Love in a mental hospital

Chapter 347: Early Birthday Wish

Yan Hanxiang subconsciously sniffed the air. The originally odorless mountain now had a little more grassy scent, as well as a faint but pungent smell of corruption.

"Is it the World Tree?" she asked Zhuang Jing uncertainly.

"Yeah." Zhuang Jing nodded.

She stood up and said, "I know why I can see the life force of the World Tree."

"Why?" Su Qing asked subconsciously.

"My spiritual world, [Blooming Paradise], is full of vitality, which is similar to the vitality of the world tree that supports the nine worlds." Zhuang Jing explained.

"Another puzzle has been solved." He Qingyan said with a detective-like attitude and tone, "The next step is how to revive the World Tree. But is it necessary to revive the World Tree? Gu Ran, if you eat the World Tree, you will become the World Tree."

"It will take me an eternity to eat up a mountain?" Gu Ran pretended to be puzzled and mocked the unreliability of this suggestion.

"Can't you eat some of it?" He Qingyan said again.

"The thought, the thought is the most important, especially in the dream world. Just eating stones is useless." Gu Ran explained.

"In other words, even if you eat all the stones of this black dragon, it will be useless?" He Qingyan looked at the stone remains of Nidhogg.

"Yes." said Gu Ran.

"useless."

"It's really useless." Gu Ran nodded in affirmation.

"What I said was an affirmative sentence, and the subject was not Black Dragon, it was Black Dragon." He Qingyan looked at him.

Then what use are you - Gu Ran hesitated to speak. After all, he felt embarrassed to argue with He Qingyan in front of Zhuang Jing and Yan Hanxiang.

At this time, the young lady Zhang Ying suddenly spoke softly: "Dean, the time is up."

Zhuang Jing stared at the mountain below her feet for a long time before nodding.

After the operation, there were more doubts.

It's okay that Gu Ran's [Black Dragon] has changed, as it has happened once before. This time it has the ability to 'eat'. Although I'm confused, I can't see any risks for the time being.

The one who was truly confused and worried was Zhuang Jing.

Whether the World Tree is real or fake, it is a dream creature. There is no problem in talking to dream creatures, but it must be the relationship between Su Qing and Su Xiaoqing.

Su Qing treated Su Xiaoqing as her daughter and even named her, but she knew in her heart that Su Xiaoqing was a dog. However, Zhuang Jing's attitude when talking to the World Tree seemed to be that he treated the other party as a human.

Are they so shortsighted that they can't see her true heart, or is this her true heart?
"Did you use mind reading?" Su Qing asked Gu Ran quietly when the others went to the bathroom.

"How is that possible?" Gu Ran didn't speak loudly, but he emphasized his tone by widening his eyes, "Apart from work, I don't use parapsychology.

This is a lie.

In fact, it's almost the same. He likes to read minds, but he doesn't like to use "mind reading skills". The former depends on hard work, and the latter depends on ability?

Something seems wrong.

"You find a chance to have a look." Su Qing said.

"Me? To see Aunt Jing?"

Su Qing looked at him, what did the eye pressure mean? !
"Qingqing, think about it, if Aunt Jing lets me 'look at' you, would you be willing to be looked at?" Gu Ran said.

"It's up to you. If you don't care about my mother, then don't watch it." Su Qing said.

"'As you please', does it mean I can look at you as I please, or can I refuse to follow your orders as I please?"

"What's the difference between the two?"

Gu Ran did slightly tamper with the meaning.

"You can just ask Aunt Jing directly. Does a daughter need reasons or beat around the bush to show that she cares about and worries about her mother?" he added.

"You are Dean Zhuang Jing's son." Su Qing said.

"Then isn't our relationship very dangerous?" Gu Ran laughed softly, and then that smiling face began to twitch.

Su Qing's shoes pressed gently against Gu Ran's feet.

"Either 'look' or ask, your choice."

"Yes, Captain." Gu Ran's tone was filled with pleading.

"If you get caught, don't tell them it was my order. Got it?"

“.”Gu Ran nodded.

"say."

".pain."

"Playing crazy and stupid." Su Qing scolded with a smile and helplessness. She didn't use any strength at all. She was just grinding it gently, with the force like a massage.

Leaving the ward and being in the daylight again, I felt as if I had just watched a movie that lasted for several hours.

The previous moment, I was searching for the remains of mythology on the huge mountain, and this moment I returned to the indestructible reality composed of the sun, Mercury, Venus, the earth and the moon.

There was still some time before the end of get off work, so Su Qing and the others went to the sanatorium building and the Yanhanxianghui laboratory to prepare to study the scent of the World Tree.

Gu Ran followed Zhuang Jing to the dean's office.

