Chapter 5 Chapter 5 The snail disappeared at the speed of a 100-meter sprint...
Lin Jianyuan hadn't expected to see the same doctor he'd seen before, but unexpectedly, Dr. Cen Zheng happened to be in attendance today. After waiting in line for a long time, it was finally his turn.
"Doctor Cen, I feel my condition has worsened." Lin Jianyuan said as soon as he sat down.
"How do you aggravate it?" Dr. Cen began typing on the keyboard.
Lin Jianyuan told him about the vines, the frog, and the digestive system: "...I don't know why, but my roommate still looks like a set of offal to me. The pink, fresh kind. And it's not pig offal, it's real human offal. He even has teeth, which is really... really interesting, you know."
And he was also violent towards me!
Lin Jianyuan thought about his roommate's refusal to add him on WeChat, and he felt unhappy again.
He continued to recount the strange and disturbing things that had happened in the past few days, and gradually realized that he was actually confiding in others.
Lin Jianyuan quietly observed Dr. Cen's reaction and found that the doctor's face did not show any impatience. He just nodded and typed on the keyboard.
Lin Jianyuan poured out his strange experiences of the past few days like pouring out beans. By the time he finished, he was actually feeling much better. He asked, "Doctor, is the dosage of medicine I'm taking insufficient? I feel like the hallucinations have intensified and are starting to affect those around me."
"You actually know those are hallucinations." Doctor Cen smiled, clicking the mouse on the computer. His eyes were fixed on the screen, but his attention was clearly still on Lin Jianyuan. "It's okay, there's no need to increase the dosage for now. It's probably because I didn't take the medicine for the past two days, so the drug concentration is not up to standard."
"Yes!" Lin Jianyuan remembered. He had fallen asleep for two days in between. He hadn't even taken a sip of water, let alone taken medicine. No wonder he had another attack of illness as soon as he got to work.
He quickly said, "I'm sorry, doctor. I will definitely take my medicine well this time when I go back!"
"It's okay, don't feel guilty," Dr. Cen said. "It's normal to have relapses at first. You're still in the acute phase. Your condition is like the flu. A fever is inevitable for the first two days, and even taking fever-reducing medicine won't necessarily bring it down. Your temperature will still fluctuate. There's no need to rush. Give the medication and your own immune system some time. You'll get better slowly. The two medicines I prescribed are very effective for most people."
"Okay, okay, thank you, doctor. I'm relieved when you say that." Lin Jianyuan felt his heart healed again. "I'm not in a hurry. Let's take my time. What if I have hallucinations again at the company? Should I pretend not to see them? But I can't control myself, especially when I see that vine twisting and turning in my colleague's eyes. I feel so disgusted and irritated. I just want to pull it out and crush it with my foot, preferably a few times... Am I being too violent?"
Doctor Cen chuckled. "It's okay. You're just dragging air, not your colleagues. You can actually tell the difference. You don't have any violent tendencies towards your colleagues, right?"
"Well, not to my colleagues," Lin Jianyuan said guiltily, "but to my boss..."
"It's normal to have complaints about leadership." Doctor Cen snorted coldly. "Sometimes I want to beat those administrative leaders to death. They just mess with our clinical staff all day long without doing their jobs... Please don't spread this. Do me a favor."
Lin Jianyuan burst into laughter: "Hahaha good! Hey, it's all the same! Leaders all over the world are idiots."
Cen Zheng: "You can't generalize. There are some normal people occasionally."
Lin Jianyuan: "Yes. Occasionally."
The doctor and the patient looked at each other, and both saw the tired smile of a social animal on each other's face.
“I think you’re actually in a very conducive environment for recovery.”
After the joke, Cen Zheng resumed his doctor's characteristically convincing tone, "Your colleagues all know about your situation, and they're quite understanding. This kind of environment is very rare. So, why don't you honestly tell them that you sometimes experience hallucinations and may behave strangely? They'll definitely understand. With them around, if you do something dangerous, they can stop you in time. The atmosphere in your office is actually quite good."
"It's good. I was very touched when they stood up and spoke for me..." Lin Jianyuan thought of the scene where everyone stood up for him and Jiang Chen, and his heart was warmed again.
But then he thought of those annoying frogs and vines. He hesitated, then decided to speak his mind. "...But my hallucinations are so real. Like, not only can I see them, I can touch them. For example, the way that vine twisted in my hand like a caterpillar, it was so vivid and energetic... And most importantly, how do I explain why my colleague's eyes didn't hurt after the vine was pulled out? I've been thinking about this..."
