Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 332 The End of the Tunnel
Dissatisfaction is a necessity in life and the main driving force for progress.

Being content is also a necessity. As the ancients said, being content brings happiness.

Only when you have both qualities can you have a balanced life. If you are not dissatisfied but only contented, your life is inevitably mediocre; if you are not content but only dissatisfied, your life will be nothing but toil.

But is it worth risking your life for the sake of "contentment"?
not worth it.

"Don't wander around, let's go in." Gu Ran said.

It's not worth it for 'contentment', but it's worth it for doctors' patients.

Everyone looked at him.

"It's a dark tunnel, and there might be Haunter or Gengar in it. Considering that this place is close to the sea, there might be a wild red Gyarados." He Qingyan was just excited.

Su Qing withdrew her gaze from Gu Ran and looked at Xie Xiya: "Xiya, you also stay here with An Yao, don't let her do anything stupid."

The extremely beautiful girl glanced at her coldly.

Su Qing hesitated for a moment, then said, "You may think this is a dream, but this is an operation, and we have experienced this several times before. I know you won't believe anything I say now, I will explain it to you in detail after we get out, now, please stay with An Yao."

Xie Xiya looked at the doctors with her clear and calm eyes, and finally nodded, and uttered two words from her cherry lips: "Okay."

Su Qing had no choice but to do this.

Gu Ran could only dream whenever she wanted, not whatever she wanted to dream. This might be the only time she would dream of An Yao, so she had to do everything she could to seize the opportunity and cure An Yao once and for all!
Therefore, she needed to go in with Gu Ran, He Qingyan, and Chen Ke, leaving no room for any effort, and could only let Xie Xiya accompany - in fact, watch over - An Yao.

"An Yao, do you know what else is in the tunnel besides your 'contentment'?" Chen Ke asked softly.

"The one who stole my contentment." An Yao said.

"Who?" Chen Ke continued to ask.

"My mother."

Chen Ke smiled and said, "Okay, we understand. Please wait here for a moment."

The four of them walked into the tunnel, which was pitch black without a single light. Looking back, they saw Xie Xiya, who was wearing a school skirt, and the tall An Yao standing together. Their occasional movements seemed to be accelerated.

"Our time has stopped." said Chen Ke.

"This is my ability." Gu Ran said.

Everyone looked at him.

Their serious expressions made Gu Ran regret a little: ".I was just kidding."

Su Qing rolled her eyes at him and said, "My mother and Aunt Xiang are not here, and the four of us are all newbies, but don't be afraid. Don't forget that An Yao is just a patient in the sanatorium, and her symptoms are not serious."

Chen Ke nodded.

She took a deep breath and looked into the dark, endless tunnel. Wasn't it her duty to walk into the darkness and bring the patient out?
You can't be afraid, you're not allowed to be afraid.

With Gu Ran, Su Qing and He Qingyan by my side, this is just another dream and there is nothing to be afraid of.

As everyone walked inside, the light from the exit behind them became smaller and smaller, until it became as small as a light bulb.

Bang!
The sudden collision startled the four people. When they looked in the direction of the sound, they found that it was Chen Ke's shadow that was colliding, and he looked like he was about to break out of the shadow world.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
There were three more collisions in succession. The shadows of Gu Ran, Su Qing, and He Qingyan were all colliding, staring at them like ghosts.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring the Poké Ball." He Qingyan said regretfully.

Her shadow shrank back, leaving only three shadows on the wall.

She smiled and said to Gu Ran, "Gu Ran, if you can gain the ability to stop time, what are you going to do to the doctors, nurses and patients in the hospital?"

"First, carve 'Serve the Country with Loyalty' on your face."

"that's it?"

"Start carving from 'The smoke of war rises, and the country looks northward.'"

"So cruel!"

"If you have a hangnail on your nail, I will tear it off for you with my hands."

"You are even less worthy of having time stopped than those people who lift up girls' skirts!"

Su Qing and Chen Ke both smiled slightly, and the shadows on the wall disappeared. The four of them continued to move forward until there was no light in front or behind them.

"Just in case, I'll turn into a black dragon first." Gu Ran said.

"How long can your mental strength last?" Su Qing asked.

Holding a knife or a gun consumes physical strength, and summoning a mind monster also consumes mental strength, otherwise the four of them would have been "fully armed" before the progress tunnel.

"It depends on how long the battle lasts and how intense it is. However, it is more important to ensure that we have enough courage to move on than how long it lasts."

If Zhuang Jing were here, she would only need a lantern to lead them to the depths of the tunnel.

Without them, Zhuang Jing, relying on her heart, was enough to bring An Yao's "contentment" out of the darkness.

Su Qing, Chen Ke and He Qingyan only felt a breeze blowing, and then two floating red gems appeared in the darkness. They were the eyes of the black dragon.

"After becoming a black dragon, do you feel any different about the tunnel than before?" Su Qing suddenly asked.

"The biggest difference should be fear," said Gu Ran.

