Chapter 2 Two, madmen will be in pairs

Fear is the greatest enemy that hinders the progress of human beings. If you want to have an unimpeded life, you must take fear into your pocket. It sounds simple to say, but it is not the case in practice.I used to be an on-the-job psychiatrist until I left two years ago.I am good at psychotherapy, and I know some knowledge about mental illness, but I have no experience in treatment and no right to prescribe it.I don't know how to live peacefully with a mental patient, let alone a crisis like this. So, I swallowed and tried to keep my voice calm, not like a cat whose tail was stepped on. "Hey," I called out to him, "Hey, can you hear me?"

His eyes flicked to one side, then to me, then again: "Huh? What did you say? Who are you?" "You can understand me!" I began to pretend to be crazy, "I never expected to meet like-minded friends here!" My volume was about the same as that of two burglars surreptitiously communicating, but he could hear me clearly. "You are my friend?" He was dubious. "Yes, I'm sure you can see their ugly faces as well as I do. Those guys, they are scary!" I imitated his unfocused eyes and scanned the crowd, this is also to see clearly the actions of the security guards , Beware that they really hit the back of my head when I wasn't paying attention.

"You can also see their true colors?" "Yes, I can." Then he asked a question, a damn question that almost made me chew my tongue and swallow it with regret. He asked, "What do you see?" God knows what I could see! There is no doubt that this patient has severe hallucinations. He regards normal human beings as some kind of monster. In order to escape the pursuit of this "monster", he kidnaps their kind as hostages-I know this point of view is a bit difficult to understand , but this is probably the case.The problem is, I can't enter his hallucination, how can I know what he saw!

I realized that I was just superfluous and said one more sentence.If I can see it without telling me, maybe there are other solutions.But now, I'm in a cocoon, and I've screwed myself up.The one who was also cheated was Lao Wei. I felt that he also trembled for a while. At 1.5 meters, I began to estimate the distance. Lao Wei has strength, and I am fairly agile. What can we do at this distance? But all actions foreshadowed an ending—we could do nothing—once we acted rashly and the mental patient flicked his wrist, the nurse’s neck would be ripped open. "Hey, what the hell did you see?" He started to get suspicious of me, so he asked.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came from nowhere, and I remembered the portrait on the toilet floor, and couldn't help blurting out: "They are all monsters, with the head of a bear, the eyes of a cat, and the letter of a snake." This sudden answer just hit him, he seemed to be smiling, but the smile was fleeting, and his wrist was a little loose because of it. "Hey, listen to me," although I'm good at pushing my nose to my face, I don't dare to talk nonsense, so as not to make mistakes again, "Listen to me, friend, I'm your kind, I'm different from these monsters. I think Only then can we have a common language, we should get to know each other, what's your name?"

"John!" he excitedly.Although it was dangerous to excite the patient, it was better than his previous fears. "Stick?" I was still a little puzzled, not understanding that he said an English name, "My name is Ai." "Ai? Is it the ai of ai, or the i of i?" It took me a long time to figure out what he meant.What, this is still a foreigner?Not like, black hair and black eyes, just like everyone else.It doesn't matter, anyway, this may be caused by his morbid hallucinations. I took courage and began to discuss the solution with him: "Listen, John, there is no point in killing them all alone. They are many and powerful, and we are alone. But you are not alone now. Combat, right? You met me, and in turn, I met you. Did you see that thing they were holding?" I gave him a wink to look at the baton in the security guard's hand, "It will Fire the laser. Laser, you understand?"

The mental patient nodded, eyes full of fear, did he think of Skywalker's long sword in "Star Wars"? "John, good men don't take advantage of their immediate disadvantages. If you kill their men, they will burn you with lasers and stab you with laser swords. So, listen to me, you have to let go of that female monster, let that female monster go, they I won't kill you." This night, my level of lunacy has reached its peak. John seemed to believe my words, but he was upset again: "I'd rather be killed by them." "No, no, you can't say that, you have to live. You may have been lonely before, but now we have to live side by side. You see." Seeing that the time was almost up, I let go of Lao Wei.

