The drizzle kept falling, and a faint ray of sunlight passed through it all, falling into the room through the gaps in the curtains, driving away the darkness and bringing a little light.
This building looks very old, with green vines climbing into the window sills along the gaps and pipes. There are not many furnitures in the room. Except for some necessities of life, there is not a trace of excess.
The girl on the bed woke up leisurely and saw the white ceiling. She smelled the familiar smell of disinfectant filling the air and couldn't help but frown slightly.
This is a ward, but it is different from the common ward where several people live together. The girl obviously has a special status and is lucky enough to get an independent room in this hellish place. Although her freedom is limited, it is better than those times when she has to wear a restraint.
For a patient, she is really lucky.
Lucky...lucky ass!
Eve raised her hand and wanted to smash the door with one punch, and then ran out all the way, but as soon as her anger arose, it dissipated.
She leaned on the pillow, casually took out an apple from the fruit basket nearby, and gnawed it without caring about the image.
Click, click.
Biting the apple hard, she looked like an angry squirrel, but Eve also knew that she could get a little angry at the apple here.
Eve Phoenix, the heir to the Phoenix family, the police detective of Suryalan Hall, and the self-proclaimed female captain Yin Erweg...
Well, these identities are not important now. Eve is a patient at this moment, trapped in this place called Black Mountain Hospital.
The cause was a raid on the gang more than half a month ago. The mastermind behind that incident was Hercule. Because of his desire for those secret knowledge, he used several other forces to trigger a conspiracy against the inferior secret blood.
Disputes.
The final ending is also a familiar one, with the demon appearing and Mr. Lorenzo Holmes appearing at the critical moment to end everything.
For Lorenzo, the incident was over, but for Eve, it was still going on. She and the detectives of the Suara Hall were being eroded. In order to ensure that this influence would not spread, the Net
The eradication agency took them into Black Mountain Hospital for mental testing and treatment to eliminate the effects of erosion.
But in the final analysis, this treatment took too long. The doctor said the same thing every day, saying that she had not recovered yet and could not leave. Compared to these nonsense, Eve was more inclined to believe that Arthur had locked her here.
This worried old father finally couldn't stand this frightening daughter, so he simply fostered Eve here. Eve couldn't run away anyway, and the old father was probably busy dealing with the affairs of the mission.
Although Arthur never revealed those things to Eve, she had been in contact with Lorenzo for so long, and she could more or less guess them. But because of such guesses, she felt that she had really angered Arthur this time.
Maybe when he is discharged from the hospital, Arthur will send himself to some paradise-like island and say goodbye to the so-called monster.
Eve doesn't want this, she doesn't want others to make decisions for her.
She also tried to escape many times, but every time she was caught halfway through, it might be because of her identity. The doctors were also very polite to her, and at most they just locked her up in solitary confinement.
Ah...what a pity. It's a pity that there is no ladder here, otherwise Eve would really like to try this life pass again.
After making the bed and getting dressed, Eve would even feel like a prisoner if she put on a white hospital gown with some strange number on it.
She sat on the bed and swung her feet, just like she always did here. After a while, footsteps sounded in the corridor. The nurse opened the door and pushed a small trolley in front of her.
A mechanical instrument.
"It's time for your regular check-ups, Miss Phoenix."
The nurses wore white nurse caps and masks, and all they could see was a pair of bright eyes. Each of them was like this. If it weren't for the different nameplates on their chests, Eve would have had trouble distinguishing them.
They treated Eve very politely. After all, her last name was Phoenix. Even if these nurses didn't know the inside story, their superiors had more or less vaguely revealed Eve's nobility.
But think about it, on a night with thunderstorms, Eve knocked out the security guard on duty with the leg of a chair, and then climbed down from the sixth floor along the pipe outside the wall. If it weren’t for the security guard’s clothes, she would
She was really big considering her figure, which might have allowed her to escape like this.
And there were more than one such escapes. During the more than half a month of treatment, Eve fully proved to the doctors how brilliant a police detective can be when he wants to commit a crime.
