The ink-stained quill was held in one hand and rested on the paper.
"Mr. Lu Li, you can speak now."
The doctor raised his head and motioned to the dark-haired man sitting opposite.
The black-haired man named Lu Li was silent for a moment: "What did you say?"
The doctor raised his eyebrows slightly, picked up the medical record from the side and looked through it.
Lu Li waited quietly, his black eyes looking out the window.
It was hazy outside the window, filled with gray mist.
"Is the weather nice outside?" the doctor, who was looking down at the papers, asked casually.
"I've never seen such heavy fog."
The distant outline was swallowed up by the spreading thick fog, forming a vast world of gray fog.
"fog?"
The doctor looked out the window, narrowed his eyes as if it were dazzling, and looked down at the medical record again: "Let me see...delusion, um...severe, this is not common..."
"I'm healthy."
Lu Li frowned slightly.
"Of course, you are healthy, but you can be healthier. We just want to ensure that every patient recovers as soon as possible..." As if he had said it countless times, the doctor answered smoothly and formulaically, and put his hand under the desk.
"Can you still remember the past?"
Lu Li recalled carefully and then shook his head.
Continuing with some simple inquiries, the doctor gradually relaxed and resumed his lazy sitting posture.
"I have no problem."
The doctor flipped back the medical chart, reached out and pressed the desk bell to summon the nurse.
"Take our..." the doctor scanned the name on the medical record, "...Mr. Lu Li to the third floor."
The nurse walked into the office smelling of disinfectant and said hesitantly: "We don't have enough beds..."
The doctor handed the medical record and a pen to the nurse.
"Then place him on the second floor."
"Can……"
The doctor's gaze fell on Lu Li, who had regained his composure, and he said nonchalantly: "His mood is quite stable, he's fine."
Holding the medical record on her chest, the nurse said to Lu Li, "Please follow me."
Lu Li got up from his seat, followed the nurse out of the office, and walked along the quiet and empty corridor to the second floor.
"Head nurse, there are patients on the third floor who need to be arranged on the second floor."
The nurse said to the nurse station with the curtains drawn. For a moment, a thick male voice came from behind the curtains.
"...There are beds available in room 204."
Ta-ta-ta-
Continue to follow the crisp sound of high heels, and the house numbers of the wards are written along the way.
201…202…203…
The nurse stopped in front of Ward 204 and led Lu Li inside.
A dirty bed covered with wet gravel came into view by the window, and there was a monster sitting on the bed.
It was a living tree, its roots spread out to form a curtain along the hospital bed, and an old face appeared on the rough, wrinkled bark.
The nurse entered the ward and found Lu Li standing outside the door without coming in.
"Why is there a monster in the room?"
Lu Li frowned and looked at the living tree, which responded by swaying its withered crown, making a rough rubbing sound.
The nurse said angrily: "It's so unpleasant for you to speak like that. I apologize to her!"
"sorry."
Finding that the nurse didn't think there was anything wrong, Lu Li took it easy.
The nurse's sullenness eased slightly, she hugged the living tree and softly comforted her, and her few words floated to the door.
"The patient on the third floor... is paranoid... for the time being..."
The living tree made a grinding sound like sawing wood: "What is paranoia?"
The nurse raised her voice slightly so that Lu Li could hear her: "What you see becomes what you imagine in your head."
"Wouldn't that be fun?"
"Not at all, little Lina, adults don't imagine colors, skies, fairy tales like children..."
After calming down the living tree, the nurse returned to the door and told Lu Li the rules here.
"You are not allowed to leave the ward and walk around after the lights are turned off; you are not allowed to stay in the dark; keep quiet and don't disturb the patient; don't go to a place with only one light."
"Also, you are prohibited from leaving this floor and stay away from Ward 213. If you find any problem, call the nurse immediately."
Lu Li nodded and followed the nurse out of the ward.
"Is there anything else?" the nurse said coldly.
"What's wrong with little Linna?"
"Psychological trauma." The nurse softened her attitude, "Don't irritate her."
"I will."
Watching the nurse disappear around the corner at the end of the corridor, Lu Li's attention returned to the ward - the wrinkled face of the living tree "Little Lina" looked at him.
Facing the gaze, Lu Li returned to the ward. At this time, Lu Li noticed that there was a third hospital bed in the room: the corner against the wall was airtightly covered by white curtains.
I don't know if there are any patients inside.
Coming to the bed in the middle, this hospital bed covered with neat white sheets will be his next residence.
Lu Li opened the drawer of the bedside table. In addition to being empty, there was also the low and trembling sound of "Little Lina" coming from the living tree on the bed next to the window.
"Are you crying?" Lu Li asked proactively.
"I'm drooling..."
The roots hanging naturally from the edge of the hospital bed were squirming, reaching towards Lu Li in front of the bedside table.
Lu Li was about to do something when he suddenly remembered what the doctor said about paranoia.
"The scenery outside the window is very nice." Looking at the gray fog outside the window, Lu Li pushed the hospital bed away from the living trees.
The living tree's attention was attracted outside the window: "I like sunshine...do you like it too?"
Lu Li looked at the deep haze covering the world.
They are lying, and they are the ones who are wrong.
"Where are you going?"
The living tree "Little Linna" looked again at Lu Li who was retreating.
"I want to take a look outside."
"The nurse sister won't let you out."
"I won't go far."
It was not dark now, and Lu Li would not leave the second floor.
There was a wheelchair beside the window of the quiet corridor shrouded in mist, with a thin figure sitting on it.
That was the only figure in the corridor of this lunatic asylum without nurses or family members.
The door to ward 205 next door suddenly opened, and a nurse walked out.
"what are you doing here?"
"She looks like she needs help."
The nurse glanced at the outline of the wheelchair that Lu Li was paying attention to, and said formulaically: "Please go back."
Lu Li nodded, looked up slightly, observed the outline of the wheelchair here, and left, returning to Ward 204 under the watchful eye of the nurse.
The curtains hung coldly, and the living trees seemed to be yawning, because the thick fog outside the window turned yellow like dusk.
It's very close to evening.
Lu Li took off his windbreaker and hung it on the hanger. The sound of a living tree nearby could be heard talking to him.
"Mr. Lu Li, you smell very good..."
Its roots swayed gently like seaweed, quietly stretching towards Lu Li's bed.
Lu Li didn't smell anything about himself, and he didn't know what would happen if his tentacles touched him - it wouldn't be a good thing.
He tried to follow normal logic and regarded the living tree "Little Linna" as a little girl: "Do you want to hear a lullaby?"
The living tree "Little Linna" reacted to Lu Li's words - ferocity and madness suddenly appeared on her wrinkled face, sharp roots instantly wrapped around Lu Li, and pain enveloped the last glimmer of light in her sight.
The faint disinfectant smell lingered on the tip of his nose, and Lu Li slowly woke up.
The thick gray fog outside the window told him that this was not a dream.
"Good morning, Mr. Lu Li...have you had a nightmare?"
The murderer's rough greeting came from the hospital bed next to him.