Chapter 1 Dream
◎Hello, Dr. Gu!◎
"Hello, Doctor Gu!"
"Is Doctor Gu going home?"
"Doctor Gu, please come back soon. We are all waiting for you!"
Gu Nian greeted the patients' families with a smile along the way, and the corners of his mouth were a little stiff. When he finally walked out of the psychiatric department, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
Turning around and taking a look at the department, Gu Nian smiled bitterly.
She will definitely come back, but I don’t know whether she will be a psychiatrist or a mental patient next time.
Psychiatrist, the pressure is really too great!
Gu Nian was about to leave when suddenly a patient in a hospital gown ran out. He looked around and grinned widely when he saw him.
"Doctor Gu, Doctor Gu!"
The other party shouted and ran towards him quickly.
Gu Nian took a deep breath and stood still. Soon, her hands were held by the other party, and she said excitedly, "Doctor Gu, thank you for curing my mental illness!"
Looking at the somewhat unfamiliar faces in front of him, it was obvious that these were not the patients he was responsible for.
But Gu Nian still forced a smile and nodded mechanically: "Haha, it's my duty, it's my duty." She was too lazy to explain, since this wasn't the first time anyway.
No matter how she explained, these people stubbornly believed that they had cured their illnesses. Even her colleagues thought that she had counseled the patients in private. No one believed it, and she even met some of them for the first time.
But that's not accurate. She seemed to have seen it in her dream.
But that’s the problem!
She, Gu Nian, a staunch materialist and a well-established psychiatrist, was treating people in their dreams. Who would believe it if she told others about it?
Gu Nian didn't dare to say it, for she was afraid that if she said it, she would have to be a fellow patient, so she chose to take a leave. The number of patients in the psychiatric department had increased sharply recently, and she must be too tired from work.
Yes, that must be the case.
Gu Nian exchanged a few polite words with the person in front of him without changing his expression and prepared to leave. The first step to relieve stress is to leave the environment that makes him more stressed.
Just as he was about to turn around, Gu Nian suddenly felt a resistance.
He looked down and found that the corner of his clothes was pulled. The patient who was smiling just now now had a different expression, and his baby face with a little baby fat was serious.
The baby-faced man leaned close to Gu Nian and whispered in a low voice, "Doomsday, the end of the world is coming. Doctor Gu, you have to be careful, be careful."
Gu Nian: “…”
I think there is still a lot of room for treatment for your illness.
But this also made her feel a little strange. The patients who came to see her before all said that their illnesses had been cured. After diagnosis, they were indeed discharged from the hospital. What was going on with this patient? It looked like the illness had not yet fully recovered.
A sense of hope arose in Gu Nian's heart. Perhaps the patient who was discharged from the hospital before was about to recover, and they just happened to have recognized the wrong attending physician?
If that's the case, then she is normal!
Just as they were about to escort the person back for a check-up, a young nurse came out. The nurse obviously knew Gu Nian and apologized immediately.
"I'm sorry, Doctor Gu. This is a new patient today, and I accidentally left him alone. I heard you took a leave of absence. I hope I didn't delay your time."
Gu Nian's hope was instantly shattered. The patient had just arrived today, which meant that she hadn't had time to fall asleep yet. It turned out to be a real mental patient.
Gu Niansheng waved his hand helplessly: "It's okay."
The baby-faced boy was pulled back by the nurse and was quite obedient. However, after walking for a distance, he suddenly turned around and shouted, "Doctor Gu, my name is Song Tian, my name is Song Tian!"
After shouting, he didn't turn around, but stared at Gu Nian, as if to confirm whether she remembered.
Gu Nian nodded in agreement: "Okay, I understand."
This is the case with psychiatric patients. Sometimes you need to cooperate with them, which is more conducive to the development of treatment and can also reduce their aggressiveness.
After hearing Gu Nian's answer, the baby-faced boy finally felt relieved and followed the nurse.
Gu Nian left the hospital with a heavy heart.
The hospital has been very busy recently, especially the psychiatric department. I don’t know if it’s because the pressure of modern society is too great, but there are so many people with mental problems recently that there are not enough beds.
Gu Nian worked overtime for several days in a row, and finally slept directly in the duty room, and then the "curing of illness" happened in the dream.
Thinking of the process of curing the disease in the dream, Gu Nian reached out and pressed the position of his stomach.
In fact, she didn't remember most of the content of the dream. The only thing she remembered clearly was the feeling after waking up: she was very full.
But it’s not a physical feeling of fullness, but a psychological one.
It's like a person who has been hungry for a long time and finally has a full meal. What follows is not satisfaction, but desire, and she wants to eat more.
This feeling was very strange and made Gu Nian feel panicky, so she begged the director for a week's leave. Fortunately, patients were discharged one after another, so the director approved her leave.
Gu Nian's residence is not too far from the hospital. She rented it specifically for the convenience of work. She usually lives here and only goes back to her parents' home during holidays.
She stood at the intersection for a while and finally decided to go to the rented house.
This is a mid-range community. Because there is a school nearby, the occupancy rate is very high and the surrounding living facilities are also very complete. Gu Nian first bought some vegetables in the supermarket and then returned to his residence.
Gu Nian made a simple bowl of egg noodles and ate it while turning on the TV.
The news is being broadcast on TV.
"According to our reporter, a new round of demonstrations has broken out in H City. Demonstrators gathered in front of City Hall, demanding a clear explanation from the government regarding the military takeover of the Shangjiang neighborhood..."
