He walked past with Ritsuko, and the lights went out as Ritsuko expected. In this case, the two of them naturally did not dare to stay and walked over in a hurry.
Until the next fork in the road, no more traps appeared. Even this fork in the road gave them a glimmer of victory.
That's because this fork in the road is no longer the same tree-like fork as before. Although its left side is still a long and endless corridor, its right side actually leads to a wall, and on that wall is
A normal door is installed.
This door looks like the most common wooden door, and it really doesn't look like it can hide any special mechanism - maybe we have found a way out? Such thoughts could not help but emerge in the minds of the two of them.
As long as they can walk on the street, at least people in nursing homes should not dare to use violence on themselves in front of passers-by.
"I always feel a little strange." But Ritsuko quickly stopped smiling, and felt a little uneasy in her heart: "Based on the location, the exit of this door should be at a certain corner. Placing the door in such a place will only increase the number of
It’s difficult to construct, why not open the door directly on the wall?”
"It's probably close to the cafeteria. But your worries are justified. There's nothing wrong with being cautious - how about this, you stand here first, and I'll go explore the door first." Zhang Ke walked straight to the door, first
I carefully poked the doorknob with my finger to make sure there was no current flowing, and then I unscrewed the doorknob with my right hand with confidence.
Outside the door, I had just seen it yesterday, but it felt like a beautiful dusk in autumn, with purple-red and yellow-orange clouds lingering in the sky, outlining the beautiful and brilliant sunset.
Ritsuko was also attracted by the fiery clouds on the horizon, and slowly walked forward, but she murmured: "Could it be... it's just an illusion again."
"It doesn't seem like it! We seem to be really free -" Zhang Ke happily pulled Ritsuko out of the door. The reason why he said this was because there was only a fence in front of them, separating them from the street outside. Zhang Ke would
My hand reached out through the gap in the fence and didn't touch any screen.
This shows that this place is not like the false scene projected through the holographic electronic screen just seen outside the window of the house, but a real scene.
To them, the monotonous concrete road and boring steel forest outside the fence are much more beautiful than the splendid flowers and plants inside the fence.
"...No. In this position, there is absolutely no need to open the door." Ritsuko still maintained the rationality he deserved: "Zhang Ke, don't let down your guard..."
"Let's do this - I'll go out over the wall to see the situation first, and then I'll pick you up!" Feeling the strong wind coming towards him, Zhang Ke was gearing up and couldn't wait to get out over the wall.
He carefully walked to the fence and took a look around to make sure there was no electricity on the fence and there were no iron thorns or other things tied to it.
Although he didn't understand why such an important place had such weak security, his desire for freedom still forced him to reach out to the fence.
...No, it's impossible. The fence is clearly in front of him, and he clearly sees his hand holding the fence, but his hands don't feel the coldness of metal that should be felt when holding the fence - even,
His hands didn't feel like they were holding anything at all.
Even if this fence is a screen projection, I should at least touch the hard screen, right?
"...What's going on?" Zhang Ke felt a basin of cold water pouring on his head, just like a hungry beggar digging out a bowl of rice bowl from the trash can, only to find that it was just a model.
However, everything in front of him was so real. How could he not be able to tell whether it was reality or what was on the screen?
"Hallucination?" Ritsuko guessed something after seeing Zhang Ke's actions. Although she has read hundreds of books, she can hypnotize two people at the same time and make them see the same false scenery. This level of technology continuously
She couldn't think of it either.
——This may indicate that their enemy is a far more terrifying opponent than they imagined.
However, she was not allowed to think too much, she just felt an invisible arm strangled her neck.
No, rather than saying it is an invisible arm, it is better to say that this is an arm that exists in reality, but I have no way of observing it.
Although Zhang Ke was frustrated that he could not escape, when he saw Ritsuko's expression suddenly changed and she seemed to be restrained by something, he could not care about his own affairs and hurriedly rushed to Ritsuko's side.
However, the invisible enemy was not just targeting Ritsuko.
Zhang Ke only felt that his abdomen was suddenly hit by a heavy punch from an invisible opponent. This made his whole body seem to be suddenly drained of strength, and he had to collapse to the ground helplessly.
"Zhang Ke!" Ritsuko exclaimed. She felt that the invisible arm strangulating her neck was a little stronger, and she had to shout at the top of her lungs: "It turns out that you still need to do so many tricks to deal with a little girl."
The invisible people seemed unmoved, but the illusion in front of them was indeed gradually disappearing. In the end, what appeared in front of them was Xu Xiaoli leading a group of muscular masked men!
"Is it... you?" Zhang Ke also vaguely thought that Xu Xiaoli might be the person who knew the secret of the nursing home, but seeing her appear in front of him like this, he couldn't help but feel a chill.
"It's me." Xu Xiaoli's face has long lost the tenderness when they first met, but I don't know if it was Zhang Ke's hallucination, but he seemed to be able to feel a trace of intolerance under the pretended indifference:
"I wonder why you want to leave this nursing home? Do you know that with your symptoms, it is impossible to live a normal life in society? In the end, you will be sent to a lunatic asylum, and the conditions there are much worse than here.
.”
"But at least in the lunatic asylum, I won't be treated as a guinea pig for experiments." Zhang Ke's struggle was stopped by the masked man who stepped forward at Xu Xiaoli's signal, but he still couldn't help but pour out his anger and disappointment.
:
"Until the moment I saw you like this, I was still grateful to you. I felt that you had extended a helping hand to me who was in poverty. I still hope that you were blinded by this nursing home! Don't you think, just
Is a nursing home that deprives patients of their freedom and allows them to provide data obediently in their rooms the same as anti-human human experiments? You have even deprived us of the hope of being cured!"
"But besides that, don't you think your life is better than before?" Xu Xiaoli smiled slightly: "Your freedom is to count on your fingers whether the remaining money will be enough to eat steamed buns for a few days. It rains continuously.
The freedom of not being able to sleep in the park?”
Zhang Ke was choked by the other party for a moment. After all, what she said was true and he could not refute it.
"That kind of freedom, what's the problem if you throw it away? Besides, I remember that you still owed debt for intentionally hurting others. Your phone has been blasted these days, and the other person's family even threatened to call the police.
.If you go out now, you will be immediately caught by the police and taken back to the police station - then shouldn't this nursing home be the safest place for you?"
"Yes, everything you said makes sense, but..." Zhang Ke closed his eyes and was silent for a moment before saying: "Don't say that this is a choice that only I can make. You have no right to help me decide, even if you
A homeless man who eats leftovers every day and doesn’t even have a ceiling to protect him from the rain. At least my legs are still my own, my hands are still my own, and my thoughts are still my own!”
"Do you think clean clothes and delicious meals can be priced at the same price as these things now?" Zhang Ke shook his head desperately and said: "I don't want to, I don't want to be locked in this electric cage every day.
They are all observed and studied by you like monkeys in a zoo."