Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Zhou Qian and Chen Yangzhou made an appointment to have lunch together at 12:[-] noon, and chatted with him about various questions he wanted to ask.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Chen Yangzhou drove over, picked up Zhou Qian and Qi Liuxing and left together. Of course, he also returned the box of ashes to Zhou Qian.

Spring Mountain Mental Hospital implements divisional management. Both the second district and the X district have a certain prison nature, and the patients inside will be strictly supervised.Especially in Area X, it is strictly forbidden for anyone other than medical staff to enter or leave.

But the management of the first district is much looser.

Zhou Qian's mild condition can apply for a chance to go out after the doctor's assessment and the nurse's occasional release of water.

This time, the police came to take him away, and things became easier.

On the way to the hotel, in an SUV.

Zhou Qian and Qi Liuxing sat side by side in the back row, holding a box of ashes and looking out the window, occasionally opening the urn to peek inside.

The scene seemed almost the same.

The only difference is that the driver this time is not the driver of the online car-hailing service, but the policeman Chen Yangzhou.

Before Zhou Qian could ask Chen Yangzhou carefully, he first received a call.

When he connected, it was Yun Xiangrong's voice.

As if guessing what news Yun Xiangrong would bring to him, Zhou Qian fell silent and frowned.

Yun Xiangrong opened his mouth and said directly: "[Ticking Clock], I gave Qi Liu a walk. Also... Gao Shan just left last night. He was in a car accident. He couldn't be saved."

Zhou Qian didn't answer, Yun Xiangrong said again: "I'm just telling you. I know that people like you won't sincerely comfort others. I didn't expect you to say anything nice."

At this point, without waiting for Zhou Qian to speak again, her tone became more serious. "A man called the pastor came to me and asked me to join the [Pink Army]. Maybe this is the mastermind behind Gao Shan's death."

Zhou Qian's tone is also serious. "Yun Xiangrong, I need to remind you. When I was in the dungeon, I didn't have time to chat with you. Besides, it was inconvenient to have gamblers staring at me at that time. But now that I am free, I can tell you , I do not agree with your choice. Do you know what you are facing? Do you think they will believe you rashly and really break with me?"

Yun Xiangrong's voice was very calm. "But this is the only way to get closer to them faster."

Zhou Qian frowned, and said again: "Actually, Situ Qing is not the kind of vicious person in essence. She will kill..."

Looking up at the back of Chen Yangzhou's head, Zhou Qian said: "She will kill that little boy in the game because she is afraid of the legion behind her. She is afraid of terrible punishment. She is afraid of revealing the secrets about that legion. That legion, can Forcing a person like her who is not bad in nature to do this kind of thing——

"In this case, that [priest] took the initiative to find you, and even revealed the name of that legion to you... What do you think he has in mind?"

"I know. He wants to use me. Maybe they think I've really betrayed you, that I'm a malleable talent who can use my hatred for you against you.

"But of course there is another possibility. They guessed that I was acting and guessed that I didn't really betray you. In this case, they can still use me. Using the relationship that I can still get in touch with you, use me to deal with you .but no matter what..."

The corner of Yun Xiangrong's mouth ticked, "I can also use it back. I will approach them. What will happen after that, we will see what happens."

"Before Brother Shan closed his eyes, he said a word to me. His only wish was for you not to take revenge." Zhou Qian said, "I told him right then that I couldn't persuade you."

Hearing this, Yun Xiangrong didn't say anything more, after a while of silence, she hung up the phone directly.

Zhou Qian put down the screen slowly and watched it automatically lock the screen, but he did not do anything else for the time being.

But at this moment, he felt something, raised his eyes to look forward, and saw Chen Yangzhou cast a questioning look through the rearview mirror.

Zhou Qian quickly adjusted his expression, and immediately patted Qi Liuxing on the shoulder, letting him and him smile at Chen Yangzhou like a standard landlord's idiot son.

Then he said to the man in the driver's seat: "Don't mind Officer Chen. We're talking about games!"

"Then your game is really secondary, and it's kind of like that. What's the game called?"

Chen Yangzhou was not too young, probably nearly 40 years old, but judging from his questioning, he still understood the words used by young people.

"Damn, stay in the ward every day, boring, just play casually." Zhou Qian asked him, "What do you want to take us to eat?"

"It's almost there. How about the Roast Duck Restaurant?" Chen Yangzhou asked.

Zhou Qian immediately showed disgust. "Could it be that kind of small restaurant for flies? I won't go."

Chen Yangzhou shook his head: "My salary is not high. Don't ask me for your previous living standards."

"Then we invite you!" Zhou Qian said.

"I'm so much older than you, in fact, you can call me uncle." Chen Yangzhou stepped on the gas pedal and said, "Is there any reason for you two children to treat you?"

"Uncle? That's not enough." Zhou Qian said, "You haven't reached 40 yet."

