Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 325 Let me become light!
Zhuang Jing quickly covered Yan Hanxiang's eyes with her hands. Yan Hanxiang did not resist because it was too late.

As Gu Ran looked at him in surprise, a stick of incense emerged from the shadow of Yanhanxiang, and the shadow turned into a thin line, connecting the incense and Yanhanxiang.

It is about seven or eight centimeters long and less than one centimeter wide, not even half a centimeter. It is so thin, like the thin line that the shadow has turned into.

"Didn't we agree to go everywhere together?" Yan Hanxiang took Zhuang Jing's hand away, held it in her own, with a happy smile on her face.

Just like when they were traveling and her friend fell into the water in public, she jumped into the water too.

Like a fool.

Zhuang Jing looked at her for a while and could only smile helplessly.

"What about you?" Yan Hanxiang's face turned cold and she looked at Gu Ran, "How dare you not accompany us?"

Zhuang Jing, who had tried to stop Yan Hanxiang before, did not stop her this time. Instead, she smiled and observed Gu Ran's reaction.

As a boyfriend, his instinct awakened - in simple terms, it was the will to survive. Gu Ran said, "Although I don't know what's going on, I just need to watch."

Before he could look at the black sun, a figure walked out from the mist at the foot of the hill.

Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang immediately stood in front of Gu Ran.

Three people came from the opposite side, two men and one woman, wrapped in simple black robes, with shabby modern clothes underneath.

It’s hard to tell his age, he looks to be in his twenties, but also like he’s in his thirties or forties.

They looked at each other, both very wary.

"Are you new here?" asked the woman in black robe.

"That's right." Zhuang Jing nodded, "There were several villagers with us who were pushed down by the nightmare and fell into the deeper depths."

The black-robed man A asked suspiciously: "Then you——"

Before he finished speaking, he closed his mouth and his expression relaxed. The same happened to the black-robed man B and the black-robed woman.

The armored cavalry stood behind Zhuang Jing, like a great knight defending the king's power and protecting the queen.

The air behind the black-robed woman shook, and a three-headed bird struggled out as if breaking out of a cage, letting out an ear-piercing roar towards the sky.

After concentrating and being on guard for a moment, Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Did you also slip and fall from reality?" Yan Hanxiang asked.

"Zhang Yue and I are," the black-robed woman said, and then glanced at the black-robed man B who had never spoken, "The devil is not."

Before Zhuang Jing could continue, she continued, "It's not safe here. After collecting supplies, you will come back to the camp with us."

The black-robed trio swiftly searched the entire house, taking away everything that could be taken away, including food, water, and even small items like bowls and chopsticks and large items like chairs and other furniture.

Not only that.

"Help me get it. As compensation, we will provide you with three days of accommodation and food, of course, the minimum."

Of course they had food and water.

They went out hiking, and in their bags were self-heating pots, chocolate, fruit, potato chips, water, etc., even power banks and headphones.

But accommodation, as well as intelligence, is what they need.

Gu Ran was just mentally weak and had no energy to do anything, but his body was fine. He had no problem numbly carrying the backpack, which contained the things the three of them had brought.

Yan Hanxiang and Zhuang Jing helped the three men in black robes carry the miscellaneous items.

After packing up, the six people left quickly.

The black-robed man named "Devil" was in the front, walking in the fog as if he could see things, and soon led them out of the fog and into the wilderness.

The ridges of the fields stretch out endlessly, with occasional crops and sometimes small woods, and next to the groves there are small ponds covered with water chestnuts.

The black sun shines on everything.

Gu Ran looked around and felt it was weird. The shadows were so present that it seemed as if they were the real bodies.

After walking for more than half an hour, the three men in black robes led them into a fairly large and dense forest.

There was a camp in the woods, with a tent standing alone, and two men in black robes looking like watchmen.

"Here." The black-robed woman handed a bag of things to one of them, "For six people, these three people will only stay for three days."

The black-robed guard opened the snakeskin bag and reached in to check.

"Go in." He said coldly.

The two black-robed guards were very indifferent to Gu Ran and the others and only glanced at them once more.

“Follow closely.” The woman in black robe opened the tent door and walked in.

The tent was not big and looked like it could only sleep two people at most. But once you got inside, you would find that it was actually a fairly spacious cellar. No, it was a prison.

There was a long corridor with a wall on one side and cells on the other. At a rough glance, there were probably thirty or forty cells.

"You can live in any empty room, but you can only choose one, and you can only stay there for three days. After you choose a room, you can also exchange the things in your hands with other people for supplies and information. I suggest you go find the old woman to exchange for a black robe first." After the woman in black robe said this, she walked forward and entered a cell with the other two.

"It has a bit of smell." Yan Hanxiang pinched her nose.

Zhuang Jing and Gu Ran didn't smell it.

"We'll have to make do with it. Let's go," said Zhuang Jing.

"What is going on?" Gu Ran followed them.

The doors of the empty cells were all open. After checking, I found that the layouts were similar. There was only one toilet and nothing else.

