madness

"Hey, new here, what's your name?"

Su Zhiyun heard a very low voice, probably because he was afraid of alarming someone, so he kept it very low.

It was a short boy with a small face, single eyelids, and wearing a thin shirt. His appearance was unremarkable, and he looked even smaller than Su Zhiyun.

Seeing that Su Zhiyun closed his eyes again, the boy was a little anxious: "You... don't be impatient, my name is Li Kairui, I have been here for almost half a year, and you are my first roommate."

Su Zhiyun still didn't speak.

Li Kairui had no choice but to walk away a little bit disappointed. He sat on his bed and began to talk to himself, regardless of whether the other party listened or not: "You looked so scary just now. This is the first time I have seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame As for the fire, I thought you would be killed by them."

As he spoke, he couldn't help taking another peek at Su Zhiyun, because Su Zhiyun looked miserable, with bandaged eyes, bruises on the corners of his mouth and cheekbones, even his hands, and scratches on his knuckles.

That is for people to step on with shoes.

Li Kairui was also stepped on. He recalled the memory of his fingers being creaked, and his body trembled. After that, he had to wash out the gravel trapped in his skin, which was very painful.

"This is how people who just come in come here. You have to be careful these few days. They call this 'making rules.' Only when people are frightened at the beginning, no one dares to resist them."

The other party didn't say a word, Li Kairui pursed his lips thinking of his injuries, he took out a band-aid from the pillow, and walked over slowly.

"I... I don't have anything else, I only have these few band-aids. You can use them. It will hurt if you get infected."

Su Zhiyun didn't intend to pick it up.

Li Kairui still threw the Band-Aid beside his bed, and then walked back by himself.

This new roommate is such a weirdo.

It's boring.

Why don't you say a word?Or did I just say too much to annoy him?Li Kairui thought wildly for a long time before he gradually became sleepy and fell asleep.

When he fell asleep, Su Zhiyun opened his eyes, a bright moonlight leaked from the iron window, and there were patrolling footsteps outside the corridor.

pat.

pat.

pat.

This place is not so much a nursing home as it is a small school, or it could be described as a prison.

Su Zhiyun looked at it for a while, then slowly closed his eyes again, the eternal flower earrings were shining in the night, and the hard wooden board was pierced by a thin layer of quilt, which made his back ache.

Li Kairui, who was woken up on time by the broadcast at [-]:[-] the next day, walked up to Su Zhiyun cautiously, and just as he was about to extend his hand, the other party opened his eyes.

So he was at a loss, and even suspected that Su Zhiyun hadn't slept much at all.

Li Kairui regained his composure, muttered in a mosquito-like voice, and explained: "Oh, I didn't mean any harm, I just wanted to tell you that I'm going to run for exercise, and I have to be at the playground on time at six o'clock."

When Su Zhiyun got out of bed and put on his shoes, he heard bones cracking.

Like a rusted machine.

The bathroom was full of people, all of them looked like half-children, who were about the same age as Su Zhiyun. The strange thing was that they didn't have the vigor they should have at this age, but they were all silent, quiet, and orderly without exception. .

After one person went to the toilet, the other went in, and after one person washed his face, the other came up.

If you observe carefully, you can also find that the time for each of them to wash their faces and rinse their mouths is exactly the same.

Su Zhiyun didn't intend to go to the bathroom, so he lined up directly in the queue at the sink, but it seemed that he had touched some taboo, and everyone stopped their movements and stared straight at him.

"Are you new here?"

someone asked.

Su Zhiyun nodded.

It seems that for a moment, a very strange and strange expression appeared on everyone's face, but it was fleeting, no one paid attention to him, but the crowd "lived" in an instant, talking and laughing, mouthwash, brushing teeth , became bigger in an instant, and the world was bustling.

However, the atmosphere did not seem to be purely lively.

It wasn't until they went downstairs that the team became quiet again.

The instructor who led the running exercise was one of the few people who forcibly brought Su Zhiyun in yesterday. He was tall and had a dark complexion. He didn't seem to remember Su Zhiyun at all, and he didn't even look over Su Zhiyun.

Halfway through the run, a middle-aged man came. As soon as he arrived, the instructor blew his whistle and everyone stopped.

"Hello, Dean."

Looking at the neat and silent team in front of him, the man showed a satisfied smile. The gold-rimmed glasses on his face did not make him look a little refined, but gave him a cloying coldness.

"You have to remember that this is a nursing home. Who would come to the nursing home? Only those with abnormal mentality and brain problems would come to the nursing home."

"You all come from all over the country and cannot be cured. You are garbage people with mental problems and defective products! You cannot become normal through education and control, because your evil and disgusting are inherent and cannot be changed. .You foolish parents who think that gentle persuasion and cheap tears can turn you demons from the path of sin."

