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Case File Compendium - Chapter 13

Published at 24th of August 2022 06:35:04 AM


Chapter 13

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The rest of our lives

    Xie Qingcheng was the last one to follow the firemen down the rope ladder.

    When he went down, the fire was already approaching in their direction, and the smoke was so thick that people could hardly open their eyes. When he finally hit the ground, rescuers rushed over to check on his injuries.

    Xie Qingcheng saw Xie Xue in the crowd. Several doctors and nurses were surrounding her. He hurried over: "How is she?"

    "You are..."

    "I'm her brother."

    "Oh, oh, don't worry, she's all right, her vital signs are stable, and she can wake up after the medicine takes effect."

    Xie Qingcheng breathed a sigh of relief.

     

    But Xie Qingcheng didn't realize how seductive it was that his shoulders were even and his thin and long waistline was deeply entrapped in the silver buckle belt. He was cold and gentle, usually He doesn't care much about his appearance, nor does he care about the eyes of others.

    No, the ambulanceman kept looking at him, but after watching Xie Xue, he only knew that he was facing the Chengkang Hospital, which was still in a sea of ​​fire.

 

    Xie Qingcheng looked up at the flaming rooftop and had mixed feelings for a while. As far as the eye can see, the patients who have not been rescued can be seen screaming in panic on the windowsill, slapping the windows sealed by the iron bars with their hands.

    "Help!"

    "Save us! Fire! Fire is coming!"

    "I don't want to die yet... Help me! Help you help me!"

    Those railings were originally set up to prevent patients from jumping out of the window to escape, but now they have become the biggest stumbling block for emergency rescue. Dangerous to rush into each room to unlock and save people.

    The mournful screams are the same as those of Li Gui, the entire Chengkang mental hospital is really like Jiang Lanpei's curse, it has become a purgatory on earth.

    In the ward closest to the linen room, an old man was crying all the time, but he was calling his parents. .

    Maybe he also knew vaguely in his heart that they would be happy when he died.

     

    The fire department tried to forcibly break the window, but it was too late. The old man's room was too close to the fire, and he was swallowed by the fire under the watchful eyes of everyone. Stiff posture poking out of the cage...

    No one knew at the last moment whether he was an old man who was abandoned because of illness, or a child who missed his parents.

    The fireman's lips trembled, and he turned back and yelled at the crowd: "Where's the key? Did anyone bring the key when you escaped?"

    "No, no... who remembers..."

    "It's hanging in the director's office on the third floor!"

    There was another deafening explosion, and the window panes and shards of wood slid out.

    One of the rescued nurses stood up and said, "Comrades, don't go in anymore! It's too dangerous!"

    "Yeah...it's too late...don't save it at all..."

    Some people even whispered: "Those are seriously ill... The higher the floor, the more seriously ill it is, it is useless to save them..."

    There is a mess around.

 

    Xie Qingcheng suddenly saw the chaos, a lonely figure stood, looked up at the burning building for a while, and then went to the depths of the unnoticed trees to go around the north gate.

    Xie Qingcheng was taken aback—

    He Yu? !

    "Excuse me, borrow a mask."

    Xie Qingcheng said, judged the fire, grabbed two protective masks and ran in He Yu's direction.

    "Hey! Comrade!" The ambulanceman snapped back to his senses, damn, a handsome guy can't be so willful! She shouted: "What are you doing! Don't enter the fire again!!"

    But Xie Qingcheng ignored her at all, and followed He Yu's back like a cheetah.

    He never imagined that this man would return to the fire again - what was he going to do?

    He Yu did not go to the north gate where the firefighters gathered. He grabbed a rope ladder that had not yet been taken down, and went directly to the roof where he had just escaped. Xie Qingcheng followed behind him. It was too late for the others to think about it. The flames had already burned, and the bottom half of the soft rope was instantly burned to ashes.

     

    He slammed the door open, watched the fire, and ran to the director's office.

    Xie Qingcheng thought he was a lunatic, of course he was a lunatic in the first place, he grabbed He Yu's arm when he opened the fireproof iron door, and reprimanded him very severely: "What are you doing? Don't die? Hurry up and go down the north gate with me! Now the fire here is not big, there is still time."

    He Yu stared at his face as if he didn't know him: "What are you doing here?"

    Xie Qingcheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, his eyes were sharp: "Fuck you down with me!"

    "No. This time is different. This time I want to save people."

    "You—"

    "They are my kind, only I can save them, only I have time to get them all out--you hear what those people say below. The old man was burned alive right in front of their eyes, There are more people waiting to die, but they say, forget it."

    He Yu's eyes were almost terrifying.

    He said softly: "—mental illness is not worth saving, if you encounter such a thing, you will be given up—you should all be damned."

    He stared at Xie Qingcheng's eyes, and a biting sneer slowly opened at the corner of his mouth: "Do you think so too? Doctor Xie?"

    "That's because it's really too late... Be rational! You can't open doors one by one." Xie Qingcheng's voice was hoarse, "There's no time."

    He Yu didn't speak anymore, he was so strong, he broke free from Xie Qingcheng's hand and ran towards the office.