"But your dad and I are barely friends. He and I are of the same generation." Chen Yangzhou glanced at Zhou Qian again from the rearview mirror, "What game were you talking about just now?"

"Messy online games. We play everything, anyway, it's about cultivating immortals. What's wrong?" Zhou Qian asked.

Chen Yangzhou shook his head, and said with a bit of a sigh: "Actually, it's nothing. It's just that I remembered... Your dad seems to be addicted to games, and often hides alone with his mobile phone. Damn——

"I don't know what game he is watching live, or what game he is playing. I keep thinking, his bankruptcy... Could it be related to the game? He doesn't know how to play gambling games? Zhou Qian , you have to learn from the past. You can't gamble."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian was really surprised.

His expression was quite serious, and his pupils became extremely deep.

After a while, Zhou Qian interrupted Chen Yangzhou's words of persuasion and education, and couldn't help asking: "How did you and my dad... know each other?"

Chen Yangzhou turned on the turn signal and drove the car to the side lane. "An employee in your father's company committed suicide before. In fact, that person didn't have any motive for suicide. I always suspected that there was something wrong, so I often visited your father's company and asked every employee. I got to know your father well.

"Your father is a nice guy, very cooperative, and I didn't blame me for delaying his work. Later... he would occasionally ask me to have dinner or something. We don't know each other very well, but we can be friends. So I, I treat you to dinner A meal, really should be. Well, let me think about it... Oh yes, we are talking about games——

"Didn't your dad often invite me to dinner? But I found that many times, he would go to the toilet with his mobile phone in his arms and stay there for hours. I asked him what was going on, and he said he was playing games... Look, games are harmful, don’t be addicted!”

In Zhou Qian's eyes, his father's friends are all friends.

He had never been interested in his father's social circle, and he really didn't know that he actually knew Chen Yangzhou.

Now through Chen Yangzhou's words, Zhou Qian couldn't help but have great doubts.

Could it be that his father, Zhou Chongshan, also joined this game?

Chen Yangzhou said that he hid in the toilet with his mobile phone in his arms... Then it seems that if Zhou Chongshan is really related to this game, he is more like a gambler than a player.

At least in the few scenes that Chen Yangzhou saw, Zhou Chongshan should play the role of a gambler.

If Zhou Chongshan is really deeply involved in this game, then it is easy to understand why he made friends with the police.

——The police are investigating cases. Players who fail in the game will die in reality.If Zhou Chongshan got to know Chen Yangzhou well, he would be able to get a lot of news from him.

Zhou Qian has no doubt that the so-called "suicide" employee of Zhou Chongshan's company may have something to do with both the game and Zhou Chongshan himself.

Then Zhou Chongshan's purpose of approaching Chen Yangzhou became even more obvious.

——He was afraid that Chen Yangzhou would discover the game and the real secret behind the employee's death.

On the face, Zhou Qian remained calm, but hugged the urn tightly and looked down at it.

There are many deaths in this world every day.

But which of them happened naturally, and which involved some kind of supernatural force?

Now Zhou Qian has discovered that the death of his father Zhou Chongshan may not be very simple.

What about Bai Zhou?

Some kind of intuition that I don't know where it came from, can it be true?

After all, if there is one person in this world who will help him without reservation...

In Zhou Qian's view, that person could only be Bai Zhou.

"What's wrong with you?" Realizing Zhou Qian's silence, Chen Yangzhou looked back at him and asked him, "Are you all right?"

Zhou Qian shook his head, and asked him again: "So... about the employee who committed suicide, what did you say later?"

"No way. All the evidence shows that he committed suicide. He was locked in his home when the incident happened, and the doors and windows were closed. The elevator monitoring even showed that no one had been to that floor at the time of the incident." Chen Yangzhou said, "I just It could be closed as suicide."

"So... is he mentally ill?" Zhou Qian asked.

Chen Yangzhou asked back, "Why do you ask that?"

Zhou Qian said: "Because according to what you just said, he can only commit suicide. Then maybe he has depression or something?"

"He doesn't have depression. As far as I know, he doesn't have any other mental problems." Chen Yangzhou said, "That's why I said that he shouldn't have any possibility of suicide at all. But in fact... all the evidence shows that he committed suicide. Damn, who knows what's going on."

Hearing this, Zhou Qian and Qi Liuxing exchanged glances, and both of them fell into a short silence.

What Zhou Qian was thinking at this time was nothing more than—his father Zhou Chongshan was probably a gambler, and his employee who "suicided" was probably a player, and he failed to clear the game in the game, so that he died in reality players.

But as far as the information Zhou Qian has unearthed so far, regardless of whether they are really sick or fake, the players are more or less inseparable from the mental hospital.

So why, this employee does not have any mental problems?

