Chapter 17 The Third Mental Hospital
◎This is a serious illness◎
Halfway through the drive, Zhong Xingchi slowly sat up straight, staring ahead and saying, "Gu Nian's feeling was correct. There is indeed a contaminated core ahead."
Then his expression relaxed, and he patted his chest and said thankfully: "Fortunately, it is a D-level contaminated core. It is still in the growth stage, so the problem should not be too big." Obviously, he was not as relaxed as he had appeared before.
Gu Nian silently remembered that this level was a D-level contaminated core.
After passing a checkpoint, the car stopped a few minutes later. Even Qi Kai, who was not sensitive to pollutants, noticed it. This meant they were very close to the core of the pollution.
And what appeared before their eyes was the S City Third Mental Hospital.
At this moment, the mental hospital seemed normal except for the lack of people around. But Gu Nian already knew that this was all an illusion. Once they crossed that line, they would enter the contaminated area.
Gu Nian frowned: "There really is a problem here."
If this is the case, what Song Tian said before is worth pondering. The other party is very likely not a psychopath, but a psychic with some special abilities.
Qi Kai and Zhong Xingchi also realized this.
Before entering, Qi Kai said to Gu Nian, "The pollution core in its growth phase is completely different from the ones you've encountered before. They're very good at hiding. Our biggest problem once we get in might not be killing it, but finding it. The only clear thing is that it's hiding in the most polluted areas."
Zhong Xingchi nodded in agreement, a look of indescribable emotion on his face. "Every contaminated area is different. It's hard to explain it in a few words. You'll understand once you get in."
Gu Nian nodded to show that she understood. "I'll be careful."
The black jeep slowly drove into the gate of the Third Mental Hospital, and then was swallowed up in silence, and everything returned to the way it had been.
Only after the car entered the mental hospital did Gu Nian finally understand what the so-called difference meant. Looking at the "person" blocking the car, the three of them remained silent for a moment.
As expected of a mental hospital, right? The monsters are truly unique.
What appeared before them was more like a frog walking upright than a human. Its enlarged limbs had ripped through its security uniform, and its face was covered in dense pimples. It was talking, and mucus was dripping down its face.
"Hey, I'm asking you, what are you doing here?" said the frog man.
Zhong Xingchi barely suppressed his nausea and chuckled, jokingly saying, "You're really dedicated to your job. Even after turning into a frog, you still remember to guard the gate."
Unfortunately, Gu Nian and Qi Kai weren't amused. A number of figures could be seen swaying in the distance. It was obvious that anyone strolling outside at this time was probably no different from the frog people.
Their situation is not optimistic.
After waiting for no answer, the frog man became obviously impatient. He stuck out his bright red tongue and looked at the three people in the car with ill intent. "Are you planning to do something bad?"
The monster stretched out his tone: "Anyone who wants to do bad things will be captured."
As the stop got longer, more monsters began to swarm over. Just as Qi Kai was about to make a quick move, Gu Nian in the back seat suddenly lowered the car window.
Qi Kai and Zhong Xingchi were shocked, but did not move. Although they had not been in contact with Gu Nian for too long, they knew that Gu Nian was not the kind of person who would act without purpose.
Gu Nian spoke quickly, and her tone was even more impatient than the frog man's: "What's wrong with you, the security guard? I'm an expert invited by your dean, and this is how you treat guests?"
She snorted coldly, "Let's go back. I'll see how he explains this to his boss later."
Qi Kai immediately started the car and prepared to turn around.
The frogman croaked anxiously, slapping his webbed feet together against the car. A fawning expression crossed his face. "So you're the expert the dean invited in. My apologies, but since you didn't make an appointment, it's very difficult for me to handle this."
Qi Kai glanced at Gu Nian in the rearview mirror and shook his head slightly. The car hadn't been turned off, and the accelerator hadn't been released. They had been stopped by the frog people.
Gu Nian turned his gaze away, reached out and took something out of the cardboard box next to him, and quickly waved it in front of the frog man. "Take a good look, I'm an expert from the city hospital. Your dean said that the hospital has been receiving a lot of patients recently, so he asked me to come for a consultation."
What she showed to the frog man was the work ID card that she had forgotten to return when she resigned.
Gu Nian's fingers just pinched the area where her job title and position would be, revealing only the hospital department and her photo. Frogman was about to take a closer look when her ID card was taken away by Gu Nian. She seemed to have reached her limit and angrily said, "If you still don't believe me, go ask your dean!"
The frog man quickly flattered, "I believe it."
But soon, its gaze turned to Qi Kai and Zhong Xingchi. As it spoke, it drooled and asked with red eyes, "These two shouldn't have been invited by the dean, right?"
Qi Kai responded quickly: "I am the nurse hired by your dean." He showed his biceps, indicating that he was very qualified for this position.
The frog man set his sights on Zhong Xingchi.
Zhong Xingchi: “…” Damn, who could he be?
Just as the frog man was about to take action, Gu Nian spoke up, "He's a patient in our hospital. Your dean said his illness is worth researching, so he asked me to bring him here."
Zhong Xingchi: ???
He quickly said, "No, no, she's joking. I'm not mentally ill. I'm, yes, I'm an idol! I'm here to perform for the patients to relieve their stress!"
Frogman: "Heh."