They randomly chose a cell with no one on either side - this was the case with almost all cells, with both sides empty, like a zebra crossing.

Close the door and the small window on it.

The cell was very bright, and Gu Ran felt much more comfortable here, because the shadow was finally just a shadow. Although the sense of existence was not as low as in reality, it was not like a real person like outside.

Gu Ran took out a picnic mat from his backpack and spread it out in the corner.

"I'm so tired." Yan Hanxiang lay down all of a sudden and looked at the ceiling blankly.

Zhuang Jing also sat down silently.

Gu Ran sat for a while, then took the backpack, took out all the things inside, and placed them one by one on the picnic mat.

A box of sandwiches, a large piece of chocolate, a small bag of oranges, a box of fruit platter, a small box of Zhou Hei Ya vegetarian dishes, three bananas, three triangular rice balls, three self-heating pots (two of which are rice and one is Haidilao), five bottles of water, and a power bank.

"That's all," he said.

My brain was numb, as if I went to bed at six in the morning, got up at seven to catch the bus, started climbing the mountain at eight, and finally sat down to rest.

He just thought that Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang might want to use these things to exchange for information, or maybe they also needed to eat something, so they took out all the things.

Zhuang Jing looked at the supplies.

"I don't know if I can go back." Yan Hanxiang raised his right hand, like a falling person trying to grab something.

"Eat an orange?" Gu Ran picked up an orange.

"Eat!" Yan Hanxiang stood up quickly as if to cheer herself up.

Three people share an orange.

"Thinking about it carefully," Yan Hanxiang sniffed the orange peel, "being able to get down with so many supplies is already a blessing in disguise."

"These things are enough to last until we go back," said Zhuang Jing.

"Can we go back?" Yan Hanxiang asked.

"Of course!" Zhuang Jing laughed.

"Wait." Gu Ran raised his hand, "What's going on?"

"Have you really lost your memory?" Yan Hanxiang put her hand on his forehead to test the temperature, then looked at him, "Do you still remember who I am?"

"My wild girlfriend." said Gu Ran.

"If you want to die, just say it." Yan Hanxiang smiled.

She no longer had any worries in her heart. As long as Gu Ran remembered this, it would be fine. However, she had to find an opportunity to interrogate him thoroughly, no, to check if his memory was disordered. Otherwise, how could he be the wild girlfriend?

"Have you forgotten why we fell here?" Zhuang Jing asked.

"Where is this place?" Gu Ran was puzzled.

"You even forgot this?" Yan Hanxiang was surprised.

"Ah."

"It's troublesome to start from the beginning." Yan Hanxiang pondered, "Do you still remember "Norwegian Wood"? "

"remember."

The two watched it together.

"In the first chapter of the book, Naoko said there was a well in the wilderness, a well that was quietly covered by green grass, had no fences around it, and could not be found before falling into it. We are in the well now, but we have not fallen completely in, so we are still at the mouth of the well."

Gu Ran thought about this for a while. "Do you understand?" Yan Hanxiang asked.

"I see, we are in a dream, right?" Gu Ran said.

"It's not a dream, it's crazy." Zhuang Jing said.

"Forget it." Gu Ran gave up thinking. He couldn't think now. "I'll listen to you anyway."

At this moment, instead of thinking, he realized one thing, just like he felt itchy and slapped a mosquito to death: the villagers who had been killed by the nightmare before were like a hand holding the wellhead that was stepped on by someone and fell deeper.

But what are the knights and incense summoned by Yan Hanxiang and Zhuang Jing?

"Gu Ran, you take a rest first and recover as soon as possible. Han Xiang and I will go exchange information." Zhuang Jing put the things back into the backpack.

"You two go? No!" Gu Ran stood up.

"Don't worry." Yan Hanxiang smiled, "We are not weak women now."

Incense appeared behind her and a wisp of white smoke rose slowly. Gu Ran felt her mind at peace, just like in "Pokémon", when she handed the Pokémon over to Miss Joy, her heart was the Pokémon that was restored.

You can even hear the representative's recovery sound effect.

Amidst the sound effects, he watched Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang leave with their backpacks. They did not take everything with them, and half of the supplies were left.

There is also this tent. Although the prison shape is a bit unsatisfactory, the overall look is very similar to the scene in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire".

Strange, what is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? Neither of the two current Harry Potter movies has this name.

In a blink of an eye, this thought was thrown out of my mind, and my mind felt so comfortable that it seemed like it was about to fall asleep.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang came back, each holding three robes and a tattered book.

As for supplies, not to mention supplies, even the backpacks are gone.

"How is it?" Yan Hanxiang asked him.

"Great." Gu Ran gently pushed his arms and stood up, "Aunt Jing, Aunt Xiang, I remember everything now."

Zhuang Jing looked at Yan Hanxiang: "Do you usually play like this?"

"Even if we're playing, I told him to call me mom, not 'Auntie'. He's crazy. It doesn't make sense. The fragrance I release is to restore your mental strength." Yan Hanxiang was puzzled.

"I'll take you back now." Gu Ran said as he was about to summon the black bird.

