Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Telepathy

Xia Xiaoyu came out of the ward at the end of the corridor with a medicine tray, and she saw a long-haired woman in white walking not far ahead. Xia Xiaoyu stared blankly at the woman in white. The woman walked to the door of Ward 413 in the distance, turned around and took a look at Xia Xiaoyu, it was Xia Xue! Xia Xiaoyu exclaimed in surprise: "Sister?!" Xia Xue smiled sweetly, and then entered Ward 413. Xia Xiaoyu trotted over. Xia Xiaoyu pushed the door open and opened the curtain inside. I saw Xia Xue gracefully took off her white pajamas with her back turned to her. As the pajamas fell to the ground, she stepped into the steaming bathtub with one slender leg naked, and then slowly lay down in the water Xia Xue, who was steaming, slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and her long hair floated in the water, like a piece of ink...

Xia Xiaoyu hurried forward to grab Xia Xue, but only caught a wet wig. The bald Xia Xue sank completely and disappeared at the bottom of the water, a puddle of blood spewed out from the bottom of the water... In the hypnosis room of the psychiatric department on the eleventh floor of the main building, Xia Xiaoyu lay on the medical chair and complained, while Mai Yuxiang sat listening and asked from time to time. Xia Xiaoyu closed her eyes, dreaming like a dream: "...I saw a woman in white clothes and long hair in the corridor. I found out that it was my sister, so I ran over. She entered Ward 413. When I went in, I found that my sister was about to drown in the hospital room. In the bathtub, I tried to rescue her, she sank, I only caught her wig, and I was never found."

Mai Yuxiang said quietly: "There is no bathtub in the ward, this is just your dream. It means that you have experienced a horrible scene in reality. You were frightened, which caused confusion in your current brain nerve source and produced a nightmare. and hallucinations. But why a wig?" Xia Xiaoyu continued, "My sister likes her hair very much. Her hair is very long and beautiful, but after she got sick, her hair gradually fell out..." Mai Yuxiang thought for a while, then lightly rang a small copper bell, Xia Xiaoyu opened her eyes, and asked nervously, "Doctor Mai, is there something wrong with my sanity?"

Mai Yuxiang still had a consoling smile and said: "Don't worry, as long as you find the reason for your mental distress, you will have the direction to help you untangle it. You see, your mind is very clear now, but there are some problems. Just anxiety." Xia Xiaoyu sighed, and said, "I've been trying my best to remember what happened the night my sister died...but I can't remember anything." Mai Yuxiang thought for a while, and suggested: "Okay, let's try again, you relax your body now, relax your whole body, look at her, yes..." He held a silk thread in his hand, and the end of the silk thread was tied Holding an old-fashioned silver coin of Queen Victoria I, shaking it gently in front of Xia Xiaoyu's eyes, "When you returned to the hospital that night, my sister stayed in ward 413. She was very ill and was about to die. She was waiting for you You want to see my sister too, you have already entered the corridor, and you are getting closer to Ward 413..."

Under Mai Yuxiang's hypnosis, Xia Xiaoyu slowly closed her eyes and entered the dreamland—— Xia Xiaoyu walked in the direction of Ward 413, and the voice-activated lights followed her footsteps, flickering on and off, which seemed a bit weird. An open window was "slapping" in the wind. Xia Xiaoyu passed by, and she found that it was raining finely outside the window. Xia Xiaoyu couldn't help feeling chills all over her body, so she closed the window. Suddenly, the door at the end of the corridor was knocked open by a stretcher trolley—— Gu Zhensheng and two nurses, they were Wu Xinyao and Xu Chenchen, they ran over pushing a patient, Xia Xiaoyu ran to the side of the stretcher, on which was the unconscious Xia Xue.