"This can actually be explained." Cen Zheng raised a finger and said, "Look at my hand."
Lin Jianyuan did as he was told.
"Look at my hand and follow my fingers with your eyes..." Cen Zheng said as he moved his fingers towards Lin Jianyuan's nose.
Lin Jianyuan became cross-eyed.
Cen Zheng moved his finger farther away, then closer, repeating this several times. Lin Jianyuan felt his eyeballs spinning like two billiard balls.
"How do you feel now? Do you think your eyes feel a little better?" Cen Zheng said, "Constantly switching between looking at near and far objects can regulate the eye muscles and achieve a relaxing effect. When you helped your colleague pull the vine, it was like a process of seeing both near and far for your colleague. Maybe there was a bit of psychological suggestion too, after all, your new colleague really admires you. As for the vine itself, it must have been a figment of your imagination. You heard him complain about dry eyes and staying up late to watch TV, so your imagination turned this into a vine growing in your eye... I find your hallucinations quite creative, perhaps because you're in the creative industry."
Lin Jianyuan thought about it and realized that it was true.
Their company was in brand marketing, so they usually had to think outside the box when coming up with plans. Lin Jianyuan suddenly realized, "I see! That frog is probably the embodiment of my dislike for my idiotic boss. I think he talks too much nonsense all day long, croaking like a frog... Yeah, I remember when I first came to City A, I rented a house next to a river. In the summer, the entire river would be filled with frogs croaking, and it kept me awake every day."
"You see, everything that seems abnormal actually has its root cause." Cen Zheng smiled. "If you understand this, your anxiety will be much lessened."
"Yes! Thank you, doctor!"
When Lin Jianyuan came out of No. 700 Jiangchuan North Road, he felt that his whole body and mind had been healed.
Dr. Cen prescribed him another week's worth of medicine and also taught him a good way to relieve eye fatigue: close your eyes, imagine your eyes are a ball, and then keep throwing the ball out and picking it up again.
Lin Jianyuan tried it with his eyes closed and found that it really worked.
What should I do next? The weather's so nice, and I've already taken the day off... Lin Jianyuan was just about to find somewhere to hang out when his phone suddenly vibrated. It was Pei Shuo calling.
"Hey, brother, have you finished your medical treatment?" Pei Shuo asked with concern, "How is it?"
"Very good." Lin Jianyuan asked, "What's wrong?"
"Um, uh, do you remember which draft of the live broadcast process for the wind element hair dryer was finally finalized?" Pei Shuo recited awkwardly. "Was it 'the final draft and no revisions will be made', or 'any more revisions will result in shit being stuffed into the stupid client's mouth'...?"
Lin Jianyuan calmly replied, "It's the 'If you change it again, I'll stuff shit into the stupid client's mouth.'"
Pei Shuo: “Oh.”
Lin Jianyuan: "Did the client ask you to make any more changes during the two days I was away? There's a lot of dog shit in our neighborhood..."
"No need!" Pei Shuo didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Okay, I found it. It seems to be this version. I remember that at 11 o'clock that night, the client said that their marketing director's cat had just given birth to a litter of kittens, and asked us to add cat elements to the entire live broadcast overnight. This is the version."
"Yeah." Lin Jianyuan had a deadpan expression. "Don't forget to change the file name when you send it. It's okay if you don't change it."
Pei Shuo: "Hahaha, okay. Brother, continue to rest and recuperate!"
Lin Jianyuan found a place to have lunch. He wanted to go home and take a nap in the afternoon, but he felt uneasy.
He felt something was amiss. Hadn't the finalized version of the cat proposal been submitted to Party A two days ago? Why was Party A asking Pei Shuo for it again today? No, maybe it wasn't Party A who was asking for it.
Lin Jianyuan rushed to the company just as lunch was about to begin. Everyone had gone to the cafeteria to eat, but Pei Shuo was still sitting at his workstation, looking sad.
Lin Jianyuan's heart sank, and he called out, "Pei Shuo."
"Brother!" Pei Shuo jumped up from his workstation as if he had seen a savior, and asked in surprise, "Why are you back?"
"What's going on again?" Lin Jianyuan turned his head and glanced towards the second floor. The door of Jiang Chen's office was closed. He was probably taking a lunch break inside.