In order to avoid arousing Chen Yangzhou's suspicion, Zhou Qian didn't ask any more questions, but used his mobile phone to search for Yu Xian's information separately.

——Yu Xian was killed in the presidential suite of a five-star hotel, and the murderer was Zhu Qiang.

Zhou Qian met Yu Xian and Zhu Qiang at the same time through the system panel not long ago.

Based on game time, this incident happened three days ago, but based on real time, it happened yesterday.

After such a short time... Yu Xian was indeed killed by Zhu Qiang.

It seems that he did not listen to his own words and run away.

But what is waiting for Zhu Qiang?

Will he just be arrested as a murderer...or is there any way for him to escape?

Zhou Qian took his eyes off the phone for a while, and glanced forward again.

There was a murder case yesterday, but Chen Yangzhou was still able to take him to eat. This only means that the place where the case happened is not under his jurisdiction, and it may never be his turn to take care of it.

So Zhou Qian didn't ask about it again for the time being.

If this game involves any gods, gods and ghosts, and if Zhou Chongshan and his staff all died because of it, it means that the game came to this world much earlier than he imagined.

For so many years, the secret of the game has not been discovered by anyone, so the system behind the game, or the designer, must not want this to be discovered by humans.

Chen Yangzhou's identity is sensitive, and he may be the subject of key surveillance by the game system.

He is still a pretty good person, there is no need for Zhou Qian to bring him unreasonable disasters, so this is the end of this talk.

Apart from inquiring about Bai Zhou's news, he also decided not to ask Chen Yangzhou anything related in the future, there was no need to involve him.

·

On the way to dinner, through a few questions, Zhou Qian really got an unexpected harvest from Chen Yangzhou.

As for Bai Zhou's question, he waited until the dinner table before he had a chance to ask it.

Zhou Qian found out that what Chen Yangzhou brought him was indeed some kind of "fly restaurant". The restaurant was very small, with only five tables in total.For the environment, cleanliness and so on, the scores can all be reset to zero.Even the tables and chairs looked thick with oil.

But at this moment, Qi Liuxing and Zhou Qian are not on the same side, as soon as he came in, he said: "This roast duck is delicious! I really want to taste how delicious it is."

"Yes." Chen Yangzhou said, "The free-range ducks in the countryside have absolutely no hormones. And the proprietress's craftsmanship is very good. Don't think our city is so big, this is the only one! Oh, my wife——"

"Hey, my wife is in charge of me and won't let me eat it. Finally, I can find a chance to come out and rub a duck today."

Chen Yangzhou's words had reached this point, Zhou Qian had no choice but to endure the discomfort and sit down.

With an attitude of asking for others, he looked at Chen Yangzhou very obediently and docilely. "So Officer Chen—"

Before Zhou Qian could finish speaking, Qi Liuxing interrupted him. "Are you sure... you want to eat with the urn?"

Zhou Qian's fierce eyes immediately turned across. "My classmate has been lying underground for so many years, can't I take him to smell this... the unique smell of roast duck in the city?"

The boss was serving appetizers to these people, he was taken aback when he heard this, and then pretended not to hear, put down the side dishes and ran away.

However, Chen Yangzhou is worthy of being a criminal policeman. He has come here in many storms for many years, and he knows that Zhou Qian has mental problems, so his face is as usual, very calm, and he did not show any surprise.

When he turned his head to look at Chen Yangzhou again, Zhou Qian's face became gentle immediately. "So, my classmate Bai Zhou...what's going on?"

Chen Yangzhou was afraid of stimulating Zhou Qian's emotions, so he said in a very gentle tone: "Judging from some bone residues that have not been completely burned, it should be that human bones are good, but others cannot be seen. After all, DNA is an organic matter. After burning, it is gone. No further tests could be done."

Zhou Qian frowned.

Chen Yangzhou asked him again: "Why do you think this is not Bai Zhou's ashes?"

"He gave me a dream. Said he is not dead." Zhou Qian's eyes were very pure.

At this moment, his eyes and facial expressions clearly indicated one thing - I asked this kind of question only because I was mentally ill.

So Chen Yangzhou just sighed deeply.

Zhou Qian hurriedly asked him: "Then did you find anything else for me? For example, how did he die?"

"Oh. I asked someone for you. He died of illness." Chen Yangzhou said.

"Illness?" Zhou Qian frowned, "What illness?"

"Alternative frostbite." Chen Yangzhou said, "You may have heard of it, it's amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or motor neuron disease—"

"I've heard of it. Didn't Hawking suffer from this disease?" Zhou Qian was stunned for a while.

Chen Yangzhou said again: "Yes. This disease seems to occur more often after the age of 30. Your classmate has the disease at the age of sixteen or seventeen. It is indeed quite rare."

Zhou Qian was slightly stunned and didn't answer.

Then he immediately took out his mobile phone and searched for the symptoms of the disease.

