164. Chapter 164 Some people are alive, but they are already dead
Since there is no more suitable job at the moment, Li Mengnan promised Gao Dingtian to take the time to try out his aunt's bar. No matter whether he could retain it in the end, at least he would not sway his brother's kindness.
Zhao Yingjun also said that he would help Li Mengnan pay attention to the purchasing information of those COS clubs on the Internet. Although Li Mengnan does not play COSPLAY, since he can make such ingenious magic props, it should not be a problem to make some armors and weapons.
Early the next morning, Li Mengnan temporarily canceled his original plan to return to his mother's house. After breakfast, he dived into the school library, borrowed a few books about bartending, and began to supplement his knowledge.
After a whole morning passed, Li Mengnan felt confident that the skill of bartending was much simpler than he expected.
Although there are as many cocktail recipes as there are Chinese dishes, in fact, there are only dozens of cocktails that customers often order. Considering that Gao Dingtian said that his aunt’s place is just a small bar, there are probably not many varieties of original wines available.
There may be even fewer recipes to choose from.
For a bartender, the biggest difficulty is fancy bartending, which is commonly known as "playing with bottles." However, this is not a problem at all for Li Mengnan who relies on his skills to make a living, let alone a bottle weighing several kilograms.
He has played with wine jars weighing more than ten kilograms and said he has no pressure at all.
All that's left is to make an appointment with Gao Dingtian to go to that bar at a suitable time.
Of course, Li Mengnan never expected to rely on this job to pay for Xiao Baoer's treatment. Although the income sounded good, it was still a drop in the bucket compared to the price of the surgery, but at least it could improve the family's financial situation and allow his mother and sister to
The living environment can also be more comfortable.
The hands of the quartz clock on the wall of the reading room overlapped at the top. Li Mengnan put down the book and stretched out. His stretched bones kept making a slight crunching sound, which was clearly audible in the quiet reading room, and immediately attracted disdainful looks from around him.
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Look at the hair? If the bones crackle a lot and are brittle, it means that I have a good waist! Do you understand that I have a good waist?
Li Mengnan raised his middle finger and scorned the bespectacled man who looked like a top student and glared at him diagonally the most fiercely - he had a white head and a young and weak kidney. If he had time to stare, he might as well go out for a run.
circle, otherwise my hair will not be white in the future, but green.
Just when Li Mengnan was having a fierce eye-to-eye confrontation with the four-eyed academic tyrant, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly let out a howling sound. This aroused public outrage, and everyone in the reading room put down the books in their hands.
, began to search for the source of this harmonious sound.
If eyes could project murderous sword light, the reading room at this moment would definitely be filled with sword energy and corpses everywhere.
Li Mengnan instantly hung up the phone with 20% faster hand speed than usual, stood up and returned the book pretending to be calm, and then slid out of the reading room against the wall.
What Li Mengnan was most worried about was that the four-eyed academic master would suddenly jump up and point at him maliciously, "Uncle the policeman is that bad pervert." But what he didn't expect was that from the beginning to the end, the four-eyed academic master
They all just looked at him with arrogant expressions, showing the demeanor of an upright master who disdained the idea of stabbing someone in the back.
Okay! It’s all about the jianghu, brother Four Eyes, it turns out that I wrongly blamed you!
In the surprised eyes of several girls who looked like freshmen, Li Mengnan ran down the third floor like a rabbit with its tail on fire. After entering the central sharing hall, he quickly took out his mobile phone and called back according to the caller ID.
"Li Mengnan, I haven't seen you for a few days, how dare you hang up on me?"
As soon as the call was connected, Wu Ansu's tiger-like roar came from the other side.
"You have the nerve to question me? Just now I was having a heated chat with a beautiful woman with big breasts, waist, thin legs, long ass, and we were about to exchange phone numbers. You didn't even say hello and just called me. You let me
How can I answer a call from another woman in front of a beautiful woman who may have further development? It’s fine now, she’s gone, what do you think I should do?”
The best way to deal with a woman's questioning is to give him a slap in the face. Anyway, Wu Ansu, a tiger girl, has no real relationship with him, so there is no reason to get angry with him if she gets angry.
As soon as Li Mengnan launched his big move, Wu Ansu's arrogance was immediately suppressed. It seemed that he still wanted to pretend to be tough, but his tone of voice dropped a few degrees and it was obvious that he still felt guilty.
"I...I don't know what you are doing? Anyway, you are so good at talking nonsense, so just strike up a conversation with someone else in the future."
"That's easy to say! That's a beautiful woman. Do you think she's like a leek in the field? A new one grows after you cut it?" Li Mengnan said in an excited tone, as if that was really the case.
"Okay, okay, I'll introduce you to someone later..." Wu Ansu was really confused by Li Mengnan. If she didn't have something serious to do with Li Mengnan, she wouldn't have the patience to listen to this guy's chatter, "Seriously.
, if you have nothing serious to do now, come to the hospital immediately - something happened to Ju Xiaoxing."
"What happened? Jumped off the building? Or cut your wrists?"