Xia Xiaoyu cried, "Sister! Sister!" The stretcher was pushed into Ward 413, Gu Zhensheng hugged Xia Xiaoyu tightly—— He tried his best to dissuade her, "Xiaoyu! Xiaoyu! Listen to me, she's fine, the operation went well, she needs to rest!" Xia Xiaoyu turned her face away, and through the glass window of the ward, she saw that Xia Xue in the ward had all kinds of tubes inserted into her body and connected to some instruments, but she was also looking at Xia Xiaoyu, showing her a weak face with difficulty. smile.Xia Xiaoyu couldn't help crying like rain, she broke free from Gu Zhensheng's obstruction, and entered the ward——

Suddenly there was silence all around, the lights suddenly went out, the nurse and student Gu Zhen disappeared, Xia Xiaoyu walked in quietly. It was still raining outside the window, she felt a cold wind blowing in, her sister would catch a cold, she thought worriedly, so she walked by the bed and came to the window, the cold rain hit her face, she wanted to blow the window close. Xia Xiaoyu turned around and walked to Xia Xue's hospital bed, which was covered by a curtain, she slowly lifted the curtain - there was no one on the bed! Behind him, the window opened again with a "snap"!The cold wind and cold rain poured in, Xia Xiaoyu turned around abruptly, and she saw a horrifying scene——

In the darkness, under the light of lightning, the long-haired and white-clothed Xia Xue was squatting halfway on the window sill. The rain had already wetted her hair. Her head was hanging down, and her long hair was hanging outside the window sill, fluttering with the wind and rain. In an instant, the wig was taken down by the wind and rain, revealing Xia Xue's bald head, her body began to shake, and she was on the verge of falling—— Xia Xiaoyu screamed out—— "Ah!... Sister! Sister!..." Xia Xiaoyu rushed over... Xia Xiaoyu opened her eyes from the hypnosis chair and held her head tightly, looking extremely painful.Her face was full of tears, and her whole body twitched uncontrollably.Mai Yuxiang handed her the tissue, she took the tissue, wiped it tremblingly, and calmed down after a while.

Dr. Mai asked cautiously: "You said your sister was wearing white pajamas?" Xia Xiaoyu nodded with tears in her eyes, "Sister likes white clothes." Mai Yuxiang couldn't help but secretly panicked—long hair, white clothes, number 24, rainy weather, women, and confusing causes of death—it was too much like a scary ghost story.He felt unbelievable, but his thoughts turned in that direction uncontrollably—in this way, doesn't everything make sense?But he felt that he couldn't tell Xia Xiaoyu about his conjecture now, because it would only increase her psychological burden, so he said to Xia Xiaoyu, "Look, Xiaoyu, this is your knot. You miss your sister too much in your heart, and feel guilty for not being able to help your sister at that time, so your subconscious mind automatically connects your sister's death with the legend of the woman in white in the hospital."

Xia Xiaoyu thought for a while and asked, "Could it really be the soul of my sister after death?" Mai Yuxiang shook his head, "No, the human soul will disappear with the death of the body. For a person, death means the annihilation of body and spirit." Hearing what he said, Xia Xiaoyu became melancholy.Mai Yuxiang comforted emotionally, "But, there is no need to be so pessimistic. The person we love will not leave us completely even if he dies. She is always with you—" He pointed at Xia Xiaoyu's heart, and continued , "In your dream, didn't you still see your sister? As long as we don't forget, they will be with us, but in our body and our soul."

