Although they only knew each other for a brief "four days" - they met three times, Lu Li still went to see him off - standing in front of the steps on the second floor and saw him walking downstairs without looking back.
The episode of getting the oil painting gave Lu Li an idea. He came to the nurse's station with the curtain drawn and rang the bell:
"Evil Fall gave me an oil painting before I was discharged from the hospital. I can't understand this painting. Are there any patients here who know how to appreciate it?"
"Of course, kid. Miss Kate from ward 207 knows oil painting very well."
The thick bass that had been heard came out, and the air flow lifted the curtain, revealing a piece of paper placed on the edge. The text on it was short and long, which seemed to be a list of patients...
Miss Kate?
The two patients in Ward 207 that Lu Li could remember were one covered in ulcers and the other an eyeless puppet.
"Thanks."
Looking away from the newly covered curtains, Lu Li returned to Ward 204.
The living tree is basking in the sun, and there is no evil. It won't be a good night... but the new discovery dispels the gloom.
"A mermaid."
"She said she couldn't tell either. That's my guess." The cloaked man said jumpily.
The painting brought no new clues, at least not to this ward.
"Can you ask other patients?" The old man regretted that he could not help Lu Li. "Everyone is very friendly and they will not be stingy with their answers."
"If anything."
Kate thought for a moment and said, and then when Lu Li asked her what they really looked like, Kate showed a girlish cunningness.
"Lu Li."
There was only dull breathing behind the crow mask. The tall alien turned his head and stared at Lu Li. The most normal golden retriever suddenly got up and barked at the oil painting.
"no."
Lu Li was going to try the exhaustive method. There were a total of 13 wards on the second floor, and he would always get the result after trying 11 more times. As long as he was careful not to be noticed by the nurses because of frequent visits to the wards.
Even if you are "killed", you will just start a new day.
When leaving the ward, he happened to bump into the nurse walking out of Ward 207. She glanced at the oil painting Lu Li was holding and said nothing.
The Festering Humanoid has no obvious female characteristics. It seems reasonable to call a puppet Miss Kate, but a mermaid is more suitable.
"secret."
"Um."
"I can't remember." Lu Li shook his head.
The door of Ward 211 was closed. When Lu Li passed by Ward 210 and hesitated to enter, an old voice came from the door.
"Show me." A woman's voice came from the outline of the cloak. After Lu Li raised the oil painting, she rubbed her chin: "I can't understand it, but I guess the guy who values family must like this oil painting very much... Misseliya
, can you tell?"
Which of them is Kate?
The old man gave Lu Li a new revelation: he could still try to contact every patient.
Lu Li remembered that he did have medicine, so he took out the pills given by Mildred Hempry from his pocket, and then realized that he should ask more clearly: will this pill be useful to him?
Without any request or outright refusal, Kate asked Lu Li to hold up the painting:
"The skills are ordinary, the style is common, nothing special."
Lu Li held up the oil painting and asked for help in a much more skillful way.
"Young man outside, you have gone back and forth several times..."
When Lu Li brought the oil painting to Ward 207, he was lucky enough to find that the door was open and there was an additional patient - a mermaid with wet, dark green scales on her lower body and a female upper body lying on her side on the bed.
"By the way, this is for you." The old man took out a pill from under his pillow and poured it into Lu Li's outstretched palm. "The new nurse was a little careless. She gave me the wrong medicine... Maybe you use
on."
The other two patients in the ward looked here.
Normal human language is neither addictive nor harsh.
After walking out of Ward 207 with the oil painting in his hands, Lu Li first found the girl in the wheelchair and showed her the oil painting.
The conversation around the oil painting ended here, and the melody of the lullaby once again lingered in the corridor.
Lu Li looked at those beautiful and clear dark blue eyes like a siren: "Are you Kate?"
Lu Li wanted to say that it was useless, but he still accepted the pills like an oil painting and said goodbye to Friday with Mildred Hemprey.
If there were medicine...
【It’s very beautiful. Did you draw it?】
Kate's interest intensified: "What am I?"
"What I saw was slightly different from reality, such as the surrounding environment."
What did it find?
But a problem arose at the same time - no matter what this golden retriever was originally, Lu Li couldn't understand its words now.
"...I can't think of any connection."
"Then can you tell me how you got this oil painting?"
Lu Li shook his head: "I don't remember."
"A rag doll and a skin ulcer."
Lu Li raised the oil painting: "A friend gave me this painting. I have no appreciation ability and can't understand what this painting expresses. The nurse said you have been immersed in it for a long time."
"Including us?"
"The doctor said it was delusion."
The silhouette of the hospital bed next to him, draped in a gauze-like cloak, waved to Lu Li.
The old man tilted his head back a little and squinted his eyes to observe the oil painting for a long time: "Well... I'm sorry, kid, I can't see anything."
"My name is Mildred Hemprey, what's yours?"
There was obvious interest in those dark blue eyes: "What's more specific?"
"Have you lost your memory? Oh, how pitiful..." The voice of the cloaked man came from the side.
Kate made a few simple comments and turned her attention from the oil painting to Lu Li: "Where are you from?"
The scarlet eyes fell towards the oil painting, and then moved away.
"Amnesia? Amnesia?"
Lu Li lowered his voice so that only Kate could hear it. It was not good to talk about others in person.
Lu Li briefly told how he learned a lullaby from a girl in a wheelchair and sang it to Evil Fall, and then Evil Fall gave him this oil painting that could not be taken away.
After getting a reasonable excuse, Lu Li walked into the ward and said to the old man who took the initiative to talk: "I got an oil painting, but I can't understand it."
"Very interesting story... If you have a new story, can you bring it to me?" the old man said.
"You know me?"
Lu Li looked at the blood-stained dress on the bed in front of the window and felt a biting chill penetrate his bones.
Lu Li was about to visit other wards when the old man stopped him: "Wait a minute. Young man, I like stories. Can you tell me your story?"
Doors 209, 208, and 207 are closed at the same time. In front of door 206,
The silhouette of a golden retriever with a crow mask, a tall weirdo that is physically terrifying.
"The ocean... I really want to be like a fish living freely in the ocean." Kate was noncommittal, then pouted at the other two beds: "What about them?"
Just when Lu Li was about to take the pills, Crow Mask suddenly said: "You shouldn't take pills randomly."
It's also a woman's voice.
"What kind of medicine is this?"
Lu Li held the pill.
"Anti-inflammatory medicine, only patients with severe inflammation need to take it." Crow Mask paused slightly, "But you can also eat it as jelly beans, as long as you don't mind the bitterness."