Passing by the secretariat, the secretary saw Zhuang Jing coming back and immediately stood up to prepare tea. When she noticed Gu Ran, she immediately gave him a look.

——Are you here to write a self-criticism again?

——Stop talking so much!

If the secretary's eyes are the playful snowballs of a child, then Gu Ran's eyes are the grenades that kill people without blinking an eye.

"Sit down." Zhuang Jing greeted him after entering the office and sat down on the sofa in the reception area.

The secretary followed almost immediately, bringing two cups of jasmine tea.

The operation lasted for three hours. Gu Ran didn't drink a single sip of water and immediately tasted it.

The water temperature of the scented tea was slightly hot, but drinkable. Unlike the bitter Tieguanyin I had last time, it had a slight sweetness.

Zhuang Jing picked up the cup of water and blew gently and gracefully - rather than blowing it cold, from a visual effect, it was more like her beauty tamed the tea, making the water temperature willingly become just right.

Zhuang Jing took a small sip, put the cup down, and looked at Gu Ran.

Gu Ran, who was gulping down the water, quickly put down the cup.

"Drink first." Zhuang Jing said with a smile.

"Okay, I'm not thirsty anymore." Gu Ran said quickly.

Zhuang Jing's smile deepened: "Well, tell me how you feel and I'll give you an assessment."

Gu Ran organized his thoughts and recounted in detail what happened before and after the change.

"Just like Nidhogg gnaws at the World Tree, your black dragon feeds on your mental strength. As your mental strength grows, the black dragon will also become stronger."

"You mean to say that my power is two fingers pushing each other, and now it has become a palm. Although the power has increased, the balance has not been broken?"

"That's an explanation, but," Zhuang Jing changed the subject, "Power has no risk. The real risk is your devouring ability and your desire to fly out of the dream and into reality - the latter is more risky because it has no origin and is uncontrollable."

After thinking about it, Gu Ran said, "Aunt Jing, it's actually okay now. I have the urge to fly out of the dream, but I am also afraid of death. I am afraid of the future."

If his mental strength continued to grow, the desire to fly out of the dream and into reality would become stronger and stronger, and even fear could not suppress this desire.

"The simplest way to eliminate this possibility is to stop learning and stop growing." Zhuang Jing said to herself.

Gu Ran didn't reply. He and Zhuang Jing both knew that this was impossible, even without him saying anything.

"The second method is to stop merging with the black bird, which is what you call 'transformation'." Zhuang Jing said again.

As a last resort, this method may work.

However, without the power of the black dragon, Gu Ran would become a mere navigator and machine resetter, and would be of no help in the two matters of 'dream research' and 'black dragon dream treatment of patients'.

It was a bit of a pity, but Gu Ran didn't feel unwilling.

He is not a person who has nothing after losing his black dragon transformation or even the black dragon dream. He still has his efforts over the years and the determination to keep working hard.

It’s just a bit of a pity that I can’t save anyone or help Zhuang Jing.

"If the risk increases in the future, we will use this method." Zhuang Jing's tone was gentle, but there was no room for negotiation.

"Yeah." Gu Ran nodded.

Then he asked, "Aunt Jing, Su Qing asked me to ask you something that you absolutely cannot know is what she wants to ask."

Zhuang Jing laughed.

"She is a little worried about you." said Gu Ran.

"I am indeed considering something very dangerous." Zhuang Jing looked towards the tea table, as if looking into the distance, "If my prediction is correct, my mental strength can provide nutrients to the World Tree."

"The mental energy that has been transformed into nutrients cannot be restored?" Gu Ran didn't quite understand.

Generally speaking, mental strength, like physical strength, can be restored.

"Okay." Zhuang Jing nodded. "But even I don't know what the consequences will be if I, as a real person, provide mental strength to a tree that only exists in the mythical world in my dream."

"Maybe it's the same as providing mental power to the psychic monster?" Gu Ran guessed.

"Is it the same?" Zhuang Jing asked.

She wasn't asking Gu Ran, and Gu Ran didn't know how to answer, nor did he dare to continue to express his guess easily.

"Aunt Jing, your mental strength is certainly deep and powerful, but I think that in the dream, the World Tree was buried by a person who was powerful enough to dominate the universe. Even with your strength, which is just simply providing mental strength, I'm afraid you can't save the World Tree, and can only leave it half-dead." Gu Ran said.

In terms of the level of faith, he is already a saint of Zhuang Jing, so he will not blindly think that Zhuang Jing is omnipotent.

He continued, "But with your wisdom, you can definitely think of other, more effective ways to completely revive the World Tree and rebuild it."

But the saints’ faith in God is limitless.

Even if God cannot do something, the saints believe that God will be able to do it sooner or later. This trust is indestructible and will last until death.

Zhuang Jing picked up the teacup and sipped it intermittently, his eyes showing obvious thoughtfulness.

