Qi Mi looked around and found that there was no place to hide in the room, so he quickly opened the window and jumped out.
The weeds were very tall, and if she shrank and curled up and didn't move, it would be difficult for her to notice that there was another person here.
She pricked up her ears to listen to the movement in the room on the second floor. Because the sound was at a distance, it was not very clear. She could only barely make out that Ye Shiliu was talking to a woman.
A few minutes later, Ye Shiliu opened the window and waved to her.
Qi Mi stood up, stepped on the window sill on the first floor, exerted force and climbed up quickly to the window on the second floor.
Ye Shiliu was secretly surprised at her extraordinary ability to move, so he took her hand and helped her jump back to the room.
"Hmm?" As soon as Qi Mi's feet touched the ground, he looked up and saw a slightly plump woman sitting beside the bed.
When the woman saw her, she was neither anxious nor panicked, and the corners of her lips even rose slightly.
Seeing her provocative expression, Qi Mi reacted in a second: "Old Wei?"
"Your ability to escape is still so strong, girl. If this guy hadn't called you at the window, I wouldn't have thought you would jump out directly. This is the second floor, aren't you afraid of accidentally falling to death?" The woman raised her eyebrows slightly. Although the face was unfamiliar, but if you looked closely, you could still see Lao Wei's usual expression.
Just now he saw these two people acting suspiciously, and heard others confused about what this blue pill was, so he made a rough guess in his mind. This time he came here mainly to get confirmation.
At this point, the three of them reunited.
"Time is running out, so I'll just briefly explain what I know so far." Old Wei sat up straight and said seriously, "I suspect the strange thing we've encountered this time is a regulatory contaminant. We can tell this from the patient information sheet. A careful reading will reveal many oddities..."
"Based on experience, some of these rules are true, while others are false. If you're not careful and follow a false rule, it can be extremely dangerous. Our first priority is to discern the true from the false. Only then can we save our lives... The entrance to the barrier in the real world is on the wall, which means the strange thing is likely something attached to or hanging on the wall. Everyone, please pay attention to this."
As he spoke, Old Wei looked up at Ye Shiliu and asked, "Do you still remember the general rules for encountering strange rules in the Purification Officer's Manual?"
Ye Shiliu immediately stood at attention and saluted: "Don't worry, Boss, I remember everything!"
He doesn't have many good qualities. The only thing he has is that he has a good memory and usually doesn't forget things he memorized by rote.
General rules are compiled by the base purification officer and are the correct rules that need to be followed when encountering rule anomalies.
However, since I haven't encountered many, I can summarize them into three points:
[1. Always remember who you are and what you look like, and avoid assimilating your consciousness with those within the barrier.]
[2. Pay close attention to the flow of time in the barrier, as it is very different from the flow of time in the normal world.]
[3. Be clear about your identity and don't make mistakes about the rules you should follow.]
After listening to it hurriedly, Qi Mi remembered it in his heart.
At this moment, she had no time to care about any general rules. Her mind was full of Lao Wei's instructions just now.
Some of these rules are true, and some are false. Zheng Yuanyuan and the children have already entered the barrier. What if they follow the false rules?
What if this pool of blood is...
Qi Mi felt his head buzzing and stared blankly at the bed.
Old Wei arrived earlier than them and knew that a patient had died here before. Considering Qi Mi's current reaction, he guessed that the girl had misunderstood. He quickly stood up and patted her shoulder: "Don't worry, I can confirm the five people you asked me to pick up. They are fine for the time being, so don't worry..."
Qi Mi's eyes moved slightly: "Really?"
"Really? If you don't believe me, I'll show you." Old Wei pulled Qi Mi to the door, looked around to make sure no one was paying attention, then crouched down with her beside the corridor.
Through the gap in the corridor railings, he pointed out five people one by one to Qi Mi.
There were three bald middle-aged men squatting in a circle, an old man with completely white hair, and a little girl about six or seven years old.
There were two curly-haired aunties and short-haired boys sitting quietly on the side.
Exactly five.
Judging from the appearance, it is not convincing at all, even Qi's fans are not sure for a while.
"Are you sure it's them? Are you sure you're not mistaken?" she asked with a frown.