    Fortunately, the area of ​​the office is separated from the area where the fire is the biggest by a large bathroom. At that time, the construction was made of tiles and even a wooden frame was too lazy to embed it. Now this area has become a Where the flame spreads the slowest.

    He Yu found a bunch of dingy key boards in the house, and went to some of the wards on the third floor that had not yet been burned.

    "Help..."

    "Help us!"

    "I don't want to die yet...I don't want to die yet!!"

    "Woohoo, is it the devil's fire? It's the devil's fire!"

 

     

    The key board faced the door number, He Yu took the latest one and started to open the door.

    When Xie Qingcheng chased after him, he had already opened the first door, and a woman with disheveled hair ran out from inside, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh it is - This is out of control at all.

    Ordinary people will lose their minds in such a situation, not to mention these patients?

    The woman screamed and ran in the direction of the fire without thinking. Xie Qingcheng was about to stop, but saw He Yu stretched out his hand and dragged her back—

    "Don't go that way!"

    "She won't listen to you—"

    "Fire! Fire! Fire!"

    When he was making a mess, Xie Qingcheng suddenly saw a flash of cold light!

    He Yu was holding a blade that he brought out from the office just now and wiped it in his palm.

    Blood seeped out of the wound all of a sudden, Xie Qingcheng didn't know why he did this for a while, but there seemed to be a long-term memory of data in his mind, which was already moving around, he hadn't read it yet Fetch, but instinct has already made his hair stand on end.

    The next second, he opened his eyes wide and saw He Yu untied one of the rings on the key board and stained it with his own blood. In denial, he said to the mad woman: "Take this set of keys to open the door, open one door, give the people inside other keys, and order them to open more doors. Be quick. The faster you are, the faster you are. The more patients can be rescued. Go quickly."

    A terrible thing happened, the woman who was hysterical before, at this moment, seemed to have been given some kind of tranquilizer. The moment she smelled He Yu's blood, her eyes changed. very calm-

     

    The woman took the keychain and ran to the other iron gates immediately.

    The entire command process was very short, but Xie Qingcheng felt cold all over his body, even his fingertips were cold—

    Medical Record No. 4 He Yu, his disease ability in adulthood is...

    In the data calculation file, the "Blood Gu" has been marked as suspicious!

    Mental Ebola lacks clinical data, and can only speculate on the condition through the first three cases and a series of digital simulations. What is certain is that, in addition to the basic characteristics that every patient will have, people suffering from this kind of mental illness also have a disease ability.

    Simply put, the disease is mutated in an individual, and each person's genes are different, which will make the direction of differentiation of the disease mutation different. This mutation often develops with the age of the patient. Fully revealed and stabilized in adulthood.

     Case No. 1, the sickness ability that was produced at that time was - Smell.

    The disease changed her olfactory nerve, and her nose became extremely sensitive. Generally speaking, the area of ​​olfactory nerves in dogs is four times that of humans. It was more than eight times that of an ordinary person, and any tiny breath in the air was stimulating her olfactory nerves, torturing her to the point of becoming more and more insane.

    No. 2, No. 3, all showed their unique disease abilities before they died.

    And No. 4 He Yu, before Xie Qingcheng resigned, he did not show any signs of alienation.

    Xie Qingcheng originally thought that perhaps the individual variation of spiritual Ebola is not absolute, and He Yu may be an exception.

    I didn’t expect that he was the most terrifying mutation calculated in the data simulation calculation—

    Blood Gu.

    Just like serotonin, it can calm the patient's emotions immediately, and at the same time, like a drug, it stimulates the reward mechanism in the patient's brain, so that the patient has an illusion that "just listen to him, you can get more", thus It caused the patient to be controlled by He Yu's language, as if "intoxicated".

 

    At that time, what the laboratory calculated was just a guess. When the data simulated the mutation direction of "Blood Gu", some researchers did not even believe it.

    But now—

    The door was opened one by one by the patients.

    The speed is astonishingly fast. Once you open a door to save one, there will be another person who helps open the door. The key is quickly dissipated. Those crazy patients are stimulated by blood poison. A well-trained soldier.

    He Yu walked through it with a stern expression, like a spiritual leader controlling those patients, he walked to the end of the corridor, which is the only way to escape the north exit, and the voices of firefighters were already there The corridor entrance lingered, and they would soon go up to the third floor.

    But at the same time, the flames at the end of the corridor were already close, roaring towards them like a roaring fire dragon, wrapped in a billowing and choking smoke, as if to suffocate poisonous gas and destroy The sky-destroying heat slaughtered them in this dense corridor.

    There is no water here, so there is no way to wet the cloth to cover your mouth and nose, you can only speed up.

    He Yu stood in front of the fire door, turned his face slightly, and gave instructions to all patients: "Try to lower your body as much as possible, go in my direction, and go down to the fire department. Quick."

    Patients are like robots that have been inputted instructions, rushing forward, running to the safe passage with amazing speed and order, the zombies controlled in science fiction films are just like this...

    When the last patient ran down, the fire was very close, and the smoke concentration was getting higher and higher, almost to the point of lying on the ground to breathe. He Yu looked at Xie Qingcheng, who was approaching him with a rather ugly expression. He didn't say anything, just turned his body to let Xie Qingcheng come in too.