Xia Xiaoyu didn't get much comfort, she just said silently, "Isn't that the same, it's still dead, it doesn't really exist." However, Mai Yuxiang said excitedly, "Why is it not real? Could it be that what happens in dreams and in consciousness is not real? It is another kind of reality, just different from what we usually understand." Xia Xiaoyu still couldn't let go, she said, "I really wish I could remember what happened that night, why did I suddenly lose consciousness and memory?" Mai Yuxiang comforted, "Sometimes, we can live because we remember something; sometimes, we can live because our brain chooses to forget something. Remembering is not necessarily a good thing, Forgetting is not necessarily a misfortune, I hope you don't get too entangled in this matter, and think about the future. After all, people cannot be resurrected after death, and people who are alive still have their own lives. " Xia Xiaoyu listened quietly, and Mai Yuxiang continued, "Xiaoyu, think of more beautiful things, I hope you can be happy, this must be your sister's greatest wish!" Xia Xiaoyu finally showed a hopeful smile and nodded, "Thank you, Dr. Mai, I will listen to you." Mai Yuxiang smiled and said: "That's good, let's take it slowly, and when you feel sad, please contact me at any time, okay?" Xia Xiaoyu nodded seriously. After bidding farewell to Mai Yuxiang, Xia Xiaoyu unknowingly walked to the door of Ward 413. Lin Xiang was lying on the hospital bed, and she saw Xia Xiaoyu—— "Xiaoyu, I haven't seen you since the operation." Xia Xiaoyu walked into the ward, came to Lin Xiang's bed, and said apologetically, "I have a cold, and I have been on sick leave for a few days. Sorry, I couldn't come to see you." Lin Xiang smiled. It has not been a few days since the operation, and her face is much more haggard than before, but she seems to be in good spirits. Lin Xiang said: "I am embarrassed to see you. I didn't let Gu The doctor blamed a few friends outside for the operation, which disturbed me, and I listened to their bad ideas. No, the experts in Shanghai did nothing more than that. After cutting me open, they said that my heart was congenitally abnormal, and I needed to observe for a while. Time, maybe another stabbing. Alas, miserable, it seems that I will spend the Spring Festival in the hospital." Xia Xiaoyu comforted: "The most important thing is to be cured. You can stay in the hospital with peace of mind. I will come to accompany you often when I have time." Lin Xiang stretched out his hand to hold Xia Xiaoyu's hand, pulled her to sit by the bed, and said, "Xiaoyu, you are so kind!" Xia Xiaoyu smiled, but did not speak. Lin Xiang's habit of inquiring came back again, and he asked in a low voice, "Oh, Xiao Yu, I heard that Nurse Wu Xinyao was killed on the night of my operation?" Xia Xiaoyu suddenly felt sad and nodded. Lin Xiang sighed, and said, "Didn't expect it to happen to her?" This sentence instantly aroused Xia Xiaoyu's curiosity, she asked, "What fulfillment?" Lin Xiang explained, "Yes, before the operation, I found out from many sources that people died in this ward for four consecutive months. I was worried that it would be me this month." Xia Xiaoyu remembered what Lin Xiang had said to her the night before her operation, and couldn't help but shudder, yes, someone died after all. Lin Xiang said mysteriously, "Then you didn't realize that apart from being number 24, did these people have something in common when they died?" Xia Xiaoyu was thinking quickly, but Wu Xinyao said that those patients were all helpless. Damn, they all had surgery before they died, but this is not the same as Wu Xinyao's death! I heard Lin Xiang continue to say, "When they died, it was raining in the middle of the night, and it was all on the 24th! I remember it was also raining on the night of my operation, right? Do you think it's evil or not?" Xia Xiaoyu couldn't help being secretly surprised, this couldn't help but remind her of this strange coincidence, could it really have nothing to do with her sister Xia Xue?Is it my sister's wronged soul?But she is so kind, even if she turns into a ghost, she won't hurt innocent people, right?But, didn't she change later, she became very scary... Xia Xiaoyu couldn't help but fell into what she said just now, but Lin Xiang turned to talk about other things, she said, "I heard that nurse Xu Chenchen was transferred to the city mental hospital, poor girl, I am very sorry Those who like her, I heard that she didn't suffer any injuries, but her mind went crazy." Tears welled up in Xia Xiaoyu's eyes. A few days later, the visiting office of the Municipal Mental Hospital welcomed two young visitors—Mai Yuxiang and Wen Miao, who were asking a doctor about Xu Chenchen's situation. The doctor in his thirties with a mustache said: "She is in a very bad condition now. She is afraid of light, water, and people. Whenever she sees people, she yells and can't control it. She says that the other party wants to Kill her. So, I'm afraid a visitation can't be arranged just yet." Wen Miao pleaded: "Then can we see her from a distance? We came here specially." Mai Yuxiang also said: "We will not disturb her." The doctor thought about it and said, "Okay, this way, please." The doctor led Wen Miao and Mai Yuxiang towards Xu Chenchen's ward. They saw two people standing outside