Old Wei swore confidently, "Don't worry, based on my experience, it's most likely them. I can't be wrong."
He spread out his fingers and counted the basis for his judgment of the five people.
When I first met them...
The bald middle-aged man cried bitterly because he had lost his hair, and shouted, "Teacher, I'm scared."
The old man with completely white hair was crying loudly because he was getting old and ugly, and he shouted, "Teacher, I want to go home."
The little girl, about six or seven years old, didn't cry, but she kept drawing some patterns on the ground with a small wooden stick.
The curly-haired aunt was crying while comforting the short-haired boy who was crying loudly next to her.
It perfectly fits the feeling of helplessness when consciousness suddenly transcends.
This is in stark contrast to the other obedient patients.
But now the five of them have become much quieter and have integrated into the larger group of the hospital. It is likely that their consciousness has begun to become confused.
Qi Mi was half-believing and half-doubting. He suddenly looked up and found that a young nurse suddenly came out from the third floor opposite. He hurriedly lowered his head and tried to curl up his body.
After two seconds of reaction, she secretly cried out that something was wrong and hurried back to Ye Shiliu's room. She quickly tore off the patient instructions, opened the window and jumped out.
The whole action was quick and neat, and took only a few seconds. It was so fast that Ye Shiliu only felt a shadow flying past him and then disappeared.
Ye Shiliu and Lao Wei looked at each other and blinked, neither of them understanding what had happened. They leaned out of the window and saw only traces of weeds being flattened in the backyard.
The house here is in the shape of a U.S. character, and Ye Shiliu's room on the second floor faces the medical duty room on the third floor.
So when she saw the young nurse coming out of the duty room and turning around, she was heading towards her ward.
With the young nurse's walking speed, she could reach the outside of her ward in less than two minutes.
Qi Mi could only rush back to her room as quickly as possible, otherwise if they found out that she had secretly run out, they would definitely keep a closer watch on her in the future!
At this time, the young nurse didn't know what was going on. She hummed a little tune and walked slowly to the front of the ward. At this time, she was just doing a routine inspection. She didn't need to open the door. She just stood at the door and looked through the small window to see if the people inside were okay.
However, when she glanced at it casually, she saw that the bed in the room was covered with a whole quilt, which was roughly in the shape of a person, and she couldn't see the head and feet. She immediately felt something was wrong and quickly took out the key to open the door.
"Feng Ran, are you sleeping?" the young nurse asked as she pushed open the door.
No response.
The young nurse swallowed silently, bravely stepped forward, and called out again: "Feng Ran?"
Still quiet.
The nurse was afraid to move forward. Out of fear of Feng Ran, she didn't dare to move forward and lift the quilt. After a pause, she turned around and ran out: "Doctor, come quickly, doctor!"
The little nurse's screams echoed in the corridor.
Not long after, the sound of chaotic footsteps came from afar.
The female doctor who had been here before came over while calling Feng Ran's name and pulled back the quilt covering the bed.
Qi Mi suddenly opened his eyes.
When she looked at her unfriendly eyes, the young nurse was frightened again.
In addition to her, the female doctor also brought two strange doctors holding electric batons, standing one on each side, surrounding the bed.
Qi Mi's face darkened: "What are you doing?"
The female doctor breathed a sigh of relief, waved her hand to signal the two doctors to step back, and smiled at her: "Just now, the nurse came to your ward door to check and didn't see you. I thought you..."
"Did you think I ran away?" Qi Mi interrupted the female doctor, his eyes becoming even sharper.
She lifted the blanket and showed the doctor the thick black chains tied to her limbs. She asked in an elusive tone, "Do you think I can run like this?"
The female doctor said embarrassedly: "It's not that I was afraid you would run away, but seeing you covered with a quilt and not talking, I thought you were sick."
Qi Mi slowly sat up and sneered, "Oh, look at me, covered with a blanket and not saying anything... I want to ask this nurse, how should I talk when I sleep? Talk in my sleep?"
Young nurse: “…”
"I just don't understand. You don't let me go out, and now you disturb my sleep. What do you want to do?" Qi Mi looked at them with a gloomy face, as cold as if covered with a layer of unmeltable ice.
