Chapter 127 The Man in the Mirror
The girl believed Ye Yunhe's words easily and answered the questions like a reading machine.
What auntie?
"Auntie came here a month ago." The girl's eyes were still full of tears. "I don't know why she came here. No one is willing to tell me. Auntie won't tell me either, so I won't ask."
What does your aunt look like?
"Auntie...Auntie is very beautiful." The girl answered a little stutteringly, "But I don't know how to describe her appearance... I'm sorry, but I think Auntie is like a mother and is very kind to me, even though she is always injured."
She became depressed again.
Which ward in the intensive care unit is Auntie in?
The girl fell into deep thought, twisting her fingers and frowning as she recalled: "Ward...Ward..."
"I'm not sure. What I know is really limited. But I remember that one day when I met Auntie in the small garden, I heard her tell the accompanying staff that she wanted to change the ward. Thinking about it carefully... it seems that the ward number contains 8?"
"They spoke in low voices and stopped talking when they saw me coming. Auntie was still tied to a wheelchair and could only look at me and smile."
Did Auntie show any sign of being wrong? Like... resistance to this place or the desire to escape?
"Yes...!" The girl's eyes widened, she covered her lips with her hands and screamed in response, her voice as soft as a mosquito, "Yes, I am very sensitive to other people's emotions, so I know very well that every moment that Auntie stays here is unhappy and painful."
"She always looked outside, and whenever her eyes became empty, she would unconsciously clench my hand. She was in pain, I could feel it, but I couldn't help her... She always gave me her share of snacks and bread."
"There are many people here... who are forcibly locked up here. When my aunt first came, she couldn't even leave the ward. I heard the nurses passing by occasionally chatting about my aunt's condition. They mentioned words like 'that poor crazy woman'."
"But I can't be sure whether Auntie really has mental problems or is being held here by force like those people."
The girl felt uneasy about her inability to provide useful information.
Ye Yunhe placed his hand on the partition and rubbed it slowly, as if trying to touch her hair through this obstacle. The girl swallowed and stood on tiptoe to get closer to the partition.
The girl's timid expression faded away quietly, and she smiled naturally: "Thank you, nurse."
"I hope my answer can help you... Of course, it doesn't matter if I can't answer it. After all, I know too little, and you don't need to agree to my request."
"...I hope Auntie is well. The same goes for you, Miss Nurse."
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The surveillance screen that was always watching him suddenly went black. After Ye Yunhe created the scene to make it feel like he was being abducted, he set out to look for clues.
The information the girl told me was scattered, and as always I needed to piece it together myself, but fortunately it was not abstract, and there was no difficult or time-consuming deciphering.
Ye Yunhe had just left the intensive care unit and had to go back again. He carefully avoided people and quickly climbed up three steps on the stairs.
Several patients woke up in the intensive care unit and were tied to their beds and screaming. The hoarse and piercing sounds were heard continuously, coupled with the violent noises made by the beds being moved. Even with the best sound insulation, it was still a huge noise, causing the nurse in charge of this area to frown fiercely, and finally click her lips, picked up the key and walked over there, probably preparing to give someone another tube of medicine.
key.
Ye Yunhe hid in the corner, turned his head and stared at the key ring.
The surveillance camera was flashing a red dot weakly under the special equipment. The security office must have discovered it and sent people over here to arrest the person. The current nurse's identity will be offline soon.
You have to fight quickly and decisively, and can't waste too much energy in the outer space. How can you use your ultimate move on the small BOSS before exploring the deep area?
Hesitation leads to defeat. Ye Yunhe took out a long and thin injection from her bag and decided to give up her long-standing conservative approach and become a brave radical.
Her movements were silent and swift. When the nurse turned her back to her and tried to fetch the key, she struck out quickly and was close to her in the blink of an eye. The next moment, the needle held between the fingertips was inserted into the neck, and the medicine was injected with a push of the thumb.
Government products must be of high quality, and the medicine took effect almost in the next second. The nurse, who was treated the same as Doctor Chen, rolled her eyes and fell down weakly. Ye Yunhe caught her and stuffed her under a table not far away, blocking her with a chair.
The heavy key was in hand.
The corresponding room number was marked on the front of each key. Ye Yunhe quickly ran to the right and grabbed the key with "8" on it.
The first digit of the ward number is based on the building number, and the remaining two digits are added in sequence. According to the girl's hint, we can conclude that the woman's ward is either "408" or "418".
Ye Yunhe was currently at the far left of the corridor. 418 was the nearest ward. She held the key and stood on tiptoe to look inside through the partition. When she noticed someone there, she immediately continued forward.
