Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 264 Nurse AB
Is the three-dimensional world a higher-dimensional 'two-dimensional world'?
Does life have meaning?
Could reality be a lucid dream and humans simply not exist?

Gu Ran never thought deeply about these questions.

First of all, these are all hard to figure out. Secondly, even if reality is just a dream, so what? Should I give up on myself? Is the happiness I feel fake?
In fact, Gege didn’t think about it, it’s just that people who live in the second dimension in the spiritual world are like this.

When I arrived at the first floor, the lights in the hall were on. The vanguard of the dark clouds from the sea had already arrived at {Chunshan}. The TV was on and the weather forecast was broadcasting, saying that the south city was still experiencing scorching heat and residents were advised to reduce going out.

"It is easy to get thousands of soldiers, but it is difficult to get a good general. Doctor Gu, please think about it." Li Xiaoye who was about to go to eat said.

"Yeah." Gu Ran nodded.

Su Qing laughed.

She chatted with Gu Ran, and every time Gu Ran said something unrealistic, such as "Can you come early tomorrow morning to do the laundry?", she would answer "Yeah", and then go with He Qingyan.

She received her salary, but did not buy more washing machines. She and He Qingyan still went to Gu Ran's room to wash clothes every day.

That is Gu Ran's room.

There was a bed, she was afraid.

But are you afraid? While eating breakfast, Su Qing thought about this question and found that she was more shy.

If Gu Ran climbed through the window to her room in the middle of the night, she probably wouldn't let him in.

After breakfast, Chen Ke said, "I won't go back to the office. I'll go accompany Hu Qian."

"Yes." Su Qing nodded, "Thank you for your help. We will go there after training."

Chen Ke walked away, took a few steps, and then walked quickly, obviously worried about Hu Qian's condition.

Gu Ran returned to the office and saw Zhuang Jing's comments on "Doctor's Diary". After thinking about it, he took a photo and sent it to Chen Ke.

【Gu Ran: Don’t worry】

【Chen Ke: Okay, I understand. Thank you.】

Su Qing was also busy. The only one in Group 2 who was not in a hurry was He Qingyan. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, painting facing the sea.

Gu Ran wanted to talk to her about Li Xiaoye, so he stood up and walked over, standing between He Qingyan and Su Qing.

He looked at He Qingyan's painting. Gray clouds spread over the harbor, and the light smudged the dark clouds in layers. It didn't look like sunlight, but like the huge lighting of a UFO.

Gu Ran looked out the window and the light in reality was still a very common natural phenomenon.

"I want to ask you a question about Li Xiaoye." He said.

"I suggest you agree. It will be beneficial for me if you become the captain." He Qingyan outlined the dark clouds, like the goddess in the creation story weaving clouds.

"Will Li Xiaoye be with Li Hui after he recovers from his illness?" Gu Ran asked.

"No." He Qingyan didn't think about it.

"why?"

Su Qing also looked over curiously.

"Because Li Xiaoye loves her." He Qingyan's tone changed. "Li Xiaoye is used to transactions. He believes that his current achievements are obtained by sacrificing his marriage, family, and entertainment time. If he gets love, it must be exchanged with something equally important - for him, the only important thing is his writing talent."

"I was in charge of Li Xiaoye for a period of time," Su Qing said with a tone of reminiscence and contemplation, "In order to write, he gave up socializing with friends and traveling, and married a wife who could calmly file for divorce even if she cheated on him."

"I've seen these traits in the characters in his books." Gu Ran nodded.

"In fact, his symptom was still hallucination. When he came to the hospital for sampling, I tried to use {natural therapy} to make him change his fixed mindset of 'trading'." Su Qing continued.

"For a person like this," He Qingyan moved slightly closer to the canvas and painted more carefully, "it's a pity to cure him. I hope Ke Ke can successfully 'recover her talent' - Okay."

Gu Ran lowered his head to look at He Qingyan's painting again, feeling a little horrified.

It seemed as if the UFO in the dark clouds had discovered him.

Looking closely, with his lack of painting skills, he didn't notice any changes in the painting compared to before the conversation. However, the light and dark levels of the dark clouds gave him a feeling of being watched.

"How amazing!" he exclaimed.

"Actually, I'm also a transactional type." He Qingyan clapped her hands and stood up. "Without inspiration, I can't draw. If you ask me to draw Rose, my drawing is not as good as Jack's. But if it's Su Qing or Gu Ran lying there naked, no one in the world can draw better than me."

"Neither of us will draw for you." Gu Ran said.

"I have drawn Su Qing."

"what?!"

"Put on your clothes." Su Qing said.

"Oh." Gu Ran replied calmly, "I can probably guess it."

"I secretly took photos of Su Qing and then drew them."

"what?!"

He Qingyan looked at Su Qing and said to her, "Do you think Gu Ran is like a toy like a screaming chicken? Press it and it screams?"

"It's quite fun." Su Qing also laughed.

