Tomorrow's ideal world

By the time Gu Qingzhe calmed down, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

Ou Yiming was so hungry that his stomach hurt, Gu Qingzhe didn't eat, so he asked, "Is there anything to eat at your house?"

Gu Qingzhe vented the depression in his heart, and he was no longer so emotional. Only then did he feel that he had really neglected the policeman, and said apologetically, "There are dumplings in the refrigerator. I made them myself. If you don't mind..."

Ou Yiming: "Ah, great, I just love dumplings!"

Gu Qingzhe insisted not to ask Ou Yiming to help, so he cooked the dumplings in the kitchen by himself, took out two bottles of beer, set the table, and the two sat opposite each other to eat.

In fact, Ou Yiming was the only one who ate voraciously, and praised while eating: "Yeah, it's delicious! Eh? What stuffing?"

Gu Qingzhe laughed out loud. He thought it was delicious, but he ate it too quickly, and didn't even eat any stuffing: "Beef and scallions, I also put some shrimps in."

"Yeah..." Ou Yiming put another dumpling into his mouth whole, chewed and couldn't speak, so he gave Gu Qingzhe a thumbs up.

Gu Qingzhe ate a dumpling slowly, and then thought of his younger brother: "Xiaochen loves my beef dumplings the most..."

Ou Yiming stopped eating, raised his head, and looked at him worriedly.

"This dumpling was made by Thirty'er in the evening, waiting for him to come back to eat together. Unexpectedly, he didn't come back... I eat dumplings at home, but Xiaochen...does he have anything to eat?"

Ou Yiming didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only be sad with Gu Qingzhe.

Thinking of his younger brother, Gu Qingzhe was immersed in his own thoughts again, and continued speaking.

But he smiled calmly and recalled an interesting incident: "My younger brother is very naughty and clever. Once, when he was about four or five years old, he forgot why he lost his temper and said he was going to run away from home. really gone!

"My parents and I looked for him everywhere, went to all the places he frequented, asked all his children, searched all day, and came home disheartened, and my father was ready to call the police.

"As a result, as soon as the door was opened, this brat was sitting on the sofa in an upright manner. When he saw us, he lost his temper first and asked us why we were so stupid. He had been hiding in the closet all day. Why was no one there?" found him?"

Ou Yiming smiled.

Suddenly, in a blink of an eye, Ou Yiming seemed to catch a faint thought in his mind.

Gu Qingzhe: "It turned out that he was timid and didn't dare to leave the house. He hid at home because he had a good face. He looked at us anxiously and vented his anger, but we never thought of looking for him at home, but we believed him. He said he ran away from home, so he ran outside to find..."

Ou Yiming suddenly remembered what Chen Kai once said: "Why haven't you caught me yet?"

In an instant, Ou Yiming finally grasped the wandering thoughts in his mind, slapped the table excitedly, and shouted: "That's right! We were all misled by him!"

Gu Qingzhe's big eyes blinked blankly, inexplicably cute in Ou Yiming's eyes.

He stood up, ecstatic: "Thank you for reminding me!"

Avoiding the table, he leaned down and kissed Gu Qingzhe's forehead: "Take care of yourself, be good, wait until I bring your brother back!" Stuffed two more dumplings into his mouth, put on his coat and rushed out of the room.

The whole process was done in one go, and he didn't realize it until he entered the elevator, stroking his lips with his fingertips, thinking in a daze: I seem to have kissed him just now?

Then he smiled embarrassingly, feeling a little inexplicably proud and excited.

Gu Qingzhe, who had been petrified for a long time while sitting in the room, also gradually regained his senses, recalling what the policeman said to bring his younger brother back, he smiled gratifiedly.

***

Chen Kai got married when he was 23 years old, but not long after marriage, he became abnormal, and his wife ran away because she couldn't bear it.

Later, he lost his job, and his relatives and friends were afraid to avoid him. His violent tendencies intensified and gradually developed to the point of crime.

The old father was pissed off by him. He entered the palace for the second time and the third time. He had countless ideological educations, but his behavior was not half restrained.

Finally, someone thought of giving him a psychiatric appraisal, and it was determined that he was suffering from bipolar disorder.