Fortunately, the security of Black Mountain Hospital is strong enough and they have caught Eve every time. For patients like this who are related to erosion and are extremely uncooperative, their usual response is to use restraints and sedatives, but these
None of it fell on the girl. She was just transferred to a building with a higher security level and patrols in the area were strengthened.
"I know I know."
Eve said calmly, then flipped up her long fiery red hair.
On the back of the neck, the area that was originally covered by long hair had been shaved off, exposing the skin underneath. Seeing Eve's cooperation, the nurse directly pushed the machine to the bedside and took out a few pills from it.
The electrodes were inserted along the exposed area on the back of the head.
"Do you need painkillers? This will be very painful." the nurse asked.
"No need, hurry up."
Eve urged.
The nurses looked at each other. Perhaps they admired Eve's courage. They started the machine directly without reminding Eve. As the current surged, severe pain exploded from their minds. It felt like someone
He shot Eve in the head, and his vision became confused for a moment.
She grabbed the guardrail at the edge of the hospital bed to prevent herself from falling. The scene in front of her eyes flickered and then gradually became clearer. The nurses surrounded Eve. After removing the electrodes, they took out cotton swabs to disinfect the wound. Some nurses
I went to observe the indicator light of the machine. After so many days of treatment, it finally turned to bright green.
"Congratulations, the erosion on your body has subsided."
While recording the information, the nurse said to Eve who was holding her head.
The girl had obviously just woken up, feeling refreshed and ready to start a new day. However, her face turned pale in the blink of an eye, and the pain was still echoing in her mind, as if she had been hit with several uppercuts from the front.
It hurts, it really hurts.
"Then...can I be discharged from the hospital?"
Upon hearing the news, Eve's pale face barely showed some joy, she grabbed the guardrail beside the bed and asked the nurses.
"It's not good yet. You need to observe it for a while and do a complete inspection. This time it's just a routine inspection to make sure you are fine now."
As expected, these nurses would not let him go so easily.
They left with the machine, but they did not go far. Instead, they moved along the corridor and opened another ward. Not long after, there was another shrill scream.
Eve was somewhat used to this. She lay back on the bed to ease the pain in her mind, but the screams in her ears continued.
There are not many patients living here, but they all seem to be special like Eve, so the nurses give them the most perfect care and ensure that everyone can be detected. Generally speaking, the screams on this floor will last for about half a day.
Hours.
However, there are some people who can hold back the pain and not cry out. Eve is one of them. There is another patient on this floor who is like this, but Eve has never seen him.
This is the Black Mountain Hospital, an institution under the Purification Agency that specializes in spiritual research. If the Perpetual Pump is pursuing the material truth, then what they are trying to explore is the spiritual truth.
Black Mountain Hospital is mainly divided into three areas. The first is a place called the mild disease area, which houses most of the normal mental patients. After all, not many people can survive the demon's erosion. These normal patients
They have also been listed as research subjects at Black Mountain Hospital, and compared with people who have been infected by demons, their symptoms are really mild.
The other area is the critical area where Eve is currently located. This area is basically filled with wounded people from the purification agencies, as well as some people who have been corrupted by demons. Many of them are like Eve and have rationality, but they have become corrupted due to the erosion on their bodies.
become dangerous.
The last area is called the research area, which is where doctors study spirits. However, Eve doesn't know where that area is. Now she can more or less feel that the names of these areas are just a disguise.
It's just that the purification agency implements strict class information sealing. Until you reach that level, you will never know how many secrets there are in the Black Mountain Hospital.
But now Eve can at least roughly guess what the so-called research area is doing. The mild area is a group of normal mental patients, and the severe area is some people who have suffered from erosion... Eve has the condition to doubt that the so-called
The research patients in the research area are none other than living demons.
It was such a chaotic world. Eve felt that the pain was relieved a lot, and then she picked up another apple from the fruit basket and started to nibble on it.
