I didn't feel the breath of alien creatures or encounter any danger.
But Yan Jingxing was still a little frightened. He could hear the breathing of the two girls behind him slowing down in unison at this moment.
In contrast, Dr. Sun, who was walking in the front, had probably stayed in the mental hospital for a long time, and was not surprised by the strange behaviors of the patients.
Seeing this group of people blocking the corridor doing radio gymnastics, the doctor frowned, strode to the center of the crowd, grabbed a person's sleeve and pulled him out of the team, and shouted at him to avoid being covered by the sound of the radio. call:
"It's so late, what are you doing here?!"
"Hey, I'm doing gymnastics."
The gray-haired patient answered with a smile on his face. His innocent eyes contrasted sharply with his wrinkled face. His attitude when answering the questions was a bit funny, as if he was a naughty primary school student caught by his teacher and parents.
There are many "old kids" like this in the aerobics team. As soon as they saw the doctor coming, the mental patients all laughed happily.
"well……"
Dr. Sun scratched his hair, feeling a little troubled. He was not the one to do this kind of thing originally, but now the medical staff in the entire hospital are very busy, and the mental patients affected by the barking need to be controlled in time. As for the remaining mental patients who have not been affected, naturally we cannot expect them to survive without causing trouble.
"It's so late, you should go to bed."
Dr. Sun had no choice but to stop and persuade them to go back to their respective wards.
"But the radio is going off, and when the radio goes off, we have to do exercises."
The other party's attitude was very insistent, and everything he said was based on the rules set by the hospital, and it had become a habit over many years.
Mental patients often have his or her own set of rules of conduct. They are not as flexible as adults in handling changes in circumstances, and sometimes appear stubborn and one-sided.
"This was done after dinner in the morning. What are you doing now? According to the rules, you should go back to your room."
With Dr. Sun's constant persuasion, the patients finally went back to their rooms one by one.
"I really don't know who turned on the radio. It will really cause chaos."
Dr. Sun wiped the sweat off his head and continued walking forward, followed by the young people following him.
…
Further on, the scene in the hospital building was already in chaos.
The patients who came out of the ward to do exercises after hearing the announcement were not only the group just now, but also the shaking figures could be seen in the entire corridor;
Afterwards, they passed the restaurant and activity room. Some people were playing cards in the room and shouting happily, while others were shouting, "Why hasn't anyone come to deliver food yet? I'm starving." etc... It was like a bunch of demons dancing around.
The lights in most places in the building were turned off, but the mentally ill people seemed not to be affected at all and continued to act freely in the darkness.
This should have been a quiet and dark night, but now it has become as noisy as a market, which is inevitably unsettling.
It was okay during the day, but now almost all the patients in the building ran out and acted in the invisible corridor, making it difficult to avoid accidents along the way.
Along the way, Yan Jingxing saw other medical staff, including those who came from other places in the hospital to provide emergency support.
But they had a lot of trouble just trying to gather all the patients. Everyone was extremely busy trying to clean up the situation.
After Dr. Sun joined them, the young people following him took the opportunity to blend into the noisy crowd.
"Is the chaos in the hospital all caused by barking dogs?"
Ji Chunzao's eyes passed over a patient who ran past him waving his hands, and his tone was full of interest.
After getting over the initial shock, she soon became interested in the chaotic situation. It was a rare experience to observe the rumored mental patients going crazy.
At this moment, the shrill roar sounded again.
It was still coming from the direction upstairs. Since they were on the second floor, the sound was closer to them and became clearer.
But whether it was Chunzao or Yuzhi, they still found no trace of the "big black dog with two mouths" that Dr. Sun said.
"The patients who have run out so far do not seem to be very aggressive. In other words, even if they are indeed affected, the situation is not serious."
Yan Jingxing guessed.
"If it really turns out to be the situation that the doctor said was 'people bite people and bite them alive', the scene today will definitely become countless times more tragic than what we are seeing now."
"Come here and take a look, there is a map here."
The eldest lady pointed to the route map on the wall and showed them the direction:
"I took a look and found that this inpatient building is divided into two areas, and each floor is separated in the middle."
The entire building is divided into the North District and the South District. The South District is for patients whose condition is relatively stable and is under "open management" (they can move freely in the compound), while the North District is for people who are prone to relapse, especially those who are prone to relapse. Some people with schizophrenia.
"Go and have a look?"
"Walk."
The three of them walked deeper along the corridor, and soon saw a large iron door blocking the way. All the remaining patients were locked at the other end.
There was a heavy chain hanging on the door, and it was obviously impossible to open it manually.
"How do we get through this? Can someone 'borrow' the key?"
"Just wait here for a while, someone will definitely come..."
Just as Yan Jingxing was halfway through his words, a dull "Boom!" suddenly came from beside him.
He was startled and looked towards the iron gate quickly.
It's okay if you don't look carefully. If you look closer, you will see that this iron door is a bit scary. The rusty metal surface is full of pits and traces bulging to one side, as well as traces that look like dried blood. .
His imagination was too rich. At this time, he could not help but create in his mind the picture of the mentally ill people imprisoned at that end smashing the iron door with their heads, breaking their heads and bleeding, trying to escape from this place... …
Er, that shouldn't be the case, right?
"There seems to be a gap in this door. Let me try to see if I can put my hand in."
Ji Chunzao picked up the flashlight, and the bright beam of light passed through the gap between the chains. On the other side of the door was deep and bottomless darkness, and the illuminated dust was floating in the air.
The little girl swallowed and was about to pluck up the courage to extend her hand, but she pulled it back halfway as if she was electrocuted.
"There's someone on the other side!"
