Nine Prison Rings

Yixi felt a little bit broken, Qi Qiran smiled.Mobilizing the nerves at the corners of his mouth to make a smile has become extremely difficult and painful for him now.

"Never....nobody....always just you..."

"What? Those hickeys? How do you explain that?"

Luo Xiu pressed on every step of the way, as if he would not be reconciled to anything.

"I don't know...that night.....I was drunk.....it was just a dream...waking up like this.... ..."

Fang Yixi tried his best to explain the experience of that night with inarticulate speech; in the eyes of any normal-thinking person, this is serious nonsense.

what? !

Luo Xiu couldn't stop being stunned......

Did he hear wrong?Or was Fang Yixi beaten stupid?

With such a ridiculous and illogical excuse, Fang Yixi's ingenuity would not be so stupid as to tell such a non-technical lie, right?

"You, this explanation, will anyone believe it?"

"I just thought...you wouldn't believe it...that's why I didn't say it...but...that's true..."

His nimble pupils scanned every micro-expression of Yixi: he was surprised to find that this person showed no signs of lying.

Having endured brutal beatings, both physically and psychologically have reached the brink of extreme vulnerability; a physically and mentally exhausted person cannot easily conceal his emotions.What's more, there is no need for Yixi to make up another ridiculous reason that is not convincing.

But, if—what Yixi said is true; then, the matter becomes even more complicated and weird.

Could it be?  …

Luo Xiu's palm, caressing his face: feeling the sweat-soaked skin, the slight trembling of the blood vessels under the skin...

He wiped away the blood on his lips and the sweat on his forehead lovingly - wet lips, leaning over his ears, with a confused voice: "It's just a dream? In the dream, what happened... "

Yixi was exhausted, his consciousness and body were all dispersed; he was completely defenseless as if he had been hypnotized.

"In the dream... he was... kissing me..."

"Who is...kissing you? Be good...don't be afraid...tell me..."

"Chan. Chan... is kissing me..."

Yixi's rambling answer was true and frank; it immediately aroused Luo Xiu's vigilance!

Chan?dreaming?

Can, he and Fang Yixi's inner demon.

Luo Xiu is very clear about this.

Things have come to this, so strange that people feel hairy.

Luo Xiu doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and his professional knowledge makes him understand better than anyone else: the so-called "ghosts and gods" are all created by the human heart, and they are another kind of assumption of "awe" in the heart.

"All the troubles of the waking state enter the dream in the state of sleep. An educated man can only find peace with life through the enjoyment of science and art, but these enjoyments are the only ones which do not enter the dream."

Pain and unhappiness in dreams are more common than enjoyment?

Fang Yixi's dream clearly contained a big question mark.

Once again, Luo Xiu carefully looked at his pale, bloodless face—the drooping eyelids, which looked like he was about to faint at any time.

A body covered in scars, streaks of blood struggling on the skin, a tragic and decadent smell.

Inexplicably, my heart was at that moment: the pain was vague, and it was unbearably itchy.

A nerve in Luo Xiu's brain twitched suddenly, and a terrible thought flashed through: right now, separate the legs of the man in front of him, break into his body, and ruthlessly ravage him; it must be the blissful enjoyment in this world, right?

Fang Yixi is obsessed with his body, likes his entry, and even indulges in his whatever he wants.As long as he hooks his fingers, the other party will be confused; the fit of two people can achieve the effect of thunder and fire.

At this very moment, he wanted him, wanted him madly.

Have to admit: blood can stimulate desire.

Man is a slave to desire.

To satisfy this desire, he only needs to lift a finger to do it.

but........

Reason pulled back the wild fantasy in his mind.

Luo Xiu forced himself to calm down, and began to hate his own shameless thoughts and morbid aesthetics.

I am a doctor, a highly educated person, how can I have such crazy thoughts?

And that unrepentant bloodlust?

It seems that anger can indeed turn people into demons.

Luo Xiu turned around and walked to the shelf, opened a small cabinet, and took out a small medical needle.

Yixi seemed to have been drained of all the strength of his body, and was as soft as paralyzed water.If it wasn't for being held in place by handcuffs and footcuffs, he might have collapsed to the ground long ago.

Hearing Luo Xiu's silence for a long time, the sound of back and forth footsteps sounded again: Finally, he barely raised his head and looked at him with his eyelids stretched.

"what are you up to?"

"blood test."

Luo Xiu answered briefly and simply.

"Why...why.....no...well..."

Blood draw is not painful.However, this sudden movement still made Yixi frowned and groaned.

Not painful, just uncomfortable.

Luo Xiu had the experience of studying medicine, so he calmly took a blood sample from Yixi's arm with a needle.He was eager to prove his inner doubts, and ignored the parties' doubts and rejections.In fact, the party at this time has no right to object.

"The... blood test...is...?"

Yixi couldn't resist, watching Luo Xiu draw his own blood, he didn't understand what kind of madness this guy was pumping.

Luo Xiu looked at the blood sample and said seriously, "To prove what you said."

Yi Xi looked bewildered....

"I believe what you say, so I'm going to find evidence to support my belief. I'll go out and be back in a while. You need to stay here for a few hours to complete the punishment."