Pushing open the ward, the guard has been waiting for a long time. He is wearing a helmet wrapped in barbed wire to protect himself while maximizing his field of vision. He is also wearing dark clothes and has a weapon on his waist.
Eve walked in front, and the guard followed behind. He was not protecting Eve, but to prevent the girl from suddenly jumping out of the window and escaping. In the previous chases, he had seen the girl's so-called agility, and he even suspected
Is there something wrong with Phoenix's tutor? Why did he teach such a wild monkey?
Guards and nurses can be seen everywhere in the building, and there are countless iron doors. Everyone has a bunch of keys on their waist, and information and areas are strictly blocked.
The atmosphere was dark and gloomy, and patients with dull eyes could be seen one after another through the cracks in the closed door. They sat on the bed dully, as if they were soulless sculptures, looking at the gaps in the curtains, feeling the only remaining
of light.
Eve remembered what the doctor told her. It was a surgery called a prefrontal lobotomy. These patients were eroded to the third stage, which was irreversible. If they didn't do it, they would become monsters.
Most of them are knights who clean up the mechanism. After realizing that they want to transform into monsters, some choose to die, and some choose to undergo surgery to become experimental materials of Black Mountain Hospital and bricks in the wall of sanity.
stone.
The iron gate slowly closed and the elevator began to descend. The guard only had the lowest authority. His key could only lead to specific places. All Eve's actions required him to open the door.
Finally, the door slowly opened, and Eve walked out of the ancient building wrapped in ivy, bathing in the faint sunlight.
Eve couldn't remember how she got here. Anyway, when she woke up, she was in Black Mountain Hospital.
Black Mountain Hospital has a very strange phenomenon. Many people in Old Dunling know that there is such a large mental hospital in Old Dunling, but when they think about its location carefully, no one can remember its location. It seems that
No one has really been here.
The same is true for Eve. Sometimes she can only look at the gloomy clouds in the sky and feel the drizzle of rain to make sure that she is still in the old Dunling, under the shroud of dark clouds.
The guard stopped and stood not far from Eve. This is an activity area, surrounded by several buildings. This is a place for patients to relax. Some patients are sitting on benches blankly, and some are sitting blankly on benches.
Being pushed by nurses, some have some mobility, chasing and playing on the wet lawn like children.
Everyone was laughing, singing and dancing, and for a moment Eve even thought that she was in the wrong place, but humans are very adaptable creatures, even here.
"Good morning! General Cole."
"Good morning! Sir Dron.
"Good morning! Soldier Gavin."
"In the morning...well, you can't eat that! Mr. William!"
Eve couldn't take any time off in this hellish place, so during this break, she made friends with several mental patients who could barely communicate.
General Cole is a veteran. He is almost old enough to be Eve's grandfather, but he is still strong. Among the figures who are running around and having fun, he is the fastest.
Eve didn't know his condition, but what she knew was that Old Cole believed that the Glorious War was not over yet, and he himself was an injured general who was recuperating here. He was always asking the doctor when his injury would end.
Well, he said that his soldiers were still waiting for him to fight back the Gaulonalots... But in fact, the Glorious War had ended many years ago.
Sir Dren is the man standing under the tree. He has a slight smile and an elegant manner. He thinks he is a noble. He hates old Cole and thinks that this guy who shouts to fight and kill all day long has no etiquette.
, and the guy in the corner pawing the ground with his hand is Soldier Gavin.
Gavin thinks he is a soldier, and he is in the middle of the battlefield. You think he is digging the ground, but in his opinion he is digging trenches. Old Cole always bullies Gavin, thinking he is a deserter, and Gavin
He never resisted, after all, old Cole was a general.
As for the guy lying on the ground munching grass crazily, it was Mr. William. He looked about the same age as Old Cole, and he felt that there was a group of people in his mind, and these people all thought he was an alchemist.
Howls, laughter, vomiting.
There was an awkward smile on Eve's face, this was a veritable paradise, a paradise for psychopaths.