She seemed to sense something, and she raised the flashlight in a panic. The light beam shook for a while, and finally a pale face was illuminated in the crack of the door.
"ah!"
Ji Chunzao let out a short scream and subconsciously hid behind Yan Jingxing.
The man inside the door was holding on to the crack of the door with both hands, with locks of hair sticking to his mostly bald forehead. He was trying hard to squeeze his face out, but his expression was distorted because of the force; he grinned and looked at He smiled at the young people outside the door, revealing a set of yellowed and uneven teeth.
"Hey hey hey..."
Yan Jingxing frowned and stared at each other warily. He blocked the two companions with one hand and quietly put the other hand into his arms.
"Who are you? Why are you here?"
At this moment, questions came from behind.
A man who looked like a security guard hurried over and showed a puzzled expression after seeing their too-young faces.
"You're not from here, are you?"
"Well, we came to visit the teacher, but we seemed to have accidentally taken the wrong route."
"I think you guys didn't go the wrong way, but you went to the wrong building!"
The sweaty security guard pointed out the window and said to them impatiently:
"There definitely isn't what you're looking for in this building. The inpatient building is over there. Go downstairs and get out quickly. Do you understand?"
"Okay, we get it."
Xie Yuzhi answered, then took a few steps back.
"Children are so brave now. The noise along the way is so scary. I really dare to walk in there..."
The security guard with a tired look muttered something and took out a bunch of keys from his waist.
"Hey hey hey..."
The man inside the door laughed strangely again.
Of course, the young people did not intend to leave just like this. They stood about five meters behind the security guard and watched quietly as he opened the iron door.
"Okay, go back quickly."
The security guard opened the iron door and said to the man inside. Seeing that the other man made no move, he picked up the telescopic stick in his hand and waved it twice tentatively.
"Go back quickly, Xu Feng, and be obedient! Don't always let me rush you."
The man named Xu Feng didn't do as he was told. He just stood there and laughed all the time.
"What, what's wrong? Why are you laughing?"
The security guard seemed to sense something was wrong, and his voice trembled.
In the darkness, pale faces slowly emerged. The patients stood scattered in twos and threes, all looking this way.
The expressions on each of their faces were different, but each pair of eyes looked bright, as if they could shine in the dark, looking towards the corridor outside the iron door.
"You, you guys..."
Before the security guard could finish his words, Xu Feng, who was closest to him, suddenly pounced on him and knocked him to the ground by surprise.
"Let go! What are you doing...ah, don't bite me! Let go of your mouth!"
After being overwhelmed, the security guard still tried to resist at first, picking up a stick and beating Xu Feng's head severely. However, the patient seemed to be unable to feel the pain at all, like a beast that clenched its prey and refused to let go. The mouth opened and never closed again.
As the wounds deepened and the pain intensified, the security guard soon had only the strength left to roll around and scream.
——At this moment, a straight kick hit the face of the madman who was gradually transforming from a "human" into a "beast".
For a moment, nosebleeds splattered on the patient's face, and his head was kicked away from the security guard like a football.
The boy who had just come running from a distance, kicking and kicking, put his feet down with an expressionless face.
The straight-haired girl who walked into the door right behind him was covering her eyes with her hands and sighing softly.
"Things have indeed turned out like this."
The patient who was kicked aside was still reeling and rolled several times on the ground. After he got up, he got down on all fours and supported his body with his hands and feet. He grinned demonstratively like a real beast and made a "gurgling" sound in his throat. His red eyes stared at Yan Jingxing fiercely, as if In the next second, he would pounce and slit his throat.
Yan Jingxing's arms dropped, and the sharp metallic luster flashed between his fingers.
As soon as the patient jumped up, two knives flew out and pierced one of his palms and one of his feet respectively. With blood splattering, he fell to the ground again in embarrassment.
Yan Jing walked up to Xu Feng, pulled out the two flying knives and held him down while he was struggling, turned around and asked:
"I have controlled his actions. Yuzhi, can you do it?"
"..."
After being silent for nearly ten breaths, Miss Xie finally put down her hands and let out a breath of exhaustion.
"Successful. The thoughts in his brain are chaotic like a wild beast, so it is easy to 'control'. The order I gave him is to stay here, and it will still be effective even after we leave."
Yan Jingxing lowered his eyes and noticed that the struggling force coming from his hand had indeed become weaker. He immediately let go of his hand. At the same time, in order to save time, he temporarily deactivated the warrior instinct activation state.
"You...who are you?"
Fortunately, he was saved. The security guard, who was lying on the ground unable to get up, looked at Yan Jingxing and the others blankly.
"We are here to solve the problem." Xie Yuzhi glanced at him, "Sir, please stay here for a while and don't go inside again. When you ask the doctors to help bandage the wound, take this Bring a patient with you."
"Okay...ok."
Although he wanted to drive away this group of students before, after being saved by young people in time, the security guard felt only lucky to survive the disaster, and he nodded desperately.
…
After saving the victim and controlling the crazy patient in a very short time, the girl's brows did not relax at all, and she looked deep into the corridor of the North District.
After a while, all the patients who had gathered nearby had disappeared.
"With the number of people I saw just now, I can't possibly control them all with my ability. I can only..."
"Catch the thief first. Capture the king first. We must find the source of the barking that is affecting their mental state. ... Spring algae?"
"——I feel it! There are unknown creatures upstairs!"
The curly-haired girl happened to pass the two of them at this time. She pointed at a certain location on the upper floor and ran straight into the darkness of the corridor without stopping.
"Let's follow quickly, don't let it escape!"
Yan Jingxing and Xie Yuzhi immediately followed her footsteps without saying a word.
