"Ah, sorry, I didn't hold it..." Anna exclaimed, looking apologetic, and then realized the next moment: "Wait, no, there is no one here, why should I apologize?"
On the way here, in order to make the rental carriage more worthwhile, Lu Li bought a box of canned fruit and canned fish.
Anna, who was impatient with curiosity, opened a can of canned fruit, but due to insufficient control, the cherry pulp spilled all over the floor.
"Well……"
Anna looked around, then with a guilty conscience brought a ball of soil from the park to cover it, and threw the empty can far away to destroy the corpse and eliminate traces of it.
Just when everything was done, the chaotic footsteps in the hospital caught the attention of this ghost who had been busy for a long time.
Looking around, I saw two figures running out of the hospital and running towards the gate.
"One Lu Li went in...why did he come out as two?" Anna couldn't react for a moment.
…
The severe pain from the back of his head that never stopped and penetrated into his mind made Lu Li, who was in a coma, frown from time to time.
Bizarre and broken colors swayed in his consciousness, and occasionally he heard a few sounds like dripping through water.
It inexplicably attracted Lu Li's mind, but when Lu Li followed it into the deepest part of his consciousness, the outside world woke him up.
Wow——
Ice water was splashed on his face, and Lu Li was forced to wake up due to the strong suffocation caused by the sudden cold.
The severe pain in the back of my head suddenly became clear.
As Lu Li opened his eyes, his dilated pupils gradually returned to focus.
A man wearing a dirty blue and white patient gown and a dirty yellow mask appeared in sight.
Lu Li looked away and looked around. More external information entered his brain, which was confused by pain.
He was lying on a cold hospital bed, the same type as the one in the corridor. His wrists, ankles and waist were tightly tied with restraints, almost tightening his skin. But the pain caused was compared to the continuous severe pain in the back of his head.
Not worth mentioning.
This is an operating room. Although I don't understand why there is such a thing as an operating room in a mental hospital.
Cleanliness has nothing to do with it here, the walls and floors are covered with dark stains.
The operating table was placed against the wall, leaving large suspicious brown marks on it. There were various pliers and scalpels on the side of the plate, and all of them were stained with blood.
There was a portable lamp on the table behind the man with the mask. Next to the portable lamp, Lu Li's belongings were placed on it.
A flintlock, an oil lamp, and an umbrella.
Apparently it was found when Lu Li was unconscious.
Seeing that his money was not on it, Lu Li felt slightly reassured.
"How long have I been unconscious?" Lu Li shook his head slightly, and his brain seemed to be shaking accordingly.
"Ten minutes." The man in patient service answered him: "I'm afraid sleeping for too long will be bad for your health."
"You struck hard. If you try harder, I might not be able to wake up."
"Sorry, I usually use other methods. Physical stuning is my first time trying it. You came so suddenly. If the sound of the elevator falling hadn't disturbed me, I wouldn't have thought anyone would come down."
"Do you live here?" Lu Li lowered his head. Not only because raising his head would make his neck tired, but also because the cold bed frame could make the pain in the back of his head less severe.
"Uh-huh." The masked man said noncommittally: "Introduce yourself, you can call me Richard. I used to be a severely ill patient in the Sixth Mental Hospital, but now that the hospital has closed down, I have been...discharged."
"The Sixth Mental Hospital?" Lu Li asked.
"You don't know? This used to be the Sixth Mental Hospital, but people prefer to call it a lunatic asylum. Now it is an abandoned lunatic asylum."
"Are you a human?" Lu Li suddenly asked.
"What kind of stupid question is this? Of course I am a human being. I need to breathe, eat, and rest... There are countless shortcomings of being a human being, right?" The man in the mask showed obvious anger, but when he said the last sentence, his expression showed something
Promised in installments.
As if expecting something.
"You look like a polite gentleman." Lu Li said at this time, with a hint of meaning.
The man in the mask moved his ears slightly, as if his ear muscles were involved because he grinned: "I think so too, but you people think there's something wrong with me! You think I'm an alien who needs treatment!"
This is not a pleasant topic. The patient's mental state is becoming unstable.
Lu Li changed the subject and asked him: "So what are you going to do with me?"
"Dispose of you? No, no, no, I won't do that..." The masked man was easily diverted, wagging his finger and smiling slyly: "After all, you are a precious container."
Lu Li frowned slightly, feeling that he was talking about something inappropriate.
But it may also mean that he wants his body to be used as a guinea pig to conduct some kind of inhumane experiment.
Richard's next words confirmed Lu Li's thoughts.
"Please enjoy the little time you have left."
The masked man turned around, walked to the desk next to the portable lamp, opened the drawer and rummaged around for something.
"Please wait patiently. As I said before, you came too suddenly. I was completely unprepared...ah, I found it."
The man with the mask stopped rummaging around. He walked to the hospital bed holding a ball of material wrapped in a plastic bag.
"A ball of... brain?" Lu Li asked.
In the plastic bag held in the palm of the masked man's hand, a ball of white sticky substance with a familiar texture trembled like jelly.
Could it be that he wanted to replace himself with this brain that was like paste?
The man in the mask didn't answer, and poured the brain into the gray glass.
A bag of brains just filled the glass. The man in the mask put the plastic bag into the glass and took out the matches——
Cha——
A flaming match was inserted into the cup, and the plastic bag melted and burned, filling the mouth of the cup with a light yellow flame.
The flame that was lit was neither strong nor extinguished quickly. It burned slowly like a candle.
The operating room began to smell disgusting.
"Do you want to share delicious food with me?" Lu Li frowned.
"What kind of food?" Richard threw away the match and turned around to ask curiously.
"Naohua, I didn't expect you also have such special food."
"You...evil!" Richard's face was filled with disgust, and he felt disgusted.
Why does the guy tied to the hospital bed look more like a villain than himself?
The masked man stopped paying attention to Lu Li on the hospital bed and prepared to leave.
"Are you leaving?"
Lu Li thought he would use the blood-stained surgical equipment next to him to dissect himself, but he didn't expect that he would just ignite the cup of brain.
Richard stopped again and nodded seriously: "Yes, by the way, can I ask a question?"
"Please say."
The two parties are as friendly as the doctor on the operating table and the patient about to undergo surgery.
"Why do you seem..." Richard looked a little confused and puzzled at this moment: "Aren't you afraid at all?"
Lu Li calmly looked at the masked man and answered, "Will fear make you let me go?"
"Well... there is a high probability that it won't, but it might make me more excited."