the door of Xu Chenchen's ward. They were Gu Zhensheng and Xia Xiaoyu.Mai Yuxiang and Wen Miao couldn't help but look at each other, are they here too? ! Seeing the puzzled expressions of Mai Yuxiang and Wen Miao, the doctor thought they were blaming him for lying. Isn't there someone else doing this?He then explained, "Ah, it's Dr. Gu and Xia Xiaoyu. They are old acquaintances here." Mai Yuxiang asked suspiciously: "Do you know each other?" The mustache doctor nodded and said, "Oh, Gu Zhensheng's wife used to be a patient here, and they used to come here to see her." Mai Yuxiang was even more confused. Xia Xue lived here, so she is a mental patient, but why has she never heard of it? Gu Zhensheng and Xia Xiaoyu turned their heads in the direction of Mai Yuxiang and Wen Miao when they heard footsteps.The four people came together and nodded briefly to each other as greetings. After that, everyone looked at Xu Chenchen in the ward through the glass on the door of the ward—— On a single bed in the ward, wearing a hospital gown, Xu Chenchen, who is completely insane, is hugging her legs and sitting curled up in a corner. She looks around vigilantly, as if everything around her is threatening her. like dodging... Suddenly, Xu Chenchen turned his head and saw them, and retreated to the corner of the wall in fright and screamed—— In the rest hall of the psychiatric hospital, many mental patients are doing their own activities, playing chess, watching TV, reading books, playing cards, and shooting balls. Most of them have dull or weird expressions, and they look very scary. Mai Yuxiang, Wen Miao, Gu Zhensheng and Xia Xiaoyu were sitting on a recliner at the edge of the lounge, and Mai Yuxiang was describing his point of view. Mai Yuxiang said: "When I was studying in the United States, I have seen similar cases. They all have common characteristics, and they all claim that someone wants to hurt him or kill him, and even their bodies do have traces of being hurt. They They will hurt themselves or others for no reason, but they don’t remember anything afterwards, and in fact..." He deliberately looked around his three listeners to increase the shock of the last sentence, and he said—— "Those marks are all caused by the patients themselves." The power of these words was immediately confirmed on the faces of those three, Xia Xiaoyu couldn't help trembling all over, and hurriedly asked, "Why is that so?" Mai Yuxiang explained: "This phenomenon is often related to severe split personality, dual personality or multiple personality, that is, one personality of the patient wants to kill himself, while the other personality is desperately resisting. In addition, there is another possibility That is, the patient has been deeply hypnotized, and I have personally seen people hypnotized by a hypnotist do some things that are unbelievable to normal people." Wen Miao frowned and asked: "You mean, someone hypnotized Xu Chenchen and Wu Xinyao on the night of the accident and forced them to do things that hurt themselves, so only Wu Xinyao's own fingerprints were on the scalpel, and Xu Chenchen couldn't remember what happened at that time. what?" Gu Zhensheng listened carefully to their conversation. Mai Yuxiang said: "Not entirely, because there is also a very rare method of hypnosis - telepathy." At this moment, Xia Xiaoyu and Wen Miao looked at each other for no reason. Mai Yuxiang continued: "This is often associated with many supernatural events that cannot be explained by science." The other three people were all attracted by this topic. Mai Yuxiang thought for a while and continued, "The heart is a very peculiar organ of the human body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is the source of all human consciousness. The so-called 'thoughts come from the heart', and the heart The activities of the human body are affected by physical activity and changes in the outside world, so when a person is in a weak physical condition, such as when he is extremely frightened, tired, injured or sick, the heart is more easily affected by external fluctuations and makes extreme movements. This is what the West calls brain wave induction, in other words, the person is hypnotized by external fluctuations.” Xia Xiaoyu and Wen Miao seemed to be reminded of something by these words, but Gu Zhensheng seemed a little skeptical, and asked bluntly, "What do you mean?" Mai Yuxiang turned his face and looked into Gu Zhensheng's eyes and said: "I mean, no matter what, it is very dangerous for anyone to approach Ward 413, because everything that happened recently is related to that ward. related." Gu Zhensheng looked a little angry, and said, "You mean it turned into a haunted house? It's nonsense." Mai Yuxiang immediately retorted: "I am in a book..." Gu Zhensheng's cell phone rang suddenly, he made a "stop" gesture to Mai Yuxiang, stood up and walked far away, and picked up the cell phone by the window. Gu Zhensheng: "Hello!...Okay, we will be there as soon as possible." Gu Zhensheng's face showed a trace of panic, he turned off his mobile phone, and couldn't help but glance at Mai Yuxiang on the reclining chair in the distance. Gu Zhensheng walked back to the three people on the reclining chair, and said coldly, "Captain Li of the Public Security Bureau hopes that Mai Yuxiang and I will go to the bureau now."