"It's not a big deal, it's just a bit tedious," Pei Shuo said sullenly. "The plan has a lot of cats in it, and the client also requested more cat elements for the background of the live broadcast room. We had already prepared the dolls, stickers, emojis, and so on, but Jiang Chen suddenly said he wanted to take a look at the plan. He said you haven't been feeling well lately, and he wanted to help you review it..."
Lin Jianyuan turned the computer screen around and took a look. Two minutes later, he kicked open Jiang Chen's office door.
"Boss Jiang!" Lin Jianyuan slammed a dozen stickers on Jiang Chen's desk and said angrily, "You changed my KV?"
KV stands for Key Vision, the main visual design, including brand logo, theme copy, product core selling points, and visual style.
Lin Jianyuan planned this live broadcast from beginning to end. The client was pushing him very hard and was almost unwilling to let him live. This was the reason why Lin Jianyuan had stayed up late and only slept for two hours in three days.
KV runs through the entire live broadcast process, including warm-up posters, live broadcast room background, product display, oral patches, etc., and needs to be visually unified, otherwise it will be ugly.
The live broadcast was scheduled for 7pm tonight, and it was already 1pm. Jiang Chen actually changed his KV at this time! He was simply courting death!
"Don't worry, don't worry." Jiang Chen jumped up from his ergonomic chair in shock. Seeing his anger, he quickly comforted him, "I've arranged everything. Aren't you still on sick leave? Don't worry, I promptly withdrew the old manuscripts from the printing factory and replaced them with new ones. I've also sent someone to rearrange the live studio. Just focus on recuperating and don't get too excited."
Jiang Chen's comfort was like adding fuel to the fire. Lin Jianyuan's eyes went dark and he was furious.
"You even replaced the materials in the printing factory? You exchanged them for this thing?!" Lin Jianyuan knocked hard on the design drawing on the table with his knuckles.
"That's right." Jiang Chen raised his lips, unable to help but reveal a hint of pride. "Your original round-faced black cat element was too old-fashioned. I always felt it lacked a bit of flavor. Just then, I had an idea and changed it to a square-faced one. Don't you think this square-faced black cat is very distinctive? Very impressive?"
"Yes, I am impressed." Lin Jianyuan sneered, the gloom on his face almost turning into substance and dripping with water. "--So you really don't find it familiar at all?"
"Ah?" Jiang Chen was stunned.
Lin Jianyuan wanted to take off his pants and stuff a pile of shit into his mouth. Suppressing his temper, Lin Jianyuan took out his phone and held up an orange shopping app in front of Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, his eyes widened: "Fuck!"
"Just wait for your compensation, you idiot!" Lin Jianyuan said coldly, turned around and kicked the door out.
"No! Don't go! Wait!" Jiang Chen broke out in a cold sweat, his legs weak as he chased after Lin Jianyuan and hugged him tightly. "It's not too late!" He said in a trembling voice, "It's not too late, I think! Anyway, our print run is not big, I'll ask the printing factory to reprint it. I'll cover the extra costs myself..."
"I'm still on sick leave." Lin Jianyuan said indifferently.
"Lin Jianyuan! You have to help me!" Jiang Chen was anxious. "This matter is not only big or small! It concerns not only my job, but also our entire studio! Just consider it as a plea from me, okay? Consider that I personally drove you to the mental hospital this morning..."
Lin Jianyuan was annoyed by what he heard and wanted to kick him away. Turning around, he saw Pei Shuo standing at the stairs at a loss, picking at his nails with both hands.
"Yuan, Brother Yuan... Did I make something wrong?" Pei Shuo stuttered, called him, and then there was no further words.
On one side was Jiang Chen, clinging to his thigh, and on the other was Pei Shuo, looking uneasy and apprehensive. Lin Jianyuan and these two formed a three-way confrontation, and the atmosphere felt tense. Time stretched like a filament of melted glass.
Lin Jianyuan rubbed his hair in frustration and cursed under his breath, "Fuck!" He accidentally caught sight of the green plants in the corner of the company wall and saw a snail crawling past him at a rapid speed.
Lin Jianyuan: “?”
Lin Jianyuan was confused and looked at the sparkling water stains left on the ground by the snail in surprise.
The snail disappeared from view at the speed of a 100-meter sprint. Jiang Chen began to croak again: "I'm not negotiating with you! You really must help me! Not only to help me, but also to help yourself! Don't dawdle any longer, Lin Jianyuan! If you dawdle any longer, time will really be too late!"
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