My Thriller Survival Game

The scene in front of me is a bit eye-catching. There is a round ball placed above the door frame, which looks a bit like a human head. The whole head is covered with hair tied with thin wires. The hair hangs down. When the wind blows, the hair

Moving with the wind, the ball began to roll slowly, which made people's hearts tremble just by looking at it.

The hair is of different lengths and colors. Some are slender and soft, some are black and shiny, some are fluffy and split, some are dry and white, and some are colorful. Those who don’t know may think they are entering Teacher Tony’s Night in Paris.

What about the barber shop?

Pulling back the hair, what you see is a black ball that is about the same size as a human head. There is a smiling face engraved on the ball. The smile is crazy and distorted with exclamations. At a glance, it looks a bit like a clown.

Turn the smiling ball slightly, and a number is engraved on the back of the smiling face: 033!

"(°ー°〃)Hmm?!"

Looking at the numbers on the smiling ball, Xu Yang was stunned, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Shen Xuesong.

With Xu Yang watching, Shen Xuesong quickly explained: "033 and 024 are good friends, and they often act together."

"Why didn't you say it just now?"

"You didn't even ask!"

Xu Yang: "(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻"

After giving Shen Xuesong a fierce look, Xu Yang stopped talking to Shen Xuesong and reached out to take off the smiley ball.

Xu Yang - Classified the hair according to the difference in hair color and length, and found that they belonged to seven people, four men and three women, three of them belonged to the elderly and one belonged to a child.

Looking at the hair in front of him, Xu Yang asked without looking back: "Do you have the habit of growing long hair here?"

"If the patient requests it, we generally will not force a haircut, provided of course that they can take care of their hair."

When Xu Yang heard this, he raised his eyebrows. This was a bit different from the mental hospital I thought of. However, if I think about it carefully, I thought it was normal. Although this place looked like a prison, it was not a prison after all.

"Are there many old people and children here?"

"There are quite a lot of old people, but there are relatively few children."

Xu Yang turned his head and looked at Shen Xuesong. He didn't like the doctor in front of him very much. The main reason was that talking to him was like squeezing out toothpaste. He wouldn't say anything unless you asked him. And sometimes he liked to speak half of what he said, which was a pain in the ass.

Being stared at by Xu Yang, Shen Xuesong quickly reacted and explained: "In the past, the most popular people we received here were the elderly. Some of them suffered from Alzheimer's disease and were separated from their families. They could not contact their families, so they were sent to

Some of the people here were sent here by their children or relatives because the old people were mentally ill, and some were childless and came here on their own. In short, there were many old people here at the beginning.

"

"How can a hospital as big as yours not even be able to distinguish between Alzheimer's disease and mental illness?" Xu Yang asked puzzled.

Shen Xuesong smiled bitterly and said: "Of course we can distinguish clearly, but many times no one is willing to distinguish clearly."

"Why?"

"Generally, the families of the elderly who live here, even those who have lived here for a long time, have left a lot of money, you know!"

"I see!"

Hearing this, Xu Yang suddenly realized.

Although China is an ancient civilization and a land of etiquette, and has always valued filial piety, there are always some people who are indifferent and unworthy of others.

Once people get older, all aspects of their body functions will decline, memory problems will occur, and serious mental deterioration will occur. Taking care of them is like taking care of children. It is said that long-term illness leads to no filial son. In addition, people today are under great pressure in life.

After feeling that they cannot bear it, some extreme people will choose to kick the old man away.

Those with some conscience will choose to send them to nursing homes, while others, like Shen Xuesong said, send the elderly to mental hospitals. As long as they pay a certain amount every month, they don't have to care about anything, even some extreme ones.

, will choose to end their lives.

Of course, such people are still very few.

For mental hospitals, especially private hospitals like this, it doesn't matter whether you are a patient or not. What matters is that you have enough money, and everything else is easy to deal with.

"What about the child?"

"Our treatment methods for children are generally gentle. Most of the children brought in will be contacted by the patient's family members to be discharged from the hospital after a period of treatment."

“What should I do if my family is unwilling to accept the discharge?”

"Most will choose to send them to an orphanage. If the orphanage is unwilling to accept them, we will let them stay as volunteers. Of course, there are some exceptions. Some children with special behaviors will be taken away by people in the fourth ward."

"Fourth ward? What do they want a child for?" Xu Yang frowned.

Shen Xuesong shook his head and said: "I don't know exactly what he did, but as far as I know, the patients with these code names 007, 024, 033 were all children, especially 024. When he came, many of us felt that he

The superiors have been unwilling to accept that he cannot survive, but for a while his family could not be found, so they had no choice but to place him in a special ward."

"It's strange to say that when 024 came, many mental patients were very nice to him and took good care of him. We all thought that the child would not survive, but under the care of these mental patients, he survived.

, although his body is still deformed and he will not grow up, but at least he survived."

Speaking of this, Shen Xuesong couldn't help but sigh: "Sometimes, I wonder whether they are mental patients, or whether we, the so-called medical staff, are mental patients."

Xu Yang took a deep look at Shen Xuesong and said nothing.

"What's going on with all this hair?" Xu Yang asked again.

"033 is also a deformed child. He suffers from alopecia, but he likes hair. It's because of her that many mental patients here grow their hair long and she cuts it."

"Like collecting hair? What kind of hobby is this?" Xu Yang muttered.

Shen Xuesong smiled bitterly and said: "How can we understand the thoughts of a mental patient? Maybe she wants to use this to make up for her shortcomings."

Regarding Shen Xuesong's statement, Xu Yang was noncommittal and asked instead: "What's going on with this smiling face? We saw similar smiling faces when we came in."

"This is the sign of the mental patients in the fourth ward."

"There are signs of mental illness?" Xu Yang was a little unbelievable.

"Although mental patients are different from us, they just suffer from mental illness. In many cases, their cognition and understanding of things are actually far beyond you and me. Who originally made the smiley face logo?

I have forgotten it, but all patients regard it as a spiritual totem. One of the keys to 007's ability to successfully command all mental patients was this smiling face."

After listening to Shen Xuesong's words, Xu Yang looked at the smiley face logo in front of him, thoughtfully.