Knowing that they had angered her, they looked at each other guiltily.
"Sorry, Feng Ran, you should rest now. We won't disturb your sleep anymore." The female doctor came to the rescue in time, turned around and winked at a few people, and took them out of the ward quickly.
The door was locked again.
Qi Mi breathed a sigh of relief.
The time was too short. When she climbed in through the window and got on the bed, the young nurse was almost at the door. She didn't have time to put the scattered chains back on her body, so she could only spread out the quilt to hide herself and the chains together.
Before I could even stick my head out of the window, the young nurse was already at the door.
Because this body was not his own and was not very flexible, Qi Mi was panting and sweating profusely after running this time. He was afraid that if he made a sound, he would reveal his flaws, so he had to keep silent.
Fortunately, the young nurse was afraid of her and did not dare to go up and lift her quilt.
While the young nurse went out to call for help, she put the chain back on her body and escaped the danger for the time being.
A few minutes were enough for Qi Mi's breathing to return to normal.
But there was still a flaw that she couldn't cover up—
That is, when she returned to the room, she was afraid that the nurse would hear the noise, so she did not close the window of the room tightly, and there was still a gap.
If the female doctor and the young nurse stayed a little longer, someone might find out, and then she wouldn't be able to explain herself even if she had a lot of mouths. So Qi Mi deliberately lost her temper in front of them, pretending to be angry because her sweet dream was disturbed, and drove them away as soon as possible.
After they left, Qi Mi untied one hand with a wire, leaned over and closed the window with his fingertips.
The room returned to its state before she left.
The only difference was that Qi Mi had an extra copy of the "Patient Information Guide" in his pocket.
After calming down, she unfolded the paper and continued reading.
[Instructions for Patients of Senlan Psychiatric Hospital]
Our hospital adheres to the principle of "treating patients with kindness and helping them recover as quickly as possible" and strives to take good care of every patient. For your health, you will need to strictly adhere to the following guidelines during your hospitalization:
1. Please strictly follow the daily schedule, cooperate with the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, and take medication with the nurse. If you have any questions while in the room, please press the emergency call bell at the bedside. Our doctor or nurse will arrive promptly to help you resolve any issues.
2. Normally, doctors in our hospital wear blue coats and nurses wear pink uniforms.
Once you find that the doctor or nurse entering the room is not wearing these two colors, please ignore them and don't talk to them. The best way is to close your eyes and sleep.
3. There are only four floors in the courtyard. There is no fifth floor or basement floor.
4. This is a legitimate hospital and does not keep wild monkeys. If you see one on the grounds, please ignore it and do not feed it anything. If a monkey knocks on your window at night, please press the emergency bell by your bedside. Our doctors and nurses will come and help you resolve the situation.
5. If you see doctors wearing red coats and nurses wearing black uniforms in our hospital, please do not be surprised, because this is the original uniform design of our hospital and it is normal.
6. Due to the investment and reconstruction two years ago, the fifth floor of our hospital will be used as a daily rest area for doctors and nurses, and the underground parking lot will be located on the first floor. These two areas will not be open to you. Please keep them in mind and do not set foot in them.
7. When you encounter a problem with a wild monkey that doctors and nurses cannot solve, covering it with a blanket so that it cannot find you is the best way to keep yourself safe.
8. Due to limited resources, our hospital can only accommodate 16 patients. We have five treating doctors and seven nurses.
9. The third floor is the intensive care unit for critically ill patients. Patients in general are advised not to go upstairs at will to avoid danger.
10. The patient uniforms of our hospital are black and white vertical stripes. No other colors or patterns will appear. Please keep this in mind.
11. After turning off the lights, no matter what happens or what sounds you hear, please stay in the room because the room is the safest place.
12. If you refuse to comply with these rules and an accident occurs, including injury or death, our hospital will not be held responsible.
After reading the whole article, these rules are indeed weird, with many contradictory statements, making it impossible to tell the truth from the false.
It's possible to break a rule or two if you're not careful.
Qi fans watched it back and forth two or three times.
There is nothing wrong with the data displayed by the skill detection, and this rule is not a trick.