It waved its hands and said, "Okay, take him to see a doctor quickly. He is seriously ill." The mentally ill person said that he was not sick. Did it think that he had been guarding the gate for decades in vain?
The frog man walked away with his hands behind his back.
Zhong Xingchi: “…”
Gu Nian suppressed a smile and soothed them, "Think positively. At least we all have 'legal' identities. These monsters seem to abide by certain rules." For example, since they had legal identities, the frogmen, even if they still wanted to eat them, held back. The monsters that had been about to surround them also dispersed.
Zhong Xingchi rarely went out on field missions and didn't have much experience, but Qi Kai nodded in agreement: "Yes, this can be considered a clue. The rules formed by the contaminated area are related to the contamination core. It can be said that the contamination core is the last obsession of humans. This will greatly help us find it."
Zhong Xingchi had no choice but to accept his own assignment. He patted Qi Kai on the shoulder and said earnestly, "We Purifiers are all fragile. You must protect me well. If those mentally ill people bully me, you can't just stand by and watch."
Qi Kai nodded perfunctorily and turned to discuss with Gu Nian: "Let's go to the inpatient department first. The core of the contamination is most likely there."
Gu Nian nodded in agreement.
The car started immediately.
The inpatient department was easy to find, but as soon as their car arrived, they heard a loud shouting coming from inside, and then a young man in a hospital gown ran out, followed by countless strange-looking monsters in white coats.
Gu Nian recognized the person who ran out at a glance, "It's Song Tian!"
The person being chased and intercepted was the person they originally wanted to pick up, Song Tian.
Song Tian's current appearance was extremely miserable, with red and green mucus all over his body and his baby face bruised and swollen, making it almost impossible to tell what he looked like. He ran around like a headless fly as soon as he came out, and was caught by the monsters wandering outside.
Song Tian raised his head and screamed to the sky: "Someone come and save me!!"
The three people in the car: "......"
Gu Nian dug out a white coat from the box beside him and put it on. He also put on the work badge he had just modified. "I'll go out and take a look. Song Tian's abilities may be helpful to us."
Qi Kai said, "I'll go with you." Then he turned to Zhong Xingchi and said, "You're a fragile person, so wait in the car. If anything goes wrong, you can come and help us."
Zhong Xingchi was very aware of his vulnerability and nodded heavily: "Leave it to me!" He moved from the passenger seat to the driver's seat, staring closely at the backs of Gu Nian and Qi Kai as they left, ready to respond at any time.
After everyone left, I realized that he was a fragile person, so wasn't Gu Nian the same?
Qi Kai's tone just now seemed to indicate that he was disgusted with him, right?
Elsewhere, Gu Nian and Qi Kai, two "misfits," also approached the group of monsters. Gu Nian spoke before them, sneering, "Is this the standard of your Third Mental Hospital? Not only did you fail to properly care for the patients, you even resorted to violence against them?"
She looked at the octopus monster that was strangling Song Tian with its eight tentacles, imagining that her director was possessed by him. She said with a sharp look in her eyes, "What's your name? Which department are you from? Who taught you to treat patients like this? Call your supervisor over here!"
The octopus monster involuntarily loosened its tentacles, momentarily bewildered. Why did it find this familiar scolding tone so familiar and somehow familiar?
Song Tian almost suffocated to death and started coughing violently as soon as he was released. When he finished coughing and looked up, he was so excited that tears came to his eyes when he saw Gu Nian.
"Doctor Gu, you're finally here!" Song Tian rushed over.
Gu Nian dodged nimbly, preventing the mucus from getting on his white coat, and then winked at Qi Kai beside him: "Keep an eye on the patients, and let them learn well."
Qi Kai stepped forward and blocked Song Tian behind him.
At this time, the monsters also recovered their strength and surrounded them. A monster with a huge head, a huge body, and slender limbs looked at Gu Nian grimly: "Who are you?"
Gu Nian remained calm. "I'm an expert invited by your dean, specializing in solving difficult and complicated cases. Where is my office? I'm tired and need to rest first."
Big Head asked suspiciously, "An expert invited by the dean?"
Gu Nian said impatiently, "Why? You checked when I came in, and you check again now? Go call the dean over. I want to ask him in person whether he invited me here!"
Big Head glanced at Gu Nian and said, "We need to discuss this."
The monsters gathered together and whispered.
Song Tian, who was watching from behind, was amazed. He said in shock, "How could this be possible?" Then he became a little worried, "What if they really go to find the dean?"
Gu Nian said: "Of course you run." Otherwise, wait for others to catch you?
She discovered at the door that the frog monster seemed to be very afraid of the dean. It was a fear that came from the heart, otherwise they would not have been able to pass through so easily at that time.
So she was gambling, betting that these monsters would not dare to confront the dean.
Sure enough, the monsters came back soon. The dark eyes of the big head swept over the three people and said in a muffled voice: "The office is ready, come with us. But this patient is from our hospital, and he must go back with us." It pointed his slender finger at Song Tian.
Song Tian looked at Gu Nian pitifully and shook his head desperately.
Gu Nian didn't look at him, but said to Big Head, "This patient has been frightened by you. How about this, I'll take a look first to see if there's anything wrong, and you can take him away later."
The big head nodded heavily, "Okay."
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