"Pooh."

He spat hard, and when he was about to give the impassioned speech as usual, the instructor said something to the man.

He had to reluctantly shut his mouth and end everything briefly.

"I have only one purpose."

The dean drew out his own ending.

"Do everything possible to make you 'normal'."

The man stretched out his finger, plump and pale, his fingernails were black and yellow from the smoke stains, he pointed at Su Zhiyun, and said in a sarcastic and cheerful tone: "Then, welcome our new members and give a speech on stage. "

There was a silver cross hanging on the dean's chest, which was shiny and dazzling.

The same tattoo on Su Zhiyun's chest felt like it was about to burn.

There was a dark crowd underneath, and they all looked at him with strange eyes.

Su Zhiyun who didn't say a word made Li Kairui's heart hang in his throat.

He saw Su Zhiyun bowed his head in thought, and then said, "I refuse to speak."

"what?"

The dean didn't react for a while.

"I refuse to speak."

Su Zhiyun said.

"Everything you said sounds a lot like brainwashing students to satisfy their own superiority."

As if being slapped severely, the face of the middle-aged man suddenly turned red, and the great anger almost burst out from those protruding eyes that had become somewhat deformed due to high myopia. He stretched out his hand tremblingly in a tone close to screaming: "You...you don't know what to do...you bastard, a hopeless little bastard! Who, who brought him in?"

A man hurried up from the back of the line, it was the bald man I saw yesterday, he promised, but was slapped severely by the dean: "Take him and get out! If after three days, I can't see He knelt down and swore he would never contradict me again, then you will enter the confession room with him as a companion!"

Hearing the word "confessional room", the bald man's face changed, and then he forced a smile again: "I will, I will, I will definitely let him kowtow to you and apologize."

The dean turned pale, and immediately left under the escort of the instructor.

"Here, the first discipline you have to learn is never to disobey the dean's order." The bald man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, he looked at the taciturn Su Zhiyun, and snorted coldly: "I won't do anything to you." What, but you'll soon learn that this isn't some nursery that puts babies to sleep, this is a nursing home."

"Everybody's crazy."

"It won't be long, you'll find out tonight."

Li Kairui walked over after the crowd dispersed, as if he wanted to say something, but stopped talking.

"That...tonight..."

Before he finished speaking, Su Zhiyun turned and left.

The sky was gloomy, and there was no wind, only thick clouds could be seen.

Li Kairui was stunned for a while, then slowly, slowly withdrew his hand.

Someone was looking at him, laughing softly, and seemed to be talking about something - it was pathetic.

That's what those people seem to be saying.

……

The canteen here is not good, there is very little meat, it is difficult to pick out half of a piece of chili fried pork, but everyone just eats in silence, as if there is no taste bud at all.

Li Kairui looked at the pumpkin on the plate who didn't know whether it was stewed or stuffed, his face turned blue and white.

Sticky, yellow and greasy.

Stir a couple of times with a spoon.

It looks more and more like vomit.

He bites the bullet and sends it into his mouth spoonful by spoonful.

While eating, he lowered his voice and said to Su Zhiyun: "Eat quickly, the dean hates leftovers very much, as long as there is a grain of rice left on the plate, he will be locked up."

"Do you know about confinement? It means locking you in an airtight small black room without water or food. Last time, there was a newcomer who insisted on confronting the dean, but was dragged to confession." It’s much more painful than confinement.” Li Kairui muttered and stuffed pumpkins into his mouth, his eyebrows were pitifully and sadly twisted together, and he struggled to eat: “It’s not at all. I’ve only been to a place where people stay, and I almost thought I would really die there.”

Li Kairui obviously regarded Su Zhiyun as one of his own, he chattered, his familiar appearance was quite different from yesterday's cowardly and cowardly posture.

As if he didn't feel the slightest embarrassment about being ignored before, he sat down beside Su Zhiyun as if nothing had happened, and talked a lot.

"leave me alone."

Su Zhiyun finally spoke, but the first sentence he said successfully made Li Kairui lose face.

"Why?" The boy's voice gradually became quieter again, as if he lacked confidence: "Is it because I'm too loud... I'm annoying you, I'm sorry, I haven't talked to anyone for a long time. Everyone Just ignore me."

The more he talked, the more depressed he became. Just now he was like a happy little mouse, but now his ears are drooping.

"I'm gay."

Su Zhiyun said.

There was only a second of silence around.

Li Kairui's eyes suddenly burst into brilliance: "What does that matter, I am too!"

At the same time, the other party's brilliant and dazzling smile broke out together.

It's almost not ashamed, but rather proud.

Silly and heartless.

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