    There was a loud bang, and the safety passage fire door slammed shut behind them, temporarily isolating the approaching fire dragon.

    The cold almond eyes stared at the stunned peach blossom eyes in the dark: "Xie Qingcheng. Don't tell anyone."

    Xie Qing's complexion was very blue, but he finally handed a gas mask to He Yu without saying a word.

    "Take it. Go."

    The tongue of fire slammed into the fire door, He Yu and Xie Qingcheng ran down with the rescued patients...

    "Brother!! Brother!!!"

    With the help of firefighters, Xie Qingcheng and He Yu were greeted by two almost broken howls when the last two ran out. Xie Qingcheng took off his mask and saw Xie Xue, who was already awake, rushed towards him with tears on her face, and ran so much that even the shoes the firefighters found for her fell off.

    "Brother ah ah ah ah... bro! bro! Are you trying to scare me to death? Are you trying to scare me to death! I thought you didn't want me anymore! Even you have to be left behind! I'm here!! Brother woo woo woo..."

    She threw herself into Xie Qingcheng's arms and hugged Xie Qingcheng so tightly that she almost broke his waist, the surrounding explosions and screams continued, Some people really can't be saved... She was so frightened, as if all the blood was drained from her body, only a thin painted skin remained in the world, only tightly hugging her brother's tall body. At that time, she was out of breath while crying and breathing the smell of Xie Qingcheng's body. She seemed to have a heartbeat again, and the blood was poured back into her body again.

    Tears dripped down one after another, smearing her cat-like face, she cried with her mouth open, and she cried out indistinctly: "You can't want me like your parents! You can't want me like your parents! Big brother! I'm so scared...I'm so scared...You hug me, you hug me!"

    "It's alright. It's alright."

    Xie Qingcheng rarely accepts such strong feelings. He is a very family-conscious person, but his love for his family is often introverted, even in the form of accusations. .

    But at this moment he couldn't take it anymore. He hugged his sister who was shaking all over in a long coat, bowed his head and kissed her messy bird nest head, and the circles of his eyes were a little red.

    "It's alright, Xie Xue."

    Xie Xue wailed in Xie Qingcheng's arms for a while, and saw He Yu again.

    She just calmed down and broke down again, crying and throwing herself into He Yu's arms - no, to be precise, she should have dragged He Yu over and surrounded him with her eldest brother, So He Yu was forced to stay close to Xie Qingcheng.

    He Yu's gentle and handsome face showed some embarrassment, he had never hugged a man so close, especially that man was Xie Qingcheng, he felt very uncomfortable—see Xie Qing's expression, he seems to mean the same.

    But both of them did not move due to Xie Xue's face and emotions, and she forced the three to embrace them, and circled their reunion in the chaos.

 

    "Help! Help! Comrade! There's someone here! I'm here!"

    At the elevator door of Chengkang Hospital, a gray-haired man shouted in panic. He belongs to the oldest group of leaders in Chengkang. He and Liang Jicheng went to play polo a while ago and fell and broke Legs, now can only travel in a wheelchair. If it weren't for the temporary work in the unit that he needed to handle today, he would not come back.

    The man was fighting in the wheelchair, his crotch was already wet, and the urine was flowing down the trousers. For the first time, he realized how terrible the pain of being unable to take care of himself, and the fire was heading in his direction Approaching, even if he knew that he couldn't take the elevator, and even the elevator was broken, he was still frantically pressing the button involuntarily.

    "Quick! Quick...someone, help...I have money...who help me...I have a lot of money!"

    Because of the tension, the muscles in his cheeks twitched violently.

    Suddenly—

    As if God heard his prayer, a fireman wearing a gas mask ran up from the darkened safety passage and saw him paralyzed in a wheelchair.

    If a man sees the gods: "Comrade! Save me! Save me!!"

     

    Then, he was stunned. Eyes closed suddenly!

    The man in the firefighting suit flashed a faint sneer through the blindfold, and then turned on the equipment in his hand... It was not a fire extinguishing device! That is…

    Gas! !

    "You, you are—!"

    "Chengkang can't keep up with this mess, I was sent by them to 'clean up'." A dull male voice came from the mask, "Keep your money down there and slowly Flowers."

    "NO!!"

    Boom!

    Gasoline and lighter were thrown together on the man's face that was completely contorted in extreme panic, and that face was finally like the crooked face in Munch's cry, and the whole was swallowed by the fire coil...

    The author has something to say:

    To be honest, I'm really greedy for Brother Xie's body when I write... Suck and suck... In the end, there is still a bit of soft sci-fi elements... But it can probably be ignored, that is, to make a plot I used it la la la la la la~

    Small Theater:

    When will the light of the right path burst out:

    Xie Qingcheng: When needed.

    He Yu: When it is related to mental illness.

    Xie Xue: When it comes to eating.

    Humble Author: When I was writing Sleeping Brother Xie (?) I was asking He Yu every day when I could wake up. Are you not sleeping with your wife? Don't sleep first, even a kiss is fine, Mom, please help me! !





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