"How about," Gu Ran tried to suggest, "We should go look for Tianyuan, the Axe of Creation, and the like first, maybe we can draw inferences from them and get some inspiration? Maybe the Axe of Creation is not big, and I can swallow it in one gulp, and then we won't need the World Tree at all."

Zhuang Jing laughed again.

This laugh was different from before.

She put down the teacup and looked at Gu Ran with a smile: "Do you think I want to save the World Tree just to have a stable dream?"

"Isn't it?" Gu Ran was puzzled.

"I want to watch the process of the world tree standing up again, hoping to gain inspiration from it, so that I can turn my [spiritual world] into a world tree, or cultivate a world tree."

Gu Ran was speechless.

Zhuang Jing actually wanted to create a new world tree by studying the world tree, a world tree that belonged only to her.

And once she has her own World Tree, there is no doubt that she will, like Gu Ran, gain the power to enter and exit dreams that are as real as reality.

If this is the purpose of the research, then no matter whether it is Tianyuan, the Axe of Creation, or anything else, they are not as good as the World Tree.

Because the vitality of the World Tree is similar to Zhuang Jing's mental strength.

Gu Ran was startled and then reacted.

He looked at Zhuang Jing.

Zhuang Jing smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Have you decided?" Gu Ran asked with a hint of certainty in his tone.

When the goal is set, the size of the risk index cannot affect a master.

"Well, but you don't have to worry, I will make all the preparations." Zhuang Jing said.

No matter how chaotic it is, the master dares to face uncertainty.

All of Zhuang Jing's previous thoughts were not about "whether to do it" but "how to do it".

Gu Ran was silent for a moment: "I will support you."

"Okay." Zhuang Jing's smile was also different this time. "Go back. Have a good rest on Saturday and Sunday. It's too risky for the patients to go out together. Take Xiya, Gege, An Yao, and Liu Zijun with you and go out to play together."

Gu Ran left the dean's office.

His thoughts were divided into two parts, one half was shocked by Zhuang Jing's plan, and the other half was full of courage, willing to go through fire and water for Zhuang Jing's plan.

He also thought, if Zhuang Jing could succeed in cultivating his own world tree or conquering the world tree, then would others, such as Yan Hanxiang, be able to cultivate their own "creations" or conquer them?

and many more.

Could the black bird also be a 'creature of creation'?
Gu Ran stopped, took out his cell phone from his white coat, and searched for the gods or objects that created the world.

In Chinese mythology, it is Pangu, and some people believe it is Nuwa;

Hindu mythology is Brahman, a supreme spirit, the source of the universe;

Every psychologist has heard a story that is worth telling: Hinduism believes that the universe is a dream of Brahman, and human beings live in his dream. As long as Vishnu turns over and wakes up, the universe will be shaken off from his dream like a leaf and fall into complete nothingness.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, it was Atum;
In Sumerian mythology, it was Apsu, the sweet sea, and Tiamat, the salty sea, who created the world and gave birth to the gods;
Looking through the history of various countries, there is no record of the black bird creating the world.

Is his thinking wrong, or is the black bird a new "creation" that belongs to him alone?
Gu Ran put away his phone and continued walking back.

Forget it, forget it. He is a newly graduated psychologist, why should he think about these things? Besides, it is already Friday afternoon, so the work ends here!

Gu Ran began to imagine what Su Qing and the others would look like in swimsuits.

Among so many people, he is the only man. Of course, he knows very well that real life cannot be smooth and erotic things cannot happen easily, but he still can't help imagining.

The desire for good things to happen is absolutely essential in life.

Su Qing, He Qingyan?

No, it’s Su Qing, He Qingyan, and Chen Ke.

In that case, why not include Xie Xiya?

Wait, if any erotic experience happened to the girls in the same hot spring pool, it should be Su Qing, He Qingyan, Chen Ke, Xie Xiya, Gege, An Yao, and Liu Zijun.

Thinking about it this way, Gu Ran felt that anything erotic would not happen. There were too many people, and he would be more serious because it would be embarrassing!
But it’s okay to take a look, right?
The sunlight was tinged with twilight, illuminating the corridor in bright yellow, like an oil painting, and a young male doctor with a dreamy mind walked in it.

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《Personal Diary》: Friday, October 16, after surgery
Aunt Jing has decided to provide nutrients to the World Tree and cultivate her own World Tree through the World Tree.

I don't think the risk of providing mental strength is big. I'm just worried that if Aunt Jing becomes one with the World Tree like 'I and the Black Bird', will she have any special thoughts in her mind?
The 22nd of next month is my birthday. My birthday wish is to be able to feast my eyes tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

My birthday wish is just to have a full meal, isn’t that too much?

If you are not satisfied, it would be too much!
(End of this chapter)