According to the information obtained by Zhou Qian, people who have this disease will feel tired easily at first, suddenly feel weak all over, or lose their limbs when they move.But in the later stage, his muscles will atrophy all over his body and he will have difficulty swallowing...until he dies in endless pain.

At this time, the boss brought the roast duck and yelled something loudly, saying that he would give everyone some braised duck liver or something like that.

Qi Liuxing seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and gently called Zhou Qian's name a few times.

Chen Yangzhou opened his mouth and began to introduce how to eat different parts of the duck...

The voices of the three people came one after another, and the sound of "clang, clang, clang" chopping vegetables from the small kitchen behind was also very clear.

But Zhou Qian turned a deaf ear to it.

What floated in front of his eyes was the table tennis match in the first year of high school.

On the occasion of the final, there were cheers from the students all around.

Zhou Qian clenched his racket tightly, and looked at Bai Zhou in front of him as if facing a formidable enemy.

He regards the game of two people as very important.He felt that he should compare Bai Zhou in some aspects.

At that time, it was Bai Zhou's turn to serve. His serving skills were always quite good, and the angle of the ball was extremely tricky, making it extremely difficult to catch.

That time, Bai Zhou raised his left hand and threw the ping-pong ball. The spinning ball flew into the air and then fell down. When it was his turn to swing the racket with his right hand, for some reason, his right hand suddenly fell down, causing the ping-pong ball and the racket to fall together. Passed by...

He misses the serve.

Next, it was Zhou Qian who dunked the ball, and Bai Zhou needed to hit the ball back with a backhand.

Bai Zhou's backhand is actually very powerful.And Zhou Qian also made a slight mistake when he dunked the ball. The position of the ball was not tricky, it was near the middle, not the left corner.

Logically, Bai Zhou could also catch that ball.

But Zhou Qian could clearly see that his hand trembled, and then there was a "snap", the ball grazed the table and fell to the ground.

Zhou Qian couldn't hear the cheers or doubts of the students around him. He could only hear the smaller and smaller "pop" sounds when the ping-pong ball hit the ground after it hit the ground.

And what he missed at the time, what he only captured now when he recalled the past... was the momentary blankness and absent-mindedness that appeared in Bai Zhou's eyes when he was unable to hold the racket at that time.

The picture suddenly became dim, and the scene changed from the table tennis match to the trail on the way to school.

The withered and yellow sycamore leaves fell in pieces in front of my eyes, and when the ping-pong ball hit the ground, it made a constant "snap" sound, which still echoed in the void.

Seeing himself holding Bai Zhou's collar, Zhou Qian asked viciously, gnashing his teeth, "Why did you let me do it?"

At that moment, was Bai Zhou's eyes really as calm as he thought?

At the moment when the sun is fading, in the corner where the street lamps are not illuminated...

Was there something in his eyes that I hadn't noticed?

"Zhou Qian, are you okay!"

After the loud shout, there was the sound of heavy slaps on the shoulders on both sides.

Zhou Qian looked up suddenly, and saw two worried faces - Qi Liuxing and Chen Yangzhou.

"I'm fine." Zhou Qian's voice was slightly dry, and he asked Chen Yangzhou, "Bai Zhou is sick. Then?"

"Oh... oh him..." Chen Yangzhou looked at Zhou Qian a few more times, sat down again, picked up a duck leg and gnawed on it, and said, "Bai Zhou was staying at the Municipal People's Hospital at that time. My brother-in-law happened to be a doctor there. He said that he remembered Bai Zhou. Because the child was very handsome, and he was said to have both good character and academics. My brother-in-law still thinks it is a pity, so he remembers him very deeply. He said that Bai Zhou was indeed is dead, though..."

Zhou Qian caught something and asked him: "Although what? The doctor's words, tell me."

Chen Yangzhou said: "Although his condition deteriorated faster than expected, he did die in the end."

·

This afternoon.Spring Hill Mental Hospital, Zone [-], public rest area.

Qi Liuxing started his lookout work again.

——Because Zhou Qian held the ashes in one hand and sat on the tree with the binoculars in the other.

"No, didn't you agree that you're going to bury someone? Why are you still holding the ashes?" Qi Liuxing, who was sitting under the tree, couldn't help asking, "I also paid for the tombstone. You can’t just waste it like this!”

Zhou Qian just looked at the X area opposite, and said lightly: "I thought about it, there is no need to bury it. The management of the cemetery is so chaotic."

Qi Liuxing: "Then...?"

Zhou Qian: "Just put it in our ward. You won't mind."

Qi Liuxing: "How do you know I don't mind?"

Zhou Qian: "I don't mind if your brother lives with us."

Qi Liuxing: "..."

"So, what are you doing now? Where are we going next time?"

"I'm waiting... [137] to accept me as an apprentice."

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1. Note: Part of the content of ALS is quoted from Baidu.