I think we should just get together. Anyway, you guys seem very happy and skilled at bullying each other when you team up - Gu Ran almost retaliated against Su Qing for betrayal.

But some jokes can't be made.

After a short rest, when the time came, the three of them went to the dean's office.

Zhuang Jing was not behind the desk and the door of the quiet room was closed.

"Gu Ran," He Qingyan raised her chin slightly towards the quiet room, "Go knock on the door."

"Do you think I'm stupid?" Gu Ran would never be fooled a second time.

He Qingyan smiled. Of course, she was also thinking of her first meeting with Gu Ran. It was also a rare sunny day, and she tricked Gu Ran into the quiet room.

But until now she still doesn’t know what Gu Ran saw that day?
You can't have seen it all, right?
He Qingyan's extraordinary mental system makes her feel excited when facing any situation, without feeling that it is inappropriate at all.

In fact, He Qingyan herself was not sure about the proposal of five people getting together. Was it because she needed courage or because she thought it was just for fun?

Or, are you using the excuse of "it's fun" to cover up your worries?
During this process, the only thing she could be sure of was her own feelings, and that was that she liked Gu Ran.

No one could understand the excitement in her heart when she saw Gu Ran moving stones to block her car on a rainy day. It was like a modern person lost in the Jurassic period meeting another modern person.

Of course I was suspicious and wary at first, but the urge to get close to him was always there.

Su Qing knocked on the door of the quiet room, then gently turned the twist. The door was not locked.

She took a look at the situation inside before signaling Gu Ran and He Qingyan to go in together.

Zhuang Jing faced the dark clouds outside the floor-to-ceiling window and sat cross-legged on the floor, which was a palm above the ground.

"Aunt Jing, are you going to become a nun?" He Qingyan smiled with pretended curiosity.

"My desires are so strong, how can I become a monk?" Zhuang Jing stood up with a smile, like an orchid spreading its petals before his eyes.

"Strong desire?" He Qingyan was relatively restrained in front of her elders and just repeated the word ambiguously.

If it were Gu Ran, Su Qing and Chen Ke, I wonder what unbearable words she would say.

"You." Zhuang Jing scolded with a doting smile.

start training.

There was an accident.

The sky was blue with white clouds floating by. Gu Ran was standing on a hillside with flowers blooming, and nurses AB were standing behind him.

Both of them wore swallowtail hats and blue nurse uniforms with skirts. They both had two simple and beautiful pigtails that rested on their chests.

"You don't seem to have the authority to recruit employees?" Su Qing asked Gu Ran.

".I don't know anything." Gu Ran said.

He said so, of course Su Qing chose to believe him.

She knew very well that if she didn't ask, Gu Ran might not tell her on his own initiative, but if she asked clearly, Gu Ran would definitely tell the truth.

"Why are you trying to steal Chen Nian's wife?" He Qingyan crossed her arms and said, "You're getting more and more excited!"

It’s really interesting to be with Gu Ran!
"What's going on?" Zhuang Jing asked them.

"Aunt Jing, they are nurses AB who can reset time." Gu Ran explained.

Just by saying this, Zhuang Jing understood the specific situation of "Forgetting the Dream of the Future". Gu Ran wrote the report as carefully as counting wages.

"Monster?" Zhuang Jing was curious.

"But I don't have a [heart wall]." Gu Ran was puzzled.

"Yes." said Nurse A.

“It was on the wrist, Doctor Gu,” said Nurse B.

"On your wrist? That silver ring?"

"Ah."

"Correct."

"So small?" He Qingyan said.

"." No reason is needed. Just because it is He Qingyan who is speaking, one can conclude that she is making a double entendre.

"Monsters that can communicate." Su Qing pondered. Gu Ran immediately thought of the monsters he encountered in "Dream of Drifting in the Classroom". He looked at Zhuang Jing, whose expression did not change, still looking at Nurse AB curiously.

Zhuang Jing might have thought of it a long time ago.

"We are different from ordinary Yin gods." said Nurse A.

“We are not the old monsters you imagine.” Nurse B said.

"We have the memory of that pair of nurses."

"But our new body comes from the doctor's consciousness, so--"

Nurse AB's voices joined together: "So that we can continue to communicate with humans."

"Is there anything special about Gu Ran?" Su Qing has always been curious about this question.

She hoped that Gu Ran would be like her, either special together and bear the pressure together, or ordinary together. She didn't want to experience Gu Ran getting sick alone again.

Gu Ran was also a fool and didn't notice her mood.

But it’s okay. He didn’t feel the pity in He Qingyan’s heart every time she said "ten thousand rounds".

"Dr. Gu is a human being," said nurse AB.

He Qingyan whispered to Su Qing so that everyone could hear: "They are saying that we are not human."

"What's the difference between people like us and him?" Zhuang Jing asked.

She was just curious, without any extra emotions.

No, yes, she had forgotten about training, which was the biggest emotion for Zhuang Jing.

Nurses AB looked at Gu Ran.

"Doctor Gu, can you speak?" asked Nurse A.