Lao Wei opened his arms, and I walked out from behind him - have you ever seen a hostage released like this?But like this, I almost got out of Lao Wei's armpit. In this way, I was half a meter closer to John. "Look, I let them go, they didn't kill me, did they?" If that thing is really a laser sword, I think, based on my farce, the security guards will cut off my head without hesitation, right? John was completely confused, he seemed to spend ten seconds struggling with his thoughts, and then he raised the hand holding the glass piece, and then slowly lowered it. One thing I pray in my heart is that the lovely nurse will not struggle.Fortunately, maybe she was petrified, she still stood there without moving.

"They didn't kill you either, did they, John, my method worked." I took two steps forward, which were two difficult steps-the knife in my hand could stab at any time, if he was right The nurse might lay hands on me—but I don't want to, even if he does hurt us.How should I say it?Life should not be divided into high and low because of whether you are sick or not! John didn't do that, he looked at me with blurry eyes and limp limbs, which made me feel ashamed. "Come on, let's go back to back, so that there is no dead end. Like brothers in real combat, let's go back to back." My purpose is only one, to approach him and try to free the nurse.

These movements only took two or three seconds, but they passed so slowly.I came up behind John, his eyes were fixed on mine, which is a good thing, at least he can focus, in other words, I can have enough influence on him. Next, I had to improvise and do a slightly humiliating move to make the performance more realistic.I told him that on the battlefield, although we are temporarily defeated, the victory will eventually belong to us.As for the expression of failure, it's like it often appears in film and television works-we kneel down, put down our weapons, and raise our hands above our heads!

"I'll always be back to back with you, like brothers." I said that, but didn't.The security guards swarmed up, took something plastic like handcuffs, and tied John's arms upside down. Of course, at this time, everyone finally understood the significance of my self-directed and self-acted farce, so the security guards would not tie me up, but thanked me gratefully.However, an indescribable sadness suddenly surged in my heart. John really thought of me as a companion, but I played on his illusion, or his innocence. They shoved and picked him up and dragged him down the corridor.Until being dragged to the stairs, John was still looking back at me. In his eyes, he was more dazed than suspicious, which made me feel a little better. The person who brought me back to reality the fastest was Lao Wei.He punched me hard on the back very bluntly: "Get up, brat! The lady nurse wants to thank you!" "Don't thank me, we Lao Wei came up with this idea. He doesn't have a girlfriend yet." I was dragged up by Lao Wei like a dead dog, and I looked at the nurse with a smile, "If he didn't remind me, kill me I don’t know what hallucination the patient saw.” This sentence is absolutely true. The nurse looked at Lao Wei and blushed. The medical staff and Yang Jie's relatives and friends gathered around, chatting and watching. I didn't listen to what was said at all. I just felt dizzy and indescribably tired after this crisis. "Oh," the nurse suddenly realized, "I forgot to mention this unlucky thing. I came out of the emergency room just to inform you that the rescue went smoothly and Miss Yang Jie is out of danger." "Is it true?" Yang Jie's ex-husband Li Yonglin rushed over and grabbed the nurse's hands, "Is she really okay?" "Ah, no, it's all right..." After the shock just now, the poor little nurse seemed to be a little trembling, "By the way, here's another form, I need your signature to confirm it." "Okay, I'll sign." This night was finally not in vain, and everyone was very pleased.I leaned on the chair without saying a word, Yang Jie didn't die this time, who knows if there will be a next time?There is still a long way to go for future treatments! I bowed my head and said nothing, only feeling that my consciousness gradually drifted away.Suddenly, some wet liquid sprayed onto my hands. what is this?I opened my eyes, only to find that my hands were covered with bright red blood spots. ah?I raised my head in horror and met Li Yonglin's face. As the ex-husband of the rescued suicide victim, he was stabbing the signature pen into his own neck, stabbing and scratching the wound, and the blood in the artery sputtered out at high speed, almost spraying me all over. He opened his mouth, and when he opened his mouth, blood kept gushing out. He looked at me with a half-smile, and coughed up blood, with an indistinct voice: "You saved Yang Jie! You could have saved me, too. But stand idly by!" I was stunned by the scene in front of me. I looked down at my red hands, and then looked up at Li Yonglin, who had scratched his neck and was grinning. What, what's going on here? !