"Now that you're stronger, you're not afraid of the dark anymore?" He Qingyan joked.

"I guess so." Gu Ran said with a smile, "Come up."

The tunnel was narrow enough to accommodate the black dragon, but not enough for him to fly. He could only run with the three people on his back, like a chocobo.

"Dongfang Long is still more convenient." Gu Ran said.

"Just be content." Su Qing added a hint of helplessness to the word 'be content'.

Gu Ran feels content and yet unsatisfied in his heart. This is the mentality of most normal people. The rest, whether they are too content or too unsatisfied, are considered abnormal - only when they are too content can it be considered a disease.

As we moved forward, there was nothing but black, black, and black.

Finally, the black dragon saw the end of the tunnel. The tunnel was not connected, and there was a solid stone wall at the end.

The black dragon spit out a small cluster of flames, and Su Qing and the other two used the light of the fire to see the situation clearly.

"Is it the end?" Su Qing asked.

"It looks like there's a painting." Chen Ke didn't see it clearly.

He Qingyan said proudly: “Huh.”

"Speak." Su Qing ordered.

"The painting shows two women with similar facial features. They should be mother and daughter. The daughter is An Yao, who looks about fifteen years old."

"You have such a strong memory." Gu Ran admired it.

"I really want to be, but it's not." He Qingyan sighed with a look of regret, but seemed even more proud, "My method of memory is photographic. A blink of an eye is like a click of a camera, and it's a painting."

"Do you have any inspiration?" Su Qing asked further.

"You are good at asking questions. It seems you know me well in advance." He Qingyan seemed to be a big shot who was being interviewed and was praising the young reporter. "When I saw that painting, it came alive in my mind. My mother said to the woman -

"'Your eyes, your nose, your legs, and your height are all given to you by me. Just because of this, I have the right to control you!'

"My daughter. Um, my daughter didn't say anything."

This is why psychologists work in groups.

Several people with different strengths form a team and cooperate with each other. In most cases, there is strength in numbers.

"Is there nothing else?" Su Qing asked.

"Anyway, I didn't see anything else." He Qingyan's tone sounded like 'spreading her hands'.

"No more." Gu Ran assured, because the black dragon can see at night.

"Gu Ran, were you listening to me and looking at the painting at the same time, but found that you still didn't hear what your mother said?" He Qingyan asked with a smile.

"What's the difference between you and An Yao's mother? Vicious woman!"

"No one is as vicious as you, actually pulling out other people's barbs with your hands!"

"I'm just talking, I haven't done it yet." "I'm just talking too."

The two attacked each other, but Su Qing didn't care. She just thought about what to do next.

Chen Ke suddenly asked in a tentative tone: "Qingyan, do you have an idea?"

Su Qing was thoughtful.

As for Gu Ran? Is he the only one in the atmosphere group? Is He Qingyan the kind of two-faced person who chats with poor students in class while secretly getting the first place in the exam? !

"Why do you say that?" He Qingyan looked in the direction of Chen Ke curiously.

The darkness here seems to be the nest of night. Whenever the sun sets, the night leaves here and covers the world.

"It's an intuition." Chen Ke himself didn't seem to understand the tone of his voice. "Hypnotists are more sensitive to sound, especially in dark environments."

"Do you have any ideas?" Su Qing asked He Qingyan.

"For a painting, just change it directly." He Qingyan said.

Just as he finished speaking, Black Dragon saw on the mural that his mother's eyes rolled, looking at the four people in the night, and then met Black Dragon's ruby ​​eyes.

With some people, as soon as you meet them, you know what the outcome will be.

Gu Ran knew that he would have a fight with An Yao's mother.

"What's wrong?" Su Qing felt something was wrong, without relying on her eyes, nose, or even language.

"Mom is resurrected."

"Did An Yao allow you to call her Mom?" He Qingyan asked.

The black dragon raised its right claw and swung forward.

In the darkness, Su Qing and the other two could not see anything. They suddenly saw a series of sparks. In the dim light of the sparks, a large hen with a woman's face flashed and disappeared.

Keng! Keng!
There were several sparks in the darkness.

"Qingyan, go and revise the painting, we'll take this hen away!" Su Qing ordered.

"Don't be impatient, I have something to say." He Qingyan said.

A few more sparks.

"Keke," He Qingyan continued, "Come with me. I only paint when I'm inspired. I need you to hypnotize An Yao and make her resist. Only when An Yao has this intention can I change the painting."

Chen Ke subconsciously said, "I am a novice and not yet proficient in hypnosis."

The words came to her lips, but she swallowed them back.

"Okay!" she replied.

Gu Ran and Su Qing held the hens back, while she and He Qingyan came to the painted wall. It was dark in front of them, and they could only rely on He Qingyan's memory to lead the way.

There was a roar in my ears. It should be Su Qing summoning the [Heart Wall].

"Did you want to refuse just now?" He Qingyan suddenly said.