Luo Xiu, what he said was just and stern, well-founded, completely in the tone of a rigid director of the discipline department.Yixi, in a trance, had an illusion: it was as if he had done a terrible and bad thing, so he had to accept the punishment willingly.

This is simply turning black and white, creating something out of nothing?

It's just that, at this time, his physical strength is no longer enough to support him to compete with Luo Xiu.

Hey.......

Ye Xi sighed secretly——

The pain in the body is gradually becoming numb; only the burns on the skin and flesh are left, which can still be endured.

I hope that before Luo Xiu comes back, he can hold on to not pass out.

Luo Xiu originally planned to take the blood sample and drive away.But when I thought about it again, Yixi was wounded all over his body and handcuffed naked in the basement; if the cold poison really entered his body, he might suffer serious problems.

Today is just a small punishment and a major punishment. If there is an accident because of this, I will not feel better.After thinking about it, I went to the bedroom to get a blanket, went back to the basement again, wrapped Yixi tightly before leaving in peace.

With the blanket wrapped around his body, Yixi felt that the heat had returned to his lungs, so he didn't feel so sad.It was as if I had entered the underworld just now, and was pulled back by life, feeling like I had regained my new life.

Just now, when Luo Xiu put a blanket on him, he noticed the distress and unbearable in the eyes of the other party.

Although Luo Xiu tried his best to hide it, he still found out.

He, after all, can't be unfeeling to himself to the end, right?I, this person still has such an indescribable place in his heart.Just like, he is in my heart.

Thinking of this: the beating, the bloody wound, and the severe pain just now seemed to be an extreme impulsive behavior by Luo Xiu to conceal his love for him.

There is no pain in my body or heart.

Also dejectedly found that he was too humble.No matter what excessive things Luo Xiu has done to him, as long as he shows a little tenderness to himself, he will be intoxicated involuntarily.

This is unavoidable, too humiliating myself.

However, another consciousness in the mind sneered in the dark, triumphantly——

Fang Yixi, this is your bargaining chip: as long as Luo Xiu can't lay hands on you, you have a chance to drag him into hell!Get rid of him completely!

Luo Xiu, the place to take the blood sample is the city's largest disease control center.

The CDC has a well-equipped, the most advanced blood testing laboratory in the country.

The director of this laboratory is Luo Xiu's old classmate when he was studying abroad.

Two people attend the same school, but study different majors.Because they are all Chinese students, they walk closer than other students.When this old classmate returned to work in China a few years ago, he received a lot of help from Luo Xiu.Therefore, due to the classmates in the early years and the mutual help after returning to China, they became close friends.

Luo Xiu made a phone call before coming, and the old classmates rarely have the opportunity to help Luo Xiu.After a lot of trouble, he asked for it once, and he certainly wouldn't refuse.In the middle of the night, I waited in the CDC office.

When Luo Xiu came, he gave the blood sample to his old classmate without any nonsense, and asked him to check if there was any problem.

"How long will it take to know the result?"

"Even if I speed up, it will take five or six hours."

The old classmate thought for a while and gave an answer.It means that this matter is science, not as simple as squeezing a glass of fresh juice.

"Why don't you go back and rest, I'll call you when there's a result."

"No. I'll just wait here." Luo Xiu insisted with some stubbornness, "Tonight, I'll sleep on the sofa here, call me as soon as you have the result. Trouble, old classmate."

"What are you talking about....... Pay attention, don't catch a cold when you sleep here."

Seeing Luo Xiu's nervousness and anxiety about the test result, the old classmate turned around and entered the laboratory without wasting any time.

Luo Xiu lay on his side on the couch outside the laboratory and changed to a more comfortable position, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

He speculates in vain about the test results, and wonders whether Yixi, who is still tied up in the basement, will be overwhelmed.

Was it too much for him tonight?

For this person, sometimes I will be disappointed, I will hate him, and I wish I could destroy him immediately; but every time I really want to do it, distressed and annoyed will follow one after another.In the end, it made me feel so miserable that I didn't know why.

In the days when Fang Yixi was by his side, he rarely thought of Can.

This is the truth.

This person is gradually becoming his most sensitive nerve, and can easily mobilize all his emotions.

good, or bad.

So, what next?What about the original plan?How to proceed?

What troubled him the most was that the development of things had deviated more and more from the originally expected track.

We misperceive the world and say it has deceived us.

Despite his preoccupation, despite repeated restraint; the dense night outside the window, and deep fatigue, finally defeated the chaotic brain, and Luo Xiu fell into a sound sleep unknowingly.

At around six o'clock in the morning, the director finally came out of the laboratory a little tired.

Luo Xiu's body seemed to be equipped with an automatic timer, and immediately bounced off the sofa.

"Old classmate, how did it turn out?"

The director handed him the test report, his eyes were reddish, and it was the sequelae of staying up all night.

"Look at it."

Luo Xiu opened the test report, and the moment his eyes touched the text, his eyebrows were knotted——

"Hallucinogens?"

Note: A passage in the article quotes the second part of "Philosophy of the Subconscious".

Author: Eduard v. Hartmann