This is even more betrayal, only the old mother persisted and sent him to a mental hospital, but he was not safe in the hospital, and he would be kicked out after a short stay.

For more than ten years, Chen Kai went to and from large and small mental hospitals around the city, exhausting his old mother's savings.

Two years ago, Chen Kai's mother passed away, and no one was responsible for Chen Kai's hospitalization expenses. Chen Kai's condition also improved significantly, and the hospital handled the discharge procedures for Chen Kai.

Chen Kai has dealt with psychiatrists for many years, and gradually learned to be good. After he was discharged from the hospital, his condition was stable, or in other words, he pretended to be very stable.

No one expected that two years of pretense and patience would turn out to be an outburst of consciencelessness.

Because of the particularity of mental patients, the communication between mental hospitals and the outside world is not very frequent.It is no exaggeration to say that if someone goes to a mental hospital and pretends to be a mental patient, those patients who are called "lunatics" by ordinary people will never expect to expose strangers.

However, in some hospitals that are neglected, the medical staff who are burdened by "madmen" are not enthusiastic about taking care of patients. The "madmen" are also dressed in the same uniform. The personnel will never find out that there is an individual among them.

Chen Kai has been in different mental hospitals for more than [-] years, and he is very familiar with these taboo places.

Moreover, he still needs to control Gu Sichen, which requires drugs such as tranquilizers and tools to restrain people, which are readily available in psychiatric hospitals.

Although the police will visit the hospital where Chen Kai lived as a matter of routine, subconsciously they will think that the suspect knows we will come, so he will never commit a crime here.

Really not here?

When Gu Sichen was a child, in order to prevent his family from finding him, he hid at home instead. The family believed that he ran away from home, so they only went outside to find someone.

The stereotypes of thinking and logical misunderstandings have formed a darkness under the lights!

***

He hailed a taxi and went back to the police station. On the way, Ou Yiming called Ma Tao.

"Hello? Boss! I was looking for you..."

"Listen up, call me the addresses of all the hospitals where Chen Kai has lived!"

"Head..."

"Focus on hospitals with enclosed spaces, such as cellars, abandoned buildings, morgues—hmmm... do psychiatric hospitals have morgues?"

"Boss, listen to me..."

"Forget it, forget it, don't check it so detailed, assign more people to check all the hospitals carefully, Gu Sichen should be in..."

"Boss! Dr. Li has already found out Gu Sichen's whereabouts from Chen Kai!"

Ou Yiming froze in surprise.

The other end of the phone continued: "It turns out that the grandson locked Gu Sichen in the dungeon of Shengming Sanatorium. It's a small village more than 200 kilometers southwest of our city B. It's a remote place. Hey, no wonder we can't find it..."

Ou Yiming: "Stop fucking nonsense! Hurry up and save someone!"

Ma Tao was very wronged: "This, this is not waiting for your order..."

Ou Yiming: "Wait, wait! Can I still order you not to go? It's been five days, and people don't know what's going on. Hurry up and save them! I'll be right there!"

After hanging up the phone, Ou Yiming told the driver to turn around and leave the city, rushing to Shengming Mental Sanatorium.

On the way, he recalled the meeting with Li Wenqian in his mind. He seemed to be a pretentious person, and a little bit arrogant, but he didn't expect that he was really capable.

***

It was nearly midnight when Ou Yiming arrived at Shengming Nursing Home. A few police cars and an ambulance were parked at the gate of the nursing home. Ma Tao stood waiting for him at the gate. As soon as he saw him get off the taxi, Ma Tao greeted him with a mournful face.

"Boss, how strange! The boy won't come out!"

"what?"

Ma Tao took Ou Yiming to the dungeon where Gu Sichen was imprisoned, and told him the situation in detail.

Shengming Mental Sanatorium, which sounds like a fancy name, is actually run by local villagers with funds raised by the local people. The management level and medical conditions can be imagined. It is basically a shelter for the mentally ill who have been abandoned by their families.

The building of the nursing home is a temporary headquarters built by the Japanese invading army during the Anti-Japanese War. The two-story slab building is the inpatient office. Management staff quarters.