"Ah?" Chen Ke was startled, both because he suddenly heard a voice in the darkness and because he was being called.

"After I passed my driving test, I didn't drive for a long time. Suddenly, someone in my family was sick and asked me to drive. I would subconsciously refuse, but I still had to go. After hearing your 'OK' just now, I wanted to draw a picture like this."

Chen Ke was amused and helpless: "Well, you are right, but let's change the painting quickly."

"Give me your hand." He Qingyan said.

The two reached toward each other in the darkness.

"Where do you want to touch?" He Qingyan asked.

".I'm sorry." In fact, she only touched the wrist, but Chen Ke felt as if he had touched a place he shouldn't have touched.

He Qingyan reached out her hand and touched the stone wall.

"In fact, Gu Ran should have come, as he is An Yao's attending physician." He Qingyan said, "But that is the normal process. He slowly enlightened An Yao and managed An Yao's psychology for a long time, allowing the freed An Yao to come here, save her past self, and leave the tunnel with her fifteen-year-old self.

"But we don't have enough time. We can only rely on hypnosis. Let's let the fifteen-year-old An Yao come out on her own and tell her twenty-five-year-old self outside to believe in herself."

"Qingyan, you--" Chen Ke couldn't help but speak, but stopped talking.

"Is it more powerful than you thought?" He Qingyan's voice was filled with laughter.

"Awesome? Well, kind of, but I wanted to say another word that you might hate."

"Bad words? Go ahead, I don't care about bad words the most."

"You're gentler than I thought."

"Here is the left ear of fifteen-year-old An Yao; here is her face." He Qingyan said, "Let's start."

On the other side, in the darkness, sparks were flying.

"Gu Ran, save your energy, our mission is to delay time!" Su Qing rode on the [Dream Beast] and stood behind a barrier formed by tree shadows, blocking the hen's retreat.

Both hypnosis and painting modification are done in a quiet environment, and the two of them move the battlefield farther away.

For some reason, the farther away from the mural, the stronger the hen's power became. She was able to occasionally escape from the fight with the black dragon and crash into the tree shadow barrier.

With every collision, Su Qing heard countless voices, and they sounded at every age she had in the past.

At the age of five, Gu Ran, who was herding cattle, said: "A child who depends on his parents."

At the age of nine, the girls who were competing in piano on the same stage secretly said, "Who can't do this if their parents have money to hire a famous teacher to teach them?"

At my father's funeral, relatives and friends said, "It's all her fault. She didn't want a nanny and wanted my father to pick her up."

Su Qing felt a pang in her heart. She had indeed said that she preferred her father to pick her up rather than a nanny.

I heard my mother's cold voice: "I've given you everything. Don't disturb me while I'm doing my research."

Is the relationship between children and parents determined by the material things they give to each other?

If a daughter is thirty and has no job, or a father is forty or fifty and has no savings, are they no longer father and daughter?
Isn’t what is truly important the love that is too shameful to speak of but does exist?
"How is this possible! Why aren't you afraid of the dark!" The hen screamed sharply in disbelief.

Su Qing came back to her senses and took a deep breath, as if changing her mood by breathing.

Only then did she remember that Gu Ran, who was constantly colliding with the human-faced hen, must have heard more noises.
"Gu Ran!" Su Qing called.

As if to reassure her, Gu Ran's voice sounded a little proud: "I have suffered from darkness and fear. I have become a dragon that lives in darkness and feeds on fear! Hen, die!"

Su Qing couldn't help but smile softly.

She waved the flag in her hand, and the tree shadow barrier became more compact and solid.

After an unknown amount of time, I heard He Qingyan say loudly, "We can let her come back!"

The black dragon retreated, Su Qing put away the barrier, and the hideous-looking human-faced hen quickly ran back, as if the source of her power was there.

"Ah." Gu Ran cried out. In a scenic spot, a girl dressed like a princess fell down and sat on dog shit. Most people would make the same sound of amazement and regret as he did.

"Is the change good?" He Qingyan laughed happily.

"What's wrong?" Su Qing and Chen Ke were curious, but they couldn't see anything.

"Is it cured?" Su Qing asked.

"What has it been changed to?" Chen Ke asked.

"Keke," He Qingyan smiled as brightly as a flower in the gradually brightening tunnel, "I don't hate 'gentleness'."

In the mural, fifteen-year-old An Yao slaps her mother in the face.

It’s strange to say, although her body shape has not changed, Gu Ran realized at this time that the fifteen-year-old An Yao is actually 1.75 meters tall, much taller than her mother.

Like the scene where a bad girl bullies an old lady, the scene is unbearable for people who don’t know the inside story.

"." Chen Ke thought that he should observe for a while before deciding whether to describe He Qingyan with the word 'gentle'.

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"Private Diary": October 13, Tuesday, Dream of a Hen with a Human Face in a Seaside Tunnel
The black dragon ran quite fast, but even so, it took a long time. If it were a human, how long would it take to walk that far?
(End of this chapter)