It seemed that her overly reckless behavior triggered the bottom line of the space, or the NPC who was tricked finally discovered the truth.
The next moment, shrill and piercing alarm bells rang out throughout the area, loud enough to drown out the patients' desperate screams, but also causing an even more turbulent wave. Dense footsteps gathered here, surrounding them from both sides.
The ward doors on both sides of me began to be banged against by patients. The loud banging noise mixed with the alarm bells was non-stop and made me dizzy and eye-aching.
Ye Yunhe smacked his lips impatiently. She flicked her sleeves, and several glass bottles that had been prepared in her sleeves flew toward the wall, shattered on the ground, and burned in clusters of flames, which instantly grew larger with the help of flammable materials. Smoke and dust rose and hit the fire protection facilities above.
Water poured down like raindrops, and the area set off another layer of crazy alarm bells. Several intense ringing sounds, each showing their magical power, are desperately sounding in this small space, leaving no energy behind to be transmitted to people's poor eardrums, filling the space to the point where they can no longer receive any information, hurting not only others but also themselves.
The water hit the NPC, who had finally arrived here, cried out in anger as the water splashed on his body. He was silenced by the alarm and almost accidentally injured by the electric baton held by a friendly soldier.
Ye Yunhe has arrived at Ward 408.
The key, which was clenched so tightly in her hand that it was a little wet, was inserted into the lock. She turned it decisively, and with the sound of the door lock opening, she turned around and rushed into the inner room and locked the door again, temporarily blocking the storm outside.
The smoke bomb that was thrown out earlier burst into thick white smoke, which made the person's eyes ooze tears and sneeze continuously, but it also successfully confused the NPC's vision, giving her some time to relax. The replica would probably come here soon following the scent, so she had to quickly confirm the answer in her mind.
I reviewed my own situation. Ye Yunhe glanced around the empty ward.
The curtains were tightly closed, not a single ray of light could get in, but the moment I stepped in I felt a chill so chilly that it almost froze my blood. The entire room is like a special area with a debuff added to it, clearly telling everyone that there is something wrong with it, which is in line with the relatively easy decryption difficulty in the early stages.
The bed was in a mess, with blood-stained restraints hanging on the side. It was obvious that the place had not been tidied, and signs of someone having lived there could be seen everywhere. There were bloody scratches on the wall from fingernails, and a reddish-brown word "Run" that had not been completely wiped off was clearly printed on the white wall. The handwriting was extremely similar to the clue; there were traces of damage on one side of the curtain from someone pulling and biting it hard; the long metal pole of the anti-theft window was slightly twisted.
Each of them tells others that there was once a person who desperately wanted to escape from here.
Without staying for long, Ye Yunhe quickly walked into the bathroom in the corner based on his guess.
As soon as she stepped into the narrow space, her eyes met his.
A mirror took up most of the wall, standing precariously opposite the bathroom door.
The mirror was incomplete and broken, with spider-web-like cracks spreading out from the center, layer upon layer, densely covering the entire mirror. Ye Yunhe stared intently, gazing at the reflected eyes in the dark gap.
She walked over slowly and stepped on the broken lens that had fallen to the ground, causing it to break into even more pieces, making a "crunching" sound like a death cry.
How did the woman escape from here? She raised her hand, and touched the cracked mirror with her fingertips a few inches away, tracing it in the air.
The mental hospital has a rigorous layout and tight guards, with countless surveillance cameras staring at the people here at all times. When a person is detained here, with cold sedatives injected into the body and locked tightly to the bed with restraints so strong that they dig into the skin, escape becomes a luxury.
What's more, a person who is locked in an intensive care unit and has to be tied to a wheelchair to go out and breathe fresh air will be managed more rigorously and seamlessly than this.
So, how did the woman escape from here?
She did not alarm anyone and did not leave any trace. She seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth and disappeared on an ordinary morning. In this facility that was like a dragnet, she escaped through a loophole that no one knew about.
Ye Yunhe could almost imagine a haggard woman with withered hair one morning, washing up as usual. She walked into the narrow bathroom and quietly met the eyes of her own reflection.
Her expression was hard to discern, and it was unclear whether the emotion in her eyes was confusion and fear or expectation. She raised her head and touched the mirror. The cold touch was the same as before, but it suddenly shattered from under her fingers in the next second. Spider-web-like cracks spread outward, and a bottomless vortex emerged from the gap.
She was sucked into the mirror.
At the same time, there was a vibration from the locked door as if someone had kicked it.
Ye Yunhe's location has been discovered.
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