"We only follow your doctor's orders," said Nurse B.

Before Gu Ran could speak, He Qingyan said, "Even Gu Ran listens to Aunt Jing, what do you think?"

"That's right!" Gu Ran agreed strongly.

"According to the records," Nurse A opened the diary, "when I was nine years old, Dr. Gu performed a psychological trauma removal surgery on me."

"How is that possible?" Su Qing was surprised.

Even He Qingyan was silent for a moment.

"At the bottom of the strange dream abyss shrouded in despair and fear, there lives a terrifying black beast that can gnaw at the [heart wall]." Nurse B read the words in the diary.

Gu Ran walked over and took a look. Just like in the "Forgotten Future Dream", there was not a single word on the diary.

"The black beast has wings that are strong enough to cross the dream world." Nurse A read out.

"The fire that comes out of the mouth melts the [heart wall], kills the Yin spirit, and erases the subconscious." Nurse B said.

"A terrible monster that hatched and grew using Dr. Gu's powerful will as food."

"When its wings were not yet capable of flying, it was found by Doctor Gu and the Subconscious Complex, and the flames melted everything."

"The strange dream abyss of despair and fear, the black beast, and the subconscious complex all disappeared, and only the nine-year-old Dr. Gu walked out of the dream."

"But, is it still Dr. Gu who is taking over the body?"

"He is Doctor Gu."

“But he’s not just Dr. Gu.”

"He is a newborn being, just like some spiritual essence in the universe that wants to use Dr. Gu as an example to prove its existence and greatness."

"No, it was an accident, a miracle."

"To sum up, Dr. Gu is a human being."

"He is a human being, what are we?" He Qingyan was surprised, stunned, and a little curious.

Nurses AB looked at each other.

They both took out pens from their chest pockets at the same time and wrote and drew in their diaries.

Zhuang Jing, Su Qing, He Qingyan, and Gu Ran were all watching, but they couldn't see the words, nor could they imagine what they wrote through gestures.

They both put away their pens.

"Corrected." said Nurse A.

Nurse B said: "You are human beings, and Dr. Gu is——"

Nurses AB spoke at the same time: "Human God."

"Listening to your description, I just feel like a psychopath among humans." Gu Ran said.

"There are many explanations for a word in the dictionary," said Nurse A.

"'Man-god' can also be interpreted as 'mental illness among humans'," said Nurse B.

"What's the main idea?" Zhuang Jing asked them.

“A collection of human beings and spirits.”

"A spiritually strong person among humans."

"The one who enlightens himself among men."

"God is more palatable."

This is no longer a question of whether it is smooth or not.

"Are your abilities still there?" Gu Ran asked.

"Wait." Zhuang Jing raised her hand, "What are your abilities?"

Gu Ran was stunned for a moment before he realized that his understanding of nurses AB's abilities was indeed just speculation.

"In the dream, we are within Dr. Gu's sphere of influence, and we can choose a time point as the 'starting point'." Nurse A said.

"We can go back to the 'starting point' countless times before Dr. Gu becomes exhausted," said Nurse B.

"Do you want to tell me your weaknesses?" Nurses AB looked at Gu Ran.

"Go ahead."

"First, we will also return to the 'starting point' and only retain our memories. This is an advantage, but it will also drain our mental energy;"

"Second, once the holder is defeated, whether it is a defeat in a 'physical' sense or a failure of mental will, they can take us away."

Are you some kind of Elder Wand?

"That is to say," Su Qing asked tentatively, "in the last dream, as long as we defeat Chen Nian, we can at least solve the problem of repeating ourselves again and again?"

"Yes." said Nurse A.

"But it's impossible." Nurse B explained, "Before we are defeated, Chen Nian will bring us back to the starting point."

"What about attacking you directly?" Gu Ran asked.

"Doctor Gu, it is wrong for a doctor to attack his own nurse."

"Especially male doctors attacking female nurses."

"If you have the guts, go attack Nurse Steel."

"Doctor Gu can't win," Nurse B said to Nurse A, "after all, he has been beaten more than a thousand times."

"I have to correct you. It was actually more than 1,600 times, rounded up to 2,000 times," said Nurse A.

"Almost countless times." Nurse B looked at Gu Ran.

"Yes." Nurse A nodded.

"Can I give you away?" Gu Ran asked.

"No."

"Unless you are defeated, Dr. Gu."

Gu Ran looked at Zhuang Jing.

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《Personal Diary》: Wednesday, September 23, Jinghai
I quite like the personalities of nurses AB, but it’s a pity that they are humanoid women and I can’t have them.

Even He Qingyan, Chen Ke and Xie Xiya didn't let me break the rules, let alone the two Yin Gods?

Human God is a human mental illness. What is Yin God?
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"Doctor's Diary":
According to Dr. He, Li Xiaoye believes that only through sacrifice can one gain something, and he can sacrifice everything for writing.

This is not a mental illness, just a difference in personality.

(Zhuang Jing's comment: personal choice)

(End of this chapter)