, a drop of blood was stained on it abruptly.
Follow the drop of blood and look down, and you will find that there is still a pool of blood on the coffee table.The bloodstains extended along the coffee table to the floor, gathered into one piece, and spread brightly towards the living room. In the end, it turned into a long trail of dragging.

At the end is a girl, she is lying on the floor quietly, she is still wearing the clothes in the photo, but at this moment, the blood under her body has spread, dyeing the clothes scarlet.

Oh, by the way, the boy in that photo is very similar to Dr. Zhang.

It just looks much younger.
The phone in Dr. Zhang's hand had been hung up at some point, and he looked at the surrounding scene with a dazed expression.

Suddenly, he seemed to notice that there were two wet marks sliding across his face, and he subconsciously wiped it with the hand that was not holding the phone.

Immediately afterwards, a bloody smell rushed into his nostrils.

He lowered his head, but was horrified to see bloodstains all over his body, hands, and shoes. And on the floor beside his feet, a knife was lying quietly, the tip was covered with bloodstains.
(End of this chapter)