Hearing the sound of the cart wheels coming from the corridor again, she immediately hid the paper under her pillow and pretended to be asleep and lay back in bed.
Perhaps the nurse who was responsible for delivering medicine here was scared by Qi Mi, so this time a new nurse was replaced to deliver medicine and lunch to her.
She knocked politely before opening the door. Seeing that Qi Mi was lying on his side with his back to her and did not respond, she quietly pushed the door open and came in, deliberately controlling the sound of her footsteps, and placed the medicine and food on the bedside table.
He checked the thermos on the bedside again, and when it was empty, he went out and brought back another pot of warm water.
She stood by the bed and waited for a while, wanting to watch Qi Mi take the medicine, but Qi Mi was "sleeping soundly" and there was no movement. The young nurse gave her some instructions in a gentle voice and tiptoed away.
Qi Mi secretly looked back and saw a pink figure disappear at the door.
When the footsteps disappeared, she sat up and looked at the food on the bedside table with a complicated expression.
Before she saw the "Patient Information Guidelines", she had not thought so much about it, but since she read it, she no longer dared to trust these so-called doctors and nurses.
She had no idea whether normal doctors here should wear blue or red clothes, or whether nurses should wear pink or black uniforms.
No one could believe it.
Doing more does not necessarily mean more mistakes, doing less does not necessarily mean fewer mistakes, and doing nothing does not necessarily mean good things.
But what is certain is that this girl named Feng Ran is very amazing. Even though there are no rules in the room, she has survived to this day without breaking any of them.
Could it be...
A guess popped up in Qi Mi's mind. After pushing the food and medicine aside, she stood up and looked at the schedule behind the door.
The nurse brought the food, which meant it was lunch time, so the next activities should be going to the toilet and taking a nap.
It was not the time for the patients to move around freely, and if she sneaked out, she would attract too much attention. So she decided to wait until 2:30 in the afternoon before going out for a walk.
Qi Mi picked up the pill, crushed it with his hands, and threw it into the thermos.
I don’t know how long it took, but when Qi Mi woke up again, it was already evening.
The setting sun streamed into the room through the glass, generously casting its orange-red glow on every object; even the cold, thick black iron chains seemed to be coated with a layer of warmth.
Just like General Rule 2 says, the speed of time in the barrier is very different from the speed of time in the real world, it is really too fast.
Probably due to the sequelae of the treatment two days ago, she was always sleepy and her eyelids would droop when she sat in bed. When she woke up in a daze, it was time for the nurse to push the door in and bring her dinner, so she missed the good opportunity for free activities in the afternoon.
Seeing that the food on the bedside table had not been touched, the nurse frowned slightly and turned to ask Qi Mi: "Don't you have an appetite? Why haven't you eaten for a whole day?"
"I don't know if it's because of the medicine, but I felt a little sleepy, so I didn't take it." Qi Mi rubbed his temples and slowly stood up.
She thought about pouring the food out the window into the backyard, but she would have to use a steel wire to open the chains on her hands, which was too troublesome, so she just left it there.
She had taken psychiatric drugs before, which usually had the side effect of drowsiness. Saying this would also give the nurse a hint that she had taken the medicine.
Sure enough, the young nurse didn't think much about it. She just took back the cold lunch and put the hot dinner on the bedside table.
"That's right, getting more sleep is also good for your condition. Wake up and eat dinner, otherwise your body will have problems." It can be seen that the new nurse is not afraid of her, and communicates with her as frankly as the female doctor.
Qi Mi curled his lips at her and said, "Thank you for your help."
As if she hadn't expected Qi Mi to be so polite, the nurse's smile deepened: "It's okay, it's our duty to take care of you, not to mention..."
"not to mention?"
The young nurse paused, glanced furtively at the door, and deliberately lowered her voice to say to her, "Besides, I think you're super cool. Killing a boyfriend who abused you is so satisfying! It's just that the method was a little cruel... But we all saw the surveillance footage, you were right to kill him! That kind of scumbag deserved to be killed! If you didn't fight back, you might have been the one to die!"
Thanks to this chatty little nurse, Qi fans figured out how Feng Ran got the nickname "Ogre".