Since it was built during the war, there must be some violent control places. The nursing home is built on the back of the mountain. In the northwest corner of the hospital building, there is a steep mountain rock tens of meters away, so few people set foot there, one crop after another The weeds grew and withered there, gradually covering the entrance of the dungeon hidden there.

But that night, the entrance to the dungeon was wide open, surrounded by police officers with searchlights, and mental patients and medical staff onlookers.

Gu Sichen was in the dungeon, but no matter who tried to persuade him, he refused to come out.

According to Ma Tao's retelling, the entrance to the dungeon was not locked, and the investigators walked down the stairs. Inside was a two-entry space, the outer room was an interrogation room, and the inner room was a prison.

Judging from the layout of the interrogation room and the bloodstains on the floor, Gu Sichen had suffered a lot of abuse. Ma Tao and the others were all worried, and they walked to the door of the prison in the back room with their guns in their hands.Just as I was about to knock on the door, I realized that the prison was not even locked!

Pushing open the door and turning on the light, a mournful cry suddenly came from the corner.

It turned out that Gu Sichen was curled up there, naked, with blood and bruises all over his body.

But he didn't have any restraints on his body, that is to say, if he wanted to, even if his body was seriously injured, he could walk out of this dungeon at his own will and ask for help.

However, Chen Kai had left him for three days, and he had obviously been huddled here, not knowing what he was afraid of, so he didn't dare to go out of this room.

When the police rushed in to save him, he cried out in fright, scratching the wall like a frightened cat.

The messy hair covered the eyes, but one could still vaguely see the tears pouring out of those terrified eyes, as if life was under great threat.

The more Ou Yiming heard it, the more strange he felt. He walked straight into the prison and saw Gu Sichen's state, so he believed that Ma Tao's description was absolutely no exaggeration.

Ou Yiming didn't believe in evil, he pushed away the colleagues who stood in front of him, and rushed to Gu Sichen's side. Before he could speak, Gu Sichen burst into tears again: "No! Don't hit me! Please...don't hit me again!"

Ou Yiming: "Don't be afraid, I'm a policeman and a good friend of your brother! Your brother's name is Gu Qingzhe, right? He asked me to pick you up! He's waiting for you at home!"

As soon as Gu Sichen heard his brother's name, Gu Sichen's blurred eyes flashed a layer of light, and then he burst into tears, choked up and muttered: "Brother...I want to go home, brother, I, I hurt...I'm hungry... I am really scared……"

Ou Yiming couldn't help frowning, since he wanted to go home, why didn't he run away?If he was afraid that Chen Kai would ambush in the dark, but it had been three days, didn't he try to go out once?

Ou Yiming persuaded patiently: "It's okay, no one will bully you anymore, we are the police, we can protect you, come with me, I'll take you home!" Then he stretched out his hands as if to hug him action.

But he never wanted to cause Gu Sichen to cry again: "Ah! Don't, don't come here! Don't touch me! He, he said, I can't go out! Don't take me out! I'm afraid..."

Ou Yiming was startled, and then realized that it must be Chen Kai's abuse and imprisonment that caused Gu Sichen to develop a stress disorder.

Just like an elephant that has been trained since childhood, even though it can easily break the rope tied to its legs when it grows up, it subconsciously believes that it cannot escape the slavery of its master.

Chen Kai must have warned Gu Sichen sentence after sentence during the abuse, without his permission, Gu Sichen is not allowed to leave this room, so Gu Sichen formed an extreme conditioned reflex in a state of extreme helplessness and fear.

Without Chen Kai's order, he must not go out, otherwise, he will suffer even more cruel abuse!

"Good boy, listen to me, it's okay, it's really okay! He's already locked up by us! Come with me, your brother is still waiting for you at home! He made you dumplings stuffed with beef, you Favorite food, right?"

Gu Sichen couldn't help licking his lips. He hadn't eaten or drank for at least three days. Although he was extremely hungry and thirsty, but after hearing Ou Yiming's words, he cried out in despair: "Brother, I can't get out...I'm hungry... What to do... I can't get out..."

Where is not going out?It is clearly a psychological extreme!Ou Yiming thought that he might as well take the child out forcibly, and find a psychiatrist to treat him.

Having made up my mind, I was about to step forward to grab Gu Sichen, when someone shouted from behind: "Stop!"