Li Mengnan's first reaction was that the memory that he had previously rewritten using hypnosis might have been restored.
"This can't be explained in one sentence or two. You'd better come and have a look... Don't take the bus, take a taxi and I'll reimburse you for the fare!"
Wu Ansu didn't forget to add this at the end, obviously he knew Li Mengnan's habits quite well.
"I feel like I'm almost turning into your summoned beast - go ahead! Pikachu!"
"Don't be poor, come here quickly! Hurry up, I'll wait for you!"
Seeing Wu Ansu's tone becoming more serious, Li Mengnan knew that this was not the time to joke, so he hung up the phone and ran out of the school gate, stopped a passing taxi and headed straight to the city.
The original ward was already empty. Li Mengnan almost thought that the patient had been sent to the morgue. After calling Wu Ansu, he learned that Ju Xiaoxing had been transferred to the special care ward just now.
Outside the door of the special care ward on the fourth floor, Li Mengnan saw Wu Ansu in a dashing police uniform from a distance.
Opposite her, Ju Xiaoxing's father was leaning against the window, smoking cigarettes one by one, and Ju Xiaoxing's mother was squatting on the ground, covering her cheeks and sobbing uncontrollably. Compared with the last time she saw them, these two old people were looking even better.
His appearance seemed more haggard and older.
"What happened to Ju Xiaoxing?" Li Mengnan was afraid of irritating Ju Xiaoxing's parents, so he called Wu Ansu over and asked.
"See for yourself."
Wu Ansu led Li Mengnan to the door of the special care ward. Through the observation window, he saw a delicate and thin girl lying quietly on the hospital bed as if sleeping, with a respiratory mask on her face, and various instruments around her constantly displayed
Her current body data.
"She... is in a coma?" Li Mengnan could tell that the girl on the hospital bed had not undergone surgery, and her cheeks were still full and rosy.
"That's right...it's just permanent." Wu Ansu sighed and whispered.
Li Mengnan was stunned for a moment, and soon understood what Wu Ansu meant. If you are permanently comatose, you are in a vegetative state...
"When did this happen?"
"Just this morning." Wu Ansu said a few words to Ju Xiaoxing's parents, took Li Mengnan out of the special care ward and went to the rest area opposite the nurse's station. He took two glasses of water next to the water dispenser, handed one to Li Mengnan, and continued.
: "Since you last treated Ju Xiaoxing, she can no longer see any difference from normal people. Her parents originally discussed staying in the hospital for a few more days for observation, and then suspending her schooling and taking her away from Sanshan City...
...But at about ten o'clock this morning, Ju Xiaoxing suddenly screamed and passed out. The doctor tried to save her for three hours but had no effect and could only declare that the patient was in a vegetative state."
Wu Ansu held the water cup in his hand, took a deep breath, looked at Li Mengnan and said: "I don't know if this is a normal situation, so I can only call you here urgently... Hypnotherapy
Will it cause a vegetative state?"
"It is possible, but the chance is so small that it can be ignored." After listening to Wu Ansu talk about the incident, Li Mengnan also felt that this matter seemed to be strange, "Theoretically, after my last hypnosis treatment, Ju Xiaoxing's brain should be normal.
Due to the recovery period, even if there are some memory confusion, the most serious thing is a headache, vegetative state is a bit too exaggerated... Unless, during this period, she was extremely severely stimulated."
"That's impossible. According to Ju Xiaoxing's parents, the two of them stayed by Ju Xiaoxing's side almost every step of the way during this period. If Ju Xiaoxing was really strongly stimulated, it's impossible for them not to know..." Wu Ansu said in confusion.
"I believe this, because even if Ju Xiaoxing is stimulated by some kind of stimulation, the deterioration of his condition should be a continuous process. It is impossible to be unconscious like this instantly, unless..."
"Unless what?" Wu Ansu asked anxiously.
"Unless someone detonated a logic bomb."
A logic bomb refers to leaving a message similar to an execution program in the hypnotized person's subconscious mind. Under normal conditions, this information will not have any impact on the hypnotized person. However, once the hypnotized person receives a specific signal from the outside world,
This implanted information in the subconscious mind will operate, and can cause the hypnotized person to execute certain special commands even without the presence of a hypnotist.
Although it sounds outrageous, logic bombs are actually not widely used.
Because when a logic bomb is detonated, the consciousness is often in a working state, and any instructions deemed unreasonable will be refused execution. The situation in TV movies where you immediately transform into a murderer after receiving a phone call is completely unacceptable.
existing.
Even if the hypnotist really sets up such a logic bomb, in the eyes of the hypnotized person, at most it will just be that someone is inexplicably unpleasant to look at.
However, just like driving is difficult but smashing a car is easy, logic bombs that can only induce tendencies in the hypnotized person can exert astonishing power in damaging the brain itself.
As long as a simple command is set, the fragile human brain will completely collapse under the detonated logic bomb, and all memories will be completely confused or even cease to exist.
Although the body is still alive, it is no different from death.