The screen showed the angry shouts of demonstrators, many of whose families were under lockdown and control, and it seemed that they could not even be contacted.
Gu Nian paused while eating noodles. Has he been taken over by the military?
H City is right next to them, and many patients even come from there. I heard that at first only one hospital was closed because an epidemic infectious disease broke out there, so they came here to see a doctor.
From one hospital to another, the situation seemed to be getting worse.
But Gu Nian is just a psychiatrist, so there is no point in worrying. I think with the military taking over, the situation should be under control, right?
After finishing the noodles, Gu Nian washed the dishes and felt a little bored for a while. He couldn't help but think of what happened a few days ago.
In fact, at the beginning, she did not realize that she had entered someone else's dream. She discovered something was wrong after talking to a patient who was discharged from the hospital.
The patient was suffering from paranoia and always felt that someone wanted to kill him. The situation had reached a very serious stage. But suddenly, he recovered.
On the day of discharge, the other party made a special trip to find her and thanked her for helping kill the person who was chasing her. Now she is fine and can finally live a normal life.
Gu Nian was completely confused at the time, and subconsciously asked her when he helped her kill someone, and she answered mysteriously: In a dream.
Gu Nian felt that there was something wrong with the hospital's diagnosis at the time. She even found the other party's attending physician to verify it. As a result, she found that all kinds of examinations showed that the other party was mentally normal.
There are only two possibilities in this matter. One is that the other party's disease has not been cured, but it has just become more hidden. The other is that what the other party said is true.
No matter how she looked at it, the first possibility seemed more likely, but Gu Nian suddenly remembered a dream she had the night before. In the dream, she seemed to be running, looking for something, and then she heard a cry for help. She followed the sound and saw a man wrapped in black mist, holding a knife, about to kill someone.
Then, she killed the other person, and the face of the person who was saved suddenly flashed in Gu Nian's mind. It was the delusional patient.
Gu Nian resisted the urge to continue reminiscing, washed up and went to bed.
When you are under a lot of pressure, sleep is actually a good way to relieve stress. Gu Nian did not suffer from insomnia, but she did not fall asleep until twelve o'clock.
It’s not that Gu Nian couldn’t sleep, it’s that she didn’t dare to sleep.
But she was really too tired during this period. Even though she tried hard to cheer herself up, her eyelids became heavier and heavier. Finally, she slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Gu Nian "opened" her eyes and she was dreaming again.
Since this is not the first time I have faced such a situation, I am still calm for the time being.
She looked around curiously. Just like before, there was a thick fog not far away, making visibility very low. Conversely, the area ten meters around her was as bright as day. The area of daylight had expanded from less than five meters at first.
Because of this brightness, everything around is clearly visible.
Around Gu Nian, there were five or six whirlpools made of black mist suspended. These whirlpools were of different sizes. The largest one was about the size of a washbasin, and the smallest was about the size of a baby's fist.
When seeing these black whirlpools, Gu Nian couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
These things look delicious?
Gu Nian quickly shook her head to dispel the inexplicable thoughts in her mind. Perhaps because she had "eaten her fill" before, she still maintained her rationality at this time, unlike the beginning when she rushed over without caring about anything and then entered someone else's dream.
According to Gu Nian's deduction, these black vortexes must be other people's dreams, but they are all nightmares. The larger the black vortex, the more terrifying the dream.
The most terrifying dream Gu Nianjin had ever had was about a patient who thought he was a spider. In that dream, there were spiders almost everywhere, and each one was more than one meter tall. But in that most terrifying dream, the black vortex was only slightly bigger than a fist.
What is going on now? Is there a mentally ill person in their community?
Unable to figure it out for the time being, Gu Nian put the idea aside and looked towards the center. There was a small black dot there. If the surroundings were not so bright, it would actually be difficult to find.
This is different from the black vortex and cannot be eaten.
The black spot was located in the very center. Gu Nian walked to the side and stretched out his little finger to compare it. The black spot seemed to have grown bigger. At first it was only the size of a grain of rice.
Like a seed, it is growing.
I reached out and touched it, and it felt cool and smooth.
Soon, Gu Nian's attention was drawn to the black vortexes. She endured it again and again, but she still walked towards them. However, before entering, she concentrated on meditation. Soon, she was covered with a black cloak and a mask on her face, covering the upper half of her face.
It was necessary to disguise herself so that she wouldn't be recognized by patients like in the hospital, and then she wouldn't be able to hide the fact that she was a mental patient.
Because of his previous experience, Gu Nian "ate" very quickly this time. After dealing with five black whirlpools, only the last one was left.
The other whirlpools combined were not as big as this basin-sized whirlpool. Gu Nian was actually a little "full", but he couldn't help but come to the largest whirlpool.
Just as she was still hesitating, the black vortex in front of her suddenly burst out with a strong suction force, and Gu Nian was pulled in in the blink of an eye.
When she opened her eyes again, she was sitting at a long table with people sitting on both sides.
Suddenly a voice came from the other side: "Hey, why is there another one?"
Swish, swish, eleven pairs of eyes looked at Gu Nian at the same time.
Gu Nian didn't say anything for a moment.
After a moment of silence, the man sitting in the first chair on the right spoke first: "Forget it, the voting hasn't started yet anyway."
The man swept his majestic gaze over the crowd and spoke again, "The twelve chairs are already full. If anyone new shows up, they'll be killed. Is that okay with you?"
Everyone said in unison: "No problem!"
Only Gu Nian remained silent. Soon, she nodded and said, "No problem."
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