"Put on your clothes first." Zhuang Jing comforted a child who didn't want to get up in winter. "The black robe has a certain support function, which can reduce the risk of us falling further."

"Aunt Jing, I really want to stay and continue exploring, but you have no memories and it will affect the progress of exploration. Come with me." Gu Ran walked towards the cell door and reached out to open it.

My vision was blurry and my brain was dizzy.

He vaguely heard a conversation.

"He seems to have fallen some distance further." This was Yan Hanxiang's voice.

"It seems that his worries are heavier than ours." Just by listening to the tone, you can tell that Zhuang Jing is analyzing.

"You must be worried that you don't have the money to marry me." Yan Hanxiang was a little narcissistic.

No, Aunt Xiang, stop it!

Gu Ran fell into a coma.

Gu Ran woke up and saw a strange ceiling.

Looking sideways, Yan Hanxiang seemed to be playing a virtual game, lighting something on the "incense", mumbling from time to time, as if he was synthesizing something.

Zhuang Jing held the tattered book in her hands and flipped through it very carefully.

"Aunt Xiang."

"What did you call me?" Yan Hanxiang looked over.

Gu Ran glanced at the incense stick floating beside her: "Sister Xiang."

"You used to call me Xiangxiang."

".Ahem." Gu Ran couldn't deny it, "What should we do next?"

"Are you awake?" Zhuang Jing asked.

"Awake." Gu Ran looked serious, afraid of being knocked unconscious again.

Zhuang Jing smiled softly, and then pondered: "According to the information we have obtained, there is only one way to return to reality."

It's Da Gu who turns into a black dragon and takes you flying out.

"A 'human god' has recently come to the dreamland." Zhuang Jing looked at the book on his knees. "The 'human god' can freely travel between reality and dreams. There are reports that he has appeared in the territory of the old gods."

Fake news, he is in jail now.

"How do we get to the territory of the old gods? Even if we go there and find the 'human god', why should we ask him to help us? We can't even get the promise of God." Yan Hanxiang said.

All you need is orders.

Gu Ran was afraid of the consequences and took a look at the incense. If he did anything wrong, he might faint at any time.

Gu Ran did not dare to call the black bird over, for fear that the black-robed guardian would regard it as a nightmare and kill it - the black bird itself only had the fighting power of a bird, just like the magic wand can only be used to hit people.

Gu Ran pondered, as if he was also thinking about how to get the 'human god' to agree to help.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with traveling with Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang. Although losing memory will affect the progress of exploration, it is not a big deal.

The real question is -

1. He recovered his memory, but they did not;

2. He and Yan Hanxiang are a couple at this time, and Zhuang Jing is by their side.

First he pretended to cooperate, and when they were outside the prison tent, he pretended that the monster he summoned was a black bird, and then he unexpectedly turned into a black dragon and took them out.

but.

Gu Ran looked at Zhuang Jing who was flipping through a book attentively. The eighteen-year-old girl was beautiful and seemed to have a smile on her lips.

She didn't recover her memory, so this was a good opportunity to help her pause her youth.

What if my memory is restored after I get out?
I’m not dreaming—just play dumb.

Anyway, I refuse to admit it.

"What are you looking at?"

Gu Ran looked over and saw Yan Hanxiang looking at him with a smile, but there was no smile in her voice.

"Reading." Gu Ran answered calmly.

"What's wrong?" Zhuang Jing moved her eyes away from the book and looked at them.

"The book says that the longer you stay in one place, the greater the risk of falling. Let's set off without further ado," Gu Ran said seriously.

Yan Hanxiang withdrew her gaze from him.

"Let's go." Zhuang Jing stood up.

The three men left the tent, and the others seemed accustomed to their behavior.

People who have just arrived will not be willing to give up, just like people who fall into the "bottom of a well". They will try everything in a short period of time, but soon they will just lie at the bottom of the well waiting for the judgment of fate.

"Don't be in a hurry." Gu Ran stood on the edge of the field, staring at the black sun.

Yan Hanxiang seemed to want to say something but stopped herself, while Zhuang Jing remained silent.

Look directly at the black sun and summon the Mind Monster. While gaining the ability to protect yourself, you also have to bear the weight of the Mind Monster.

The heavier the weight, the more likely it is to fall and the faster it will fall.

But a young man like Gu Ran, who was completely powerless in front of Yan Hanxiang, knew the importance of the mind monster, so he had to summon it even if there were risks.

A black bird fell from the sky and landed on Gu Ran's shoulder.

Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang looked at him.

"Why is it a bird? It's so black, and I don't know what it's used for." Gu Ran pretended to be disgusted, "What's wrong with you?"

Only then did Gu Ran realize that they were not looking at him, but what was behind him.

Gu Ran turned around and was so scared that he almost slipped on the ridge of the field.

A black goat was staring at him expressionlessly.

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《Personal Diary》: October 12, Monday, Jinghai

The black goat is because of the [Crank]?
There are also black goats in Cthulhu mythology, but they are not very similar.

(End of this chapter)