It is said that a few months ago, Feng Ran had a quarrel with her boyfriend over trivial matters. Her boyfriend knocked her to the ground at home and kicked her head with his feet. The abuse lasted for three minutes.
Once this video was exposed on the Internet, it immediately attracted the attention of the whole society.
What shocked the whole society even more was that the police who rushed to detain her boyfriend actually arrested Feng Ran in the end.
Later, another video was exposed on the dark web.
Just five minutes after Feng Ran fell to the ground and was motionless, everyone thought she had fainted, but she suddenly stood up shakily, turned around and went into the kitchen. Her boyfriend, who was standing on the balcony smoking, heard the sound and immediately chased into the kitchen.
A minute later, Feng Ran walked out of the kitchen covered in blood, holding a knife in his hand.
Since then, my boyfriend has never come out of the kitchen again.
Then, Feng Ran took a small toolbox and went into the kitchen under surveillance.
It is said that when the police broke in, the whole house was filled with the smell of broth.
Feng Ran was extremely calm. He changed into clean clothes and sat at the table, quietly looking at the pot of soup on the table.
…
Listening to Feng Ran's experience, Qi fans couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.
Seeing the young nurse worshipping Feng Ran like a fangirl, she scoffed, "I can understand and sympathize with him, but no matter what the reasons are, he's still a murderer after all. What's more, he used such a cruel method. How could you think that's cool?"
When Qi Mi's scrutinizing gaze came over, the young nurse's expression immediately changed. After hesitating twice, she pulled the corner of her mouth: "What, what's wrong?"
"Nothing..." Qi Mi sat up straight. "Have you ever thought that there are more than one way to solve this problem? I could call the police, go to the hospital for a disability assessment, and sue my boyfriend. But I chose the dumbest way and spent the rest of my life on this scumbag. Isn't that stupid?"
"Yes, it was quite satisfying to fight back then, but what was the price?" Qi Mi shook the chains on his hands and sneered, "If it weren't for my mental disorder, I might be dead now, or I might spend the rest of my decades in a cell... Even now, I have lost my freedom, bound by these four chains, and will never be able to experience the world normally again. So, do you still think that my decision back then was the right one?"
Young nurse: “…”
The young nurse was stunned and moved her lips for a long time without making a sound.
Qi Mi smiled sadly. Perhaps it was because her consciousness had been in Feng Ran's body for too long, she could feel the loneliness more and more, as if there was a hole in her heart that could never be filled.
Twenty years old, the age of blooming flowers, but she can only sit in this cold hospital room forever, watching the sunrise and sunset...
A victim disguised as a murderer, she didn't deserve such an ending.
Qi Mi lowered his eyes and stared at the two white hands.
It seemed as if he was talking to the nurse, or as if he was muttering to himself: "I heard that angels hate the smell of blood the most, not at all. I really want to see if there is really a halo on their heads..."
pity.
Those 87 words of sin were like the coldest and strongest shackles, forever and ever on her.
Although it was not the same kind of blood, her heart had become harder and harder in the killing at the end of the world. Half of her body had already sunk into the dark and treacherous hell, and she would only sink deeper and deeper.
What's even more terrifying is that she knows very well that if events could go back, she would definitely make the same choice.
Perhaps because she was too shocked by Qi Mi's words, the young nurse took a few seconds to come back to her senses. She smiled awkwardly, told Qi Mi to eat quickly, and left the ward without saying anything else.
After the nurse left, Qi Mi looked at Feng Ran's clean and slender arm, smiled bitterly, and looked away.
Then she did the same thing again, throwing the pills into the thermos, without touching the food at all, and lying back on the bed.
After missing the afternoon activities due to a nap, she realized that she needed to estimate the speed at which time passed in the barrier as soon as possible, so she lay quietly in bed, watching the sunset outside the window, and calculating the speed at which the sun set.
After a few seconds, she roughly calculated the passage of time in the barrier—
One hour in the barrier world is approximately equal to 15 minutes in the real world.
This is a skill that Qi Mi practiced when playing hide-and-seek with other children in kindergarten. It can be easily calculated based on the number of seconds in the real world.
So she felt that the more than three hours of blank time on her schedule was over very quickly.
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